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
balderson, who was backed by president trump, right? that big rally this weekend. o connor s trying to flip a seat that the gop has held for about 35 years. inside politics host john king is out front. john, obviously this is a very crucial race, right? and this is the last special election. dem versus republican. that we re going to get here before the ultimate test in november. what are you watching tonight? erin, just the fact that we re having this conversation, that we re worried about this race tipping, republicans are worried about this race tipping, tells us it s a problem for the republican party. this is the district here. here s the big question. we re going to learn tonight is this a very difficult year for republicans or is this potentially a disastrous year for republicans? as you noted the 12th district hasn t elected a democrat since ronald reagan was presidential. what are we looking for tonight? you mentioned the president going out there. let s start with that. the