A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. Have Breaking News about President Trumps former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. His righthand man rick gates face a grueling crossx admitting to an afarks a secret life, and lie after lie about money. And the question now is who will jurors believe, the acued liar Paul Manafort or the admitted Liar Rick Gates . Cara scan nell is outside the courthouse. How did it go for manafort . Well, manafort was really trying to put Rick Gates On Trial today. His Defense Lawyers were Hammering Gates about his lies about his admitted lies to the special counsels office, about false filings and Bank Accounts that gate had done in his own personal life, and really they were putting the focus on whether he embezzled from Paul Manafort. And there was a bit of a jockeying between gates and manaforts Defense Lawyer about where the money came from. Gates was not making many admissions. At various times he said he couldnt recall things whereas on dir
a tremendous amount of impeachment material. sought start of the cross-examination usually involves something like what we saw today from kevin downing. so ann, the defense, you know, they forced manafort to repeat that he lied to the special counsel. let s just be honest here. because we don t lie. 20 times he met with the special counsel. 20 times. before they agreed to do a deal. which means he lied a whole lot to bob mueller before he decided to stop lying to bob mueller. he admitted to stealing from manafort, helping manafort cheat on his taxes, said he may have taken money from the inaugust ralt committee funds which there s a brig brouhaha over where that money went because there s no trail. lied to his wife, had an affair. on and on. was it way good idea for gates to go on the stand? i think harry s point is exactly right which is this is like a roller coaster. yesterday you saw just gates on the stand with the prosecutor going through all this evidence. it looks like wow, th