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First the russian story that cnn is breaking tonight. >> we don't often get a lot of detail behind the scenes of what's going on between mueller and the people he's investigating or talking to. that's what we got from my colleague. we're told during the talks that occurred during the period of months before rick gate decided to plead guilty that mueller's investigators told rick gates they didn't need him to provide information against paul manafort who is his former business partner and former campaign chairman for the trump campaign. what they needed him for was to try to zero on contacts be...

Would go. today we know he's going to come in here and plead guilty at 2:00 p.m., wolf. >> the guessing is over as far as rick gates is concerned. evan perez over at the federal courthouse, thanks very much. let's talk about this, get some analysis. joining us, our chief political analyst gloria borger and jim zeleny. gloria, you've obtained this very important letter that rick gate wrote to family and friends. >> yes, and it gives you some insight of the pressure he felt given what he's going to do today at 2:00 in the afternoon. the portion of the letter that we've received is addressed to f...

Hello, i'm wolf blitzer in washington. i want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. we're following breaking news on multiple fronts. former trump campaign official rick gates is about to plead guilty in robert mueller's wide-ranging russia investigation. the plea hearing is set to begin moments from now at the same time the president will be holding a big joint news conference with malcolm turnbull, visiting prime minister of australia, nation hailed, by the way, for addressing its gun violence problem. he arrives hours after president trump pushed once again for a...

Rick gates if he pleads guilty that would make four guilty please for the special counsel, three of them would be for either senior or significant figures within the trump campaign, what's the significance of this? >> you'd also have at least four now known cooperators who are bedressing the cooperate b. you've got a lot of pleasure by the mueller team that's stoked by this idea of chaos, no one knows what's going on, no one knows what mueller's team is investigating, having everything held close to the vest is proving critical to mueller's team securing these guilty pleas. people who may be d...

Money laundering is still one of the top priorities of the mueller investigation. if that's issue for other people, they can also have their knee shaking together. >> you flip rick gates maybe you can flip paul manafort and maybe it does get close to the trump campaign and the white house. who knows? is that something they're trying to do? >> it could. you're flipping people with the intent of catching the biggest fish and in certain areas the ceiling may have been reached by somebody like paul manafort in the area of the legislation act in the area of money laundering. there may be other peop...