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Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with in-depth 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 long-time 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 pro-russian 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 ri ....
David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. intelligence community is coming forth with. and to pull up, the headline in a piece you wrote about ivanka trump s comments to mike allen. are journalists the enemy of the people, that s the question she was asked. she said they are not. jane newton small, i want to ask you about what s characterized as two administrations. you have members of the president s team of advisers on this issue, electoral interference differing widely in total opposition to the president of the united states. help me understand how that s shaping up and how stark that contrast is between the two opposing institutions? david, i talked to people in the white house. they talk about living on a notion, right? they tried to do most work on the bottom part of the ocean, trying to go underneath the waves, trying to not be railed by surface tension. they view what the president s tweets are as surface tension. th ....
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. all right, shannon, why should the average person who is home right now having a cup of coffee on their way to work, why do they care about paul manafort and rick gates? these are just two guys who seemed to embezzle money for themselves. i would say to pay attention to today. they were just yesterday starting to get into these connections to ukraine. that could be really i guess enlightening to show just how deeply tied paul manafort was to pro-kremlin interest in ukraine. we already know about the $60 million payment. but there is a sense that there s a lot more here. we could get a lot more clarity on how tied he is to the ukraine. i would also note that even though this had nothing to do with the election, there is nothing ruling out that there wasn t be further indictments that could come. i have no reporting to indicate there are any more indictments coming, but i would just say leave open the pos ....
A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. said yes. we expect more detail. shepard: it s my understanding there was testimony about a time when paul manafort essentially ran out of money. he did. they re saying in 2014, when his former top client, who the mueller team described as manafort s golden goose, ukrainian president victor yanukovych. gates testified when he left it decreased the income stream. here s how much the income stream was down. gates testified that in 2016, manafort paid between $200,000 and $225,000 for yankees season tickets. but then, manafort asked gates to write a letter to the yankees saying that gates actually just borrowed manafort s credit card to make that huge purchase. this case that started with a lot of testimony and a lot of exhibits and ed showing that manafort lived a lavish lifestyle for several years has now evolved into a case about a former lobbyist and campaign and whether there was collusion betw ....
touches several other serving republican members of congress and disgraced health secretary, tom price, the first trump cabinet secretary to resign in scandal. we have had our fair share of political scandals and public corruption indictments as a country. that is a history that includes today s date on the calendar in 1974, when president richard nixon resigned the presidency in the wake of the watergate scandal, this day, 1974. but even so, even with that rich history under our belts, it really is something when you wake up to the news of a sitting member of congress being indicted by federal prosecutors and the sight of a sitting member of congress being hauled before a federal judge for criminal arraignment. so, we will have more ahead tonight on trump ally republican congressman chris collins turning himself in and being indicted and arraigned on federal criminal charges today including talking to the intrepid local reporter at the buffalo news, who first broke the story ....