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Impacts. they say is this actually a witch hunt. and some people in the wings may think i -- >> talk about a witness with issues here, rick gates admitted to lying several times to investigate investigators, it makes for a complicated witness, ker kerri. >> it does, but for a complex case to be brought there are often witnesses who are not perfect people or who have been implicated. this is how criminal indications are made. i tend to think this is primarily a documents case. i think they have o...

Strategy or whether or not they feel they dont need to well find out. >> so what do you think, kerri? >> he was listed as a potential witness. the prosecutor said theyre not required to put him on, it is hard to tell whether or not they legitimately are leaning towards not putting him on the stand, or if the prosecutor put that out there to keep the defense on their meals a little bit. in their opening statement they went to heavy against gates. so it is hard to tell if this is more substance or...

Jong-un, duterte. these guys seem to, if not have an actual affinity for thugs, dictators and strong men, they certainly dont have an aversion to thugs, dictators and strong men. they dont vana version from making money from thugs, dictators and strong men. are these guys just peas in a pod here, is that the difference between manafort and donald trump? >> basically until we find out something more concrete. it seems to me dispositionally, both of them are not constrained by any ethical kind of ...

To find people that havent heard about the case, that havent already formed some strong opinions about this case, so this may take a few days. it may take into the second week. i think we could expect to see this jury selection may go on for a little while. >> isnt it kind of true that until the u.s. presents its case and were under way, thats not really -- thats the time when well know how this is going to progress, what do they have, how do they plan to lay it out. >> absolutely. i think the m...

His old partner, roger stone, and thats really sort of getting us where we are today, because he went to work for this russian-backed ukrainian oligarch and as you said, prosecutors allege he was paid some $60 million for this service over many years of public relations and lobbying for this rather unsavory character, and for reasons that maybe only manafort can explain, prosecutors say he tried to avoid paying u.s. taxes on these millions, and he structured the payments in the forms of loans an...

Theyre now, i think, the new thing is now theyre probably seeing -- they should be seeing the witness statements for the manafort witnesses. those statements have been turned over to manaforts attorneys now. no reason manaforts attorneys arent sharing those with giuliani and trumps team, and so theyve been reading, we all them the 302s, which is the fbi reports of what the witnesses are going to say, rick gates being one of them. so an educated guess might be that giuliani knows somethings comin...

The obvious. we still have 99 days to go. were not sure whats going to happen. we journalists tend to find odd constructs, make dubious distinctions when reality is -- can be pretty obvious its going to be a matter of how popular the president is and what kind of campaigns are being run. the illinois sixth district is the sort of district that a lot of us think is going to be key, even though a colleague of jeremys made a case today that theres a different sort of district, namely a more working...

Doing the exact same thing the prosecutors do across the country every time they have a criminal case. it is the unglamorous work of sitting in rooms and marking exhibits and making sure you have your paperwork and in a case like this, which is a heavy paper case, theyre going to be going through those things with a fine tooth comb. >> i have to ask you about the last bit of drama up until we begin tomorrow, i guess up until opening statements. there could be a deal in this case. isnt it possibl...

Begin with explaining the recent history of government shutdowns long regarded to be a war of last resort between warring parties, not when the same party controls white house, house, senate, am i correct? >> youre absolutely correct. and in the short-term, at least, when these government shutdowns have occurred, they have hurt the party that was viewed as responsible for that. so lets just play this out. president trump shuts down the government, presumably by vetoing a bill that congress sends...

Essentially trying to get loans from the real estate that he owns and doing things like disporting profit and loss statements, overvaluing properties, so as you can imagine, brian, this is going to be a document heavy case and i fear that it may be boring in some parts, but to lead the jury through it, prosecutors have a star witness, and thats rick gates, who was paul manaforts right-hand man, another republican political consultant, who has pleaded guilty and is cooperating. but you know, the ...