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Agree with that, i would feel as if im okay, little bit, no? >> well, look, you know, whats interesting is a lot of his own supporters will tell you if you talk to them at rallies and so forth as we do that they understand that the president isnt necessarily telling them 100% precise, accurate truth on a lot of things and it doesnt really matter to them because what they think is hes a truth teller in a larger sense that he is somebody who is breaking china and washington, taking on the elites, ...

The reason i think its probably more is there was an extraordinary moment during the manafort hearing, rick gates testified. he was trumps deputy campaign manager. then he ran the fundraising for the inauguration. he was asked on the stand, did you steal money from the inauguration committee? rick gates said, i might have. >> and that raised some red flags for you. >> of course, of course. >> why? >> because muellers not going to let that go. its someone who may have committed a crime. he did fa...

Defense team there and with manafort himself in the courtroom, everybody there in person today in federal court in d.c., today the judge in his case ultimately elected to not today make a decision on the substance of these current allegations against him. which, again, are that he broke his deal by lying repeatedly to prosecutors. so manafort was there in court today. he then had to go back to jail he will be back in court a week from monday and then that will be the day that this same judge wil...

Paul manafort already convicted on multiple felonies, already facing a likely prison sentence of seven to ten years. the drama underlying todays hearing for manafort is that he could be facing an additional decade in prison on top of the seven to ten, which really, i mean, when you start adding it up, that could already be the whole enchilada da if youre already 70 years old. on top of his other sentence if the judge in his case concludes that he breached his plea agreement by lying to prosecuto...

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Been charged remember, paul manafort has done at least nine interview sessions with the special counsels office he has testified before the grand jury at least twice. we will ultimately get some redacted transcript of that manafort hearing after theyve gone through and taken out all the sensitive stuff, but theyre holding that next manafort hearing behind closed doors because theyre expecting a lot of it to not yet be suitable for public consumption because of all of the ungoing cases that it re...

In court tomorrow. this will also be the first time manaforts lawyers have had to face the judge and muellers prosecutors since president trumps lawyers started bragging that manafort and his defense team have been a secret back channel to the white house, leaking information about the interests and activities of the special counsels office to the president for the president to use in his own legal defense. since the presidents lawyer started bragging about that, manaforts lawyers havent actuall...

This morning at the g-20, president trump may be focussed on a different picture back in washington. lawyers representing paul manafort are in federal supreme court for the first time since the special counsel accused manafort of lying and breaking his plea agreement. we could learn more today from them about what they say manafort lied about. as we get a date for his sentencing. earlier, the president was still on edge about the guilty plea yesterday from his former lawyer, and right-hand man, ...

After this lev ration that michael cohen is willing to testify to prosecutors that, you know, trump not only knew about the trump tower meeting, but actually approved it. and, of course, days before the manafort hearing, which is not going to focus on collusion or russia. we saw today in the opening statements it really didnt have anything to do with that. it has to do with bank fraud, tax fraud, et cetera. still, there has to be a nervousness there. looming over the entire trial is the fact tha...