A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. Have Breaking News about President Trumps former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. His righthand man rick gates face a grueling crossx admitting to an afarks a secret life, and lie after lie about money. And the question now is who will jurors believe, the acued liar Paul Manafort or the admitted Liar Rick Gates . Cara scan nell is outside the courthouse. How did it go for manafort . Well, manafort was really trying to put Rick Gates On Trial today. His Defense Lawyers were Hammering Gates about his lies about his admitted lies to the special counsels office, about false filings and Bank Accounts that gate had done in his own personal life, and really they were putting the focus on whether he embezzled from Paul Manafort. And there was a bit of a jockeying between gates and manaforts Defense Lawyer about where the money came from. Gates was not making many admissions. At various times he said he couldnt recall things whereas on dir
of ohio for the special election. key race alert right now. and john king, more results in, and what do they say? we re up to 5%, erin. democrat danny o connor continues to lead in this district. it hasn t elected a democrat since 1980. hasn t been represented by a democrat since ronald reagan was president. i just want to caution everybody. when you re democrat or republican or just an interested observer, just be patient. this is going to take a while. only 5% of the vote counted. we knew the democrat was likely to take a big early lead because of where most of the vote was coming from. now let s break it down by county. most of the early vote is coming here, from franklin county, as you see here. this is the most democratic area, the most moderate suburban republicans where president trump and his party have had a problem. danny o connor needed to start with a big night here. he is off to a right start, if you re a democrat and want to win the race. but we re very early.
interesting, as we do go through this, again, a huge caveat, this is very, very early. richland county, the democrat is ahead right now. the republican incumbent who won this last time got more than 60% of the vote up here. it s only 1%. no conclusions can be drawn. but that s interesting. just keep an eye on it to see if it holds up. let s go here over to morrow county. this is a rural republican county. 550 votes to 448 votes. a long way to go here. i want to switch walls. run, the republican is ahead, but by 10 points. 55-45. let s go over to the same county and look at it in this blowout election by the republican congress who retired. he got 77% in morrow county in 2017. one of the things you re looking at when you re comparing races, the last race to the current race, troy balderson does not need to match pat tiberi. could suggest that some of these
area, the most moderate republican area. it is closest to the urban area of columbus. so this is where we expect danny o connor to run the strongest pu. now, if he keeps the marge lynn like that in franklin county he s off to a great start. about a third of the vote in this district as you re discussing is down here. but this is what the democrats want. get off to a big early start. but just have patience. we re going to be at this a while. these rural areas are critically important to the republican candidate. and we don t have any votes in yet. but if you re danny o connor this is the way you need to come out of the gate. i would just say, though, we re going to be at this for a while. probably several more hours. we shall see what happens. the district, if you just think about it, this is the way it looked in 2016. all red. pat tiberi winning with 66.6% of the vote. so if you re danny o connor, you re off to a good start, erin. don t crack the beer yet. just hang in there. and as
the results in. some of the counties as john was breaking them down. rural richland county right now, a democrat ahead. morrow county, huge republican county. the republican barely ahead. 1% in each case. so that does not necessarily mean where we re going at all. but what do you make of the early results. they county. i ve been hearing from the campaign. they count the early and absentee votes first. one thick that is true about politics in a lot of places, especially in ohio, democrats vote early and absentee and republicans vote election day. some of these early results are going to be the early vote totals that will look great for democrats. then the election day votes will roll in. and the race will tighten up. i don t know if the republican is going to win. but that s what you re seeing in the early numbers. would you agree with that analysis? i think that s right which is why democrats need to tamp down the enthusiasm. but, again, the fact that we re even talking about thi