WEBVTT - Moving A Stone - 8.14 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.000 Let not your heart be troubled. You are listening to 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.760 the Sean Hannity Radio show podcast. All right, eighty four days, 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:10.320 the biggest, the most important election in mid term election 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:12.799 are Lifetime. Glad you're on board. Glad you're with us. 0:00:13.160 --> 0:00:15.880 Right down our toll free number. It's eight D nine one, Shawn, 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:18.600 if you want to be a part of this extravaganza. 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:20.600 We got a lot of news that we are gonna 0:00:20.640 --> 0:00:24.320 get to today. Uh, it looks like the trial of 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:27.760 the century. The Paul mana for trial is now headed 0:00:27.760 --> 0:00:32.239 towards closing arguments. As What's interesting about this is the 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:36.840 defense is basically saying, well, the prosecution never prove their case, 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:40.199 and uh, sorry, we're not interested in putting on a 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:42.599 defense because we don't see a need for one. Now, 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.280 this is a common strategy, risky in a sense, but 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.640 you know, on the other hand, they're just basically telling 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:53.120 the jury we don't think you've reached the the beyond 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:57.400 a reasonable doubt standard in a particular case, and nor 0:00:57.440 --> 0:00:59.480 are we going to give you an opportunity to cross 0:00:59.560 --> 0:01:02.560 examine the witnesses we were otherwise going to bring on board. 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.399 And this case is now over and we'll make our 0:01:05.400 --> 0:01:09.640 final remarks and closing arguments in this case. Uh, the 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:14.000 star witness for the prosecution for Team Mueller was, of 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:17.400 course the partner of Paul Maniford, who faced well over 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.040 a hundred years in jail. You got to get out 0:01:20.040 --> 0:01:23.760 of jail free card by Team Mueller, and uh, you know, 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.600 which is a pretty incredible incentive. Every other person it 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.280 seems that testified in the trial was given immunity on 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.319 behalf of Muller and his team to just line up 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:37.000 against Paul Manafort. The media, I can promise you now 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:40.640 is you know they they they're just salivating in the 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:43.679 hopes and prayers. You're gonna get a guilty verdict against 0:01:43.680 --> 0:01:47.680 Paul Manafort. And you know, honestly the odds are against 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:51.880 him because you got a nine plus conviction rate in 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:55.560 federal courts like this. But I'm not so sure this 0:01:55.640 --> 0:02:00.200 is a slam dunk. I actually think the jury just 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:03.720 watching the how disgusted that the judge was in this 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:06.880 particular case, that this case was even brought to trial. 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:08.840 And now remember this is the same judge that said 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:11.919 that the prosecution they don't really care about a tax 0:02:11.919 --> 0:02:14.480 fraud case dealing with a two thousand and five to 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.840 two thousand and seven tax issue. That wasn't their motivation 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:20.280 at all. Let's be honest. He said, this is to 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:24.440 put the screws to Manafort, so Manafort will sing or 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:28.160 compose meaning makeup uh in the hopes that they can 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.480 get information from Manafort that they can use to prosecute 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:35.880 Donald Trumper impeached Donald Trump. That's the only reason they 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:40.040 did it. And everybody pretty much that is associated or 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:43.920 that was used by the prosecution in this case was well, 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:47.960 in a roundabout way, bribed, you're paid, Use whatever term 0:02:48.000 --> 0:02:52.040 you like. But if Rick Gates their star witness who 0:02:52.080 --> 0:02:55.760 admitted to being a liar, admitted to being an embezzler 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:59.040 and a tax sheet and committing all sorts of fraud, etcetera, 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:02.799 he's your main witness and he's given a get out 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.920 of jail free card. How much credibility can such a 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.880 person have with the jury. I've been using the example 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:13.600 of Sammy the Bull Gravano commits nineteen murders, he gets 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.600 a get out of jail free card, doesn't get prosecuted 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.000 for those murders, and on top of it, gets a 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:22.480 new life in Arizona with a new home and a 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.160 chance to start over with the government protecting him through 0:03:25.160 --> 0:03:29.560 the Witness Protection Program. Okay, Now, if you're facing charges 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.120 of nineteen murders, which means the rest of your life 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:35.600 in jail, and you're already a murderer, how much credibility 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:39.560 are you're gonna have testifying against anybody? And I think 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:43.240 this is an incredible flaw in our criminal justice system, 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.600 you know, because you're incentivizing people to say things, you're 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:50.440 giving them something in return for their testimony. In this 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.920 case of Rick Gates, the rest of his life potentially 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:56.160 in jail. So I I just don't know how much 0:03:56.200 --> 0:04:00.520 credibility they have here. There was an interesting article about this. 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:03.680 A veteran defense attorney argued many cases before Judge T. 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:08.320 S Ellis said that the incompetent performance by Mueller's prosecutors 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.840 during the Manaphort trial has exposed Mueller's democratic dream team 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:15.200 is the gang that couldn't shoot straight. The headline on 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.599 NBC news dot Com, a column by veteran criminal defense 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:21.599 attorney got by the name of Greg Hunter, said, quote 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:26.039 the Manafort trial judge snapped at Mueller's team because they're 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:29.719 not ready for prime time I've heard from many people 0:04:29.839 --> 0:04:33.360 that have gone before Judge Ellis, you better have your 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:35.520 act together, and you better have your game on, and 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:38.320 you better know what you're doing, because he will tear 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:42.120 you to shreds and has no problem at all doing it. 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.480 As we now have witnessed here, as he has dressed 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:49.920 down the prosecution again and again and again during this 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:54.279 this ridiculous so called trial of the century. Anyway, Judge 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:59.040 Ellis keeps yelling at the prosecutors. Now, it's not necessarily 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:02.039 good news for the defense. But as Greg Hunter writes, 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:05.560 I've spent my career defending criminal cases before Judge Ellis 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:09.720 and his colleagues and Mueller's team earned his ire. And 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.840 he goes on to say that you know I've I've 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.359 spent my my entire career defending cases in the Eastern 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.679 District of Virginia. Having watched the Mueller team in action, 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:23.400 I believe they earned Ellis's anger and and lack of 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:28.000 respect for their work and the jury's time. The fact remains, 0:05:28.080 --> 0:05:32.400 Mueller's team has to actually try Paul Manafort in this case, 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:36.000 and only Paul Manafort, and no matter how strong their evidence, 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:40.560 how righteous their cause, or how impressive their resumes maybe 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:44.440 and actually are. Mueller's prosecutors simply have not done a 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:48.719 very good job. This case started with the Mueller team's 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:52.400 first appearing in in Ellis's courtroom without consulting the local 0:05:52.520 --> 0:05:56.280 United States Attorney's office. The Eastern District of Virginia has 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:59.200 perhaps the best collection of prosecutors in the entire nation, 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:02.640 and Ellis doesn't see much of a need for anyone 0:06:02.720 --> 0:06:04.920 from across the river come and to help, let alone 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:08.240 to prosecute a case on their own. And Mueller's team 0:06:08.279 --> 0:06:11.680 mistakes didn't stop there. They did eventually bring in a 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:15.920 veteran assistant U S attorney from Alexandria along with with them. 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:18.599 After the first hearing, they didn't let him speak at 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:23.000 any motions hearing in May, where Michael Dreaming, perhaps the 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:26.680 nation's premiere ap pellet advocate, appeared to be poorly prepared 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:30.239 and less than candid with the court, earning them even 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:34.080 more of Ellis's ill will and through much. Although much 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.000 has been made about Ellis interrupting and reprimanding the government 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.640 from the first moments of the trial, even interrupting their 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:43.200 opening statement, the Mueller team invited these interruptions by repeating 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.480 the exact factual claims Ellis had already ruled were irrelevant 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.200 to the case at hand. You're not even reading the 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:54.520 judges orders and what the judges already resolved. The same 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:57.400 sort of treatment has continued throughout the trial, and the 0:06:57.440 --> 0:07:01.920 prosecucution continue to bring up irrelevant points, even though they 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.599 are often compelling. They've rolled their rise, They've complained, and 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:07.839 even once argued that they should be able to present 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:10.480 a chart the judge it excluded because the witness took 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:13.160 a long time to make it, rather than telling him 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.480 why they thought it was relevant. If you want things 0:07:16.480 --> 0:07:19.280 to go better and Judge Ellis's court, you have to 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.320 live up to the high standards that he demands. Every 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.400 attorney who has ever tried a case before him knows this, 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:30.480 including literally hundreds of current and former assistant United States attorneys. 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:33.960 Anyone who has simply google Judge Ellis's name and read 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:38.160 the coverage of other famous cases he's presided over knows 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:41.320 this too. And that doesn't mean I don't want people 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:43.560 to get their hope, So I you know, I don't 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:47.040 know what Paul Manafort did in two thousand and five 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:50.200 and two thousand and seven. I do know that there 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:54.160 that most of the people that testified in this case, 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:58.840 we're all given immunity, and that means against prosecution and others. 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.440 You know, in the case of the star witness, Gates, 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.160 I mean admitted to basically every single crime that you 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:08.960 could possibly admit, and being a liar and an embezzler 0:08:09.320 --> 0:08:12.360 and everything in between. Now, the question is how does 0:08:12.400 --> 0:08:14.920 he become their star witness and how's the jury going 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.880 to view that? Now, maybe it just comes down to 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:22.640 numbers and accounts and and the boring details of of 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:26.560 how money was exchanged or handled, which is that, I 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:29.840 guess the heart of the whole case. I have no idea. Well, 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:31.880 I think the thing that everybody's missing in all of 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.000 this is everything we talk about every day. How did 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:39.200 we get here? How is this Mueller's big case. You know, 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.440 He's got twenty nine people he indicted that are never 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:44.959 going to see a courtroom in the United States, So that, okay, 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.440 gives him a little Russia connection to this whole thing. 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:51.480 You know, he indictes the equivalent of CIA operatives in Russia. 0:08:51.520 --> 0:08:54.640 They're never coming to the United States. They seemed ill 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:58.760 prepared when they went after these Russian bot companies that 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:00.760 they say, we're trying to influence the election, but they 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.240 defended themselves in court, and Mueller says he wants to 0:09:03.240 --> 0:09:06.920 prevent them from even having simple discovery. That case seems 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:08.680 to be falling apart as well. If he's not gonna 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:12.760 allow discovery, then the case can't go forward. Means the 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:16.760 indictments will have to be withdrawn in some way. So 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:20.200 that's not working out particularly well. You know the fact 0:09:20.280 --> 0:09:24.760 that all these other people that are involved in the election, 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:30.160 and that that there are real crimes associated with the election. 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.720 It's obvious that if if you were to delete subpoena 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.400 emails and and use bleach bit on your hard drive 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.040 and beat up your devices with hammers, that I think 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.320 most of you listening to me would be arrested, just 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:46.160 like the Espionage Act has put innocent people in jail. 0:09:46.960 --> 0:09:49.600 Just like if any of you dare to ever lie 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:54.320 or commit a fraud before a visa court judge, good 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.560 luck to you in your life. It's not gonna work 0:09:56.559 --> 0:10:01.520 out well for you, which happened repeatedly by using the 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:05.800 the fake phony Clinton bought and paid for dossier with 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.480 a foreign national putting it together that turns out to 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:12.760 be Russian lies. And then they never verified or corroborated it, 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.240 but they signed off that they verified it, They signed 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:21.360 off that it was legitimate and corroborated. They purposely didn't 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:24.600 tell the judge that Hillary paid for it on four 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:28.760 separate occasions. That's a fraud on the court. That's that 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:33.880 is an illegitimate document presented to the court. Most of 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.240 us will go to jail over these types of things. 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:40.600 And all these Yates and Comy and and Rob rosenstud 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:42.480 they all signed off on this thing. No wonder why 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.079 they don't want to hand it over and allow us 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:49.719 to see the FISA court applications and the renewal applications 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:53.080 because we already know the bulk of information was steal dossier. 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.760 These are in same times we're living in. Now. You 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:00.520 know you're losing here. We we we've now healed away 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:03.880 every layer of the onion. McCabe has gone, Comey has gone, 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:07.760 Struck has gone, All these other people are gone. And 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:11.640 now we have the Inspector General report now leading to 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:15.120 an investigation into the FIS abuse. But we did have 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:19.240 real Russian information that was fed to the American people, 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.920 even visa v r C I A director Obama CIA 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:27.120 director at the time, the former communist Brennan handing it 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:30.840 off to Harry Reid, and then all of this through 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:34.600 Christopher Steele, Bruce Or and others being leaked to the media, 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:38.680 all designed to propagandize and misinformed the American people to 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.120 sway an election. On top of putting the fix in 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.600 on Hillary's investigation that was to keep her in the game. 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:49.040 And then a group of people beginning not only exonerating her, 0:11:49.080 --> 0:11:52.720 but then beginning this pony Russia investigation much earlier than 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.960 anybody and they had anticipated or saw, and that was 0:11:56.000 --> 0:11:58.880 their insurance policy after they had, you know, said of 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:02.200 course we're gonna stop him. We need an insurance policy. 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:05.200 It's like a forty year old dropping dead, okay, in 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.240 case Trump happens to win. And they've implemented all of that. 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:11.960 They care about Russia collusion. What about Adam Schiff on 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:15.680 the tape, you know, begging for every single solitary detail 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:19.120 of naked pictures of Trump and Russia that doesn't seem 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.960 to come up very often in Mueller's take. And I 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:23.760 guess they're going after him. And I guess now the 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:27.120 next target is Roger Stone will talk to him later today. 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:30.319 He's actually gone out there and said everything. They're obviously 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:34.000 targeting him. Why are they targeting him? What did he do? 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:35.920 Did he have any influence? By the way, what if 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:40.439 he did try to get you know, information on Hillary Clinton? 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:44.000 Is that a crime? Well, I mean, let's listen to 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:48.320 the conversation with with Adam Shift, Shifty Shift. We know 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:52.760 what he's done, all right. We see that Democrats insist 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:57.360 Peter Struck's firing doesn't undermine the legitimacy really of Robert 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:00.760 Mollow's investigation. Time will prove otherwise. I am convinced, even 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:04.480 though it was launched by Struck under false pretenses and 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:11.319 a obvious clear present political agenda. But i've Struck isn't 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.840 all that important to the destroy Trump movement? Why are 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:19.320 so many Trump haters rushing to pay his legal bills anyway? 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.559 You know who says that sending anti Trump text to 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.920 your girlfriend doesn't pay Anyway, Peter Struck, they see him 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.680 have garnered uh enough to raise more than two hundred 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.840 and fifty thousand dollars for his legal suspense on his 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:36.079 goal fund me page on Twitter page was launched on Monday, 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:39.920 friends of Special Agent Peter Struck. They initially saught a 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:42.479 hundred and fifty grand to be putting a trust dedicated 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:46.280 to his growing legal costs and lost income. That sung 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:48.120 was reached so quickly they now have gone up to 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.800 three fifty and they say, as a man of integrity, 0:13:52.080 --> 0:13:55.880 and we saw that on display clearly, Um, there are 0:13:56.000 --> 0:14:00.559 new developments. It appears that bruce Or had sixty plus 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:05.079 contacts with Christopher Steele, remember his wife Nellie were profusion GPS. 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:08.560 Congressman Mark Meadows has pointed out that bruce Or will 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:12.319 come before Congress on August and answer why he had 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:16.520 sixty plus contacts with the dossier author Christopher Steele as 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:21.680 far back as January. He knows the American public the 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:25.840 full truth, Meadows tweeted. Lawmakers obviously believe war now is 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.160 key to finding out how the Clinton campaign, the d 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:32.280 n C paid Fusion, GPS and steal to fabricate this 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:36.200 conspiracy of Trump and the campaign Russia collusion at the 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:40.280 top levels of the Justice Department and the FBI. Obviously, 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.680 or as contacts with Steele, the ex British spy that 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:47.120 put together the Russian dossier lies I said to date 0:14:47.160 --> 0:14:49.520 back more than a decade, and you know this is 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.240 the guy also to remember that was fired from the FBI, 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.760 and they continued contact both before and after the election. 0:14:56.440 --> 0:14:59.240 Emails handed over to Congress by the Justice Department show 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:03.880 that Or steal Will Simpson communicated all throughout as they 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.560 were digging up dirt paid for by the Clinton campaign 0:15:06.600 --> 0:15:09.840 and the d n C. In Congress rightly now is 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:13.440 set to grill Bruce Or on these secret contacts with 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:17.120 Christopher Steele, with the members of the House Judiciary Committee 0:15:17.120 --> 0:15:19.520 and others. This will be interesting come the end of 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:22.840 this month. Trey Gaudy telling Martha McCallum last night that 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:26.360 the Justice Department is doing what Bruce Ord does right now. 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:29.840 Both men are prosecutors. It's unbelievable a prosecutor would insert 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:33.360 himself into an ongoing investigation for which he had nothing 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:36.360 to do. Well, he worked for the Department of Justice. 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:39.040 We're getting to the bottom of it. It's getting worse 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:42.880 every day. It's all beginning to unfold alright now till 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:46.520 the h to the top of the hour. One, Shawn 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:48.360 is our toll free telephone number. Let me give you 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:53.040 the latest on manaforts defense team rested today without presenting 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:57.400 a case. Prosecutors resting their case yesterday. Closing arguments are 0:15:57.400 --> 0:16:01.200 set to begin nine am tomorrow morning. The attorneys will 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.920 confer with T. S. Elis, the third later today to 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:08.080 discuss jury interactions. Now there's eighteen counts of tax and 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.760 banking crimes and the jury has now gone home for 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.400 the day. They were brought back into the courtroom to 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:16.600 learn that Mantaford is not presenting a defense. The judge 0:16:16.600 --> 0:16:19.000 told the jurors to go home, reminded them, as always 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:22.240 that they must not discuss the trial, said the course 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:24.720 of the court is now in recess, when we will 0:16:24.800 --> 0:16:28.800 begin a hearing about jury instructions. On their way out 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.560 of the courtroom, the defense attorney Kevin Downing, said that 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.880 the defense rested because the government has not met the 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.520 burden of proof anyway. So what's playing out for the 0:16:37.560 --> 0:16:40.680 rest of the day today? There now having both rested 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:44.320 their cases, that the attorneys will now confer with the 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:48.440 judge discussed jury instructions. Ellis said he will announce his 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:52.080 decision on another technical issue that the attorneys have asked about. 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.600 And this all begins nine thirty tomorrow morning. Eat Ellis 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:59.360 encouraged each side to keep them under two hours, and 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.480 the judge old Manafort to the podium to answer a 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:05.040 brief set of questions, all before the jury was brought 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.320 into the room. Ellis asked if he discussed testifying with 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:11.040 his lawyer, I have your honor, Ellis asked if he 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:15.800 was happy with his lawyers. Man of Fort said responded affirmatently, affirmatively. 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.439 Ellis then asked if he made a decision about testifying. 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:23.360 I have decided. Ellis asked if Manafort would testify, No, sir, 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.919 he took a seat. Manafford is not obviously required to 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:30.760 testify because the Fifth Amendment rights against self incrimination. Ellis 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.840 made this clear during his brief brief conversation with Manafort. 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.359 You have an absolute right to testify before this jury. 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:41.159 You have an absolute right to remain silent before this jury. So, UM, 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:42.959 it's gonna be interesting. I think, you know, if they 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:44.840 do keep it to that, you could even have this 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:50.200 sent to the jury as early as tomorrow. And we'll 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:54.119 be watching all of this very very closely. Um, we 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:57.000 have other news today, It's some of which is pretty interesting. 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:01.680 National Democrats are kind of tending what is going on 0:18:01.960 --> 0:18:05.119 with Keith Ellison is not happening. It seems to be 0:18:05.200 --> 0:18:07.639 getting bigger and bigger. You know, if it was Donald 0:18:07.640 --> 0:18:09.720 Trump news that it would be all over the place. 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:13.360 But now we have a you know, apparently a high 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:18.160 profile Democrat, Keith Ellison. You know, Democrats have not said 0:18:18.200 --> 0:18:22.840 a word. Nancy Pelosi nothing, Harriston, Jilla Brand nothing, Hillary 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:28.160 Clinton nothing, Diane Feinstein nothing. What do we hear from 0:18:28.640 --> 0:18:34.760 Senator Warren nothing, Kamila Harris nothing, Maxie Waters nothing. Prominent 0:18:34.800 --> 0:18:39.680 Democratic women, the most vocal supporters of the me too movement, 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:45.119 They're all now circling the wagons seemingly around there party 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:50.399 leader Keith Ellison and um. You know, according to news 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:52.679 that has come out today, a second woman I has 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:58.000 accused Ellison of domestic violence and report supports this woman's accusation. 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.800 This weekend, a woman by the name of Karen Mona 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:05.719 Han accused Ellison, currently a candidate for Attorney General in Minnesota, 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:11.399 being physically verbally abusive towards her. Allegations were posted on Twitter. 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.159 We're also posted on Facebook by her son, and the 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:18.040 post has now gone viral, and she took to Twitter 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:20.840 over the weekend in a series of tweets to support 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:26.080 her sons post about the assault. Following these allegations, another 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:29.520 woman claimed that Ellison had abused her during a relationship, 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:34.640 and so we're gonna watch this unfold. But the only 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:38.040 difference is is his last name is not Trump. I 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:40.760 don't know what happened in this particular case. I wasn't there, 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:46.000 but certainly, uh, there is a different double standard as 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.040 it relates to the news media in this country, which 0:19:48.080 --> 0:19:51.320 is my only point. I do believe people deserve the 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:55.880 assumption of presumption of innocence until they're proven guilty. That's 0:19:55.920 --> 0:19:57.520 not how the media has been working in a lot 0:19:57.520 --> 0:20:01.040 of these cases. Um, what else do we have here? 0:20:01.200 --> 0:20:02.920 Some other news that I want to get to if 0:20:02.920 --> 0:20:06.359 we have time on Russia Gate? Um, if there's any 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:11.560 question just how a far Robert Mueller is in this 0:20:11.720 --> 0:20:14.879 Russia Gate investigation and how it's running out of gas. 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:19.040 His latest development, assuming it's true, could remove all doubt 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:22.800 The Hills reporting that amar Rossa is now saying she's 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:25.520 certainly willing to share recordings from her time in the 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:29.119 Trump administration with the Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and that 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:32.960 his office has already reached out to her, I mean, 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:37.119 you can't even make this up anyway. But asked by 0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:40.159 Chris Matthews if she has tapes from her time working 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:43.280 in the Trump administration beyond the two that she has 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:46.879 shared publicly in recent days, she said, I have plenty. 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:50.200 Anything Mueller would like to see, all of his office 0:20:50.200 --> 0:20:53.520 calls again, anything they want, I'll share anything they want. 0:20:53.520 --> 0:20:58.400 I'll certainly cooperate. She didn't elaborate on what previous interactions 0:20:58.400 --> 0:21:00.600 with the Special counsel what they may have involved, but 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:04.720 asked if she believes Trump will be impeached at this point. Yes, 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:09.159 and you just you can't make this up. You really can't. 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:13.320 Um What other news do we have today? I mean, 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:15.080 there's a lot going on, and some believe there is 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:18.159 some good economic news. Does anyone ever care about the 0:21:18.160 --> 0:21:21.920 good economic news we have? Small business optimism has now 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:26.040 hit a thirty five year high in the Country News survey, 0:21:26.160 --> 0:21:29.680 small business owners are now more optimistic about the economy 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:31.919 than any time since the beginning of what was the 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:36.119 Reagan Revolution and the Reagan Boom, which really began in night. 0:21:36.320 --> 0:21:39.919 Three year later, Reagan won re election in a forty 0:21:40.000 --> 0:21:44.119 nine state landslide. Small business optimism now marked as second 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:47.840 highest level in the survey's forty five year history, at 0:21:47.840 --> 0:21:50.439 a hundred and seven point nine, just below the July 0:21:51.680 --> 0:21:54.639 record high of one oh eight. According to the National 0:21:54.680 --> 0:21:59.240 Federation of Independent Businesses, the index reading was expected to 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:04.679 decline a notch from June's one seventy point one, and 0:22:04.840 --> 0:22:08.080 the rise to one oh seven point nine was four 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:11.520 basis points higher than the highest estimate that economy of 0:22:11.560 --> 0:22:16.119 economists that were surveyed by Bloomberg. July report also contained 0:22:16.119 --> 0:22:20.679 good news for workers with seasonally adjusted and that of 0:22:20.720 --> 0:22:24.000 small businesses now planning to create new jobs. Thirty seven 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:27.919 percent of owners said they have unfilled job openings. Small 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:31.600 business owners and now leading this economy and expressing optimism, 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:34.840 rivaling the highest levels in history. According to the n 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:38.679 f IB, President, expansion continues to be a priority for 0:22:38.720 --> 0:22:42.080 small businesses, who showed no signs of slowing as they 0:22:42.119 --> 0:22:46.720 anticipate more sales and better business conditions. We have other 0:22:46.720 --> 0:22:52.000 good news, President, Steel tariffs and now generated a multibillion 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:55.760 dollar windfall and new revenue for the US government, c 0:22:55.960 --> 0:22:59.040 NBC reports, and less than five months, the Trump administration 0:22:59.080 --> 0:23:02.280 collected more than one point four billion dollars in new 0:23:02.320 --> 0:23:05.960 revenue from steel and aluminum tariffs. According to a recent 0:23:06.000 --> 0:23:09.680 report prepared for by members of Congress, which, by the way, 0:23:09.840 --> 0:23:13.439 we all want free and fair trade. Congressional Research Service 0:23:13.560 --> 0:23:17.080 estimated between March and July the US read one point 0:23:17.119 --> 0:23:20.879 one billion and three four point two million from levies 0:23:20.920 --> 0:23:24.160 on foreign steal and aluminum, respectively. And now see those 0:23:24.240 --> 0:23:28.800 jobs coming back in a pretty significant way. Also, one 0:23:28.840 --> 0:23:31.840 other point on mueller landslide of the American people say 0:23:31.880 --> 0:23:35.439 they're losing patients with Robert Muller and his investigative fiasco, 0:23:36.600 --> 0:23:38.960 and they want him to wrap up things by election day, 0:23:39.000 --> 0:23:42.760 which kind of gives the bumbling special prosecutor a little 0:23:42.760 --> 0:23:45.280 more than two months. Two thirds of Americans would like 0:23:45.320 --> 0:23:49.760