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todd whitman is my guest. let s if out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. breaking news, a shrewd leader, how president trump s lawyers are painting paul manafort. a jury of six men and six women listening as heweller s team outlined its case describing manafort as a con artist who ran a global scheme to avoid paying millions in taxes. prosecutors say manafort made $60 million in ukraine and that he didn t report to it the irs. they say he had 30 bank accounts in just three foreign countries which he used in part to store untaxed income to spend on luxury goods like range rovers, a watch costing $21,000, a $15,000 custom made ostrich jacket. who doesn t need one of those, right? the defense hitting back saying manafort is the victim that he was taken advantage of by the man he trusted most rick gates, his right hand man in ukraine and his deputy in the trump A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. countries. he owns seven homes, including in the hampton ....
hello again, everyone. thanks so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield in washington, d.c. it s the meeting that just won t go away. more than two years later, the story is still evolving on the in infamous 2016 trump tower meeting. president trump now taking a firm stance on the true purpose of the meeting, tweeting, in fact, today, this was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics and it went nowhere. that message very far from the initial statement from donald trump jr. that we later learned was dictated by president trump himself, saying this, we primarily discussed a program about the adoption of russian children, with no mention of dirt on hillary clinton. so this shift comes as sources tell cnn the president is concerned about his son becoming entangled in the russia probe. cnn s white house correspondent wrong. reporter: while the white house has had difficulty sticking to the script, the president maintained ....
By force in the russian military. there s no other that s putin. he is putting the people he has killed and reenforced what you said, jim. if it hasn t been said officially, it will be. these are war crimes, specifically targeting citizens. specifically targeting civilian buildings like hospitals and schools and neighborhoods. these are not military targets. this disgusts me as a soldier. this is not what soldiers do. and they re being hit from long rage artillery pieces. missiles, and pilots that don t see the effect, but it s all being driven by one man and his general. they are thugs. criminals. and this is an abomination on society. and it s just, it is just heart wrenching. ....
Democracy but has since become less than that. you tweeted. i hear from gop base voters every day, tucker carlson making the place for autocracy over democracy and while you and i are disgusted by this, the gop base isn t. i truly want to believe you re not right about that, but you speak to more republicans on a daily basis than i do. ali, specifically i speak to hundreds and thousands of gop base voters. the most committed energetic voters every day. they had no problem with donald trump acting like a strong man for four years. most of the country, when you really think about what tucker carlson did this week, he was over in hungary bashing our democracy for an autocrat. that disgusts you and me but from hearing gop voters, they re ....
Standards, it s worse than that. it s disgusts. incredibly stingy and selfish. and yet beto seems totally unembarrassed about it. he was asked by a reporter and he explained that his mere existence is a form of charity. i served in public office since 2005. i do not stop contributing to the success of my state or my country. there are way do is this that are measurable and ways that i do this immeasurable. there are charities that we report to that we ve tellized others we donate to that we have not. i ll tell you, i m doing everything i can, spending this time with you, not back home in el paso, because i want to sacrifice everything to make sure woo that we meet this moment of truth with everything that we have got. tucker: so running for office is my form of charity. ....