The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Now, the defense was deep into its opening statement. The prosecution had finished their opening statement. Look, this is a dry case about tax evasion and bank fraud. But hanging over it is this enormous pressure that you can almost feel on Paul Manafort. He must be spending millions on this case. He has a team of Defense Lawyers. Hes wearing a suit to court, but hes going sleep in jail in a green jump suit. Hes facing 10 years in this case, another 15 in d. C. The government said that they had two dozen witnesses, and 100 documents, and theyre they essentially portrayed a story of greed and lies. They say that Paul Manafort reaped some 60 million for his work for this ukrainian oligarch, had it paid to avoid 15 million in taxes. And when the spigot turned off in 2015, he started milking
banks, continuing to commit tax fraud. What was interesting to me, what was the defense going to say . Beca
i think there s been a little bit of skepticism in the republican ranks i think piers morgan, it s not really the piers morgan test here, but he s been a strong supporter of the president and he raised a few concerns about the statement in the past couple of days. but look, i think what you re seeing from the white house is a sense that things are getting a little tighter. you have the manafort trial. you have michael cohen sort of seeming like he s talking. you have these russian indictments. so things are creepy. and you have this looming deadline of labor day. traditionally, the justice department does not take action close to an election, and there is a sense that mueller is a traditionalist and will be on this, and something is going to happen. there are a lot of people here in washington who think it s going to happen before labor day. that deadline is getting close. i think you get a sense that the pressure is mounting on the white house right now. do you have a sense, matt
him, that george papadopoulos was i mean, these are not coincidences. they paint a clear picture of conspiracy. the national security adviser pled guilty to lying not just about anything, but talking about nobody forgot meetings with the spanish leaders or the leaders of mexico or canada. they all forgot about contacts with russia. it s incredible that the white house s message about this paul manafort trial, paul manafort may be an international criminal, but when he worked for us, he wasn t committing these crimes. doesn t say a lot about their judgment. but we don t know that he wasn t committing these collusion crimes. whether he came to the campaign as an insert from the russian intelligence services or whether he got there and had a debt to a russian oligarch, he was reaching back out to that russian oligarch during the campaign, offering briefings, selling access to the campaign. and he was reaching out through
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