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from a residential laundry room. up with me this morning, an assistant professor at public policy at the kennedy school, former federal prosecutor, now an msnbc legal analyst, a regular contributor of opinion pieces to the new york times and the future of warfel low at new america, and a former deputy assistant secretary of state. dple glen, let me start with you. what happened? we re hearing a lot of people saying this was a miscarriage of justice. it was. i was on set when they announced the sentence. you were in the eight box. and it figuratively knocked the wind out of me. this is not about the mueller team asking for a draconian sentence. we have to take a step back and look at the guidelines commission. the guidelines commission is made up of former prosecutors, former defense attorneys, retired judges, a lot of deep thinkers. i was never invited to join the
there is a guideline commission that came up with these guidelines, a lot of deep thinkers, former lawyers and former judges and so what they did was they said, okay, for this kind of offender, paul manafort and for these kind of offenses, what is an appropriate guideline range? that s not mueller specific. that s every federal court in the country and a guideline range for this offender and these crimes came out to be 19.5 to 24 years. now there are ways that judges can go below that, one way is if somebody apologizes and takes responsibility for what he did. the judge said he didn t do that. another way is if you provide substantial assistance to the prosecutors. manafort didn t do that. in fact, he lied to the prosecutors under the guise of cooperating. there was no lawful basis for the judge to depart downward the way he did. it doesn t make it an illegal sentence, but it couldn t have been a more unjust sentence.
didn t obama try to influence the israeli election? dated. the obama election team, trying to win and destroy netanyahu. this country has been involved in a few elections around the world. the russians have actually been engaged in our elections for about 40 years. this is about time to take an interest. james comey, james clapper, rogers, mark warner, feinstein, maxine waters have all said no evidence of collusion. that s the pantheon of liberal deep thinkers. i can t imagine why sean: [laughs] it s unfair. you are making me laugh every time it s on the show. that s not fair. it s disarming. i apologize for that. james clapper makes me laugh. the idea that the dni, the director of national
elections, didn t obama try to influence the israeli election? actually, they did. the obama election team influencing that election, trying to win it destroy netanyahu. this country has been involved in a few elections around the world. the russians have actually been engaged in our elections for about 40 years. so this is a particular time to take an interest. sean: comey, clapper, rogers, mark warner, feinstein, maxine waters, they have all said no evidence of collusion. year after that is the pantheon of liberal deep thinkers too. i can t imagine that you know, it s unfair. sean: you re making me l laugh every time i m on the show. it s disarming. i apologize for that. james klapper makes me laugh. the idea that the dni, the