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
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