The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. The battle to save lives as President Trump sends a tweet about the fire that baffles even his own staff about the cause of it all. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. In the politics lead, rick gates, former number two on the Trump Campaign grilled right now about the plea deal by Defense Attorneys for former Trump Campaign chair Paul Manafort. Gates describing today in vivid detail of he says manafort engineered an elaborate scheme to avoid taxes. Prosecutors say manaforts own emails show him directing the money to multiple offshore accounts. Now, although conspireing with russia on the 2016 election is not officially on the docket, the sub text of it is looming over the trial. Gates says that manafort gave some control over a bank account in cyprus of a man of a
up until 2012 for consulting work for a ukrainian billionaire. Gates went into detail about how Shell
testified and you had the testimony of gates, as well, about russian billionaire deripaska loaning manafort $10 million in 2006 and we know in 2016 manafort according to the washington post offered a private briefing to deripaska on the state of the race. also, this interesting stuff about the guy indicted by mueller. and having some control over one of manafort s accounts in cyprus. right. never going to be that president putin having conference calls with manafort. right? probably going to be an oligarch, somebody with money, close ties to putin, the government doesn t work there like it does work here. all the ties. what is interesting here is i think anybody could have told you that manafort was a corrupt guy with ties to questionable governments before he was hired by the trump team. that wasn t exactly new. that wasn t exactly new. not surprising. i was joking with josh and
up until 2012 for consulting work for a ukrainian billionaire. gates went into detail about how shell companies were used to move money into hidden accounts in cyprus. in one instance, according to gates, a payment supported lobbying in the united states. gates stated that manafort reported some of the payments to u.s. tax officials as loans. though they were, in fact, income. adding that manafort was, quote, trying to decrease his taxable income. prosecutors demonstrated that manafort directed these activities through e-mails. there were hundreds of these gates said in court. adding, quote, typical prak us the wiz mr. manafort to send me a list of wire requests. gates admitted that he used information provided by manafort to create invoices or fake amounts of money for wire transfers but the money never actually went to the vendors. instead, it went to the banks. the purpose of this, according to gates, so that the wire
traditional republican territory. so the question really is, are traditional republican voters who have a habit of turning out, will their turnout pattern match that of the democrats or exceed that of the democrats seeing the surge of enthusiasm with low propensity voters. you heard of balderson badmouthing franklin county. it s where there are a number of people who might have voted for trump and might actually not like trump anymore. white women voters highly educated, suburban voters, that sort. right. to win a special election or any election you need more votes. the democrat to use this, o connor can use it to get people out and proud of their place they re from then perhaps he could swing it. ultimately the problem republicans have at a national level here is that they spent a lot more money on this race in this district. no doubt it s a race they should
the battle to save lives as president trump sends a tweet about the fire that baffles even his own staff about the cause of it all. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. in the politics lead, rick gates, former number two on the trump campaign grilled right now about the plea deal by defense attorneys for former trump campaign chair paul manafort. gates describing today in vivid detail of he says manafort engineered an elaborate scheme to avoid taxes. prosecutors say manafort s own e-mails show him directing the money to multiple offshore accounts. now, although conspireing with russia on the 2016 election is not officially on the docket, the sub text of it is looming over the trial. gates says that manafort gave some control over a bank account in cyprus of a man of a