A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. The government and for manafort to keep things moving along. They did. That is the same judge that challenged the special counsels office and accused them of just trying to use charges of financial crimes to squeeze manafort in giving them information that they could use against President Trump. The trial proceeded anyway and the former Trump Campaign manager that was a wakened by an fbi agent performing a noknock raid is being confronted with evidence that he hit 60 million from the irs which he received consulting ukrainian politicians. The charges are for falsifying income tax returns, bank fraud and failing to file reports. If convicted, manafort could face 305 years in jail. Theres Sentencing Guidelines for federal cases like that that would suggest that the judge would probably give him something less than that, shep. Shepard what is the next step in this trial, peter . Any minute, shep, we expect
the jury,
diversity. what this boils down to, shep, the argument that nobody should tell harvard to whom they may offer places and how to decide the makeup of the student s body. shepard: where are the critics on this, jonathan? simply put, they argue that race should play no part in any admission s decision. a group call the national association of scholars has filed a brief supporting the original 2014 complaint by students for fair admissions. in the new brief, the nas argues students shouldn t be admitted to college on the basis of academic achievement and racial identity should play no role. the brief says judgment of character may be appropriate but the nas accused harvard of using that judgment as subterfuge to discriminate against asian americans saying