Manafort. And speaking of flipping today, Ruby Red District in ohio may be the latest to elect a democrat in a special election. We will get to that in a moment. First lets go outside of the federal courthouse in alexandria, virginia, on the trial of Paul Manafort. Joe johns is here with an update. Good morning, joe. Rick gates back on the stand, taking questions from prosecutors, laying out the government case. They say it is illegal conduct that goes all the way from 2008 to 2015. Thats seven years. Meanwhile, in 2016, mr. Manafort took over as the Campaign Chairman for the trump campaign, rick gates was right there beside him as his deputy. So what did we learn so far . Among the most important testimony is his testimony that
our Justice Correspondent Jessica Schneider is here, former u. S. Attorney greg bower joining me. And analyst xian wu. Lay out your representation previously of rick gates so its on the table. Right. We had represented rick from the time that he was indicted to
our justice correspondent jessica schneider is here, former u.s. attorney greg bower joining me. and analyst xian wu. lay out your representation previously of rick gates so it s on the table. right. we had represented rick from the time that he was indicted to just before he pled guilt et etetch guilty. the guilty plea and illegal operation i was not involved in. and everything i talk about is on the record. nothing confidential or privileged. understood. building on that, what do you make of the prosecution s strategy of laying out the serious crimes that rick gates now admits to, just putting it out and not waiting for the cross and the defense to bring this out? that s a good strategy. it s by the book. the prosecutions wants to put out any dirty laundry before it gets revealed as a surprise to them.