firmly taking the saudi side in this dispute between the saudi s and underwriters and qataris. the reason they put u.s. troops at risk from qatar was to protect the financial interests of, and that s all the evidence you need to make some big changes in the white house. the revelation would suggest to russia probe is moving beyond election meddling. the investigation is a couple months shy of the one-year mark. my own view is skewed to serve his own interest if he drags it out to the point where there is a prior special counsel their for about three years plus. everybody could see that was a mistake had all this comes after the mueller investigation last month indicted 13 russian nationals and three russian entities for there will in an alleged plot to interfere in the presidential election. mueller has secured a guilty plea from former trump campaign adviser rick gates a money laundry and lying to
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