A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. Have Breaking News about President Trumps former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. His righthand man rick gates face a grueling crossx admitting to an afarks a secret life, and lie after lie about money. And the question now is who will jurors believe, the acued liar Paul Manafort or the admitted Liar Rick Gates . Cara scan nell is outside the courthouse. How did it go for manafort . Well, manafort was really trying to put Rick Gates On Trial today. His Defense Lawyers were Hammering Gates about his lies about his admitted lies to the special counsels office, about false filings and Bank Accounts that gate had done in his own personal life, and really they were putting the focus on whether he embezzled from Paul Manafort. And there was a bit of a jockeying between gates and manaforts Defense Lawyer about where the money came from. Gates was not making many admissions. At various times he said he couldnt recall things whereas on dir
The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. Saw as obvious that he is all about protecting trump. Good afternoon, everyone. We begin with the politics lead. President trump seemingly signaling he could be taking some sort of move against the Special Counsel Investigation Tweeting out a series of debunked claims about the probe before writing quote stay tuned. It was eight days ago that the president tweeted that Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop the Mueller Investigation. Keep in mind this president did fire the then fbi director with the russia probe foremost on his mind. We could hear directly from the president as he is hosting a Round Table Event from new jersey and also possibly factoring in the stand off between him and mueller about whether the president will ever sit for an interview. Rudy giuliani saying the president will not answer muellers questions about his decision to fire comey or any e
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he s trying to pin on manafort were in fact done by gates without manafort knowing. if manafort didn t know about this, maybe there are other things he didn t know about. i think that s actually a good line of cross-examination because it doesn t just say hey, this is a bad guy. if he s a bad guy, paul manafort s partner for all these years was a bad guy. you need to if you re the defense show why he s lying about the crime. so ann, to this point the jury s not just watching gates. they re also watching the judge. according to the washington post, at the end of the day today gates said what all of the accountants and bookkeepers and landscapers and mercedes-benz dealers have said, which is that manafort was in charge and he kept a close eye on things. but the judge, judge ellis, interrupted and said, he didn t know about the money you were stealing. sew didn t do it that closely. now, this comes from the judge. obviously, we know this judge reprimanded the prosecution, has repeat