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More here. this is the part of the trial where rick gates really has to earn that plea agreement he has with the government. hes been forced to make some damaging admissions not just about the crimes he committed and the crimes he says he committed with paul manafort but also about his own personal character flaws -- lying, stealing, heating on his wife, all of that coming out in court on cross-examination and one of the most interesting things i think beyond the cope of this trial, there was al...

He helped a bank executive at bank who gave him a loan to get a job with the trump campaign, too. these are the details prosecutors are putting out for the jury. >> as much as the defense shows the bad guy -- >> her exact quote was he approved every penny of everything we paid. not only that, the bookkeeper describes in details how manafort lied to the banks. prosecutors show a side by side of documents. one where the book keeper told one bank that manaforts company lost more than $1 million in ...

Too. these are the details prosecutors are putting out for the jury. >> as much as the defense shows the bad guy -- >> her exact quote was he approved every penny of everything we paid. not only that, the bookkeeper describes in details how manafort lied to the banks. prosecutors show a side by side of documents. one where the book keeper told one bank that manaforts company lost more than $1 million in 2016. manafort, he sent the same person at that same bank a different financial statement say...

Reality bites. good evening, i am chris matthews. heading into round one now. investigation is underway at a courthouse just across the potomac. he is facing 18 counts of tax evasion and bank fraud. charges that predate his time on the trump campaign. if found guilty, he could get up to ten years in prison. facing similar charges in federal court in washington. manafort joined the trump campaign in march of 2016.

Assesses to have current ties or active ties with russian military intelligence during 2016. manafort tells politico their discussions is include the dnc hack. thats one piece. >> told politico that. >> he told them that but adds i didnt know that the russians had hacked. but thats impossible because the very first report on the hack from the "washington post" at the outset attributed it to russia. hes got a problem with that. >> hes on the record. somehow even in my capacious and unending synth...

Daughter and his son-in-law are living at one of his properties when really hes renting it out on airbnb full time. quote, on january 26, 2016, manafort writes to his son-in-law to advise him that when the bank appraiser comes to assess the condo his son-in-law should, quote, remember he believes that youre living there. according to the indictment, manafort is trying and failing to to jump through a million hoops to get these loans. theres the lie about his daughter and son living in the condo ...

Former campaign adviser to president trump, steve koch. the special counsel is reportedly looking at whether the loans were made as part of a quid pro quo. manafort got the loans and steve koch was promised a job in the trump administration. while new york prosecutors are investigating possible money laundering. both manafort and koch have not commented. koch did not get a spot on the cabinet, but was a member of candidate trumps economic advisory council in august 2016. manafort who served as t...

People who are very familiar faces to anybody on the campaign trail, the president tweeted twice. he said, sorry, but this is years ago before paul manafort was part of the trump campaign but why arent crooked hillary and the dems the focus? adding moments later, there is, all caps, no collusion. this should not be a surprise to see the president react to the special counsel probe in the past, given that he tries to frequently change the topic, turn the focus against his political opponents. in ...