Making Rick Gates News Today

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Gates, manaforts former business partner, is considered the star witness in this case, and has been cooperating with the special counsels investigation. we will monitor whats happening at the courthouse and we will bring you any developments as soon as we get them. meanwhile, the venezuelaen government harrested six people after an assassination attempt against nicolas maduro. he was suddenly interrupted by a loud bang mid-speech. you see his wife react in that video. bodyguards rushed forward...

Ahead of schedule. they went into great detail about his money. manaforts lawyers tried to shift the blame to his former business partner, rick gates. as "the associated press" notes, the defense team has already signaled it will paint gates as an embezzler and liar who took advantage of manafort and flouted the law with his boss nong. the bookkeeper testified that she communicated with rick gates on business expenses from time to time, but manafort alone handled his personal expenses. this week...

Python jackets or take advantage of the new york yankees season tickets he owned. >> so defendants will often go for this sort of a strategy when they really have an empty hand. you have to find someone else to blame. but its difficult forman, after last weeks testimony, in which his accountants testified that he was intimately involved in signing off on the final details. sure, gates was in the mix. thats why hell be a witness and potentially a powerful one for the government, but it will be di...

Joining me "washington post" national security reporter develin barrett. he is the author of that piece in "the post." back with us, former u.s. attorney joyce vance. what should we expect this week? >> i think this is going to be where both sides go pretty hard at each other. the prosecutors, because they think rick gates really puts all of the blame for this on manafort, and the defense because they think that rick gates is a weak enough witness, a witness who brings so many problems to the ta...

>> prosecutors never get to pick their own witnesses. i mean, if we did, we would not pick someone like gates as a witness, right? you would pick a priest or a teacher or a choir boy. in reality, its manafort who chose gates as a witness, and that says a lot about the fact that the two of them were in league together. the prosecutions job here will be to support gates newly found credibility either with documentary evidence, with other witnesses, with circumstantial guarantees of his truthfulnes...

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Into evidence so far show gates is the one providing information to accountants or bookkeepers. its certainly true that gates played a direct role in forwarding this information that the government says are clearly lies, but the governments point is that he did that at manaforts direction. if gates lied, he lied because he was doing what manafort wanted. and thats going to be the argument thats going to play out this week. >> joyce, politico reports that the defense is basically manafort was too...

Rick gates pled guilty in federal court yesterday. question, where do we go from here? helping us, danny cevales joins us. rick gates has a beard now. didnt before. pleads guilty yesterday. help me understand the import of that and what that could mean for all of this. >> he pled guilty pursuant to information, which tells us, we can reasonably expect he is cooperating with prosecutors. and to get to that point it means that he had to go to a meeting with them and demonstrate that he was telling...

Message. and the audience of one for that manafort statement today was the president of the united states. it was basically a love letter saying please give me a pardon. im not going to do what rick gates did. im standing by you. >> chuck rosenberg, i saw this alleged scheme referred to as byzantine when you look at what they were alleged to be up to. its thorny. its windy. what did you learn theyve been doing at their firm over many years? >> fraud. its a gold medal fraud scheme. i have to tell...