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
ivanka and it shouldn t have been that big a deal for hillary. so ann, ivanka trump s attorney says she did occasionally use her private e-mail for business and says that none of the e-mails contained classified information. right. so one of the things that came up a lot with secretary clinton was were the e-mails classified? it looks like a number of them turned out to be been classified. retroactively. she didn t have knowledge at the time. here the big concern there are two big concerns. one is that other e-mail servers can be hacked. you want all the government security that you can have. so you want the e-mails to be within the government server, number one. number two is it really becomes a questio, there are always freedom of information acts. there s a reason they want to preserve all the presidential documents. and really at the end of the day the government should control those e-mails and have access. they shouldn t have to go through someone s private lawyer. and the
he s trying to pin on manafort were in fact done by gates without manafort knowing. if manafort didn t know about this, maybe there are other things he didn t know about. i think that s actually a good line of cross-examination because it doesn t just say hey, this is a bad guy. if he s a bad guy, paul manafort s partner for all these years was a bad guy. you need to if you re the defense show why he s lying about the crime. so ann, to this point the jury s not just watching gates. they re also watching the judge. according to the washington post, at the end of the day today gates said what all of the accountants and bookkeepers and landscapers and mercedes-benz dealers have said, which is that manafort was in charge and he kept a close eye on things. but the judge, judge ellis, interrupted and said, he didn t know about the money you were stealing. sew didn t do it that closely. now, this comes from the judge. obviously, we know this judge reprimanded the prosecution, has repeat
a tremendous amount of impeachment material. sought start of the cross-examination usually involves something like what we saw today from kevin downing. so ann, the defense, you know, they forced manafort to repeat that he lied to the special counsel. let s just be honest here. because we don t lie. 20 times he met with the special counsel. 20 times. before they agreed to do a deal. which means he lied a whole lot to bob mueller before he decided to stop lying to bob mueller. he admitted to stealing from manafort, helping manafort cheat on his taxes, said he may have taken money from the inaugust ralt committee funds which there s a brig brouhaha over where that money went because there s no trail. lied to his wife, had an affair. on and on. was it way good idea for gates to go on the stand? i think harry s point is exactly right which is this is like a roller coaster. yesterday you saw just gates on the stand with the prosecutor going through all this evidence. it looks like wow, th
violence into the nics system. in the virginia tech system in virginia, our mental health system didn t identify that person as someone who should have been blocked from the purchase of guns. we fixed it, but that was really an issue of making the system already in place work. and let s remember one thing. you mentioned washington, d.c. washington, d.c. is one of the most anti-gun jurisdictions in the country, and it has one of the worst murder rates with firearms in the country. so ann s right about how complicated this is. but there are pieces that we can attack together, but if people are single-mindedly focused on gun control at a time when gun violence has been going down for decades, you know, if what you want is success, that isn t i don t understand what the argument is against universal background checks. even 75% of trump supporters. you mentioned the pew research center. that s according to their data. 75% of trump supporters want to see the universal background checks.