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More here. this is the part of the trial where rick gates really has to earn that plea agreement he has with the government. he's been forced to make some damaging admissions not just about the crimes he committed and the crimes he says he committed with paul manafort but also about his own personal character flaws -- lying, stealing, heating on his wife, all of that coming out in court on cross-examination and one of the most interesting things i think beyond the cope of this trial, there was also a little bit of talk about what manafort and gates did when they worked for trump campaign in 20...

He helped a bank executive at bank who gave him a loan to get a job with the trump campaign, too. these are the details prosecutors are putting out for the jury. >> as much as the defense shows the bad guy -- >> her exact quote was he approved every penny of everything we paid. not only that, the bookkeeper describes in details how manafort lied to the banks. prosecutors show a side by side of documents. one where the book keeper told one bank that manafort's company lost more than $1 million in 2016. manafort, he sent the same person at that same bank a different financial statement saying hi...

Too. these are the details prosecutors are putting out for the jury. >> as much as the defense shows the bad guy -- >> her exact quote was he approved every penny of everything we paid. not only that, the bookkeeper describes in details how manafort lied to the banks. prosecutors show a side by side of documents. one where the book keeper told one bank that manafort's company lost more than $1 million in 2016. manafort, he sent the same person at that same bank a different financial statement saying his company actually made $3 million by around the same time period. prosecutors are priming th...

Reality bites. good evening, i am chris matthews. heading into round one now. investigation is underway at a courthouse just across the potomac. he is facing 18 counts of tax evasion and bank fraud. charges that predate his time on the trump campaign. if found guilty, he could get up to ten years in prison. facing similar charges in federal court in washington. manafort joined the trump campaign in march of 2016.

Assesses to have current ties or active ties with russian military intelligence during 2016. manafort tells politico their discussions is include the dnc hack. that's one piece. >> told politico that. >> he told them that but adds i didn't know that the russians had hacked. but that's impossible because the very first report on the hack from the "washington post" at the outset attributed it to russia. he's got a problem with that. >> he's on the record. somehow even in my capacious and unending synthesis of this story missed that detail he admitted to politico he discussed the dnc hack with th...