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Theyre moving through the indictment 1 through 18. and the first five counts are tax fraud. their questions last week related to the second group of counts on filing foreign bank account reports. and the implication from that question is they had already reached a verdict on the tax fraud counts. so as i sit here and this is speculation trying to read the tea leaves, but i believe they have reached the guilty verdict on the tax fraught counts and the remaining deadlocked counts could be one or m...

But the judge also indicated after, to the lawyers, after he sent the jury back, that if they are -- remain deadlocked on one or more counts, he would ask them how many counts they had already reached a verdict on. and then he would consider taking whats called a partial verdict, which means to accept a verdict from the jury on -- only on those accounts on which theyre unanimous. and then they would have to determine how many of those counts are and whether its worth sending them back to continu...

A single thing, but thats not the context of it, you follow me. in other words, we cant agree on a single account, jumps out as first we cant agree on anything. then they say what do we do with that count on sheet clearly implies to me in my 30-plus years of trying cases they have reached a verdict with respect to some of the counts. its likely an agreement with the tax count. remember, in the famous now four questions they sent out, one of them had to do with the fbar report and what level of o...

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Stake for mr. manafort here. >> reporter: sure, stephanie. so, by the end of today, we can expect that the case will be with the jury. that will be after about a morning, about an hour and a half of jury instruction. and each side will have two hours to do their closing arguments. well hear from rick gates, the most moatable witness in the case. when in fact he did embezzle hundreds of thousands of dollars from paul manafort. whats at take for paul manafort hes looking to ten years in prison. le...

Detailed false paperwork and misleading information from manaforts applications including outstanding debt, undisclosed mortgages. the president of the bank rejected the loan request but the decision was overturned by the banks ceo who according to another witness was hoping to get a top job in the trump administration. tomorrow manaforts attorneys are expected to reveal whether or not they will call manafort to the stand. with us to talk about all of it two people that were in court today. a fo...

A job he did not eventually get. >> daniel, prediction. does manafort take the stand? would you put him on? and how much of a case do you think the defense will mount? >> i would be shocked if manafort took the stand. defenses view is that we were going to attack rick gates and put it on him. we got good traction from the cross-examination on that and we are not go to mess with it putting manafort on the stand. because it is their theory i think they will not call any witnesses at all and play t...

So much on the campaign and therefore afterwards in the trump administration is willing to put up his own companys money, $16 million, to secure himself a spot in that administration. a job he did not eventually get. >> daniel, prediction. does manafort take the stand? would you put him on? and how much of a case do you think the defense will mount? >> i would be shocked if manafort took the stand. defenses view is that we were going to attack rick gates and put it on him. we got good traction f...

Today. a former assistant u.s. district attorney for the southern district of new york and a "los angeles times" reporter. daniel, we are very glad you were willing to dip into the court proceedings as our special correspondent. what struck you as this of all days for the prosecution to rest their case? >> the one thing that really stood out is the ceo that you mentioned. it is almost as if the defense was starting to lay the foundation for an argument that paul manafort is so dirty that the rea...