Mueller: Manafort's "Criminal Actions Were Bold"
PAUL: Sixteen minutes past the hour right now. So glad to have you with us here. So, Paul Manafort repeatedly, and this is a quote, repeatedly and brazenly violated the law and shows a lack of remorse. That is how Robert Mueller's team describes the former Trump campaign manager in this new sentencing memo.</s>BRIGGS: The special counselor's memo also says Manafort lied to several entities during the course of the investigation. Manafort is scheduled to be sentenced next month. Joining us now is CNN reporter Marshall Cohen who combed through most of this highly redacted 800-page memo.</s>PAUL: Yes. So, what stood out to you, Marshal?</s>MARSHAL COHEN, CNN REPORTER: Good morning, guys.</s>BRIGGS: Good morning.</s>COHEN: As you mentioned, Paul Manafort will face a sentencing next month. The memo told us basically an overview of what he did and what he did wrong detailing his crimes from the past decade, his deceit to his own counsel, Congress, special counsel investigators, and how that should cause him to basically, if the judge agrees, spend the rest of his life in prison. He'll be sentenced in Virginia and in Washington next month in two separate cases. He was convicted on eight counts at trial and pleaded guilty to two more. The memo basically says he is unrepentant and if he ever gets out again, he probably would break the law again, suggesting to the judge -- put him away for a good amount of time. But, of course, as you know, the president might get the final say on this if he wants to. It's within his authority to grant a pardon to his former campaign chairman, and possibly give him some clemency from that potentially long prison sentence.</s>PAUL: Marshal Cohen, we appreciate it. Thank you so much.</s>BRIGGS: If you didn't catch the lies.</s>PAUL: Yes.</s>BRIGGS: The lies are spectacular and so vast, we had to make graphic who Paul Manafort was honest with we are not clear. But he lied to tax preparers, bookkeepers, banks, treasury, DOJ, special counsel, FBI, his own legal team, Congress and members of the executive branch. So, that's --</s>PAUL: And a pardon may not save him. Let's be very honest. We don't know yet.</s>BRIGGS: If "Bloomberg News" is right in that tax state charges are prepared in New York, those are not exempt. Those are exempt from a pardon.</s>PAUL: We have to wait and see.</s>BRIGGS: Yes. We shall see ahead, though.</s>PAUL: All righty. So, another big story we've been watching this week with you. R&B singer R. Kelly, you know, he is expected to be in court again tomorrow.</s>BRIGGS: According to his lawyers, he spent a second night in jail because he couldn't make bail. CNN's Sara Sidner has the latest on this case from Chicago.</s>SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A judge set R. Kelly's bond for $1 million, $250,000 in each of the four alleged victims' cases. Now, R. Kelly would only have to pay 100,000 of that after he has been charged with ten counts of criminal sexual abuse. The prosecution today laying out some very sexually explicit details in this case to the judge, including sexual and physical abuse of several of the women that are now alleged victims in this particular case. The case brought yesterday. There was an indictment from a grand jury first and then the prosecution filed charges against R. Kelly. The details include physical and sexual abuse against women who are now of age, but were minors at the time, under the age of 17 but older than 13 is how the prosecution put it. We also heard from R. Kelly's attorney Steve Greenberg. He came out and he said initially when R. Kelly was arrested and we saw him go in to be booked last night, he said that all of the women are liars and called them liars and called them liars very starkly and clearly. Today, he backed down a little bit from that but said, you know, you can't believe everything you hear, that he should be given, like any other defendant, the presumption of innocence. He also mentioned the 2008 trial where R. Kelly was put on trial for 14 counts of pornography, child pornography and he was acquitted in that trial. He says people should give him the same kind of presumption of innocence as other defendants. He did recognize that there was a lot of media attention here. He recognized that there were some women who were in the courtroom here today listening and emotional. We can tell you that one of the victims, the alleged victims in this case, was inside the courtroom. She was emotional herself. This has been a very difficult time for the women who have come out and accused R. Kelly of sexually abusing them when they were minors. Where do we go from here? Well, Steve Greenberg, R. Kelly's attorney, says that he does not think that R. Kelly has $100,000 just hanging around. So, the question is, will he be able to get that money and get out of jail before his next hearing, which will be Monday? Sara Sidner, CNN, Chicago.</s>BRIGGS: OK. Sara, thank you. Five people are dead as violent clashes continue on the Venezuela/Colombia border. Will the U.S. step up its involvement in the growing crisis and what would that look like? We'll ask Democratic Representative Tom Malinowski, who's on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, next.</s>PAUL: And catch the CNN presidential town hall with Senator Bernie Sanders live from Washington, moderated by Wolf Blitzer, that is tomorrow night, 8:00 p.m. Eastern, right here on CNN.