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Defense lawyers, listen, prosecutors never give anybody the option to drop one of their trials. they're giving you the option to just go on trial once. are you sure you're not willing to take them up on it? the defense lawyer is yep, your honor, we're sticking with the plan. two trials. the judge is like, okay, your funeral. here we go. so this second trial is about to start. and it's weird. and it will happen before the judge who finds it remarkable. in the judge's words, unusual that manafort has decided to have a second trial. incidentally, this will who will be presiding in the trial is th...

They're giving you the option to swap -- drop one of the trials and only go on trial once. are you sure you're not willing to take them up on it? the defense lawyer is yep, your honor, we're sticking with the plan. two trials. the judge is like, okay, your funeral. here we go. so this second trial is about to start. and it's weird. and it will happen before the judge who finds it remarkable. in the judge's words, unusual that manafort has decided to have a second trial. incidentally, this judge who will be presiding in the d.c. trial is the same judge who ordered paul manafort held in jail ins...

Investigation that the trump campaign chairman, newly convicted felon, paul manafort, is now apparently at least trying to get himself a deal with the prosecutors in ron mueller's office. joining us now, chuck rosenberg, former fbi official, thank you very much for your time tonight. >> my pleasure, rachel. >> is it normal practice for a defense team to come to prosecutors to try to cut a deal for their client literally while the jury is out and deliberating on their client's fate? >> no. it is highly unusual for someone to have two trials that they're facing. one in virginia and one in d.c. i...

Not exactly a summer vacation. the "wall street journal" reported yesterday that paul manafort was seeking a deal with prosecutors ahead of his second trial, a deal that was obviously never reached. it was a partial deal perhaps. we'll get into it. but that trial, the second manafort trial, as well as special counsel robert mueller's ongoing overall investigation, aren't the only potential legal issues plaguing president trump now. the ongoing investigations in the southern district of new york, which not only secured a getty plea from former trump lawyer michael cohen but also offered immunit...

Investigation look at what happened if we did this. the american public wouldn't know. let it take its course. if you find criminal activity you don't stop an investigation. you go forward to see if there's more. i think the president obstructed the investigation and i do believe mr. cohen said in court yesterday is the truth. when you couple it with the totality of all the other evidence, these recordings and the video evidence that have taken place. let's let it keep going because we haven't completed the investigation as to conspiracy, obstruction or money laundering. there's a lot more inf...