agrees to furnish to the office, special counsel s office all documents and material that may be relevant in the defendant s position or control. the government also agrees to participate in undercover activities pursuant to the constructions of law enforcement agents or this office. the defendant agrees to testify at any proceedings in the district of colombia or elsewhere as requested by this office. your client acknowledges and understands during the course of the cooperation, your client will be interviewed by law enforcement agents. your client waives any right to have counsel present during these interviews and agrees to meet with law enforcement agents and government attorneys outside the presence of counsel. your client should testify fully, completely and truthfully before any and all grand juries in the district of colombia and
messages from oleg. one of the things he lied about is communication with rick gates. rick gates in september 2016 sent van der zwann documents with an encrypted app and he put him in touch with consta teen kiliminic. rick gates was connected to the mad and illegal scramble for cash right before manafort and gates joined the trump campaign. he was part of the initial deals that insured that debt. he was in communication with kilimnic managing communications between manafort while running trump s campaign happening during the trump campaign while they were the top two officials running it. manafort seems to have been
manafort seems to have been trying to trade on his influence in the trump campaign to get whole with oleg deripaska back in russia. there have been a lot of forgive me, a lot of dumb hot takes on the rick gates guilty plea today about how that s oh, too bad for rick gates or too bad for paul man manafort, nothing to do with the trump campaign, though. whatever rick gates will tell the mueller investigation about and traded 31 felony counts for is not about hiding money offshore and buying antique rugs in alexandria. clearly the mueller investigation has proven they have all they need to bring felony count prosecutions about that stuff. what gates was in a front row seat to see, what he was part of with a better vantage point than anybody else on earth was the central question of what was actually going on between the trump campaign and russia? and now he s mueller s star cooperating witness. ta-da.
election day, in the transition, he was a senior official and then he was the number two official in the trump inaugural committee. he was frequently seen at the white house and pro-trump outsiou outside group and longstanding committee. the national republican committee. people talk about him as manafort s deputy and a long-standing business relationship and proceeds the trump campaign. in terms on his role for the investigators you might have seen what and who he might have been exposed to in the time of a trump as a presidential candidate and trump as president, rick gates has potentially been witness to a lot more than manafort ever saw. he was just there for a lot longer for a lot of extra parts of this, the trump presidential
tonight,appreciate it. thank you. why do you think gates could be a key source of information on the central matter at hand here? well, you have paul manafort who is the campaign chair for a period of time and then you had corey land also played a role during the transition and thereafter. so he s in a position to see, you know, the whole length and breath of what was taking place. he traveled on the presidential plane for a period of time and he is obviously facing extraordinary liability and one of the messages that mueller was sending through the charge on the false statement and the other actions that we ve seen him take vis-a-vis paul manafort is he s not going to tolerate any non-sense. the worst thing for rick gates right now would be to agree to cooperate and then be found to