This is Jess from Dayton, Ohio. I'm currently on a road trip to Atlanta, Georgia with my dog Berkeley,

where I'm going to get to see the MPR politics road to 2020 live taping. I'm so excited!

This podcast was recorded at 7.47 pm on Thursday, 7th March.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this.

Okay, enjoy the show!

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We need more dogs in the podcast. Every podcast should have a dog reference.

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. Paul Manafort was sentenced to 47 months.

House Democrats vote on a resolution that both does and doesn't rebuke one of their freshman representatives.

And in the race for 2020, the list of who is not running for president just got a little longer.

I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House.

I'm Aisha Roscoe, I also cover the White House.

And we've got Ryan Lucas on the line from Northern Virginia.

Sonny Alexandria. Hello.

Yeah, so you're in a hotel across the street from the courthouse where Paul Manafort,

the president's former campaign chairman, was just sentenced to 47 months.

Do the math for us, please.

I had to use my calculator.

I actually in the courtroom with a reporter who was sitting next to me had to kind of count it out on my finger.

So it comes out as three years, 11 months. That is the total time that Judge T.S. Ellis sentenced Manafort for eight counts that he was actually convicted by a federal jury here in August on.

So he was convicted of tax fraud, failing to disclose a foreign bank account and bank fraud.

He could have faced from 19 and a half to 24 years.

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