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He s trying to pin on manafort were in fact done by gates without manafort knowing. if manafort didn t know about this, maybe there are other things he didn t know about. i think that s actually a good line of cross-examination because it doesn t just say hey, this is a bad guy. if he s a bad guy, paul manafort s partner for all these years was a bad guy. you need to if you re the defense show why he s lying about the crime. so ann, to this point the jury s not just watching gates. they re also watching the judge. according to the washington post, at the end of the day today gates said what all of the accountants and bookkeepers and landscapers and mercedes-benz dealers have said, which is that manafort was in charge and he kept a close eye on things. but the judge, judge ellis, interrupted and said, he didn t know about the money you were stealing. sew didn t do it that closely. now, this comes from the judge. obviously, we know this judge reprimanded the prosecution, has repeat ....
The day unfolded. we re xpth cross-examination to continue tomorrow when court begins. that could go for about an hour, erin. all right, kara, thank you very much. kara will be in that room again tomorrow. and now let s go to harry sandek, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. ann milligram former prosecutor and former new jersey attorney general. and garrett grapher author of threat matrix inside bob mueller s fbi and the war on global territory. the manafort attorney who questioned gates today, he was aggressive and he did a good job. his name is ken down sxug know him. you used to work with him. as he left court today he said, mr. manafort had a great day. do you agree? well, it s hard to know to say this is a great day. there was in the morning a lot of very incriminating evidence being laid out. the cross-examination, it s never a surprise that the defendant comes right at the cooperating witness. and that s because the government by federal l ....
Testifying to today that he did in some ways backed up the story he told yesterday about the schemes that he was pulling off with paul manafort. harry, to that point, manafort s lawyer spent a lot of time today pounding the table on how gates stole all this money from manafort. hundreds of thousands of dollars. there s a significant point here that i don t know if everyone watching has realized. downing said, you know, your colleague, why don t you say embezzleme embezzlement? gates, what difference does it make? we all remember who infamously said that. downing, why won t you say embezzleme embezzlement? gates, okay, it was an emezellment from mr. manafort. he didn t want to say it, but he did it. and obviously that means that manafort didn t know about it. sew was able to sneak financial dealings to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars by manafort. how does that play to the jury? i think that s one of the stronger points that we saw from the defense because it at least ra ....