star witness. he spent today detailing, sometimes tediously, how he and manafort committed these financial crimes. gates testified how manafort directed him to lie about his income and fake company records. now, manafort's defense team is in the middle of cross exam eng gates, trying to convince jurors that gates who is cooperating with prosecutors to reduce prison time can't be trusted. we heard president trump's name come up, the campaign came up because the jury saw evidence that manafort tried to leverage his connections on the trump transition, aka, his friendship with rick gates to curry favor with one of his lepders. joining us nbc news tis correspondent pete williams and mimi rocca from the southern district of new york and msnbc legal analyst. i think she gets to stay dry by contract. anyway, people, let me start