so far beneath sentencing guidelines, very hard for the president to now suggest that paul manafort has been treated unfairly. he has in fact by judge ellis been given a bit of grace. and i think it makes the president s argument harder. he ll have to wait and see what judge jackson does before making a decision about a pardon. manafort himself sorry. ken? manafort himself thanked the judge for a fair trial. yeah. carrie, though manafort didn t say he was sorry in court today, expressed no remorse for his crimes, a, if he had do you think he could have received even less jail time? and does it does it surprise you that he didn t do that? do you think that was intentional in terms of looking for a pardon? i tend to think that the judge made up his mind on this case before he came into court today. there of course is a procedure to go through. perhaps paul manafort could have said something surprising. but i m inclined to think that the judge based on the documents
potentially congressional investigators to break up? who runs with that? manafort didn t get charged with that. it only accidently got spelled out in a publicly facing filing because of a botched redaction. we learned because manafort failed to refact filings for it properly but that allegation is out there for us to read because of that mistake. the trump campaign provided trump polling data to a guy assessed to be part of russian intelligence while russian intelligence was mounting a campaign to help trump during the campaign. does somebody else, does congress now take up that question? that s one. here is another one, though. as you know, manafort is due to be sentenced in d.c. wednesday of next week. when prosecutors filed their sentencing for d.c., they said they needed to refact part of the memo because quote, the redactions relate to on going law enforcement investigations or uncharged individuals. and public decembisclosure coul
own crimes in the watergate scandal and he was sentenced for conspiracy and obstruction of justice and perjury and lying to investigators, his only comment to the press upon getting his federal prison sentence handed down was that at least he wouldn t have to spend any more time with his darn wife. sure, i m going to prison but could be worse. you know, every generation thinks it invents the newest and worst kinds of scum bags in public life. history gave us good ones, too. do not give history short shift on historic days like this. today for the very first time it was the sitting president of the united states whose campaign chair was sentenced to federal prison. john mitchell didn t get his sentence until nixon was out of office and was a former president. john mitchell was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in 1975.
middle of his case. if we don t hear anything more about that in court because the manafort case is wrapping up, what happens to that? does that part of the story become sort of breadcrumbs for other investigators for potentially congressional investigators to pick up? who runs with that? i mean, manafort didn t get charged for it. it only accidentally got spelled out in a publicly-facing filing because of a botched redaction. we only learned about it because lawyers for manafort failed to redact one of their filings properly. but that allegation is now out there for us to read because of that mistake. the trump campaign provided trump polling data to a guy assessed to be part of russian intelligence while russian intelligence was mounting a campaign to help trump during the campaign. does somebody else, does congress now take up that question? that s one. here s another one, though. as you know, manafort is due to be sentenced in d.c. wednesday of next week. when prosecutors filed the
sentence he delivered today, i don t know. he insisted it didn t but it s a lighter sentence than many expected. to that point in terms of him insisting that wasn t a factor for him, a bunch of people who have argued trials in this courtroom and observed this judge over the course of his three decades on the bench told us to expect that any allocution today from manafort would be important, that it s very important to the judge that people do accept responsibility, that they do express regret and they do appear to be sincerely remorseful. that s like the notes we were taking today watching for that from manafort. for manafort to not provide that and not give the judge any of that and the judge to nevertheless give him a big downward departure from the guidelines, did the judge give any indication of why he was giving such a lighter sentence than the guidelines would have suggested he might have? well, the judge did say he was surprised that manafort