We will begin with also a dramatic day at the trial of Paul Manafort. Long time business part rick gates was back on the stand and didnt Hold Anything back. Turning what had been a dry case about tax and bank records into a political soap opera. Today even challenging gates about an affair he had in london. Focusing on the financial details. Describing how under manaforts direction he falsified multiple documents about manaforts income. The prosecution also presented various documents including emails with manaforts own words showing he had knowledge of the fraudulent activity. Complaining about the taxes
Chris Matthews debates hot political issues with politicians, newsmakers and Washington leaders. Manafort. Paul manafort was aware of thighs bank accounts. Of course he was. He had control of them and secondly showed his involvement in alleged bank fraud and by the end, in 2016 when manafort was scrambling for money, over stated the income to get a loan from the bank. Cross examinatio
we will begin with also a dramatic day at the trial of paul manafort. long time business part rick gates was back on the stand and didn t hold anything back. turning what had been a dry case about tax and bank records into a political soap opera. today even challenging gates about an affair he had in london. focusing on the financial details. describing how under manafort s direction he falsified multiple documents about manafort s income. the prosecution also presented various documents including e-mails with manafort s own words showing he had knowledge of the fraudulent activity. complaining about the taxes
molestation and she was the victim of the father beginning at age 8, and victimized by her brother, and the back and forth of the mother at one point, and you know, cindy anthony from the earliest days of this was solidly behind her daughter, and when the evidence began to turn over a period of time, she still maintained that caylee was not dead and when i say that she maintained that, she maintained it past the dna evidence from the fbi lab confirming that this was caylee. in fact, she said in the courtroom here, that she admitted six weeks ago to herself that caylee was dead. so, people living in altered states as a result of not wanting to accept the reality of certain aspects of this, and then, you know, the best friend, it appeared in many ways for caylee was her brother lee who she actually looked at when he was on the stand and didn t give him a stern and angry look, but he was not in the courtroom as
a glance at the defendant in any particular case, but they are not staring at her and analyzing the demeanor of the way the rest of us are. and with cindy and george and lee on the stand, and jami, they did lock eyes with lee saying he was not invited to the baby shower, and caylee born, and again, all things that we wondered out loud had anything to do with the case, but it was apparently the right strategy. i agree with savannah that we on media and twitter and facebook and all of the other online sites that are so much more part of the trial than five years ago and certainly ten years ago, we pay a lot more attention to demeanor than the jury does, but it is important. i know when i was a trial lawyer, i spent a lot of time to talk to the clients about how to behave in court. you did not want a client too e motive or too stone-faced either, and you were very much aware and i was at least of what
accident in the pool? i think she has to do something and from a defense point of view, why not have her testify? if you are creating all of these theories you cannot in reasonable doubt say anything you want and ultimately allow the jury to say, it is reads b reasonable doubt, you have to it back up. who will explain the sex abuse? she ll have to. who will explain the fact that george came in and helped to dispose of the body? she ll have to explain that. and i think they created the scenario. jamie: george denies everything and, cindy, notes got on the stand and didn t say it happened, either. do you think casey must take the stand? absolutely, she must testify, the only way to flesh out the two theories, the first being to explain her post-death conduct and behavior. and, the second one, how the girl died and, without her testifying, this judge is never going to allow that attorney to sum up on that theory if there is not a shred of evidence that comes out during the final trial