Now, before the brd to sell mcd to the National Enquirer for a million dollars. At one point, prosecutors revealed the Text Exchange between davidson and the tabloids editor where davidson joked, throw in an ambassadorship for me. Im thinking aisle of man. When asked whoi he made the joke, he said it was a reference to trumps candidacy, that if the tabloid bought the story, it would help trump. I want to bring back in vaughn hillyard. Kimberly is a boston globe columnist and msnbc political analyst and jeremy is still with me. Criminal Defense Attorney and former prosecutor with the manhattan d. A. s office. If you were Donald Trumps Defense Attorney, what about this mornings testimony worries you most . Well, i think its established that not everyone had an agenda. You have farro whos connecting the dots. You have the sense of urgency. Establishing intent or basis. That court of texting you just referenced, im saving the future of potential president s backside. Everything is really s
into the billing. if manafort got on the standard they d be able to run to their entire proof using him as a witness and it could very well undercut whatever good effect they got out of the cross-examination of gates. the other thing is, if manafort think there s any chance he will get convicted, defendants who take the stand and don t do well, particularly if there is an indication that they haven t been truthful, they can get an exacerbated high sentence on the basis of the way they testify. so he s probably better off leaving at this point. melissa: and what about the path back to that they didn t want to put on any other witnesses though? this has always been the big problem that they have had in this case. they want to make gates into the big event of the case but what people need to remember is, mueller indicted this case