A news show featuring the top headlines of the day from pop culture to politics, which are discussed by a rotating panel of four women and one man. Witness. The judge in this case did once back in may accused special counsel of reaching with these charges and using financial obligations to pressure Paul Manafort into spilling secrets i could have hurt the president. He seemed at the time to be challenging the scope of the special counsels mission since these charges have nothing to do with alleged election interference, but he allowed the child to go on anyway. So fastforward to today, jurors just heard that all the 18 charges against Paul Manafort are financial including allegations of filing false tax returns, bank fraud, and conspiracy to commit tax fraud. They allege that minna fort never the irs about 60 million he was paid that were backed by russia for lobbying work and consulting that he did long before he was ever associated with the Trump Campaign. Manafort was initially brou
fact of them potentially using this to go after the president. that s what i don t like. i m not saying this guy is an shady. but that s wrong. that system wasn t designed where you leverage to go after when you have no evidence of collusion with the president s, you didn t try to put pressure on this guy for a crime. katie: my question on that is, yes, that that way the system works but in order for paul manafort to be used against the president, there would have to be there. and at this point, we haven t seen every evidence that there s any crime for any member of the trump administration or campaign in terms of collusion with the russians. jessica: and other a lot of people who say we want is to speed up, we want to know what he has and we want to come to a collusion because it s ripping up the country, although every other investment patient before had destroying the country. paul manafort s lawyer was clear today that he would not be cooperating. we will see how the next three