Charges related to bank fraud, tax charges. So this is the moment where this courtroom will now finally be hearing from manaforts essentially his number two, his former right hand man, rick gates. And gates is the prosecutions key witness. He will be the next person to testify. Lets go first to cnns caris beganel. She is just outside the courtroom in alexandria, virginia. Tell me, when will this happen . Mere minutes . We have one more witness to finish testified today. Thats manaforts accountant. Rick gates is the witness thats up next. Many of thes attorney said that in court. This all came about as one of manaforts attorneys sort of dropped a bombshell alleging that rick gates embezzleled millions of dollars from Paul Manafort. He asked the accountant would that have been something she would have looikd to have known. She said she would. He teed all of it up by making
it appear that rick gates was the main person he dealt with. And he tried to suggest through his questioning of her
fwa has extremely tough sentencing laws. malice murder and felony murder carry a mandatory life sentence. the only discretion that the judge has in sentencing is life with with parole or without parole. even if the judge grants the possibility of parole. they have to serve 30 years in prison before they become eligible. that s quite a long time. when do you think we re going to i don t think they have announced the sentencing hearing yet, but how quickly do those normally happen post guilty verdict? it depends on the jurisdiction. there s not going to be a whole lot of suspense about the sentence. here i think that the next focus will be on the federal charges. and whether frankly they will cop a plea. since most will spend the rest of their lives in prison, they
julie: mike pompeo is supposed to be holding a news conference soon to tell us more on this. we will have that. and we thank you very much for joining us. good to be here. julie: fox news alert. cuba gooding jr. just arriving at a new york precinct after allegations of groping. he is supposed to be coming into court and pleading guilty to that. obviously, that s part of a plea deal. any time you are charged with something and you believe the evidence is mounting against you, sometimes you will cop a plea deal and you will plead guilty. most likely that seems to be what he will be doing. right now he is turning himself into police. he has been accused of groping two different women when the original accusations came to light, he did deny them. in many cases that seems to be how it goes. then later they realize, there s evidence, i m in trouble, then cop a plea. we will continue to watch as he
lied? did they lie because they didn t think they were going to get caught? did they lie because they were covering something else up? we don t know that he will provide on that, if anything. it raises the question. michael flynn, george papadopoulos, manafort, everyone we have seen for most part hasn t been charged with conspiracy against the united states. they have been charged with lying to fbi officials or the spe special counsel s office. they have to cop a plea. they have to cooperate, because they want to reduce their is senten sentence. that s what my kids did. this is as laura said, everybody is now in a position going for what the best thing they can do is. for rick gates, it s cooperating. for paul manafort, i think he is hoping for a pardon. again, the context. why did they all lie over and
high hopes. you can hear that and feel it fading here in moscow as a lot of them don t believe president trump can deliver better u.s./russia relations, we have been hearing that and now from sergey kislyak who has been an important figure over the past year, wolf. certainly. thank you very much. just ahead, michael cohen soon will learn whether he is getting substantial jail time as federal prosecutors have requested. was his cooperation worth it? we are going to take a closer look at the president s former personal attorney and his decision to cop a plea. your insurance rates skyrocket after a scratch so small you could fix it with a pen. how about using that pen to sign up for new insurance instead? for drivers with accident forgiveness, liberty mutual won t raise their rates because of their first accident.