A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Didnt admit to having done it and heard from gates, emails showed where manafort was recommending to him that they put steven koch, a banker who helped manafort get an improper loan according to the government and saw an email of manafort recommending that steven named to the economic Advisers Committee and he was and nominated to secretary of the army which he was not and also Manafort Rtrying to get him tickets to the inauguration and saw the nexus of the campaign and the inauguration. It seems he was broke signing on to the campaign. What did rick gates tell the jury about manaforts finances . Reporter gates said that essentially all of their y Ukrainian Consulting work he said it dried up by 2014. They were trying to win new contracts but they didnt have
it. Manafort, gates testified fallen behind on the credit card bills. Didnt pay them in full. Part of the allegation that manafort was trying to get loans from ba
didn t admit to having done it and heard from gates, e-mails showed where manafort was recommending to him that they put steven koch, a banker who helped manafort get an improper loan according to the government and saw an e-mail of manafort recommending that steven named to the economic adviser s committee and he was and nominated to secretary of the army which he was not and also manafort rtrying to get him tickets to the inauguration and saw the nexus of the campaign and the inauguration. it seems he was broke signing on to the campaign. what did rick gates tell the jury about manafort s finances? reporter: gates said that essentially all of their y ukrainian consulting work he said it dried up by 2014. they were trying to win new contracts but they didn t have
it. manafort, gates testified fallen behind on the credit card bills. didn t pay them in full. part of the allegation that manafort was trying to get loans from banks and leading right up to when manafort joined the campaign in march 2016, we ve seen evidence that gates helping him falsify bank documents submitted to banks for loans and manafort was in dire straits joining the campaign and did as you will recall without compensation and manafort not in a good position joining and agreed to do it without any money. we thought he was rich at the ti time. you were in the courtroom. describe us the mood for us. gates took the stand for the first time yesterday and saw the long-time friends manafort and gates be in the same vicinity together since gates pleaded guilty. there was tension. manafort staring him down. gates averting the eye contact and very measured, careful and
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done what happens with manafort facing so much time if the president let s say sign a pardon, see you later. no money either. you want to weigh in? the truth of the matter is the president was never close to paul manafort or to rick gates. didn t like either one particularly. felt that he had used manafort s lobbying firm at certain points but felt like he was kind of foisted upon him with a delegate fight. but if you think they re friends, the answer is they are not friends. that doesn t mean he wouldn t pardon him and telling you that there s no love lost. let s turn to the special election in ohio right now. david, there s a democrat hoping to pull off a huge upset tonight in this special election in this heavily republican congressional district. i ll show our viewers troy balderson, the republican. danny o connor the democrat. a recent monmouth university poll, 44% for balderson.