Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. You need a recount. If that is correct and get what it is, the other thing we know is they have apparently under state law until august 24th to certify this election. Were sitting here on august 7th, weve got 17 days, more than two weeks until this has to be certified. If you have that tenday waiting period and then it comes under 0. 5, you know, youre short of that certification. So the law isnt putting a real lot of pressure on them here to get this certified. The law as we understand it is saying its going to be ten days before they can open these. Again, if im a betting man, if you come out here and say, kornacki, your life is on the line, who is going to win this thing, i would tell you balderson, he looks in much better position than oconnor to win this thing. Are you telling me are you sure hes going to win it by more than 0. 45 points and therefore avoid a recount, oh, no, i wouldnt tell
here is your star witness. he s in an interesting location within the trial. it s mostly a paper case. i guess this means you ve got to end strong. you ve got to have a great closer and wrap it all up for the members of that jury. the most important thing you can do as a prosecutor when you re putting on a cooperating witness, you know they re going to take some damage. you know the defense is going to score some points on them. you have to be able to rally back with corroboration, independence evidence that backs up the corroborator, so you re not just saying to the jury, take this criminal s word for it. what we ve seen so far, the mueller team has done a great job of doing that. all the witnesses leading up to rick gates, the accountant, the bookkeeper, the vendors, have had a common theme of, man aenforcememanafort knew where every dollar went.