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Schiff talking to a russian about naked pictures of donald trump breathlessly hoping for all the details. >> well, look. judge ellis said it pretty well. why is paul manafort being prosecuted? he is being prosecuted because he worked for a couple of months as campaign manager for donald trump. otherwise, maybe the irs would have done an investigation. maybe he would have been prosecuted. if the case was closed. this was picked up for that very reason. ultimately, i think he did a risky strategy ...

Post a signature. >> we are talking about white collar crime. not the allegations here where kids were being trained to shoot law enforcement and teachers on a compound. when i was doing white collar crime, i remember bond rates in the eastern district of new york in the long island courthouse 10 and 20 times this for people who committed credit card fraud. check kiting and bank fraud. this case is outrageous. by the way, sean, the allegations in this, they dont have to prove anything. prove it ...

I would say whatever you want me to say. now, the main, the lead prosecution witness in the manafort case is his partner, rick gates. he is an admitted lawyer, embezzler, cheat, involved in everything that supposedly paul manafort has done for the most part. he is their star witness who is facing 100 years in jail and everybody else that testified got immunity. that sounds, to me, like well, mueller is basically bribing rick gates with a get out of jail free card. and, frankly, i cant put any fa...

The government failed, the fbi failed, and the doj to put that in the foreign intelligence surveillance court application that they issued on carter page. >> sean: how is it legally t possible, david, that you have got all of this russian evidence here on the other side and they ignore it and they go after a 2005 tax case? has nothing to do with the w election. russia, the president, nothing. how did that mandate spread so wide by the guy that signed the fourth fisa warrant, which is rod rosenst...

As the jury gets paul manafort case tomorrow and we watch the closing arguments tomorrow and start to wait on the jury to hand in their verdict, i mentioned that there are a few other things that have been raised in the trial, many for the first time that were left to wonder if and how theyll get tied up now that theyve been described in open court. one of those is highlighted today by the "associated press" in a story that has a remarkable lead. ready? from the a.p. today, jeff who are rewitz, ...

And the cause of the sealed motions and hearings, we dont know. we will find out sooner rather than later. the judge said in open court that all of those motions and all of those transcripts of these closed hearings will be unsealed when the trial ends. we will eventually find out. as i mentioned though, manaforts defense lawyer tried to explain to reporters why no witness were called to stand up on the defense side of the case. in court that included a certain lengthy or description of why paul...

Down the line? not only when donald trump is president, what happens with the next president or the president after that and where does the line keep moving? and then at what point do we become a country where percent can you g -- persecuting your political opponents is common place. >> we need a congress that puts a check and balance on the executive and reins some of the executive power thats been running amok. and when republicans in power, republicans embrace it. when democrats are in power,...

Court today. i will read to you a piece from the court transcript today where the judge basically throws a lightning bolt in the courtroom at that argument. but beak what manaforts lawyers tried to do do end of this case was tried to argue to the court this bank ceo wan aid trump administration job so badly he would have approved any loan from his bank for paul manafort to matter how big a loan it was and no matter how ridiculous the paperwork that manafort submitted to supposedly apply for the ...

So we will eventually find out. as i mentioned though, manaforts defense lawyer basically tried to explain to reporters it today why no witnesses were called to stand up for paul manafort on the defense side of the case. in court today, that included a certain lengthy at least a description of why paul manafort wasnt standing up to testify as a witness in his own defense. heres how that went in court today. the judge, now we turn to the fact that the government has rested and now it is my obliga...

Eliminated? the prosecutor, we want it revis revised, your honor. the judge, you are giving me a brief now? >> i am. but your honor, its attached to the brief at the back should be the proposed instruction. the judge, did you submit this brief prior to today? we have not, your honor. we think that as the brief suggests that the post instruction is actually a more accurate statement of fourth circuit law on the comments of questioning of witnesses. the judge, it leaves out the fact that the law o...