Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Manafort is turned his direction. One can only imagine what is going through manaforts mind, because if you believe the prosecution version of the case, gates knows all his secrets and is about to expose them to the jury. If you believe the defense version, gates is setting manafort up and framing him. Well have to see which version the jury believes. Ken, how long can we expect gates to be on stand and, number two, what is manaforts defense right now . They were really motoring through gates testimony. Generally this court wraps up at 5 30 but ive got to believe hell be back tomorrow on direct and then there will be a lengthy cross examination. The defense really rests on tarnishing gates. There was some devastating testimony before gates from Cindy Lapartyorta who made the understand that she had no idea that Paul Manafort had overseas accounts. He was supposed to disclose on his taxes. She prepared the taxes and
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sentence. pressed is the headline. pushed is in the first sentence. yeah. and they say it wasn t a push, it was an ask. and as katy described it, this is the kind of routine thing when one law enforcement agency wants the help of another law enforcement in another country, heads of state will basically grease the skids for that. i think the thing to bear in mind here just to perhaps amplify on something that katy said is that we know about bill barr s interests. he has been straightforward about this. in may is when he appointed john durham to look into the origins of the investigation of the trump campaign whether it was started on firm foundation and whether sufficient legal safe guards were in place. he s always said that is his interests. so the inspector general of the justice department is going in one direction. you have durham in this other direction here.
it is meet the press daily. i m katy tur in for chuck todd. nancy pelosi says that the impeachment inquiry will move expeditiously. and late this afternoon, rudy giuliani is being subpoenaed by congress for documents pertaining to his involvement in ukraine. the house intelligence committee says it wants the documents by october 15th. and the subpoena letter comes with a message similar to the one that they gave secretary of state mike pompeo in his subpoena for documents on friday. quote, your failure or refusal to comply with the subpoena including at the direction or behest of the president or white house shall constitute evidence of obstruction of the house s impeachment inquiry and may be used as inference against you and the president. the subpoena letter also requests giuliani produce any text messages and other
they watched the last few weeks and were disgust the by the behavior of senate democrats. this is going to the streets, at the ballot box. i ve never campaigned against a colleague in my life. that s about to change. i want to thank the other side for the tactics that have allowed us to kind of energize and get involved our own voters. those are republicans celebrating not only their kavanaugh victory, but also the notion that the grueling fight over his confirmation helped their chances in november. in recent poll numbers backed that up, democrats enthusiasm gap, a measure of how many registered voters say they are interested in the mid terms has been cut from 16 points in july to just 4 in the latest nbc news/ wall street journal poll. for more i m joined by mark lotter, special former assistant to president trump and currently a member of the trump 2020 advisory board. mark, good to see you. good to see you, katy. enthudo you think the republ are too confident and cocky o