make the jury think gates is as unbelievable as possible, thattize a lying liar who lies. right? i don t get it, they kept going with this today. hammer and tongs. here today, mr. gates, do you have any doubt in your mind if you lied that the special counsel s office would rip up your plea agreement? gates, no doubt at all. why would you have that conversation in front of the jury? why is this a good strategy for the defense? why keep clearly laying out how high the stakes are for gates if he does lie he can go to jail for a century? the manafort defense has simultaneously tried to make gates look at bad as possible for the jury up to and including the jury hearing he had multiple extramarital affairs including that gates has the incentive to definitely not lie in this case because that would be so terrible for him. how does that work? why would you tell the jury you
but whether he did it or not is up in the air, as far as i m concerned. right. and i think that gives a rise to a major reasonable doubt in this case. keith morrison: but remember, garrett kopp, the confessed shooter, testified that he was merely christopher s puppet on a string when he killed susan and tried to kill john. how do you get a jury to doubt a statement like that? we now had to go after him with hammer and tongs. keith morrison: oh, and he did. fleisher went after garrett and the cops. every time you denied being involved in this, they got aggressive with you, didn t they? somewhat. they d just, like, push you a little bit. they d push you. you mean they walked over to you, and they pushed you a little bit on the shoulder? and getting in my face. bruce fleisher: did they touch you? leaned up against me. yeah, like this. yep. and when they got close to you like this, what re they saying? garrett, garrett. something like that.
bidding more effectively if he were an active agent of vladimir putin and the kgb. it s all coming to fruition, and there is a basic reason why putin wants to do it. president donald trump, an american president who goes to nato will with a hammer and does putin s work for him. laura: what a ridiculous comment. asking our allies to pay their fair share is going nato hammer and tongs? he is trying to strengthen nato by saying we need to keep this aligns together by keeping our military expenditures what we pledged to do and keep those at a level that is fair for everyone, 2%. i ve got to tell you. this is perhaps my favorite of all the criticisms of trump s nato meetings today. what is the role of misogyny here? does angela merkel remind him of hillary?
the parties. i spoke to some all of whom don t want to go at the president hammer and tongs on this until they see what he would actually say, and in some ways, he buys himself more time to push forward this policy that, you know, in free traders will never like, but degrees of dislike and whether it s worth a blowup of the president of the congressional republican party if at the end of the day this looks like a substantially watered down version of what he announced last week. we don t know that s where this is headed. he could say canada, mexico, no further. right, he s saying the door is wide open to exemption, and republicans are not thrilled, but got something they wanted, and the president got what he wanted, a picture surrounded by steel workers there, a good picture. michael deever could have set
i think that gives rise to a major reasonable doubt in this case. reporter: remember garrett kopp, confessed shooter, testified he was christopher s puppet on a string when he killed susan and tried to kill john. how do you get a jury to doubt a statement like that? we now had to go after him with hammer and tongs. reporter: oh, he did. fleisher went after garrett and the cops. every time you denied being involved in this, they got aggressive with you didn t they? some what. they re just like, got pushy a little bit. got pushy. they walked over to you and pushed you a little bit on the shoulder. getting in my face. did they touch you? leaned up against me. like this? yeah. when nay got close to this, what were they saying, garrett, garrett. something like that. you need to tell us, something, garrett. because they re going to fry your ass in the electric chair. excuse me. mr. fleisher. is that an objection?