Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. His plea agreement, including that he stole some hundreds of thousands of dollars from Paul Manafort, rick gates did, by filing false expense claims. So really, just a long list. It was remarkable to be there in the courtroom as rick gates over the course of 80 minutes detailing that long list of alleged crimes. So allegedly, theyre both Stealing Money through not paying taxes and other means, and then gates is also Stealing Money from manafort . Thats exactly right. So you have listen, this is one of those cases when i was inside there, anderson, having followed a mob priel or two, it struck me as you had the case of the bob boss there with his capo testifying against him. Of course in many cases like this, the person who is gates witness doesnt have the cleanest record himself. And that certainly holds true for rick gates. I should mention he also pleaded guilty to lying to federal prosecuto
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Knowing that was illegal. Cnn chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto is covering the trial. He joins us. Now what more did gates say on the stand . Anderson, you had the deputy there sitting within ten feet of his former his longtime boss, documenting by his accounts numerous crimes, alleged crimes by his boss, Paul Manafort. And the list started with them setting up 15 Foreign Bank Accounts which they did not report to the government for the purposes of hiding taxes. He said that they filed false income tax returns. He said they failed to file as foreign agents even though they were working as agents for a Foreign Government, in this case the prorussian Government Of Ukraine at the time. And rick gates said he did all of this, his words, all of this at the direction of Paul Manafort, saying these are crimes we did together, in
and that certainly holds true for rick gates. I should
obvious to most people being investigated for something. don t tweet about that something. it s like fight club but with twitter and russians. cnn has learned that this is the seemingly obvious piece of advice that president trump is now getting from some people around him, do not tweet about the 2016 trump tower meeting. that was the meeting attended by the president s campaign chairman who is now on trial, by his son-in-law and donald trump jr. who decided to meet with a russian-linked attorney with link tuesday the kremlin who was promising intelligence on hillary clinton. this was the meeting that was first concealed, and once it came to light was surrounded by a stonewall of misleading statements, obfuscation, and outright falsehoods, lies. the tweet went up yesterday. the president writing, and i quote, fake news reporting a complete fabrication that i am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son donald had in trump tower. this was a meeting to get information on an opponent.
ukraine as lobbyists and political consultants. a decade later, in 2016, manafort joined the trump campaign and brought his trusted deputy along with him. paul manafort has done a fantastic job. and all of paul s people. paul brought on his staff. and we really do we have a great staff of talented people. reporter: eventually, manafort took over the campaign and gates became his number two. gates traveled extensively with then candidate trump, and together he and manafort oversaw trump s vice presidential pick and devised a general election strategy. i have to credit manafort and gates for putting so much of that together before we arrived. gates got caught up in controversy early on. sources say he oversaw the process of putting together the plagiarized speech melania trump gave at the republican national convention, which he denied. the only limits of the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for
attack about president trump. because president trump has said has said. as a child, then you can say that lebron james is acting like a child because he is saying these things that are petty, that are childish about the president of the united states. so it goes both ways or it doesn t. no, no, no, no, no. lebron was telling the truth. it was donald trump who called the black athletes sons of bitches. it was donald trump who mistreated stephen curry and others who hadn t even planned ongoing to the white house. brother paris, let s be honest, it s trump who is using this kind of vicious language. vicious language? so if that s vicious that s right. then lebron james calling the president via twitter bum would be vicious as well. it s fascinating to me, paris. i get you re a supporter of the president, and that s your gig, and you can t publicly break from him because then you ll get in trouble, i guess. anderson, you re wrong. i m a grown man and i have my own op