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And it seems both sides were allowing their emotions to be seen more publicly today or at least their feelings of each other as the trial came to a close. a lot of the proceedings today almost all outside the presence of the jury except for a brief moment where manaforts lawyer confirmed they would not on any evidence and did that in front of the jury. even today the lead prosecutor on this case and the judge went back and forth once again about comments the prosecution thinks the judge made tha...

Over closing arguments is really try to pick apart the governments case. symptomsatically going through each and every one of the counts and showing that the government has failed to sustain their burden of proof. >> and josh, where do we leave the relationship between this judge, this very unique judge appointed by president ronald reagan, and the prosecutors? >> strained is how we leave it. and it seems both sides were allowing their emotions to be seen more publicly today or at least their fe...

>> and josh, where do we leave the relationship between this judge, this very unique judge appointed by president ronald reagan, and the prosecutors? >> strained is how we leave it. and it seems both sides were allowing their emotions to be seen more publicly today or at least their feelings of each other as the trial came to a close. a lot of the proceedings today almost everything outside the presence of the jury except for a very brief moment really where manaforts lawyer confirmed that they ...

Thank, everyone. >> that was it. paul manaforts lawyer today summing up his teams decision to rest its case without calling any witnesses, that would include manafort himself. the presidents former campaign chairman did speak for the first time in court only to affirm to the judge he did not wish to take the stand. manafort as you know has pleaded guilty to 18 kounlts of tax and bank fraud. while unrelated to election interference manaforts prosecution is the first to come from the muellers effo...

Out on that account. in terms of what may be coming up, i mean were looking at closing arguments 9:30 tomorrow morning on nearly two hours on each side. its interesting the defenses decision not to put on any evidence or witnesses. what that may be about their closing statement. it could mean theyre looking more at sort of a 30,000 foot argument trying to pin the blame for all this alleged wrongdoing on rick gates. it seems if they really wanted to get down in the weeds on all many of these acco...

The president is going to continue as it had with the sort of letters back and forth or whether therell actually be a subpoena, whether robert mueller actually goes forward and subpoenas the president to appear before him. and thats the big question mark at this hour. whether that delay is because of the manafort trial, i have no idea. clearly part of the mueller special counsel team is focused on that trial because theyre prosecuting manafort. but i think the people focused on that are differen...

Time in court only to affirm to the judge he did not wish to take the stand. manafort as you know has pleaded guilty to 18 counts of tax and bank fraud. while unrelated to election interference, manaforts prosecution is the first to come from the muellers effort. the days proceeding started after yet another hours long delay. we dont know exactly what the reason was, but we do know the judge spoke to the jury in private. during the hearing the details of which have been sealed. with us for more ...

Subpoenas the president to appear before him. and thats the big question mark at this hour. whether that delay is because of the manafort trial, i have no idea. clearly part of the mueller special counsel team is focused on that trial because theyre prosecuting manafort. what i think the people focused on that are different than the people dealing with the inquiry into the president. >> much obliged tonight. thank you all very much. and coming up about that manafort trial, lawyers preparing no...

To learn more about the community wildfire safety program and how you can help keep your home and community safe, visit pge.com/wildfiresafety mr. manafort just rested his case, and he did so because he and his legal believe that the government has not met its burden of proof. thank, everyone. >> that was it. paul manaforts lawyer today summing up his teams decision to rest its case without calling any witnesses, that would include manafort himself. the presidents former campaign chairman did ...

Its interesting the defenses decision not to put on any evidence or witnesses. what that may be about their closing statement. it could mean theyre looking more at sort of a 30,000 foot argument trying to pin the blame for all this alleged wrongdoing on rick gates. it seems if they really wanted to get down in the weeds on all these counts they would want to put forward some expert or some witness on the tax charges. i think there are some technical arguments. i dont believe theyre going to make...