special counsel robert mueller moved to dismiss several charges. you don t hear that often. including tax and bank fraud against former trump campaign chairman rick gates today. charges are being dismissed because mr. gates has flipped. he s agreed to cooperate with the mueller investigation regarding quote, any and all matters. and they mean it. the special counsel deems relevant. he is instead being tagged with two lesser charges. gates also got more good news tuesday when a different judge accepted his request to take his children to boston next week. politico reminds us just how significant gates cooperation could be hear. they write it this way, quote, he saw everything said a former trump campaign consultant who worked with gates and manafort and called him one of the top
five trump insiders who mueller could tap as witnesses. mueller is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow morning, his first of two court appearances this week. our two former feds are back with us. jennifer rogers and mimi roca. mimi please explain what it s like to be under the influence of a federal investigation. what has gates life been like in the period they ve been getting him to flip, and now to what agree do they own his life now that he s signed this deal? well, i m sure it s been very intense for him. recently when the document was
it s seeing what gates is getting for being onboard. he now faces ten years maximum instead of dozens and dozens of years. he gets to go on spring break with his kids now. so things do get easier when you come onboard, and manafort is seeing that happen with rick gates. i think also just more generally he s seeing this investigation speed up. he s seeing the indictment against the russians. we think more are coming in terms of what the russians have
as cooperative government witnesses. manafort scheduled to be arraigned on the newest charges against him tomorrow morning. his first of two court appearances this week. our two former feds are back with us, jennifer rogersers and mimi rocca. please explain what it s like to be under the influence of a federal investigation. what has gates life been like in the period where they re trying to get him to flip? and now by what degree do they own his life now that he s signed this deal? i m sure it s been very intense for him. and we saw reflection of that just in the media and recently when the docket was unsealed. it looks like his guilty plea pursuant to the cooperation agreement was scheduled and then taken off and then scheduled again. he was having some trouble deciding. we know for manafort s statement that it almost seemed like they had kind of an agreement, spoken or unspoken, that they weren t going to cooperate. so this is a big, big deal, what he did here, cooperating not
his attitude now and over time, where he s going to be more cooperative, frankly. fascinating. and jennifer, let s talk about the recruitment effort to get mr. manafort to sign up with team america. two court appearances this the week, superseding indictment, more charges added. what other screws, what other tools of the trade does mueller and those first-rate attorneys on his team, do they have to get paul manafort to see the light? i think we re seeing the tools. it s the bringing of more charges. it s the fact that gates is now on board. it s the seeing what gates is getting for being on board. he now faces ten years maximum instead of dozens and dozens of years. he gets to go to spring break with his kids now. so things get easier for you when you do come on board. and manafort is seeing that through what s happening with rick gates. you know, i think also just more generally, he s seeing this investigation speed up. he s seeing the indictment against the russians. we think mor