A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. Acknowledged that the police have asked him questions about mollie. He told me does not know the results of that Lie Detector Test and he insists he has nothing to do with her disappearance. Shep . Shepard matt finn on scene brooklyn, iowa. The judge in Paul Manaforts trial has apologized now to the special counsel Robert Muellers team for being too harsh on them in font front of the jury. Yesterday the judge criticized prosecutors from allowing an Expert Witness from the irs to stay in the courtroom while other witnesses were testifying. Prosecutors pointed out he had already okayed. This now the judge says he was wrong. More on that ahead. The feds say President Trumps former Campaign Chairman was the master mind of a multimilliondollar scheme to evade u. S. Taxes and banking laws. He faces more than a dozen charges connected to lobbying he did for a prorussia Political Group in ukraine. Paul manafort pleaded not guilty to all charges. And peter doocy is covering his trial live at the court how fast in alexandria, virginia in washington, d. C. Hey, peter. Shep, the mueller team
formally complained that this judge who keeps dressing them down in front of the jury might be killing their case. And apparently the final straw for the prosecutors was late yesterday, right before they went to recess when the judge admonished them for allowing a government witness to sit in the court before he took the stand. The problem the mueller team has with that the judge never said that witnesses couldnt sit and watch from the pews that are in the back. From the benches that are in the back before they took the stand. So they filed a motion where they said this in part. The mistake here prejudiced the government by conveying to the jury that the government had acted improperly and had violated court rules or procedures. Well, this morning the judge came, in hat in hand and he said this This Robe Doesnt Make Me anything other than human. Any criticism of counsel should be put aside. After that the folks at the Manafort Trial Today shifted to bank fraud and whether or not Paul Manafort misstated his debt and his income to
obtain a 5 million mortgage from Citizens Bank for a lot of in solo. Part of the governments case is trying to prove this house wasnt a second home for the manaforts but actually a rental property making him money. They had somebody from air b and b come to the stand and testify it wasnt just a single room in the house that was available for rent online. It was the whole thing and that at one point somebody paid more than 11,000 to do so stay interest fo there for je weeks. Right now on the stand somebody from Citizens Bank which gave manafort the mortgage for this property is testifying. This is the third witness of the day. That means that the mueller team plans to call up five more before they rest their case. They say that is going to happen some time tomorrow. Shep . Shepard peter doocy at the courthouse. I mentioned the judge apologized to prosecutors today for being too harsh on them yesterday. Its but one of many memorable moments from judge t. S. Ellis who sometimes steals the show with that trial. Trace gallagher with more on the judge. Trace . Shep, you know, those who
have been before judge ellis in the past say when the defense begins calling witnesses, judge ellis will likely crack down on Paul Manaforts lawyers as well. The judge fully acknowledges he is not a patient man. In fact, during his days as a high Power Litigator at International Law firm ellis was nicknamed taz for the tazhayakov mainian devil. Relentless task master. Recent days the 78yearold District Judge as you routerred has repeatedly called out the government attorneys at one point telling the Lead Prosecutor in the manafort case to, quote, look at him and not look down. He also admonished the prosecutor to not roll his eyes and he often jumps in to question witnesses himself judge ellis has long refused to allow defendants to plead no contest. Saying quote im a caesar in my own rome adding its a pretty small rome. Judge he will lisa colombian immigrant who speaks fluent spanish. Pilot in the gheaf did ground grad at princeton got Legal Education oxford and harvard. He was nominated by President Reagan and over 30 years he has presided over notable case us including the 2002 trial of john walker lyndh, the socalled manner taliban. Ellis accepted a 20year plea deal and told linsd he made a bad joins to join the taliban and had to live with the consequences. In 2009 he handed downed longest sentence ever to a member of congress when he gave 13 years to former louisiana congressman William Jefferson for bribery saying at the time, quote there must be some kind of greed virus that affects those in power. This week judge ellis told the Lead Prosecutor, quote judges should be patient. They made a mistake when they confirmed me. Im not patient. So dont try my patience. And on goes the trial. Shep . Shepard Trace Gallagher live for us. President trumps lead attorney Rudy Giuliani says
he and the rest of the president s legal team would be fools if they let the special counsel, robert mueller, ask the president about possibly obstructing russia investigation. He knows the answers to every question that he wants to ask. He is going to ask him did you tell Comey To Go Easy On Flynn . The president will say no, i didnt. Why do you want to get him under oath . You think we are fools . Want to get him under oath so they can clap slap him with perjury. We are not going to let you do that. Shepard Rudy Giuliani has been pushing for mueller to wrap up the investigation next month political side of the argument which is all this is. Kevin corke is on the north lawn. Shep, good afternoon. The president s private attorney continues to insist that mr. Trump could ultimately decide to speak to mr. Mueller under the write conditions. Based on the moving bar of expectation and parameters, very few people here, quite frankly expect this to ultimately happen although they still say it okay for his part the president is once again on twitter e extoggle the virtues of the
witchhunt. He is saying this is an illegally broughting rigged witchhunt run by People Corrupt or conflicted started and paid for by Crooked Hillary and the democrats. Phony dossier and some lying and dismonday nest people already fired. 17 angry dems, stay tuned. Giuliani, help, is warning that the president neednt answer questions that the special counsel already knows the questions to. Accusing them set up perjury tran heard the clip of comparing answers with james comey conversations that previously happened. Words like conspiracy, corruption, collusion continue to swirl. Still no hard evidence to report as yet. Here at the white house, complaints about the probe are relatively muted but that cant be said for some inside the president s inner circle. And i can tell you this, shep. Regardless of where you have come down on this argument, about whether or not the president should decide to be interviewed by this the special counsel, one thing
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warfighting domain already. And the United States will not shrink from this challenge. It is becoming a contested War Fighting Domain and we have got to adapt to that reality. Its on par with the air, land, sea and cyberspace domains. Still a ways to go here because adding a sixth branch to the United States military, which, by the way, if It Happenings would be the first time that would be done in seven plus decades. That would still need congressional approval, shepard. The administration is targeting 2020 for this space force to be unveiled, shepard. Shepard congress has to approve it so this is just talk for now. Sings we are just talking, the critics are saying what are you doing . Right. And keep in mind, here, the United States air force already has a space commands. Some 30,000 people are attached to that unit. Thats about 10 of the air force as a whole. So it is a pretty sizeable number. One of the critics is the nasa astronaut mark kelly a
goes on top of these rockets and launching on saturday. Shepard what are they going to do . I know we are going to touch the sun. They are going to measure a lot of things about solar weather that comes. We dont really know very much about the sun at all. We have seen the whole rest of our solar system going all the way out to pluto we havent gone to the sun yet. Shepard happy trails and good luck. Thank you. Flare up in the gaza strip has turned deadly. Israeli warplanes hitting dozens of hamas targets overnight. Today word of a new strike in gaza city. Thats next. Oh
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brookings. What do you say michael. Could easily be the brewing of the fourth war. In a sense this is better thought of as maybe the fourth battle. Because there really isnt any victory by either side. You know, hamas is not going to be Strong Enough operating out of the gaza strip to somehow take part of israel away or enlarge its territory israel doesnt want to rule gaza. They left voluntarily because they didnt want the burden. What you are seeing are battles that really just sort of return back to a semi unstable peace until the next battle. There really is at the moment no end in sight as to where this goes. Hamas, as you know, an Extremist Group that doesnt really accept israels basic right to exist. The palestinian entity in the west bank is much more responsible but has some weak leadership issues and doesnt have control over hamas. So, i think of it more as the looming fourth battle in whats likely to be an even longer war. Shepard is there a dialogue underway now . Theres not too much of a
dialogue. There is certainly not a negotiation that you could call a realistic path to peace. And, in fact, you hear a lot of people who are experts on this subject much more than i who talk about how the whole to state dream is are the solve dying. The idea that either value or the palestinians would really make the compromises necessary to share this territory and manage the Common Security challenges with american help together. That dream, which has been worked on so hard for some years is slipping away, perhaps in ways that are becoming almost impossible to reverse. So you may have to almost create new concepts here like shared sovereignty, two nations on the same land, various kinds of ideas that really almost sound science fictiony. But probably need to be investigated. Unless we can somehow get back to that basic idea of a twostate solution where gaza and the west bank of the Jordan River Area become a Palestinian State and then israel has its security in the rest of the land where it now exists. Shepard whats