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About the judge having interspersed comments about rick gates, undercutting the key prosecution witness. julia, in this way that dan goldman has just described, and you were in the courtroom, is it likely to try to take away the key defense argument? they didn't put on any character witnesses, they didn't obviously put on paul manafort, so their only closing argument is going to be that rick gates did it, he was the bad guy, not paul manafort. >> that's right. i think every piece of the argument that we just heard the prosecution lay out was preemptive of what they expect the defense to do whe...

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Bookkeepers have done a nice job in the case is tight, you are creating a defense argument for closing argument. you create a situation no matter how strong the evidence was a defense closing will focus entirely on gates be in a cooperator. it will give them something to argue in a closing argument that might eclipse the paper trail of the strong evidence out there. elizabeth: if he doesn't take the stance, we would be a prop up? >> it would wrap up quickly. not too many witnesses left. a lot of times the prosecution doesn't cooperate. the defense jaws hit the table. we've been waiting to cros...

With what her predecessor said. it alliance with what this bookkeeper said yesterday. paul manafort was in the clear business of trying to hide his foreign bank accounts and trying to use fraudulent financial information in order to secure loans, making it look like he was in better financial standing than he really was. part of the defense's argument has been wouldn't a tax preparer have a lot of this information? didn't paul manafort give them a lot of breadcrumbs that would have led them to figure out he had foreign bank accounts if they had really been concerned? but we've seen a lot of bu...

Documents without using rick gates, that defense argument is no longer available. a spew on the bottom line in all of this, the american people know this judge has said you can't bring up anything from the russia investigation. there is no evidence of collusion, we don't know all of what mueller has, but how does that case get impacted by what we are seeing right now? >> this case does not involve russian interference in the 2016 election, it's a separate matte matter. win, lose, or draw, it doesn't necessarily impact of that. the way it could impact it is if manafort is convicted and staring ...