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Team were in brief discussions with the special counsel, with robert mueller and his team about a possible plea deal to avoid a second trial. not a lot is known of exactly what the prosecutors, the special counsel was looking for. it appears at the very least that this was not some kind of a flip deal. this wasn t to gain his cooperation or anything like that. it was simply, it appears, at this point, that it was to sort of avoid a second trial. of course, as we know, manafort had been convicted, facing a substantial amount of time in jail, perhaps the rest of his life. really, a second trial even if he is convicted wouldn t necessarily add anything to his jail time or his sentence. perhaps prosecutors and the defense teams were trying to avoid another trial. the other thing that s important here, ryan, is that if paul manafort was to plead guilty like what we saw in the michael cohen case last week, he would have to stand up in court and ....

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