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he was there for a lot longer and for a lot of extra parts of this, the trump presidential era that manafort ended up missing. rick gates becoming a cooperating witness i think is a big leap forward in terms of how much a window the mueller investigation is going to have in all different phases of the trump candidacy and the trump presidency. now, rick gates today pled guilty to two felonies. one of them is lying to the fbi. interestingly, though, this guilty plea for lying to it fbi, it s not for something that happened a long time ago but something that happened really, really recently which he pled guilty today, which he admits to now, it was something that happened earlier this month. february 1, 2018, a lie about a meeting a few years ago that relates to him and paul manafort lobbying for a foreign power without being registered as
uh huh, sure. still yes! xfinity delivers gig speed to more homes than anyone. now you can get it, too. welcome to the party. breaking news tonight about a trump aid trying to cut a deal with bob mueller over past crimes and committing a new crime along the way. as a legal reporter i have to tell you i have never reported on a situation quite like this breaking news right now. trump aid rick gates pleading guilty to lying to mueller s investigators on february 1, 2018. that s just three weeks ago and it s months after mueller had charged gates. so that s sort of funny, right? here s a new crime that gates committed, he admits that after mueller charged him. typically your lawyer won t even let you talk to prosecutors after you get charged, but this
mission and am committed to making decisions with objectivity based on the best available evidence in the long-standing tradition of monetary policy independence. mr. president, thank you again for this extraordinary opportunity to serve the american people. thank you. thank you, j. [ applause ] all right. president trump nominating jerome powell. j. powell, to be the next chairman of the federal reserve starting february 1, 2018, which would have been the beginning of the second term of janet yellen. i want to go back to diane swonk, standing by. diane, there s really nothing wrong with jerome powell as a pick. there wasn t really anything wrong with, diane sorry, with janet yellen getting her second term. by most account she s done a very good job as fed chair? i think of world of janet