Him while he is causing this scene, shes physically in the same space as him, you can see the way its shot, that shes s not actually looking at him in person. Shes paying attention to the screen, which you can also see in her field of vision. On the screen, she can see what he looks like on camera, on leave television, as he pulls off this stunt in a congressional hearing room with the secretary of defense. It is such a great scene. And yes, the guy you will sort e of recognize halfway into it, is in fact Frank Sinatra, and hes amazing in this movie. This has been my Favorite Movie since i was a teenager for a reason. Anin b just watch this. Mr. Secretary, i have a question, sir. Who are you, sir . I am United States senator john iceland, and i have a question so serious that the safety of our nation may well a depend on your answer. Who . Mr. Secretary, if you please. What the hell are you talking about . What is this . Mr. Secretary, im kind of new at this job, but i dont think its g
hours to do this today? because that instruction is such a complicated instruction. okay. it could cause a mistrial or reversal on appeal. it s essentially saying, don t listen to me, i m the judge, even though i told you that evidence was irrelevant. i don t know. it s a complicated instruction. that s all i can say. okay. okay. i m looking at the lawyer, did you have anything to jump in on? just to regard to some of these sidebars, one other noteworthy thing, in an earlier sidebar this week, which was apparently very lengthy, the government s also filed a motion to have a transcript of that sidebar, you know, the court clerk is still typing up what the lawyer and judge are saying. yeah. to have that sealed because what was revealed in that sidebar is part of an ongoing sensitive investigation. got it. that has not yet been made public and was related to gates testimony. so, interesting to see what that could be about.
when you put a name on your list it, is who you may call. but you don t have to call all of them. when you do call a witness, you re required to turn over all of their prior statements on the subject matter and required to turn over anything that could be used to attack their credibility like the plea deal, like anything bad that he has admitted to, any staps he s made about the russia matter. it may be that prosecutors would rather hold that information close to the vest for now and save him as a witness in the washington, d.c. trial that s going to occur in september. they can get through this one on paper and save him, think they ll view that as a good thing. they can make that call next week when they see how the case has come in and decide if they need to call him at all. josh, walk us through the color from taking just a few quotes. did you ever see eye rolling and how pivotal is this judge? i think some of the eye rolling may have come during the jury selection process when
we had very long sidebars. the judge does seem to really be riding the prosecution. there wouldn t be any reason to be riding the defense because the defense at the moment is just putting in a few congratulati cross-examination questions. it s the prosecution s ball on this side of the field at this point. the judge is limiting the amount of evidence i think the defense might view as prejudicial. as you mentioned, the issues of photo, ostrich jacket and home renovations very expensive. the photos of all the suits, of all the other luxury goods manafort used money to buy that he said came from his work in ukraine. the judge is trying to keep this to facts and figures, to the invoices, the paper. let me draw you out on that.
resources, bring in extra help. also to position himself, when he focuses on russia. there will be other prosecutors. it can t be good for the president politically if this keeps going. the longer it goes, the more annoying it is. it potentially charges the road. on the other hand, if prosecutors are being brought in. they are doing with other sidebars that are not about russia collusion. can this help the president? it can in several ways. one points that you make note of, the president has consistently said and so far mueller hasn t showed his hand yet. he hasn t been able to link them. the president considers all the smoke, where s the fire? you had a year or more. you still haven t seen anything. the fact that mueller has been able to bring charges against the president, it sees me everybody but the president.