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The questions they asked the judge show that theyre drilling down on the right questions. looking what really constitutes reasonable doubt and other things of that time. >> its carol lee here. how might this outcome of this trial effect the outcome or how the next trial plays out in terms of strategies on either side? >> you know, carol, i think that the biggest impact for mueller will be that if he can convict manafort, even one count, hes looking at a decade in jail and then hes got to turn ar...

Horse. you decided to switch over to mueller. so all of those things i think are encouraging manafort, but the one thing i dont see him trying to do or at least work hard at is to get an acquittal. >> andrea mitchell is with us and has a question. andrea? >> im wondering about an issue that joe just touched on which is the last of sequestering of this jury. once it went to the jury. not only the fact that they were walking around in the elevators and according to our reporters were brushing up a...

In the low 30s and the very states that put him over the top in 2016, their partys dont win midterm elections and they dont get re-elected. there is no happy ending for the trump administration, especially as they pile one lie on top of another lie on top of another lie. but listen, well be talking about a lot more on "morning joe" about all of this. president trump is saying hes not going to discuss potential pardons for paul manafort, but manaforts lawyer says he likes what hes hearing from ...

In some new information. it did peel away part of this world in d.c. i remember us talking over a year ago and saying that people are going to be shocked to the degree in which people on in thf these ukrainian, russian and other foreign interests. its a cottage industry in this town and most that people are not aware of. its part of the currency of washington, d.c. im not sure how long lasting it will be. in terms of putting trump in a materially worst position it wont unless manafort decides he...

Pardon. now n tein terms of a convictio ratifying the special counsels investigation, i dont see that. look, this is completely removed from the allegations that led to the appointment of the special counsel himself. there has been some passing reference to the campaign, but its been marginal. for mueller to nail manafort would prove that manafort is a criminal but not necessarily a criminal that he was originally tasked with finding. >> jonathan, this is nick confessore here, i think you can ma...

Evidence. he didnt. i think this really looks like a hung jury strategy that the best they can hope for is to see if they can get out of this with a tie. the problem is that you can easily hang in a hung jury strategy. the jury can come out without a verdict on some counts but still reach a verdict on others. i think in addition to a hung jury strategy, its clearly a pardon strategy. and the best things going for manafort in this trial actually came not from the witness stand but, as you mention...

Given the e-mails that donald trump jr. posted more than a year ago which he was told the woman offering dirt on clinton was, quote, the crown prosecutor of russia. the russian attorney the russian government attorney and, quote, part of russia and its government support for mr. trump. joyce vance, im not exactly sure what it gains the president of the united states to continue having his attorney go out telling one lie after another after another. of course, after trump jr. learned that this to...