She joins us now. What did these emails between butina and gordon reveal . Yeah, they showed that the two met at an embassy event, a party at the Swiss Embassy in late september 2016. So really in the final weeks of the Trump Campaign. And then paul erickson, the republican operative who she was apparently dating kind of connected the two of them over email, and they show that the fact that j. D. Gordon had this trump tie appeared to be important to the email relationship that they then struck up. Paul erickson referred to the fact that he was an important person likely in a trump transition, and then j. D. Gordon himself sent back to ms. Butina at some point a copy of a story from politico noting that he had a role in the trump transition. And there was an invitation from gordon to her to attend a concert as well as his Birthday Party in the fall of 2016 . Yeah, thats right. They have a series of emails. Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and inv
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Took the stand at his trial and the testimony was damaging to say the least. As for the former madam, Kristin Davis, today we learned she talked with muellers team. Shimon proyew pez joins us with the latest. Lets talk about what came to light on this day four of the trial. Certainly damaging testimony, as you say, for Paul Manafort. An accountant taking the stand who really is the first person who has direct knowledge of manaforts alleged scheme. She was given immunity to testify. Her name is cindy la porter. She was a long time accountant for him, and really a big day for prosecutors here in that really what she showed was that manafort had asked her to falsify documents. Some of this activity, you know, when he was running the Trump Campaign in 2016. In one case, she says that he asked her to say that money that he had in offshore accounts was a loan when it was, in fact, income which reduc
associate, rick gates. right. this is an uphill battle for manafort because the crux of the allegations is that he lied to banks in terms of representing his income and his other liabilities in getting loans, and that he also lied to the irs in his tax returns. now, he signed his own tax returns, which you do under penalty of perjury. but what the prosecution also has are communications between manafort and his cpa in which the cpa is directly asking him questions like, do you have any foreign bank accounts to report? and manafort responds, no. so what his lawyers are going to try to say is that he knew nothing about his foreign bank accounts, and that s just not going to fly in my opinion given that he was using those bank accounts for all the lavish spending that we ve seen. he s also communicating directly with the cpa, and i expect that gates is going to also have
concerned about the russia investigation or the wikileaks probe. i do think that he may be concerned and he has noted that if i am indicted, it s going to be for something unrelated to all this. i think that kristin davis has probably seen his e-mail account. she may have been privy to information they re trying to pin down. if they re looking into roger s business affairs, the way he pays people, the way he receives money, that may be something that kristin davis could provide insight into. asha, in terms of the manafort trial, it does seem like it s coming down to how much prosecutors are actually going to be able to prove it was manafort himself who was directing fraud that was taking place because obviously the defense is putting it on his associate, rick gates. right. this is an uphill battle for manafort because the crux of the allegations is that he lied to banks in terms of representing his income and his other liabilities in getting loans, and that he also lied to the irs