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Federal prosecutor. he's also an msnbc contributor. and back with us john heilemann. chuck rosenberg, for courtroom aficionados when you really like to just sit there and watch the pictures on both sides, there are few things more tense than watching the defense rest without putting on a single witness that is a very tense roll of the dice for the defense in those cases. >> you know, lawrence, you're right. but given two very bad options, putting on no defense at all, which is what they chose to do, and putting on a defense perhaps where mr. manafort takes the stand and is subjected to a withe...

Faces a second prosecution by prosecutor robert mueller's team in washington, d.c. next month on charges including money laundering and failing to register as a foreign agent in connection with his lobbying work in ukraine. joining our discussion now is chuck rosenberg, a former senior fbi official and a former federal prosecutor. he's also an msnbc contributor. and back with us john heilemann. chuck rosenberg, for courtroom aficionados when you really like to just sit there and watch the pictures on both sides, there are few things more tense than watching the defense rest without putting on ...

Clarify. so really they call that one witness and didn't bring cosby to the stand, which there's a ton of speculation he was going to testify. earlier today you mentioned right there to your viewers the defense gave its closing arguments and it was fiery exchange. the defense attorney was having the jurors laugh iing at one point. also somewhat yelling at them at another point. so very charismatic closing arguments for the defense. but we're not quite sure if if it they are actually going to deliberate. but one witness versus the prosecution's 12 witnesses certainly a difference there. >> what...

Able to use his skills if roof keeps his current plans. for those watching the case, the horrors of what happened last july lie in the facts. roof has sat and listened, the whole time expressionless, emotionless, showing no remorse for the massacre he's accused of. nick valencia, cnn, atlanta. before before the defense rested today, the lead attorney tried to call mental health experts to the stand. he argued fbi testimony opened the door but the judge said no. with me now, mark o'mara, cnn legal analyst who represented george zimmerman in the trayvon martin case. why did the defense rest so q...

The smoke is beginning to clear a little bit but they have not, they still have a pig fire fighting effort ahead of them. kate and chris? >> they could use some help from mother nature right now. thanks. michaela? >> closing arcments in the penalty fails of nidal hasan's court-martial. he did nothing except to say "the defense rest." hasan could get the death penalty for killing 13 people in 20 2009. aaron hernandez reportedly surrounded himself with gangster types and heavy user of pcp. hernandez infuriated bill belichick with missed practices and thuggish behavior was nearly cut from the t...