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It is a document case. you can't cross-examine a document, the document speaks for itself and they'll put into evidence one document after another. in terms of any kind of real defense here, the defense, the lawyers, they have him lying to the lawyers. >> before i go to david on foreign policy, you don't think they'll put paul manafort on the stand do you? >> i would never think he'd take the stand. they would then take the documents and put them under his face and say did you sign this? did you sign this? if he doesn't admit it he'll look like a total fool and if he does he looks like a fool,...

Another high level insider because when paul manafort was the campaign chairman, richard gates was the deputy chairman. it also gives the mueller team somebody who was involved with the campaign. >> all right, pete, thank you for that reporting. i know you'll continue to track this throughout the hour and day. ken, i want to bring you in. this, obviously, comes after the breaking news that we reported on yesterday. those new indictments. 32-count indictment, along with his business partner paul manafort. so talk a little bit about how this plays into the broader calculation for paul manafort. ...

>> hey, ron. obviously law enforcement and muller's team are triangulating at this point. because everyone could have a deal. we know papadopoulos will do well if he fesses up everything he knows. despite a blustery comment, the bottom line is paul manafort and richard gates have got to be thinking carefully about their level of cooperation with the investigation. >> sure. these are very serious charges, you know, for somebody certainly at paul manafort's age. these are charges that could potentially imprison him for the rest of his life. so he has to be looking at what are my real prospects o...

They can sort of massage the jury pool, the future jury pool for an impeachment and say, hey, this guy is not credible because he was involved in this and he's dirty in some way. he's dirty in one way, all right, and he's not actually dirty. he is the man that hunted russian mafia figures that were money laundering dollars that they had stolen from the liquidation of the soviet union into the u.s. real estate market. donald trump must be terrified of him and everything that he's known. but like everything that we already have discerned with the mueller probe is this is going to be a document c...

And gates remained in the trump campaign well after manafort left so we don't know exactly what he may be tell about the trump campaign. but this is a horrible day for paul manafort. he is under now enormous pressure to plead guilty. you know, before this had been essentially a paper case, a document case, a very strong case, now he's got his former friend who seems willing to testify against him, it's just got to be a devastating day for him. >> ken vogel, how much does rick gates now? >> he helps mueller in three areas. number one is with manafort as ken just outlined, he'd been with manafor...