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
the day unfolded. we re xpth cross-examination to continue tomorrow when court begins. that could go for about an hour, erin. all right, kara, thank you very much. kara will be in that room again tomorrow. and now let s go to harry sandek, former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. ann milligram former prosecutor and former new jersey attorney general. and garrett grapher author of threat matrix inside bob mueller s fbi and the war on global territory. the manafort attorney who questioned gates today, he was aggressive and he did a good job. his name is ken down sxug know him. you used to work with him. as he left court today he said, mr. manafort had a great day. do you agree? well, it s hard to know to say this is a great day. there was in the morning a lot of very incriminating evidence being laid out. the cross-examination, it s never a surprise that the defendant comes right at the cooperating witness. and that s because the government by federal l