on? that is exactly right. done with respect to the plea. he is not going to face any additional charges that we know of. it will be done today. neil: we know going in there and sorting out what the deal is and whether he pled guilty? he was the victim, michael cohen, stormy daniels, those were payments made on behalf of the account of donald trump, right? the issue there, and that is why we want to look at the statement of facts on the plea agreement, is whether he is directly implicating the president for campaign finance issue. unfortunately, in today s world, not every hush payment is necessarily anything criminal. a may be embarrassing, it may be a bad moment for politics. but, it is really a question of
something down the road. no lawyer wants to sit, even with that, no lawyer wants to sit in 3-5 years. that is a significant amount of time. neil: the former doj prosecutor, still better than what he could have made. the plea deal is something, as odd as it looks, a better alternative. almost by definition. if it is a plea agreement, each side is giving up something. realistically, mr. cohen must have thought he had greater exposure than 3-5 years. we have to look at the plea letter. it will be fascinating if and when we get a chance to look at it to see how it characterizes his involvement, what the statement of facts look like. is it really creating the ceiling and floor of 3-5 years. that is very unusual. even if it is an on-call operator plea letter, that is not rule out that he pulls the bullet back out of himself and
the five guilty counts. separately, the michael cohen situation in manhattan. of course, the president s personal lawyer who had pled guilty to campaign violations and fraud, all of which could land him in the slammer for up to five years. robert, you are hearing all of this. more in the manafort situation. on the manafort situation, we have yet to hear about the remaining eight counts. it looks like there are five guilty verdicts. the other three are likely to be guilty as well. we will find out. he was found guilty as in regard to the tax counts. you file your own tax returns, you know what you file. you signed them. i suspect that the jury probably did have problems with some things related to the bank fraud charges. neil: awaiting financial decisions. a little bit more complicate it.
i think the judge was hard on them. mostly in terms of moving it along. term, it prevail. neil: i m sorry, i left you out with all of these breaking news demo months. we are told that the senates is being moved to august 29th. what do you expect? i think that this is an interesting illustration. walking side-by-side with cohen, we see how many years that manafort is facing. that is exactly the risk that a defendant runs by going to trial. i want to point out for viewers that this is an opportunity for manafort to actually turn over some further information. it is a last chance that he can cooperate with prosecutors to have them lighten a potential sentence in their recommendation. it is honestly not a slam-dunk at all. speaking of slam-dunk s, i want to point something else out for viewers as well. in the charges here, the return verdict, we have an interesting pattern here. certain things that the media
neil: no financial hanky-panky. what mayor giuliani said today about the michael cohen case is that it is accurately reported that michael cohen had nothing to say about donald trump s knowledge beforehand during the campaign. the fact that michael cohen is in trouble and pleads guilty to an offense of campaign violation really says nothing about the campaign or the president himself. i think that is why, you can quite accurately conclude from release, or at least what mayor giuliani is saying, about the president. neil: with michael cohen s lawyers who and in alexandria, virginia, manafort, the former campaign manager for donald trump is looking at a lot of years behind bars right now. again, a number of financial improprieties found guilty on eight counts. the judge declared it would be