A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. Have Breaking News about President Trumps former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. His righthand man rick gates face a grueling crossx admitting to an afarks a secret life, and lie after lie about money. And the question now is who will jurors believe, the acued liar Paul Manafort or the admitted Liar Rick Gates . Cara scan nell is outside the courthouse. How did it go for manafort . Well, manafort was really trying to put Rick Gates On Trial today. His Defense Lawyers were Hammering Gates about his lies about his admitted lies to the special counsels office, about false filings and Bank Accounts that gate had done in his own personal life, and really they were putting the focus on whether he embezzled from Paul Manafort. And there was a bit of a jockeying between gates and manaforts Defense Lawyer about where the money came from. Gates was not making many admissions. At various times he said he couldnt recall things whereas on dir
white working class voters who came to trump are bleeding back a little bit towards the democrat. might. i emphasize might because we re at 1%. it s just worth watching as it comes in. if you go to the district as a whole, danio connor is winning. it s coming in as we would expect. the franklin part of the district given the early part of the lead. this is curious. we ll keep counting. curious and keep counting. 5% of the vote in overall, as we we continue to talk, you ll be able to watch on the bottom of the screen. keep your eyes on the bottom of the screen as you listen to what everyone is saying. i want to now go to jeff zeleny. jeff zeleny, the president obviously watching all of these races closely. ohio and kansas, of course, where he also endorsed a controversial candidate for the governor race. erin, no question the plot be watching these results come in very carefully. he has a lot on the line once again today. don t forget, his name is not on the ballot in this mid terre
erin, 82 of those seats are xurnt will i held by republicans. only 13 by democrats. republicans are already back on their heels on defense in the president s first midterm election here. if you re already on defense and democrats are competitive, maybe even can pull away with a win here, guess what? it gets worse. all right. that s a powerful way to look at it because of course it does matter. which seats are actually in play. all right, john. i want to go now to larry sabato, founder and director of the university of virginia center for politics, creator of the election forecasting nude-letter sabato s crystal ball. we ve got these early results just coming in from a highly democratic county. it s always got democrat but he s got to run up the margin there, the democrat does, and he s doing that out of the gate. sweel what happens over the next few hours. the president said, as he s campaigning for troy balderson, he has said there will be no blue wave and there might even be a red
democrats are hoping will show up for what they don t want to call a blue wave, but the discontent that s growing. but also, when you have a president who has a brave economy and it s still this back and forth trying to figure out who is going to win, there is a problem. something is wrong. what it is about, mark, what are you more interested in turn snout yo out? however, is that more important here when we look big picture, or it is more important whether you have voters who were not engaged with the last election, or were leaning trump but have changed. voters who are changing their minds or energizing your base. which matters more? it s both. right now the country is so divided. president trump, look, he went over 300 electoral votes, but it was an extremely close election. if you re running a campaign, you ve got the make sure you re not only reaching out to your base, but you re careful what you say to not offend those who may be on the edges. you know, we ve talked about tha
and welcome back to outfront. polls about to close in ohio. a special election for an open congressional seat. this is a race that president trump has personally bet a lot on, gotten involved in, went to that big rally for the gop candidate, told voters to go out today on twitter, and it is a major test for president trump tonight. mark, literally we have just a few seconds here till these polls close. this is very important for the president. he has put a lot of personal capital on the line. yes. this race is very important for president trump because he s going to make it important about himself even if he lose. and by doing so if tonight, if troy balderson loses, donald trump will dump all over troy balderson which will only cause more of a headache in the