President ial debate or in history has ever faced. Nothing even close to it and it is one that could create a gigantic challenge for joe biden. He may not be able to say anything about Donald Trumps indictments during these debates and that is a prospect no one has considered yet. Andrew weissmann will consider it for us in the discussion coming up. Lets talk about wednesday, the codeword, maybe. Ask if that is legal. Im going to be watching. We will check. Thanks, alex. Have a good show. Thank you. Donald trumps red necktie friends who alex was talking about came to the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse this week to praise one of the criminal defendants in the building and attacked District Attorney evan bragg, who donald trump falsely accuses of spending all of his time and resources on the prosecution of donald trump. People versus harvey weinstein. We are moving forward in that matter. We intend to retry it and those of you in court saw that the court set a window for a trial in the fa
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i think it has been a lingering question if he s going to testify. that s been part of the pr strategy. that s not part of the legal strategy. that s been clear probably for several months, certainly in the last week or so. the president saying right there, write his report. he s setting up for what he intends to say is a system that s rigged against him. so why would he sit down with him? i thought he seems to be almost, you know, urging him to do it. there s no way i can see now he would sit down regardless of the narrow scope which they ve been talking about. rudy giuliani has been talking about it for weeks and weeks. it simply is not going to happen. in my mind, it s over, the discussion is over, he s not going to sit down with him. he calls him conflicted. he attacked the paul manafort trial, which we ll get to later in the program, which is ongoing. the sitting president of the united states weighing in on a trial while the jury is in the room deliberating. we ll get to that l
context of it makes you suspicious because of what s been happening in the politics. but once the investigation is over and it won t undermine anything, i think i would love to know. if they had information on george papadopoulos, paul manafort that might have some context with russians, should the president have been given a heads up? now, he was given we know he was given a heads up at one point about be aware, russia is meddling in the election. what we don t know is the specificity of that. was anybody in the campaign singled out? senator graham seems to think not. we don t know that. there was a briefing. we don t know what the situation was. there was a suggestion some informants were placed in the campaign. graham doesn t say that in the letter, but other republicans have. the fbi has pushed back on that. you continue to hear that level of allegation being laid out by a number of republicans who are trying to side with the president. we will wait for christopher wray. a qu
to challenge? they challenged rick gates in cross, but why didn t they bring anybody in to help us? i think that s in the back of their minds a little bit, but i think that jurors tend to really follow the judge s instructions. when they re told not to consider that, they don t. i think the defense is sending a slight message that we feel confident. we re happy to sit back and attack and say they haven t proven their case. of course, as a practical matter, they may have lacked any good evidence to put forth. i also think what we re seeing from this jury, it looks like that had no effect on them. they ve been deliberating, when you think about it, 10, 11 hours now. that s a lot of time. it s clear the fact that manafort did not up the defense had no effect so far, at least in terms of how they re thinking from what we re seeing. and a quick last point. news organizations are going to see this judge this afternoon. they re trying to get transcripts of conferences in pull asides. th