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Legal strategy. this is a political strategy. it seems to me it's designed not to help the president when it comes to his legal troubles with robert mueller. in fact, it's likely to make them worse. it's designed to set a different kind of landscape for anything that mr. mueller finds out to be received, to convince at least his own supporters that nothing -- it wasn't illegal or anybody does that, and by the way, i didn't know anything about it. these are -- this is an attempt to set a context where people won't take seriously or at least won't be convinced that if there are serious -- if the...

Has a very strong case against paul manafort because this is a case about foreign bank accounts, and we had testimony from manafort's bookkeepers and accountants they had no idea he had control of all these foreign bank accounts. they prepared his tax returns and said there were no foreign bank accounts. that's a felony. he was paying for these luxuries with money wired from cyprus, and the only defense we have seen to that is manafort didn't realize it was a crime, he didn't realize he filled out the form incorrectly. it's a strong case with or without gates. >> and betsy, we talk about this ...

All this, how will he hold up under a cross-examination? there's probably a lot there that the manafort side could hit him with. >> that's right. it's going to be bruising. and additionally, it's going to be personal. there was significant friction several months back when rick gates was going through the process of deciding whether or not he was going to flip on paul manafort. whether he was going to essentially turn on a man who had been his business partner and boss for upwards of a decade. at the time, that caused significant consternation on manafort's team. there were reports manafort's ...

Cohen was honest. now that he seems to have incriminating information about donald trump, he is willing to share with the special counsel, donald trump's camp is saying that he lacks all credibility. >> mj lee, thank you for walking us through that. let's talk about it. with me now is shan wu. also david gergin and david drucker. mj laid out the reporting. sources tell cnn that michael cohen doesn't have tape recordings of this, doesn't have audio to back it up. we know from jim sciutto's reporting that when cohen testified behind closed doors in front of the house intelligence committee, he...

The congress, look, this is a political problem. you to solve this? and we don't know the answer to both of those. i think there is lots of people that are guessing and lots of speculation what might happen. but i think those are the two big looming questions. will he sit for an interview and will mueller indict him? those are the questions we should all be looking for over the next six months. >> and we watch every twist and turn on this. thank you so much, mark geragos and michael shear. appreciate it. >> sure. >> thank you. well, just eight days before president trump and north korean lea...