The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Now, the defense was deep into its opening statement. The prosecution had finished their opening statement. Look, this is a dry case about tax evasion and bank fraud. But hanging over it is this enormous pressure that you can almost feel on Paul Manafort. He must be spending millions on this case. He has a team of Defense Lawyers. Hes wearing a suit to court, but hes going sleep in jail in a green jump suit. Hes facing 10 years in this case, another 15 in d. C. The government said that they had two dozen witnesses, and 100 documents, and theyre they essentially portrayed a story of greed and lies. They say that Paul Manafort reaped some 60 million for his work for this ukrainian oligarch, had it paid to avoid 15 million in taxes. And when the spigot turned off in 2015, he started milking
banks, continuing to commit tax fraud. What was interesting to me, what was the defense going to say . Beca
strawmen. and if democrats don t figure out a good message to push back and be the stronger candidate in 2020, shame on us. so it s long been thought of in presidential campaigns that in 2004, they don t turn on questions of foreign policy but they do on strength. now you have this caricature that is deep into the public s mind and in part because of your question in helsinki about donald trump as putin s puppet, you have him failing in north korea by any object tich ive an, he was cleary duped by north korea. it s more than just an affinity for dictators. it i mean, it does seem that when the tweet came out of nowhere, the all-caps tweet about iran, i thought okay, next