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Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Gates is all to blame here. Theyre saying he is the one who stole and embezzled money. Theyre saying hes the one who lied. And now theyre trying flip this on the government. Rick gates will be the governments star witness, but the defense team is saying how can he be your star witness . Rick gates is an admitted liar and he is now cooperating with the government. Whats next for the trial . What happens tomorrow . Just day one, weve already seen a lot. But day two were expecting that the prosecution will be calling two more witnesses. We expect another democratic consultant who worked with Paul Manafort. Were also expecting to hear from an fbi agent. The prosecution here says that they have a witness list of 35 people that they plan to call, but this trial is really only expected to go three weeks. We saw just how fast this trial moved just ....
Manafort is, is highly relevant to this investigation. but jeffrey, if i could just jump in real quick, is there some sort of crime that you re accusing the president of? no. here? no. i m not. but when you are asking why the president had this fixation with vladimir putin, which apparently continues to this day, and why vladimir putin was so desperate to see donald trump win and hillary clinton lose, and why donald trump was asking russians to hack e-mails, which they did the same day, all of it is relevant evidence to what happened in this campaign. jennifer, at some point rick gates himself will have to testify. do you think he ll find anything out about will we find anything out about the larger mueller investigation from that? . you know, the one way that we could is that when a cooperator testifies, the defense is entitled to cross-examine him or ....
Has one final question he wants to ask the judge. he wants to know if he, the lawyer, can explain his clients new plea deal to the reporters who have been calling him about it. he asked the question to the judge. the judge responds by saying to the prosecutor, what do you think? the prosecutor then says this, he says, no objection so long as you do not talk about paul manafort. and then the judge says basically, quote, i clearly don t want you talking about the substance of mr. manafort s case. at which point rick gates s lawyer says to the court, no, no, no. so no talking about trump campaign chair paul manafort. if you re the lawyer for rick gates you can talk about the plea deal and explain how it goes but when it comes to paul manafort, ixnay on the talking. paul manafort goes forward facing multiple counts across two different jurisdictions but now he s facing them alone for ....
New plea deal to the reporters who have been calling him about it. he asked the question to the judge. the judge responds by saying to the prosecutor, what do you think? the prosecutor then says this, he says, no objection so long as you do not talk about paul manafort. and then the judge says basically, quote, i clearly don t want you talking about the substance of mr. manafort s case. at which point rick gates s lawyer says to the court, no, no, no. so no talking about trump campaign chair paul manafort. if you re the lawyer for rick gates you can talk about the plea deal and explain how it goes but when it comes to paul manafort, ixnay on the talking. joining us now is benjamin w ....
Wittes. it s good to see you. thank you. he has been his path has d diverged from rick gates, a lot of people see that as something that greatly increases the pressure on paul manafort that may change the course of how his legal case proceeds. how do you see it? well, look, most people who are indicted by federal prosecutors, particularly good federal prosecutors, and the mueller team is extremely strong, are guilty. and most people who are indicted and rather than face charges plead to them eventually. and paul manafort is facing very serious charges. he is, as you point out, facing them alone, and that and defending yourself against such charges is an extremely ....