Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Disapprove. The numbers are shifting for the president . Talked about it for a long time. A bit of narrow casting. But this is about as narrow casting as it gets. Willie, all i can say for donald trump and republicans who are hoping, like a special election in ohio tonight, the republicans hoping that hes somehow going to get them over the finish line, even in strongly republican districts lie this ohio 12. They better hope that their small slice of the electorate comes out, because, i mean, donald trump is sacrificing just about every other group in america for this one group of white, noncollege educated voters that, again, just there just arent enough to get him over the top or to get his candidates over the top in
1st. Now, he is saying he doesnt know if it will be over by September The 1st but he thinks that Robert Mueller should be able to wrap it up by then. He told me if it goes much past the beginning of september then everybody who is involved in this investigation could be accused in interfering with the election. Because if this thing does drag on, it gets closer and closer to those all important mid terms. The response to mueller went out about an hour ago. We got two statements from the president s lead attorneys jay sekulow saying quote we have responded in writing to the Office Of Special Counsel regarding its request to interview the president. It not appropriate at this time to comment publicly about the content of that response. From Rudy Giuliani millions of pages of documents along with testimony from dozens of witnesses have been provided. Were restating what we have been stating for months it is time for the Office Of Special Counsel to conclude its inquiry without further del
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affairs. well, when manafort lawyer said that, the mueller team mead jumpeimmediately jumped upd objected. took responsibility for many mistakes he made he said it wasn t the time for that the manafort team was trying to catch him in a lie after the mueller team worked hard this morning to establish that they never promised rick gates anything for his cooperation and that if he lies they will rip up his plea agreement which could mean more than 100 years in jail. the manafort defense team got rick gates to testify back in 2014 when the fbi interviewed him about a probe they were doing concerning the former ukrainian president, gates told them all about accounts that he opened up in cyprus that are now at the center of the manafort fraud trial and that before meeting with the fbi agents, paul manafort told rick gates to be open with investigators. the mueller team though trying to brush off this 2014 fbi interview getting gates to admit that he didn t policy tell him these accounts had
courtroom when the government called rick gates to come in. he seemed visibly nervous. he spoke very quickly. he did not make eye contact with paul manafort as you said. there were several side bars during his testimony and he was sort of just sit awkwardly and look straight ahead. paul manafort looked directly at rick gates. during the testimony it came out their dynamic was different than i had appreciated before. he described it as very much an employer-employee relationship. rick gates had met paul manafort when he was an intern and said they never socialized together the only time he went to paul manafort s house was when he reported there to do work for him. tension between. but he s getting his story out. did the prosecution get what they wanted out of rick gates. did he present stories, evidence that would incriminate paul manafort? absolutely, willie. they are only at the beginning. gates, while he was certainly near vow was a pretty compelling