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Pretty judicial? >> yes, it is more fair to appear in a suit than an orange jumpsuit. there is no reason to humiliate him in that way. there is enough happening in the courtroom as it is. i want to comment on tad devine quickly. i think it was very smart. part of telling the jury the story is to tell it in a compelling way, and to tell it in a way that you put your witnesses in an order so you can protect your witness who is going to have the most problems. and thats gates. so here they start wi...

Coming in in a prison jump suit would be instantly visually pretty judicial? >> yes, it is. it is more fair for him to appear in a suit than an orange jumpsuit. there is no reason to humiliate him in that way. there is enough happening in the courtroom as it is. i want to comment on tad devine starting really quickly. i think it was very smart. part of telling the jury the story is to tell it in a compelling way, and to tell it in a way that you put your witnesses in an order so you can protect ...

He is waiting for potentially a pardon down the road. >> and josh, weve already had the first strange bedfellow in the first witness. tad devine, he of the liberal left, he of the kerry campaign, the bernie sanders campaign, what was he doing testifying in this trial today? >> well, he was brought in because he actually worked alongside manafort. you know, its fairly typical in these overseas political consulting efforts when americans go in. its pretty normal for a republican like manafort to t...

During opening statements the prosecution painted paul manafort as a shrewd liar who fell he was above the law as he hid money to evade taxes while living a lavish lifestyle. man for the denies any counts, including bank fraud, meanwhile the defense in its opening statement zeroed in on his former deputy in the trump campaign, rick gates, he was manaforts co-defendant until he decided to slip. the defense is pinning it all on gates claiming manafort is on trial because of one man, rick gates. de...

Trial unfolding? >> yeah, look. manafort is innocent until proven guilty, but as i heard joey jackson say in your last hour, federal prosecutors dont get to this stage without thinking they have a pretty good case, and at a minimum perception wise, it looks very bad for the predto have had someone as his campaign chairman, even if it was, as he says, for a short time, be this swampy, forget the criminal aspect for a second. someone who made his name, manafort, whipping votes at the democratic co...

Needs to convince the jury to have the same kind of sympathy as the president because his fate is controlled by six men and six women from virginia. >> i dont think you go into this thinking even if i get convicted i still may get a pardon. i think thats a big risk. >> late this afternoon, the mueller team called their first witness. it was the former bernie sanders strategist and colleague of paul manafort, tad devine, who was actually pretty complementary of manafort, but his testimony served ...

Burden of proof on the special counsel is proving to be heavy. >> lawyers for the man who was with the trump campaign for just five months are fighting to keep them out of federal prison for 305 euros. paul manafort is charged with falsifying income taxes, and committing bank fraud, type $260 million the special counsel alleges he was paid as a consultant to ukrainian politicians and then hid from the irs. >> the chances of paul manafort trying to reach some kind of deal has passed us. >> interr...

To pauls point, hes the only one whos faced trial. i should note that not only rick gates but tad devine, who is a long-time strategist who worked for bernie sanders very prominently in 2016 and was a business partner of paul manaforts is also going to be testifying presumably about the work they did in ukraine. i guess the question, paul, is as a former federal prosecutor is your expectation here theyre just going to go through with this trial and theyll do the other trial and if they win paul ...

Gates but tad devine, who is a long-time strategist who worked for bernie sanders very prominently in 2016 and was a business partner of paul manaforts is also going to be testifying presumably about the work they did in ukraine. i guess the question, paul, is as a former federal prosecutor is your expectation here theyre just going to go through with this trial and theyll do the other trial and if they win paul manafort goes to jail and thats the end of that or do you feel like theres something...

Rick gates is the man in the middle, the best witness for the prosecution and the person the defense wants to discredit. what did you learn from all of this so far? and throw in the tad devine testimony. >> this is the first time since manafort was arrested and charged in the district of columbia that we have ever heard the nature of hiss defense. now thats a point worth elaborating on for a moment. all the filing so far from his lawyer have been to discredit robert mueller and say he shouldnt h...