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Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. His plea agreement, including that he stole some hundreds of thousands of dollars from Paul Manafort, rick gates did, by filing false expense claims. So really, just a long list. It was remarkable to be there in the courtroom as rick gates over the course of 80 minutes detailing that long list of alleged crimes. So allegedly, theyre both Stealing Money through not paying taxes and other means, and then gates is also Stealing Money from manafort . Thats exactly right. So you have listen, this is one of those cases when i was inside there, anderson, having followed a mob priel or two, it struck me as you had the case of the bob boss there with his capo testifying against him. Of course in many cases like this, the person who is gat ....
Chance to question him. one final note i would make, anderson, is there you had paul manafort at the defendants table. about ten feet away was rick gates facing 90 degrees to him. rick gates did not make contact with paul manafort. but paul manafort sitting there with his arms crossed did not let his gaze leave the face of rick gates as he was making these claims. he was not happy. he was very stressed. you could sense some anger in his eyes as he was watching rick gates give this testimony against him. wow. and more from gates tomorrow. jim sciutto, thanks very much. i want to bring in our legal team, former federal prosecutor jennifer rodgers and another former federal prosecutor, cnn analyst renato mariotti renato, you said rick gates was the most important gates in the manafort trial by far. there was an accountant in the past days. how damaging was his testimony today saying he lied at the direction of mr. man forkts and he al because the defense was going to ....
Evidence that was introduced tying mr. cosby to anything. and while they read transcripts from his deposition, which can arguably be interpreted as damaging, my understanding is that those trimanscripts, he al said everything was consensual. so i think the prosecutors thought that they brought in the testimony of other alleged victims, that it would win the day, and the judge limited them to just one. i think that s where they miscalculated. i made the mistake of saying six hours. there was only six minutes of testimony there for the defense. so to that point as well. wendy, i do want to play for you what a spokeswoman for camille cosby has recently told reporters in a prepared statement just about an hour or so ago. here it is. how do i describe the district attorney? heinously and exploitively ambitious. how do i describe the judge? overtly arrogant and collaborating with the district ....
Spending 2% of their budget on defense, need to step it up. as a candidate for office, president trump called attention repeated to the fact that for too long, for too many this burden has not been shared fairly. if you don t yet have a plan, these are my words, not his, get one. nbc s lucy kafanav is with us. he al reporter: this is the first time the vice president took questions from the press on this so-called global reassurance tour and this is the very first time he addressed the scandal over mike flynn s resignation. he was asked by a member of the media whether he felt he was left out of the loop by the white house over flynn s ....
Same first amendment rights everyone else does have stolen this material and now the press is selling it out of the back of a truck. nbc s joe fryar is live. good morning. good morning, jose. sony held a town hall meeting about all this. what have you learned about that? the town hall meeting was private from what we understand. it was broken up into at least a couple different sessions. it was private, but we are hearing reports that it was basically an opportunity for sony execs to tray to pump up the troops let everyone know the company is working hard to try to get through this. it was another opportunity, reportedly, for executives to apologize in particular. sony pictures co-chair pasqual who has been the center of this had to apologize publicly last week after embarrassing e-mails were made public. she al poll jized again according to some of the employees who were there. keep in mind while a lot of the attention has gone to the ....