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and then actually never really does do it. like release his taxes, right. then there s other cases where it overrides all common sense, all of his advice and everybody else and does do it. the big question is, is he going to do it in this case? we don t know what donald trump we re fog to get on that particular day. although his staff does say and his attorneys do say that his tweets, in effect, and his public statements amount to his own testimony so far and you can just read his tweets and read his mind and that s something muler is doing, to see if there s any condemning statements he s made in those tweets. he s been warned about that for a very long time. the president continues, you know, to tweet. whether he is saying disparaging things about the process, his own intel community, all of that. how will mueller use these tweets to his advantage? even if they never get direct q & a from the president? yes,
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alongside manafort and even stole several hundred thousand dollars from him. i want to quickly go to our justice correspondent jessica schneider, monitoring all these developments. what s the biggest takeaway so far from today s dramatic testimony? the biggest takeaway, woman, just how elaborate this financial scheme was and how involved is paul manafort really seemed to be, directing the movement of money here. rick gates has been testifying about these hundreds of e-mails where manafort actually signs off on transferring the money their consulting company earned throughout these various foreign bank accounts. paul manafort would always write back, approving these transfers and signing it with his initial p. this is the prosecution laying out that it was, in fact, paul manafort in charge. also, rick gates is talking about some of these fake invoices that he actually created. we heard about them from the ac
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giving this story way, way, way too much oxygen. okay. the tweets that he s been doing brooke on mueller, on the witch-hunt, on, you know, the democrats working for robert mueller, which is by the way not it is a red herring, that is not something the people working around the president on strategy are concerned with. this crossed the line. specifically on the piece regarding getting dirt on a political opponent, this to you. the president saying it s politics, everyone does it but federal law makes it a crime for any person to solicit accept a contribution for a u.s. political campaign or for the purpose of influencing any action for federal office. what is the trump tower meeting peter against the law even though as they say they didn t actually get anything on her, the fact that that was the
intent. i would say they are all, everyone who participated in that meeting has a great deal of legality jeopardy. and
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knowing that was illegal. cnn chief national security correspondent jim sciutto is covering the trial. he joins us. now what more did gates say on the stand? anderson, you had the deputy there sitting within ten feet of his former his long-time boss, documenting by his accounts numerous crimes, alleged crimes by his boss, paul manafort. and the list started with them setting up 15 foreign bank accounts which they did not report to the government for the purposes of hiding taxes. he said that they filed false income tax returns. he said they failed to file as foreign agents even though they were working as agents for a foreign government, in this case the pro-russian government of ukraine at the time. and rick gates said he did all of this, his words, all of this at the direction of paul manafort, saying these are crimes we did together, in
and that certainly holds true for rick gates.
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fuel the future. and both of those approaches are american if you think of it in historical terms but only one of those approaches is patriotic. and i think what we want in our candidates and the candidates that i think are most exciting are the ones that are choosing the more patriotic path, the ones that are using that combustion to fuel the future. and there s a way to do that and there are many, many candidates who are showing it. i went out to visit collin allred, a wonderful young candidate, first time candidate in a congressional district in north of dallas. he grew up in the district in modest background, went to baylor. he s a lawyer. he s working with his neighbors and his community. he s talking to everybody, people who agree with him and people who don t. his first question is not whether you re a democrat. his first question is about who you are, tell me what you need. tell me what
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his plea agreement, including that he stole some hundreds of thousands of dollars from paul manafort, rick gates did, by filing false expense claims. so really, just a long list. it was remarkable to be there in the courtroom as rick gates over the course of 80 minutes detailing that long list of alleged crimes. so allegedly, they re both stealing money through not paying taxes and other means, and then gates is also stealing money from manafort? that s exactly right. so you have listen, this is one of those cases when i was inside there, anderson, having followed a mob priel or two, it struck me as you had the case of the bob boss there with his capo testifying against him. of course in many cases like this, the person who is gates witness doesn t have the cleanest record himself. and that certainly holds true for rick gates. i should mention he also pleaded guilty to lying to fede
A mix of newsmaker interviews, political analysis, cultural segments and media analysis. is that the right message to take on trump? former massachusetts governor deval patrick joins us next. plus, russia disconnect, as intelligence chiefs issue dire warnings. this threat is not going away. president trump continues to sew seeds of doubt. we re being hindered by the russian hoax, it s a hoax. is the president taking this threat seriously? we ll talk to the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, ed royce in minutes. and house divided? the first lady sides with team lebron after the first daughter breaks with her father on the media. no, i do not feel that the media is the enemy of the people. how will the president handle the public pushback? hello, i m jake tapper where the state of our union is hitting the campaign trail after
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this is a concern for so many people. it s a concern because a week ago when they saw the 6.4 fore shock, we thought that was a major earthquake. that was just, as will put it, a precursor to the major earthquake. but buildings that were compromised or unstabilized or destabilized from that particular shot, are worried about their homes and the potential for collapse. that s why this picture, of what looks to be a family, or people gathered in the streets, who are trying to sleep, are staying away from their shelters or their homes. they re worried that there could be more collapse. we are seeing aftershocks to the tune of dozens of them. want to point out this particular feature. the earthquake, a primary focus across the island. lots of people go there to trek. indeed, in the fore shock that happened a week ago, there were trekkers.
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admitted to lying about and cheating. it doesn t get more clear than that. is manafort s bet at this point go for pardon from the president? or is it what, have people think gates is a worse liar? what s the strategy? i mean, the pardon play is a lot of moves out here. so i think the strategy seems to be to run down gates to say, you know, i was just a patsy. i wasn t that hands on, which was contradicted by his own bookkeeper and i was the victim of gates nefarious activity. the problem is here, first of all, everybody s dirty. this is only the best people, erin. as we say. only the best people. but it also really does show the way that the international political consultant class really has become a grift. these folks, really, they talk about populism, they use it as a political strategy, but they are making more money than most working folks will ever see in their life in a year and still go broke. that s how corrupt
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we ll hear less from him on tax cuts and republican policies that might refer it makes a difference depending on the brand of republican running, especially if they are an incumbent. desantis has been pro actsive aligning himself with trump. to put it mildly. so of course he s going to do that. on fox every night talking about it. he s going to be somebody that thinks this is a great, great boost. there are a lot of republicans that are squeamish about the thing the president says that don t line up what they are doing and saying. florida is a good experiment for this. i was covering the governor s race. this is a great experiment. look, i think in the general election, trump is more of a negative than he is a positive. i think he motivates democrats in a way they have not been motivated since barack obama came onto the national scene in 2008. but, in the primary, he can
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