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Southern district, ellie honey. what do you make of the defense strategy? it's the first time we've seen what their strategy will be. it's a bold move to nail to pin this on gates. especially when gates could be, will be, a key witness in the other part of the trial here that manafort is facing in d.c. in charges related to russia. what do you make of it? >> poppy, we've seen the defense strategy and as a former prosecutor i'm underwhelmed. the defense seems to be it was everyone else but me. it was everyone else but paul manafort and i think that will be a hard sell for the jury because the f...

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Team has against paul manafort, so certainly we haven't seen it so far. and i understand that the judge in this case has made it clear that there should be no references to the trump campaign and no references to russia at also as not to taint the are jury's thinking. so we don't know. i think there are other shoes to drop that could potentially happen in the future. this is not the only trial that paul manafort has to face. he has another one in the district of columbia coming up in a few weeks. it is possible that the multlel team has more and equally possible that they don't. >> would you e...

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Negotiated. any interbranch dispute gets negotiated. congress can pull the funds of the agency if they don't want to comply, but they can use deliberative process, privilege and other things to try to hold it back. that's always a fight that happens. >> so there's news about rick gates' lawyer, julia. the a.p. reporting also that mueller's team has postponed the sentencing of michael flynn. why are those two things significant? >> sentencing of michael flynn, the postponing means that maybe michael flynn has more information to get over. we know that he really only pleaded to just a very piece...