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>> counselor, let's go out to you in los angeles. i get the idea of not putting manafort on in his own defense because then of course the prosecution gets to come at him, and he's got all kinds of vulnerable exposures that could erase the work they did during the trial. what is the defense strategy likely to be during closing statements tomorrow, and do you make it all about the star witnessed who flipped, mr. gates? >> well, they certainly opened on that. they said that during opening that rick gates, the cooperating witness and the long time associate of paul manafort, that he was a liar and...

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Started ellis questioned the special counsel's motives in prosecuting manafort saying you don't really care about mr. manafort's bank fraud, suggesting it was an effort to pressure manafort into providing information he may have on donald trump. >> i think judge t.s. ellis in virginia said it best, he's not a particular figure, he has no skin in this game except the law. >> still, ellis surprised the white house and let the case two forward. ellis was born in 1940 in columbia. he graduated from princeton, went on to study law at harvard in oxford. for all his toughness, he apparently tones it ...

Bad choice to join the taliban. long before the manafort trial started ellis questioned the special counsel's motives in prosecuting manafort saying you don't really care about mr. manafort's bank fraud, suggesting it was an effort to pressure manafort into providing information he may have on donald trump. >> i think judge t.s. ellis in virginia said it best, he's not a particular figure, he has no skin in this game except the law. >> still, ellis surprised the white house and let the case go forward. ellis was born in 1940 in columbia. he graduated from princeton, went on to study law at har...

Rick gates is the man in the middle, the best witness for the prosecution and the person the defense wants to discredit. what did you learn from all of this so far? and throw in the tad devine testimony. >> this is the first time since manafort was arrested and charged in the district of columbia that we have ever heard the nature of hiss defense. now that's a point worth elaborating on for a moment. all the filing so far from his lawyer have been to discredit robert mueller and say he shouldn't have been bringing this case. he was wrongly given the task. he went outside his lane in prosecutin...