A roundup of the days events. Reporter he was a background political operative on the trump campaign, literally right there behind the candidate at the Republican National convention. But today, rick gates took the stand in a virginia federal courthouse playing the role of special counsel Robert Muellers star witness. Coming facetoface with his former business partner, paul manafort, gates testified that they committed crimes together, including not reporting more than a dozen offshore accounts. The prosecutor asking, were you involved in any criminal activity with mr. Manafort . Yes, gates answered. Did you commit any crimes with mr. Manafort . Yes, gates answered again. The two men spent years working sidebyside. In february, gates pleaded guilty to conspiracy and lying to federal authorities. But today, as a flipped witness cooperating with the special counsel, gates told the court he lied because manafort told him to. And he also admitted he embezzled several hundred thousand dolla
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long time ago, i feel like. but as you heard from this woman, some are asking what took bart so long. good evening. i m dan ashley. and i m ama daetz. bart s new safety and security plan doesn t add more police officers to the system. however, it requires all the existing officers to work longer days and to give up part of their weekends. abc 7 news reporter carolyn tyler is in the newsroom with the details on this emergency plan that really puts all hands on deck, carolyn. that s right. and there are a number of safety proposals, and some will be presented to the bart board this thursday for approval. but commuters may notice that big change, more police on the ride home tonight. and for the next three or up until now, there has been one bart police officer for every two or three stations, covering the entire system. as of today, you can add in another 20 or so because emergency staffing is under way. officers will now work six days, 12 hours a day on their normal