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Thank you. >> thank you. >> i want to bring in the panel here. how big do you think this rick gates news is? >> number one we dont know. this is very much blind man in the el vants with everything we learn. we get this trickle of hints and tea leaves and suppositions. theres a lot thats very suggestive about this development. we dont know what it means. we wont know. what we do know is the way mueller is proceeding is very methodical and its what trump feared, nothing is off limits. hes casting ...

Trying to woo in culture into his loving arms. it was an astounding weak moment from a guy, hes so loose with the truth to begin with that it seems pathetic almost today. >> rick wilson, speaking for the republican establishment. >> stop. >> this is the second time the trump administration claimed new wall construction is happening. is he deliberately misleading voters? >> yes, yes, and yes and let me follow up on what rick is saying, oftentimes you will hear us talking heads on cable news, used...

Anderson, folks like me when we get together and chat about this, we look at the russian covert action. the covert influence campaign with regard to the american presidential election. we remind one another there are probably more tears sheds over successful covert action campaigns than unsuccessful ones. here you had a magnificent russian effort operationally and technically and what has it led to. improved relations. improved status for the russians globally. absolutely not. >> appreciate your...

>> that is exactly whats happening right now with president trump. he couldnt go out and give that speech today and acknowledge he was unable to get the funds, to be the build maker to build that wall. so thats exactly what we saw him do today, don. he will continue to do it until his last day in office. >> that became a mantra, right that people would yell on the campaign trail. hes bought the to do it. rick says its not going to happen wind chill that and mexico will pay for it, april. then me...

Tonight were learning how robert mueller is getting information that could lead to the answer. new reporting on cooperating witness rick gates and the extent of his cooperation with mueller. also the wall. for a second time the president said construction is under way. for the second time his claims face a cawall of doubt. first the russian story that cnn is breaking tonight. >> we dont often get a lot of detail behind the scenes of whats going on between mueller and the people hes investigati...

First the russian story that cnn is breaking tonight. >> we dont often get a lot of detail behind the scenes of whats going on between mueller and the people hes investigating or talking to. thats what we got from my colleague. were told during the talks that occurred during the period of months before rick gate decided to plead guilty that muellers investigators told rick gates they didnt need him to provide information against paul manafort who is his former business partner and former campaig...

Would go. today we know hes going to come in here and plead guilty at 2:00 p.m., wolf. >> the guessing is over as far as rick gates is concerned. evan perez over at the federal courthouse, thanks very much. lets talk about this, get some analysis. joining us, our chief political analyst gloria borger and jim zeleny. gloria, youve obtained this very important letter that rick gate wrote to family and friends. >> yes, and it gives you some insight of the pressure he felt given what hes going to do...

Hello, im wolf blitzer in washington. i want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. were following breaking news on multiple fronts. former trump campaign official rick gates is about to plead guilty in robert muellers wide-ranging russia investigation. the plea hearing is set to begin moments from now at the same time the president will be holding a big joint news conference with malcolm turnbull, visiting prime minister of australia, nation hailed, by the way, for ad...

Rick gates if he pleads guilty that would make four guilty please for the special counsel, three of them would be for either senior or significant figures within the trump campaign, whats the significance of this? >> youd also have at least four now known cooperators who are bedressing the cooperate b. youve got a lot of pleasure by the mueller team thats stoked by this idea of chaos, no one knows whats going on, no one knows what muellers team is investigating, having everything held close to t...

Money laundering is still one of the top priorities of the mueller investigation. if thats issue for other people, they can also have their knee shaking together. >> you flip rick gates maybe you can flip paul manafort and maybe it does get close to the trump campaign and the white house. who knows? is that something theyre trying to do? >> it could. youre flipping people with the intent of catching the biggest fish and in certain areas the ceiling may have been reached by somebody like paul man...