particular witness to introduce a document. the judge said why are we, are you going to, your going to offer mr. gates, aren t you? had been described as many observers as the prosecution s star witness. to help sort through the cases fast second day, joined by nick ackerman. and news intelligence and national security reporter ken delainian. much to the annoyance to prosecutors, judge ts ellis
the judge said why are we, are you going to, your going to offer mr. gates, aren t you? had been described as many observers as the prosecution s star witness. to help sort through the cases fast second day, joined by nick ackerman. and news intelligence and national security reporter ken dilanian. much to the annoyance to prosecutors, judge ts ellis likes to make himself a part of the theater.
the idea that somehow this is floating out in the ether somewhere in orbit far away from the central focus of this investigation is just not true. those lines of investigation are open. and this is a man who has shown himself willing to do some fairly dodgy work for people supported by the kremlin abroad in the ukraine. and that s one reason why he s standing in court today. and this is just the beginning and again, one of two trials. the first of two trials for paul manafort this summer. so this is and the first one as far as the russia investigation. listen, there s they have to go a long way, as you said. there s a long way to go, and april, the judge s name is ts ellis. he banned any mention of president trump, russia or collusion from the courtroom. i mean, that may be, but the trial is no doubt weighing on this white house. it is definitely weighing on this white house, don. from my sources, they re saying
and this is a man who has shown himself willing to do some fairly dodgy work for people supported by the kremlin abroad in the ukraine. and that s one reason why he s standing in court today. and this is just the beginning and again, one of two trials. the first of two trials for paul manafort this summer. so this is and the first one as far as the russia investigation. listen, there s they have to go a long way, as you said. there s a long way to go, and april, the judge s name is ts ellis. he banned any mention of president trump, russia or collusion from the courtroom. i mean, that may be, but the trial is no doubt weighing on this white house. it is definitely weighing on this white house, don. from my sources, they re saying the white house is very concerned. they are trying to huddle together and figure out how to message this. if you talk about the issue of a possible pardon, they i m hearing from my sources paul manafort s name is not even on the list and they re not
to be worried. remember, sean, judge ellis himself said he be begrudgingly move forward with the case because rod rosenstein get so much latitude to special counsel mueller. and let s not forget that andrew weissmann isn t in charge of this case. andrew weissmann who by the way have met with the associated press the day before the associated press wrote that big expose, this was before he joined the men manafort team ad they wrote that big expose on april 12, 2017. and now they are fighting that. you know, wiseman was never removed from this case and should have been investigated because the fbi himself, the people in that meeting with the ap had actually filed a complaint against wiseman. we are seeing a case that in 2014 the government had the opportunity to go after paul manafort. i don t know what he did and you don t know everything that he did, but they decided sean: i have no idea about