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Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Courthouse in alexandrialexandr virginia, cnns jessica schneider. So what did we learn today at the trial . Anderson, we learned a lot. It was only the first day here, but this courtroom is definitely living up to its Rocket Docket reputation. They managed to whittle down this jury pool of 65 people down to 12 jurors plus four alternates, and then, of course, we heard the fiery Opening Statements here. In this, prosecutors shed some light on Paul Manaforts lavish lifestyle, and they did it by talking about his 30 hidden Foreign Bank Accounts they say existed in three different countries. And they say that funded that lavish lifestyle that included seven different ....
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Gates is all to blame here. Theyre saying he is the one who stole and embezzled money. Theyre saying hes the one who lied. And now theyre trying flip this on the government. Rick gates will be the governments star witness, but the defense team is saying how can he be your star witness . Rick gates is an admitted liar and he is now cooperating with the government. Whats next for the trial . What happens tomorrow . Just day one, weve already seen a lot. But day two were expecting that the prosecution will be calling two more witnesses. We expect another democratic consultant who worked with Paul Manafort. Were also expecting to hear from an fbi agent. The prosecution here says that they have a witness list of 35 people that they plan to call, but this trial is really only expected to go three weeks. We saw just how fast this trial moved just ....
jason, president trump has said on more than one occasion about only hiring the best. if that s true, shouldn t the campaign have done its due diligence when it came the paul manafort and figured out if manafort had been operating above board or not? this is a pretty, you know, sleazy track record that the prosecutors certainly have laid out. well, absolutely. but there is no such thing as a time machine. and so, the fact of the matter is is that paul manafort was onboard for, as i said before, a relatively shorter amount of time, and he was not the person who ultimately was the campaign manager that took us across the finish line. that was kelly anne, as you know, along with steve bannon and a whole host of other folks who were onboard. but look, paul manafort, we primarily focused on the convention phase of this, did have a long track record of working with conventions and things like that. but i think one of the other things that i think kind of a little jumbled up in the media ....
Relatively shorter amount of time, and he was not the person who ultimately was the campaign manager that took us across the finish line. that was kellyanne, as you know along with steve bannon and a whole host of other folks who were on board. but look, paul manafort, we primarily focused on the convention phase of this, did have a long track record of working with conventions and things like that. but i think one of the other things that i think kind of a little jumbled up in the media is that president trump and manafort weren t particularly close. i don t think that president trump really knew much all about paul manafort s background. these were not two men who would hang out, grab dinner or lunch or chat. but to the point the president constantly saying he hires the best, that seems to imply he knows who he s hiring. your argument is he didn t really know this guy even though he went on tv multiple times and talked about what a great guy he was. well, he got a mulligan in thi ....
Cooperate with the mueller investigation. mueller still has business with mike flynn. they did start the process of a presentencing report. it looks like flynn will be sentenced probably this fall. the business is wrapping up. the case is proceeding. he s pleaded guilty to lying to authorities. he s cooperating with robert mueller s investigation. hallie? ken dilanian outside of the courtroom in d.c. betsy, what does this mean, big picture? raises one of the most interesting, tantalizing questions of the mueller probe, which is, what exactly has flynn been up to for the last months as he s been cooperating with mueller? we don t know what he s been helping mueller with. we can pretty safely assume that he s not helping mueller with the manafort investigation. flynn and manafort weren t really close. flynn wasn t involved in any of the allegations that manafort is facing. we can safely assume flynn is not connected to the investigation of the internet research agency, a russian tr ....