kavanaugh s history and a job that he himself said was informative and constructive as preparation for being a judge, those are his words. meanwhile, the small percentage of documents the judiciary committee will get to see are being prescreened by a republican operative. if this seems shady, it s because it is. melissa: senate democrats also demanding clarity on whether the president can be indicted. and the mueller investigation in front of it. they want those documents released publicly. republicans say, cavanaugh has already produced a record number of documents. at senate majority whip john cornyn says of the summit than a democrats, i think they are feeling under a lot of pressure. i get it, they know they can t stop the conversation but they
because, why not pass off of this particular one the way others have been? the next trial with paul manafort is not in new york, it s in washington, d.c., and has to do with his connection and the former russian president or ukrainian president. so that i would understand why this team might want to handle it. we may see, and we don t know, we may see the judge in that case make moratorium to what can and cannot be discussed the facts and the charges have nothing to do with the campaign, nothing to do with donald trump. that s why, paul manafort has to know something in order to be susceptible to something. that s a compromise to the point that he could be
i don t know. judge ellis said everything that s been under seal will be unsealed at the end of the case but a handful of news organizations filed a motion to intervene because they want the transcript as part of the men manafort trial that happened in a closed courtroom publicly released now so the judge will have arguments on that notion, commotion at 2:00 p.m. he did indicate if they didn t like his ruling today they can appeal through the fourth circuit. but judge ts ellis who has been such a stickler for a speedy trial toward the jurors again today that they can deliberate for as little or as long as i want. the one former federal prosecutor doug burns was holding court in our green room with anthony scaramucci and a few people. you guys were huddled. so the defense attorney says that this is a good sign for them, how do you take that? anthony: it s interesting because when you are in the middle of a deliberation,
it is contemporaneous to the conversation today. also, have contemporaneous happening alongside is the president. looking at westhampton new york, a beautiful place. so we are watching this, a growing showdown ahead of next month s confirmation hearing for supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh which might come up as a conversation. the president s meeting with supporters and westhampton new york and those will be closed-door sessions as he talks about victory and accomplishments, and one of those accomplishments no doubt is that his supreme court nominee picked get confirmed. now chuck schumer says democrats are ready to sue the national archives over this. if they cannot get documents from cavanaugh s time with president gw bush presidency, i should say, watch. their republicans have been deliberately withholding the entire record of judge kavanaug
not met the standard for a conviction in this particular case. a couple of key moments from the courtroom, the lead attorney kevin downing told the judge, ts ellis the third, that his client, paul manafort, has chosen not to testify as part of his defense. then there was a series of exchanges between the judge in mr. manna for it. it was really the first time that we have seen him stand in court and to go to the podium and interact with the judge. the judge asked him a series of questions, whether he had been counseled by his attorneys and whether he really understood what it meant not to testify as part of his defense. metaphor it said he had been counseled and he had chosen not to answer questions in order to defend himself. now we have some good housekeeping issues with the court, to deal with the procedural steps leading up to the closing arguments. the closing arguments the judge has dictated must be two hours or less on each side so that