Courts been in session, julia . Reporter so court is just Getting Started behind me, hallie. They had a little bit of a delay this morning but right now were seamana for thes Defense Attorney come up to the front. Hes ready to ask rick gates more questions. On the way into court downey said they were feeling good and confident today that they are doing well in this case, especially because he is now continuing that crossexamination. It was pretty ruthless yesterday. They found gates to be someone who had a secret life. They had him detail this private flat london that he used to have an affair. Talked about stealing hundred of thousands of dollars from paul man for the. They also started asking him about like to the fbi and for some reason gates was a little squirrely on that issue. He wouldnt come out and said he did it even though thats what he pled guilty to just months ago. Theyre trying to paint someone that the jury would not believe as credible, which is key to their defense str
with president trump. it has nothing to do with president trump s campaign. and it has nothing to do with the white house. there is no reason that we would comment on the ongoing manafort trial. bill: is paul manafort not guilty? i have no idea. i haven t seen anything but what the news reports are saying. again, it has nothing to do with us here so we won t comment on it. bill: thank you for your time. come back. hogan gidley from the north lawn there. thank you. sandra: tensions with turkey escalating over the detainment of american pastor andrew brunson. president trump calling out the turkish government writing turkey has taken advantage of the united states for many years. they re now holding our wonderful christian pastor who i must now ask to represent our country as a great patriot hostage. we ll pay nothing for the release of an innocent man but we are cutting back on turkey. rich edson is reporting live from the state department on this. good morning. good morning.
courthouse there in virginia. thank you. so dan you were helping us out with the chris collins story before the commercial break, now i want to ask you about paul manafort and rick gates and the developments you ve seen particularly in the last 24 hours. well, look, this from a trial perspective this is not at all surprising. and what happens with a cooperating witnessed is it s someone who s committed crimes them self who has to admit guilt and then has to testify. and cross-examination is withering because in particularly this case, this is really manafort s only defense. so they re going to attack him, they re going to bring up his marital infidelities, they re going to try to make him look like a liar, a cheat, a thief to undermine his credibility and then what they can argue is this entire case relies on rick gates and his testimony. and you can t believe him. but is that true? because what we ve heard and what we ve seen again and again is this is a paper case. the document
legitimate defense because it doesn t look like from the indictment that the government has a recording from that conversation, they just have the record of a five-minute conversation or six-minute conversation that he had with his son right after he gets this information. dan, stand by. let me bring in charlie sykes, contributing editor for the standard. charlie, you know republican politics had. you heard anna and sahil talk about the political implications nationally of this. what s your view? this is the problem for republicans, they have a swamp problem. this is one of donald trump s most effective lines, he s going to drain the swamp. but think about the collection of sleaze that we are now learning about, not just members of congress, but of course the ongoing manafort trial. and i think that the longer this goes on, the more of a cloud that it s going to put not just over this congressman, but over republicans in general. you have this sort of, you know, corruption and in
be seen whether that will have any damage on the prosecution s case. julia ainsley, i know you ll keep us updated from there in alexandria, thank you for that. we ll have more on the trial in a couple minutes from now. i want to get to some developing news on the election front, because just about an hour ago we got some unofficial results showing an incredibly controversial candidate in kansas. kris kobach with all presiktss in, the president s pick has a razor thin lead in his republican primary. we re talking about 191 votes there. that s less than a tenth of a percent. msnbc national political correspondent steve kornacki is here with the details. this is a state raise, but it does have some national implications. we re talking about a guy who s been mired in controversy, who led that voter fraud panel for donald trump. donald trump controversially endorsed him just this week. and that may be proof for the president that his magic touch really can get somebody over the line. i