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
but, you can t have people running policy growthly intending to sabotage. that is the real swamp problem that number one problem that president continues to to face, he made changes in places but there is a lot of cleaning out, and other agents. and if they did nothing else beside they focus on reelection. if they really put some people in charge to clean out dead wood in these agents they would do a loot of good. clean out person who is putting peep in. people in. we ll come back to this one, coming up. what do your guests think about president trump s deal with china at the g20? don t go
but, you can t have people running policy growthly intending to sabotage. that is the real swamp problem that number one problem that president continues to to face, he made changes in places but there is a lot of cleaning out, and other agents. and if they did nothing else beside they focus on reelection. if they really put some people in charge to clean out dead wood in these agents they would do a loot of good. clean out person who is putting peep in. people in. we ll come back to this one, coming up. what do your guests think about president trump s deal with china at the g20? don t go away. it recommends our best custom fit orthotic
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
president wants to get done in the fall. is it possible here in nevada and texas and people in maine where we were this week aren t going to see this as a presidential problem but instead a congressional problem, a swamp problem? if the president continues to separate himself from the republican party, politically, in spirit in terms of what he s saying at these rallies. you can see some of the republican base, especially if it s spurred on by breitbart and steve bannon who is there. you can see the president try to take advantage of these divisions. and, bob, there s a tweet the president said this morning going after somebody he did not name specifically last night. garrett and john. he said jeff flake. the phoenix crowd was a packed house, loves the great state of arizona after tweeting about this. i m not a fan of jeff flake. weak on crime and border.