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Gossip but people's impression that's manafort's team seemed very pleased with how it went today. that this was what they were aiming for with rick gates. the cross-examination is sort c sort of turning things in their way, as a matter of substance in terms of the evidence against manafort and what the jury will consider. was that your impression as well? >> i thought that gates did okay. i thought it was sort of a middling kind of performance. i didn't feel like he fell apart on the stand. i didn't feel like it was a mistake for prosecutors to put him on. and remember that prosecutors are del...

Cooperating witness here. it still remains to be seen who the witnesses are, what kind of evidence they have. it's hard, i've been trying to study the indictment and figure it out a little bit. i think some of the people who are mentioned as cc's, co-conspirators, are likely cooperating with the government and will testify, which could add a whole nother wrinkle because they seem to be all family members. but in insider trading cases, what you'll look for, and i'll draw the analogy to the manafort case just because it's going on and people have been talking about how it's a document case, in i...

I imagine because of his role in the campaign that they are asking him lots and lots of questions about contacts with russia and the roles not just of the president, but of other people. roger stone, jared kushner, donald trump jr. look, this is a guy who was around the campaign for months and months, who traveled with the president, who was there for conversations, who may have read e-mails, who may have listened in on phone calls. and so, he's not just important for manafort. you're exactly right. in fact, the government could probably convict manafort without gates. this is largely a docume...

Trying to protect what he sees as a likely conviction at the end of this trial. >> eric, last question to you. as i said, you've been covering it day in and day out, ahead of this trial a lot of people were saying, look, this is a document case. these tend to be boring. help us understand the circus, so much as there is one surrounding this trial. how much excitement is there in the room? what's it like when you're inside that courtroom? >> to my mind, one of the most fascinating dynamics of this trial is as far as this jury is concerned, it's as if the trump campaign and president trump and v...

Pinning all this down. document case, paper case about illicit money transfers, lot of intensive investigation. and this is only one small piece of what mueller is managing in this russia investigation. >> eli, you coined the term trump tells. there is behavior that reveals something else. what were the trump tells in that seven-tweet tweet storm? >> he's a terrible poker player. he's doing it all the time. it's not a very difficult question to answer. you see in some of the tweets about the manafort trial specifically, the president is both distancing himself saying he worked for me for just ...