Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. 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, theyre both Stealing Money through not paying taxes and other means, and then gates is also Stealing Money from manafort . Thats 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 doesnt have the cleanest record himself. And that certainly holds true for rick gates. I should mention he also pleaded guilty to lying to federal prosecuto
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. 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 longtime 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 prorussian 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. I should
Republican and then what happens . Yeah, and then at that point, any member can simply say they move to offer an amendment. And when they offer an amendment, they have to actually provide the next of that language to the clerk. The amendment could be read aloud before all of the members of The Committee. And then each of the members can simply say they want a chance to talk and to speak about that particular amendment. And as you said, there are 41 members of this committee. 40 are expected to attend one is not, ted lieu because of health issues. Hes not expected to be here this week. But each of those members could speak. That could take time for each individual amendment. When that amendment is voted down which we expect because republicans are expects to offer amendments, democrats are happy with these articles and dont plan to do that. Thats why this is unpredictable how this contentious day will play out, wolf. 40 members now. Ted lieu had some medical issues. We wish him a speedy
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