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Defense declining to introduce evidence or from the client refusing to take the stand. the entire burden here is on mueller and his prosecutors to prove their case. thats the burden on the government. but then when you get into the details in this case, muellers team argues they have achieved that through their star witness rick gates, through a mountain of other evidence, and through other corroborating witnesses who were granted a type of use immunity to say, yup, we helped manafort commit the...

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Also take a closer look at the way they deal with this september 2016 report by michael -- in yahoo! news which was used in the fisa application for carter page as additional or corroborating information. what i do not see here is the explicit reference to the fact that the court was ever told that steele was the case for the story. >> if you go back and look at the story, in september 2016, is bottom line that intelligence officials are looking at the issues and exploring the issues could not t...

>> you cant make this up. as light as its become this is a serious issue. when you think of why the deal was done with this particular porn star at the time it was done, 11 days before the presidential election, it does suggest that there is more than just a he said/she said we have seen with some of the other women that have alleged to have had affairs with donald trump. we know from the original settlement agreement there was the possibility that there is corroborating evidence, text messages,...

Reporting on -- and ive heard this myself -- that this part could pretty handily be concluded without the president. any single flash point, the firing of jim comey, you have jim comey whoever he briefed contemporaneously, his memos, andy mccabe who corroborates his account. there are so many corroborating witnesses who have now tln been through the offices where bob mueller is conducting this investigation, that it seemed at some level, in terms of ascertaining the fact patterns around these fl...

So i would look at that as more corroborating information, as you work outwards from cohen, possibly towards the president. so, you know, weve got a separate investigation here. this is not the special counsel. i think hes showed a lot of discipline in punting this investigation up to the southern district. >> now, when you say, this was referred to the southern district, michael, let me ask you about the timeline they just shared in part, when theyre looking at suppression of the "access hollyw...

This dossier is biassed, that as a legal matter, if it you look at the case law thats been applied for decades in cases like this, bias doesnt mean that the warrant is invalid. that intformants are often bias. the matter is if they have credible information. there are two reasons to think that the fisa warrant should be upheld. one is that he himself is credible, christopher steel, and secondly, that theres other corroborating information in the warrant beyond what he said. and thirdly, both he ...