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
white working class voters who came to trump are bleeding back a little bit towards the democrat. might. i emphasize might because we re at 1%. it s just worth watching as it comes in. if you go to the district as a whole, danio connor is winning. it s coming in as we would expect. the franklin part of the district given the early part of the lead. this is curious. we ll keep counting. curious and keep counting. 5% of the vote in overall, as we we continue to talk, you ll be able to watch on the bottom of the screen. keep your eyes on the bottom of the screen as you listen to what everyone is saying. i want to now go to jeff zeleny. jeff zeleny, the president obviously watching all of these races closely. ohio and kansas, of course, where he also endorsed a controversial candidate for the governor race. erin, no question the plot be watching these results come in very carefully. he has a lot on the line once again today. don t forget, his name is not on the ballot in this mid terre
area, the most moderate republican area. it is closest to the urban area of columbus. so this is where we expect danny o connor to run the strongest pu. now, if he keeps the marge lynn like that in franklin county he s off to a great start. about a third of the vote in this district as you re discussing is down here. but this is what the democrats want. get off to a big early start. but just have patience. we re going to be at this a while. these rural areas are critically important to the republican candidate. and we don t have any votes in yet. but if you re danny o connor this is the way you need to come out of the gate. i would just say, though, we re going to be at this for a while. probably several more hours. we shall see what happens. the district, if you just think about it, this is the way it looked in 2016. all red. pat tiberi winning with 66.6% of the vote. so if you re danny o connor, you re off to a good start, erin. don t crack the beer yet. just hang in there. and as
are seven candidates depends where, right? depends where. the democrat only if i were the democrat i would not want high turnout in the rural counties because the democrat only has to win franklin. they can lotz rest counties as long as they win franklin by enough. the county i m watching is delaware. it is a truly suburban county. if we talk about the suburbs, all this whole midterm cycle, you want to find out what s going on, what happens in delaware really mat do the republicans get the margin they re used to getting in delaware. to scott s point about franklin county, what balderson said about franklin county didn t help. he essentially dissed a third of the district. and i think it also reminded people within that district how divisive and polarizing he is. and guests like who? president trump. when you have white suburban women who are disgusted not just by the rhetoric but by the policies trump has put in place, specifically and most recently the separation of famili
everybody thought sickown was going to get blown out. it was much closer and that was because i think trump showed up and energized some people okay. but a loss was a loss. but they showed some improvement in the early voting they say after pence and trump came. they feel good tonight about the flushing operation of voters in franklin and delaware. i will tell you this. the republican apparatus feels better going into election night on this one than they felt about going in on pen in the conor lamb race. i don t know. going back to your question to april about why this is so important, including everything that april said, this is so important because it s in play, erin. there is no reason why this district which is deeply, deeply red, should be in play. it woz won by trump by 11 points. it was won by the republican in 2016 by 37 points. there s no reason we should even