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welcome to the republican rorschach primary. im michael smerconish in philadelphia. people are reading into the results so far whatever theyre wishing for. first there are the never tr trumpers. they say he is essentially running as an incumbent, and still 49% of the voters in iowa, they didnt want him. speaking of iowa, the turnout was abysmal. a little over 110,000 participated, accounting for just under 15% of the states 752,000 registered republicans. do you know that trump only re...

registered republicans. do you know that trump only received a little over 56,000 votes? and iowa, iowa is lily white. its unrepresentative of the country at large. were a diverse nation of over 335 million, a small number of iowa voters should not determine our destiny. and besides, the iowa field was still too crowded. when nikki haley finally got him one-on-one in new hampshire, she was able to keep it close and received about 43% of the vote. and worse for trump the independents in...

The judge said that at 2:00 today hes going to hear from both sides over a motions filed by news organizations to unseal some of the conversations that he had with the defense earlier this week and last week. andrea, to remind you, thats when we doing these long releases last friday and they had discussions under seal on monday that we didnt know what was going on, we didnt know if there was a jury problem, there could be a mistrial. we knew the judge was meeting with the jurors. it now seems th...

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...

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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...

And fine attorney in his own right. and all right. so now we know that the jurors have left the courthouse which would seem to suggest that it may not be a jury problem, right? >> it doesnt appear to be a jury problem that everyone has left the courthouse, and it doesnt appear to be a misconduct problem that requires a hearing with the attorneys themselves. so lets just speculate. i know that america is going to look at twitter feed and people are going wild and crazy about what is happening h...