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Documents that the prosecution introduced, some of which were e-mails from manafort clearing showing his involvement in shady behavior. joining us now harry litman, former federal prosecutor and deputy assistant attorney general under president clinton. ken is saying there it sounds like gates's credibility was damaged by that cross examination today, the defense team really going after him. ultimately, do you think that matters? >> well, maybe a little. he did get beat up some, but that was to be expected. the important thing is not whether he's done sleazy or criminal things. it's whether ...

Foreign bank accounts outside the irs. he has not refuted that at the trial. his only hope is to say it was not intentional and therefore not a felony. gates has admitted to massive crimes including tax evasion, bank fraud and stealing from paul manafort. today it emerged he had a secret life, a mistress at a crash pad in london. it was an interesting trial, day in court today. manafort's lawyers did damage gates' credibility, but they didn't challenge sort of the overall assertions that he made in the morning, buttressed by documents that the prosecution introduced, some of which were e-mails...

Agreement and his plea. >> that piece uses publicly available information. there's also the kind of level of shadiness here. as you hear this gates testimony, what are you thinking about this? >> rick gates was defrauding paul manafort as paul manafort was defrauding the united states government. you look at everything we've learned about these guys and everything they've done from the tax fraud and witness tampering and destroying evidence and the mind begins to wonder, we know that their experience in the trump campaign was book ended by this shady behavior. what shady behavior extended into...

>> rick gates was defrauding paul manafort as paul manafort was defrauding the united states government. you look at everything we've learned about these guys and everything they've done from the tax fraud and witness tampering and destroying evidence and the mind begins to wonder, we know that their experience in the trump campaign was book ended by this shady behavior. what shady behavior extended into that period when they were running the campaign? >> that's a great point. when i think about this stuff, it's like he was stealing from manafort. what are these people up to? >> to be sure, th...

Vekselburg to argue he knew nothing about the payments to cohen, team trump and the republican national committee which, by the way, michael cohen is a top official of. >> this doesn't pass the smell test. when you connect the dots, it looks like yet another example of russians trying to purchase some sort of influence, some sort of governance in their favor to the trump administration. it is another example of michael cohen walking out there with the biggest continue cup i've ever seen. pay to play has never happened to a shameless degree like this that i've seen. i agree with harry. i think ...