Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Bolder balderson is better on crime and taxes and ordinary issues and the question is whether the trump base will respond to that a oppose to the more personality consult that surrounds trump as an individual. If the numbers froze right now, if the democrats even with an l in this race still have won because it went from double digit down to Single Digits as least as of todays polling. Well, they will definitely spin it as a win. And you could argue that the fact that they are narrowing the gap so dramatically on a race on the seat that has been held by a republican for decades is a big deal. There are lots of other races like that actually more favorable to democrats across the country come november, they only need 23 seats in order to flip the house. So they would probably take this feeling confident, take this game plan to some of these other races. Republican base or certain portions of republican voters, he h
loans. she said manafort was in serious debt by 2016. $1 million in clothing debt alone. with manafort trying to use the bank loans to sustain himself financially. still in question, whether rick gates will testify there. joining me now, signor justice correspondent and the our legal analyst back with us as well. so you were in there, and you have to start there, right, ryan. what stood out to you in what happened this week? i mean it was sort of amazing. i think what you have to look at if you look at the big picture here is that essentially what manafort s team will have to argue, that there is this tremendous conspiracy that he had no clue about to save him a lot of money on his tax returns. and just not really a believable or plausible scenario. and i think that it will be a challenge once this switches over to the defense side to make that case to the jurors. you had all these situations where manafort directly was paying for a lot of his more
paying taxes and fraudulently taking action to avoid paying taxes that you owe the government. and so forcing the government to be very disciplined in the way that it presents that i think is by and large a healthy thing. ryan, we were talking about the accountant 1:00 p.m. monday was when she gets cross-examined. what else are you watching in terms of duration? any sense ever that this will go for a week or two or three based on your conversations with those in the room? actually the prosecution has made it clear that they expect to wrap up their entire case by the end of next week. so the big question is whether or not rick gates will testify and i think that it seems clear that he will, but always a chance that won t come about. but i think that that is really going to be the key to this case because that is who the defense really wants to pin all of this on. and even though a lot of these dealings and a lot of the relationships he had with the lawyers only had to do with paul m