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Central player in the trial. during opening statement, they deflected blame to rick gates saying he embezzled millions from manafort and turned on him after he came under pressure on muellers team. they say it was gates who had his hand in the cookie jar. gates pleaded to two charges the in d.c. and is now cooperating with the special counsel, already they have called democratic consultants that worked with manafort during his lobbying work in ukraine and fbi agent matthew mancusa, he searched t...

Knocked three times before entering manaforts home use egg a key they had dispute something news reports it was a no knock raid. he said the agents announced the fbi was there to execute a search warrant. when agents walked in, manafort was standing nearby, makuska testified. the agent also told the jury manaforts name was on several documents showing llz of dollars in loan agreements and wire transfer invoices. one document was a loan agreement with a california bank who is listed as one of the...

Life-style were not on trial today. but he allowed them to continue drawing this road map showing how this money kept coming from these offshore accounts to fund this lavish life-style here in the united states. and somehow that money was not showing up on paul manaforts tax returns. erin? >> all right, thank you very much, evan. i want to go to john dean, nixons white house counsel during watergate, and r gloria borger, our chief political analyst. john, describing in painful detail, put it tha...

For being rich or spending lavishly, youve got to show the relevance. but they did bring in a series of vendsors. paul manafort spent more than a million dollars on suits over like a four-year period. from two custom makers, one in beverly hills. there was testimony that he bought a house for his daughter for $2 million. $3 million in improvements on his hampton properties for a home improvement contractor. all of this was paid for by wire transfers from an account in cyprus that prosecutors are...

It moving. hes preventing them from going into certain areas. to the has been mostly a story about purchases by paul manafort of luxury goods, paid for by wire transfer from bank accounts in cyprus. theres been a parade of witnesses including from elite suit makers in beverley hills, where manafort pent $334,000 over two years on suits. another suit company said he was one of their top five customers. he bought a $2 million house for his daughter in alexandria, $67,000 for a mercedes. $3 million...

And zoe fillman. >> i wrote down the word astonishing greed. we knew the outline of this tale from the indictment and court documents. but another thing to hear it lay out in court. this scheme whereby manafort was earning $16 million. but instead of taking the money in a wire transfer, he concocted this elaborate scheme to accept it in loans which werent really loans all to evade taxes. and interestingly, when his client was scurried off to exiled and the spigot of cash turned off, then manafor...

What manafort did in ukraine is directly relevant to this whole case and bringing it home. everyone may recall it was in the manafort indictment that you saw those millions of dollars in transactions that manafort is accused to have made for cars, fancy rugs, very fancy suits, and hiring contractors to do landscaping on multiple homes. those transactions made by wire transfer many of them from bank accounts over in cyprus. prosecutors say theyre going to prove that manafort made those millions t...

Victor -- more or less the last argument that will be dealt with, adjudicated before manaforts trial is about that very work. how much evidence should the prosecution be allowed to present from manaforts time in ukraine? manaforts lawyers are basically saying, look, this is a trial about tax evasion and bank fraud and a bunch of material about the former leader of ukraine feels irrelevant and will potentially prejudice this jury against their client. thats their argument. and the prosecution cou...

Transfer, many of them from bank accounts over in cyprus. prosecutors say theyll prove manafort made those millions through his work in ukraine. wealthy oligarchs supporting his client, the pro-putin guy, transferring those millions to shell companies which then went to cyprus bank accounts that were effectively controlled by manafort which then fund out to all of those very noticeable luxury goods. who else is on this witness list released today? it appears to be the guy who sold paul manafort ...

To set the whole thing up, and funding -- yes, it is all of the stu stuff. so were taking care of it. >> the president has long set red lines, allen weisselberg seems to be the personification of the red line. >> exactly if he worked for the president and the trump administration for many years then he is familiar with all of the finances, and if the investigators have documentary evidence, he can verify it, explain it, explain what this dollar amount means or this wire transfer means or what th...