trials of cases or other court proceedings in the district of columbia and elsewhere. at which your client s testimony may be deemed relevant by the government. ouch. this is very this is very thorough agreement to cooperate. testify to grand jury, testify at trial, show up whenever we need you, go undercover, give us everything you ve got and be here every single time we want to talk to you. if he fails to live up to this cooperation agreement, whether or not they ever decide to bring any other charges against him, just this plea agreement he signed today gives mueller s office tons of leverage over rick gates. just what he s pleading guilty to today affords a maximum prison sentence of ten years in prison. even under the previous sentencing guidelines, the filings today make clear today these two charges he pled guilty
them if they and him to. can rick gates go undercover anymore now that he s this famous for what he and paul manafort have gotten themselves into? if you have tried to follow each step of this as it has rolled out, even for the past day, it has been a little hard to follow. but days like this i am very grateful for the very smart people who work with me on this show. and thanks to a very smart staff here and us reading until our eyes bled, we have read every word in terms of what happened in terms of these legal proceedings. and based on that, here s where i think we are. this is the trump deputy campaign manager. everybody talks about him as paul manafort s deputy. but when it comes to the trump campaign rick gates was actually there for a lot longer than paul manafort was. manafort was pushed out in 2016,
felony criminal charges against 17 people but even just that activity of his that we can see in public, i would say that makes this a pretty good contender for busy week when it comes to the special counsel s investigation. just today alone has been head snapping in terms of how much happened all at once, just since yesterday. just rick gates has been charged with 23 new felonies on top of the eight he was already facing. he then had his entire legal team replaced. then he got a new lawyer. then he had all 31 felony charges pending against him dropped. then he pled guilty to two new, brand-new felony charges and then he signed on to a sweeping and sort of intimidating cooperation agreement with the government in which among other things he pledges to go undercover for them if they ask him to. can rick gates go undercover for anybody anymore? now that he s this famous for what he and paul fan fomanafort
which your client s testimony may be deemed relevant by the government. ouch. this is a very thorough agreement to cooperate. testify to a grand jury, testify to trial, show up whenever we need you to. go undercover, give us everything you got and be here every single time we want to talk to you. if he fails to live up to this agreement, whether or not they ever decide to go and bring charges against him just this plea agreement he signed today gives mueller s office tons of leverage over rick gates. just what he s pleading guilty to affords a maximum prison sentence of ten years in federal prison. even under the sentencing guidelines that account for him not having a previous record and all the rest, the filings today make clear that under the sentencing guidelines, these two charges he pled guilty today, yeah, there is a maximum prison term of ten years but realistically, they would be looking to put him in prison for somewhere between 4.5 to six
elsewhere. at which your client s testimony may be deemed relevant by the governmen government. ouch. this is a very thorough agreement to cooperate. testify to a grand jury, testify to trial, show up whenever we need to. go undercover, give us everything you got and be here every single time we want to talk to you. if he fails to live up to this agreement, whether or not they ever decide to go and bring charges against him just this plea agreement he signed today gives mueller s office tons of leverage over rick gates. just what he s pleading guilty to affords a maximum prison sentence. even under the sentencing guidelines that account for him not having a previous record and all the rest, the filings today make clear that under the sentencing guidelines, these two charges he pled guilty today, yeah, there is a maximum prison term of ten years but