Ongoing Manafort Trial News Today

Courts been in session, julia . Reporter so court is just Getting Started behind me, hallie. They had a little bit of a delay this morning but right now were seamana for thes Defense Attorney come up to the front. Hes ready to ask rick gates more questions. On the way into court downey said they were feeling good and confident today that they are doing well in this case, especially because he is now continuing that crossexamination. It was pretty ruthless yesterday. They found gates to be someon...

With president trump. it has nothing to do with president trumps campaign. and it has nothing to do with the white house. there is no reason that we would comment on the ongoing manafort trial. >> bill: is paul manafort not guilty? >> i have no idea. i havent seen anything but what the news reports are saying. again, it has nothing to do with us here so we wont comment on it. >> bill: thank you for your time. come back. hogan gidley from the north lawn there. thank you. >> sandra: tensions with ...

Courthouse there in virginia. thank you. >> so dan you were helping us out with the chris collins story before the commercial break, now i want to ask you about paul manafort and rick gates and the developments youve seen particularly in the last 24 hours. >> well, look, this from a trial perspective this is not at all surprising. and what happens with a cooperating witnessed is its someone whos committed crimes them self who has to admit guilt and then has to testify. and cross-examination is w...

Legitimate defense because it doesnt look like from the indictment that the government has a recording from that conversation, they just have the record of a five-minute conversation -- or six-minute conversation that he had with his son right after he gets this information. >> dan, stand by. let me bring in charlie sykes, contributing editor for the standard. charlie, you know republican politics had. you heard anna and sahil talk about the political implications nationally of this. whats your ...

Be seen whether that will have any damage on the prosecutions case. >> julia ainsley, i know youll keep us updated from there in alexandria, thank you for that. well have more on the trial in a couple minutes from now. i want to get to some developing news on the election front, because just about an hour ago we got some unofficial results showing an incredibly controversial candidate in kansas. kris kobach with all presiktss in, the presidents pick has a razor thin lead in his republican primar...

To reprise her 2006 strategy of running against the so-called culture of corruption which worked very well against the bush administration. at the time that was the last time we saw a big democratic wave in the house. she wants to replicate it now. you have the presidents, some of his family members in legal jeopardy. his former campaign chairman on trial right now. now you see one of his earliest congressional backers in legal trouble. it kind of adds to the stench on all of this and it makes i...

Messages, as have my colleagues. what we have learned is this. regarding a potential presidential sit-down between robert muellers team and president trump. there are what you could call negotiates happening now between the legal team and robert mueller. giuliani is now telling us it is most likely possible they will respond to the mueller request today. but that there is room to negotiate. so, if you think that by the end of the day we may get an answer yes or no, dont take that bet. it is in f...

Questioning when it started to veer into conversations gates had with the special counsels office about the trump campaign. and then the loose ends tied up on a story we reported on for months. finally now starting to make sense. an e-mail submitted into evidence shows manafort pushed a chicago banker for the job of army secretary, a banker who had secured manafort millions of dollars in loans. joining me again is nbcs julia ainsley whos been in court with me this morning. dan goldman, and forme...

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