This is cnn breaking news. You are in the cnn newsroom. Im ana cabrera in new york. We begin with breaking news. The los angeles time is reporting former trump deputy rick gates has agreed to plead guilty to fraud. It makes him the third person we know of to cooperate with special counsellor Robert Mueller. I want to bring in sara murray with more on breaking news. What is involved in this plea deal . What are you learning . Reporter we thought it was coming. On friday we reported that rick gates was close to finalizing a plea deal with special counsel bob mueller and was poised to cooperate. According to l. A. Times he will plead guilty. He will testify against paul manna for, his codefendant in this case. It was a criminal case regarding financial crimes before he had anything to do with the president ial campaign. Now, both of these men pleaded not guilty to those charges. So, you know, it is obviously a worrisome development for Paul Manafort, the fact his codefendant in this case is willing to engage in this plea deal and testify against him. According to the l. A. Times rick gates could spend about 18 months in prison. To give you context, the charges he was facing he could have faced upwards of ten years in prison if he had gone to trial and if he had been found guilty. This is a person who has a young family. He has four young children. He was facing personal pressure from his loved ones to kind of get this over with, but he was also facing financial pressure. It would have been very expensive for him to continue with this, to go to trial. Now, if you are bob mueller, what does it mean for the grand scheme of things . What does it mean for the russia investigation more broadly . It could mean a couple of things. One, cooperation from rick gates obviously means you are moving closer to being able to get what you need on Paul Manafort, to move forward on him. It could also put pressure on Paul Manafort to cooperate with the special counsels investigation. We dont know if he could be building up to Something Else. Rick gates cooperation could be kind of a Building Block in the special counsels investigation either to bring charges against President Donald Trump or against some of his other associates. We just dont have a good sense of how valuable this information is that rick gates is providing the special counsel in exchange for this plea deal. And as the white house tries to down play his role, what was his role exactly, sara . We do know he was with the trump team longer than manafort. Thats right. Look, the white house basically said if rick gates strikes a plea deal and wants to cooperate against Paul Manafort, it doesnt botter us her us. It all has to do with activities before they were on the campaign or involved in the president ial transition at all. As you pointed out, Paul Manafort was fired from the campaign, rick gates stuck around for a while afterwards. While he wasnt necessarily involved in the president ial transition, he played an Important Role on the inaugural committee. He helped raise money, worked on President Trumps inauguration and after that worked for a nonprofit supporting President Trump. Ultimately he had to leave that role because of connections with Paul Manafort. Sara murray in washington. Thanks. Lets bring in cnn legal analyst michael zell deny, a top assistant to Robert Mueller formerly, and lynne sweet. Michael, lets start with you. What are the implications of this reported deal. Where is it going do you think . Well, first thing is that he appears to be making gates plead guilty to the first count in the indictment, which is a conspiracy to defraud the United States. Thats based on his failure to register as a Foreign Agent and based on his failure to disclose foreign bank accounts. Thats the only thing that speaks to fraud in the indictment. There isnt a substantive fraud count, so it must be if the l. A. Times reporting is correct this conspiracy to defraud the United States. We know mueller likes that charge because thats the exact charge brought in the russian indictment, conspiracy to defraud the United States based on the activities on social media. What it means for gates personally is, as sara reported, under the sentencing guidelines probably about 18 months. Additionally, in this indictment theres a forfeiture allegation, which means anything involved in or traceable to the crime the government can forfeit from rick gates. Sarah talked about the financial pressure he is under. This will be a financial penalty on top of the jail term. So theres a lot that rick gates is going to suffer from this plea deal. With respect to paul manna poaft seems clear this will be a terrible day for his defense team. Rick gates and Paul Manafort seem by the indictment to have been inseparable over the course of the allegations set forth in the indictment. If gates can say, this is what manafort and i did together, then they have a harder time saying it was a mistake or accident or unintentional behavior in some respect that might form the basis of manaforts defense. With respect to the president , it is not clear whether he has anything to say about that. Let me ask you, swinn, about what kind of response we can anticipate from the white house. Do you think they will respond tonight . Well, perhaps not tonight. In terms of what response we might expect from the president , i think the best response we can hope for or the most likely response from President Trump is for another sweet or at Public Statement distancing himself from rick gates and saying, i dont even know who he was. Now, it is true that rick gates played a fairly senior role on the Trump Campaign and did work on the inauguration, and then went on to work for tom barrick for a little while as his righthand man. Barrick is one of the president s top advisers and a longtime confidante. Since the campaign, as we reported at the daily beast over the summer, rick gates is a funny figure in the trump world because President Trump actually maybe hate is a strong word, but if not hate really dislikes rick gates. He never really respected him or cared for him during the campaign, and theres a good chance he might not even remember what rick gates looks like at this point. This is not someone like mike flynn who was complicated or rolled up in the whole trump russia affair and scandals, who the president had a strong personal affinity towards. This is someone who he and many other figures in trump world very much consider a hangeron. So, lynne, rick gates says, weve mentioned a couple of times hang on a second, michael. Lynne, i want to get you into the conversation. Given his role as Deputy Campaign manager, stuck around even after Paul Manafort was dismissed, what do you think is the possible exposure here for the president . The exposure is what gates knows not just from the jobs he held during the campaign but what he knows from manafort even before, because we know that the Mueller Investigation is in separate buckets. He could comment on the bucket of just what manafort had in his dealings, and then he might just also as somebody who was there, might be a witness to things that we cant even imagine having to do either centrally to the Russian Investigation or to a branch of the investigation now that we know the depth and the breadth that is taking place with muellers probe. So, michael, in your Legal Expertise and knowledge of the workings of mueller, do you think it is in a separate little silo of its own in terms of the investigation or do you think this could be one strategy to ultimately get back to the heart of the investigation dealing with russian meddling . I think, ana, it is probably both. I think that this financial crimes work stream is separate and apart from collusion and obstruction workstreams in large measure. However, in the case of rick gates because he was such a close confidante of manafort and because manafort was at the june 9th meeting at trump tower where those russians came to give dirt on hillary clinton, rick gates may know from his communications with Paul Manafort about that meeting, how it arose, what the nature of the contacts with those russians were before and after that meeting, whether there was any sort of collusive agreements. So it could tie back to that socalled collusion workstream, but thats speculation at this point. We just dont know whether the facts support it. I want to ask cnn political commentator and doug hyde to the conversation. Doug, when charges with first announced against manafort and gates, the president made sure to point out on twitter theyre related to his time before the Trump Campaign, again dealing with ukraine and some tax evasion, other issues related to being foreign lobbyists. Is it possible this deal is totally separate from the grander russian probe do you think . It is certainly possible it is separate from the probe, but it certainly wont be separate from the larger conversation were having not just about indictments or pleas but everything connected to the Trump Campaign and russia. I got an email from a member of congress about five minutes ago, republican member from a district that trump won pretty easily that said, here we go again, and the next sentence said and we dont know where it will stop. That ultimately is i think the biggest challenge and threat to the administration, is we dont know how farreaching this will go. These investigations can go in any direction they want to and take on lives of their own. That should be very troubling to the administration, and it is certainly troubling to republican members of congress. Aswin, some legal experts suggested this could be putting gates in a position to ultimately put more pressure on manafort, which obviously is connecting down the road to the larger investigation, and the president has sort of minimized the role on the campaign that Paul Manafort played and hasnt attacked Paul Manafort either whenever asked by reporters. Do you expect him to continue to play nice . Well, i certainly anticipate that the white house and the president of the United States himself will continue to, if not play nice, continue to pretend that top tier figures such as paul man afort were essentially campaign volunteers, even though the entire premise of such a thing is im sure ridiculous to many of your viewers and everybody on this panel. He led the campaign, Paul Manafort did. Thats hardly someone who wasnt in the know in a lot of this. Rick gates was his righthand man in much of the time that Paul Manafort was there helming the campaign. However distanced the white house wants to put between itself and these guys, whenever you are the president of the United States and these ongoing scandals and inquiries and investigations are roiling your administration, it is never a good idea when your former Deputy Campaign manager is in a situation like this. And, lynne can i add one thing . Sure, go ahead. Sorry. Go ahead. I was just going to add one thing, with respect to the pressure on manafort remember the day before yesterday mueller made a filing in court which said that Paul Manafort may have committed mortgage fraud with respect to obtaining a mortgage thats right. That he has used for property that may be related to his bond status. So they are really pressuring manafort in a whole host of ways. Gates is just one part. This new mortgage fraud allegation in closeddoor session to the court is another. I think they want manaforts testimony, and i think it is going to be hard for manafort to withstand the multiplefront pressures he is under. Lynne, i wanted to ask you about kind of the political spotlight on what manafort has revealed in his investigation so far i mean what mueller has revealed in his investigation so far. If it does come out that this really is all about Paul Manafort and Money Laundering or some kind of fraud, is that going to be a win for the president essentially . Well, no, because this is still unfolding. Like i said, there are different buckets. So the manafort bucket might go to financial fraud. We have the indictment of 13 russians this week that speaks centrally to russian meddling in the campaign. My bottom line point about gates, because he straddles both of these worlds, which is why his flipping is important, he could talk to the political operation and he could talk to manaforts personal financial situations. Thats why i think it is a very significant get for the government, and even though hes not a household name in this drama, hes a threat to the trump large, unfolding scandals, controversy, even if it never touches President Trump directly. This is certainly expanding, and if manafort just ends up being in trouble for financial crimes, thats only a part of not the whole story here. Thank you all. Thank you. Coming up, live in the cnn newsroom, a nieft breaking news. 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The main point is not to have to let the russians get all over our electoral system and run it until we indict one or two people for one thing or another. Weve got to stop what they are doing, and that takes a different approach than just indicting and convicting people who have screwed up in some way. Well, i guess, number one, you have to admit that this happened. National security advisor h. R. Mcmaster said the russia launched an influence campaign in 2016 was incontrovertible. The president tweeted, chastising his National Security adviser for making that comment. Here is the tweet from the president today. General mcmaster for got to say that the results of the 2016 eeks already not impacted or changed by the russians and that the only conclusion between russia and the crooked h, the dnc. Remember the dirty dossier, uranium. Why dou think the president is going after mcmaster when it comes to the obvious when it comes to russian meddling . I dont know. It seems pretty straight forward what mcmaster said. The key thing is to stop it from happening. I think one thing we want to do is to try to see if we can get the price of oil down 10 or 20 a barrel, down into the 30s or at least into the 40s. So russia the main thing itself overseas, oil and gas, that russia is put in a real tight bind economically. I was negotiating with the russians back in 79 or 89, 90, 91 when the berlin wall went down. I tell you, you have never seen such friendly russians, accommodating russians. Once they saw the key part of their infrastructure, their sort of political infrastructure falling apart, they got to be relatively easy to deal with. I think thats what we ought to do to them, is undermine their ability to make what money they do now from oil and gas. Well, people are saying why arent you implementing the sanctions that Congress Passed almost unanimously, and even since this indictment came down on friday President Trump has tweeted at least 13 times about it but he hasnt even once condemned russia. Well, the tansanctions would useful but theyre tiny compared to getting down in the 30s or 40s with the price of oil, lets say. Should the president condemn russia . Should the president say, this is not okay . Should the president acknowledge that russia attacked our democratic election system . It doesnt matter what he says. What matter is what he does. What is he doing . If he can undermine their power, which it depends very heavily on a high price for oil, if he can june mine thundermine doesnt have to talk. He doesnt have to say what he has succeeded in doing or not succeeded in doing. Reagan and casey did something that very, very badly messed up the natural gas system of the thensoviet union and they didnt say a word about it. Russians sure knew what we were doing and they were devastated. What are you seeing this administration do in order to prevent russia from meddling in the upcoming 2018 election or even beyond . Because we heard the current cia director pompeo yo say it is happening. This is not a board game. We dont have to respond in the same way that they come after us. They can come after us with cyber. It doesnt mean we go back at them on cyber. We can do Something Else if it is more effective. What will be more effective is letting people switch fuels in their cars so they can drive on whatever is available when they pull up to a filling station. That would drive the price of Petroleum Products down, and that would be hundreds of times more devastating to the russians than having to put up with a few of these relatively minor sanctions. I hear what youre saying in terms of what you believe should be done, but i think my question is what is this Administration Currently doing to have an impact, to thwart additional russian attacks . Because it is laid out in detail, this 37page indictment, what they were doing in order to successfully manipulate americans who were planning to vote in the election. Absolutely. But we although we need to try to get them to stop that, we dont need to rely on replying with steps that are analogous to what they are doing. We can do something much more effective than we dont need to mimic them. No, i get what youre saying, but is that being done . Are the steps that are necessary being taken . No, it is not. Not close. Okay. Let me have you listen to what deputy a. G. Rod rosenstein said on friday when he announced the indictment. Now, there is no allegation in this indictment that any american was a knowing participant in this illegal activity. Short and sweet. President trump says thats proves theres no collusion between russia and the trump camp. The Deputy Attorney again says though that theres no allegation of that in this indictment. Arent nose criticthose critica there, in this indictment . Sure, it is an important issue and we need to get it right, but it is not going to have a big effect on what the russians are doing. Look, the russians have been interfering in the elections and the like going back into the 20s and 30s. What is new is not their interference with the elections, what is new is theyre able to do it with computers. So the whole business of the cyberattack is relatively new, and that has made it difficult for us to defend against some of the things theyre doing. But we should not play the same game theyre playing. We can be much more effective than them. If you were running a counterintelligence investigation, would President Trump refusing to acknowledge russia meddled in the election make you suspicious . Well, maybe, probably not necessarily. It is an investigation there are two kinds of investigations that can be done under 401, basically looking at crime and another looking at counterintelligence, which is really just a matter of collecting information. So a counterintelligence investigation doesnt necessarily produce criminal violation and collusion is not a word thats used in the statue. Theres no bar, statutory or otherwise as far as i know against colluding. What there is is a bar against conspiracy. That, of course, would be a serious matter. But that hasnt been claimed here as far as i know. Can you think of any reason why the president wouldnt use the words that his National Security adviser used and put a point and an ex practi exclam point on this. I dont care what words he uses but what he does. If all sorts of vehicles drive on whatever they want, one of two fuels lets say, electricity or ethanol, if they can switch fuels when they come up to the filling station they can drive the price of oil down. If they drive the price of oil down, it makes so much more difference than the way in which we indict someone for conspiracy to work with the russians. That has to get done right. It is important, but it is nowhere near what would happen if russia had to face 30, 40 a barrel oil consistently. They would be about as unhappy as countries get. James woolsey, thank you so much for coming on today. Thank you. Coming up, the community of parkland, florida buried three of its 17 shooting victims today. The emotional memorials next. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Edible color, sound and streaming. Just as the creators intended. Up to 40 off at dell. Com Customer Service d. Maam. This isnt a computer. Wait. Youre real . With discover card, you can talk to a real person in the u. 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But as his family and friends memorialized him in Temple Bethel today, they tried to remind us all he was a hero long before his actions wednesday. He was a hero because of the way he lived his life, with compassion and kindness. His girlfriend, gwen, said he was a hero long before wednesday, but he was too humble to know it or admit it. Listen to more of how she characterized her boyfriend. The love we had for each other was special. We completed each other. We made each other better people. He was the sweetest, most loving man i have ever known. Reporter gwen says scotts humor was what first made her fall for him. He heard more about his humor and wit also from the assistant principal of Stoneman Douglas who told us she knew about two or three minutes into her first meeting and interview with scott he was someone she wanted to work alongside and someone who she wanted to help shape the stie students of Stoneman Douglas. Earlier, Alex Schachter was remembered, a 14yearold boy who loved music. He plays in the school as marching band and orchestra. He was one of four children in his family who had already endured the lost of their mother in 2008. This afternoon Jamie Guttenberg was also remembered. A young, talented dancer. Orange was her favorite color, and dancers across the country in competition this weekend could be see wearing orange ribbons to honor her. Both alex and jamie had brothers who were also students at Stoneman Douglas who were able to escape wednesdays tragedy without harm. Ana, one last update for you. We know that four students now remain hospitalized, all in fair but stable condition. A little good news there, to hear theyre recovering. That is a good sign. Thank you, kaylee hartung, for that report. 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Would it be different if he had, say, radical islamic views or holding a kay adams raun instead of wearing a make America Great again hat. Joining us is cnn political commentator and conservative ben ferguson. Dean, you have said the president would react differently. Would he . Absolutely would have reacted differently because weve seen that. He has a track record of that. After the two terrorist attacks in new york, one where the man drove a truck and killed people, he instantly called for the end of what he calls chain migration, way call family unification, a law since 1965. After a man that did an attempted bombing on the subway here, he found out the man was in the Diversity Visa Program and called quickly for scrapping a program thats been in place since 1990. Theres no doubt in my mind, and i think no one watching doubts if this gunman was muslim or was an immigrant, an undocumented immigrant, donald trump would use either of those scenarios to jin up fear and try to get policies he wants in place that would be more extreme. Thats the reality. No one could watch it and say it is not true. It is absolutely true. Can you say it is not true, ben . I would say youre dealing with two different scenarios here. One, if you have someone thats come into this country illegal for the example he gave or someone that nuclear snuk in sn country who was a jihadist, that deals with a Border Security issue and clearly it would be only right for the president to mention or talk about that. This is someone who lived in this country. This is an individual and we have other issues here that we clearly have to talk about. Why is it that the fbi missed two major warning about this individual . How is it that he was able to post online and so many people warn, including some at the school that said they knew he was going to do this. Sure. But i dont compare the two situations because theyre completely hypothetical and different. But it is not hypothetical because the president has reacted to other things without having all of the facts in front of him just based on a persons name. If this person was mohamed instead of nikolas cruz, you think he would have held his fire . If someone is yelling al ah huah akbar, it is clear for him to respond to that. Espousing homophobic views and antisemitic views is not a threat . No, now youre asking me a completely different question. I think you should also denounce that. I think at some point the president needs to come out and make it clear that this individual is not someone that he would want to be associated with. The fact that he wore this hat is something that obviously we can talk about, but the original question that was asked to me was wouldnt the president react differently. It is a completely different set of circumstances. I have no problem denouncing this individual. Clearly he was disturbed. Clearly what happened here was wrong. Clearly there were mistakes made in our government that we should all be asking questions about and account can ability. But right now what i know is we had real chances to stop this shooting beforehand and we didnt do it. So whether this guy is wearing a trump hat or a clinton hat doesnt matter to me right now. Dan. What matters to me is after the Las Vegas Shooting where 59 people died, after a shooting in a texas church where people were there to pray and they were murdered, donald trump had the same reaction in terms of policy. Nothing. He did nothing. Im not going to say blood is on his hands, but i can tell you you just said it by saying youre not going to say. There are mothers and fathers burying their children because donald trump did nothing, because the nra spent 31 million to help him win. The Republican Party has been complicit in this, and on the age of conspiracy, you know, to me it is stunningly scary we have a commander in chief who will not stand up and say, 30 americans die every day. Today, ben, 30 americans will die. Seven children will die today by gun violence, and this president will not say the words gun violence or access to guns. He will talk about Mental Illness when only 4 of shootings deal with Mental Illness. This is the world we live in. People will die today and hell do nothing about it. Go ahead, ben. One, im the victim of a gun crime. I dont know if you have had a gun pointed at you, if you have had a gunshot at you from pointblank range. I have. I had a gun and was able to fight back and save my own life. I know the two guns used in the shootings against me were stolen weapons. I know they were against me. I know the two who committed the crimes against me were convicted felons, so multiple gun laws with broken because they werent allow to have guns anywhere in the country. You look at chicago. They have the highest homicide gun rate and illegal gun rate in that city. To say you will pass a law and it will fix a problem with Mental Health is false. By the way, in chicago ben, can i ask. One at a time. Dan, i will let you respond in a moment. Finish your point, ben. Hold on. You have an individual here who never should sbrn able to get his handson this gun legally. You had multiple warning. Thats what we should be focusing on here. The government has been telling us if you see something, Say Something. We had people from florida all the way to mississippi doing exactly that, going above and beyond to contact the government, and we did not do the job right to stop this individual. But, ben we should be focusing on that. Back to the original topic though, when a muslim person carried out an attack in the u. S. , the president immediately called for increased immigration vetting. Correct. Why isnt he calling for increased background checks for gun buyers, for example . What increased background check would you call for . Closing the gun show loophole. This has nothing to do with a gun show loophole. The law you described would not have federally licensed gun dealers, you and i know. That connecticut, they closed the gun show loophole, gun violence and murders are down 35 . In states where they closed the gun show loophole, it is working. Getting rid of bad apple gun dealers. Having a federal gun trafficking laws which republicans wont allow us to have. Having requirement of a secured storage of a gun. We will never get to zero, but lets have one less mother cry over a dead child. How about five less mothers and fathers crying over a dead child . Thats enough for me to change the law. Lets not give false hope. What you have described i dont make up statistics. Let me finish. When you give false hope a gun show loophole would have stopped what happened in florida when the gun was bought not through any loophole you are describing, you are putting a political ideology ahead of real things that could have an impact. Five to seven kids will die today with gun violence. Nothing to do with that shooting. Closing gun show loopholes by the way, six of the seven guns involved in chicago crimes dont come from chicago. Have you to know that right now. They come from indiana. We know that. It is an old, tired talking point. These are lies youre talking about, ben, lies. Again, i had a gun pointed and shot at me. Im sorry about that. I know the gun laws that have an impact. We need to put people away when they commit crimes for laws. The two people that pointed a gun at me got out early on Good Behavior from gun crimes. The gun show loophole, the information you put out there, would have had no bearing on this shooting in florida. On this, but on the five or seven kids that will die today, yes, maybe it would save their lives. Lets have less mothers and fathers die over their dead child. It brought Brooke Baldwin to tears. Lets save one mother from heartbreak. Is it not worth it to pass a law to save one mother crying over a dead child . Seriously, the gop stand up, show leadership, something to prove theyre not a coward. I understand what youre saying. Lets be clear about something. Youre not talking points. It is reality here. Let me finish something thats very important. When you look at what gun laws actually have an impact, you keep going back to this same list. You want to talk about what could have had an impact in florida and stopped this shooting and the people that brooke was talking to . Lets talk about the fact we had see something, Say Something and it didnt work and accountability there. Lets talk about the fact clearly and many republicans, im one of them, is in favor of Mental Health laws if you have been committed against your will and a judge declared your insane or temporarily insane, you should not be able to go out and buy a gun. Thats the law right now. You are advocating the law we have. It is not the law everywhere. You are adjudicating but lets look at a couple of facts here, ben. First, there is a lot of ree research that hasnt been done when it comes to gun violence to investigate what could help that situation because theres a law that prevents that research from being conducted. Yep. On a national level. We do know of an analysis, for example, that cnn has done on our own, when you look at some of the states that have passed some regulation for example, limiting gun magazine sizes, those states have seen a decrease in mass shootings. So there is at least an anecdotal evidence it could have a positive impact in Something Like that. We also spoke with a gop donor from florida who is a gun owner himself. He has a concealed and carry permit, he tells us, and he says enough is enough. Why not ban these ar15 style weapons . Who needs an Assault Rifle . Would you be on board with doing Something Like that, ben . Here is what i know. I know that criminals commit crime with another gun if you ban one gun. What i do know is if you look at one of the School Shootings that happened very close to my hometown in jonesboro, arkansas, an ar15 wasnt used. It wasnt on the market yet. You had adolescent children that were able to have a Massive School shooting there and kill teachers there for more shooting with a basic rifle. So if you think that every time you ban a gun, its going to somehow make it safer, you obviously have not talked to the criminals out there who say, fine, you take that one away, im going to do another one. I think this young man had mental issues. We have seen that clearly. We have to deal with the mental issues here and we have to deal with the responsibility of adults who are under their care, if they are under age 18, and make sure the guns dont fall into the hands of a child that has mental issues. Were talking about serious issues here. Those are the laws im focused on. I know the criminals. They have no problem adapting and changing and moving to another gun. We have obsess bed about an ar. I have to go and i gave you the first word so ben will have the last word. Thank you for the passionate debate. We all want solutions here. Amen. 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