The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. There in alexandria, virginia. Joe, bring me up to speed on the trial at this moment. Reporter so, our question, of course, as you said at the top, brooke, is when will crossexamination begin . The assumption is its pretty close. What we do know is that the prosecution has asked a lot of questions and there was a break around, what, 2 30 p. M. Eastern time that was supposed to go until about 2 45 eastern time. The judge told the defense to keep questions and crossexamination sharply focussed. Sort of telegraphing the things to come. Now, lets talk a little bit about the last testimony we heard from rick gates. Hugely important, almost anything he says about the case. I think one of the most interesting points that was brought out by the judge at the very end of that direct
defense . Because cant the defense just say this guy is an admitted liar. This is the guy who should be on trial. And really attacking his credibility .
A recap of the days news. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. You want to Pay Attention to this hour. Weve got a lot going on. Its 11 00 p. M. On the east coast. Were live with breaking news tonight. A source tells cnn that white house staffers are stunned by todays news. The men who led the president s campaign for five critical months leading up to the election found guilty in Federal Court. Former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty of eight Financial Crime charges. A victory for Robert Mueller in the first trial to come out of his investigation. While the president continues to push the lie that the case against manafort wasnt part of the Special Counsels original mission, i want you to look at what the Trump Appointed Acting Attorney General wrote. Mueller is authorized to investigate any links and or coordination between the russian
even his childrens telephones. Well, now he has stepped up to the line and he can now speak again and he feels liberated. How far is he willi
Clinton saying her steadiness makes her the best choice. Trump tried to take clinton and the rest of the current administrations judgment to task. President obama meanwhile striking back at donald trump, speaking from laos this morning. The president repeated his feeling that trump is not qualified to be president. To begin our coverage with sun l reporter what really turned into a small preview of how they could potentially handle themselves, their first real faceoff which will come later this month, both trying to gain the upper hand on the big question, who is ready to be Commander In Chief. Donald trump drumming up more controversy. The man has strong control over a country. Praising Vladimir Putin while trashing our president. Standing by his statement, claiming he knows more about isis than the generals do. Under the leadership of barack obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble. They have been reduced to a point where it is embarrassing for our country.
You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of trumps supporters into what i call the basket of deplorables. Right . The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, islam phobic, you name it. But those other basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures. And they are just desperate for change. Clinton said in a short time ago, quote, let me read you part of it. Last night i was grossly generalistic. Thats never a good idea. I regret saying half. That was wrong. She goes on to say its door morible that trump has built his campaign largely on prejudice and paranoia and given a National Platform to hateful views and choices. Now to trumps latest attack on clinton, the republican president ial candidate last night speaking at a rally in florida suggesting clinton could commit an act of violence in public and not face any consequen
Thanks for joining us for the second hour of 360. If you thought you heard it all in this election, one candidate says Vladimir Putin is more of a leader than the sitting president of the United States. The head of the rnc is criticizing the first woman nominated by a major party because he thinks she didnt smile enough last night. There are still two months to go. The first debate just a few weeks away. We have reports from both camps. Sara murray joins us now. Trump spent a lot of today explaining what he said in the forum last night. Reporter thats right. He did go after Hillary Clinton. He took another opportunity to take a couple shots at her for her use of a private email server but he launched into a very lengthy defense today of his view of The War In Iraq. He again restated that he was opposed to the war before it began and this went on for quite awhile. I want to play just a portion of it for you. Before the war, much closer to the war, i gave statements that we shouldnt go i