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We havent had anybody on the stand before answering questions and getting cross-examined on this case. but today we got that and it was quite revealing. the other thing you should know about this hearing today, and i say this as a non-lawyer who reads things in a petty way because im a catty, small person, is this -- and maybe it doesnt read this way to lawyers. but reading this transcript for me today, i feel like one of the important things that ive learned about this case is that the judge in...

Resulted essentially in the defendant being tried by leak. that people are so -- they have their minds so made up about him because of all the leaks to the press and all the reporting about it, that he cant possibly get a fair trial. so the courts have basically let him go. paul manaforts defense counsel today actually tried a little shy hail mary where his defense lawyer actually said the case against manafort should be dismissed because there have been leaks to the press about the case. watch ...

Appears to be the latest gambit from the manafort defense. now they want to try to move paul manaforts trial to another part of virginia to i guess escape the media coverage that emanates from the d.c. metro area about his case. presumably they think theyd get a more conservative environment. i dont know. manaforts defense team is going to try that now, though. and meanwhile, they are starting to put up live witnesses to defend the propriety of the evidence that the special counsels office has s...

Subject of the investigation, which i thought itself was a telling moment. tell me about why youre making this case and how you intend to press it. >> well, weve already seen some bipartisan work trying to avoid a constitutional crisis. lindsey graham and myself put forward a bill to protect the special counsel. we know that with this whole investigation of which the president is a subject of weve seen, what have we seen so far, 73 charges amongst 26 people and companies, five guilty pleas, one ...

Populace -- the judge. will you listen to what im saying to you? what remedy would you have asked for if youre right that it has been satiated, as you put it? mr. downing, it would have to be a change of venue. the judge, ah. finally. finally. mr. downing, i was brief. the judge, have you made a motion? mr. downing, we havent made a motion on that. the judge, it is a remedy but i have to determine whether the remedy is warranted. youd better martial all your evidence on that whether we determine...

This guy is the founder of the feast when it comes to political spin. lets just walk through quickly the case about jim comey. its crystal clear how horribly he handled the situation. he failed to notify congress, pete, this is on the record, for eight months about the most sensitive investigation possibly in modern u.s. history, the spying operation on trump. and in case the viewers are thinking you have to wait because it was sensitive. no. there were quarterly meeting where hes supposed to br...

And that is lets assume everything james comey said is true. does that cute evidence of obstruction of justice? would that make a case of obstruction of justice? and i agree that the suggestion or the dictate from the president that comey dropped the flynn case is the single most significant action that the president asked for. bury if your answer is no, then you dont do those interviews. but if your answer is if we can accept or prove what comey said was true, that would cute obstruction of jus...

As that. the firing of the fbi director, james comey. and the firing of national security adviser michael flynn. so those are the ones that -- so those are what theyre talking about now. so his interests go beyond those four topics though. dont you think it goes beyond that? it goes beyond just simple collusion, i would think. thats why i asked john about is in an obstruction case. so this is not ending anytime soon. >> its sprawling. just think of all the buckets here. number one, gets to the b...

>> with no facts, michael, hes saying that the justice department and the fbi are framing donald trump. >> well, i -- then we find out that strzok and page were texting back and forth about getting in front of a judge who, you know, i guess it was contreras is his name. then contreras goes ahead and recuses himself from the flynn case. >> michael, all these indictments that have been brought, michael flynn, what they had on george papadopoulos, the 13 russians, all of that was just framed by the...

One of the few lawyers out there that is willing to spin a kind of -- these sort of crazy conspiratorial ideas about, you know, deep state trying to frame -- >> whats so crazy about it? >> with no facts, michael, hes saying that the justice department and the fbi are framing donald trump. >> well, i -- then we find out that strzok and page were texting back and forth about getting in front of a judge who, you know, i guess it was contreras is his name. then contreras goes ahead and recuses himse...