Special Edition: Paul Manafort “Breaks”
The Lawfare Podcast
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🗓️ 14 September 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
On Friday, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort entered a plea agreement with the special counsel. To figure out what it means for Manafort, the Mueller investigation, and President Trump, Benjamin Wittes spoke to former Obama White House counsel Bob Bauer, independent counsel prosector Paul Rosenzweig, and Lawfare managing editor Quinta Jurecic.
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| 0:27.3 | and the aftermath. |
| 0:32.6 | I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast special edition September 14, 2018. |
| 0:42.2 | Three weeks ago, President Trump was praising Paul Manafort for refusing to break and flip |
| 0:49.5 | and cooperate with the special prosecutor today. |
| 0:54.1 | Paul Manafort broke and flipped and pled guilty and is cooperating with the special prosecutor. |
| 1:03.5 | It's a big day for Bob Mueller, but we don't know how big it is. |
| 1:07.4 | So we thought we'd chew it over with the gang joining me in the new jungle studio is |
| 1:14.6 | LawFair's managing editor, Quintet Jurassic, Paul Rosen's Wig and Bob Bauer. |
| 1:22.2 | Guys, welcome. |
| 1:25.9 | Quintet get us started. |
| 1:28.5 | What happened today and what knew did we learn factually from this pile of documents that |
| 1:36.1 | got filed in District Court in Washington? |
| 1:39.1 | Right. |
| 1:40.6 | So Manafort pleaded guilty today to two charges that the special counsel filed against him |
| 1:47.7 | in DC District Court, specifically conspiracy against the United States relating to a whole |
| 1:56.1 | lot of bank and tax fraud that he committed and also conspiracy to obstruct justice related |
| 2:03.4 | to efforts by him and his associate Constantine Kalimnik that they appear to have been |
| 2:08.8 | trying to dissuade other people from talking to the government about Manafort's lobbying |
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