Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, Breaking News and international stories. Somebody, in other words make up stories if you dont know, they just make up lies. Alan dershowitz stayed composed. Ive seen it many times. They go from ten years to a national hero. They have a statue erected in their honor. Its not a fair thing. But thats why he did it. He made a very good deal. All right. Lets immediately go to our White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins at the white house. This is a big deal that a longtime friend and associate of the president of the United States, david pecker of American Media, cooperating with federal prosecutors in exchange for immunity. What are you hearing of these latest attacks and the revelations about david peckers role in helping Michael Cohen facilitate these Hush Money Payments . Reporter yeah, wolf, youre right. This is a big deal, and its not good news for President Trump. The Wall Street Journal reporting that david pecker and an editor at the national
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i ve always found paul manafort to be a very decent man. he was with the campaign, as you know, for a very short period of time, relatively short period of time, but i ve always known him to be a good man. i think the whole manafort trial is very sad, when you look at what s going on there. i think it s a very sad day for our country. he happens to be a very good person, and i think it s very sad what they ve done to paul manafort. well, the special counsel in a new redacted court filing is describing president trump s former campaign manager, paul manafort, as a hardened criminal who knowingly, repeatedly, and blazenly violated the law. the memo states, given the breadth of manafort s criminal activity, the government has not located a comparable case with the unique array of crimes and aggravating factor.
some new insight into the game plan for robert mueller s report. washington s certainly on edge amid indications that the investigation is winding down. a senior doj official telling nbc news that the report will not be dropping this week, but the washington post reports doj officials do expect to receive it some time in march. let s bring in democratic strategist bishop garrison, interim executive director of the truman project, and republican strategist brian darling, founder and president of liberty government affairs. hi, guys! good to see you on a sunday morning. good morning. good to see you. all right, bishop, we ll start with you here. mueller s team, the sentencing memo that we got yesterday on former trump campaign chairman paul manafort revealing very little that we didn t already know. do you see that as an indication of what to expect from mueller s
because it appears he has lied to just about everyone, including during a period of time when he was allegedly cooperating with investigators. and that s key, because when he did that plea agreement wherein he said he was going to cooperate with federal prosecutors, he also, we know, was basically double-timing them. he was communicating with trump and his legal team. but beyond that, the judge is going to look at things like that laundry list of people to whom he s lied, and the judge is going to look at fact that this man has committed a lifetime of crimes. we re not talking an isolated incident or an isolated period of time where in paul manafort s 69 years on this planet he went off the grid or he did something that was an aberration from the norm. this was the norm for paul manafort, to commit crimes, to live a life of crime. and so, he will be sentenced accordingly. and again, the range is from 19 to 24 years in virginia. and then in d.c., he could get another ten years. so you
place. i don t think you re going to have anyone who s looking to fully paint this as any type of political issue. what they re looking to do is see who actually violated law and to ensure that those individuals are held accountable. this is a nonpartisan issue. we should have democrats and republicans that are looking to protect this investigation and looking to see who actually violated law. , you know, there s another theory out there which is that mueller has been writing his report in plain sight this entire time. if that s the case, hasn t it already jeopardized the trump presidency given the many other trump-linked investigations that it has sparked? there s no doubt that we ve seen numerous public filings and basically a mueller report already in the public with this massive filing when you look at the manafort case and all the other cases out there. there s a wealth of information out there right now that