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Updates of the days news. Good morning, everybody, it is wednesday, august 8th. A lot to talk about this morning. Lets begin with that closely watched Special Election in ohio in a district that has been in gop hands for three decades, Republican Troy Balderson leads Danny Oconnor by less than 1 of all votes cast, making it too close to call. The official outcome may not be known until all the ballots are counted in the coming weeks the race could be coming to a recount as the final results are actually certified. Still despite the razor thin margin, Troy Balderson has claimed victory and Dani...

Questioned gates whether any other members on the special counsel's team asked about his time on the campaign, prosecutored objected. the court then went into recess and the topible never came up again. gates also testified he had embezzled from man a for the and as a -- manafort and an extra marital affair kept an apartment in london and stayed in luxury hotels. a new reporting suggests the president's former fixer is being investigateled for more than possible bank fraud and possible campaign finance violations. also on that list is tax fraud. one person familiar with the matter tells the jo...

Came to question gates. he said he used money he stole carrying on an affair in london and helped falsify financial documents. when he had trouble recalling what he told mueller's prosecutors about his past like he says, haven't they confronted with you so many lies that you can't remember any of it? after manafort left the trump campaign, gates stayed on to work on the inauguration. he says it's possible he submitted personal information there. prosecutors reveal manafort kept asking for favors from gates. manafort e-mailed a banker that helped him get a loan should be considered for secretar...

A lot coming up with regards to the gates' testimony, specifically bringing up gates' affair he had about a decade or so ago talk to me about the defense's strategy here and discredited gates? >> reporter: well, they need to do whatever they can. it seems like it. after reading reports of what's happening in that courtroom, rick gates had some damming testimony that essentially paul manafort asked him to, you know, forge or create false loan do you means to obtain loans and you know the first two days of his testimony was just i mean it read you know for those of us who have been covering this...

In the trial of president trump's former company chairman, paul manafort, star witness rick gates is back on the stand getting personal as manafort's attorneys take aim to attack his credibility. justice correspondent pete williams has more. >> reporter: in two days of testimony, rick gates said he never told accountants the actual amount of money paul manafort made because he told them not to let them know how many millions of dollars were paid for the political consulting work they did for ukraine's president victor yanukovych. when the work fell, he was hit with a big tax bill in 2014 he e-...