to be cooperating. here s where this is hugely significant. he was paul manafort s right-hand man and close associate for years. they are charged together. a series of new charges was leveled against them yesterday. bank fraud and tax fraud allegations. so if gates is cooperating, this puts enormous pressure on paul manafort, who is 68 years old and already facing, under the guidelines, 15 years in prison. puts pressure on manafort to cut a deal. manafort is the one that mueller appears to really want because of what he could potentially say about trump campaign collusion with russians, guys. danny, this is what s important here, and that is, gates knows stuff about manafort. we assume that mueller believes that manafort holds the key to figuring out what happened at the june 9th meeting. what has happened with various contacts with the russians. is it your impression that he is continuing to he s got gates to turn on manafort so the manafort defense has to change, or manafort has