ready to vote for donald trump again is telling the president of the united states not to pardon paul manafort because she studied the evidence in the manafort case and decided paul manafort was guilty of everything, everything. forget what rudy giuliani says to the president about pardoning paul manafort. what paula duncan says is much, much more powerful. the paula duncans of this country are now donald trump's worst political nightmare. paula duncan was supposed to think it was all a witch-hunt, paula duncan was supposed to think paul manafort didn't do anything wrong. paula duncan was supposed to think that truth isn't truth. but the brainwashing didn't work. donald trump and rudy giuliani pumped all of those messages into the propaganda fog that was

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paul manafort and michael cohen.ite house reporter. we are calling it a bit of a nightmare david donald trump. what do you make of it? weasel two cases, one in virginia and one in new york where two former associates of donald trump face legal trouble. we saw paul manafort getting convicted of eight different counts and we sort michael cohen in new york pleading guilty to eight separate counts, and while all this is going on the president is currently speaking in west virginia and telling his supporters to vote for republicans, as his former close associates continue to deal with this legal battle. what is, in your assessment and we look at these two cases, we will talk about paul ma nafort cases, we will talk about paul manafort first because donald trump responded to the case today, saying that it was a witch—hunt and that there was nothing to do with russian collision during the presidential election. is that something that you think is very clear to distance himself from and can he do that in the long run? so thi

should he pardon paul manafort?t just fire his attorney general, fire his deputy attorney general, and fire robert mueller before september 17th? we will take up all of those questions next with jon meacham, john heilemann, and jill wine-banks. know what? no, what? i just switched to geico and got more. more? got a company i can trust. that's a heck of a lot more. over 75 years of great savings and service. you can't argue with more. why would ya? geico. expect great savings and a whole lot more. everything was so fresh in the beginning... but that plug quickly faded. luckily there's new febreze plug. it cleans away odors and freshens for 1200 hours. breathe happy with new febreze plug. jushis local miracle ear t at helped andrew hear more of the joy in her voice. just one hearing test is all it took for him to hear more of her laugh... and less of the background noise around him. for helen, just one visit to her local miracle-ear is all it took to learn how she can share more moments with her daughter. just one fre

joey -- here's manafort, paul manafort's lawyer in alexandria, virginia. >> mr. manafort is disappointed of not getting acquittals all the way through or a complete hung jury on all counts. however, he would like to thank judge ellis for granting him a fair trial. thanked the jury for their very long and hard-fought deliberations. he is evaluating all of his options at this point. thank you, everyone. >> all right. not answering questions. that's the attorney representing paul manafort. the former trump campaign chairman found guilty on eight counts, five counts of tax fraud. two counts of bank fraud. one count of hiding foreign bank accounts. he's found guilty. potentially could face a couple hundred years in prison. 69 years old right now. there was a hung jury on ten other counts but guilty on these eight counts. quickly going back to joey jackson in new york. he's watching all of this. when the trump long time personal attorney, for at least a decade, maybe a dozen years, long time fixer, when he says that the president of the united states, now the president,

paul manafort. if he's pardoned by the president which could happen at any moment, all bets are off in terms of what happens. provided he is not pardoned, whether paul manafort is acquitted or convicted by the jury that will deliberate his fate tomorrow, he is due to start a second criminal felony trial in washington, d.c. in just a few weeks. that's next month. that next trial will be before a different judge in a different courthouse in a different place with a dumpb jury and may even have some different lawyers arguing on one or both sides. now we are coming to the end of the first trial. we are looking ahead towards that second trial. it is striking that prosecutors from robert mueller's office, the special counsel's office, they have steered this first manafort case to be much more about the trump campaign than we thought it was going to be at the outset. that may affect the president's thinking about whether or not he wants to intervene to spring paul manafort by pardoning him. this first crim

paul manafort was frustrated. wtf, manafort wrote to gates.saided like this, this after learning that taxes he was due to pay were much higher than he had anticipated. gates admitted he also supplied false information to banks in order to help paul manafort secure bank loans. gates testified that manafort made more than $5 million between 2011 and 2012. doing consulting work for ukrainian billionaire. gates went into detail. about how shell companies were used to move mun vee into hidden accounts in cypress. in one instance according to gates, a payment supported lobbying in the united states. gates stated that manafort reported some of the payments to u.s. tax officials as loans. though they were in fact, income. adding that manafort was trying to decrease his taxable income. prosecutors demonstrated that paul manafort directed these activities through e-mails. there were hundreds of these. gates said in court. adding, typical practice was, paul manafort would send me a list of wiry quests. gates admitted that he used information provided by

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remains as our chairman. >> paul manafort. >> paul manafort. >> paul manafort. >> mr. manafort. >> bringing a professional in like paul helped us grow the campaign. and we need ten more of these. everything that paul did for the campaign was one less thing i had to do. >> that's who paul manafort was. now i remember. what a difference a year and about 300 years worth of federal criminal indictments make. joining us now from the federal courthouse from alexandria, cnn, cnn's jessica schneider. so what did we learn today at the trial? >> anderson, we learned a lot. it was only the first day here, but this courtroom is definitely living up to its rocket docket reputation. they managed to whittle down this jury pool of 65 people down to 12 jurors plus four alternates, and then of course we heard the fiery opening statements here. in this, prosecutors shed some light on paul manafort's lavish lifestyle, and they did it by talking about his 30 hidden foreign bank accounts they say existed in three different countries. and they say that funded that lavish lifestyle that includ

paul manafort facing seven to years in jail for his conviction on eight charges of evasion.d and tax everly from long view, texas, democrats line. go ahead. caller: manafort, also he's going to be tried for the russian investigation, correct? host: correct. caller: did he not fly over to russia right after trump was hected and some people say delivered money. so what is the real truth? manafort ever speak the truth, do you think? host: thank you. some more color from nbc news, testrial, the first public of special counsel robert mueller's investigation. wase the special counsel vindicated, the victory was not total with 10 charges thrown out. jury was in the courtroom and verdict read, nbc news reporting that paul offering no expression, staring straight ahead, not looking at the jury. teamrs of the defense often turning their heads to look at the jury. manafort was asked to step to podium after the jury left the room. judge ellis telling manafort he on aeen found guilty variety of counts and manafort would have a role to play in the reportence investigation that the judge relies on t

just ask paul manafort about that. to add on the campaign finance violations whether there's no cooperation agreement available for michael cohen suggests that perhaps he is aware that he is alone and he is retaliating against the president of the united states to include that. they would still need to have a basis upon which toen collude that as a charge they could prove but we shouldn't take it lightly that he made a decision to plead guilty to two things that the president of the united states has already commented on, on camera. >> amanda, your take on all of this? >> we have to absorb the magnitude of the situation for anyone in the white house. paul manafort who represented the head of the campaign is awaiting a verdict. michael cohen who is the biggest player in the trump organization representing all trump's business interests is pleading guilty. the you're in the white house you have to wonder how this blows back on you. let's not forget about mike flynn, national security adviser that pled guilty and awaiting

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this is another e-mail exchange involving paul manafort. it's also right after the election. a few days after the e-mail to rick gates. this piece of evidence shows manafort sent on to jared kushner his recommendation that this bank ceo from should go should be considered for high profile cabinet level jo jobs in the administration. he sent over the recommendation at 3:00 in the afternoon on wednesday and kushner sends back his response. two words. on it. it's not every day you get concrete black and white evidence that they were doling on the senior job prospects to people who gave millions in cash to the campaign chairman. it's nice to be here with you for this moment. remember where you were when you learned? there is a few consequences from this evidence that prosecutors introduced and that we expect they may walk the jury through. first of all, there is the question of whether there is going to be criminal liability associated with the scheme. there was a bench conference between the lawyers and the judge in which prosecutors describe the bank ceo as the coconspirator. pr

paul manafort has been found guilty ofa paul manafort has been found guilty of a charges, this all relatesr pro— russian politicians there and working for oligarchs. the jury itself were not able to come to a conclusion on ten other charges, and that has been declared a mistrial by thejudge. nonetheless, the special counsel robert mueller will regard this as being something of a victory because we have had the president at this trial standing on the sidelines, really questioning the merits and the rights of bringing this case against paul manafort, a man who was his campaign chairman, a many was the brains behind some of that campaign in 2016. but who has 110w that campaign in 2016. but who has now been found guilty of all these charges of hiding millions and millions of dollars from the authorities, and it does go to a question ofjudgement potentially of president trump, but as you heard there, he is remaining extremely loyal to paul manafort. there will be people questioning exactly why thatis, be people questioning exactly why that is, certainly paul manafort was somebody was with the c

paul manafort is a good man there. he was with ronald reagan, he was with lot of different people over the years and i am very sad about that. because it involved me, but i still feel it is a very sad thing that happened. it has nothing to do with russian pollution. —— collusion. in a separate case, president trump's former lawyer, michael cohen, has pleaded guilty in a manhattan court to violating campaign finance laws. we'll have the latest from washington. in other news, sir norman bettison, the former police chief accused of trying to blame liverpool fans for the hillsborough disaster, sees all charges against him dropped. the foreign secretary, jeremy hunt calls on the european union to stand shoulder to shoulder with the us in taking a tougher stance with russia. also coming up: can one of the greatest athletes of all time make it as a professional footballer? eight—time olympic champion usain bolt swaps his running spikes for football boots, as he starts training with a team in australia. and at 11:30pm, we will

paul manafort did the work of trying to build support in the west for a pro russian president of ukraine to imprison which he did, to imprison his main political opponent. that's the work that manafort was doing for the pro russian leader in ukraine. the final thing i'll say is this. paul manafort's involvement if there is any, it's up to the special counsel to decide. in russian interference in the election is not a closed issue. this is an issue that the special counsel is investigating and by the way, as he's doing that, he has a number of trump campaign aids who have gone state evidence. including rick gates. the idea that somehow this is floating out in the ether somewhere in orbit far away from the central focus of this investigation is just not true. those lines of investigation are open. and this is a man who has shown himself willing to do some fairly dodgy work for people supported by the kremlin abroad in the ukraine. and that's one reason why he's standing in court today. >> and this is just the beginning and again, one of two trials. the first of two trials for paul manafort

paul manafort and his team know rick gates is a significant source if not the primary source against his credibility as a witness against manafort. again, i'm not a lawyer. it seems remarkable that you would say that you relied on your deputy and blame him, but my understanding from talking to lawyers about this is that's a natural defense play in this environment with the cooperating witness. >> and jim, we heard testimony today from a democratic political stunt, ted devine who worked with manafort in ukraine. how much work did manafort do in ukraine? >> my understanding of his role was to walk the jury through exactly how this worked. what kind of work they did. russia's involvement in that work, how they were working for the pro russian candidate there. basically how they were lobbying on behalf of a pro russian ukrainian government which is a significant part of their case and also walking through how they were paid. right? because that's really the essential fact of the charges he's facing is that the money significant amount of money, millions of dollars he was paid for the work

the president has not ruled out pardoning paul manafort. the president to pardon manafort? >> i don't like any of the talk about pardons. >> there you go. even got it within my time limit. thank you both. >> out front next, an iowa college student missing for more than a month, now police have charged an undocumented immigrant with mollie tibbetts' murder. ses your movement and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. and now, all beds are on sale. save 50% on the new sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. plus, free home delivery. ends saturday. at priceline, to save you money.ways like mixing and matching airlines to get lower prices on flights. oh, that's how i saved on my trip! oh, for your wedding?! no, my ex-boyfriend's wedding, he's confused. jason! mix and match airlines to save more. and back pain made it hard to sleep and get up on time. then i found aleve pm. the only one to combine a safe sleep aid, plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. i'm back. aleve pm for a better am. confidence and convenience pl

>> on those three outstanding verdicts, paul manafort has been found guilty has appeared on a chargesut of 18, the manafort jury said they could come to unanimous verdict on, they have been found guilty on all of them. the first five were on filed tax returns. these three have to do with a failure to file a foreign banking count report. bank fraud and getting a $3.5 million loan from citizens bank and bank fraud and getting a $1 million loan from the bank of california. we still do not know what the judge wants to do with these ten charges that the jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on. they are eight for eight guilty against paul manafort. two of these three that came in carry a maximum prison sentence of 30 years of peace. the first five carry maximum prison sentences. one of them carries five, like us to 20, and two, 30-year sentence is good we are up to 80 years maximum 80 years in prison if my mental matt is correct. >> neil: i trust your mental math. >> it would be a lot of time. the numbers are so high. he is not going to get an 80 year sentence. >> neil: he could better

now, the judge told paul manafort of his guilty as paul manafort stood before him.aul manafort showing no emotion, not smiling, and flanked by his defense attorney, kevin downing. after the proceedings were over, the jurors released, kevin downing came outside the courthouse and said mr. manafort was disappointed he didn't get an acquittal on all counts and he said mr. manafort is considering his options moving forward. of course, that relating to any possible appeal this defense team might file. as it stands now, wolf, the paul manafort, former campaign chairman for president donald trump, has been found guilty on eight counts. he now faces many years, if not decades, in prison. wolf? >> jessica, i want you to stand by, as well. jessica schneider, over at the federal courthouse in alexandria, virginia, just outside of washington. i want to get back to the bombshell news of michael cohen's plea deal today. joining us now, the attorney, michael avenatti, you represent stormy daniels in her legal battle against michael cohen and president trump, for that matter. micha

this is trump campaign chairman paul manafort. ss examining the guy that has turned into the star witness in this trial. the star witness against his trial is manafort's former deputy rick gates. so here's the defense lawyer. after all the lies you told and fraud you've committed, you expect this jury to believe you? rick gates. yes. lawyer. uncorroborated? yes. lawyer, do you open the office of special counsel thinks the same way? gates, yes. lawyer, because they're the ones who will write you the 5 k 1 letter? the letter that will keep gates out of jail? gates, they will. they're the ones who will let your lawyer say you get probation unopposed? yes. lawyer, even if you lie? >> answer. but i haven't. and i'll here to -- question. and the jury is supposed to believe that? yes. because i'm here to tell the truthful i'm here because i made a decision to take responsibility for my actions. mr. manafort had the same path. i'm here. from rick gates. i'm here. unlike your guy. gosh was in court today and has been since court started. so

prosecutors say paul manafort lied about stashing money offshore. accountants say the former trump campaign chairman was cooking the books, and the government's star witness still hasn't taken the stand. >>> and pompeo versus the president. even as president trump lavishes praise on kim jong-un, secretary of state mike pompeo now says the north korean leader is not living up to his commitment to denuclearize. are they on the same page? i'm wolf blitzer, and you're in "the situation room." >> this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news. special counsel robert mueller's team met this week with a woman named kristen davis, better known as the manhattan madam following a notorious new york prosecution scandal. davis is a friend of roger stone, a long-time donald trump confidante, and sources say investigators are interested in having her go before a grand jury which adds to the growing likelihood that mueller is building a case against stone. possibly even congress swalwell of the intelligence and judiciary committees. our correspondents and specialists

breaking news now, as federal prosecutors layout their case against former trump campaign chairman paul manafort on day two of the trial. our justice correspondent is over at the federal court in alexandria, virginia. the prosecution says they may not call manafort's former deputy rick gates. a key witness to testify. how significant is that? >> reporter: that was a big surprise, wolf, when the prosecutors mentioned this in court. certainly the judge and a lot of journalists ran out of the room when they said they haven't decide whether or not rick gates would testify. they wered a monishing them saying when rick gates testifies, we will hear all of this. we don't know whether or not this is a strategy by the prosecution to throw the defense off their game. because they have already indicated that manafort, defense that is. they have already indicated they want to attack rick gates. he was paul manafort's top deputy and he has pleaded guilty to lying to the government. so they've already indicated that they are going to use that against rick gates some we'll see whether or not rick gates turns u

and now the president mulls pardoning paul manafort. as the president openly mulls firing the attorney general of the united states in the midst of the manafort prosecution as a way to make the russia investigation all go away, today, republicans in congress spent the entire day going after that justice department official i've been talking about. that specific official who started with the el feo case and the drug gangs in the bronx. who rose to become the head of organized crime and racketeering at the justice department. who became the justice department's expert on russian organized crime. the guy who indicted the head of the russian mafia. the guy who became the justice department's lead counsel for transnational organized crime and international affairs. the guy who had been part of the team banned paul manafort's patron and business partner, oleg deripaska from doing business with the united states on his alleged ties to organized crime in russia. that justice department official. that guy. is named bruce ohr. and he is the object

paul manafort's defense lawyer today speaking to the judge. mr. wesling. this is one of manafort's defense lawyers. quote, just to give the court notice we will file this week a motion for change of venue. we wanted to just give you notice, your honor, and not be in a situation where that came tomorrow or at the end of the week so you would be surprised by it. so -- and the judge interrupts and says, where do you want to go? mr. westling says, i don't know that i have the answer to that yet, judge. it may be that there is no place. but we feel it is important to make the record on the issue and to brief it for the court. the judge says, all right. i understand that. i believe that the overwhelming majority of the publicity about this case is national. so you can file what you need to file and i won't prejudge it. but i think the goal of the jury questionnaire is to enable us to find a fair and impartial jury and this jurisdiction meaning federal court in washington, d.c. has had very high profile cases before where we have been able through a jury questionn

clearly, this administration defending paul manafort and president trump himself defending paul manafort. we just heard that comment. that was played ahead of this rally for president trump, which will begin any minute in west virginia. his surrogates are denouncing michael cohen. ramy: rudy giuliani saying he is pushing to throw mr. cohen under the bus here. meantime, kevin, we are just showing live pictures here of that scheduled campaign stop for donald trump in charleston, west virginia. we will be looking ahead to see if he comments on anything with regards to the events, the circumstances, of the last couple hours, with two people were in- or at least, his inner circle. what might we expect? setn: president trump was to deliver what was billed as being an environmental protection the regulatory speech in coal country, charleston, west virginia. the president and this administration announced within the last when he four hours that they were walking back key obama era regulation that they argued were a hindrance to economic growth, in particular the coal industry. he will likely mak

standing up and pleading guilty to those eight felonies, paul manafort was convicted of those eight felonies. the prosecutors who convicted manafort on those eight felonies, they'll have to tell the court whether they are going to bring manafort back to court to retry him on the ten felony charges for which the jury was not able to reach a verdict. remember, it was eight felonies, conviction, eight felonies, hung jury. couldn't come to consensus. the foreperson of the jury went out of his or her way to make it publicly known on the verdict sheet organization those ten charges where they couldn't come the a verdict, 11 of the 12 jurors wanted to convict manafort on all of them. only one holdout for the ten charges on which they didn't get guilty verdicts. prosecutors know that and they have the right to put paul manafort on trial again for the ten charges where they got a mistrial. they were just one juror away. we'll find out the day after tomorrow whether they'll try manafort again on those on those same charges. prosecutors are steaming toward the next trial for manafort. it is int

at the close of the first week of paul manafort's trial, things do not look good for the former campaign chairman of the trump campaign. and today in particular, the testimony about manafort's alleged tax evasion and bank fraud took on a very human dimension when his accountant admitted under oath on the stand that she had in fact knowingly falsified tax documents in order to save manafort hundreds of thousands of dollars in taxes. manafort's accountant, cindy la porta testifying i knew it was wrong, i could have refused but that would expose the accounting firm to the risk of litigation or i could have called long-time clients liars. i very much regret it. this is the first of two trials of paul manafort being brought by special counsel robert mueller. let's take stock of what mueller's team of prosecutors have put into evidence so far through the testimony of 14 witnesses already. because they haven't just presented evidence of manafort as a ravenous clothes horse, but there was an underlying method to manafort's consumer madness. for instance, when manafort bought clothing like, for i

>> to pardon paul manafort. >> that's above my pay grade. that's the president's choice. but i think i'd like to see the case take its course. >> i can't think what mr. manafort has done to deserve a pardon. he actually hasn't gone to jail. you have to show that you learned your lesson. >> ben sasse put out a statement, paul manafort is the former member of the d.c. swamp. and michael cohen is the bottom thank version of the same. neither one of these felons should be anywhere near the presidency. >> i couldn't agree more. that them being above senator cornyn pay grade but it's not going to be above mine if i'm fortunate to be the next attorney general of the state of new york. >> what do you mean? >> because the attorney general of the state of new york that office is second to only robert mueller as holding the president accountable. he resides in new york. most of his assets are in new york. and now we know that his criminal associates of which michael cohen is one also call new york home. and regardless of what the president may do in terms of potentially pardoning man

will he offer paul manafort a pardon? that remains to be seen when our own peter alexander asked him that question last week. he said he's not really thinking about the. but he didn't dismiss that it's on the table. i would also point out, andrea, it was striking to hear the president last night at that campaign rally in west virginia. yes, he referred to the witch hunt. yes, he took aim at the media, some of his familiar targets. but he really largely stayed on message. and you have to ask the question, if some of the wind has been taken out of his sails when to comes to attacking the special counsel, andrea. >> on his way to west virginia as he was arriving, he said he felt badly for both manafort and cohen, clearly he was asked about both, he said he feels badly for both. that's before the transcript from the court was released. once the transcript was released and it was very clear that michael cohen had very explicitly implicated the president, now we see a very different posture from the president in his tweet today

this is bloomberg. ♪ i feel very badly for paul manafort.d for bob dole, for ronald reagan, for many people, and this is the way it ends up. it was not the original mission, believe me. it was something very much different. so i have nothing to do with russian collusion. we continue the witchhunt. cohen?comment on michael >> i am mark crumpton at bloomberg world headquarters in new york, joined by my colleague greg ferro. we were just watching president trump, arriving in charleston, west virginia. he will have a campaign rally tonight. he was talking about some of the court decisions today. starting with his former campaign chairman, paul manafort. mr. manafort, found guilty on eight of the counts. he said, i feel very badly for paul manafort. he again termed this a witchhunt. this was basically the first test of special counsel robert mueller's investigation, although technically it was not about russian collusion or alleged collusion but about bank fraud, tax fraud. >> he just hit that a moment ago in his comments, saying he felt bad for

>> paul manafort, guilty. >> mr. manafort is disappoints. >> on eight felony counts each. >> i did nothing wrong. you have to understand. >> as michael cohen claims trump directed his hush money crime. >> did you know about the payment to stormy daniels. >> i will do anything to protect mr. trump. >> what is next for the president's former campaign chair. >> he is evaluating all of his options. >> i can't think of what manafort has done to deserve a pardon. >> "all in" starts now. >> good evening from new york. i am chris hayes on a day of extraordinary news, one big headline above all the rest, the news of the president of the united states who is identified in court documents today, directed his personal attorney to break the law in order to influence the outcome of the presidential election. for the next hour, we are going to examine the implications for individual one, donald j. trump. it was a historically bad day for the president. as cohen, his long time lower and fixer, and paul manafort simultaneously appeari

i feel very badly for paul manafort. >> manafort's legal troubles are not over. he still faces charges in a separate case in washington, d.c., including conspiring against the united states and failing to register as a foreign agent. >>> also today, a stunning admission from president trump's former attorney michael cohen, implicating the president in campaign finance fraud. >> as fox news' steve rappaport tells us, the deal involves cohen's payments to two women who claimed they had affairs with mr. trump before he was president as well as other charges. >> reporter: former trump attorney michael cohen striking a deal with federal prosecutors. cohen pleading guilty to federal charges including finance fraud, bank fraud and tax evasion, agreeing to a prison sentence between three and 5 years. the big question, does a guilty plea mean there will be cooperation on cohen's part in special counsel robert mueller's investigation? >> the key thing is what is the scope of this deal? is it a cooperator play or a straight play? there are two separate ways we would do plea

a second trial for paul manafort on a second set of charges is a few weeks away. ational security blog law fair raises this question, whether the verdict will cause manafort to cooperate in order to avoid another trial and to obtain some sentencing leniency is a substantial open question. in that question is a larger one. if manafort and cohen do cooperate, does either of them hold the keys to any kingdoms? joining us to discuss the legal consequences here, cnn justice correspondent evan perez, shimon prokupecz and shan wu. what next is a big question in all of these cases. in the middle of all of that, the president tweets today, criticizing michael cohen, who decided to cooperate and tell his story and praising paul manafort for not breaking. what do you read into that? >> i think you're right. i think that's the "hang in there, paul manafort" sweet. that is a tweet that is signalling to paul manafort that there's a pardon waiting for him. we know that there have been those discussions between the trump team and paul manafort's team in the early parts of this pro

paul manafort did. and of course he committed crimes. that's what paul manafort was doing. and gates took responsibility for it, and that's why he's here today. >> and, ken, to mimi's point that prosecution is never relying on any one witness, the gates testimony follows one of the shortest witnesses in the case so far, federal official simply pointing out the fact that they never reported any of the, what, 15, 14 or so foreign bank accounts that they were legally required to report, gates and manafort. that's just fact at this point. >> yes, lawrence. absolutely right. that's why i have been saying tonight that even if gates totally collapsed under cross-examination and the jury discounts everything he says, there is still a pretty strong case against paul manafort on exactly the point that you just made. there was a treasury agent who testified about the requirements to report foreign bank accounts. paul manafort didn't report any of him. and his tax preparer said the reason is because she never disclosed them to her. she was totally unaware of them and that is a felony i

an adversary and suggesting rumors whatever potential pardon there were weren't good enough for paul manafort and his lawyers last week as he considers up to 80 years in jail with two trials to go. we're about to hear directly from this journalist breaking the manafort story. and i'm joint by maia wiley, from new york city and i have a special announcement about her and the person who secured this plea deal and from the "wall street journal," breaking this story and we add another "wall street journal" breaking this story. joining us by phone, thank you for hopping on the line after this big scoop i think everyone will be talking about tonight. what do you see as import, significance of paul manafort's lawyers were discussing with mueller to negotiate a deal on the d.c. charges? >> thanks for having me. it does look like there is a little bit of chunk in the armor so to speak. i don't want to read too much into this. it is relatively common you went down to the wire and went through a very grueling trial and have another grueling trial in the next couple of weeks, you want to ex-explore for p

no witnesses, no testimony from paul manafort. we will -- the jury will have this case tomorrow night. >> it seems like the defense was pretty restful before they rested. you know what i mean? like not only did they not put the defendant on the stand, which of course would have been amazing blockbuster drama, but they didn't put any other witnesses on the stand, nor did they introduce evidence, substantial evidence. so it's -- i mean, this is a legitimate and mainstream legal theory about how you defend your client, you try to create the impression in the jury that the prosecution doesn't even bear responding to their case was so weak. but those closing arguments tomorrow are going to be a big deal. it's going to be fascinating. >> there's one line of evidence in this case that stands completely unrefuted by the defense. there was no cross-examination on this. and that was a treasury official getting on the stand and saying paul manafort did not report the existence of the following foreign bank accounts. that's the description of

and now the president mulls pardoning paul manafort. as the president openly mulls firing the attorney general of the united states in the midst of the manafort prosecution as a way to make the russia investigation all go away, today, republicans in congress spent the entire day going after that justice department official i've been talking about. that specific official who started with the el feo case and the drug gangs in the bronx. who rose to become the head of organized crime and racketeering at the justice department. who became the justice department's expert on russian organized crime. the guy who indicted the head of the russian mafia. the guy who became the justice department's lead counsel for transnational organized crime and international affairs. the guy who had been part of the team banned paul manafort's patron and business partner, oleg deripaska from doing business with the united states on his alleged ties to organized crime in russia. that justice department official. that guy. is named bruce ohr. and he is the object

and then, he got into the eight guilty verdicts against paul manafort for filing false tax returns, not properly identifying foreign bank accounts and for bank fraud. a few minutes later, mrs. manafort exited the courtroom, she did not say anything goes. manafort's lawyer, kevin downing to stop and said that manafort thinks he got a fair trial, but is still reviewing all of his options, because he is disappointed with the way things shook out for him. don't forget that even if manafort had been acquitted on all of these charges, he was still remain in a jail sale tonight, because he is facing charges for similar charges in washington, d.c. that child does not start until september. the reason that we are keeping him in solitary confinement for most of these days is because they are accusing him of tampering with a witness in a case. >> a couple of questions. do they keep the same lawyers for the trial? does he have to move from the jail sale that he is now to washington, d.c., since that trial has me happening there. the jury asked that the judge not revealed and answered i don't think

many of the witnesses will testify that they dealt directly with paul manafort. where manafort did use an intermediary you will see and you will hear how he directed their activities after all the evidence will show that paul manafort was the primary beneficiary of these frauds. he got the bank loans. he got the money. he got to use the untaxed income as the old adage goes, just follow the money. and so ken, the prosecutors seem to believe that's the case they're going to be able to present, just follow the money, and rick gates might or might not be someone you have to believe for a conviction. >> yes. and i was wondering why the prosecutor was stressing that point in his opening statement. and then i heard the defense opening and i understood, because the defense case seems to boil down to paul manafort was too busy to be paying attention to these details like filing a correct tax return and failing to not defraud his profit and loss statements. and essentially rick gates, they're saying, his right-hand man, who's also sort of a well-known political consultant,

that man paul manafort faced the first of two trials today. in his opening statement prosecutor part of mueller's team portrayed manafort as greedy, a shrewd liar and three bank accounts in three countries. the evidence shows he placed himself and his money above the law and every year he lied. filed false tax returns, committed bank fraud, lied about his property, his debts, his net worth, and established offshore accounts and shell companies to funnel his lavish lifestyle. trump's former deputy campaign chairman rick gates. much more on that in a moment. today's opening statement arrived far sooner than anyone expected. after the judge who proceeds over a court dubbed the rocket docket. taking a pool of 65 prospective jurors. the man at the center of it all, paul manafort arrived at the courthouse at 8:13 a.m. his bail was revoked because of charges that while out on bail, he tampered with a witness. his lawyer kevin downing telling a reporter this morning no chance his client will cooperate with the trial. i am joined by ken del lannian, and

paul manafort. neither the first paul manafort trial nor the second paul manafort trial have been handed off. both of those are being handled directly by the special counsel's office and by the prosecutors working directly for robert mueller. why is that? why are they holding on to that one? in the order that appointed robert mueller to run the special counsel investigation, mueller and his team are charged with investigating the russian attack on the election and whether the donald trump campaign colluded in that effort and "any matters that arose or may arise directly from that investigation." well, plenty of matters have arisen from that initial investigation. lots and lots of them. and as these matters, these related matters have arisen and they have turned into criminal cases they turned into indictments and prosecutions, the special counsel's office, the mueller team has basically to a one fobbed those cases off on to other prosecutors in the department justice. but for some reason, they're ha

evtimes donald trump has made comments, he has tweeted about the case, and suggested that paul manafort is not being treated fairly. it does give you a real sense that there is a pressure on boan paul manaforrobert mueller as the jury starts their deliberations. rajini: briefly, you said the jury starts their deliberations -- it is impossible to measure a piece of string, but when do you think we might get a verdict? chris: well, the question is whether or not they have trouble with rick gate i think a lot of the conversation will be about him. they will look at the detail evidence given here, some of the documents, some of the e-mail trails. thte have to consider rick and see whether or not they feel that a man who has stolen from his one-time business associate and admitted to affair someone they can trust. but as i said, the prosecution's trying to make this much, much wider. rajini: chris buckluc, thanks veryfor joining us. withhite house today tradition and revoked the security clearance of a former -- the white house today broke with tradition and revoked the security clearacie of

rajini: you have beecovering the paul manafort trial quite extensively. that wraps up in terms of evidence we will hear. it is not directly related to manafort's work on the trump campaign, but how relevant is it to the wider investigation?wh shelby you look at the exhibits uploaded by the special counsel and the evidence in court, there are some tea leaves pau can read in terms of what is to come. manafort was e-mailing constantly with a man who was named by the special counsel as having ties to russian inteigence. he visited paul manafort several times in 2016 while manafort was running trump's campaign. there are questions about whether wereiscussing and what -- what they were discussing and what sort of knowledge manafort may ha e-mails.ut the hacked there is a lot of evidence that paul mafort was in a very precarious financial situation in 2016. there is an e-mail that shows he could not pay his credit-card bills, he was scrambli e to get bonen promising a bank executive a position in trump's white house if he extended him millions in loans. look at t

type paul manafort was wearing? he did not either because he sat with his back to us. >> there is your media obsessing over a 2005 tax case. we will bring you the truth tonight. everything you are watching on the news media is all political. this is the weaponization of our justice system. paul manafort, like lieutenant general flynn, michael cohen and others being targeted because of their one-time association with donald trump. let me be clear, i have no idea what paul manafort did in 2005, 200,642,007. but it wasn't with russia. and i know they are literally trying to throw the book at him. and the judge in this case, overseeing this case, and, i don't see what relation this indictment has they investigate. you don't really care about mr. mr. manafort's or lead to his prosecution or his impeachment or whatever. and judge ts ellis goes on to say that mueller wanted to "tighten the screws" all in an effort to make manafort sing or compose. by the way, compose means i will make up any story you want to stay out of j

he was asked whether he would pardon paul manafort, didn't answer that question, but then he had thisy about the case. >> i think the whole manafort trial is very sad, when you look at what's going on there, i think it's a very sad day for our country. he worked for me for a very short period of time, but you know what? he happens to be a very good person. and i think it's very sad what they have done to paul manafort. >> the jury has been told not to watch news athe news and pay atn to these things, but we wonder sometimes do they actually do that. but the president is weighing in, he's jumping, he's plunging into this case when he says things like that. >> it's very unusual for a president to weigh in on an ongoing investigation, especially one that involves his former campaign chairman, and the presidents do not typically weigh in on innocence or guilt. at best, maybe they touched upon some of the issues that may have come to light during a particular trial. but we have seen this with the president. he's fixated on the russia investigation. > >>> -- and he has been asked if he woul