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And it seems both sides were allowing their emotions to be seen more publicly today or at least their feelings of each other as the trial came to a close. a lot of the proceedings today almost all outside the presence of the jury except for a brief moment where manafort's lawyer confirmed they would not on any evidence and did that in front of the jury. even today the lead prosecutor on this case and the judge went back and forth once again about comments the prosecution thinks the judge made that they believe may have undercut their case. and the judge actually sort of mocked the prosecution ...

Over closing arguments is really try to pick apart the government's case. symptomsatically going through each and every one of the counts and showing that the government has failed to sustain their burden of proof. >> and josh, where do we leave the relationship between this judge, this very unique judge appointed by president ronald reagan, and the prosecutors? >> strained is how we leave it. and it seems both sides were allowing their emotions to be seen more publicly today or at least their feelings of each other as the trial came to a close. a lot of the proceedings today almost all outsid...

>> and josh, where do we leave the relationship between this judge, this very unique judge appointed by president ronald reagan, and the prosecutors? >> strained is how we leave it. and it seems both sides were allowing their emotions to be seen more publicly today or at least their feelings of each other as the trial came to a close. a lot of the proceedings today almost everything outside the presence of the jury except for a very brief moment really where manafort's lawyer confirmed that they would not put on any evidence, and did that in front of the jury. even today the lead prosecutor on...

Thank, everyone. >> that was it. paul manafort's lawyer today summing up his team's decision to rest its case without calling any witnesses, that would include manafort himself. the president's former campaign chairman did speak for the first time in court only to affirm to the judge he did not wish to take the stand. manafort as you know has pleaded guilty to 18 kounlts of tax and bank fraud. while unrelated to election interference manafort's prosecution is the first to come from the mueller's effort. the day's proceeding started after yet another hours long

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 many of these accounts, they would have put forward some expert or some witness who could argue, say, for example ...