Court to say that on the record so it s clear that manafort is making this decision on his own. but the defense has not said what they plan to do yet and they have to do that tomorrow but trying to make the case through various witnesses to get the bankers to say that they did know some of the documents were not perfect, that also the bank made errors on the applications. so the defense strategy to try to get some punches in where they can against some of the witnesses and we ll find out tomorrow if manafort will take the stand or if the defense will call any witnesses or just rest their case, as well, jim. quite a moment. thanks very much. coming up, former apprentice star omarosa manigault newman reveals she recorded her white house firing and a phone call with the president. does she have more recordings? president trump gloating over the firing of fbi agent peter strzok who sent anti-trump
Nonsense and hypocrisy on both sides that was going on. break it down for us. what happened? well, i was in the room on saturday night and i mean there was really this icy silence that fell over the black tie crowd at the hilton. michelle wolf s performance was cutting, there were some pretty raunchy material that she brought out, people were saying it was a real kind of classic comedy club performance but it was some pretty tough remarks about sarah sanders, the white house press secretary and kellyanne conway who both were in the crowd. sarah sanders just a few feet away. i mean, you felt the whole room watching every tick and facial expression that was going across her face. and, you know, it s basically become the talk of washington. there s this whole inquisition about it. as the tweets showed, president
Trump gloating calling this an embarrassing failure, evoking that classic seth meyers monologue and, you know, essentially saying this dinner needs to totally end or completely start over. well, listen, it does need to start over. i think most of us think, mark mckinnon, enough with the comedians. it s time, place, manner. growing up i loved the sex pistols, i wouldn t have brought them to first baptist church pensacola even if i could have, i would have listened to them somewhere else. same with the clash, same with it s time, place, manner. artists are artists, don t bring them in to ceremony and then be shocked by what they it just reinforces the worst things people think about the press. it s anachronistic and it should change. i hope it will now. a lot of people are saying i think what made some people uncomfortable about the sarah sanders things and everybody can debate, liberals can pretend that the overall arc of it
President decides whether or not to publicly release the democratic memo unanimously approved by the house intelligence committee last night. the democratic rebuttal challenges the accuracy of the declassified gop memo, crafted by committee chairman devin nunes accuses the fbi of surveillance abuses. we want to make sure that the white house does not redact our memo for political purposes and obviously that s a deep concern. reporter: the president attacking ranking member democrat adam schiff ahead of monday s vote, calling him one of the biggest liars and leakers in washington. but praising nunes as a great american hero. and during a speech in ohio, mr. trump gloating about nunes s memo, which he falsely claims vindicates him in the russia investigation. oh, did we catch them in the act? they are very embarrassed. they never thought they were going to get caught. we caught them. they re like the great sleuth.
President trump gloating on twitter after congress threatened to to shut down the government. cnn anchor jake tapper received an e-mail trump campaign sent to supporters with the headline democrats caved. joining us now is democrat congressman henry cuellar of texas. he voted yes on the spending deal. does that mean you caved, congressman? no, i ve been a big believer since the republicans shut down the government in 2013. by the way, he did not gload. he said, let s get back to work. i don t believe you should shut down the government on any