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Documents. >> rick gates, we have to remind the audience is cooperating. all right, i have to bring in midwin charles. talk about the significance of the judge naming five potential witnesses in manafort's bank fraud and tax crime case. >> i think it's significant because what happens is we now know there are five people who are intimately connected with manafort's dealings and who can provide additional evidence and perhaps firsthand evidence and that's one of the reasons why i think this is one of the most significant things the judge has done to date. >> two of them on that list, conner o'b...

Fraud case and the people paying him aren't the issue. but the government says no, that is the issue. how he made the money, why when the money dried up he changed his strategy on how to get more money out of loans. and in a filing last night, the defense said that they may try to ask witnesses, for example, why some people were getting immunity and manafort wasn't. because this could go to some insight into the special counsel's motive for prosecuting the case against manafort. so there are all these back ground issues that the judge has to decide how close they can come when they actually ge...

Witness, potential witness, maybe not to this meeting but important events around it. rick gate who is are cooperating with the mueller investigation having pled guilty and that's a witness that congress would not have access to. whatever is coming out of senate investigations, the floor, not the ceiling for what robert mueller would develop around this trump tower meeting and other conversations and connections that may be relevant to what was happening in that time period. >> to ken, one of the e-mails from the don junior or this is from rob goldstone to his russian contact. he was the middl...

Is part of mueller's probe, not specifically connected all of them to the president. >> michael flynn ultimately and rick gates during the campaign, some of these questions -- would they have questions to the block number? he would know who that block number is? >> i would think so. if it's knowable, i think he would know it, sure. we don't know whether it's knowable, but if it's knowable, i think bob mueller will know it. and we should presuppose that with all of these questions. bob mueller has a lot of information. he's formed an opinion about sort of the time line or the essential core fac...

Falsehoods, into lies, whether he's going to ultimately be caught out by some piece of information that bob mueller knows because michael flynn has gwynn him some kind of evidence on this or rick gates, it's a very tricky situation for president trump to go into. and how do you prep president trump into this kind of situation, don? you know how he is. he's not someone who stooks to a script. he's someone who can get very proud and very defensive, and he can say things. >> that's. >> -- that's his personality. >> and his lawyers are arguing, do this in writing, we can vet it. but then you catch...