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Recent tax reform package. they think tax reform will be the winner in the mid-terms much more than what they can do with daca and a border wall if anything. shep? >> shepard: peter, have a great weekend. thank you. lawyers for the former trump campaign aide facing criminal charges in the russia investigation are asking to quit the case. analysts say that could mean that rick gates is trying to cut a plea deal. it could. what could that mean for his co-defendant, paul manafort? we'll talk to a federal prosecutor about this. you take care of business. let office depot® officemax take care of y...

Mueller team moved very quickly, this is a somewhat complicated case to put together. you have to get records from overseas. normally not an easy thing to do. you need to tie various companies to mr. manafort and mr. gates, which they did. you then need to follow the money to the u.s. and the property records in which that i did and did it very quickly. if you look at this case, it was done in a matter of months and they have a pretty rock solid case against mr. manafort and mr. gates. >> shepard: you would cooperate if prosecutors offered you a deal to give you less trouble than you would oth...

Nothing to do with the russian contacts on the white house, just that case, certainly mr. gates can flip on mr. manafort. that's where it gets interesting. now you put the squeeze on someone like mr. manafort who has nowhere to turn. he's 68 years old. he's looking at a decade in prison. that's not something that he wants to take the full road and try to go to court. so at that point, you're seeing what mr. manafort can talk to you about. you have him cold on money laundering. you might see what he might know is where the russian and the white house. that's where the nexus gets made. >> shepar...

Here with a handful of lawyers leaving and more coming in and perhaps he's trying to reach an agreement with mr. mueller. >> shepard: remind us what the beef is with gates. >> sure. in a nutshell, with gates and manafort, it's money laundering. mr. manafort was active overseas along with collecting money in the ukraine and other parts of the caucus states. set up companies overseas. the money was deposited in the companies and brought to the u.s. in the forms of property transactions and buying luxury items: there's a tax allegation that he didn't declare it. >> it's interesting the investigat...

They say they will explain their reasons in a court filing, but that's in secret. it's just the latest legal shakeup for gates after he dropped his original attorney. he reportedly recently added a prominent attorney that specialized in white color crime to his team. a man whose colleagues were spotted going into the building where the special counsel works. the judge in the case says the trial will not start until after at least september. gates and his co-defendant paul manafort have pleaded not guilty. they face a decades behind bars if convicted. let's go to jeffery cramer, former u.s. ass...