20 years for 12 of those charges and two of those charges carry potential sentences up to 30 years. literally hundreds of years on the line for the mcdonnells. they say they are not guilty and plan to fight it. the judge said that neither side should talk about this publicly or he would throw them in jail for trying the case in the court of public opinion instead of at its bench. carl, thank you very much. aimis amy stoddard is here. i ve one watching the coverage of this in other places and it s astounding what these people have accepted, especially given this is the one time attorney general of the state. it s not as if he can plead, i didn t know what i was doing. that s exactly right. i think from the choice that governor former governor mcdonnell made to forego his plea option to plead guilty to a felony and have, as you mentioned, his wife exonerated,