Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Attorney for the Southern District of new york elly honing. Julia, start with you. Did somebody tell the president he could take over this investigation . Where is it coming from . Seems to just be coming out of his adlib interview as he frequently does. Sort of spins from the cuff here. Seems that this is coming from a place of increased rhetoric from President Trump. He wants to show that he has control over the situation. In fact a lot of times likes bringing up the russia investigation. Perhaps that plays to his base who thinks this is part of the witchhunt he describes treating him and others like Paul Manafort unfairly. It could be that hes watching what the coverage of the Manafort Trial, thats getting to him. Could be he sees people like don mcgahn, his white house Special Counsel speaking to Robert Mueller and heard a lot about the fact Robert Mueller could be preparing a slew of indictments to give himse
prior note, first note, suggesting they may be going through the counts very deliberately, one at a time. something i ve learned i wasn t familiar with is that in a case with heavy documentation, there are different ways to present that documentation to the jury s inthis case the judge wae wasn t amenable having the document presented at the time of testimony as evidence. they are, since they got into the jury room thursday have been going through the documents the first time. that alone would be a lot of work. yes. that was a serious handicap i think that the judge put on the prosecution. when putting in, financial documents are complex. sure. and what you want to be able to do as a prosecutor, have your agent, typically an fbi agent explain. put it on the screen. what does this clem mean? this column? how did we arrive at figures at the end? the judge cut short the prosecutors ability to do that. the thought of the jury figure that that out would you