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The defense has made a big deal out of it in their opening statement saying that pinning everything on rick gates. so it would leave an interesting strategy here for the defense. a position here for the defense as to whether or not theyre going to go ahead and call rick gates, if the prosecution does not. >> maybe the prosecution thinks they dont need to call rick gates. hes already admitted lying to federal authorities. hes plead guilty. maybe they think they have enough evidence, documents, ot...

Were going to get to see the strengths of the evidence. >> laura: not going to play out in the u.s. courts regarding the president. thats not how it works. its not going to play out in the u.s. courts. >> im talking about players. >> laura: the manafort stuff, i dont see how that has any relevance. kim, the manafort trial that will come up with this year perhaps, im not seeing any evidence so far that that is connected to anything really close to the president at all. >> no. i mean, this is part...

Courts, were going to get to see what the evidence is were going to get to see the strengths of the evidence. >> laura: not going to play out in the u.s. courts regarding the president. thats not how it works. its not going to play out in the u.s. courts. >> im talking about players. >> laura: the manafort stuff, i dont see how that has any relevance. kim, the manafort trial that will come up with this year perhaps, im not seeing any evidence so far that that is connected to anything really clos...

Million of which he says might have been laundered by manafort. thats whats charged in the indictment. in connection with the indictment. so and in these white collar crimes when youre dealing with that kind of money, theres a lot of evidence involved. a lot of documents involved. whats most surprising to me having looked at it now caref carefulfully, it doesnt touch on trump. all the manafort stuff is before the election campaign. its, he had a complicated life and obviously, a lot of money. 75...

Get any political fodder regarding the manafort stuff. >> trish: a lot of people didnt like reagan, a lot of people thought it was a disaster that we had an actor as president, he has gone down by many accounts as being tremendous because he got the economy going again. the economy, no pun intended, trumps everything. >> guy: it generally does. im waiting for someone on the left to denounce brian cranston for being conflicted in denouncing white supremacy. thats an "breaking bad" joke and a terr...

It will eventually be frozen if he looses his power as president of russia. >> and do you think more broadly it would send an issue to all of the 10,000 people? >> that is the second issue, in order for him to do all of the dirty stuff he does he has to have his regime do a lot of terrible crimes. he is saying do the crimes. dont worry about the moerality. >> and you can take your money and -- >> you can take your money and put it in the west. so it means the whole system kind of gets bogged dow...

Told make a payment to this person and that american. that is where this thing comes from. a guy is paying for the stuff here in the united states. same thing with this manafort stuff. the russians never paid from kgb central. >> how do we stop this? >> we have to wake up. sit a country thats trying to destabilize the world. they are not our friends. we have to be on guard as we were during the cold war. we are in a different kind of cold war. putinis out to get us. if we dont reck cog miez that...