A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Paid 27 million for instance from ukraine. And also identified some of the offshore Bank Accounts. And they also made clear that the defense will put rick gates, Paul Manaforts former deputy, on trial. They called him the star witness and they called out the government for barely mentioning rick gates in their opening. Rick gates obviously also served on the Trump Campaign, as a matter of fact he stayed the Trump Campaign even after Paul Manafort was fired from the campaign. One of the things we wont hear in court and weve talked about it a little bit is we wont hear much about President Trump. The prosecute are tore ors and l try to make it only about the financial instruments, the taxes and Bank Accounts that according to the government Paul Manafort was lying about. They want to make sure that russia and the Collusion Question never enter into thi
said monday. i don t even know if that is a crime. reporter: and another trump attorney jay sekulow said today. not just technically correct. that is actually the law. but there is no violation of law, statute, rule, regulation that we somewhere seen after reviewing this case for a year and i think bob mueller will come to the same conclusion. reporter: democrats aren t buying it. i can t keep up with rudy giuliani s theories and defense. they change almost by the hour. you know, collusion at one point never happened. the next point, if it happened, it is not serious. reporter: weighed done by the russia probe, the president is turning to issues popular with his base threatening to shut down the government to make congress pay for a border wall insisting that is a small price to pay and tweeting i don t care what the political ramifications are. even fellow republicans are leery of a shutdown with the midterm elections fast approaching. i kind of see it as posturing. it i