begin now in new york state. kara scannel, pamela brown, thank you both for that reporting. now let s bring in our legal experts on what today means. po jennifer rogers. what message do you think the judge was trying to send today in manafort s sentencing? i think she was sending the message that it s a very serious thing, very serious crimes here. but i think she was very reasonable in the way that she sentenced manafort today. because she gave him the maximum on the obstruction of justice, which really was egregious on manafort s part. but she didn t give him the maximum on the other charge that he was facing in front of her, and it s because there were some factual overlap with the virginia case. so she said, i give you the max on the obstruction, i m not going to give you the max on the other and i m only running it partially concurrent and partially consecutive to take into account that some of these facts were already taken into account in the virginia case. so i thought her
fixer. cnn s gloria borger has the exclusive reporting here. also back with us are caroline polisi and jennifer rogers. gloria, tell us more about these e-mails. we have obtained two e-mails that have been given to congressional committees and they contain communications that were done in april of 2018. and remember, that is after michael cohen s office was raided by the feds. and they re between michael cohen and an attorney named bob costello, who has a long-standing close relationship with rudy giuliani. they focus mainly on cohen s relationship with the white house at that particular time, which costello described in these e-mails, in glowing terms. he said, it was very, very positive. you are loved. and it ends, this e-mail ends, sleep well tonight, you have friends in high places. so, the interpretation, however,