good evening and welcome to you both. glen, home field advantage has its advantages. with a question. let s engage in some wild unleashed speculation that the mueller team has submitted this manafort document to the federal judge. not to make it about us. why haven t we seen or heard about it yet? hot could be go toing on behind the scenes? the judge does not have her prioorts straight. you ve been here for six minutes now. ordinarily the prosecution and the defense will largely agree on what should be redacted. and then they ll submit it to the court and it s a mat orof the court putting it on the public document on the docket. i think what may be going on is we ve seen some other redaction snaf oos in recent months where matters that should have been redacted from public filings
i think it s cyrus vance jr. has his legal ducks in order. and if he brings charges they re not going to be barred by the double jeopardy clause. i can see how it would seem unfair but let s remember this. there were a number of charges that the first jury in virginia hung on. those are still open charges. if you recall, manafort then went in and took responsibility for doing those things but didn t plead guilty to those ten charges on which the virginia jury hung. those are open. those wouldn t be barred by the new york double jeopardy laws. so there are a lot of legal moving pieces. you went back to being the prosecutor for just a minute here. let s walk right up to the
president s words will be educated. but i do feel we learn a little bit about how he reacts to things. you remember how often he spoke about that poor man, general flynn and he actually said that about michael cohen and then he said he was a rat. in the case of manafort, i think what s so interesting is we really haven t seen the big reveal about what the entirety of what mueller might have about manafort s actions that relate to the campaign. and had you start to see that, it s hot we often talk about in the newsroom as breaking some china and maybe you ll see reactions and fireworks from the president then. i m not convinced that the sentencing memo tonight, unredacted, redacted, whatever happens, i m not convinced tlirlts big reveal either. i m basing that solely on the
manafort. that s not the last of it. manafort pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy involving his work in ukrain. a judge last week ruled manafort lied about his commune cautions with a former business associate with ties to the russian government. and specifically he lied about sharing campaign polling data with kilmnik. and the feds said the relationship between manafort and kilimnik goes to the heart of what the special counsel s office is investigating. this upcoming sentencing memo ewhich may not be made public right away could tell us more about what exactly that means. however, there may be new criminal charges ahead for manafort. this is interesting. the kind of charges his friend the president can t save him
be it could potentially even reach into double digits. i ve got to look at the sentencing guidelines. here s what distinguishes manafort from other bad guys. it s one thing to it decide not to cooperate with the feds. it s another thing entirely to pretend to cooperate but actually serve as a double or triple agent back to the white house, maybe back to the russians and pretend you re working with the prosecutors. and that s not going to sit well with the sentencing judge. and i think, while we re debating whether or not we re going to get a big reveal in mueller s sentencing recommendation and memo, i think what s going to jump out is mueller s going to hit this hard. this guy showed complete disdain for us, for the government and he s played it like he s played his entire life, which is to double everything up. do what s irn it for his best interest and thumb his nose at