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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Jury to buy. It most certainly is and prosecutors will hammer one concept, follow the money. In these fraud trials, if you follow the money trail, that will lead you to the conclusion that you will finding when in the prosecutions mind is guilt. Theyll see readily Paul Manafort made exponentially bigger amounts. He set up the business and the shell companies. So its a very tough sell for the defense team to say its the lower level, the subordinate whos in position to take orders from the man above thats the true mastermin...

>> why did you deny president trump's involvement? when did you learn that the denial wasn't true? >> well, let me tell you two things on that one. as you know, george, i was in the case at that point, what, a couple of weeks and there was a lot of information that was gathering. as my colleague, rudy giuliani, said, i had bad information at that point. i made a mistake in my statement. >> a mistake. let's start right now with hallie jackson and robert costa. he is also an msnbc political analyst. hallie, i want to start with you from bedminster, where the president apparently pulled it in fro...

Information on an opponent, end quote, before adding his own legal analysis that it was, quote, totally legal. and finally saying with an sc exclamation point, i did not know about it. that does not quite mesh with what we've heard from the white house over the past year. >> in the case of don, he listened. i guess they talked about, as i see it they talked about adoption and some things. >> there was nothing as far as we know that would lead anyone to believe that there was anything except for discussion about adoption and the magnitsky act. >> the president didn't sign off on anything. he wa...

They could have some evidence to the contrary. what might that look like? >> well, gates was a partner, he was a protege of manafort. he clearly had a lot of authority within the firm an he was dealing personally with this accountant, cindy laporta and giving her instructions on how to perform certain tasks and account for things. downing was just making the point that often the accountant is the last to know if there was fraud. the person giving the accountant the information has a lot of power to misrepresent what the numbers say. it looks like that's what their argument is going to be. but ...

Data when it is used on this platform. it seems that there may be people who would have concerns about letting facebook -- giving them the keys, basically, to their bank accounts. >> well, there certainly is concern and that is also why this seems so newsworthy, because at a time when privacy is such a big topic and you have facebook having conversations with banks asking for detailed data, it has come to the point where there is concern among banks about the privacy of that data, how would that data be used. so this has been part of the conversations that facebook has engaged in with the bank...