A roundup of the days events. Reporter he was a background political operative on the trump campaign, literally right there behind the candidate at the Republican National convention. But today, rick gates took the stand in a virginia federal courthouse playing the role of special counsel Robert Muellers star witness. Coming facetoface with his former business partner, paul manafort, gates testified that they committed crimes together, including not reporting more than a dozen offshore accounts. The prosecutor asking, were you involved in any criminal activity with mr. Manafort . Yes, gates answered. Did you commit any crimes with mr. Manafort . Yes, gates answered again. The two men spent years working sidebyside. In february, gates pleaded guilty to conspiracy and lying to federal authorities. But today, as a flipped witness cooperating with the special counsel, gates told the court he lied because manafort told him to. And he also admitted he embezzled several hundred thousand dolla
2016. On the left, congressman Chris Collins who was indicted on Felony Charges less than two weeks ago. He was the first to endorse donald trump for president. And then on the right side, thats congressman Duncan Hunter. He was the second sitting member of Do Know Support donald trump for president and now today he too has been indicted on multiple Felony Charges. Who was third . As i say, congressman Duncan Hunter probably considers himself lucky today. If youre going to get indicted, today was probably a pretty good day. Because the news of his indictment arrived on a day like no other. In this remarkable scandal ridden candidacy. We actually called Michael Beschloss to ask if theres anything like this. Has there ever been a single day in the news for any u. S. President that held similar
come one in u. S. History would be march 1st, 1974. That produced this headline the next day. March 1st, 1974, was the day a grand jury indicted Richard Nixons campaign manage here he had named Att
in here. ukrainians can t get anywhere with the new administration. giuliani goes over there and meet with the president and prosecutor. within a week, actually the kiev post says along with any help that ukrainian prosecutors might have been providing to u.s. prosecutors, the special counsel s office which was right then gearing up to the charge manafort with multiple felonies. that all goes away right after the giuliani meeting and within two weeks of giuliani meeting and the meeting of the manafort cases, presto, the ukrainian president gets his white house meeting he couldn t get anywhere near for months before that. again, this is new from the washington post columnist david
fruitlessly for months, it instantly comes through as soon as those manafort cases are shelved. so a new administration is sworn in here. ukrainians can t get anywhere with the new administration. giuliani goes over there and meet with the president and prosecutor. within a week, actually the kiev post says along with any help that ukrainian prosecutors might have been providing to u.s. prosecutors, the special counsel s office which was right then gearing up to the charge manafort with multiple felonies. that all goes away right after the giuliani meeting and within two weeks of giuliani meeting and the meeting of the manafort cases, presto, the ukrainian president gets his white house meeting he couldn t get anywhere near for months before that. again, this is new from the washington post columnist david
paul manafort apparently of interest here to the manhattan district attorney in new york city, who has been and has not been investigating the trump organization for many years now. what do you make of this development, first, reported by bloomberg news, picked up on by the new york times. i think there are a any number of state crimes that paul manafort undoubtedly is on the hook for and there is a little bit of a double jeopardy concern because new york s laws are very pro-defendant, when that defendant has been prosecuted by the feds, it can be difficult spell that out. i saw that in the piece. cy vance can t take in that mueller document and copy it and paste it in his own. it has to be markedly different. how different does it have to be? he can t charge manafort in new york state court with the identical crimes that manafort was convicted of or pled guilty to. but remember, manafort also took responsibility for ten crimes. those are the ten crimes that the virginia jury