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Business news and analysis. Primary asking somebody if you are going to work out tomorrow. The answer is of course i am until you wake up in the morning and realize you have a million other things to do. Only ones to go out and vote very energized. Those very energized are very angry or very excited. I think going into this, is there a chance that the democrats win, looking at the polls, yes. Is it likely . No. Does this mean that this is going to be a reflection of whats going to happen in the midterm . Absolutely not. Thats because anything can happen between now and the midterm. And we have...

The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. There in alexandria, virginia. Joe, bring me up to speed on the trial at this moment. Reporter so, our question, of course, as you said at the top, brooke, is when will crossexamination begin . The assumption is its pretty close. What we do know is that the prosecution has asked a lot of questions and there was a break around, what, 2 30 p. M. Eastern time that was supposed to go until about 2 45 eastern time. The judge told the defense to keep questions and crossexamination sharply focussed. Sort of telegraphing the things to com...

Story, but you also do have things, e-mails, documents that they can look at, bank records. they can see exactly what was transpiring and then they can decide whether gates who after all is pleading for his life here. we know that. that's why he turned states evidence. but then they can decide who they're going to believe. as richard says, they're going to attack gates because he embezzled money from manafort, so there you go. not exactly a great guy here. but he admitted it. he is singing here. but i have to say that that's not the only thing the jury is looking at. they're looking at paper. ...

All right. so, happening right now in this federal courthouse in alexandria, virginia the man who flipped against his former boss, paul manafort is being cross-examined right now on the stand, we're talking about rick gates. this happening after a couple key developments today. gates testified that manafort recommended a banker who gave him a loan to be secretary of the army. he also told the court about e-mails that showman that fort directed him on what to do with secret, off-shore accounts. gates' testimony is what happens when prosecutors convince insiders to flip on friends and colleagues...

Will that along with gates' testimony be enough? >> well, certainly the prosecution believes so. and it is a very strong case when you have this amount of documentary evidence as gloria points out and as well as witnesses who once worked for the two of them who acknowledge under oath that manafort was directing the operation, was the person who had the ultimate say so and where as gates might have done various administrative things and executed orders from manafort, the prosecution's theory is that manafort was the guy in charge. he's the one with the different houses and the incredibly lavish...