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Manafort spent six months on the trump campaign. >> won the primary process with a record number of votes. >> reporter: questions of his lobbying work for the government in ukraine and the government alleges manafort hid millions and lied about his income and failed to pay taxes while spending money on real etate and new york yankees season tickets. while serving as manafort's right-hand man for a decades gates testified that he and manafort had 15 foreign accounts that they didn't report to the government, even though they knew it was illegal. he said manafort instructed him not to submit the...

Claims he committed crimes with manafort, but he also admitted to embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from manafort. yesterday gates admitted to an extramarital affair that involved maintaining an apartment in london. as my colleagues reported, the topic came up as kevin downing, manafort's attorney, tried to paint gates add self-motivated and untrustworthy by hammering away at his admitted practice of filing doctored expense reports. joining me from outside the court house in alexandria, is nbc news national security and justice reporter, julia ainsley. julia, yesterday manafort's law...

Filing false expense reports. testifying some of manafort's accounts were tied to a man prosecutors say has direct ties to the russian intelligence. >> it is always very damaging to the defendant when a flipper, a cooperator like mr. gates takes the stand and says, i committed crimes, so did that man. here is how we did it together. >> reporter: gates flipped in february, pleading guilty to lying to the fbi and has been cooperating with the special counsel ever since. manafort staring down his former deputy as he read his plea deal aloud in the courtroom. gates refusing to make eye contact. >>...

His deals with the ukrainians so all of that is going to help the defense and i'm sure knowing this defense team there is going to be other indications of -- issues with his credibility, perhaps other bombshells that are yet to come under cross-examinati cross-examination. this is typical of what prosecutors do, they get everything that may be negative out ahead of a cross-examination obviously so that it doesn't appear like they're hiding anything. but the idea -- we couldn't believe it when we heard yesterday that rick gates said that he had been stealing, essentially, from paul manafort, ma...

>> special counsel robert mueller's star with it, rick fates, is back on the stand today in the -- rick gapts in the fraud trial of paul manafort. gates calmly described how he and manafort committed crimes together, concealing accounts from the irs and falsifying bank documents. he confused to embuzz ling hundreds of thousands of dollars from manafort filing false expense reports. gates is expected to face cross-examination by paul manafort's defense attorneys keen on damaging his credibility. all of this having, right now, so far, nothing to do with the president. paul manafort, a lot of inf...