it. the president praised manafort and roger stone and attacked michael cohen for being a rat. this is an area i consider more strongly corroborated with respect to cohen s testimony. when i thought things couldn t get more bizarre, we re talking about how he likes russian women. there s this whole thing how trump was an agent of russia, right, and he said he didn t think so but cohen added he thinks he likes russian women. how he sent a letter to putin saying russian women were beautiful. what do you make of this? look, i think at this point we know how the president talks about women. it s not a secret to any of us at this point. look, does it really matter if he s an agent of russia or not? he has views, they re sympathetic to vladimir putin and to russia on a number of issues and we have an election coming up. that s something americans can decide if they want that in the oval office, or not, that s where it is. does it really matter if he s an agent of russia?
forces. it s more bipartisan than the media reported. howie: he was at the infamous trump tower meeting along with jared kushner and donald trump, jr. sara: look at papadopoulos, look at gates. if there is anyone who would be able to prove a collusion, not saying there was. but if there was someone who could connect the dots, it s someone with the closest ties, paul manafort. howie: the president praised manafort for not flipping. now rudy giuliani s lawyer telling sean hannity the guilty plea is irrelevant.
forces. it s more bipartisan than the media reported. howie: he was at the infamous trump tower meeting along with jared kushner and donald trump, jr. sara: look at papadopoulos, look at gates. if there is anyone who would be able to prove a collusion, not saying there was. but if there was someone who could connect the dots, it s someone with the closest ties, paul manafort. howie: the president praised manafort for not flipping. now rudy giuliani s lawyer telling sean hannity the guilty
they know about or are charging him with. the president praised manafort, said he was brave, not to break under pressure. did the president celebrate too soon? i think a little bit, yes. if manafort is counting on a pardon or trump is contemplating a pardon, this deal complicates that. trump said manafort was the victim of a witch hunt and good for him for standing by his innocence and continuing to maintain it and not flipping or making things up and what have you. now if trump goes ahead and says i m going to pardon this guy, this guy being manafort, after he s already copped to committing crimes, then it very much looks like trump is not trying to protect this person who is unduly witch hunted, if you will, but rather that he is trying to keep transparently trying to keep someone from
virginia. you know, we know from a juror in virginia, they were one hold out away from a unanimous conviction on all 18 counts. they have made this concession of allowing manafort to plead guilty to two counts. his sentence, as dan goldman will tell you, is capped to ten years. paul manafort is getting something. what is he giving? thank you. jeff bennet is joining us from the white house. jeff, a few weeks ago, the president praised manafort for refusing to break and get a deal. reporter: you are right, the president defended manafort as a good man. a couple weeks ago, the president compared him to the mobster al capone suggesting he is treated better than manafort.