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Adam sc adam schiff, top democrat on the committee using opening statement to walk through point by point what weve learned in black and white, written correspondence, public statements and freaking court filings, all the times the trump campaign was offered help by russia to influence our election and all the times the trump campaign said yes, please. congressman schiff using this hearing to make very public case this is no longer an open question. congressman schiff joins us next. ♪

Marginal new development. i wonder if, stepping back as you are right now, what we have learned meets literal definition of collusion. i know thats not a legal term but does it ring the bell as to whether or not the trump campaign helped russia in its attack? >> collusion, criminal would be conspiracy. conspireing to do what? did the campaign conspire with the russians to violate election laws. to make out case for conspiracy, you have to have agreement, offer, acceptance and usually an act in f...

Nashiri has one of those, a death qualified defense lawyer who has represented him for nine years. and two other defense lawyers as well. three weeks ago today on october 11th, those three lawyers all quit nashiris case, i can vaguely describe why they quit but not specifically because i dont know because its classified. carol rosenberg is a national treasure of reporter reporting every major story out of guantanamo in miami for years. describes the reason she quit, ethical conflict. essentially...

Government would use tax filings in a case especially where there is issue about failure to disclose foreign bank accounts. evidence for that is going to be in tax filings. but when the government argues concerning conditions of release for a defendant, the government will typically lay out the strength of its case. thats one of the factors that the court considers in setting conditions. >> they laid that out. reading it as nonlawyer its striking. one of the risks of flight here is likelihood of...

Disagreed, this there wasnt good cause and ordered defense lawyers to come back to the court. who gets to decide? who gets to decide whether or not these civilian defense lawyers are allowed to quit the case on matter of principle? who has authority over whether or not theyre allowed to quit? nobody has any idea because this is a made-up court. judge looks at trial judiciary rules of court and says anything the defense lawyers want to do, judge has to approve that. i get to decide whether or not...

If this was a real court operated under normal constitutional guidelines would be case law and precedent and ways to figure it out. would have been settled in the past and we would refer to precedent. but this is that guantanamo mish-mash of a made-up court system. its the judge saying im going to order these lawyers back here and chief of the defense counsel saying no you dont, you cant do that. so the judge in the case is an air force colonel. chief defense counsel is brigadier general in the ...

Commissions defense organization which is run by the number two lawyer in the united states marine corps, baker. he has classified information. he know whats the worry of the lawyers is about communicating with the client. knowing that and supervising criminal defense at guantanamo, he said yes, this is a good call. i support your decision to walk out of here. i sign off on it. you have good cause to do this officially. that was three weeks ago. october 11th. five days later, october 16th, judge...

Mainland to hunt down civilian defense lawyers and force them against their will to participate in the case. according to the late report in "miami herald" the judge is going to try to force the lawyers to do it. physically confine them by jailing or threatening to jail them and then hes planning think to force them into a video link environment at military base somewhere in the united states to participate in this case against their will. theoretically i suppose he could have tried to kidnap th...

2008 announced would bring charges against him for "uss cole" bombing. 2011 finally arraigned him. long haul but case has been plodding along through the not quite a court system in guantanamo. and in that case things have gone slightly bananas and resulted in imprisonment of number two lawyer in u.s. marine corps, brigadier general, locked up as of today. heres how it went crazy. nashiri, charged with a capital crime. they want the death penalty. when charged with capital crime you need a lawye...

Easy to prove charges. tax evasion arrorequires approv and takes a why. >> what special approvals? >> special memos and approvals from irs. and that can add possibly months to the timing of an indictment. >> on the statement that was unsealed last night that explains the governments case for why manafort and gates were seen as flight risks, government seems to have gone out of their way to describe theyre using tax -- in the case. is that something you have to cross ts and dot is to get the perm...