counsel. if your mandate was to look at possible collusion, one of the first places you would look is the campaign chair. the top adviser to a candidate. who is himself connected financially and personal le to the kremlin. earl will on the morning of july 26, 2017. authorities raided one of the manaforts homes. this upscale apartment in virginia. the fbi executed a number of search warrants against paul manafort. they identified a storage unit where he kept some materials that they searched. those materials and others led to the first charges brought by the mueller probe. a 12 count indictment against paul manafort. and his business partner rick gates. the 12 counts against him include conspiracy. against the united states. money laundering. and failure to report foreign bank accounts. today s announcement has nothing to do with the president. nothing to do with the president
now in this position of influence. and there s this phrase where manafort says how do we use this to get whole. he was clearly on his mind. the idea of leveraging his access to trump. to solve this business problem he had. he persists in that suggesting at one point tell him i can provide him private briefings on this state of the campaign. working for trump, manafort showed talents for counting delegates and convention planning. we re going to win. before the first bell. before cleveland. you re confident you ll win before cleveland? i wouldn t be saying it. in may he was offered the jb of campaign chairman. his right hand man, rick gates, joined as deputy chairman. he had an enormous on the
campaign. or campaign activity. manafort pleaded not guilty. confined to house arrest in virginia. the master at shaping public opinion attempted his own image make over. through his attorney kevin downing. mr. manafort represented pro-european union campaigns. he was seek lg to further democracy. and to help the ukraine come closer to the united states and the eu. manafort refused to cooperate. rick gates did. agreeing to a plea deal after additional charges of tax and bank fraud were filed in february 2018. manafort one time protege would cooperate. and testify against his former mentor. though he lost rick gates as an ally. manafort tried to contact other witnesses through a third party. while he was under house arrest. he reached out to try to
witnesses. having done their best to under mine rick gates throughout the trial. what they tried to do is to set up rick gates essential will as the fall guy. the guy who was under pressure who really commit td d all the crimes and ultimately tried to cut a deal with the prosecution. on august 15 the case went to the jury. pall manafort s fate was in the hand of 12 ordinary americans. day one of the deliberation is history. the manafort trial. the jury wrapped up day two of the deliberation. they ll be baa k at work on monday morning. meanwhile we re waiting on the jury and his first federal felony trial. after three days the jury was still locked in deliberation. tensions starts to build. the longer they go the more your mind begins to wonder. what s going to happen here? it looked like a slam dunk case. maybe the jurors were reading it differently. coming up.
that was i think most highlighted in the first trial. was the opulence of his life. the ostrich skin jacket. the hamptons and the all the expenditures. prosecutors also pointed to the $20 million in fraudulent bank loans manafort secured when his income ran out. he in one case went so far as to offer high up bank employee a job in the trump administration. in exchange for fwifing him a loan he wouldn t have otherwise gotten. the jury heard from a string of government witnesses. most notably manaforts former business partner, rick gates. mr. gates would display what i consider nervous gestures. he would squeeze hi eyes shut really tight and open them. he just seemed nervous and no time did i ever see him turn his head to look at mr. manafort. the defense called no