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Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Courthouse in alexandrialexandr virginia, cnns jessica schneider. So what did we learn today at the trial . Anderson, we learned a lot. It was only the first day here, but this courtroom is definitely living up to its Rocket Docket reputation. They managed to whittle down this jury pool of 65 people down to 12 jurors plus four alternates, and then, of course, we heard the fiery Opening Statements here. ...

Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Gates is all to blame here. Theyre saying he is the one who stole and embezzled money. Theyre saying hes the one who lied. And now theyre trying flip this on the government. Rick gates will be the governments star witness, but the defense team is saying how can he be your star witness . Rick gates is an admitted liar and he is now cooperating with the government. Whats next for the trial . What happens ...

Problems. those are not donald trump problems. >> its harder to blow it out of proportion, jeff, if your title is chairman of the campaign. it seems like a pretty big time. >> absolutely. and remember whats charged with. he is charged with taking millions upon millions of dollars from victor yanukovych who was the pro putin politician in the ukraine. >> ukraine. >> so its not that this is completely unrelated to the whole russia situation. remember too that during the convention, they changed th...

Platform toe make the ukrainian section more pro-putin. so, the entire thrust of the trump campaign, which the issue of a conspiracy with the russian interests, you know, remains the heart of the investigation. manaforts presence in the campaign is evidence of sympathy to putin in and of itself. so in that respect, its not the criminal charges, but who paul manafort is, is highly relevant to this investigation. >> but jeffrey, if i could just jump in real quick, is there some sort of crime that ...