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To keep our community safe. before you do any project big or small, pg&e will come out and mark your gas and electric lines so you don't hit them when you dig. call 811 before you dig, and make sure that you and your neighbors are safe. day seven in the trial of the president's former campaign chairman and jacket enthusiast paul manafort, and the star witness against manafort took the stand for a third straight day. rick gates pleaded guilty to helping manafort commit tax and bank fraud. manafort's defense made another attempt to discredit gates by pointing out he embezzled from his boss, an...

After hearing from rick gates. you know, they often refer to that as if the cooperator sandwich, you want to put the cooperator whose testimony is likely to be risky in the middle of the case. that seems to be exactly what the government is doing. >> and i want to ask you about this federal judge again. well talked about him last night. but the question is what did this judge do today that got your attention and why? >> well, one of the things he did today, again, is interjecting his own views about the case when it's supposed to be the jury who is the fact finder. at one point, this forensic ...

So he allowed more of that today, of seeing these charts that were made by these experts, but i do worry about keeping those documents out of the view of the jury as we move things quickly to the detriment of the government who has the burden of proof. if the jury is not convinced, they means they can't find the defendant guilty. >> as paul newman's character said, your honor, if you're going to try my case, try not to lose it. barbara mcquade, whose days start very early in that courtroom and who was so kind to stay late and bring us up to date on this trial. can't thank you enough. >> my ple...

Co-author. trump has seethed to confidantes that he views the manafort charges as a warning shot from mueller. he has told those close to him that as he watches the courtroom proceedings, he fears that donald trump jr. could at some point be the one on trial, left out all the careful sourcing that you were careful to put in this. you're just back from bedminster, new jersey. how is the president enjoying his vacation? >> we haven't seen too much of him on the vacation. >> exactly the way they planned it. >> that's right. he did have a dinner with business leader last night. we saw the first fe...

So these interjections i think are incredibly inappropriate. now it may be that if and when the defense puts on a case, he does the same thing to them. but i do think that there are messages that the jury gets in these cases. the thing that bothers me the most is in his obsession, really to move the case along quickly, he often refuses to allow the jury to see exhibits in realtime. he says they can look at those later. but i think in a case as complex as this, it's really important to see those exhibits as they're coming in. you know, a trial is supposed to be a show-and-tell. they're getting ...