Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. His plea agreement, including that he stole some hundreds of thousands of dollars from Paul Manafort, rick gates did, by filing false expense claims. So really, just a long list. It was remarkable to be there in the courtroom as rick gates over the course of 80 minutes detailing that long list of alleged crimes. So allegedly, theyre both Stealing Money through not paying taxes and other means, and then gates is also Stealing Money from manafort . Thats exactly right. So you have listen, this is one of those cases when i was inside there, anderson, having followed a mob priel or two, it struck me as you had the case of the bob boss there with his capo testifying against him. Of course in many cases like this, the person who is gates witness doesnt have the cleanest record himself. And that certainly holds true for rick gates. I should mention he also pleaded guilty to lying to federal prosecuto
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
attack about president trump. because president trump has said has said. as a child, then you can say that lebron james is acting like a child because he is saying these things that are petty, that are childish about the president of the united states. so it goes both ways or it doesn t. no, no, no, no, no. lebron was telling the truth. it was donald trump who called the black athletes sons of bitches. it was donald trump who mistreated stephen curry and others who hadn t even planned ongoing to the white house. brother paris, let s be honest, it s trump who is using this kind of vicious language. vicious language? so if that s vicious that s right. then lebron james calling the president via twitter bum would be vicious as well. it s fascinating to me, paris. i get you re a supporter of the president, and that s your gig, and you can t publicly break from him because then you ll get in trouble, i guess. anderson, you re wrong. i m a grown man and i have my own op
others. 230 very precious students of all colors who are being attended to. that s the focus. that s why i m with my dear sister melania trump. she says that s what we need to be focusing on. let s focus on the children. let s focus on this magnificent act of service which is part and parcel what it means to be a great human being. and that s what i see in brother lebron. and i salute his mother for that. paris, what does it say to you that the president doesn t focus on what dr. west is talking about and what melania trump certainly was trying to focus on and instead just goes after him calling him dumb. same with don lemon as he has called maxine waters, low iq, and others. what we know about this president is he doesn t attack first, but he always responds. he responds if he feels something is said about him that is negative or harsh, he ll respond to someone that is black, he ll respond to someone that is a woman, he ll respond to someone that is white.
sister melania trump. she says that s what we need to be focusing on. let s focus on the children. let s focus on this magnificent act of service which is part and parcel what it means to be a great human being. and that s what i see in brother lebron. and i salute his mother for that. paris, what does it say to you that the president doesn t focus on what dr. west is talking about and what melania was trying to focus on and instead just goes after him calling him dumb. same with don lemon as he has called maxine waters, low iq, and others. what we know about this president is he doesn t attack first, but he always responds. he responds if he feels something is said about him that is negative or harsh, he ll respond to someone that is black, he ll respond to someone that is a woman, he ll respond to someone that is white. that s just how the president was when he was a private citizen, a candidate and now the president. the real focus should be on the president supporting things li