defense budget as part of the commitment of the 70-year alliance. and since taking office the president has demanded that other countries pay their fair share and committed to 2% of gdp to be on defense. and spending is up 4.6% and the fifth year of grow so started in the last two years of obama and three years under trump and nine allies are spending the 2% of the gdp on defense up from three a few years ago so gains started before trump took office but a lot of gains since. it is something that he deserves some credit for, yes? i mean, every u.s. president has demanded nato allies do something more. that is not a new demand. the funny thing when nato talks about the budget, he said they should pay us or the nato budget. there is not a budget. there is a budget for the building. people pay for the military. the 2% target goal was in 2002
of course it was just last week where the jury heard that the chairman of that bank had approved that loan at the same time that he was talking with paul manafort about potentially securing a high ranking position within the trump administration. so now the prosecution has laid out all of their evidence and it remains to be seen exactly what the defense will do here. jim. we have the defense up tomorrow. do we know on the key question will manafort take the stand? reporter: that is the big question here. so judge ellis has said that he needs the defense to lay out their plan first thing tomorrow morning and that means we will finally get the answer to the question will paul manafort testify. that is the first thing that the judge will want to know here. of course, court watchers would be very surprised if paul manafort does take the stand, but we ll have that question answered tomorrow. you know, the defense has not submitted any witness list, any exhibit list, so it remains to be
juan, will still pay for it. there s about a 2,000-mile border with mexico in the united states. because of the rio grande in the mountains, the virtual fence, you only need about 800 miles of border wall. there is already 500 miles constructed. they want to improve upon it and add an additional 300. the sector chief says when they put defense up, illegal crossings dropped. it pushes it down to another sector. pushed it to the yuma sector. prototypes look good. 24 to 30 feet high, they are impenetrable. you had u.s. special forces tried to scale them, blowtorch them. they couldn t do it. the testing became so dangerous they had to stop doing it. he is going to go down there and an architect would try to look at the specs and take a look. maybe a hard hat and it s going to be a great photo op. looks like it s making progress.
it s thick. it s 32 pages including a cover sheet and signature page. but 32 pages of yes or no questions. i was surprised it took this long. i m expecting we ll get meat and potatoes. that s common parlance for a death phase of why this man does not deserve the ultimate punishment as afforded in the united states justice system. were you surprised that the defense in this particular case really didn t put much of a defense up? they acknowledged he was there. they acknowledged that he was part of this two-brother team that was involved in the killing of these three people the injuring of so many others and then later a police officer who died? there wasn t really much of a defense. they basically said yeah, he was there, he did it but the next phase, the sentencing phase they don t think he necessarily deserves the death sentence, maybe life in prison. no. i m not surprised in the least because defense attorneys work with what they re given. they don t get to create the script. the
franklin on the stand. he would have been disastrous. they didn t put much of a defense up. in fact, i don t think they presented any witnesses, had any little to say in court. your honor, please, at this time the defense will rest. when the brief three-day trial was over, it would take the jury just one hour to return a verdict. for count number one, we the jury in the issue joined find the defendant joseph paul franklin guilty of aggravated murder. 18 years after that hot summer night when two boys were gunned down for the color of their skin, justice was served. when you heard the verdict, what did you think? i was relieved and happy. franklin then actually told the judge he expected a little gratitude. your honor, i didn t even have to confess to this in the first place. i helped these people out solving this case. you know, i did not have to do that. the judge was unimpressed. you are a hannibal lecter.