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Courts been in session, julia . Reporter so court is just Getting Started behind me, hallie. They had a little bit of a delay this morning but right now were seamana for thes Defense Attorney come up to the front. Hes ready to ask rick gates more questions. On the way into court downey said they were feeling good and confident today that they are doing well in this case, especially because he is now continuing that crossexamination. It was pretty ruthless yesterday. They found gates to be someone who had a secret life. They had him detail this private flat london that he used to have an affair...

With president trump. it has nothing to do with president trump's campaign. and it has nothing to do with the white house. there is no reason that we would comment on the ongoing manafort trial. >> bill: is paul manafort not guilty? >> i have no idea. i haven't seen anything but what the news reports are saying. again, it has nothing to do with us here so we won't comment on it. >> bill: thank you for your time. come back. hogan gidley from the north lawn there. thank you. >> sandra: tensions with turkey escalating over the detainment of american pastor andrew brunson. president trump calling ...

Courthouse there in virginia. thank you. >> so dan you were helping us out with the chris collins story before the commercial break, now i want to ask you about paul manafort and rick gates and the developments you've seen particularly in the last 24 hours. >> well, look, this from a trial perspective this is not at all surprising. and what happens with a cooperating witnessed is it's someone who's committed crimes them self who has to admit guilt and then has to testify. and cross-examination is withering because in particularly this case, this is really manafort's only defense. so they're go...

Legitimate defense because it doesn't look like from the indictment that the government has a recording from that conversation, they just have the record of a five-minute conversation -- or six-minute conversation that he had with his son right after he gets this information. >> dan, stand by. let me bring in charlie sykes, contributing editor for the standard. charlie, you know republican politics had. you heard anna and sahil talk about the political implications nationally of this. what's your view? >> this is the problem for republicans, they have a swamp problem. this is one of donald tru...

Be seen whether that will have any damage on the prosecution's case. >> julia ainsley, i know you'll keep us updated from there in alexandria, thank you for that. we'll have more on the trial in a couple minutes from now. i want to get to some developing news on the election front, because just about an hour ago we got some unofficial results showing an incredibly controversial candidate in kansas. kris kobach with all presiktss in, the president's pick has a razor thin lead in his republican primary. we're talking about 191 votes there. that's less than a tenth of a percent. msnbc national po...