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Had somebody that could put the case together, connect all of the dots. >> what requests did you make of them? >> we wanted to know more about every piece of evidence, every -- we have to rule out every piece of dna in that house. so it was closing doors, it was excluding other people. >> reporter: so, thats what these three did, as a large photo of tara kept watch. but, again, there was no dna to help them. all they had really were lingering suspicions about the workmen who went to taras house ...

The way back to jack kemp. republicans desperately want to hold on to this. but certainly in peril as of this point. athena jones, thank you for your reporting. lets discuss the impact of congressman chris collins suspending his re-election campaign. joining me now, cnn political analyst julian salazar. obviously the republicans are concerned about a possible blue wave this november. how might this decision to suspend his campaign impact republicans chances to hang on to the house? is it just ...

Vladimir putin did during the campaign. im no fan of vladimir putin. so what questions, exactly, does mr. mueller have? talking to you mr. mueller. exactly what questions that you have, where you seek to turn this country upside-down and disenfranchise the over 60 million people who voted for this president of the united states. you are a play thing of the media, play thing of the democrats, play thing of people within the obama administration who sought from dale one to take this president down...

Vladimir putin did during the campaign. im no fan of vladimir putin. so what questions, exactly, does mr. mueller have? talking to you mr. mueller. exactly what questions that you have, where you seek to turn this country upside-down and disenfranchise the over 60 million people who voted for this president of the united states. you are a play thing of the media, play thing of the democrats, play thing of people within the obama administration who sought from dale one to take this president down...

Gallery. talking about the manhattan madam a few years after she was involved in the eliot spitzer scandal. did you think wed be talking about her again? >> really hard to keep track of who and where and how theyre all tied together and where the dots connect. it just raises more questions than it provides answers and thats been the problem all along, right, with the way any trump administration official acts, which is always kind of making people feel like you have something to hide, is there s...

To talk to several people who are connected to roger stone. do you believe stone is a key witness in all of this? how important do you think roger stone is to this investigation? >> i think that theres clearly some linkage. i think thats why the special prosecutor is looking at stone and others becaus youre connecting dots and roger stone is one of those dots to lead to another dot. and you see it starting to happen and going to keep moving on up. so you see the number of individuals that have b...

During the hours-long delay, the judge reminded jurors not to discuss the case with anyone else and to keep an open mind because manafort is presumed innocent until proven guilty. perhaps it was a juror issue, we dont know. when court finally resumed, prosecutors moved on to the next witness, the vice president of a bank that lent manafort $16 million. the witness testified how manafort secured oddly quick approval of loans with direct involvement from the banks ceo, who wanted a role in the tru...

Defense been in painting rick gates as a witness that isnt credible? as a witness they cant trust? >> reporter: well, i think during the cross-examination of rick gates he came across as an untrustworthy person. i thought he was needlessly evasive and argumentative with the defense on cross-examination. i think they did score some points. but what the prosecution has done well is to corroborate rick gates testimony with the witness testimony of other people and documents. i think the jury can be...

Prosecutoring and tprosecutoor or at the jury. i thought gates did fairly well on his direct examination. they used a lot of documents that he connected the dots. a lot of it was corroborated with e-mail and other documents. i thought he didnt do well on cross-examination, he seemed evasive and argumentative. i think he admitted to a lot of fraud and a lot of lies and i think the body language of the jury was that they werent liking rick gates very much. they put him in the middle for a reason, ...

Horizontal axis. drew a line called aggression analysis across them to basically find what is statistically most accurate. what you find, about a 70% correlation between a presidents approval rating and the number of house seats won or lost in a midterm. at say 50%, that would lead you to expect something like a 30-seat loss in the midterms. however, we have a president, we know is at 41%. if you start at 41% and draw a line across, you would find it comes out around here in the, about 60 very v...