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Rick gates referred alex van der zwaan to the same guy meeting with manafort to bring him the messages from deripaska. one of the things he lied about is communication with rick gates. rick gates in september 2016 sent van der zwann documents with an encrypted app and he put him in touch with konstantin kilimnik. rick gates was connected to the mad and illegal scramble for cash right before manafort and gates joined the trump campaign. he was part of the initial deals that incurred that debt from deripaska. he was in communication with kilimnik who was managing communications between manafort and deripaska during the trump campaign while they were the top two officials running it. ....
The u.s. because of the organized crime ties and he has people working for him all over the place including people talking to the press about this case he s pressing against manafort and gates but then manafort and gates sign on to be chairman of the donald trump for president campaign and all of a sudden again, the pressure seems to go away. quote, early in the presidential campaign deripaska s representatives accused him of fraud. after trump earned the nomination, deripaska s officials said he would no longer discuss the case. and we know something was going on during the trump campaign while they were chairman and deputy chairman, something was going on between them and deripaska during the campaign while running the campaign. ....
Manafort seems to have been trying to trade on his influence in the trump campaign to get whole with oleg deripaska back in russia. there have been a lot of forgive me, a lot of dumb hot takes on the rick gates guilty plea today about how that s oh, too bad for rick gates or too bad for paul man manafort, nothing to do with the trump campaign, though. whatever rick gates will tell the mueller investigation about and traded 31 felony counts for is not about hiding money offshore and buying antique rugs in alexandria. clearly the mueller investigation has proven they have all they need to bring felony count prosecutions about that stuff. what gates was in a front row seat to see, what he was part of with a better vantage point than anybody else on earth was the central question of what was actually going on between the trump campaign and russia? and now he s mueller s star cooperating witness. ta-da. ....
Election day, in the transition, he was a senior official and then he was the number two official in the trump inaugural committee. he was frequently seen at the white house and pro-trump outsiou outside group and longstanding committee. the national republican committee. people talk about him as manafort s deputy and a long-standing business relationship and proceeds the trump campaign. in terms on his role for the investigators you might have seen what and who he might have been exposed to in the time of a trump as a presidential candidate and trump as president, rick gates has potentially been witness to a lot more than manafort ever saw. he was just there for a lot longer for a lot of extra parts of this, the trump presidential ....
Tonight the white house issued a one-sentence statement saying it would not comment on matters involving manafort and rick gates as the matters between them and special counsel are dated. and have nothing to do with their service to the trump campaign. that is despite today s new indictments and guilty pleadings specifically referencing events during and after the trump campaign following the guilty plea from trump deputy campaign chair rick gates today, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee offered a different take and he said, quote, rick gates is in a position to observe the inner workings of the campaign and special counsel looks into potential coordination between the trump campaign and russian government, gates could prove a key source of information on these and other issues. joining us now is the top democrat congressman adam schiff of california. thank you for being with us ....