contrition. at least michael cohen cooperate fully with robert mueller and then testified before congress and kind of admitted to getting off on the wrong path, right? and now the scales are from his eyes. he s no longer wowed and dazzled by donald trump and fame and fortune. you know, he s doing this after he got caught, of course, but at least telling us a story of a man who sees things differently and now just wants to help. manafort couldn t bring himself to do that, and i was thinking, as you and ken were going over the statement, which is, is this the sort of statement that one would make if one still is hoping for a pardon from donald trump? do you what do you read in that? because he s not admitting he did anything wrong. he s not saying i m going to do everything i can to make this right and i will go back and now start cooperating with robert mueller, which he s always free to do. maybe too late, but he still can try. let me read those statements for viewers who are j
no, they don t want to talk about him at all. they asked a spokesman about this matter, the kremlin is tired of talking about allegations like this, they don t know who this pertinent person is, but he certainly was an important figure for paul manafort. someone who manafort couldn t have done business with at all in eastern europe. and someone who is interesting to the mueller investigation, especially when it comes to possible collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. here s what we learned in moscow today. tonight the mueller team keen to speak to this man. konstantin kilimnik. a close associate of paul manafort with alleged ties to moscow intelligence agencies. manafort lied about meeting kilimnik in a heavily redacted filing, the evidence of the above includes electronic communications, including detailed descriptions, draft and
havely prosecuted. also directly playing into what trump is saying, which is poor manafort. he s being targeted because he worked for me. that s all a big set-up for he can pardon him. it goes to this question of why isn t manafort pleading guilty? one possibility is that manafort couldn t plead guilty because if you plead guilty it would be harder for trump to give him a pardon. that s interesting. looks like he might be interesting. he is this poor, persecuted guy. it is interesting to see there have been discussions about that. i don t know how that will play into the pardon talk. the washington post is reporting about the second trial. it says it is set for september in august and expected to last three weeks and on the basis of a list of 1,500 possible exhibits will delve far more deeply into how he operated as a lobbyist and consultant than was done in the just completed trial in virginia. the time line and exhibits were included in a joint filing on friday night by manafor
trump is saying, which is poor manafort. he s being targeted because he worked for me. that s all a big set-up for he can pardon him. it goes to this question of why isn t manafort pleading guilty? one possibility is that manafort couldn t plead guilty because ia you plead guilty it would be dn harder for trump to give him a pardon. that s interesting. looks like he might be interesting. he is this poor, persecuted
so i definitely think it could have affected a nonsequestered jury. they may have been exposed to that not gldeliberately, but wi social media being what it is it s hard to avoid. i would think the judge s comments are equally devastating and could have caused a hung jury. the judge was so far beyond what is appropriate for a judge. if he had made the same kind of comments he made about the prosecution, if he had made that about the defense, it would have been reversible error for sure. his comment to rick gates mr. manafort couldn t have been paying attention if you were able to steal so much money from him, that s really devastating to the prosecution, and he made many other comments. and that worried me from the very first moment the judge started making comments against the prosecution. it could have been either one of