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All right. so, happening right now in this federal courthouse in alexandria, virginia the man who flipped against his former boss, paul manafort is being cross-examined right now on the stand, we're talking about rick gates. this happening after a couple key developments today. gates testified that manafort recommended a banker who gave him a loan to be secretary of the army. he also told the court about e-mails that showman that fort directed him on what to do with secret, off-shore accounts. gates' testimony is what happens when prosecutors convince insiders to flip on friends and colleagues...

Seeing with the president. he'll latch on to anything, including a disastrous interview with sean hannity by rudy giuliani. >> but is there some truth to that? that obviously the special counsel office is seeing people like paul manafort as somewhat of a tool to be able to get to the ultimate goal, which is to get to the bottom of what the president knew and when he knew it. isn't there -- is there a fair element to the judge's critique? >> well, i guess somebody could try to make that case. but i think there is a lot of evidence about potential criminal activity by mr. manafort involved massi...

Reasons. it shows the strength and comprehensiveness and thoroughness of the investigation. they have a lot of data from them. it will put pressure on them to do what mike flynn did, plead out to a lesser charge were and potentially steph against them. second i think the data could show us information as it comes out at trial or any of the pretrial motions about the methods the russians used to seal funds and off shore bank accounts. that indictment had not just words and paragraphs but an excel spreadsheet. any time there is a spreadsheet in your indictment is not a good day. it shows wire tr...

They needed it. we have a remarkable event with storm surge really occurring over 200 miles a wway from the center of this storm, and the wind came from off shore and continued to push water into charleston harbor, and we say that we have is one of the best natural ports on the east coast, so ships can easily come in and out, and the water has been coming in but not easily out because of the wind pushing it in. this is the big difference between this year and last year with hurricane matthew. this event occurred exactly at high tide mid-day today. a year ago even though we had a direct hit fro...

Threatening the united states. and, you know, be that as it may, it is logically one option. and what isn't an option, i think, is a notion we fight a conventional war with north korea, through miscalculation, and then end up wrecking the korean peninsula and having huge civilian casualties. i think we're in a very threatening situation right now and i basically don't believe the diplomatic approach will work to denuclearize north korea. >> and ambassador hill, we have a situation where there is the possibility, especially coming up on another anniversary this weekend of the founding of the no...