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there is some evidence that doesn t rely on mr. gates that also points that manafort was committing crimes. that s what they re going have to focus on explaining away. but in the meantime, take down gates is job one for the defense. jennifer, to talk about some of the other evidence, you already had the accountant testifying that gates instructed her to do things which were illegal, and that she went along with it. that s right. and, you know, the prosecutors were careful to draw out from all of those witnesses that it wasn t just gates, it was manafort too. so they would ask them who did you communicate with, who gave you these orders? did you check with manafort, even fit was gates who gave you the order in the first place. and we heard time and time again that, yes, manafort was involved. he was on top of all of these transaction, even if it was rick gates kind of giving the initial orders. that was all part of this corroboration that the prosecutors are laying the groundwork fo

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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, they re both stealing money through not paying taxes and other means, and then gates is also stealing money from manafort? that s 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 doesn t have the cleanest record himself. and that certainly holds true for rick gates. i should mention he also pleaded guilty to lying to federal prosecutors that is something you can expect the defense to bring up when they have their

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reporter: things only got worse. in october last year, gates surrender after being indicted by a federal grand jury. court filings exposed what prosecutors describe as an 11-year scheme in which gates and manafort laundered tens of millions of dollars they made doing foreign lobbying work. prosecutors say the two funneled $75 million through offshore accounts. among the charges, conspiracy to launder money and failing to report foreign bank accounts. the white house quickly tried to distance itself from him. look, i think that those are issues that took place long before they were involved with the president. reporter: but there is no denying gates history with the trump campaign. gates ties to manafort and his activities could mean he was briefed on the june 2016 trump tower meeting which manafort attend, along with don jr. and jared kushner. a russian lawyer had promised to give them dirt on hillary clinton. gates and manafort reportedly also once e-mailed about trump

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chance to question him. one final note i would make, anderson, is there you had paul manafort at the defendants table. about ten feet away was rick gates facing 90 degrees to him. rick gates did not make contact with paul manafort. but paul manafort sitting there with his arms crossed did not let his gaze leave the face of rick gates as he was making these claims. he was not happy. he was very stressed. you could sense some anger in his eyes as he was watching rick gates give this testimony against him. wow. and more from gates tomorrow. jim sciutto, thanks very much. i want to bring in our legal team, former federal prosecutor jennifer rodgers and another former federal prosecutor, cnn analyst renato mariotti renato, you said rick gates was the most important gates in the manafort trial by far. there was an accountant in the past days. how damaging was his testimony today saying he lied at the direction of mr. man forkts and he al because the defense was going to

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