Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz said special counsel Robert Mueller would like to see former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort choose to testify against Trump rather than “die in prison.”

“[They’re hoping to say] look, you have two choices: Die in prison or testify against your former associate. And most people will take the ‘testify’ option rather than the ‘die in prison’ option,” Dershowitz said during an interview Monday on Fox News.

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