that paul manafort was involved with any collusion with any government official from russia. interesting talking point. sounded similar to what the president said just about 12 or 24 hours later. was this a deliberate appeal for a pardon from the president? i don t know what s going on inside of his head. one thing that was interesting about it, the word government official, because one of the things that the manafort trial did bring to light that he during the campaign while working for donald trump had shared internal polling data with konstantin kilimnik, that russian businessman that the government says has links to the russian gru intelligence agency that had hacked the democratic emails. i don t know if that was amounts to collusion but it was some kind of conspiracy action. the other thing to pay attention to here, of course, is not only does judge jackson have the opportunity to sentence him to up to ten years that would run after these 47 months, if she
we are taking pledges about whether you will remain a democrat. that s a problem. many people have been pointing out that he is an independent. he s saying he s a proud democrat at least in this race. noelle, my colleagues published an interesting piece discussing sanders challenges. take a look. the first challenge they say is, can he compete in a much more crowded liberal/progressive lane than he encountered in 2016? he s got company from the progressive, including elizabeth warren to the likes of kamala harris, cory booker, kristin jill brand who are all running under the medicare for all banner, where does bernie run? what is his lane? well, you know, bernie s going to have to figure out exactly what he s doing and i think that he s already gotten a good grip on that by coming out and saying that he s pretty much stated, you know, the policy that everybody else is going around and that s one of the things if you are in the bernie
the democratic party has decided that the way to beat donald trump is a far left socialistic agenda that i think is a bad strategy. not only for defeating trump but worst than that, a terrible, terrible position to put the american people in and i think the american people are going to reject it. reporter: so you look at that and, a., you have to accept the idea there is a majority out there a silent majority that would be willing to flout the two-party system and then you have to accept the theory of the case that howard schultz is the candidate who can galvanize that support and one of the things we talked about is even if you accept the idea that there is a market for a centerist, are you the right person and what are you going to do to galvanize that base and to effectively turn your campaign into something that people can get really excited about and get the fire in their belly the way they did about a candidate like
i think. it puts her in a tough spot that s unfair. she needs to look at it exactly the way she looked at it if judge ellis s opinion did not exist. the sentencing guidelines are also very steep. there s a ten year max and make it a fair decision based on that, so we have, you know, capital j for justice. she s absolutely right and one of the things that makes the case coming up in d.c. very different is that in d.c., manafort s sentencing guidelines are actually way above the maximum sentence that he can receive so when that happens, the advisory guidelines sentence simply becomes the maximum. that s why i think it s highly likely you ll see a sentence next week, if not ten years the maximum, close to the ten years but going back to the backlash over manafort s sentence. for about well over a decade now, we ve had a system thanks to the supreme court in a case called booker where the sentencing guidelines are no longer mandatory and because of
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