The United States, donald trump. The prosecutions main message that donald trump and his allies were involved in a criminal conspiracy and cover up. Cnns paula reid is outside the courthouse paula, how did the prosecution and the defense leg out their cases today before the jury . Well dig we heard doing interpretations of events roughly eight years ago. Prosecutors said, look, this is Election Interference, plain and simple they alleged that these payments to Stormy Daniels were part of a conspiracy to influence the 2016 election then they walked through stepbystep, how they allege trump cohen and then publisher the National Enquirer, david worked to suppress negative stories. And then in the Opening Statement, they briefly referenced the paper trail that will be at the heart of this case. But when it was time for Defense Attorneys to get up, they insisted their client is innocent. They said, look, there is no crime here because trump wasnt involved in this kind of paperwork. He is no
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Means. President obamas advisors drawing up new plans for a military base in annwar province. Select a group of trainers that can advise forces how to get the job done against isis including retaking the city of ramadi. This is a plan not an active operation. The troops could deploy this summer. There are no easy policy solutions to isis or iraq. We know that. At home the politics of iraq are pretty clear. Most americans now say the war was a mistake. So candidates in both parties can succeed by starting with the obvious acknowledgment that the iraq war was wrong. Even that is proving difficult for some republicans. Jeb bush offered no fewer than three positions to one of the wars architects Donald Rumsfeld rumsfeld. The london times reporting that Donald Rumsfeld blames todays problems on the middle east on president obamas unwillingness to confront isis and the Bush Administrations plan to bring democracy to iraq was unrealistic. This is Donald Rumsfeld. The paper quotes him saying i