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His clemency power to free his former campaign manager. brooke. >> joe johns. thank you for the update. our legal analyst here, why do you think the defense is acting like that? >> oh, i think for the reasons we heard from the correspondent. there moves way paul manafort could take the stand. the cross examination would have been too brutal. he would have done more harm to this case, which is hard to stay when you sa i that given the mound of evidence presented by the prosecution. this was a pap...

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...

Many people think the deal has been signed on the dotted line and it is over. absolutely not. whats going to happen is the prosecutors are going to write a letter to the sentencing judge when gates gets sentence. if it goes well, they would not oppose for a request of a non custodial sentence. >> does it have enough of a paper case to convict paul manafort. >> they do. enough to put gates on the stand. at the beginning of the trial, they said they were not sure putting him on the stand. you can ...

Here is your star witness. hes in an interesting location within the trial. its mostly a paper case. i guess this means youve got to end strong. youve got to have a great closer and wrap it all up for the members of that jury. >> the most important thing you can do as a prosecutor when youre putting on a cooperating witness, you know theyre going to take some damage. you know the defense is going to score some points on them. you have to be able to rally back with corroboration, independence evi...

And they detail what they themselves did, just as mr. gates is doing now. so, is it important testimony? absolutely. is it determine in aative? probably not. because remember this is a paper case. we have bank records and tax return that is wicorroborate wh he is saying. this is not good for mr. manafort. >> we should also remind the audience paul manafort getting money funneled from russian oligarchs, hiding money from the u.s. government and the irs. this was the man selected to be the campaig...

Trouble. what do you make of the prosecution of defense strategy here. it is as simple cross-examination to gates. you met with mueller with the fbi, yes. are you under oath now? yes. you are saying something consiste inconsistent with that. which is it? it gives the defense an opportunity to derirty up the case. it gives them the opportunity to defend manafort effectively. you have a paper case and for bank fraud and tax fraud, the evidence is very strong. now and the washington post is right a...

A paper case because paper cant get cross examined. having said that where do you think the opportunities are as they go by in realtime for the defense to come back and take jabs? >> i think, brian, on monday afternoon were going to see the defense cross examine the very same government witness that was on the stand today. and i agree with my friend ken that the government scored some critical points. but i do think theres an opportunity she gave to the defense that shes under their immunity agr...

Youre watching whats played out in that courtroom over the course of this week with paul manafort, are you worried as donald trumps lawyer? a, are you worried, and b, if youre worried, what are the things youve seen this week that as donald trumps lawyer you would be most concerned about? >> youve got to be deeply worried. like barb says, its a paper case and you cant cross-examine paper. it says what it says. its evidence that the jury will have back with them in the jury room when they deliber...

Obligation to disclose those accounts of more than $10,000. and while the testimony was understated at some opponent mrs. manafort, kathleen manafort, began to dab her eye, got slightly emotional and got up and left the courtroom. when i heard that had happened i thought, okay, im not crazy. its true this trial is going very poorly for mr. manafort. because if you look at manafort you dont get that, hes look at his lawyers seeming like everything is fine. but the evidence has been very damning. ...

We got to the meat of the matter, which were records. and i guess you know michael, same question, how much trouble does it look like manafort is in? >> you know the reason for showing those things is greed the prosecutor is trying to put up everyday there was greed in the case and also show that manafort knew what was going on. i think the evidence coming this week has been damage against him. most of what the government has been able do, the special prosecutors team, look, he knew about this. ...