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Charges related to bank fraud, tax charges. So this is the moment where this courtroom will now finally be hearing from manaforts essentially his number two, his former right hand man, rick gates. And gates is the prosecutions key witness. He will be the next person to testify. Lets go first to cnns caris beganel. She is just outside the courtroom in alexandria, virginia. Tell me, when will this happen . Mere minutes . We have one more witness to finish testified today. Thats manaforts accountan...

Fwa has extremely tough sentencing laws. malice murder and felony murder carry a mandatory life sentence. the only discretion that the judge has in sentencing is life with with parole or without parole. even if the judge grants the possibility of parole. they have to serve 30 years in prison before they become eligible. >> thats quite a long time. when do you think were going to -- i dont think they have announced the sentencing hearing yet, but how quickly do those normally happen post guilty v...

>> julie: mike pompeo is supposed to be holding a news conference soon to tell us more on this. we will have that. and we thank you very much for joining us. >> good to be here. >> julie: fox news alert. cuba gooding jr. just arriving at a new york precinct after allegations of groping. he is supposed to be coming into court and pleading guilty to that. obviously, thats part of a plea deal. any time you are charged with something and you believe the evidence is mounting against you, sometimes yo...

Lied? did they lie because they didnt think they were going to get caught? did they lie because they were covering something else up? we dont know that he will provide on that, if anything. it raises the question. michael flynn, george papadopoulos, manafort, everyone we have seen for most part hasnt been charged with conspiracy against the united states. they have been charged with lying to fbi officials or the spe special counsels office. >> they have to cop a plea. they have to cooperate, bec...

High hopes. you can hear that and feel it fading here in moscow as a lot of them dont believe president trump can deliver better u.s./russia relations, we have been hearing that and now from sergey kislyak who has been an important figure over the past year, wolf. >> certainly. thank you very much. just ahead, michael cohen soon will learn whether he is getting substantial jail time as federal prosecutors have requested. was his cooperation worth it? we are going to take a closer look at the p...

>> the best time in many years for this kind of challenge to have hope of succeeding. there is a lot of thought that federal criminalization has gone too far and in fact very well regarded senator orrin hatch wrote an impressive brief saying this has gotten out of whack, the kind of system we are supposed to have in this country and ginsburg wrote it is one united states of america, why should it be taking different deals, put somebody through it twice? to put resources, coordinate them the firs...

Indirectly he had a role in the breakdown of the story on the trump tower meeting this weekend because when the fbi puts on witnesses they have to release fbi interview statements. and it seems that there may have been some further information behind the scene regarding some key discussions that took place before the trump tower meeting with don jr. which might have triggered a little bit of a change of heart from the president there are putting don jr. in jeopardy. i think the bottom line is th...

Manafort. >> you think it is inevitable at this point that manafort will cop a plea. >> i dont see any way he can take this case to trial. the enormous expense and the stakes for him. if he testifies and lies to the judge and is convicted, he could be spending the rest of his life on prison. and if he testifies, he wont. >> these crimes that we are talking about gran well before the campaign although, the scheming and the money laundering and other things that were going on here, during the camp...

Near the end is quite mistaken. >> clearly, phil, you used to work at the fbi, squeezing manafort, robert mueller big-time. manafort, jeffrey toobin pointed out, is 74 years old. if hes convicted on all of these charges, he could end up spending the rest of his life in jail. he wants manafort to cop a plea, to cooperate, because there are others hes going after as well. >> no, thats right. and i agree with the comments earlier. i dont think were close to the end of the investigation. we may be m...

Manafort was under investigation before mueller was even appointed. that was in part why he was forced to step down as campaign chairman because thanks to the reporting of evan and others, it became known he was under criminal investigation, but, you know, it is obviously clear that the plea talks with rick gates have fallen through for the time being being, but given the magnitude of the charges, i think its not at all clear these cases will -- >> just rick gates or paul manafort as well? at so...