Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Manafort is turned his direction. One can only imagine what is going through manaforts mind, because if you believe the prosecution version of the case, gates knows all his secrets and is about to expose them to the jury. If you believe the defense version, gates is setting manafort up and framing him. Well have to see which version the jury believes. Ken, how long can we expect gates to be on stand and, number two, what is manaforts defense right now . They were really motoring through gates testimony. Generally this court wraps up at 5 30 but ive got to believe hell be back tomorrow on direct and then there will be a lengthy cross examination. The defense really rests on tarnishing gates. There was some devastating testimony before gates from Cindy Lapartyorta who made the understand that she had no idea that Paul Manafort had overseas accounts. He was supposed to disclose on his taxes. She prepared the taxes and
it s gross. russia is an adversary, at war with them, undeclared war. russia is an adversary country and it is gross to try to seek advantage in a u.s. election from an adversary. in a funny way, we would not be having this conversation if it was england because you wouldn t assume the country looking to dig up dirt on somebody did not have america s best interests at heart. russia did not have america s interests at heart j not friends of this country. you think it s enough, too. i don t know if it s enough legally, enough morally. that the president didn t have enough standing to sit in the oval office? i think that s a perfectly fair thing to say. if there is a legal standing, it is something he shall have to answer to the voters for in 2020 if he stands for re-election. one thing the trump team has tried to say about all of this throughout the course of the