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>> mimi, as a prosecutor, you have dealt with this many times. you put on the stand your star witness is a person that committed crimes with the defendant. so you have the admitted criminal on the witness stand in exchange for a reduced sentence saying, that guy over there, that defendant, is a criminal. >> absolutely. and, you know, i put on the stand witnesses who have been committed just horrible crimes, murders, you know, drug trafficking, liars, fraudsters. as ken noted, the jury does -- they get it. they don't like those cooperators and they probably don't like rick gates and they may be...

Mimi is still with us. we don't know if paul manafort is going to take the witness stand in his own defense. although, it is hard to imagine a real defense in this case that doesn't include paul manafort. so what do you think at this stage the jury is seeing in the rick gates testimony? >> well, they're seeing kind of an unattractive character on the one hand, lawrence, an admitted criminal. a guy that got up there and talked about a crime spree that he and paul manafort were involved in by his story. but also admitted, as you said, to all these other crimes, some of this the prosecution said ...

Of. >> mimi, as a prosecutor, you have dealt with this many times. you put on the stand your star witness is a person that committed crimes with the defendant. so you have the admitted criminal on the witness stand in exchange for a reduced sentence saying, that guy over there, that defendant, is a criminal. >> absolutely. and, you know, i put on the stand witnesses who have been committed just horrible crimes, murders, you know, drug trafficking, liars, fraudsters. as ken noted, the jury does -- they get it. they don't like those cooperators and they probably don't like rick gates and they ma...

Receive help from the russians. all donald trump's eager maneuvers could fit the legal definition of solicit. president trump reportedly knows that. and according to one report has expressed worries about donald trump's legal jeopardy, which brings us back to why. why would the president write a tweet yesterday morning that might put his son in even more legal jeopardy? leading off our discussion now, jill wine-banks and mimi roca. she's an msnbc contributor. jill, it was a quick 44 years ago that richard nixon yesterday was handing over those tapes and three days later was gone. on the annive...

Your bank, and i can be tried for a crime. so the fact that he didn't succeed or at least says he didn't and as you pointed out, we don't know whether he actually got dirt or not. we certainly know that there was an announcement that there would be dirt and then there was a leak of the e-mails. so did they know that that's what was going to happen? that would be conspireing with the russian government to hurt the election. and that's a crime. >> mimi roca, we don't know if the president had help with this tweet. we don't know if someone else gave him that big, fancy word, fabrication. but if h...