what s your biggest takeaway from this. certainly the lies and how they detailed the lies and documents that they allege paul manafort had lied on, the tax forms and bank forms. more interestingly and some of the more color that came from this closing argument was how they addressed the whole issue. one point calling rick gates a guy who was paul manafort was his mentor. mr. manafort was a mentor to mr. gates, particularly to his own criminal activity. that s what the prosecutor said to the jury. he then said that manafort didn t choose a boy scout to be his partner in crime. obviously, prosecutors anticipating that rick gates is going to be a big part of the defense attorney s closing arguments. the other thing that was interesting here is, you know, we have all made a lot about rick gates calling him the star witness in this case while the prosecutors to the jury said the star witness in this case is the
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related a statement that reads in part, quote, i have only been asked about pardons by the press and routinely responded on the record that no pardons are under discussion or under consideration at the white house. interesting that he added in the words on the record. now, of course under discussion or under discussion you ll also notice cobb uses present test. does not discussion discussions from last year which is when these conversations reportedly happened. keep in mind, both manafort and flynn were charged by mueller last fall. flynn pleaded guilty. but manafort didn t. is that because he s expecting a pardon? it s a question tonight. the president has been repeatedly himself asked about whether he would pardon both men? and here s how he has responded? i don t want to talk about pardons for michael flynn yet. we ll see what happens. let s see. are you going to pardon manafort? thank you. dowd himself says as far as he knows, there were no discussions about pardons. and wh
reflects the attitude of the campaign. any invitation by russia directly or indirectly would be rejected outright. his request that it came from a low level staffer said it did not enter consideration. this is concrete evidence that the russia collusion narrative is fake news. asked if why manafort didn t turn down the trump tower meeting with trump jr., jared kushner and others that promised negative information about hillary clinton, fox was told by a source familiar with the matter that there s really no evidence that manafort read the entire e-mail inviting him to the meeting which turned out to be a ruse. it was about discussing u.s. sanctions against senior russian officials. another adviser copied on that request, carter page, who has been interviewed by the fbi, he told the post the e-mails show in fact the offer was very benign, shep.