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i want to start with garrett haake, you are in the center of the action. we ve been hearing from lawmakers. to my ears, i don t hear any break in this gridlock. what s your take at this hour? . reporter: yeah, you with choose your own news here at this point, depending on who you re talking to. i m outside a meeting that s been going on susan collins office and the democrats coming out have said no comment, on made vague comments like there s been progress. lindsey gram just left. he s been probably the sagele-most key negotiator. he sees some of the dynamics as potential something to be optimistic about, specifically this idea that the senate would be able to move forward sometime optimism their close to turning a corner. the work will continue at least until tomorrow. just to drill down on the point you make, they are considering essentially the deal that seems to be gaining the most team is this short-term three-week deal. so the question is why would democrats go f ....
the president of the united states with nobody but the special prosecutor and perhaps the president of the united states knows what he has been up to. the way the media has been playing it up. either the obama administration lost its security clearance or didn t get security clearance and that wasn t big news back then. i think we may see the end of jared and ivanka. this is not normal. let s be clear. it is not normal to have a public spat with the attorney general over his independence. i agree with what the president said. the president should be telling the attorney general what he wants done. they tell me they are worried about it because they say this has a different feel and he s spiraling, kind of lashing out, out of control. howie: is the press overdramatizing these developments? and why are the purpose dids slamming ivanka trump for challenging a question about her father s accusers. the press remains sceptical over why so few journalists are giving this pr ....
A look at the day s top news and headlines. with the track history of lying to his face. dana: with the account at that particular time that peter doocy was reporting on. she testified on friday. she said she felt like it was wrong but she did it anyway. is she in any sort of trouble? well, sounds like not. i mean, one the tactics you can do as a prosecutor is saying basically look, i m viewing you as a witness. i m not making you any promises. you get up on the stand and tell the truth. the person gets up on the witness stand and kind of hard to impeach by cross-examination because they say i could still be charged. and they are kind of twisting in the wind a little bit. it gives them some credibility. i know there is a number that were immunized. she might have been one of them. dana: how awkward is it for the defendant to be there paul manafort and rick gates, colleagues for a long time, partners and now obviously on opposite sides of this very high stakes trial. how ....
A look at the day s top news and headlines. is glaring right at him, does not look like he is really blinking much, just waiting for him to look over as far as i can tell. gates has not looked over, but only one person, the defense attorney between them, it is really interesting, because at one point today gates was trying to explain how it is that he would help paul manafort, his old boss reduce his tax bill by doing things like faking a loan or making income look like colognes. and apparently in 2014 when the tax bill came it was higher than manafort was expecting, emailed to rick loyd s, i just saw this, not happy, wtf, he has spent most of the time on the stand explaining how he figured out his taxable income, wired from overseas, and to wire money from overseas to high-end retailers for fancy suits or construction projects, they needed a little bit more of a paper trail, but gates said that he falsified invoices. the mueller team is asking a lot of questions about con ....
A look at the day s top news and headlines. plausible, innocent explanation although i can t see one here for building all these offshore accounts and funneling money there to escape reporting it to the irs. on the other hand, i don t think the manafort defense is working. his defense is essentially this: he is batman, he s blaming robin for all the problems. and that s just not going to work. dana: like the jury is not going to buy that let me ask you a few things that other possible, you know, big shot lobbyists in washington, d.c. are rethinking some of their own practices at this point. that is a great question, dana. i think one of the things people overlooking is that manafort is not the unusual one in a way. he is unusual in that he tried to hide the money and not report it to the irs. it s not unusual in the way that he is making the money. he, like a lot i think this is partially why trump campaigned against quote, unquote, the swamp. there are lobbyists. a lot ....