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Head to look at mr. manafort. >> the defense called no witnesses, having done their best to undermine rick gates throughout the trial. >> what they tried to do is to setup rick gates essentially as the fall guy, the guy who was under pressure who really committed all the crimes, and, ultimately, tried to cut a deal with the prosecution. >> on august 15th, the case went to the jury. paul manaforts fate was now in the hands of 12 ordinary americans. >> day one of deliberations is history, and the ...

Witnesses. having done their best to under mine rick gates throughout the trial. >> what they tried to do is to set up rick gates essential will as the fall guy. the guy who was under pressure who really commit tdd all the crimes and ultimately tried to cut a deal with the prosecution. >> on august 15 the case went to the jury. pall manaforts fate was in the hand of 12 ordinary americans. >> day one of the deliberation is history. the manafort trial. >> the jury wrapped up day two of the deliber...

In a normal west wing, that would be the chief of staff. in a normal west wing, the chief of staff wouldnt allow staffers to steal things off the resolute desk in the oval office. in a normal west wing, the chief of staff wouldnt let staffers record their firings inside the situation room. and in a normal west wing, if any of nose abnormal things happened, the chief of staff would be the fall guy. so our question today, and one posed by chuck yesterday to kellyanne conway on "meet the press" is,...

I turned over millions of documents. it is unnerving for us lawyers to think of waiving an available privilege but i think it might deserve the message pretty well for the president overall, which is, even though he doesnt like this probe, hes willing to be cooperative and give them what they want. >> jason: james, is giuliani right? if mcgahn had evidence of a crime or something going on in the white house, he wouldnt be here, right? >> i think is a pretty good assumption. i think thats probabl...

>> first, think of that in the context of the question you just asked me. if hes thinking he will be made the fall guy. he must think there is possible criminal acttist that has occurred that he needs to give his version of. again, its hard to say that it would have been completely exculpatory. but then, you know, second, just this whole kind of dance between representing the office of the president and donald j. trump. by the way, i think this representation by the president that he just let hi...

Mcgahn being a junior republican establishment movement guy. maybe he has a foot in both camps. i think he might be trying to have it both ways right now. thats how he strikes me. early on, chris, i think he knew he better make a phone call to mueller real quickly and get on the right side of this, but again, hes still trying to have it both ways, that itself what i finds fascinate to go see him straddle the two worlds. >> there is this lean in the "new york times" that mcgahn and his lawyer who...

Know that don mcgahn was cooperating. he knew he was cooperating. to what extent he was cooperating. but to the extent that don mcgahn is actually trying to, one, as shawna said, he understands that he represents the presidency, or -- not donald trump personally, but second that he could be caught up in all this and it looked as if he was protecting himself donald trump actually setting him up to be the fall guy. in other words, when the proverbial hit the fan, he was going to be able to say i g...

Enlightened them. what happened here, mcgahn was afraid the president was going to pin him for any obstruction issues. he was going to make him be the fall guy. mcgahn realized in order to protect himself, he had to lean as hard as possible into his cooperation with the special counsels office and show mueller that he had nothing to hide, and that he was a complete open book. that is an incredibly powerful thing for investigators to have in an investigation, where theyre looking at the president...

Suggestion coming from the "new york times" report that mcgahn was somehow worried about being set up by the president as the fall guy. >> oh, i think thats quite clear whats happened here. i mean, sources who, and quite clearly thisser to story is ba sources close to mcgahn, sources have told "the new york times" that you have the 1973 precedent during watergate where richard nixons team through the white house counsel john dean through him under the bus. he pleaded guilty to obstruction of jus...

Be damaging, at least politically damaging things in his testimony or in his interview, and that they went ahead and waived it anyway. and that he believing that they were trying to create him as the fall guy, therefore went in and told everything he knew. and that is an extraordinary revelation and particularly in combination with the length of time that he was interviewed for. >> jeff, part of this, its 30 hours, according to the reporting, three voluntary interviews in addition to that over t...