camera isn t trying to intimidate jurors who will decide his fate. explain that. i ve always wondered if donald trump goes to trial, who wants to sit on that jury? it could potentially be scary if donald trump is going after the prosecutor and the judge, who s to say he might not not go after the jurors if he s convicted that s the big question he s good if you look at what happened to robert mueller he had tremendous support, including by republicans over the course of the investigation, trump was able to drive down support for mueller and trust in mueller among republicans. he ll do the same thing through this trial it s a different situation when trump is arraigned and becomes a defendant, he s agreeing to obey certain orders in the courtroom issued by the judge. there s a past example of what can happen here. when roger stone, the trump
they go to the court, the fisa court, they don t tell the court when they posit the theory that there is collusion going on. they talk to one of their trusted russian sources and he knocked it down. even more significantly, paul manafort goes to trial. he s in the middle of this whole collusion and corruption question and they don t provide that interview with the fbi to his legal defense team. that s known in the legal world as a brady violation. could open up a new door of appeal or avenue of appeal for paul manafort s legal team. dan: it s an incredible story, everyone should check it out. going to you from the legal side, greg, we ve seen this over and over with the mueller team. potential exculpatory information whether the alleged tapes of papadopoulos claiming he has nothing to do with the russians. of course connected to manafort and they make it out to be this nefarious thing. we find out he was a source for the obama state department too. we see this again and again now wit
done in such a way to also help clinton we re out of time, thank you, matt, for all of this, giving us perspective from the trump camp. the weekend tweet storm comes as paul manafort goes to trial. i think he might need some support. yes start them off right. with the school supplies they need at low prices all summer long. save $200 on this dell laptop at office depot officemax.
it is still true that he s not undefeated. he s not more important than the evidence but will have the best defense that strass-kahn could have found anywhere. it is fair to say the new york prosecutors are pretty good as well. very good. and this case will get a lot of attention. this is the first really big case that cyrus vance jr. has had as the relatively new manhattan district attorney. he knows that his reputation is going to rise and fall at least initially based on this case. so those prosecutors are going to have all the resources they need. the son of the former secretary of state, cyrus vance. that the same name. goes to trial. let s say it goes to trial six months from now. year from now, whenever it goes to trial in new york city. can he get a fair trial in new york, jury trial, given all the publicity out there, tabloids in new york, some of whom have already convicted him for all practical purposes, what s the argument in terms of keeping the trial in new york o
this hour, concerns that there are potential targets at risk by cutting homeland security funds. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin with deadly new clashes today in syria as security forces try to break up anti-government protests in a number of cities. human rights activists say that at least 34 people were killed. they say to end the crackdown or get out of the way. here is arwa damon. reporter: wolf, when we see the images coming out of syria, the path that the regime continues to take seems pretty clear. they are aiming to clear. a voice yells off camera. this is video said to be from the city of hopes, which has seen many protests in recent weeks. it was posted to youtube. cnn cannot verify its authenticity or when it was shot. but one opposition activist told cnn on friday that the security forces fired straight in crowds of demonstrators and the syrian human rights information link reported a mounting death poll throughout the day. a simila