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Needs to convince the jury to have the same kind of sympathy as the president because his fate is controlled by six men and six women from virginia. >> i don't think you go into this thinking even if i get convicted i still may get a pardon. i think that's a big risk. >> late this afternoon, the mueller team called their first witness. it was the former bernie sanders strategist and colleague of paul manafort, tad devine, who was actually pretty complementary of manafort, but his testimony served to establish manafort's deep business ties in ukraine. somebody whose name was never mentioned by ...

Burden of proof on the special counsel is proving to be heavy. >> lawyers for the man who was with the trump campaign for just five months are fighting to keep them out of federal prison for 305 euros. paul manafort is charged with falsifying income taxes, and committing bank fraud, type $260 million the special counsel alleges he was paid as a consultant to ukrainian politicians and then hid from the irs. >> the chances of paul manafort trying to reach some kind of deal has passed us. >> interrupted by lunch and a list of witnesses that to testify against manafort, including rick gates and fo...

To paul's point, he's the only one who's faced trial. i should note that not only rick gates but tad devine, who is a long-time strategist who worked for bernie sanders very prominently in 2016 and was a business partner of paul manafort's is also going to be testifying presumably about the work they did in ukraine. i guess the question, paul, is as a former federal prosecutor is your expectation here they're just going to go through with this trial and they'll do the other trial and if they win paul manafort goes to jail and that's the end of that or do you feel like there's something else ab...

Gates but tad devine, who is a long-time strategist who worked for bernie sanders very prominently in 2016 and was a business partner of paul manafort's is also going to be testifying presumably about the work they did in ukraine. i guess the question, paul, is as a former federal prosecutor is your expectation here they're just going to go through with this trial and they'll do the other trial and if they win paul manafort goes to jail and that's the end of that or do you feel like there's something else about this set of facts with paul manafort in relation to the larger investigation? >> yo...

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...