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Manafort. what does this tell you about the strategy or perhaps even confidence of the defense? >> well, no, the confidence of the defense, you don't have to question that, fred. look, you get dealt a set of cards, and you do the best you can with them. they had nothing to put up there for defense. they were not going to put manafort on the stand, because he would have got annihilated and he would have convicted himself, so they couldn't do that. so they decided to argue rather in summation, smoke and mirrors, blame gates, blame everybody under the sun except manafort. listen, fred, it's a pap...
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