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There have been five guilty pleas, and former trump campaign chairman paul manafort is on trial right now in the first of two criminal cases brought by mueller. if he's convicted on all accounts he could face-up to 300 years in prison. the prosecution resting its case today in a virginia courtroom. now, the big unanswered question will manafort take the stand in his own defense? so let's discuss now. i want to bring in cnn legal analy analyst renato, and cnn law enforcement analyst james -- good evening, gentlemen. thank you for coming on. the president wasted no time in tweetin tweeting. >> d...

That the giuliani strategy here is to sew confusion. although it's hard for me to see how that makes a great deal of sense here. you know, i can't disagree with renato. i think he's kind of winging it and he forgot what he said previously. >> james, we now have giuliani's word against comey's word. >> i have no reason not to take him at his word, director comey. i think what troubles me with the former mayor, with rudy giuliani he was an outstanding attorney for southern district of new york and outstanding mayor of the city of new york especially during 9/11. to my two colleagues points there...

Sensitive search warrant from his office e-mail account to his personal e-mail account. that was concerning. look, i think that on top of all of that i think that the bureau felt that it had to send a message that there was going to be a zero-tolerance policy for this kind of behavior and let down in the quorum in the bureau. i feel bad for him and his family, too, but i think this was probably the right decision. >> renato, i want to get to the president's attorney, yoouj who is contradicting himself on whether trump asked the former fbi director whether he could drop the investigation into f...

Board or criminal enterprise manafort had created and had a number of witnesses who basically were willing to say, yes, we assisted him in this effort. i thought the other interesting thing was at the beginning of this trial trump was barely mentioned and the judge wanted that to be the case. remember this is part of the overall mueller investigation into contacts into the trump administration and russian influence. by the end of these last couple of days trump and the trump white house have been mentioned much more in particular sort of wheeling and dealings that were going on between in one ...

He had been fired. >> okay, now giuliani is saying the president never said that to comey. watch. >> the president didn't say to him go easy on flynn or anything about flynn. he's saying that. >> do you think there's a strategy behind this complete 180, renato? >> i don't. i have to tell you i was in the studio a couple weeks ago when mr. giuliani was interviewed on new day and i have to say i thought he was just winging it there. i think he was winging it on "state of the union" and winging it on abc in that earlier clip. rudy giuliani is not acting like an attorney representing a client in a...