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Manafort. The defense is going to go on offense to attack gates credibility. All of that is part of the drama today. The nuts and bolts of this case are still in the numbers, in the tax fraud, bank fraud, alleged deals for these clients allied with the putin regime. Now, Paul Manafort faces 18 fraud charges from a time before he ever joined the trump campaign. This was all the ukrainian consulting work, which means theres a ton of paper and prosecutors are arguing to this jury whatever happens w...

Arguments from both sides. he would like them to run 90 minutes or less. same time for his instructions to the jury. so he believes that the jury should have the case late tomorrow. final note, dana, there was a sealed proceeding this morning and really fueled speculation that there was some kind of problem with one or more of the jurors. when we were back in the courthouse just a half hour ago and the jurors returned, it was all 12 and the four alternates. so if there was a jury problem, appare...

>> well, we live in the united states of america. youre presumed innocent until proven guilty. we believe the government cannot meet that burden. >> source close to the defense told fox news that they want to keep the focus on manaforts former business partner, rick gates. this is the governments star witness and they want the focus to be on questions about gates credibility as a star witness for the government rather than on their client and as a final note, manafort faces a second prosecution ...

Middle of the week. there could be basically deliberations this week. there could be a verdict by the end of the week. where does this go, do you think, as he prepares for that? >> well, you know, hovering over this entire trial is the question, why didnt manafort do the same thing as gates, cut a deal with the special prosecutor? because the evidence against him was clear. we saw that in the indictment. he knew this was going to be a hard trial. and yet he persisted, he decided to go along with...

The defense rested today, probably deciding theres nothing that they could do to improve their chances of manafort being found not guilty by the jury if he took the stand. your thoughts. >> yeah, listening to the defense attorney, they sound confident. well see. thats what defense attorneys do. they portray this confidence. if youre paul manafort, youre hoping theyre confident and the government didnt make the case and cross the burden for the jury to come back with a guilty plea. for the rumors...