Gates On News Today

The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Ricochetting across the political universe tonight which are the ones that involve appear to involve the president of the United States. That he was directed to make payments in coordination with the candidate and with the campaign of President Donald Trump to two women. One was in one involved a payment to a woman 150,000, believed to be Karen Mcdougal. The second to a payment believed to be Storm...

Disappointed in the results. i get that. but thats why we checked out every single allegation and reviewed every single allegation and falsehood that was made. but i think that were going through a very stressful time, and i understand that. but ill continue to stand on the truth. theres other principled leaders that are doing the same and im very grateful for having mr. gates on here. they have done a good job. they stood hard on the truth to make sure people knew what the facts were and thats ...

Advocating a wealth tax on the assets that you have with the understanding being that the wealthy should pay more. where do you think this is going? >> i hope its not going to the point where were actually punishing people for being successful. people like bill gates and steve jobs and warren buffett have had tremendous benefits -- >> neil: bill gates is among those who want to pay more. >> but that -- but the problem is bill gates made his money. i want -- i dont want the next bill gates to fee...

Is that second trial going to be easier for the government? does paul manafort get to think, all right, if they got me on eight charges here, im in trouble in the next one? >> i think what paul manaforts team is looking at right now and noticing is that the jury didnt convict on any of the conspiracy to commit bank fraud charges. so out of all the bank fraud charges, the jury only came to a guilty verdict on two of them and had a mistrial on all the conspiracy to commit bank fraud. that could be...

Words, complete disarmament. this is something that i think obama wasnt going to give way to gates on. clearly, obama did give way to the service chiefs in pentagon for some issues keeping them on hair trigger alert. in other words, we can fire immediately. there was thought they wanted to take us off hair trigger alert. they said no, this is critical and the white house did back off on that important issue. >> ok, now as the president starts talking -- and weve ladder over the last couple of da...