election day, in the transition, he was a senior official and then he was the number two official in the trump inaugural committee. he was frequently seen at the white house and pro-trump outsiou outside group and longstanding committee. the national republican committee. people talk about him as manafort s deputy and a long-standing business relationship and proceeds the trump campaign. in terms on his role for the investigators you might have seen what and who he might have been exposed to in the time of a trump as a presidential candidate and trump as president, rick gates has potentially been witness to a lot more than manafort ever saw. he was just there for a lot longer for a lot of extra parts of this, the trump presidential