steadily. we ve seen no indication of any notes or questions from the jury, but we do know that they asked the judge to move to a larger room, which suggests they think they ll be in there for a while. they have a lot of evidence and documents to go through on these 18 charges of tax and bank fraud. ali, i think this is going to turn on whether the prosecution proved to the jury beyond a reasonable doubt that paul manafort had corrupt intent on these charges. it s obvious to everyone, and the defense really didn t contest, that manafort didn t pay all the taxes that he owed. he had money parked in foreign bank accounts that he didn t declare on his taxes. that he submitted false information to banks in the process of getting loans. but the question is did he do that with corrupt intent? did he know he was breaking the law? that s what the prosecution has to prove. there was no real smoking gun evidence to suggest that, other than the testimony of rick gates, his alleged co-conspirator,
think less favorably of the republican party, while 16% think more favorably of the gop. the poll also finds 58% of americans oppose president trump s proposed border wall with mexico, while 38% support it. the jury in the trial of paul manafort is set to reconvene in just a few hours to begin deliberations after prosecutors and the defense presented their closing arguments. jurors were dismissed yesterday evening after nearly two hours of instruction from judge ellis. the judge reminded jurors that the defense was not obligated to prove anything, adding they should acquit president trump s former campaign chairman on tax ovation, bank fraud, and money laundering charges if the evidence leaves you with a reasonable doubt. manafort has pleaded not guilty to those charges. in their closing arguments yesterday, prosecutors told the jury that manafort had lied for years, calling a vast amount of documents and e-mails they say prove manafort s alleged crimes. the star witness in the cas
interesting this eveni interesting thing that happened today, an interesting moment, had to do with autopsy photos. we re not going to show them but the prosecution did show them to the jury during their closing arguments yesterday. the defense today took a different way. let s listen in. about two months, three months before trayvon passed away, he s a young kid, a good kid. not bad. the two things about autopsy photographs, they re horrific and they re meant have to negative impact. the other thing about autopsy photographs, there s no muscle tone. there s no nerves, no movement. he s lost half his blood, we know that. so that picture that we have of
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the jodi arias case is now in the jury s hands. they started debilitating late yesterday and will get back to it on monday. in his closing arguments yesterday, even jodi arias own lawyer admitted that she s a liar but he said she is not on trial for lying. our legal guys are back. avery freedman and richard herman. the defense attorneys saying it doesn t matter if you like jodi or not, the bottom line is prosecutors didn t prove their case. so you can t convict her. richard, is that a smart strategy? does he have a good point? it s smart strategy. it s the only strategy. by the way, fred, both the prosecution and the defense attorneys world report very, very good in this case, fought very, very hard, they gave it