jeff, what do you make of, according to the new york times prosecutors has told paul manafort he was going to be indicted if. i think it means he s going to be indicted. it s not a threat? no. my experience with federal prosecutors is they don t threaten indictments unless their prael prepared to do it. there s a formal process where you as a sub if you were being investigated you can ask for what s called a target letter asking for your status, are you a witness, which means you re not going to be indicted. are you a subject, which is someone they re looking at. are you a target? whether you get a target letter it s a virtual certainty you re going to get indicted. it sounds like they gave manafort the letter or told him orally he is a target. it s not out of the realm of possibility. if in a high-profile environment like this, prosecutors told paul
well as mccan both respect the office of the president, that s who their client is. the only one that really has attorney-client privilege is dowed. so he is the one that apparently is asking for more be withheld as is mcbegan. tie cob. and mcgentleman is the one whose withholding. it s an interesting set of conflicts there given who they re client is. that s interesting john and jeff, this is right that tie cob represents the presidency. he works for the government. so president trump doesn t have the same kind of attorney-client privilege with him? that s right. one of the unresolved questions is what kind of attorney-client privilege government lawyers have with the president. it s clear dowed has a
gone ahead on the telephone and preferred to be as dissecrete as possible. unless they were trying to bring him along and cross that bridge into a discreet type of relationship. it is quite remarkable they had the level of information needed to conduct this kind of surveillance to try russian operations that touched paul manafort. yeah he was campaign chairman. it was 2013, before he was on the campaign, it was really only the second time. jeff, the idea the timing of these warrants is very tricky and it does not establish this was done at the time he was the campaign chairman from what i could see. yeah it seems unclear exactly when. because apparently that meeting in that donald trump jr. had, that apparently the reporting was not on there, the fbi was not monitoring or listening in on that.
retired last year from the facility and head of the fugitive investigation at the u.s. marshal service. john and jeff thank you for joining us. jeff i have to talk about the notion that maybe some of the guards were asleep on the honor block during the escape and the breakout and maybe some of the planning of this escape. that is so shocking. is it realistic to be shocked about that? i guess they have to sleep sometime but not when they are on guard guarding a maximum security prison. they have to do security rounds. they do them once an hour. the cell blocks are so large, it s going to take a half hour to 45 minutes to go through the whole cell block, especially with everything locked along the way. they have to unlock relock go through. i don t believe, you know that s kind of sensationalism.
former presidential candidate, john edwards. boil it all down, edwards won. prosecutors alleged he knowingly and willingly accepted $1 million from two wealthy donors to hide his mistress, rielle hunter. the jury deadlocked on the other five counts, including conspiracy, illegal con trib g contributions and making false statements. outside the courthouse, edwards, who had said virtually nothing except good morning during this trial spoke publicly. all i can say is thank goodness we live in the couldn t interest i that has the kind of system that we have. i think those jurors were exemplar for what jurors were supposed to do. they were very, very impressive. the second thing i want to say just a word about is responsibility. this is about me. i want to make sure that everyone hears from me and from my voice that while i do not believe i did anything illegal or ever thought i was doing anything illegal, i did an awful, awful lot that was wrong. there is no one else responsibl