a tremendous amount of impeachment material. sought start of the cross-examination usually involves something like what we saw today from kevin downing. so ann, the defense, you know, they forced manafort to repeat that he lied to the special counsel. let s just be honest here. because we don t lie. 20 times he met with the special counsel. 20 times. before they agreed to do a deal. which means he lied a whole lot to bob mueller before he decided to stop lying to bob mueller. he admitted to stealing from manafort, helping manafort cheat on his taxes, said he may have taken money from the inaugust ralt committee funds which there s a brig brouhaha over where that money went because there s no trail. lied to his wife, had an affair. on and on. was it way good idea for gates to go on the stand? i think harry s point is exactly right which is this is like a roller coaster. yesterday you saw just gates on the stand with the prosecutor going through all this evidence. it looks like wow, th
have breaking news about president trump s former campaign chairman paul manafort. his right-hand man rick gates face a grueling cross x 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 counsel s 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 manafort s defense lawyer about where the money came from. gates was not making many admissions. at various times he said he couldn t recall things whereas on direct examination he had very good memory. but some
because the paper trail may be more important than any interview. absolutely. and you know, the cooperating witness can t make a case on their own. you would never as a prosecutor just bring a case based on one person s word. you would want to have the documentary evidence and then the cooperator is the explainer. he explains how the documents fit, what actually happened. but none of these cases would be makeable just based on one person saying you did it. and of course we should keep in mind accountant after accountant and bookkeeper and landscaper they ve all already made the case. and then the documents was sort of the icing on the top. thank you all very much. next the breaking news. polls about to close in that crucial ohio special election. it is a major test for trump before the mid-terms. the first results are coming in in about 15 minutes. we re going to have that breaking here. john king next out front at the magic wall. and trump backing a controversial candidate for gov
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