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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. And cause significant negative economic consequences for iran. And from intern to loyal deputy to arch nemesis, Rick Gates Set to face the heat from the lawyers it had as they crossexamine the former Campaign Aide one day after his testimony. He sat in the alex andrea, virginia courtroom on monday. Manafort glared at him from the defense table. Theyll likely paint him as an untrust worthy testify interested character. Take ...

>> in handing down manaforts sentence, the judge made clear the charges were unrelated to allegations of collusion. she said quote the no collusion refrainment runs through the entire defense memo unrelated to matters at hand. the no collusion is a non seq.ulater, meaning it has nothing to do with this case. and he falsely ruled the judge ruled theres no evidence of collusion. >> judge jackson conceded there was absolutely no evidence of russian collusion in this case. so that makes two courts, ...

Was asked about a meeting between manafort and members of congress that took place years earlier. a meeting gates falsely claimed never actually happened. in his testimony, he admitted to the lie, but pointed out his plea deal depends on his honesty in court, trying to inoculate himself from any challenges. its going to be a heavy day. joining me retired navy counter intelligence operator. and my dear friend former fbi official chuck rose enberg. >> how bad is gates testimony? he is not a credib...

And they detail what they themselves did, just as mr. gates is doing now. so, is it important testimony? absolutely. is it determine in aative? probably not. because remember this is a paper case. we have bank records and tax return that is wicorroborate wh he is saying. this is not good for mr. manafort. >> we should also remind the audience paul manafort getting money funneled from russian oligarchs, hiding money from the u.s. government and the irs. this was the man selected to be the campaig...

And cause significant negative economic consequences for iran. >> and from intern to loyal deputy to arch nemesis, rick gates set to face the heat from the lawyers it had as they cross-examine the former campaign aide one day after his testimony. he sat in the alex andrea, virginia courtroom on monday. manafort glared at him from the defense table. theyll likely paint him as an untrust worthy testify interested character. >> take a look at just what rick gates did and what he said about manafort...

>> my sense is he doesnt want to help anybody. i think that would be an unfair characterization. something bugs him that day and hes on the prosecutor, something to bug him the next day and hes on defense counsel. ive seen him do both. ive seen him do both in the same trial. i think the bottom line is this. jury is out of the courtroom for some of this. theyre not really going to, i think, learn much about one way or the other based on the judges interjections. this the end i dont think it reall...

This was going to be an interesting part of the case anyway. its a lawyhearing to discuss t last ditch things and the defense to get him off the hook. tomorrow will be that hearing. they said that will be delayed till next week. we dont know why. its totally possible that the judge has a tooth ache or needs to get his car inspected. just realized cant meet for some other reason. totally possible. but it is also worth noting things have been going for manafort and his defense team. his lawyers lo...

Prosecutors or the defense is comfortable with. in the virginia trial, not only did they set his trial date for july, two months ahead of his d.c. trial date even though he was charged in d.c. first, but the judge in the case sped things along and turned down manaforts request for a delay in the trial and turned down prosecutorss request to be blocked out on the calendar. he said no, you should be able to get this done in one week. fast, fast, fast. he wants to get it done. thats what the judge ...

To have developed a work around. manafort has revealed on the monitored phone calls that in order to exchange e-mails he reads and composes e-mails on a second laptop that is shuttled in and out of the facility by his team. this is amazing. when the team takes the laptop from the jail, it reconnects to the internet and manaforts e-mails are transmitted. joining us now, daniel goldman is a former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, now an msnbc legal analyst and here on...

Possibly come to the table about an agreement. the sentencing potential for their charges, particularly the money laundering conspiracy, is so high, its going to be close to the statutory maximum of 20 years. the only thing that can drag that down to a reasonable level is substantial assistance with the government. so they have a tremendous incentive to come forward and cooperate and that means giving other people up, up the chain of command. ideally, the biggest fish they can think of. >> okay,...