Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. His plea agreement, including that he stole some hundreds of thousands of dollars from Paul Manafort, rick gates did, by filing false expense claims. So really, just a long list. It was remarkable to be there in the courtroom as rick gates over the course of 80 minutes detailing that long list of alleged crimes. So allegedly, theyre both Stealing Money through not paying taxes and other means, and then gates is also Stealing Money from manafort . Thats exactly right. So you have listen, this is one of those cases when i was inside there, anderson, having followed a mob priel or two, it struck me as you had the case of the bob boss there with his capo testifying against him. Of course in many cases like this, the person who is gates witness doesnt have the cleanest record himself. And that certainly holds true for rick gates. I should mention he also pleaded guilty to lying to federal prosecuto
between down-playing what happened on one hand to mocking it on the other hand. there s a lot of social media posts in iran. there s one of a girl with a paper plane sort of throwing it feebly into a wall, which is mocking israel s attempts to attack iran. i think what all that points to and suggests is that iran is not on the brink of retaliation and perhaps is looking at this is an off-ramp. the other area of reaction is from here in israel with the exception of the right-wing national security minister who would have wanted something far bigger. he s described it as being feeble. but we ve heard nothing from the war cabinet. maybe we will, but maybe actually they will also choose not to we haven t heard anything
not just from the houthis in yemen, for instance, international global trade through the red sea and gulf of adan but attacking american bases not so long ago from iraq and syria and killing soldiers. this does have the potential to escalate, and we re in a very dangerous situation and position right now. hezbollah the indications this morning overnight, having seen what s happened overnight there s a lot of down-playing not just for those in tehran but also here in lebanon with the hezbollah leadership making its initial statement pretty much disdainful of the attack. certainly the hezbollah leadership here pouring a lot of
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i also want to go back to something, nicolle, if we can about the impact of the defamation verdict here. because without down-playing that verdict there s something else that happened here that i think is remarkable. the damages on the sexual assault claim themselves were $2 million, and that s not because as a result of the sexual assault she suffered reputational damage, right? that s not about the truth or falsity about any statement. that s just from the assault itself. and this is a jury, again, consistent of six men, three women, at least one of whom had a rather bizarre and not particularly carroll favorerable media diet of listening to tim poole. they decided she was damaged to the tune of $2 million because the assault resulted in any number of loss of companionship, mental anguish, emotional distress, fear. that shows a real evolution not just in how we use defamation claims to address larger