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Joyce vance and paul butler now georgetown law professor and the reverend al sharpton is back. joyce, let me start with you. why weisselberg? >> weisselberg makes a lot of sense. he's the accountant. it's like al ka poen and the book keeper. he could narrate a very broad story if investigators were looking at the far flung trump empire. we don't know just yet what his cooperation consists of. we don't know if he's been compelled to cooperate after asserting his fifth amendment right or engaged in voluntary cooperation in exchange for an agreement he won't be prosecuted. that will stay opaque f...

Kind of a dual role as book keeper for his legal concern and having read that, it made me wonder were the feds going to dangle that in front of cohen if she co-signed agreements or checks. if they were going to perhaps say you wouldn't want to see your wife go in the federal slammer. did she have any cupability. >> i'll correct you he has a daughter and a son. >> forgive me. >> that's it. the rest i think you're spot on. i think that's a very important point. this is very close-knit marriage. they are people who are very involved in their businesses. the "new york times" reported over the week...

Flawed witness? julia? >> yeah, so i think obviously the corruption and the sort of icyness of all these characters is sort of rampant. so it's for the jury to decide whether the guy who's trying to come clean now is better or more trustworthy than the guy who's not speaking. and i think that the prosecution sort of, you know, prepared the jury for the bad news about gates. but what we have to remember about gates, and this is true in all these national security cases is it's not like gates is just saying something is there's no corroborating evidence. what gates is doing and he's essentially ...

Boss in charge, with the python jacket, had no clue. the other thing mueller's team has done a good job is to support and protect gates beforehand. every witness who has come to the stand already, the book keeper, the vendors said the same thing. manafort was in charge. manafort knew where every dollar and cent went and the process put on gates and pre-supported in his testimony? >> kathy, your view of the prosecution strategy here? >> i think they had to put him on. there was some discussion about not putting him on the stand. that was a sign the prosecution team thought they had a pretty str...

Testifying with immunity his now former account want said she helped paul manafort and his former associate rick gates commit tax fraud by falsifying documents. prosecutors are trying to prove manafort evaded taxes on millions while working for a pro-russia party in ukraine and then faked loan documents once the cash dried up. with us for more tonight ken delaney in our nbc news intelligence and national security reporter and eric tucker, justice department reporter for the associated press. gentlemen, welcome to you both. ken, how effective was today? and part of what's getting the press toda...