he ll get out of prison when he s 75 or 76 years old. paul manafort with today s news set for incarceration on the federal charges. this is important as you hear every one debate what bob mueller has done. that s the harshest sentence of anyone in the mueller probe thus far. it s close to the longest sentence for anyone in any special prosecutor probe which was about eight years in all of watergate. his lawyers know this is a lhug set back who has been trying to down play his own guilty and make these no collusion arguments aimed at the white house for a federal presidential pardon. that s the context for something else you need to see. the bizarre scene playing out as manafort s lawyer stepped out today to address the public and protesters and try to make a misleading claim that he argued the courts ruling on manafort s prison time made a ruling on russian collusion. the court s did not do that
collusion with anybody else in russia who wasn t a government official? also, why even bring that up and why is that the most important thing? i think most important what you saw today is that the most important thing? i mean, not only was manafort not charged with anything having to do with russia in this case, in this case for which he was just sentenced, this was the trial where judge ellis actually banned any discussion of russia collusion at all in his courtroom. so nobody could have tried to prove anything like that against manafort in this trial in virginia, even if they had wanted to. and these no collusion arguments from the manafort defense team which we have seen increasingly from them in public filings and now today on the courthouse steps as manafort has come to the end of his rope, these no collusion arguments are absolutely outside the four corners of this case in virginia, so why do they keep bringing that up and why would that be the most important part about this ca