let's talk about this issue of the pardon, shan, for a moment. of the united states -- josh gurstein writes for politico, one of my reptorial mentors, if you will, writes, it's not a matter of if the president will pardon paul manafort, but a matter of when. do you feel like that's the signal being sent by the president? >> i absolutely agree with that. i think it could happen at any moment. the president has shown, he does not need any paper or any decision-making process for it. it could happen at 1:00 a.m. in the morning with a tweet. so i think that's very likely to happen and something that carrie said about his not understanding the system, i was thinking about this yesterday. you know, there's so many comparisons to president nixon. and the one thing is, nixon was a lawyer, a pretty sharp lawyer and understood the justice system and had a certain reverence for it, and that's probably why he stepped down. the president really, at times, just does not seem to get it, at all. >> carrie, if the president pardons puerto vallar s paul mat then s

. >> shan, why do you think that is? why are these people getting immunity. getting the guideline that's a sitting president can't be indicted, why give him i'm mu y -- immunity on that one charge. >> our clients are not coming forward if there is no deal. so that is good lawyering. >> there is now another legal tentacle sprouting. the "new york times" says the man haten district attorney's office is considering criminal charges against the trump organization to see if it was run as a criminal enterprise, basically, and these are state charges. this is interesting because that is outside of the per view of a presidential pardon, and who knows who would be charged. >> and having to do with the payments to michael cohen to reimburse him. you have multiple redundancy here. you have the special council that is investigating the collusion. the state of new york, not to mention the civil cases brought from sexual harassment charges and defamation charges. you have multiple legal challenges and it is pretty clear there is no way to slice the knot and make this all g

shan? >> that's a good question. >> it's all there. it's all right there. >> he is trying to deflect as is usual. i gotta say, i think anne will agree, he needs to consult with lawyers before he talks about this stuff. it makes no sense. he is talking about it wasn't campaign resources. that's not what the crime is here. it's completely off base with that. then his statement that he didn't know about it until later or something, i mean, that is collaborated because what is the later there? he is aware of it before it's paid. i don't see how this helps him at all besides opening up to more false statement. >> do you think, anne -- who or what do you think is putting the president in the most jeopardy right now? by that cohen and, you negotiation the very likely possibility of a potentially very consequential plea agreement and cooperation agreement or manafort who also could reach a deal with mueller's team? >> i would be skeptical that manafort will reach a deal. he should have done it earlier. it's a strange thing to do at this point.

thanks so much. >>> back with us now, john avlon and shan woo and a.b. stoddard.haps president trump should stop tweeting, stop writing about this meeting in 2016. >> the president is like a kid picking at a scab, choose your metaphor. he just can't stop. certainly his legal team really just wants him to stop. he is just creating more potential danger for his son, don jr., who is the only one who has actually testified under oath. he faces the most immediate legal culpability and is also frankly forcing the mueller team to heighten their interest. he's just creating more and more hazards for himself if and when he eventually does sit down with them. >> a.b., don jr. does also keep going on television. he was on laura ingram's show last night and he repeated basically i think that their story is and the president's tweets also reflect this, yeah, we were promised but they didn't deliver. so case closed. nothing to see here. here is how don jr. explained it last night -- >> that's not the premise that got them in the room. then it was essentially a bait and switch t

. >>> former federal prosecutor, shan wu.iuliani says the president would be open to agreeing to answer questions on obstruction of justice even though he wasn't comfortable with that idea a couple days ago. as long as the questions aren't -- this is what he told dana bash -- aren't, quote, unquote, perjury traps -- what does that mean to you? >> that's a good question that could mean different things to different lawyers. per perjury trap is this notion that if you, as the prosecutor, already know that the person you're questioning has given an answer, or you have information that has them locked in, and you also have a pretty strong idea they're going to lie about that, that's the perjury trap. it is not a perjury trap to have an session and ask questions you don't know the answers to. that's not a perjury trap. that's giuliani saying that he's worried about lis cliehis clien likes to speak off the cuff, go off subject and lie. so he's worried he'll talk himself into a perjury trap. perjury trap su already have the info, yo

joining me to talk about this, chris lizza and shan wu. let's start with you, shan. you have represented criminal defendants on many different occasions. how significant is it for someone like allen weisselberg, so connected to the trump organization, to be granted immunity in a case like this ? >> it's very significant. you have to be completely all in on the cooperation. they are not going to grant immunity unless they have done a very thcomplete vetting. there are a couple kinds of immunity. it's not clear at this point what kind he was given, how bride is might be. if this does sound like it happened a while back, possibly at the time that he testified in the grand jury. >> that's right. he was subpoenaed before a grand jury earlier in the year. could this mean that his cooperation continues? is his contribution to the justice department over with? >> that's the key question. we don't know. we're getting the reporting right now that he was granted immunity. we don't know whether that means they put him in the grand jury in preparation for the cohen plea and it's

. >>> joining me, shan wu, a legal analyst who briefly represented rick gates. also former federal prosecutor renato marriotti. you heard jessica say what prosecutors are laying out in their first hour of closing arguments. what do you think of their approach? had is. >> it is really textbook. when you have a lot of counts. what the jury is looking for as an answer is, is there the evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt each of what's called the elements of those crimes, each the specific components of the crimes that they need to find. what the prosecution is doing is methodically walking through that evidence, showing the jury that for each of those 18 counts they presented evidence of his guilt. they are keeping the focus on manafo manafort. as a prosecutor you stay laser focused on the defendant and what they did or say, that's usually talking about how the defendant lied because that's the key component of fraud, is that you are lying to get money. what the defense is going to do is they'll try to distract, talk about rick gates, they'll talk about all

attorney guy lewis and cnn legal analyst and defense attorney shan wu., good evening to you. good to have you on. guy, i'm going to start with you. we've got flynn, comey, sessions. tom foreman just laid it all out. don mcgahn knows a lot and spent 30 hours talking to mueller's team. how dangerous do you think he is to president trump? >> don, i think that mcgahn is potentially a bombshell witness. no kidding. look, i did this for a long time and very seldom, very seldom did i get an opportunity to actually interview and potentially use the testimony of a lawyer who's next to walking with day by day, day in, day out, with the target or the principal of the investigation. highly unusual and the information he may have terms of realtime thinking. think about this, don, how many times have you interviewed a witness, a guest, for 30 hours? how much information could you get out of him for 30 hours? i think mcgahn is going to be helpful to bob mueller and to his crew. >> shan, you say that don mcgahn being interviewed by mueller is worse than trump himself si

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outfront now, john dean, a former nixon white house counsel and shan wu, former lawyer for rick gatesd former federal prosecutor. john, if i could begin with you, what does it tell you that manafort's defense team was trying to cut a deal in washington while the jurors in his first trial were still deliberating his fate. is that significant in your view? >> well, i think the timing tells us something. at the time they were discussing this, they had a little more swagger in their step. they felt strongly about their case in virginia and i'm sure that the defendant feels the pressure of the expense of these trials. it's probably a seven-figure trial that he just went through in virginia and that's what he's facing in the district of columbia. so doing a deal would have been an intelligent and cost-saving move. but i think probably the prosecutors said he want some cooperation and couldn't get any. that's when the discussions broke off. >> would that be the likely reason, and again this is reading tea leaves here, i'll admit that, but if it was the special counsel, as "the wall street jo

shan, let's read what michael cohen said in court.he payment to mcdoug gal was made in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office. he said that daniels' payment was made in coordination with and at the direction of the said candidate, donald trump, and for the same reason. so legally what is michael cohen, first we'll deal with him and then the president, what is michael cohen now facing? >> he's facing a textbook case of campaign finance violations to try to influence the election. and with his initial reference to tun named person -- the unnamed person that everyone knows is the president, he has created a case that they have both violated the campaign finance laws. >> the question is now, how will the president react to all of this? some people say he's backed into a corner, he will lash out. he can't take away the security clearance of the southern district of new york who prosecuted it. he has paul manafort convicted of crimes, michael cohen has pleaded guilty. will he pardon cohen? i wouldn't count

>> shan, the thing is it's pretty were settled. some contest it. legally, you can't indict a sitting president, right? if that's the case, then this is political. this is in the hands of congress at this point, shan, or do you see it differently? >> i think ultimately, it is going to be political. i think mueller is a conservative prosecutor. i think the southern district is not going to try to make any new ground by trying to indict the president. and i think it does end up being the question of, does this add to the impeachability of donald trump. and an interesting question related to that is ultimately mueller's report comes out, which is not about this particular case, how does he handle this information? does he need to include it in it as well? that's probably a question for him. >> frank, to you. isn't the best case scenario here tonight for the president, the best case, that at the very least he didn't hire the best. that at the very least the president hired admitted and convicted felons. did i miss anything? that's what keeps reverberati

so i think you have to sit down and not take the stand if you're on the defense side. >> shan, wouldecommend that he not take the stand? >> that's always the million dollar question for the defense council. counsel. i agree. very risky to put him on. they'll probably have to make that judgment call based on how they, meaning the defense team think the case is going. if they really think it's not going well that. >> may have to put him on the stand so that he can say that it's really rick gates' fault, he can point the finger at rick gates himself. >> shan wu, appreciate it. and renato mariotti, thank you very much. every day it seems we hear something about whether president trump is going to be interviewed by robert mueller. i'll talk with a report they're keeps a close tag on the president's mind-set in that regard. i'll speak with maggie haberman next. ♪ ♪ ♪ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ♪ ♪ bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ ♪ brown paper packages tied up with strings ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ ♪ ♪ agent beekman was one step ahead of the

and let me come back to you, shan, while we get the audio situation fixed for amie there. and roger stone some lessons we can take. paul manafort was charged last year and analysts and people who knew him who said this man will flip on president trump. this is not the type of man that will risk going to federal prison for any amount of time. he's been there for a few weeks now before this trial actually started. i want you now to listen to what we're hearing from roger stone, who has not been charged. but this is what he is saying about potentially offering information about the president. >> i made it abundantly clear that there are no circumstances under which i would testify against the president. i would not rule out cooperating, if they think i could be helpful in some area. but beyond that, i have not spoken to them. >> so, again, he has not been charged. this is not a trial situation, but if he's subpoenaed to come and offer information that he believes would be against president trump, do you expect he'll stick to that line? >> he could try to stick to it and it so

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on monday and when shan an fails to show up for a doctor's appointment, a concerned friend calls police and by tuesday, chris is on tv pleading for help. >> i need to see everybody again. this house is not complete without anybody here. >> the former fbi agent said trained observers would find him unconvincing. >> look at his body language. >> his arms are cross and he looks down a couple of times. he talks in generalities. >> just after 11:30 p.m., he is taken into custody and transported to jail. his story reportedly changing to a confession. family members said the couple was having marriage troubles, but whatever so completely shattered a seemingly idyllic family life remains a mystery. they believe the girls were killed inside this house, but other details of the crime are hidden in sealed documents. we hope to get more detail when charges are filed and the documents become public. david? >> thanks to you. new developments in the stand your ground case in florida. the white customer shooting and killing a black father over a parking lot, his son watching. the man with the gun was n

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>> i agree with shan. if the prosecution does its job, there will be nothing left for the jury to be surprised by. nothing that the jury hasn't heard in terms of negative information about rick gates, his crimes and past lying, so i think what the defense is left with is nothing more than reiterating and getting mr. gates to repeat over and over that he lied repeatedly, and in closing arguments, trying to emphasize to the jury that this is san admitted liar, that you -- this is an admitted liar, that you cannot believe him. if the prosecution does its job, and this is prosecution 101, the jury will not be surprised by anything they hear during the cross-examination. >> thank you all very much. shan, greg, jessica, an explosive day ahead. that's to say the least in this courtroom in virginia. thanks. >>> still to come, the president is being urged to stop tweeting about the 2016 trump tower meeting. by whom and accu-weathwhy? also this -- >>> wasn't about both candidates but about the president. >> more abo

thanks for the reporting. >> exactly. >> shan wu is back with me.e you formerly represented rick gates, manafort's long time associate until he decided to plea. let's talk about the jury working quietly right now, we haven't heard a lot from them, just the two notes. what does that signal to you? >> as a former prosecutor in my prosecutor days, i was always pleased if the jury has been working quietly for a while. initially i thought the first question about reasonable doubt might imply they were having disagreements very quickly. i've changed my mind because they were quiet on friday and are working pain stayingly as we just heard. i think that's probably a good sign for the prosecution. i understand the defense team's point. i agree about two things with them, first, if it goes really long, that's probably a good sign for them, particularly if we get notes saying the jury is having trouble reaching a unanimous decision. and then secondly, i think the defense team has a right to feel good. a lot of us thought this was going to be a slam dunk case a

all right, shan, what do you think?at does this say to you that the jury asked the judge what if they can only reach agreement on 17 of the 18 counts? >> if i were the prosecutor, i would be happy about that note. i think it's more likely that they have reached a decision to want to convict on the other counts as opposed to acquit. that's why they're very conscientiously working over this last count. and it certainly says they're having some dissension about that last count, but i would not be happy if i was the defense right how. i would be quietly confident if i was the prosecutor. >> laura, withe be check with t criminal rules of federal procedure. i'll read to you one smnentence. if the jury cannot agree to all counts, the jury may return a verdict on those counts on which it has agreed. >> you can render a partial verdict. now, of course, the judge was essentially saying, teamwork makes the dream work. continue to try to get all the counts resolved. you can, in fact, give them a partial verdict. that's okay to do s

appreciate it. >>> let me bring back shan.are filing with arbitration? >> it's interesting. it may be that her non-disclosure agreement with the campaign has a mandatory arbitration provision. that's common since it's accepted arbitration moves more quickly and is less cumbersome than having to start a lawsuit where you have motions, discovery. it may be sort of a shortcut. that's why they have to first do the arbitration. i think it's really interesting to note that since she rejected signing a new nda, they are relying on the one from the campaign. a potential issue would be what was the sunset clause on that? would it end when the campaign ended? are they arguing she's also breaching confidences from the campaign? a lot of potential issues to dissect with this. >> would it be reasonable if there was no sunset on it, it was forever? you can't say anything and you can't -- is that within the realm of possibility? >> they often do have that in terms of the sunset of the time limit. i think a substantive question might be argui

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like it at all and he will go to the nth degree to let you know that, that he doesn't like it. >> shan, a number of republicans, they seem to be worried about the departure of don mcgahn. senate judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley, he tweeted the following. i hope it's not true, you can't let that happen. the majority leader, mitch mcconnell, called it, quote, sad news for our country. is this purely about judges? mcgahn of course has been central to the many, many appointments that trump has made to the federal bench. is that it? or are they concerned about what follows? >> i think they're concerned about both. certainly the work he's done with the judiciary as has been pointed out has been a remarkable track record. the white house counsel does a lot more than just defend on this one case. i think they're concerned other balls are going to drop at this point. to the earlier points, that 30 hours of interviewing, it's just impossible for the trump legal team to know what was covered in that. no amount of debriefing could do that unless you were there taking notes or having it

shan, you were a former lawyer for rick gates. he is coming up, potentially, this week. we heard some pretty striking testimony coming from the former accountant who said she cooked -- helped cook the books, you know, for manafort. what will rick gates bring to the table? and again, he pleaded guilty in exchange for this testimony. >> yeah, i think what he's going to bring is he's really at the center of it, and you know, i'm commenting on the public record, nothing attorney-client privileged but i think the prosecution needs to show that he is pretty much one and the same as manafort. the defense's job is to begin to pry him apart to be able to blame him and that has not gone so well this week. i mean, it started out pretty well. ellis was on their side a little bit. but with the accounting testimony, i was surprised at how weak the cross-examination was. >> really? what did you -- what do you think needed to be delivered? >> well, for one thing, when you have immunized witnesses, you have a lot of potential leverage and fodder to say, hey, you're in the pocket of the p

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. >>> joining me now shan wu, a former federal prosecutor and former defense attorney for rick gates. always good to have you with us. let's pick up there in terms of what "the wall street journal" is reporting about a possible plea deal for paul manafort and why this may have broken off. what stands out to you? what do you think some of the issues could have been for the special counsel? >> it's hard to say what they might have been. it could have been the special counsel had specific admissions they wanted from him. on the other hand it could be something more ped he estrian. when the negotiations were occurring, it's while the jury is out. both sides had reason to be a little bit nervous with that note about reasonable doubt. it's basically a moment where the roulette wheel is spinning. neither side knows who will come out ahead. it's a smart time for manafort's team to push for a bargain. it's also a very tight time window for the pros cuters to feel confidence that they could give him any kind of a good deal. they would normally want to have a lot of due diligence, sit down with

. >>> also with us, defense attorney and former federal prosecutor shan wu. anything to read into us being at this point today, august 20th? >> i think of those charges -- first of all, i think this is michael cohen's worst nightmare come true. any time you get a raid on your office, you worry what they will find. this is everything he would have feared, bank fraud, tax fraud as well as campaign finance possibility charges. the one most dangerous for the president is actually the campaign finance issue. that can lead to the president's knowledge or direction of cohen to do this. i think that for the prosecutors, the bank fraud and the tax fraud are really their leverage on him. the potential sentences for that, whatever they are on the books, it really comes down to the federal sentencing guidelines. that's going to depend on how much money is lost. when you are talking about anything over a million, it's significant and you are looking at jail time. >> it's well over a million, at least from what we have learned. all of this is happening as it is day three f

shan wu, former federal prosecutor turned defense attorney. he previous served as attorney for manafort's former business partner rick gates. shimon, the final word from the prosecution here, emphasizing that word lies. >> yeah. quite a number of times. and really this is what this case has been about. tax fraud, frank fraud, lies. lies on documentings. lying in e-mails, lying to accountants. >> and lying for money. >> lying for money. hiding money. not wanting to pay taxes. one of the more interesting things and probably perhaps more greater color from this closing argument was how the prosecutors treated rick gates. at one point telling the jury, you don't need to like him. trying to deal with this issue of the fact that he had an affair. he was stealing from paul manafort. all of those, obviously, are going to be -- >> pleaded guilty to lying and also pleaded guilty for his own charges relating to it. the other thing they made a point of, it's all about documents. we've all made a big point that rick gates is the star witness here. prosecut

joining me to share their insights, cnn legal analyst shan wu. he represented rick gates earlier during these proceedings. shimon prokupecz here in studio. julie pace with "the new york times." let me bring in the attorneys first. shan, take us inside your experience with this. a, what does it tell you? is it fair to assume, reasonable to assume that if they say what do we do if we can't reach a unanimous verdict on one count, that they're done with the other 17? or is that just a guess? >> that's a pretty good guess. it doesn't mean for sure they're done with the others because they could have come out with a note to say we've reached a verdict on the majority of the counts. they didn't say that. but i think that's a fair assumption to make. >> so paul, i want to read something that just came in from our team at the courthouse. manafort's attorney asked judge ellis to give the jury a new verdict form after the jury said we'll need another form please in their tuesday note. ellis said he would not. downing said he wished jurors would be given a t

shan comers in their suburban denver neighborhood.rked for a petroleum company. >> he would reach out and help anybody that needed help with anything. >> from the moment i met her, he was just a happy, positive person. >> reporter: on monday morning, something went horribly wrong. >> i called her and texted her several times. >> reporter: nicole had seen shanann around 2:00 a.m., dropping her off at home after returning from a business trip, and hours later, shanann, who was 15 weeks' pregnant, and her 3 and 4-year-old daughters were missing. >> she had a doctor appointment that machining. she didn't show up for it. >> i'm worry sick, this is completely unlike her. >> reporter: she called husband chris. chris told her the last time he saw his wife and kids that morning at 5:15 when he left for work. >> i called her and texted her, maybe she was busy when her friend showed up. it registered like, this isn't right. >> reporter: chris says he rushed home and they called police. inside the house they find her wallet and keys but no other

did anything he said today surprise you, shan? >> i think the admission of the stealing and commenting on public record, obviously, erin, but that was a huge reveal and that was really, i think, quite a bombshell. i mean, it gives the defense a lot of ammunition. it allowed them to deliver on their promise that they made in their opening statement. that was the most stunning part of his testimony to me. >> gates testified that he helped manafort file false tax returns, okay? now, obviously we're going to talk in a moment about things he admitted to lying about and cheating. it doesn't get more clear than that. is manafort's bet at this point go for pardon from the president? or is it what, have people think gates is a worse liar? what's the strategy? >> i mean, the pardon play is a lot of moves out here. so i think the strategy seems to be to run down gates to say, you know, i was just a patsy. i wasn't that hands on, which was contradicted by his own bookkeeper and i was the victim of gates' nefarious activity. the problem is her

into saturday to me molly if we had further north we've just seen a typhoon in japan that was called shan chan and is now working its way towards the northeast it's taking or of it's wet weather with it so force in honshu should be a lot drier than it has been recently and thirty two degrees will be our maximum in tokyo towards the west expect a few showers in the beijing area. mian mars commercial capital yang gone is a symbol of its rapid economic growth but in its slums families struggle to survive the money from merciless loan sharks is their hold inside the cycle of different one when east on al-jazeera. zero. three. and back a quick reminder of the top stories israel and hamas have agreed to a truce following a flare up of cross border fighting is comes after a day of violence which still seven palestinians injured in israeli airstrikes and hamas rockets fired into southern israel. a saudi a mirage coalition air strike has hit a bus full of school children in yemen's who's the health sada province killing fifty people the u.n. has called for an investigation but saudi arabia insists

again, most of the rain for now out across most of the shan known doe a valley.un through future weather. t much going on until afternoon time. by 3:00, 4:00, a lotf storms likely to get going. just in time for the tai end of the commute or your ride over to the beaches. 60% chance of showers, high 89. only a 40% chance o rain. >> let's go to my colleague sheena parveen. more on clear the shelters. oh, good morning, chuck. we're standing in one of the areas where if yo come out tomorrow to adopt you'll be meeting your potential forever dog here at shelter. we're at the humane rescue line. you have to go through becca. you have a very hard job. we're here with i -- normally the fee is waivednd we have to go through the application process, make sure it's a fit for you. we have to make sure thatil if chen live in the household that they're present so they meet the imal. it's for the success of the animal a the kids as well. >> what would you say as far as documents go, what kind of documents do you need tomorrow? this is impoant. >> we really only ask that you have

lefts bring back rick gates former lawyer, shan ryu.w what happened yesterday first, no defense witnesses. didn't stage any affirmative defense there. you suggest there is two possible major reasons for this. one of them is that the manafort defense team may be planning for a presidential pardon. >> we heard all along that paul manafort cooperated like the special council. that is all because there is some speculation that he may believe that donald trump is going to pardon him. so no matter the outcome of this particular trial he will get a get out of jail free pass. this was not just rick gates the alleged liar, this was mounds and mounds of documentary evidence that really demonstrated how complicated this criminal scheme was. and what we know about these kinds of cases is a bad defense can make a prosecution's case even better. >> you pointed to the documents, documents, documents as well. this mountain, this paper trail that was presented, what is also fascinating is what we're learning about rick gates role in all of this, and rob

shan, i have heard the prosecutions statements being dry.he 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 at someone not taking the stand as impacting what they see,

has worked hard to keep international attention away from the conflicts in kitchin state an organ shan state up near the china border the chinese authorities are worked in concert with with the government of me him. to the same and and that's a problem because when you are strict human rights groups humanitarian groups human rights monitors the media and others from from going to these areas. you really limit the amount of information that can come out of them. but they have a good reason to try to keep international attention away from kitchen state because we see continued evidence of mass human rights violations there. and we see avoidable deprivation aid as a direct result of government policy in myanmar and most recently the report from the u.n. fact finding mission this week. said that mimo military should be investigated for crimes against humanity war crimes and genocide those are not terms that people use lately and we're well past the point now where domestic remedies are still to be taken seriously frankly the government of myanmar both civilian and uniformed have demonstrat

rinaldo and shan.former lawyer for rick gates, you're of particular interest to us this morning. he was a having an affair. he had an apartment in london that no one knew about, so they did a good job pointing to him as someone who is good at keeping secrets and. i think that rick gates was earning his cooperation agreement yesterday. he gave the government what they needed to have on direct exam, and he is paying the price, when you cooperate, everything is on the table, everything is revealed. and so i think they scored some points judging from what i have been seeing and jums a little from that give and take. and that appeal saying it was a same path to what manafort took, it sounds to me like they were under his skin. >> do you think the jury sees him differently? >> there is no question that the jury will see him in a light they did not see him before. that's why this was a pivotal moment in the trial, but the problem for the defense is there is so much over evidence out there, e-mails, documents,

well it's hard to keep international attention away from the conflicts in kitchens state and northern shan state up near the china border the chinese authorities are works in concert with with the government of me m.r. to the same and and that's a problem because when you are strict human rights groups humanitarian groups human rights monitors the media and others from from going to these areas. you really limit the amount of information that can come out of them. but they have a good reason to try to keep international attention away from kaczynski because we see continued evidence of human rights violations there. and we see avoidable deprivations in aid as a direct result of government policy in them so who or what has the will power the authority to to change this particularly when you say on on one side you have china on some level enabling the country as largest china who are away it can push back against that. but we've seen conversations really ramping up in the last in the last few months and weeks and most recently the report from the u.n. mission this week. said that the minimum

years after she ging ping's proclamation the continuation of the chinese road is easy to imagine he shan bell machine is one of the main players in this ongoing project he's a frenchman of moroccan origin and an employee of d.p. world a group of companies based in dubai and one of the world's leading logistics organizations they are model china is behind me almaty in kazakhstan is in front of me i might see to the left of me is kyrgyzstan and beyond it was becky stan i have russia to my right called goss's at the center between all of these countries this is where everything is happening does it belong so i'll just. be shunned belmarsh she works for the cause a government which is hoping to get a lot out of the new silk road. it's a road that could turn this middle of nowhere into an outpost of globalization. zero and on the often if there's any place that symbolizes the meeting of east and west it's this one is. for that is why the chinese tracks and behind me not. the kazakhs tracks starts my left back them up don't defeat from here you can get to beijing shanghai eon young gung and ni

committed report also says the generals committed crimes against humanity and war crimes in catching and shan states both dominated by other ethnic minorities the mission has concluded that criminal investigation and prosecution is warranted focusing on the top tech mentor generals in relation to the three categories of crimes under international law genocide crimes against humanity and war crimes we have examined the period since two thousand and eleven. the violations we have identified during this period are part of a history of abusive military conduct going back at least half a century they continual repetition is the result of the complete immunity accorded to the military commanders and the virtually complete impunity of troops. now to jim jim there's more from cox's bazaar in neighboring bangladesh where hundreds of thousands of ranger refugees live in camps. for him to activists we've spoken with many of whom have been accusing the military and then more of genocide for some time now the news that a u.n. panel of investigators is recommending that top tier military officials in myanm

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coach kyle shan unanimous has a feeling they'll be out for some time. >>> tonight the raiders take ons as jon gruden makes a high profile return to the sidelines. as a michigan native i can tell you the lions always find a way to screw it up, so i'm sure the raiders are going to win. >>> it appears the pentagon is moving forward with plans to create a new branch of t military called space force. >> yesterday mike pence had details on the new branch of the military. they would like to see an $8 billion increase in space defense spending. silicone valley says many projects already in development could be deployed. >> i feel we're in sort of a new era of that accelerated innovation and new ideas. >> the creation of a space force would need congressional approval. >>> happening today, the 29th san jose jazz summer fest kicks off. >> it's jazz, of course, but it has a lot of r & b, and it is nationally recognized as one of the biggest latin vefestivals i the country. headliners this weekend including herb albert, lenny hall, and kool & the gang and starts tonight at 6:00. >>> it seems ther

this with defense attorney who represented rick gates for a time and a former federal prosecutor, shanu. you worked with gates for a while. if you were working with manafort, would you put him on the stand? >> that's the million dollar question for defense counsel. i am reluctant to put a client on the stand. it's pressure for any witness, much less a criminal defendant. i would really have to kind of vet him to see how he comes across that way. it may be though the only chance they have to humanize him to the jury. right now, actually, it's very early in the trial. i think things are going well for the defense at the moment. >> i can't tell if it's early or towards the end it. it's moving so fast. what do you think of the fact there was a question if gates was going to testify and they say they are going to bring rick gates to testify. what's this about? >> i think that was actually the judge's pressure affecting the prosecutor. under pressure, he was trying to rush him on a particular document relevant to gates, why don't you just ask gates about this. the prosecutor is saying maybe

a few showers in the shan donon valley. occasional rain out there today. it's warm. temperatures in the 60s and 70s. we're topping out in the 80s today. it's not going to be raining a day. we'll keep at least a chance >> and that's your latest forecast. >> dylan, thank you. still ahead on saturday morning, th reigning miss america with stunning allegations against pageant organization claiming she is bullied and silenced by them. including former fox news gretchen carlson. >>> and tributes to the queen still pouring in for aretha franklin. but first thi is s"t wow. look at jim go. man, that guy works hard. courtside seats? multitasking isn't for the faint of heart . i'm in! it takes experience, skill, hey babe. do you have my credit card? i can't find it. nope. i haven't seen it. i'll keep looking. and a bank that helps you take care of business from anywhere. you know, we could use more guys like jim around here. bb&t. all we see is you. >>> we are back on this saturday morning with "the weekly download." look back at the week that was. >> it started with president