A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. Admitted to lying about and cheating. It doesnt get more clear than that. Is manaforts bet at this Point Go For Pardon from the president . Or is it what, have people think gates is a worse liar . Whats the strategy . I mean, the pardon play is a lot of moves out here. So i think the strategy seems to be to run down gates to say, you know, i was just a patsy. I wasnt that hands on, which was contradicted by his own bookkeeper and i was the victim of gates nefarious activity. The problem is here, first of all, everybodys dirty. This is only the best people, erin. As we say. Only the best people. But it also really does show the way that the International Political consultant class really has become a grift. These folks, really, they talk about populism, they use it as a political strategy, but they are making more money than most working folks will ever see in their life in a year and still go broke. Thats how corrupt and incompete
allegedly again. this famously bars him from talking or posting or communicating publicly about his case. they say this wasn t like a one-time thing, they list eight examples including a online post that they basically say his defense team exposed the intelligence community. the prosecutors are calling for a new hearinging whether stone has broken the terms of his release, what keeps him out of jail awaiting trial. this judge has been somewhat restant to put stone in jail the way many other defendants are treated around the country. in fact, even after he posted a picture of the judge herself next to what many interpreted as crosshairs, she provided him a second chance. all of this comes, of course, at an interesting time because the trump justice department at a higher level, not the line prosecutors going after stone tonight but at a higher level intervened unusually to try to keep manafort out of a prison in new york. if these were any other defendants or if it were actually liter
excessive. he s been a good friend to others. what i don t understand is why the president is praising and feeling sorry for a man who defrauded american taxpayers for at least $6 million. you know who else wonders that? many trump advisers. they wish the president would be quiet about paul manafort. they wish judge ellis of alexandria would be their spokesman. could have been. he is making the best case for this administration. the deputy chief of staff out as the communications head. the president going on and on, talking about possible pardons. they wish all of that would just be noise. it s tell lis case, diminishing the mueller probe. that s what the white house wants. there s a video right now, of a whale almost swallowing a person swimming in the ocean. and he spits him out. trump needs to spit manafort out. and the chairman of the intelligence committee needs to get rid of cohen. stay away from both of them. they re not good for either party.
alexandria, virginia. joe? reporter: good morning, john. star witness back on the witness stand today. he got about 45 minutes in front of the jury yesterday before breaking for the evening. he is laying out what the prosecution says are years, years of financial crimes that occurred before these two top political operatives assumed the helm in the presidential campaign. block buster testimony in the trial of former trump campaign chairman paul manafort, as a one time apprentice turns on his mentor. manafort s long time business partner and former trump campaign senior aide rick gates, not holding out any punches. he opened 16 foreign bank accounts to hide money from the government. cheated manafort out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by
manafort says he s bankrupt in 2016. now, the thing is, gates was sayi gates admitted to a lot of lying. cheated manafort out of hundreds of thousands of dollars. that was an incredible admission. he admitted to lying to his own accountant. he s an admitted liar. does this help manafort s argument that gates was the mastermind, even though, of course, manafort s landscaper and ostrich coat provider and mercedes benz dealer said that he did it all himself? well, you know, it s going to come down to not just what gates says but all the other evidence admitted in the trial. whether that s through other witnesses, the other accountant who testified last week, the documents, the digital evidence, all the types of evidence that has been assembled and the prosecutors have put on. gates testimony is in addition to that. but from my perspective he is incentiveized to tell the truth