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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Jury to buy. It most certainly is and prosecutors will hammer one concept, follow the money. In these fraud trials, if you follow the money trail, that will lead you to the conclusion that you will finding when in the prosecutions mind is guilt. Theyll see readily Paul Manafort made exponentially bigger amounts. He set up the business and the shell companies. So its a very tough sell for the defense team to say its the lower level, the subordinate whos in position to take orders from the man above thats the true mastermin...

The court house, can you give us a quick refresher on who rick gates is, what his background is, and how this might go on the stand for him. what are the stakes, how much preparation have prosecutors put him through? >> reporter: one can only imagine that he is incredibly well prepared because he's such an important witness. rick gates was paul manafort's prote protege. he was working for manafort for many years, but he also, when manafort went to the trump campaign, rick gates went to the trmp c trump campaign as a deputy chairman and he stayed on after manafort left, so gates remained in tru...

To russia political entities, another left too. carter page had been part of the trump campaign's foreign policy team but in september 2016, the month after manafort left, michael isikoff reported that carter page was being investigated by u.s. intelligence agencies. three days later he resign saying he was taking a leave of absence. he didn't want to be a distracti distraction. immediately they were distancing themselves from him. they said he had no role. he was never really part of trump's circle. well, this week the government declassified portions of four applications for court ordered su...

And hiding it. gates was charged and pleaded guilty to several charges and manafort was charged with these charges. manafort is on to something. he stayed on after manafort left, mr. gates, who pleaded guilty as well. that's going to be an interesting case if he working with mr. mueller. >> for those in the white house, those around the president, there's been word that this investigation will wrap up in a matter of months. but, given what we are seeing right now, what does this say about the extent of mueller's investigation, how much longer this might continue? >> it's going to continue on a...

Collusion conspiracy thing, i think is an important thing for all the players the who are in the orbit of this investigation. >> right. well, that's also something that the talking point neglects. the idea of saying, this went back a long way, renato, so obviously it has nothing to do with the campaign. that is a naive assumption. because the theory of the case is, well, they made relationships during that time. how did those relationships come to bear? and that's why i go back to rick gates. because the trump team kept him around after manafort left, which, you know, politically, is now going...