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
trusted adviser, a trusted fixer turn on you. so if you re sort of looking at this investigation right now thinking what could maikel cohen deliver on donald trump given his years of working sort of as, you know, donald trump s rick gates, this could be a pretty devastating push if the president faces michael cohen turning on him. after michael cohen faces serious tax or bank fraud charges, which is what he s been reported to be under investigation for. because those are very serious charges and, again, charges that can come pretty much with just some paper research and indictments. which harry, gets us to the point if mueller sits down sxint views with the president he said it could be about obstruction of justice. he has explicitly not said, right? it s not about any kind of fraud. but to the point garrett s making, that doesn t mean that they may not be looking at that with the president of the united states himself.