very focused on party, because i want to treat all of the voters in broward county the same. and i think if you d ask the voters, you d find that i have that reputation. i don t have a reason to hold anything back, except that i don t want to give out information that s incomplete or incorrect at that particular time. so concerns or allegations that we are not transparent, there s one comment that my staff and we work very closely together always bring to my attention is, that dr. snipes, you ll just take time to walk anybody through our election warehouse. i think that s very important, because that gives those persons who take the time who come to us to see our operation, a chance to see behind the scenes. and there s a lot that goes on behind the scenes to make an election possible, to make it efficient, and to make it something that voters want to participate in. and obviously, we re doing that, if over 700,000 participated in the midterm.
late today, a federal judge denied paul manafort s request to move his trial out of virginia, saying there won t be a problem finding impartial jurors there, and that s not all tonight. the special counsel also seeking immunity for five witnesses testifying against manafort in this trial. it means the witnesses wouldn t have any reason to hold anything back, for now mueller keeping their identities a secret. one expert tells the beat this the probably not a reference to people like rick gates who is cooperating. it could be people who ve also worked closely separately with manafort and have not been identified yet. i m joined by former federal prosecutor john flannery. what s your reaction to this news tonight? i would think not significant witnesses in this sense. they re probably bank officers or tax preparers and so forth
developments? i don t agree that this is not necessarily going to reach the president. can i ask you, did you want to say yet, add that to what you were saying earlier? so the word yet. yet. potentially it could. now continue. every criminal case needs a narrator. we have to the had one in this. it s important for juries, even for a jury of senators in an impeachment trial in the senate that there be a john dean almost, somebody who is testifying against the higher-ups. there s a decent chance that rick gates will be that person. reluctantly, but nonetheless he s facing a lot of jail time if he doesn t cooperate fully. if he tries to hold anything back, he will go to jail. he knows a lot. these are about events now that took place in 2016.
eli, i want to run a piece of sound at the risk of repeating ourselves. this was a turn of phrase the president did today. by doing so, he ratcheted up the temperature on north korea, but you heard in this what s become a familiar tell to him in the language of the president. here it is. frankly, the people who were questioning that statement, was it too tough? maybe it wasn t tough enough. what did you hear in that as you told nicolle wallace at 4:00 p.m. today? i heard a president who is aware of the reaction and a person who as we all know, when you cover him, he never goes back. he never walks anything back, but, you know, to phil s point, this was a guy who went out today twice. clearly wanted to speak. he wanted to create a lot of news, but honestly, didn t seem to have a ton to say that was new or substantive that provided clarity on a lot of these
here it is. frankly, the people who were questioning that statement, was it too tough? maybe it wasn t tough enough. what did you hear in that as you told nicolle wallace at 4:00 p.m. today? i heard a president who is aware of the reaction and a person who as we all know, when you cover him, he never goes back. he never walks anything back, but, you know, to phil s point, this was a guy who went out today twice. clearly wanted to speak. he wanted to create a lot of news, but honestly, didn t seem to have a ton to say that was new or substantive that provided clarity on these subjects. there was more of the same brashness and bluster on north korea, and i think it was phil when he was asked, what does fire and fury mean? he said, you ll see. the same question came up at the second briefing. the answer again was, you ll see. they will see. nobody knows what that means. it s so opaque, and that s typical of his statements too. he throws a lot out there to see what sticks and what ge