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These are the slicers. They slice people up. They wanted me to walk up and go like this. Some of the president at his rally in Pennsylvania Last Night and much, much more of that. Good morning, everyone. Its friday, august 3rd. Welcome to morning joe. We have a number of important developments to get through this morning, including a stark warning from the intel community. Russia is at it again. Theyve got the publics attention, but what about the president s . Does he care . Whats going on . Plus, dan coats speaks truth to power, again. The director of National Intelligence admits he still do...

Manafort was able to, or would want to, go to work for donald trump for free in the spring of 2015? >> no. for this case his work for donald trump i don't think is even going to get before the jury. i don't think they'll know about that aspect of the case. what matters here is he was broke, and why that matters, because that provides the motive for him to engage in his bank fraud. why would this incredibly wealthy man engage in bank fraud? so desperate for cash. at one point the bookkeeper testified she warned them, so low on cash, they weren't going to be able to afford health insurance for d...

Tastes of the money he was pumping into this luxury lifestyle. >> barbara mcquade in the cum. day four of the trial starts in about three hours. thanks so much. appreciate it. now to the overpriced rare jacket correspondent donny deutsch. the ostrich on the left, 15 grand. python, 18.5. what's the better buy? >> insulted you even asked me. anybody who kind of follows exotic animal jackets. >> python. right? >> this show is of a high intellectual caliber. you ask obvious questions, audience is disappointed. they come to us for news you can use. this is news you already know. >> disappointed by ...

Joining us now, contributor barbara mcquade inside the courtroom most days this week. good to have you with us. get us caught up on day two. how important is this bookkeeper to the story the prosecution wants to tell? >> critically important to the case, because the defense really has been that it was all rick gates. that paul manafort was a very busy man running his business. he didn't have time to attend to the business side of things and it was rick gates who was doing these things that committed these crimes, but when we heard from the bookkeeper, she made it very clear that paul manafort ...

Of former trump campaign-aid paul manafort. yesterday prosecutes sought to knock down an argument calling to the stand manafort's former bookkeeper testifying manafort was "very knowledgeable and detail oriented" adding "he approved every penny of everything we paid." the book cokeeper had no idea at his bank accounts. rick gates handled some business matters but manafort was the main source of approval. she added gates was not involved in manafort's personal expenses. in an effort to clear up confusion from the prior day, the prosecution says it does intend to have gates, its star witness, te...