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Paul manafort, and the star witness against manafort took the stand for a third straight day. rick gates pleaded guilty to helping manafort commit tax and bank fraud. manafort's defense made another attempt to discredit gates by pointing out he embezzled from his boss, and they called his character into question, getting gates to admit on the stand that he made many, many mistakes over the years. but the real meat of today's testimony came in the form of financial documents and flow charts. an fbi forensic accountant testified that manafort's lavish purchases coincided with massive wire transf...

Low. the white house hasn't been speaking out who he has been reading with and golfing with. we know over the last ten days or so, we have seen reflected in his tweets, as well as these private conversations how upset he has been watching the manafort trial day after day. it's the cable coverage, it's in his face. it's mostly you, inescapable every day that he sees it there. and that he -- as he's told people around him, he feels that sort of mueller's opening act. even though this trial is not about russia, but he feels mueller's hand is involved, obviously manafort was a prominent part of hi...

You want to start strong and end strong and put that cooperator in the middle. and that seems to be exactly what the government is doing. >> and i want to ask you about this federal judge again. we talked about him last night. but the question is what did this judge do today that got your attention and why? >> well, one of the things he did today again is interjecting his own views about the case when it's supposed to be the jury who is the fact finder. at one point this forensic accountant testified that two of paul manafort's purported signatures appeared to her to be different. and the judg...

We know over the last ten days or so, we have seen reflected in his tweets, as well as these private conversations, how upset he has been watching the manafort trial day after day. it's the cable coverage, it's in his face. it's mostly you, inescapable every day that he sees it there. and that he -- as he's told people around him, he feels that that's sort of mueller's opening act. even though this trial is not about russia, but he feels mueller's hand is involved, obviously manafort was a prominent part of his campaign and it's a sense of what could still be to come. even though the president...

Gates to admit on the stand that he made many, many mistakes over the years. but the real meat of today's testimony came in the form of financial documents and flow charts. an fbi forensic accountant testified that manafort's lavish purchases coincided with massive wire transfers from foreign banks. an irs agent told the jury manafort hid $16 million from the government, and that his 2014 tax return was, quote, false. back with us is barbara mcquade, who not only is a former u.s. attorney, she was in court for today's readings. we can't thank her enough for staying late to talk about it with u...