A news show featuring the top headlines of the day from pop culture to politics, which are discussed by a rotating panel of four women and one man. A stickler for a speedy trial that he often snaps at the mueller team if he thinks they are dragging things out. The mueller team complained about the judge with emotion, protesting a comment that he made yesterday, where he urged the special counsels lawyers not to focus so much on loans that Paul Manafort was denied, he wanted them to focus on loans that he got. The mueller team didnt think it was fair, they wrote in the motion, the courts suggestion that the government was unnecessarily spending time on a loan that manafort did not receive undermines the wellestablished law on conspiracy, undercuts the charge in count 28, and is likely to confuse and mislead the jury. The mueller team wants the judge to do the same thing yesterday, explain that he may have made a mistake to the jury. But they wanted to it happen this morning. And it didn
how long it takes. melissa: harris? harris: i wanted to press in with you onning some, tom, and it has to do with the believebilt and credibility of rick gates. don t normally criminal, juries like when criminals rat on each other, right? [laughing] that gives them a little bit of street cred from what i ve read and experienced. what comes out of this trial, that investigator with the russian probe might be looking at bob mueller, what do you see? they can t talk about it during the trial, it s not appropriate to bring it up. but you know mueller is watching. tom: great question. from my perspective this the first and most public test of mueller. and if this trial results in an acquitable, i think you will hear a vastly increased drum beat saying that this is a witch hunt, look at this, trumped-up prosecution, didn t go anywhere, that sort of thing. harris: no pun intended. tom: no pun intended. it is a public test for mueller. we haven t seen a lot of allegations really any