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Positioned to have answers to those questions as well as, by the way, any business transactions that were going on that we no are already the subject of mueller s investigation. interesting. so miebl, after the gates plea manafort issued a statement and it read notwithstanding that rick gates pled today rick gates pled today i continue to maintain my innocence. i had hoped and expected my business colleague would have had the strength to continue the battle to prove our innocence for reasons yet to surface he chose to do otherwise. this is not altering my commitment to defend myself against the untrue piled up charges contained in the indictments against me. so he is talking a good game. but today mueller announced even more new charges against manafort. the pressure has to be immense right now. i would think so, don, the when you take into consideration manafort s age, the severity of the charges, how many of the charges the tax and the ....
Probe. manafort issuing a statement lamenting gates plea and throughout showing no sienls of caving into to mueller pressure. statement reading, quote, i continue to maintain my innocence. i had hoped my business colleague would have had the strength to continue the battle to prove our innocence. for reasons yet to surface, he chose to do otherwise. this does not alter my commitment to defend myself against the untrue piled up charges contained in the indictments against me. gates is the fifth person to plead guilty in mule cervix. evan perez is outfront this evening. how does this get them closer is this. potentially closer. rick gates is cooperating witness in robert mueller investigation. and that s a big deal not only to paul manafort, gates business partner, but potentially others in the trump campaign still under investigation in this ....
I had hoped my expected business colleague would have had the strength to continue to battle to prove our innocence. for reasons yet to surface, he chose to not. i continue the commitment to defend myself against the untrue charges. one said he s no longer innocent. you re seeing here somebody who is defiant and trying to make a move to stay in the game. remember, there is a possibility that he may have information and be able to flip against potentially a bigger fish. maybe not. but if he does, he is trying to set himself up to have the plea bargaining chips in place and to reverse the course of leverage that s so been in mueller s favor since the beginning of the investigation. i see that statement as not only somebody being defied but someone saying i m biding some time. perhaps there s a deal in my future. it may never come, but what does ....
I mean, obviously now 2018. it speaks to the breadth and depth of mueller s investigation. certainly, and that s what we saw with the indictment of the russian officials is the fact that this began long before the presidential campaign, some of these issues that mueller is looking at. this is a broad and complex investigation. that is part of why the president has been so frustrated as this has continued on and on. a lot of his allies were telling him this would be over by thanksgiving, christmas, the new year. clearly this is an expansive investigation that is not going away any time soon and likely will play the will plague the republicans as they go forward. let me read this from a few minutes ago, paul manafort s statement released by his team. this was after the guilty plea from gates but before the charges, i continue to maintain my innocence. i d hoped and expected my business colleague would have had the strength to continue the ....
Relating to lobbying work on behalf of ukraine said in a statement, quote: i had hopes and expected my business colleague would have had the strength to continue to battle to prove our innocence. this is not alter my commitment to defend myself against the pile of charges contained in the indictment against me. as he left court gates did not answer reporters questions about whether he will testify against manafort. court records show there is a standard cooperation agreement. but there is no evidence gates is already helping the special counsel. gates is thought fifth person to plead guilty in the wide ranging russia probe. he faces several years in federal prison and up to $200,000 in fines. all of which can be dramatically reduced based on his potential cooperation. martha? martha: thanks, catherine marriage. and on the same day that we have this guilty plea, new questions raised about john brennan s role in this whole thing. on may 23rd of last year, long after the election, he c ....