what is a reasonable doubt? a doubt based on reason. helpful. exiting court, manafort s lawyer was all smiles. we just got some good news. the jury has been tldeliberatin they have been asked to come back tomorrow. so overall a very good day for mr. manafort. one caveat, most days he declares very good days for mr. manafort. with us tonight is the senior reporter for politico who s been at the courthouse every day at the trial. darren, thanks for joining us. i really do appreciate it. you don t have to be felix frankfurter to know that a question from the jury about reasonable doubt is not great for the prosecution, because if they re asking about it at all, they re asking about it, period. talk to us about that and what other tea leaf reading is going on. it is very dangerous to read
i think aaron touched on this earlier. the revocation of brennen s security clearance is a new angle here, and the president is getting into more dangerous ground. what i don t think know if everybody understands is it s also a federal crime to retaliate against somebody who s a witness. i don t know if brennen quite qualifies as a witness. but keep in mind if the president follows through with his threats to pull comey s clearance. clearance comey will be a crucial witness here. and it s a federal crime 1513, if anyone wants to look it up, to retaliate against someone to give truthful information to law enforcement. so he s getting closer and closer to dangerous ground here. terrific point. our thanks to you all. we ll have you all back. coming up there have been questions from the manafort jury. one of them may not be the best news for the prosecution. we re going to look back at day
terrific point. our thanks to you all. we ll have you all back. coming up there have been questions from the manafort jury. one of them may not be the best news for the prosecution. we re going to look back at day one of prosecution and talks to professionals when we continue.
i should say, clogged, especially on fridays. this is going to add something to it with the motorcade, the presidential motorcade. and they also of course canceled a lot of the air traffic in the area because there is a lot of commercial air traffic. well, jeff mason, thank you so much. i know you were on the south lawn for this departure. with peter. with peter, you rushed over here, we thank you for that. peter, we thank you for everything you do. harry litman, have a great weekend. we ll all be standing by, all of our legal eagles like harry and watching what s going to happen, we ll talk about that later, with the manafort jury. an important announcement to make. tonight, in his very first appearance on television since the president revoked his security clearance, former director of the cia john brennan sits down with rachel maddow for a one on one interview, her first interview with him, tonight live at 9:00 eastern, only on msnbc. coming up next, america s longest war. p
after going at it for about seven hours today the jury will be back at it at 9:30 a.m. the six men, six women asked targeted questions on bank fraud charges and clarification about the evidence list and perhaps most notably there s this. they asked, can you redefine reasonable doubt. well, the judge responded to the jury. and quote, the government is not required to prove the defendant s guilt with respect to each element of the offense beyond all possible doubt. the test is one of the reasonable doubt. what is reasonable doubt. overall a very good day for mr. manafort. one caveat, most days he declares very good days for mr. manafort. with us tonight is the senior reporter for politico who s been at the courthouse every day at the trial. thanks for joining us. i really do appreciate it.