. >> paul coates founder and director of black classic press. >> if they come back and see america today and see the most important play on broadway over the past several years is a play that lionize is alexander hamilton and vilifies jefferson and ignores thomas paine and to see them out distribution of wealth in the united states and the amount of money that suffuses american politics today , they would fear that many of these things going on in the united states today bore an uncanny resemblance to the england they had refolded again again -- revolted agated against again -- revolted against. >> we are excited to have c-span here in hawaii so we can share the history and the culture this is a great opportunity to show people hawaii welcome and a low-cost. >> welcome to the cable satellite public affairs network and we are going all over our nation. and they will enjoy the sunshine and the loja from the state i am sure c-span will witness this experience as it embarks on its discovery of hawaii as part of its 50 capitals to her. as the lieutenant governor we do hereby proclaim august 1

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and paul coates, founder and director of black classic press and a look at the new museum of the bible in washington dc. that all begins at 8:00 pm eastern here on c-span2. >> saturday morning at 10:30 easton booktv is live at the mississippi book festival for their fourth annual literary lawn party at the state capital in jackson with discussions on race and identity, southern history, us politics and presidential leadership. authors include the author of loving, interracial intimacy in america and the threat to white supremacy. jack davis with his pulitzer prize-winning book the gulf, the making of an american see. selena speaks to haley barbour, her book is a great revolt, inside the populist coalition reshaping american politics. author frank williams with lincoln as hero. join us live beginning at 10:30 easton for the mississippi book festival on booktv on c-span20. >> at the net roots nation conference in new orleans speakers included new york city mayor bill de blasio, housing and urban development secretary julian castro, ohio congressman tim ryan and congressional candidate al

and an interview with paul coats. and a look at the new museum of the bible in washington d.c.all begins at 8 p.m. eastern time here on c-span2 >> sunday night on "after words," retired marine corps lieutenant colonel be kate german know on gender bias in the military. she's interviewed by "military times" reporter todd south. >> is a marine not really catered to -- i'm sorry, not really paid attention to as a quality marine going into boot camp and then not held to a high standard coming out of boot camp, how does that i affect the rest of her career and her perception by her colleagues? >> guest: yeah. the problem is because the marine corps doesn't want to change what happens at that foundational level and because everything is so segregated, those stereotypes persist. and the stereotypes, as i mentioned earlier, they sort of feed into the perception that women can't because they're women, and then they're not respected. and the lack of respect between men and women in the marine corps, it's legendary. i mean, it's the stuff that male recruits hear all the time. you hear mal

in an interview with paul coates, black classic press the state department top official overseeing arms sales talks about the arm control policy. the center for strategic and international studies hosted the event. >> good morning everyone. thank you for joining us for today's event on the u.s. arms transfer policy. we are very excited to have investor with us to give us remarks on that in a really stellar panel after that. i will begin as we always do with our security announcement because we have thought through what to do in the case of emergency and want to let you know that we have plans and if something were to happen, i will be your security guide and let you know where to go, either of the way you came in or out the back, depending on what kind of emergency might arise. we don't expect that today. i also want to thank the sponsors who make these events at csi as possible including our general member support which has a big role to do with today's event and also a sponsor of lockheed martin who helped us make it possible to do today's event. i want to thank our friends at the sta

water coat and if we hearfrom donald trump coat and if we hearfrom donald trumer, coat and if we hearfrom donald trump jr, paull cohen and mr trump himself, to testify in a case of this magnitude. until there is televised hearings, the register will not move much on the register will not move much on the popularity front. it is fascinating to talk to you, thank you for your insight. we might discuss this again. much more coming up in the next half an hour. time for a look at the weather, with mel coles. cooler conditions are creeping south as we have gone through the day and that has reflected in the temperatures. mid—teens are best for the north half the coventry and in the north half the coventry and in the south we are just reaching the low 20s. this evening, the cooler theme continues as the air makes its way down from the north. it gradually squeezing out the humid air. for many areas it will be dry with clear skies but further showers feeding into northern ireland, nor plus scotland and they will filter down to paths of lancashire and cumbria overnight. temperatures in single figures. it will be fresh, p

coat. a fast start to paul manafort's trial on financial crimes. good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm dave briggs. i am not wearing a $15,000 ostrich jacket. i'm more of an off-the-rack guy. >> we have to get pictures of that coat. i'm laura jarrett, it's wednesday, august 1st, 4:00 a.m. in the east. >>> a federal judge blocking a government settlement that would allow plans for 3d guns to be downloaded online, the ruling coming just hours before those plans were set to publish. with growing concerns about people being able to make their own untraceable plastic weapons. the judge's block is temporary, but it puts a hold on the settlement a gun rights group and the government reached back in june that would make it legal to post the plans on the internet. >> the founder of the gun rights group defense distributed says his company's site is going dark until he can review the judge's order. before the ruling came down, he spoke to cnn's laurie segall about concerns of the danger. >> giving people the ability to print 3d guns would make it feasi

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coat. a fast start to paul manafort's trial on financial crimes. good morning, and welcome to "early start." i'm laura jarrett in for christine romans. >> good to see you, my friend. i'm dave briggs, wednesday, august 1st, already, if you can believe it. 5:00 a.m. in the east. we start with a chilling story for many americans this morning. a federal judge flocking a government settlement that would allow for 3d printable guns for sale. you could print out the instructions to guns on the internet, if you can believe it or not. this is a terrifying ordeal for many parents in this country who simply know that their kid could be printing that at the moment. now, the founder of the gun rights group defense distributed says his company's site is going dark until he can review the judge's order. before the ruling came down, he spoke to cnn's laurie segall about concerns publishing plans could endanger the public. >> reporter: the democratization of guns online, giving the people the ability to 3d print their own guns would make it feasible for felons, min

there was so many red flags about paul manafort throughout the years, and not just because he was using wire transferring to buy ostrich coats things like that. you have people like paul manafort, people like michael cohen, michael flynn. they were doing lots of things that look quite dodgy, using charitable donations, lots of things that are wide out in the open, and the question is why were there so many people that felt free to do these kinds of dodgy dealings. and the expectation is that they didn't expect to get caught. this is not a trump specific phenomenon. they are about to reach an all-time low. they are declining overtime. trump's own policies have of course stepped back from white collar crimes, but under obama, under george w bush, they have said these are not crimes that we care about. of course you're going to have the paul manaforts of the world says of course i can get away with whatever i want. the president in the white house attracts additional scrutiny. >> there is a large debate about why that is. it may have to doed with fewer resources. after 9/11 there was a drop off in the investigations. there is m

but yes, they will get these pictures that show just how lavishly paul manafort lived. >> the ostrich coats a little disappointing now that i've seen the pictures. did the prosecution say why they might not call gates as a witness? >> you know, it's quite possible that the prosecution was just bluffing here, because when they said we might, we might not, it actually came during questioning of an fbi agent. and he introduced some of the evidence that they got during this raid of paul manafort's condo last summer. and one of the items said gates' agenda. as soon as that came up, the judge stopped the proceeding. again, the judge has been very vocal here, and the judge said why are you questioning him about something gates did? gates' work product. if you're going to have gates up here testifying. that's when prosecutors said, well, we might, we might not. so it's possible it was bluff. it's also possible they're trying to throw the defense off their game because of course the defense has said they will rely on rick gates' testimony, essentially to discredit him as the real liar, the real ste

but it is true that dan coats, chris wray, paul nakasone, are traditionally concerned about what russians are doing to interfere in our politics. they're doing things about it, in some cases, they're just not seeing leadership from the oval offi office. paul nakasone was asked whether the nsa and cyber command had been given authorization to take action and he didn't really answer. he said the guidance i've gotten from the president and the secretary of defense is not clear, we will not tolerate meddling. that's not saying whether the president has given authorization for cyber operations. as of a few months ago, i'm told, cyber command did not have that authorization from president trump. >> that's terribly important, obviously, for us to be going on offense. admiral stavridis, general nakasone had this to say, let's play exactly what ken is referring to. >> general, have you been ordered at all or authorized to conduct any offensive cyber operations in response to this? >> so my guidance and direction from the president and secretary of defense is very clear. we're not going to accept m

there's no way to sugar coat it paul, that is the conclusion from what happened there. paul: charlie said there's 68 more house seats that republicans now hold that are less republican than ohio 12 seat, so that puts -- a lot of these are going to be in play, kim, particularly the suburban seats, the rural areas trump and the republican party holding very strong but suburban swing districts which are most at play. >> yeah, you are seeing these in election results, you are seeing in polling, the republicans have problem women college educated voters who are very down on donald trump and so if you look at that ohio race, for instance, where balderson really fell apart was in the suburban part of that district. the farther you got away from columbus the more rural the area he tallied and racked up the votes and it still barely enough to win. this is something that's a dangerous proposition for republicans having to rely on simply large turnout from rural voters everywhere. paul: allysia, we know not to give much attention to congress but very important and republicans have

paul manafort. i'm not going to sugar coat this. this case started at a low point when the ostrich and python coats were admitted as evidence and it went steadily downhill from there. hell, we couldn't even find one witness to testify on his bow half-- not a family massachusetts, business associate, or even someone from our own legal team dressed up like a sympathetic

but chris wray, paul nakasone, and dan coats, i believe do have an interest in trying to do something and did want to communicate to the american people that the government does recognize this is a problem. they're trying on flag that the russians still throughout intervening and there are some things that they are doing about it. the most interesting thing that i heard was paul na casone who commands cyber command, the nation's cyber war force said that he was prepared to go after foreign medlers in our election and he seemed to suggest that he had presidential authorization to do that. i think it is up in the air. we need to pin it down of he can't use the vast cyber arsenal at his disposal unless donald trump allows him to do that. but that was the biggest news. that cape out of what many of those people said. other things they said we already knew. yes, the russians continue to meddle in our politics. yes, dhs is reaching out to the states to try to shore up cyber security. yes, the fbi has a foreign task force and no, there is no presidential leadership. the president wasn't ther

decide in a relatively short period of time. >> in terms of sentencing, you heard laura coates there say that paul manafort if given the harshest possible sentence for eight charges could be facing life in prison. 240 years in prison. he's 68 years old. >> people like to -- >> how long do you actually anticipate? what's the average sentence for charges like this? >> again, i don't know which particular charges he was convicted of and what the dollar amounts were. white collar case like this, probably talking about a few years and when people cite the huge amounts like life in prison, or 300 years, they're going on what the statutory maximum is for every count and the way the guidelines work often is, you know, additional counts he might be convicted of don't necessarily add any jail time and they become sort of redundant. >> of course, then there's also the question of whether or not president trump pardons him. >> always that. >> there has been some discussion of some charges are state charges, some are not and some of the cases. all of these are federal charges so president trump theoretically w

john bolton, dan coats, christopher wray, paul, and kirstjen nielsen.at the front line of defense at america's infrastructure and the democratic process itself, or on another reading, you're looking at a five-person janitorial crew carrying the mops and brooms trying to clean up the lingering toxic spill that was donald trump's disastrous news conference had helsinki with vladimir putin. no matter how you see them, the message they delivered today was important and in some ways welcome for its

. >>> i want to talk about the day now for paul manafort in the trial today. here to discuss it, laura coats and michael moore, and jack quinn. good evening. thank you for joining us. jack, paul manafort jurors asked the judge if he could redefine reasonable doubt for them. should the prosecution be concerned about that? >> no. i think in a criminal case it's a fairly typical question from the jury, and no small part because it's a pretty fuzzy concept for them to grapple with. the judge has to carefully explain that beyond a reasonable doubt means more than probable or more than highly probable. if they have a doubt it has to be based on reason, and it has to be based on a reasonable consideration, not, for example, sympathy for the defendant or concern about his or her family. >> michael, you say the question about reasonable doubt can cut both ways. why do you say that? >> well, on the one hand you've got the prosecution who is likely hoping that like says the jury is back there and thinking well, somebody wants to hear it. does it mean -- do they really have to prove this? is this someth

john bolton, dan coats, christopher wray, paul, and kirstjen nielsen. you're looking at the front line of defense at america's infrastructure and the democratic process itself, or on another reading, you're looking at a five-person janitorial crew carrying the mops and brooms trying to clean up the lingering toxic spill that was donald trump's disastrous news conference had helsinki with vladimir putin. no matter how you see them, the message they delivered today was important and in some ways welcome for its candor. russia still poses a threat to the american democracy and the midterm elections and they are committed to stopping it. listen to chris wray and dan coats. >> our focus here today is simply to tell the american people we acknowledge the threat. it is real. it is continuing, and we're doing everything we can to have a legitimate election, that the american people can have trust in. >> russia attempted to interfere with the last election and continues to engage and malign, influence operations to this day. >> they stepped up their game big tim

paul manafort. i'm not going to sugar coat this. this case started at a low point when the ostrich and python coats were admitted as evidence and it went steadily downhill from there. hell, we couldn't even find one witness to testify on his bow half-- not a family massachusetts, business associate, or even someone from our own legal team dressed up like a sympathetic old lady. here's the plan:courtroom observers were shocked as the manafort defense team attempted to escape as a panto mine horse. >> it's "the late show with stephen colbert." tonight, top secret clearance. plus, stephen welcomes jessica biel w. kamau bell and musical guest elle king featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: wooo! there you go! there you go! thanks so much. welcome to "the late show,"" everybody, down there, up here, around the world i'm your host, stephen colbert. it is a chilling-- ( cheers and applause ) it is a chilling day in

there's no way to sugar coat it paul, that is the conclusion from what happened there. paul: charlie said there's 68 more house seats that republicans now hold that are less republican than ohio 12 seat, so that puts -- a lot of these are going to be in play, kim, particularly the suburban seats, the rural areas trump and the republican party holding very strong but suburban swing districts which are most at play. >> yeah, you are seeing these in election results, you are seeing in polling, the republicans have problem women college educated voters who are very down on donald trump and so if you look at that ohio race, for instance, where balderson really fell apart was in the suburban part of that district. the farther you got away from columbus the more rural the area he tallied and racked up the votes and it still barely enough to win. this is something that's a dangerous proposition for republicans having to rely on simply large turnout from rural voters everywhere. paul: allysia, we know not to give much attention to congress but very important and republicans have

with the government using photos of some of the lavish things that paul manafort was spending money on. you mentioned the osstrich coat the people were testifying in the last hour. jake, he was also scolding the prosecutor saying remember that paul manafort's wealth is not what's on trial here today. jake. >> all right, evan perez, thanks so much. in addition to defending president trump's call for attorney general jeff sessions to stop the law enforcement, white house secretary sarah sanders tried to explain why mr. trump had any problems with reporters heckling and berating reporters. this came after the latest incident a cnn reporter shouted down at the president's rally last night in tampa, florida. they suggested that the white house has no issue with that mob scene last night. >> we certainly support freedom of the press. we also support freedom of the speech. we think those things go hand this hand. >> president trump makes it can clear that behavior is great. his son saying it was great. he retweeted it and the erosion of standards of civility continues. it's not just republicans. we are being led down the dra

coat. >> that is a bad idea, paul, you shouldn't do that. >> this is a case with some real jury appeal. tax cases tend to be boring but one of the things that brings them to life is showing how the money was spent and we're all going to remember the ostrich coat. >> just to bring it back to this overall question, people watching saying this is the mueller investigation, what does this have to do? the point i made about judge ellis, he will be sensitive about people trying to make a larger point about the russia investigation or president trump. i think he'll be disciplined about that. if you are trump or his allies who say no this is still a witch-hunt even though they're prosecuting paul manafort, what would you say too that, jeffrey? >> well one of the things i've learned during the trump presidency is nothing changes anyone's mind. if someone wants to believe this is a witch-hunt, they'll believe this is a witch-hunt but this is actually a very conventional white-collar crime case. someone made millions of dollars and didn't pay taxes, that's the accusation. it's about submitting doc

coat of paint on to make it look nice. i would think if most people heard of someone like senator rand paul buying a $500 pair of shoes, they would probably think that gets much closer to the personal use. if you use your authorized campaign committee to buy coat or shoes or a mink pay for your trip to disneyland, that would be illegal. people have gone to jail for the personal used of their authorized campaign funds. if you are just smart enough to use your leadership pac funds, then there are no rules. the personal use rules on your campaign committee funds are not applied to the leadership pacs. you do see things like expenditures on shoes and trips over and over again to broadway shows. a congressman from ohio. you see trips to las vegas for fundraisers. the reason they do this is they get on a cycle. you can go and say i'm doing a fund-raising trip and then go to disneyland and las vegas and vale and broadway and have a great life. at the expense, of your contributors. host: d.c. restaurants are a key place where these leadership pac s have been used. just to run through some of the numbers, some $253,000 spent at char

would be last tuesday when the mueller team gets up and they allege that paul manafort lived a very lavish lifestyle and ostrich coats flower beds snand an m for manafort. act 2 was when the nurl team brought a bookkeeper and two accountants to the stand to explain how and why the court was able to get away with it three the inside man rick gates is next. shep? >> shepard: peter doocy live at the courthouse. we will go back there for updates should be there. at this time a.b. stoddard is here and editor at real clear politics. good to he so you. >> good to see you, shep. >> shepard: rick gates, what might he provide? >> this is going to be dramatic no matter. what have you former friends and colleagues turning on each other. this used that doocy has reported on that the manafort team is alleging that rick gates embezzled money and hid that from paul manafort and was on the take and as they say had his hands in the cookie jar. if the defense produces documentation of that and verification of that, that could muddy the waters in terms of the value of rick gates as a prosecuting witness. but from the testimony of the ac

coats being involved. this is ultimately like paul ryan said an executive decision. but again there's no accountability to the people who should be at least consulted in these matters. >> we'll see if we're going to be having this discussion again, if there are more names that come out that we hear. >> they seem to have a long list. >> we have a list to talk about, potentially. heidi, great to have you here at nbc news this morning, see you again a little bit later, appreciate that. >>> we've got new polling that shows that democrats are leading republicans in a nationwide generic congressional ballot. a cnn poll finding that 52% of americans would vote for the democratic candidate in their district if elections were held today. now that is an 11-point advantage over those who say they would vote for a republican instead. similarly, a quinnipiac university poll shows democrats with a 9-point advantage over republicans. according to that quinnipiac poll, 52% of voters say donald trump's presidency makes them think less favorably of the republican party, while 16% thin

. >>> by day's end week one of paul manafort ace tri's trial wn the bag. we have seen a $15,000 bomber coatade of ostrich and heard testimony from a suit maker at a high-end harbor dasher in manhattan who said manafort spent nearly $1 million in suits. we have also gotten a say torial review of paul manafort's closet from roger stone. quote, manafort's style choices were generally wrong for his body type. his cuss up-made italian suits never fit him properly. manafort had the view if something was expensive, it meant it was good. he wore $6,500 suits that didn't fit him. yeah. trump's former campaign chairman face as litany of financial crime charges, all of which he denies. prosecutors say they are ahead of schedule. good news to judge ellis. and they expect to rest their case next week. today they put paul manafort's tax accountant back on the stand. joining me from outside the contract house in alexandria, national security and justice reporter julia ainsley and former federal prosecutor glen kirschner. jew julia, what's the latest? >> reporter: when i tend out there have been 30 minutes

paul neka son of the u.s. cyber command christopher ray the head of the f.b.i. dan coats the director of national intelligence michael rogers the n.s.a. had as well as kirsten nielsen who is the secretary of homeland security now one by one they spoke with they all kind of seem to repeat the same kind of message this is the security chiefs making their allegations. our democracy itself is in the crosshairs paid by russia to try to weaken and divide united states threat is not going away to prevent foreign interference in our elections to prevent of russian and other foreign influence and the russians try to hack into and steal information candidates and government officials alike cyber attacks against voting infrastructure along with computer intrusions malicious cyber actors targeting elected officials that goes beyond the elections and goes to russia's intent to undermine our democratic values. now the election is more than two months away but regardless according to what they were saying the cording to their report they say russia is already meddling in the upcoming vo

want to welcome director of national intelligence dan coats, fbi director christopher wray, director of the national security agency, general paul, and national security adviser ambassador john bolton to make some comments and take questions on this topic. as you all know, we've addressed what occurred during the 2016 election numerous times and rather extensively. the purpose of today's briefing is about what we are doing now and in the future to protect the integrity of our elections moving forward, and we ask you stay on that topic. in order to help this run smoothly, we'd also ask you direct your questions to a specific person. with that, i'll turn it over to ambassador bolton to make some comments. >> thank you very much, sarah. what we'd like to address today is election security in the 2018 election and in the future. the president has made it very clear, i think, what his priority is. we've had obviously a number of inquiries from congress on this, including a letter to me in the past couple days from five senators, signed by senator schumer and four others. i have responded to that letter today. we've made copies availa

welcome dan coats, fbi director christopher wray, secretary of homeland security kierstin nielsen, general paul madison and national security advisor john bolton, the answer questions on this topic very we have addressed what occurred during the 2016 election numerous times. the purpose of today's briefing is about what we are doing now and in the future to protect the integrity of our collections. moving forward, we ask that you stay on that topic. we also ask that you director question to a specific person. >> thank you very much, sarah. would like to address election security in the 2018 election, and in the future. the president has made clear what his priority is. we have had a number of inquiries from congress on this, including a letter to me the past couple of days from five senators, signed by senator schumer and others. i responded to that letter today. we made copies available to you, and it forms a kind of framework for the briefing, that the four heads of the operating agencies will give you here today. they are implementing and operationalizing the policy we have developed. there

paul manafort trial opens. the first of the mueller trials. the $15,000 ostrich coat getting the headlines out of that.o brian williams that president trump may have not had the chance or may not have as much likelihood of granting a pardon to paul manafort because the trial is not televised. if he's making a play for a pardon, the president's less likely to see him because it's not live on tv. >> quickly, talk about the significance of this trial on the bigger issue with the russia probe. because the specifics of this trial don't necessarily have anything to do with the russia probe. how does the impabt pact of what happens to paul manafort impact trump or impact the russia probe? >> great point. the preview of the fall. the preview of the mueller reports. this is the special prosecutor starting to show his cards. starting to show the financial crimes at t s that he looked in. starting to show the connections to the trump campaign. this is the president's campaign chairman going out on trial right now. so it's a road map of what is coming. what we saw in the exhibits reporters got an e-mail with links

we see this coat which he decided to spend $15,000 on. maybe it looked real good on paul manafort. the judge is saying is move along here. you know this judge is infamous for getting these trials done pretty quickly. said you have three weeks, some people say it will take two. >> yeah. >> and, you know, he's saying, okay, we get it, we get that he bought the mercedes, we get that he did this extravagant outdoor garden with built-in barbecue, blah, blah, blah. we get that he bought these clothes for over $400,000. you know, i saw paul manafort at the convention, for example, i never noticed how great his suits were. >> no, they were suits, they fit well. john dean, do the pictures matter when we see things like the ostrich coat? what impression does that have on the jury? >> pictures always help. it will get more complex when they start introducing all the documents. those can get very, very dull for the jury and they really want to keep the jury engaged in the case and pictures help. charts help. particularly with a heavily documented case like this one. >> it is the uglyest jacket

fair in the criticism of the mueller team is they're trying to make paul manafort out like he's sean diddy coves and had fancy coats and fancy brands and that legally, there's not the problem. it's kind of unfair and what they really have to problem is that there was tax evasion. do you think the judge is hitting that right and fairly? >> i think he is. he does bring it up a lot. i'd say roughly every hour or two, he makes a comment about manafort is not on trial for being rich or for having a lavish lifestyle or extravagant tastes and the prosecutors will often agree with the judge but they insys they need to show the value of these luxury goods and that manafort was getting them to really convince jurors that manafort's tax returns could not possibly have covered the lifestyle that he was living in addition to trying to prove his point of the very, very strange payment arrangements, nearly every vendor who came up said they were paid by overseas wire transfers from shell companies whose names they had never heard of or only got from the manafort. today we had a strange development of forged invoices a couple of v

laura coates, i want your thoughts on the latest developments in the paul manafort trial.nse attorneys rest. they don't call a single witness. paul manafort himself declines the opportunity to testify in his own defense. is that a sign of weakness in the defense case or could it even be confidence or is it a whole other sort of strategy? >> extreme arrogance on one hand. they're hinging the entire case that the jury will see a lack of credibility of rick gates, think to themselves here's somebody that embezzled, lied to the fbi, adu adu adultaress. you know who testifies against pimps? prostitutes. mob bosses or how about co-conspirators in cases? the idea of the perfectly pristine, credible witness is not there but they're thinking that the documents will be essentially undermined by that credibility issue. i think it's a mistake to do so. 0 also, he has tremendous exposure taking the stand and clobbered in a cross-examination and he has an upcoming trial. using the entire transcript as a way to question him again later on for the next one even if this is not successful.

paul has not happened. jake? >> jim, thank you. we'll talk about wit the experts now. mary katherine, there's a schizophrenic foreign policy with russia. you have coatsg that the russians, attacked us. cyber. doing it again right now. and then you have president trump and rand paul who seem to be on a different page. >> right, yeah. you have this constantly divergence of the president specifically saying publicly and the policies that they're putting in place. many tough and good. but that's a problem because what the president says matters. now, rand paul has always been more on the interventionist leading isolationist side than many people in the senate but i hate the way it's framed by trump supporters and by more libertarian parts of the party where it says either war or diplomacy. all out war, diplomacy. we can dodi ploem diplomacy. >> what is rand paul meeting with putin going to do about clair mccaskill hacked by the russians in missouri? i don't understand this insatiable need of people in congress to run over there and meet with vladimir putin. it makes no sense to me. when we are under threat, less than 100 days from the midterm elections.

paul manafort's life where he spared no expense. >> in five years manafort spent $929,000 on suits. >> a $15,000 ostrich jacket, also more than $18,000 python coattrevor: okay, first of all, if you're trying not to seem evil, maybe don't dress as a snake. ( laughter ) also, also, what's the point of wearing ostrich if you're going to take off all the feathers? that seems like a waste. if i'm wearing ostrich, it better look like this. i want to see i'm wearing ostrich, people! ( cheers and applause ) i want to see it! and, look, you know, it's really interesting to see what's happening here. it feels like the prosecution is trying to turn the jury against manafort by showing them that he's the kind of asshole who owns a $15,000 ostrich jacket. yeah, and after seeing a picture of this jury, something tells me this just might work. ( laughter ) so, of course, everyone is watching this trial, but nobody is watching closer than manafort's former employer. >> president trump today wading into the trial of his former campaign chairman tweeting who was treated worse, alphonse capone, legendary mob boss, killer and public enemy number one, or paul manafo

paul manafort's trial are about ready to start deliberations. the trial is being called politically motivated. we have laura coats joining us this morning. i have heard the prosecutions statements being dry. and the defense, once again trying to discredit rick gates and went the political direction. which do you think landed more solidly with the jury? >> i think the defense had better closing arguments. i think they were focused and made some specific points. it can be rare, sometimes we get a lot of hot air, they were focused, they made the points, really attacked the bank fraud loans. they didn't work too much the character assassination angle, but pointing out that he has the motive to fabricate and what you can trust and not trust. not unexpected that the prosecution would be a little dry. one thing they thought was significant was that it seemed like the prosecution did yourself a lot of generalities trying to make the words ov overwhelming. i think the defense did a good job countering that. >> there was a lot of talk, not entirely surprising, about that the defense didn't really mount a defense. a jury is never supposed to look a

paul manafort facing over 300 years of prison for tax -- money issues. will it produce primary winner who is can't get traction in the general election as candidates grasp on to the president's coat tails, it remains to be seen whether what has made trump so popular with a core of republican voters will translate to success for other party members. let's talk about it now. i want to bring in joe lockhart and mark mckinnon, a former adviser to george w. bush and john mccain. gentlemen, welcome. trump was in for the florida governor. what does it mean for 2018 in the republicans emerging from primaries are coming in large part from the trump wing of the party? >> well, the acid test for any of the primary candidates is who can hug trump the closest. adam putnam, the agriculture commission in florida was the odds on favorite. and trump was defended by rod and he got his endorsement and now he's leading by double digits. the question is if these candidates win the primary by being the most loyal to trump, are they the best general election candidates? i don't think that's the case. so it may be good for the primary strategy for the candidates. the question is does it translate in nov