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Muellers prosecutor andrew wiseman has argued that know he has accepted responsibility, he has lied, also emphasizing that even though manafort argued he was not the leader of the conspiracy, that in fact he was. so youre hearing from both defense and prosecutors in this case. just to paint a picture of whats going on inside, paul manafort arrived no ed today in wheelchair. he was wearing a suit unlike last week when we saw him in prison scrubs. our reporter inside said he looks thinner and he l...

Now is because he was the trump campaign chairman. but then of course muellers prosecutors argue it shows how brazen he was to have been committing these crimes and then take on this role that would put him in the spotlight as the trump campaign chairman. we will see today how the judge looks at all of this. >> we now he judge ellis looked at this. he said the only reason youre going against paul manafort is to get him to cooperate against trump and other people. there has been that feeling that...

To do that. hes attacking the prosecution once again. the problem with this is its a one-sided fight. the prosecutor is, properly, saying nothing. so hes not defending himself or his case. in the meantime, the president and roger stone and many others are going, this is a fraud, this is a witch hunt, this is a hoax, im being charged unfairly. and these are angry democrats, even though of course mueller is a republican. and it really can affect the outcome of the case in terms of how will the ame...

Reason to go forward with impeachment? what do you say to fellow democrats? >> well, andrea, nice to be with you. i believe she did say unless there is conclusive evidence and thats what these committee hearings are conducting, their investigations and oversight responsibilities. the mueller report still has not come out. we need to see what that has said. i, for one, believe that no one, including the president, is above the law. i believe we have to continue, allow the investigations and the p...

Polling data and discussed a peace plan for ukraine. the big question now is if mueller has a big revelation, why is he sitting on it? joyce vance, does there need to be a connection made between donald trumps desire to have his trump tower, the russians desire to have control essentially of american foreign policy, and the quid pro quo being manafort gives them something of value in exchange for something of value? does the connection need to be made for this to be a satisfactory conclusion? >>...

Of course mueller is very diligent, hes only putting forth things where he is -- airtight charges and so its just a matter of time. >> you guys stick around i want to go through our next big headline its the government slowly reopening. the national mall, nations parks and the capitol reopening but the effects of the shutdown lingering. we have 800,000 federal workers waiting to see the two paychecks they missed and time is running out to avert another shutdown with 20 days to reach a compromise...

When there was not a campaign in which he was running. it would give him the right to say, it was my mo to act as such and to make this go away regardless of any particular campaign. i ask that question and wrote that poll question because i think thats the clearest way you can distill the net impact of all the michael cohen news this week. of course mueller may have tons more coming in terms of the russian probe or not, but with what we know thus far, thats the issue that may have to be grapple...

As to why hes decided to weigh in on roger stone and other players in this investigation, i cant tell you. i cant explain to you the presidents twitter impulses. >> i dont think anyone can, to be quite honest with you. let me ask you danny, really quickly about president trump and his praise for roger stone. we know that he, yesterday at least, had a tweet over the weekend i should say where he talked about julian assange. take a listen. >> i had no contact with assange. assange himself has said...

Wouldnt take it off the table. why would i take it off the table?" that prompted a lot of response on capitol hill. >> that is par for the course, i guess, to hold that and dangle it out there. >> the real danger there is the pardon, which is trumps interest, and would be solid evidence of obstruction of justice. >> i am not aware of any conversations involving a pardon at all. >> bret: it is a four car alarm fire on capitol hill today. lets bring in our panel, charles hurt, amy walter, and hugo...

D.c. have noticed a few sealed cases from, that involved the special counsels office. one of them intriguingly went today to the court of appeals. so it is perceived that there is a holding in the district court, and proceeded to the court of appea appeals, and it must be involve some sort of subpoena battle, because that is going to make it sealed under the rules, because it is grand jury material. is it trump? i tend not to think so, because as kristen says, this is first playing out at the le...