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A major setback for agrippina and until that point she could always use him as leverage in her efforts to control nero when. she could say that you have a step brother who has a much greater claim to the throne than you have because hes claudius is real son you are just adopted and. not a. britannicus is death threw a wrench in the works of agribusiness political plans the political deck was reshuffled in the former manner the imperial seat of government. agribusiness fall was public she was str...

A modest breakthrough thats the phrase i read a lot today and i think it is a good way to put it of course theres nothing hard and besss could actually evaluate but a wall street is all about emotions and how investors feel about the future and i feel like some are seeing their hopes coming true in a way that strategy of threatening and being tough on trade partners seems to have worked trade partners or trade as putin have been taken a toll on aga countries economies not so much on the american...

Using is to create pressure around roger stone and donald trump, jr. with the hopes ha somebody will lie and say there was something that implicated donald trump. there is no evidence that occurred. here with the manafort trial you see an intent to build leverage and no real evidence connecting the president to any russian collusion or russian interference in the u.s. elect. >> i will talk to andy mccarthy about that in a minute and the documents involved as evidence. does a conviction here boos...

Jackets. i think he likes being out of prison. most people do. i think the government has a huge about of leverage over him. he has very important things to tell the government. right now, we have an issue whether donald trump knew beforehand that the trump tower meeting was going to take place and did he approve it. >> manafort would know that because he was in that meeting. >> correct. >> manafort is key. richard gates is key. manafort has a lot to tell about that and there may be other issues...

That its guilty. paul manafort has a conviction. what does the government do at that point? what does the mueller investigation do with that? they cant unconvict him at that point as part of any deal they make with him? >> well, hes facing another trial. they can try to work something out with him. the point is manafort has held out all this time. why has he done that? i personally think its because hes waiting for a pardon from the president. i think he will -- i think likely hell be convicted ...

Interview by the president that had anything to do with questions of obstruction of justice, theyre waiting for mueller to respond. theyre trying to see if mueller is going to issue a subpoena for the president and preparing for that scenario writing a rebuttal now so it is ready so they can issue immediately to start a court fight and tight at the district court level and ultimately at the supreme court level. >> counselor, where is this leverage coming from of rudy giuliani appears to be when ...

Rudy giuliani earlier today, what is his state of mind and what did he infer of the state of play? >> hes watching the clock, brian, he knows a week ago he and jay sekulow sent a letter to mueller and refusing an interview by the president that had anything to do with questions of obstruction of justice, theyre waiting for mueller to respond. theyre trying to see if mueller is going to issue a subpoena for the president and preparing for that scenario writing a rebuttal now so it is ready so the...

That point? what does the mueller investigation do with that? they cant unconvict him at that point as part of any deal they make with him? >> well, hes facing another trial. they can try to work something out with him. the point is manafort has held out all this time. why has he done that? i personally think its because hes waiting for a pardon from the president. i think he will -- i think likely hell be convicted but in any case he has another trial. what mueller has in terms of leverage over...

Huge about of leverage over him. he has very important things to tell the government. right now, we have an issue whether donald trump knew beforehand that the trump tower meeting was going to take place and did he approve it. >> manafort would know that because he was in that meeting. >> correct. >> manafort is key. richard gates is key. manafort has a lot to tell about that and there may be other issues with respects to the russians and may be other things he knows. mueller needs him. mueller ...

>> theyre trying to raise the election as a time line, a point in time where they either want this wrapped up now. they dont have any leverage to tell the special counsel when he has to wrap this up. theyre the ones stalling on answering and figuring out whether the presidents going to sit down with the special counsels office, probably not going to happen, but theyve been dragging this out as much as anybody. i mean, rudy giuliani has been so disingenuous about most of what he said on televisio...