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Redistricting. we talked about it, brian has been affected by it. the tax issues, especially in that district we don't know how it will play. jillian: democrats looking to pick up seats in many places but they think they can in pennsylvania and you think they will here. >> it will pick up the possibility. jillian: what about pennsylvania 17? >> connor lamb in a different district, keith did not want to see connor come to that race. very difficult to maintain. jillian: wide is the tax issue such a thing for pennsylvania? >> construction jobs, from middle america message plays well but you also ...

There wasn't much of a defense put on. not only did they not put on defense witnesses, they really didn't knock down a lot of the evidence. >> bret: what does that tell you? they felt like the bar was already reached? rather that the government didn't reach the bar to convince the jury? >> i think there's a lot of counts here. could be anything from a holdout juror, fighting, or some significant questions. these are complex tax issues, financial issues. jurors may have a lot of doubt as they tried to thread the needle. i wouldn't put too much on it. manafort, the odds are still against manafor...

In favor of defending the president really drains him and i'm sad to say the party that i've been a part of for all of my adult life of their moral authority. >> you say you're conservative on national security issues until this year and conservative on tax issues. why would a democratic congress serve your interest more? >> it wouldn't. it wouldn't on the policy issues that are important to me. but it would on the much larger issue of maintaining the nation's integrity, maintaining the rule of law, opposing a president who thinks the press is all fake news, who has spent the last year attacki...

In the trump administration as secretary of the army. the important thing about this testimony is it had nothing to do with rick gates, the man that the defense is going to try to blame this conduct on. this was paul manafort and his wife filling out a bank application. a lot of this trial has been very complicated. a lot of complicated tax issues. it's pretty easy for jurors, anyone who filled out a mortgage application, to understand you can't lie on that. you can't say you don't have a loan on a property when in fact you do. you can't fail to disclose being in arrears on your credit card. t...

The day. she will be back on monday. she's expected to take the stand at 1:00. >> what can you tell -- what can we tell, shimon, where the prosecution is heading, based on what we've seen for so far the way they're setting up evidence of double bookkeeping, for example, fudged loan applications, and hidden offshore accounts? >> right, so, look, it's clear they have a pretty strong case. they have e-mails from paul manafort to this accountant, to other people. there are notes, there are conversations, that they know all about. it's a tight case, it seems. it seems like they have a lot of inform...