The gunman. President trump calls to arm nations teachers and also slams the deputy who was on duty. What he did, he trained his whole life. Theres an example. When it came time to get in there and do something, he didnt have the courage or something happened, but he certainly did a poor job. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. A lot of news today. Thanks for joining us. Breaking news, another bombshell in special counsel Robert Muellers russia investigation. A source familiar with the proceedings telling us that former Trump Campaign aide rick gates is expected to plead guilty today, an indication gates is cooperating with the special counsel. This comes a day after Robert Mueller filed a 32count indictment against both gates and former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort, charging both men with additional crimes,
number of counts, some limited conduct that would vastly reduce his prison exposure. We believe this plea is happening in washington, d. C. As you mentioned, there
in his campaign headquarters. people in those kind of positions often serve as a relay point for people who are on the ground, not traveling with the candidate. so it does put mr. gates at the nexus of a lot of communication that can be valuable to a prosecutor. thank you for your valuable insights, josh, chuck. pete williams, when we talk about this going forward, what is the process that we are likely to see? i know it s outside the court because it s federal court so you won t have anyone inside with a camera, but you will see the arrival presumably of rick gates, of his attorney, who is tom green, and at this point, he s going to face will he be facing a federal judge and explaining that he understands the charges and is pleading guilty to them? oh, yes. when you want to change your plea, you have to do it in person, like they say, you must be present to win. he has to be in court to actually stand up and enter the plea. and the court in the meantime
now, the government will probably get up and say a little bit about what they are alleging here and summarize the charges. now, the other thing that s important, i think the two things that are important to note about this, one is just to be clear, this is about richard gates and paul manafort s personal finances beginning six or seven years ago when they started lobbying for the government of ukraine. it s not related to the campaign. this is a side issue to the central task that robert mueller has, which is to investigate whether anybody in the u.s. was helping the russians meddle in the election. by the way, paul manafort has a companion civil case pending in court saying you know, he never should have been able to bring these charges, these are outside of robert mueller s task and so you should throw the whole thing out. not much of a chance of success there, but nonetheless, that is a separate case. that s the first thing to think about.