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Week. there has been a lot of drama in the paul manafort trial. i know you have been following the ins and outs of judge ellis. muellers team filing a formal complaint about the behavior of judge ellis. the courts reprimand of governor counsel suggested to the jury that the government acted improperly in cont contravention of court rules. the judge is a cantankerous, old-style judge but there seems to be a real effort to kind of smear him now since he has been tough on the mueller case. what is ...

The third, that he didnt know about the russians being invited. but the fourth, which i thought was the most important, and is really the revelatory point, is he still doesnt know, the nations spy chief still doesnt know what was said between president trump and president putin in a one-on-one meeting. that is stunning. >> that is stunning. and i think jonathan swan just hit on the lasting damage from this meeting because a lot of other -- the other critiques can be sort of excused away as a bre...

He too knows what the word exculpatory means, although it probably doesnt apply in this case. >> legal terms for dummies. >> i was iffy on exculpatory. >> i ask everyone. im here for all of you. were in this together. let me ask you, thanks in part to you, this white house has had one of the most brutal weeks i would say of the presidency. youve reported or youre reporting out on sort of the degree of alarm inside the white house among his aides. you compare it to the low points like charlottesv...

Breaking news or not, take me through the legal import of now having it confirmed by the presidents own lawyer rudy giuliani that the president did indeed have nothing two months before the election is what the "new york times" is reporting, of the existence of payments and he was so steeped in the payment conversation that he suggested paying with a check rather than cash. -6 to me that seems to be the kind of statement that will cause more problems down the road. who is getting cash payments i...

And its part of why this is such a precarious moment for trump and for cohen for that matter. >> its a hallmark of many of the presidents relationships and might be why he finds himself where he is. look in the mirror, mr. president. were going to ask everyone to stick around. when we come back, a new development in the mueller case. well bring that to you next. youre turning onto the street when you barely clip a passing car. minor accident - no big deal, right? wrong. your insurance company is...

Equation. you know, heres the president two months out from the election. the "access hollywood" tape is out. there are a lot of other women coming forward. and a payment is made to karen mcdougal with whom he had had a 10-month affair ten years earlier to keep her quiet. there is no one who believes that thats not a payment made to affect the election. so really the only question here is whether or not they had the requisite intent and knowledge and whether its a criminal prosecution or an admi...

>> one reason, according to some political experts, might be to try to distract from the mueller investigation and add so much to it to keep talking about stormy daniels in these other issues because in a way it takes away from, no matter what you think, of her case from some of constitutional issues that are being raised in the mueller case. >> it was just the other day that rudy giuliani was talking about and this was just extraordinary to me, about robert mueller framing the president, attemp...

Prosecutors go on to explain in this filing on friday night, "the essential elements of the conspiracy to defraud the united states consists of the following. two or more persons formed an agreement to defraud the u.s. the defendant knowingly participated in the conspiracy with the intent to defraud the u.s. and at least one overt act was committed in furtherance of the common scheme." so theyre continuing to fight this out. theyre continuing to prosecute those russians. even though its turned i...

Essential elements of the conspiracy to defraud the united states consists of the following. two or more persons formed an agreement to defraud the u.s. the defendant foghly participated in the conspiracy with the intent to defraud the u.s. and at least one overt act was committed in furtherance of the common scheme." so theyre continuing to fight this out. theyre continuing to prosecute those russians. even though its turned into sort of a complicated thing, theres questions about whether those...

Manafort confirming an fbi raid at one of manaforts home. >> p.aul manafort and his top lieutenant rick gates were indicted on criminal charges. >> minutes after the indictments were announced we learned that a little campaign aide named guilty pl george papadopoulos had pleaded guilty to lying. >> thats national security advisor michael flynn, guess what hes doing today? pleading in the mueller case. >> theres been no collusion. theres been no crime. >> the indictment charges 13 russian nationa...