A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. Admitted to lying about and cheating. It doesnt get more clear than that. Is manaforts bet at this Point Go For Pardon from the president . Or is it what, have people think gates is a worse liar . Whats the strategy . I mean, the pardon play is a lot of moves out here. So i think the strategy seems to be to run down gates to say, you know, i was just a patsy. I wasnt that hands on, which was contradicted by his own bookkeeper and i was the victim of gates nefarious activity. The problem is here, first of all, everybodys dirty. This is only the best people, erin. As we say. Only the best people. But it also really does show the way that the International Political consultant class really has become a grift. These folks, really, they talk about populism, they use it as a political strategy, but they are making more money than most working folks will ever see in their life in a year and still go broke. Thats how corrupt and incompete
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
balderson campaign. rebecca berg is with the o connor campaign. let s go to jason carroll first. jason, the president has put so much on the line here. what is the mood at camp balderson like? reporter: folks are feeling good here. they know it s likely going to be a late night. they feel as though the race is going to be tight. but you know, i spoke to a republican operative very close to the campaign who says that anecdotally they re showing extremely high turnout across the district and they feel as though that s going to tip in the favor of troy balderson. that s certainly what they re saying is some good early news, what they re feeling at least so far. but look, also they know there s momentum coming from the left, coming from democrats. they feel as though president trump coming here this past weekend is going to give balderson a huge boost. but having said, that some folks are also talking about the balderson you said you don t want someone from franklin
$3 million. despite all that, diner owner rick hawn still remains undecided. i can stay i m still in a neutral zone. i m not really leaning. down to the wire then. down to the wire. reporter: erin, it should be noted that we did reach out to the balderson campaign, trying to get the candidate in an interview, but they did not return our calls. as for at diner owner that you heard from, he s an independent, he s undecided. i asked him if the president coming here would sway his decision in any way? he said no. i asked what issue is most important to him, is it health care, is it immigration? he said whichever candidate stands the best in terms of standing up for small businesses, that would be the deciding factor for him. erin? okay. very interesting. all right, thanks so much, jason carole. next, from a concert to a birthday party, why was a former trump campaign aide repeatedly inviting an alleged russian spy to associate events just before the election.