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The case against a former president, donald trump, on this campaign finance violation? >> well, they would make the case the way they always make the case. it's going to be a paper trail case. and in this case, as you suggested, john, they're going to have lots and lots of paper because they raided his office and they have been able to access any bank documents as we know, they don't have any search or privilege over that. so they have plenty of evidence to bring against him. the other thing to keep in mind is when you look at the actual plea agreement, cohen is protected by further prosecutio...

Manafort. what does this tell you about the strategy or perhaps even confidence of the defense? >> well, no, the confidence of the defense, you don't have to question that, fred. look, you get dealt a set of cards, and you do the best you can with them. they had nothing to put up there for defense. they were not going to put manafort on the stand, because he would have got annihilated and he would have convicted himself, so they couldn't do that. so they decided to argue rather in summation, smoke and mirrors, blame gates, blame everybody under the sun except manafort. listen, fred, it's a pap...

And while everyone is focused on the alarming summit, rob burt mueller keeps making the case against one of the central figures. paul manafort. the latest on that just ahead. figures.

We have seen him try to do witness tampering. this obviously is something that is significant in the case which might not always be, you want to protect these people. we have been surprised when names come up and they said these five people are people you have not heard of about and we want to keep it that way all the way up to the trial date. i would suspect they are trying to hold that as close as possible not just for intimidation. information and names leaked and people being tarnished by that >> there is a judge in this case, the president actually invoked his name because at one point he...

Witnesses today. layering on the pile all the leverage and witnesses they can bring to the case. >> thank you for joining me tonight. with the 2018 elections around the corner, the director of national intelligence is sounding the alarm on whether that election is safe from interference. that's next.