Katy Tur hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Thats right, katy. You know, the president tweeted sunday in response to our article that he is not worried about don jr. , but people who have been talking to him on the phone say in fact he is worried about his son. He is worried about a lot of aspects related to this russia probe, which is getting closer and closer to him, to his family, to his associates, to his orbit. Its uncomfortable at the moment. There is some concern that he has that his son may be found to have violated the law somehow, you know. One person speculated maybe his son could have perjured himself in interviews at some point. I mean, the president just doesnt know at this point what could be in store for his son. It is a source of concern and its one of many things thats fueling what were seeing, which is a real public lashing by the president of mueller again and again and again, tweeting more than he has before about the wit
into evidence so far show gates is the one providing information to accountants or bookkeepers. it s certainly true that gates played a direct role in forwarding this information that the government says are clearly lies, but the government s point is that he did that at manafort s direction. if gates lied, he lied because he was doing what manafort wanted. and that s going to be the argument that s going to play out this week. joyce, politico reports that the defense is basically manafort was too busy to cheat the tax man. manafort was so busy, the defense argues, he wouldn t have had much time to get into the details of which accounts were used to pay his bills, but while it seems indisputable that manafort sometimes had a hectic schedule, it s not as if he was all work and no play. he doesn t seem to have been too busy to visit tayloreilors to b fitted for custom-made suits or to pick out the ostrich or