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manafort. and speaking of flipping today, ruby red district in ohio may be the latest to elect a democrat in a special election. we will get to that in a moment. first let s go outside of the federal courthouse in alexandria, virginia, on the trial of paul manafort. joe johns is here with an update. good morning, joe. rick gates back on the stand, taking questions from prosecutors, laying out the government case. they say it is illegal conduct that goes all the way from 2008 to 2015. that s seven years. meanwhile, in 2016, mr. manafort took over as the campaign chairman for the trump campaign, rick gates was right there beside him as his deputy. so what did we learn so far? among the most important testimony is his testimony that our justice correspondent jessica schneider is here, former u.s. attorney greg bower joining me. and analyst xian wu. lay out your representation previously of rick gates so it s on the table. right. we had represented rick from the time that he w ....
power of the office to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring and injuring the national interest. or acts in ways that are grossly inconsistent with and undermine the separation of powers that is the foundation of our democratic system. now, these this question of whether president engaged in abuse of power came up before when this congress considered the impeachment of president nixon. and after action was taken, president nixon famously said if the president does it, it is not illegal. and this body rejected that because that s not so. that goes directly contrary to what the founders said. but president trump has said the same thing in responding to the prior investigation by department of justice and defending his conduct. here is what he said then i have an article, too, where i have to write to do whatever i want as president. that he has the right to do whatever he wants as president. that is as wrong as when president nixon said a similar thing. that ....
they were not going to issue that statement that rudy giuliani wanted to include burisma and the 2016 elections there was no white house meeting. it soon became clear to them that the security assistance was also at risk and that took on a renewed importance for them. well, following the 25th call, the july 25th call, ambassador sondland and volker worked closely with mr. giuliani and the ukrainians to help draft a statement that the president could make, president zelensky. wasn t that right? yes. and the report say they were closely and then also there were phone calls with the white house around the same time they were working closely do you know what that statement was supposed to say, according to mr. giuliani and the u.s. officials. the key difference is that it had to include that ukraine would do the investigations of burisma which equaled the biden investigation and the 2016 ukraine interference. was there concern about doing the investigations or what? ju ....
whatwe that means, it s to use e power of the office to obtain an improper personal benefit while ignoring orfi injuring the national interest, or acts in ways that are grossly inconsistent with and undermine the separation of powers that is the foundation of our democratic system. now, this question of whether the president engaged in abuse of power came up before when this congress considered the impeachment of president nixon. and president nixon famously said, if the president does it, it is notde illegal. and this body rejected that because that s not so. that goes directly contrary to what the founders said. but president trump has said the same thing in responding to the prior investigation by the department of justice and defending his conduct. here s what he said. i have an article 2 where i have the right to do whatever i want as president. that he has the right to do whatever he wants as president. that is as wrong as when president nixon said a similar thing. t ....
president zelensky decided that they were not going to issue thatt statement that rudy giuliani wanted to include burisma in the 2016 elections, there was no white house meeting. it soon became clear to them that the security assistance was also at risk. and that took on a renewed importance for them. well, following the 25th call, the t july 25th call, ambassador sondland and volker worked closely with mr. giuliani and the ukrainians to help draft a statement that the president could make, president zelensky. wasn t that right? yes. and the report said they worked closely and there were also phone calls with the white house around the same time that they werear working closely. do you know what that statement was supposed tou say according to mr. giuliani and the u.s. officials? well, the key difference is that it had to include that ukraine would do the investigations of burisma which equalled theic biden investigatn in the 2016 ukraine interference. but was there ....