justice against the president of the united states. so why is this happening now? well, there s a new report that suggests it s not just the manafort trial which shows what happens to the defendants who don t cooperate with mueller but also that trump learned within the last day the special counsel will limit the scope of questioning and would like to ask questions both orally and written for the president to respond to. in other words, there is still serious pressure for an interview. according to news sources familiar with the president s actions wednesday, that was the genesis for his early morning tweet storm. rachel pinpointed a lot of important issues today require to us focus on what people do. not just what they say. the question that could determine the future of the trump presidency tonight involves whether trump is trying to do something with what he s saying to his attorney general and to the other doj and fbi officials that he s well he s attacked, berated, undercut an
of or only got from the manafort. today we had a strange development of forged invoices a couple of vendors saying that they were being shown invoices with their company s name at the top of the letterhead but that they were not authentic. it appears somebody fortunatelied those as part of the process of getting these bills paid by shell companies can overseas. it sounds exhausting to be that shady all the time. but we don t always relate toe what defendants are accused of, innocent till proven guilty, of course. former u.s. attorney barbara mcquade and politico s josh gerstein. we have one more note. manafort has those expensive tastes and that includes we re going to show you a $15,000 ostrich coat. josh just mentioned it. we want you to see it because you re not a juror. you have every right to the information out there. here is we submit to you the ostrich coat in question and we submit it to you without comment. we ll be right back. always have been.
what he was getting at what i want to avoid somehow to use the term oligarch to mean manafort was being paid by people who are criminals. the only thing we know about them is if they had a lot of money. it has come to have a pejorative meaning. he told them look, find another term to use. almost immediately, not being able to say the word oligarch, that s kind of like a banana peel for the prosecution and i ll read from what we re learning from this trial. the payments were made on behalf of mr. ian cuevich i would say oligarchs the prosecutor said but by wealthy businessman. the judge said who paid. the prosecutor said those are the oligarchs. the judge said those are the individuals who financed it. don t use that term. now we go back to what good lawyers do. they said understood. there was also a matter of