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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 manafort s 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. we ll have to see which version the jury believes. ken, how long can we expect gates to be on stand and, number two, what is manafort s defense right now? they were really motoring through gates testimony. generally this court wraps up at 5:30 but i ve got to believe he ll 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 prepa ....
Foreign official in don jr. s case, a russian lawyer offered dirt, presumably stolen information about an american candidate, this is apples and orange and the president is the trying to suggest to us that an apple is like an orange. it is not. they are different. julie, the president also turning his sights as he so often does on speaker of the house nancy pelosi. he called her comments fascist and disgraceful which seems farther than he s gone in the past. pelosi, of course, saying that trump doesn t note difference between right and wrong. who is goading who here, and and who is coming out on top? well, i think they are both goading each other, but i would say that it seems like nancy pelosi really has gotten under president trump s skin, and we ve seen this happen time and again. she made had a comment last night during an interview, you know, he does a lot of projecting. he used the word mashist. when he says nancy is nervous, that means he s nervous and when nancy is a mess ....
It seems it s near the time that the meeting between shinzo abe, the prisms japan and the people leader and one entity that s very much respected here is the supreme court leader so it s difficult to see how a rogue operation would take place at that time. whether they completely overlap sun clear. it s interesting, alex, because that s exactly what the iranian foreign ministry said today. they said, look, what would we have to cane from conducting an operation like that exactly at the time that these two are meeting each other? again, unclear whether or not the in fact they did do it or didn t do it, but certainly that s the reasoning of the iranians. they said they had no reason to do this, and they certainly said the timing would not have been one that would have favored them, alex. admiral you know the waters well and were you out there as a young naval officer. we obviously now have significant potential for military escalation. ....
I was with the head of france and was with the head of all of these nations and i m constantly talking to hem, and, you know, that puts us in a we have many, many conversations. i m just thinking, gee, if they say we don t like your opponent and i supposed to put the president of france, am i supposed to report him to the fbi? queen elizabeth slipping opposition research across the table and the other example he used with emmanuel macron of france. can you engage in anyone engaging in that kind of behavior? i used to meet foreign government officials all the day. i used to have to fill out a form which half the time i didn t do, i violated a rule, but there s a fundamental difference obviously and let s make sure. this is funny but not. let s make sure we understand it. you have dinner with a foreign official and say what should our policy be in iran? that s what the president is talking about, dinner with the queen, for example, or lunch with the queen. you have a meeting with a ....
There is an impeachment inquiry, and would i hope more members would get behind that. reporter: behind the scenes, democratic leaders are seeking to tamp down calls for impeachment. just this week holding a private meeting with the house general counsel to lay out their litigation strategy and passing a resolution expediting lawsuits to enforce their subpoena. house speaker nancy pelosi insists her strategy is working. what we re doing is winning in court. reporter: the democrats indeed have won two early court cases to obtain some financial information after the subpoenas were not complied with. house intelligence chairman adam schiff agrees with pelosi, but he is now calling for an even tougher approach, to levy heavy fines on those who defy their subpoenas. i think a daily accumulating fine will get people s attention. if they lose, they are going to owe the congress of the united states a lot of money that. may convince them to cooperate. reporter: there have been more th ....