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A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. Later we learned exactly the opposite. President trumps legal team wrote in a memo to the special Counsel Robert Mueller and i quote have you received all the notes, communications and testimony indicating that the president dictate add short but accurate response to the New York Times article on behalf of his son donald trump jr. He dictated it sanders did not answer questions about how that could be that districted her original statement, which it did. Instead she referred reporters to outside counsel. President trumps...

Innocent. so at that time months ago he was certainly not accusing rick gates of being the fall guy. so, this is going to be an interesting and very dramatic testimony to see what the defense team does to rick gates as a witness. not so much we know what the prosecution is going to argue, but how far manafort's team could go in undercutting gates' credibility is really what's going to have the ultimately -- obviously the ultimate effect on manafort -- the outcome of this trial for him if there is a quicketsdz is that the goa -- uglyconviction the goal. get a conviction against paul manafort so...

Mr. gates, you were stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from your boss, mr. manafort, and he didn't notice it. so, clearly, he was not watching it that closely. and the prosecution has been very concerned about this comment because it certainly has the appearance of undercutting gates' testimony. and what we saw in their close was an everett to kind of clean up a lot of issues and sort of tie up the loose ends. they said in part when mr. manafort chose someone, someone to lie to his accountant, he didn't choose a boy scout. the defense said that mr. gates had his hand in the cookie jar. ...

Position that he is a serial liar. that he lied about his money. he lied to hide the money. and when the money ran out in 2016, he lied again to secure multi-million-dollar loans. and the chief prosecutor did the close in an hour and 43 minutes. he told the jury mr. manafort lied to keep more money when he had it. and he lied to get more money when he didn't. this is a case about mr. man ford's lies. he hid money in foreign bank accounts, later spent that money on personal items and real estate. he is not above the law, dana. >> dana: catherine, what was the prosecution trying to do regarding ...