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The fact that mueller has spent a huge amount of the resources and energy and man and woman power on his team over the last year and change focusing on prosecuting manafort and meanwhile in the cohen situation, there are reports that mueller found some information about cohen that could have indicated he was engaged in criminal activity. and then rather than taking that investigation under the umbrella of his special counsel probe, he handed it off to investigators in the southern district of new york to let them take over it. so we can surmise just from the radically different ways that muell...

Tonight that former trump campaign chairman paul manafort is in talks with the special counsel's office about a possible plea deal, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. the post reports it this way, quote, the people, who spoke on the condition of an anymoonymito describe the conversations, cautioned that the negotiations may not result in a deal with special counsel robert mueller, who is prosecuting manafort for alleged money laundering and lobbying investigations. but the discussions indicate a possible shift in strategy for manafort who early this year chose to go to ...

For our viewers a bit later on in this hour. meanwhile, and as we mentioned, day 600 of this administration, and as bob woodward's book "fear" hit book stores today, a new development in the mueller russia investigation is looming over the white house. "washington post" reporting tonight that former trump campaign chairman paul manafort is in talks with the special counsel's office about a possible plea deal, according to two people with knowledge of the discussions. the post reports it this way, quote, "the people who spoke on the condition of an anonymity to describe the conversations cautio...

That's the best we can figure out on that account. in terms of what may be coming up, i mean we're looking at closing arguments 9:30 tomorrow morning on nearly two hours on each side. it's interesting the defense's decision not to put on any evidence or witnesses. what that may be about their closing statement. it could mean they're looking more at sort of a 30,000 foot argument trying to pin the blame for all this alleged wrongdoing on rick gates. it seems if they really wanted to get down in the weeds on all these counts they would want to put forward some expert or some witness on the tax c...

Trump team is they're waiting to see the verdict in manafort. do you believe that? >> i don't know. potentially. i mean, look, there's actually a question about whether this negotiation over an interview by the president is going to continue as it had with the sort of letters back and forth or whether there'll actually be a subpoena, whether robert mueller actually goes forward and subpoenas the president to appear before him. and that's the big question mark at this hour. whether that delay is because of the manafort trial, i have no idea. clearly part of the mueller special counsel team is f...