Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Took the stand at his trial and the testimony was damaging to say the least. As for the former madam, Kristin Davis, today we learned she talked with muellers team. Shimon proyew pez joins us with the latest. Lets talk about what came to light on this day four of the trial. Certainly damaging testimony, as you say, for Paul Manafort. An accountant taking the stand who really is the first person who has direct knowledge of manaforts alleged scheme. She was given immunity to testify. Her name is cindy la porter. She was a long time accountant for him, and really a big day for prosecutors here in that really what she showed was that manafort had asked her to falsify documents. Some of this activity, you know, when he was running the Trump Campaign in 2016. In one case, she says that he asked her to say that money that he had in offshore accounts was a loan when it was, in fact, income which reduc
Encourages everyone to have of an open dialogue about issues facing children today. As you know mrs. Trump has traveled the country and world talking to children about their well being, Healthy Living and the importance of responsible online behavior with her be best initiative. Her platform centers around visiting organizations hospitals and schools. And she would be open to visiting the i Promise School in akron. The i Promise School is the School Lebron james opened, who in an interview said he would not sit across from the president. The other part of the statement i find notable, ana, responsible online behavior coming on the heels of a tweet the president of the United States sent out insulting someone. Ana. Exactly. I also want to ask you, boris, about this familiar face. Someone who used to to work in the white house apparently spotted boarding Air Force One. What can you tell bus hope hicks showing up . Yeah, thats right, the former Director Of Communications for the white hou
Rick gates says he broke the law for Paul Manafort and also stole money from him. We are going to put all of the sanctions back in as they were before and more. Economic sanctions on iran now back in effect as of midnight. Will the pressure on tehran force a further split . Two fast moving fires merging into one inferno becoming the largest ever wildfire in california history. Plus, why is facebook reportedly asking banks for your Financial Information . Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im phil mattingly. Coffee straight to the veins. Paul manaforts right hand man rick gates. Back on the Witness Stand in the onetime Trump Campaign chairman trial on tax and fraud charges. The stakes are high for the white house. Manafort and his deputy know a great deal of what went on Behind Closed Doors during key months of the 2016 campaign. Yesterday, gates admitted under a grant of immunity he committed crimes alongside his former boss and against him as well. Cnn has more
A successful outcome is dependent upon involvement from russia, india, iran and pakistan. It has to decide how much to involve india that would shift the strategic landscape all tolg together. This is the difficult work of diplomacy that the trump a administratiad administration has decided to ignore. For more go to cnn. Com fareed and read my Washington Post column this week. Lets get started. Another day, another Head Scratching Tweet from donald trump. This time its about
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Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Knowing that was illegal. Cnn chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto is covering the trial. He joins us. Now what more did gates say on the stand . Anderson, you had the deputy there sitting within ten feet of his former his longtime boss, documenting by his accounts numerous crimes, alleged crimes by his boss, Paul Manafort. And the list started with them setting up 15 Foreign Bank Accounts which they did not report to the government for the purposes of hiding taxes. He said that they filed false income tax returns. He said they failed to file as foreign agents even though they were working as agents for a Foreign Government, in this case the prorussian Government Of Ukraine at the time. And rick gates said he did all of this, his words, all of this at the direction of Paul Manafort, saying these are crimes we did together, in
and that certainly holds true for rick gates. I should