Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Knowing that was illegal. Cnn chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto is covering the trial. He joins us. Now what more did gates say on the stand . Anderson, you had the deputy there sitting within ten feet of his former his longtime boss, documenting by his accounts numerous crimes, alleged crimes by his boss, Paul Manafort. And the list started with them setting up 15 Foreign Bank Accounts which they did not report to the government for the purposes of hiding taxes. He said that they filed false income tax returns. He said they failed to file as foreign agents even though they were working as agents for a Foreign Government, in this case the prorussian Government Of Ukraine at the time. And rick gates said he did all of this, his words, all of this at the direction of Paul Manafort, saying these are crimes we did together, in
and that certainly holds true for rick gates. I should
The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. Associate independent counsel for the Watergate Investigation and the clintons, and former ethics czar, belongs to a Watchdog Organization that filed multiple lawsuits against the trump administration, and also with us cnn legal and political commentator, former Virginia Attorney general. Ill start with you. The president in his own words admits to making the payment. Your reaction . Kim or ken . Kim, go ahead. Ken, well go to you next. All right. Sorry, i misheard. Go ahead, ken. Who do you want to start . I think this is going to come down to whether or not this is deemed campaign efforts. The president long before his campaign had been in negotiation periodically with a couple of these women without keeping
as you talk about credibility though, you do bring up a good point. Michael cohen has said a lot of Different Things about this payment. But i also want you to take what we just heard from the president admitting he
Densically record shows wrong acts on that scale here. It shows a president who delayed meeting a foreign leader and provided assistance that congressed a his own advisers agrees serves our National Interests in promoting democracy and in limiting russian aggression. Saying, russia, if youre listening, you know, a president who cant have the Constitution Say russia if you are listening, but out of our elections. It shows a president who did this to strong arm a foreign leader into smearing one of the president s opponents in our ongoing election season. Thats not politics as usual. At least not in the United States or not in any mature democracy. It is, instead, a cardinal reason why the constitution contains an Impeachment Power, put simply, a president should resist foreign interference in our elections, not demand it, and not welcome it. If we are to keep faith with our constitution and with our republic, President Trump must be held to account. Thank you. Thank you, professor ger h
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