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Special counsel. he pled guilty to two charges related to his lobbying work with ukrainian mines. what does this mean going forward? gillian turner is live in washington with that. reporter: president trumps former campaign managers plea deal has things all fired up. democrats are hoping its the beginning of the end to the trump administration. >> this send a message to anybody in the cross-hairs of robert muellers investigation, you better make youre deal now. the longer you wait to come clean,...

Theyre trying to get dirt, the russians are trying to help donald trump, was there a meeting of the minds? so that goes to the heart of the collusion or conspiracy issue. >> is it possible that with all this circumstantial evidence, it really is just a bunch of coincidences, that paul manafort, in a desperate move, donald trump was afraid of the ted cruz at the convention, stealing the nomination, hes told to hire the manafort guy and doesnt do a background check. and those russians connections ...

>> whether this is the most improbable strain of unlikely coincidences or whether this was an active conspiracy. the bottom line is manafort knows. will manafort cooperate? will he tell mueller all he knows or will he tell mueller only what he thinks mueller already knows? the reality is i think only he can tell us. >> i think a lot of the speculation is exactly what obviously mueller will say, how deep he will go, how broad he will go. and it also speaks to maybe what kind of witness he will be...

What he can certainly help mule we are is a more details understanding of how the nefarious russian operates operation. >> paul manafort was replaced along before the election took place. he was with the campaign for a very short period of time. literally, for, like, what a couple of months? a little period of time. manafort has nothing to do with our campaign. >> but for some reason, a month ago this is what he was saying about manafort. >> i think the whole manafort trial is very sad. he happe...

Him guilty. on those eight guilty verdicts, the defense could appeal. so well get more expert advice on this. it turned out the whole story about the federal savings bank in chicago worked out and how the jury viewed paul manafort basically offering trump administration jobs to the ceo of that bank in exchange for him offering manafort millions of dollars in loans, the way the jury saw that turns out to be fascinating. there are three things on watch when it comes to manafort now. specifically, ...

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Moment did the defense score points, of course? but thats how cooperating witnesses work. >> what does the defense do? theres a question of if the defense will bring any witnesses to the stand, but will manafort testify in his own defense? >> im going stay no, he cant take the stand. theres too many hard black-and-white documents the prosecutors would put in front of him. hed probably make a poor witness from looking at clips of him, he comes off as arrogant and jury cans tolerate a lot of thing...

The vice president of the bank said the founder of the bank pushed through the loans knowing how risky it would be. the bank lost $11 million on the deal and this e-mail the department of justice had yesterday showed that manafort e-mailed jared kushner saying you should $bank founder for for secretary of the army. he never got the gig. what is the prosecution trying to show? >> thats an important e-mail. without it there is a suggestion this was empty talk between manafort and caulk, hes promis...

Conversations in the first place? >> that was during the campaign, to be clear. >> she was clearly setting this up for this moment. she was setting this up to drop a dime on her colleagues and people she was working with on the campaign from the very beginning. all of this, you know, fake and phony, you know, oh, my god realization, this was a na narrative she had been scripting. she probably set these people up in these conversations in a way that sort of reveals now her ultimate intent was to ...

Happening right now, the trial of president trumps former campaign chairman paul manafort has just resumed moments ago. the big question right now is will manaforts former business partner rick gates testify against him possibly today, possibly later this week. gate, as you might recall, pleaded guilty to two criminal charges and cut a deal with the prosecutors. hes now cooperating with them. we also know todays session is starting off with the cross-examination of manaforts former accountant wh...