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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 ....
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. like the president is referring to the hoax as any allegation of collusion against him, his campaign, those around him. he doesn t make clear that interference is continuing to happen right now in this election when voters are being asked to go to the polls in a matter of weeks for those who vote early and in the 95 days that you ve outlined. the president is out there campaigning for republicans at the same time there s interference happening. it s one that s not surprising when we look back at the history. thank you for that. with us now from washington, msnbc national security analyst ned price. a former cia officer who served as special assistant to president obama on the national security council. we have andy card, former white house chief of staff and now an msnbc political analyst. onset two veteran political reporters. i think all of us saw what Coverage of national and international news, ....
you don t believe that to be the case? we acknowledge the threat, it is real, it is continuing. and we re doing everything we can to have a legitimate election. if you don t catch a hacker, okay, in the act, it is very hard to say who did the hacking. with that being said, i ll go along with russia. could have been china, could have been a lot of different groups. make no mistake, the scope of this foreign influence threat is broad and deep. i ve seen it described as two administrations. john mclaughlin says we re seeing orwellian. you have senior advisers saying over and over again as you heard there. and then you have the president saying something entirely different. what do you make of it and what is the lasting effect of that? one thing that we didn t see in that clip is even john bolton said that the president supports our efforts and top priority. exactly. but that is not true because the of law, but court of public opinion. and he is really good at th ....
A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. will be. he said we don t want questioning on obstruction. they would have to concede that. they are not on the same page on this crucial issue of obstruction of justice. why do you think the president is so against questions about obstruction of justice given that the public record on this speaks for itself? he said one thing to nbc news and another thing on twitter. why wouldn t he answer questions when he has been so public about it? what is his issue with it? i think the president does want to sit down with bob mueller and his legal counsel is advising him against this. every good attorney wants to make sure that their client doesn t make any statements that can come back to cause them pain in the future. that is what his legal team i think is recommending that the president doesn t sit down. i think the president does want to sit down with bob mueller and get this behind him. there this is whole idea out there th ....
charges related to bank fraud, tax charges. so this is the moment where this courtroom will now finally be hearing from manafort s essentially his number two, his former right hand man, rick gates. and gates is the prosecution s key witness. he will be the next person to testify. let s go first to cnn s caris beganel. she is just outside the courtroom in alexandria, virginia. tell me, when will this happen? mere minutes? we have one more witness to finish testified today. that s manafort s accountant. rick gates is the witness that s up next. many of the s attorney said that in court. this all came about as one of manafort s attorneys sort of dropped a bombshell alleging that rick gates embezzleled millions of dollars from paul manafort. he asked the accountant would that have been something she would have looikd to have known. she said she would. he teed all of it up by making it appear that rick gates was the main person he dealt with. and he tried to suggest through his ....