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
this point, since ronald reagan. this has been a republican seat. president trump won the district by 11 points. that is not eking it out. okay? that s 11 points. it s a comfortable margin. so the question is tonight does the margin of victory matter for republicans or is a win a win even if it s by one point compared to the 11 that the president pulled off as just an example? well, a win is a win in the fact that if democrats were to win it would be one less seat they have to win in november. of course this would be one of those seats they would have to win in november. but i do think the margin of victory is really going to be the talking point out of this. you could argue right now that the amount of time we re talking about this in the middle of august just shows the enormity of it and how importantmargin of victory is or the margin of defeat for democrat. and if it s within about four points i really do think democrats are going to use that as a messaging tool i mean, it s a