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A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. have breaking news about president trump s former campaign chairman paul manafort. his right-hand man rick gates face a grueling cross x 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 counsel s 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 manafort s defense lawyer about where the money came from. gates was not making many admissions. at various times he said he couldn t recall things ....
Erin, 82 of those seats are xurnt will i held by republicans. only 13 by democrats. republicans are already back on their heels on defense in the president s first midterm election here. if you re already on defense and democrats are competitive, maybe even can pull away with a win here, guess what? it gets worse. all right. that s a powerful way to look at it because of course it does matter. which seats are actually in play. all right, john. i want to go now to larry sabato, founder and director of the university of virginia center for politics, creator of the election forecasting nude-letter sabato s crystal ball. we ve got these early results just coming in from a highly democratic county. it s always got democrat but he s got to run up the margin there, the democrat does, and he s doing that out of the gate. sweel what happens over the next few hours. the president said, as he s campaigning for troy balderson, he has said there will be no blue wave and there might even be a red ....
Short-term gain with the russian president. can i just ask, what our republican colleagues on the hill saying? because he can tweet all day long, remember who putin is, you know, trump has to have one message for him. quit messing with us. trey gowdy talks tough. in terms of action, it s freedom caucus members just in the last couple of weeks. let s put on, you know, a giant extravaganza when peter strzok testifies. i think they re all over the map and i think they re way out, way out on a limb here. i think things like the mueller indictment on friday really splsh cold water on all of them, and hopefully sober them up a little bit and make them realize that they should keep their mouths shuttle in we find out from a bunch of very talented and dedicated fbi agents and professionals what the facts are and none of us should be afraid of the facts. when we ve got dozens of indictments, five guilty pleas, a ton of work done to educate us ....
And yet the president himself tonight had a bit of an on camera meltdown on cohen s behalf, describing it as disgraceful that cohen s office and hotel room were raided today by the fbi. have we ever seen a president make such a public pronouncement to shield a personal connection, in this case the president attacking the fbi and the justice department saying their actions in this case were a disgrace. joining us now is nbc news presidential historian michael beschloss. mr. beschloss, thank you so much for being with us tonight. i m sure when you saw the news, you knew i was going to call. i thought that might somehow happen. let me just ask the question as i set it up there. mr. cohen has an unusual relationship with the president. he is a personal attorney. he does not represent the white house. he doesn t work for the administration. he doesn t work for the trump organization anymore. but the president tonight going out, way out on a limb, ....
Campaign and he wishes that attorney general sessions would have obstructed justice and killed off the russia investigation. it just doesn t work that way. it happened in march the recusal, so it s a little puzzling it s taken him this long to get fraus straight. i want to just show you the wall street journal, an article it says this is not the article. this is the discussion that president trump had with the wall street journal. he looks at 40,000 people and probably says what do i have to lose and he endorsed me. so it s not like a great loyal thing about the endorsement, but i m very frustrated is tr somebody this that white house that s telling him this is a good way to do it. why anybody would try and get somebody under them this way. well, first ofel all, it s wrong. jeff sessions did go way out on a limb as i talk about in the book endorsing trump at a time when nobody else would when he was already a pa rya in his own party specifically for his hard ....