life sentence if manafort doesn t choose to cooperate. ken delanian, as danny points out, this is turning up the heat on paul manafort, but no one weren t his into one of these plea deals lightly, especially not a young father as rick gates is. talk about the charges that he s facing and paul manafort s facing right now. rick gates is a 45-year-old father of four. he s been asking the judge for permission to go ho his kids soccer practices. all this indecent his decision to plead guilty. and the question becomes what does he have to offer? how big is it? as danny said, it s pretty clear he s got paul manafort to offer because he s admitting participating in a conspiracy to commit crimes. he can testify paul manafort did