would not have been subject to all of this high-profile trial if it was not for the fact that he served for a short time as the campaign chairman for donald trump and that all that attention has taken a heavy toll on him. but the judge said none of that matters. the question of whether the independent counsel was right to bring these charges or not don t count. he s pleaded guilty, he s been convicted, he has to be sentenced for his crimes. the judge did start out this roughly 2 1/2 hour hearing by saying her sentence today is not intended to be a revision of a sentence that was imposed last week by judge ellis. but bottom line here, paul manafort, who turns 70 years old on april 1st is now facing a sentence of roughly 7 1/2 years in federal prison, minus the 9 months. he ll get credit for the time he s already served. back to you.
there are employees of the trump organization have liabilities in the separate investigation, why this question of pardon for paul manafort is so important. if the president were to issue a pardon for manafort, it will, number one, be a reward for lies to investigators, before he pled guilty and more importantly his lies to investigators about that meeting where he shared polling data with kilimnick after he cooperated, still lied about it. it would be a reward for those lies. number two, it would be a signal to everyone else in the president s orbit, if you just happening on long enough, you may have to go through trial, it may be unpleasant, may be hard on your family. but at the end of the day if you don t cooperate with investigators and don t tell the truth and protect the most important secrets, i will be here for you with a pardon at the end. i think it s why this question of a pardon is so important. i think harry is right, in most normal situations you wouldn t expect a presid
try and rig the sentence and author david wallace well on why climate catastrophe was closer than anyone thought. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. paul manafort is going to prison. less than an hour ago the judge in the virginia trial sentenced him to 47 months in prison, minus nine months for time served. that is, to be clear, far less than the federal guidelines that called for 19 to 25 years. and he called the sentencing guidelines to rr high, calling manafort, the man who worked for dictators around the world, lived an otherwise blameless life. the d.c. judge hassall red ea found that manafort breached
learning about michael cohen s own pardon play. why another judge says the trump administration broke the law to try and rig the sentence and author david wallace well on why climate catastrophe was closer than anyone thought. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. paul manafort is going to prison. less than an hour ago the judge in the virginia trial sentenced him to 47 months in prison, minus nine months for time served. that is, to be clear, far less than the federal guidelines that called for 19 to 25 years. and he called the sentencing guidelines to rr high, calling manafort, the man who worked for
multiple felonies. friday, february 8th, next friday been on the docket forever turns out it s good you only wrote it in in pencil because now you have to either erase it or messily x it out because the sentencing of the president s campaign chair was called off today by the famous judge that oversees manafort s case in virginia although that virginia trial is over and manafort was convicted at that trial of eight felonies, and now virginia court famously likes to get stuff done fast with no delays, that s the court, the so-called rocket docket despite all of that, the sentencing of the president s campaign chair that was sentenced for next week, next friday, that is now indefinitely on hiatus and delayed. the problem is that the whole sentencing process for paul manafort has now been complicated by these new allegations from special counsel robert mueller that manafort