thank you so much for joining us. us. ac 360 starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he has the right to remain silent. he s also donald trump. tonight on 360 the former president s eruption over the documents case, and is special counsel s latest move aimed at keeping potential evidence public. also tonight a live report from the texas panhandle, how people are coping in the wake of a sedevastating and deadly tornado. plus to ukraine. first up tonight, the trump documents case in a new sign of how serious jack smith is about keeping the defense and the defendant reined in. also a reminder today, this defendant has no desire to be reined in. virtually everyone is saying that the fake indictment is about election interference and should not have been brought. except bill barr, a disgruntled former employee and very weak person. he knows the indictment is total bull [ bleep ]. a very stupid person named john bolton, mick mulvaney who s got nothing going, a
A look at the days news and headlines. Manafort into paying his American Express bill and may have fraudulently submitted personal expenses to be paid by the trump inaugural committee. The defense team says they exposed him as unreliable. After all the laws youve told you expect this jury to believe you . Gates said im here to tell the truth and take responsibility for my actions. Mr. Manafort had the same path. I am trying to change. He says if there are charges of financial funny businessman fort always knew where the money was. The judge jumped in to say manafort wasnt that great knowing where his money was if gates was able to steal as much as he was admitted to stealing. Gates was told that the Manafort Defense Team will have at least another hours worth of questioning for him this morning starting at 9 30 local
time. We dont know who the mueller teams next witness would be that they might call. We know they plan to wrap up their case, rest their case sometime this week. Sandra. S
though i think this is the federal government you saw nikki haley or ron desantis say, i would have been court marshalled if i had documents like this. this is unique unfitness and they re going to try to use the substance at the case while at the same time walking a thin line. the problem is, this doesn t just start with donald trump for these cases. republican versus been building in the argument about the federal government targeting their party and their voters for years and years leading up to this. so, it s very hard for them to be able to make the case now because they have not tilled that ground with their voters. their voters are actually primed to the opposite side to be able to just offend them instead of being able to pull from their support. that s a brilliant analysis. can i just add something really quickly. someone in that candidate base should try to become an entrepreneur and go and reach out to the disenfranchised voters. we have 140-plus million people who don t
motivated an already energized democratic base to come out against the republican. so it is a mixed bag. bill: what i find interesting, the democrat ran a campaign you go to his website. no mention of donald trump. all the positions he takes are pretty traditional democratic positions, climate change, healthcare, etc. he doesn t mention ocasio-cortez and won t support pelosi. i think cortez will suck the oxygen out of the room because she is so far to the left. then you have democrats like you are speaking of who tend to be more moderate, that is the who are you? are you going to be socialist democrats? a significant part of your candidate base seems to be