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
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