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
election year, but his policies, popularity absolutely are, and he is doubling down on those. he was in ohio saturday, campaigning there. he is meeting with a business leader at his resort bedminster out here. but after that is over, after that dinner is over, i m told, he is going to be watching these returns. and erin, it is going to say a lot hab is going to happen for the next three months or so. he is investing himself heavily in all of these races. but republicans are not pleased with what he did in kansas, weighing in on that governor s race, weighing in for one of his long-time supporters, chris kovac there. a big immigration supporter of his, but going against the sitting republican governor. the republican governor s association asked him to stay out. he got in. so democrats believe it s a possible window for them in kansas. we ll see if that happens tonight. but the president here certainly watching it on his working vacation. erin? thank you very much, jeff zeleny. let s
vote again in three months. i don t know. it s kind of you roll your eyes at the whole thing. of course. the now, the president, he went this weekend, he went and campaigned for tremendous troy, as he called him. alliteration can work. but he likes to say he picks winners. but scott, it s actually amazing. when you look at republican primaries, republican versus republican, he has an amazing record. 18-1. anybody would take that in any athletic endeavor. general elections, special elections, his republican versus democrat, 1-3. that s not so good. and that s the record that s on trial tonight. yeah, the white house and the rnc and the balderson campaign will all tell you that they think the president s engagement in this race was enormously helpful. in fact, what they will tell you is about two weeks ago this campaign was in a freefall and that because of some gaffes made by the candidate, balderson, and some other reasons they were up and then they had gone way down. pence shows
are seven candidates depends where, right? depends where. the democrat only if i were the democrat i would not want high turnout in the rural counties because the democrat only has to win franklin. they can lotz rest counties as long as they win franklin by enough. the county i m watching is delaware. it is a truly suburban county. if we talk about the suburbs, all this whole midterm cycle, you want to find out what s going on, what happens in delaware really mat do the republicans get the margin they re used to getting in delaware. to scott s point about franklin county, what balderson said about franklin county didn t help. he essentially dissed a third of the district. and i think it also reminded people within that district how divisive and polarizing he is. and guests like who? president trump. when you have white suburban women who are disgusted not just by the rhetoric but by the policies trump has put in place, specifically and most recently the separation of famili
again, 5.2 to 1 million. what does that tell you? a democrat, again, has not been elected here since ronald reagan was president. the republicans having to flood money into this district from outside pacs trying to save their candidate. it tells you how worried they are, b, how important it is for them ton lose the morale. if republicans lose the seat there s going to be panic in the party it s going to make more republican incumbents think i m in trouble this year. that s why pouring in all this money, trying to save a race, erin, that if you went back a few months you wouldn t even think should be close. incredible. john king, thank you. and john s going to be back with us of course because we re awaiting results, as i said, could start coming in here in just about ten minutes. i want to go now to our senior political analyst mark preston white house kernt for american urban niktsz april ryan, former assistant to george w. bush scott and former dnc communications director maria c