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
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Muellers team to the test here. Do you think he testifies . Thats a tough call. I would have to handicap it as being negative. I would not put him on. Shimon, lets remind people of the judge. His name is judge ellis and he said point blank to muellers team you dont really care about mr. Maufrts bank fraud, you care about what he could give you that would reflect on mr. Trump and lead to prosecution or impeachment. He hasnt always swung their way in the pretrial hearings and motions. In fact, President Trump used those words in a speech at a rally sort of thinking perhaps the judge would cite his words. So that was something the defense team was hoping they would get a dismissal on some accounts or perhaps some of the decisions would go their way. This judge is known to speak his mind. Hes very well known in the district and he mov
ignorant, and impulsive, nonstrategic, and unwilling to be hampered by his own decisions or decisions on the people he hired to advise him. that makes him almost impossible to work for, and again i m struck be the fact that these are the people he hired that agrees to go work in the trump white house. and again, i think that it goes to the sigh cloelg. by the way, this is the eight president, trump, that has been subjected to the bob woodward treatment. i found it amazing when sarah sanders said i have not read many woodward books. that s the trademark of these
trump presidency. bob woodward has written a new book. the title is fear, trump in the white house. it releases in mid september. one source says it will give readers a front row seat to trump in the white house. this is fascinating. who did he speak to? what is this going to show us? first of all, i think donald trump is about to get the bob woodward treatment. i mean that in an old-school way. bob went dark eight months ago. he started calling people, knocking on doors, going to people s homes unannounced. and he spoke to dozens of white house sources, people who were firsthand in the room with trump. and not only did he speak to them by the way, they are not they are on deep background. so this isn t remember deep throat from watergate? this is dozens of deep throats.
fear. what are you hearing? we re told that donald trump is about to get the bob woodward treatment, that he interviewed dozens of firsthand sources, that he has hundreds of hours of taped interviews. and that they also the book will take you right into the white house. you will see donald trump in the oval office, in the swituation room, even in the white house residence. and beyond that, we re told that the sources gave woodward documents. that he has memos, notes, dia diarieses files, everyone notes handwritten by donald trump. we re going to see exactly where this goes, but i m told that some of what is in the book includes explosive debates around decision-making and you can expect to hear about china, north korea, the middle east.