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is glaring right at him, does not look like he is really blinking much, just waiting for him to look over as far as i can tell. gates has not looked over, but only one person, the defense attorney between them, it is really interesting, because at one point today gates was trying to explain how it is that he would help paul manafort, his old boss reduce his tax bill by doing things like faking a loan or making income look like colognes. and apparently in 2014 when the tax bill came it was higher than manafort was expecting, emailed to rick loyd s, i just saw this, not happy, wtf, he has spent most of the time on the stand explaining how he figured out his taxable income, wired from overseas, and to wire money from overseas to high-end retailers for fancy suits or construction
projects, they needed a little bit more of a paper trail, but gates said that he falsified invoices. the mueller team is asking a lot of questions about consultancy
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manafort into paying his american express bill and may have fraudulently submitted personal expenses to be paid by the trump inaugural committee. the defense team says they exposed him as unreliable. after all the laws you ve told you expect this jury to believe you? gates said i m here to tell the truth and take responsibility for my actions. mr. manafort had the same path. i am trying to change. he says if there are charges of financial funny businessman fort always knew where the money was. the judge jumped in to say manafort wasn t that great knowing where his money was if gates was able to steal as much as he was admitted to stealing. gates was told that the manafort defense team will have at least another hour s worth of questioning for him this morning starting at 9:30 local
time. we don t know who the mueller team s next witness would be that they might call. we know they plan to wrap up their case, rest their case sometime this week.
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ahead but there are about 8,000 provisional votes that need to be counted. can you believe how close this is? [cheers and applause] we are in a tied a ball game. for democrat danny o connor to be in a race this tight in the district, no democrat has won this in 38 years and that had him delivering wet sure sounded like a victory speech last night. you believed in us in a race that the pond and said we had no chance even being in. you proved them wrong. by getting close won t be enough to help democrats retake the house this november. they have come close and for other special elections in reliably red districts, but they have only 11 of those. they are banking on a wave of energy. do you believe that president trump s support is the reason you wanted? i don t believe it s the full reason i want but it was deftly helpful.
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that s 1,754 votes ahead in a sdlact h district that has been in gop hands for three decades. the official outcome way not be known until other ballots are tallied and the race could be headed to a recount if the k candidates end up within 1% of each other once the votes are certified. this morning, balderson is claiming victory. o connor has not conceded. regardless, we ll see a rematch when they compete for full term in congress. welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, august 8th. with joe, willie and me, we have associate editor of commentary magazine noah raufman. former treasury official and morning joe economic analyst steve rattner and national political correspondent for nbc news and msnbc news, is he still away, steve kornacki.
but you see this same thing happening. they re bleeding. republicans are bleeding so badly right now in subu
is alleged in the indictment that he illegally relaid the results of that drug test so that his son could trade on that information. so his son, cameron collins, has also been indicted along with the father of his fiance. the two men made more calls and in the end prosecutors allege theed inners saved themselves more than $700,000 from this tip received by the congressman. and what happened to investigators not in the know, the indictment says when the company announced its clinical trial was a bust, the stocks went from 46 cents a share to a more 4 cents. a mere 92%. let s talk this over with our
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stock transactions himself, he s liable as a tipper, someone passed insider information down the line. i don t see anywhere for him to cooperate. there s not a lot of good news for the representative. we see the video of him. he s at the white house for a picnic. gets this phone call from this pharmaceutical company sayin