Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. His plea agreement, including that he stole some hundreds of thousands of dollars from Paul Manafort, rick gates did, by filing false expense claims. So really, just a long list. It was remarkable to be there in the courtroom as rick gates over the course of 80 minutes detailing that long list of alleged crimes. So allegedly, theyre both Stealing Money through not paying taxes and other means, and then gates is also Stealing Money from manafort . Thats exactly right. So you have listen, this is one of those cases when i was inside there, anderson, having followed a mob priel or two, it struck me as you had the case of the bob boss there with his capo testifying against him. Of course in many cases like this, the person who is gates witness doesnt have the cleanest record himself. And that certainly holds true for rick gates. I should mention he also pleaded guilty to lying to federal prosecuto
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Knowing that was illegal. Cnn chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto is covering the trial. He joins us. Now what more did gates say on the stand . Anderson, you had the deputy there sitting within ten feet of his former his longtime boss, documenting by his accounts numerous crimes, alleged crimes by his boss, Paul Manafort. And the list started with them setting up 15 Foreign Bank Accounts which they did not report to the government for the purposes of hiding taxes. He said that they filed false income tax returns. He said they failed to file as foreign agents even though they were working as agents for a Foreign Government, in this case the prorussian Government Of Ukraine at the time. And rick gates said he did all of this, his words, all of this at the direction of Paul Manafort, saying these are crimes we did together, in
and that certainly holds true for rick gates. I should
jr. and his lawyers saying the meeting was primarily about adoption policy, not campaign politics. now even then, we knew and reported that adoption policy for the russian government, it s not about adoptions. it s about sanctions. not adoptions. so even in that statement, the notion that this was a meeting about helping orphans, it just didn t hold water. then the very next day, the new york times reported it most certainly was about the campaign, specifically about getting kremlin dirt on hillary clinton. so then the story from don jr., then it again changed once the times reported that. hoping to seem transparent, don jr. you may remember released some e-mails showing this is exactly what he had been promised. kremlin dirt on hillary clinton. and his e-mails also showed he was eager to receive it. and i quote from the mails, if it s what you say, he wrote to one of the go betweens, i love it. and remember, just a few months earlier, presumably with the memories that much fresher
it s about sanctions. not adoption. so even in that statement, the notion that this was a meeting about helping orphans, it just didn t hold water. then the very next day, the new york times reported it most certainly was about the campaign, specifically about getting kremlin dirt on hillary clinton. so then the story from don jr., then it again changed once the times reported that, hoping to seem transparent, don jr. you may remember released some e-mails showing this is exactly what he had been promised. kremlin dirt on hillary clinton. and his e-mails also showed he was eager to receive it. and i quote from the mails, if it s what you say, he wrote to one of the go-s between, i love it. and remember, just a few months earlier, presumably with the memories that much fresher in his mind, he said he couldn t remember any campaign meetings with russians. and when he did, it wasn t about leveling dirt on hillary clinton, it was about adoptions. don jr., for reasons that don t make mu