Take one. Is it that he doesnt want to take one or doesnt have enough on the president . I think that well, it could be both. Like i said before, ive had plenty of clients who have taken plea deals that swore they werent guilty. Apparently, he hasnt come to the amount of money its taking to defend himself or to the pressure to lie or simply maybe hes just saying he doesnt have anything to do with it and hes that does it for me. Im david gura. Going to toughen up and i would ill be back on Saturday Ask Sunday at 2 00 eastern time. Try and bring in as much in the meantime, you can find me information that it is the, on instagram and on twitter at quote, be unquote, witch hunt, and my client is being offered david gura. The news continues right now up because of the polarization with my friend and colleague, of the politics. But thats not really going to fly in a court of law. Yasmin vossoughian. Yasmin . Lets talk about who has david, that is quite a roster accepted a plea deal. Rick gat
News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Its something that i think the president and his lawyers know, the Special Counsel will be looking at. So interesting. Im really glad that you pointed out the similarity and language there, particularly since there are reports that the Special Counsel is looking at whether tweets can be used as obstruction of justice. Lets look at the trial. Whats happening in the manafort trial as we speak, shimon . Todays really been so two witnesses so far that have testified. One of them, i think, the important witness here, the fbi agent who entered manaforts home. They did a Search Warrant at his home in alexandria, virginia. Theyre talking about some of the documents that they found. And this really goes to the meat of the prosecutions case. These are documents about his loans, bank records, things they found with his name on it. Wire transfers. Goes to the meat, to the heart of the case and the evidence that the fbi has gathered and
Reporter you were talking about tests up at the top. I can tell you theres one other test right now for the courts, that is to find a fair and impartial jury. 65 Perspective Jurors were ushered into the court on the ninth floor of the courthouse in virginia. The judge first describing the charges against Paul Manafort to them, including bank fraud, conspiracy and failure to report offshore bank accounts. Of course, thats where theyre going to fight this case out over the next two or three weeks. After doing that, he began what is traditional for any judge, and that is to question the jurors about whether they know any of the attorneys in the case, introducing all the attorneys and the defendant Paul Manafort to them. Then essentially trying to get at a question of whether any associations these jurors might have would affect their ability
to reach a fair and impartial verdict in this case. Of course, no one responded affirmatively. They have moved on to private and personal questioning
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Joe johns is outside. Were half an hour from this trial getting under way. What are we expecting today . I think at first were expecting more of the game. Gates was on the stand for about 45 minutes before they wrapped up late last night. Hell continue on direct testimony answer questions of the prosecution about what the government alleges is a whole pattern of illegal conduct that stretched out over years and years and years. Rick gates became his Deputy Campaign manager. Its important to remind people who this guy is. Gates was a long time personal confidante, if you will, of paul
manafort and is believed to know basically all of the Inner Workings of the manafort organization. I think its extremely important to point out that the allegations against mr. Manafort include dealings in ukraine with hidden Bank Accounts and gates is alleged to know everything about that, poppy. And i mean i was reading that i
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