What Rick Gates' plea deal means for the Russia probe
Former Trump campaign aide Rick Gates entered the latest guilty plea in the Russia investigation. As part of a deal cut with special counsel Robert Mueller's ...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election has again swept up a former member of the Trump campaign. Hari Sreenivasan lays out the latest. HARI SREENIVASAN: For Rick Gates, this day in court was different. He was in Washington, entering the latest guilty plea, the fifth so far in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller. Gates is a former Trump campaign aide and a longtime associate of Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman. Today's plea is the result of a deal that Gates cut with Mueller's office. As part of the agreement, he admitted that he lied to investigators earlier this month, and that he conspired with others to conceal, among other things, his and Manafort's unregistered for...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: Special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election has again swept up a former member of the Trump campaign. Hari Sreenivasan lays out the latest. HARI SREENIVASAN: For Rick Gates, this day in court was different. He was in Washington, entering the latest guilty plea, the fifth so far in the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller. Gates is a former Trump campaign aide and a longtime associate of Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman. Today's plea is the result of a deal that Gates cut with Mueller's office. As part of the agreement, he admitted that he lied to investigators earlier this month, and that he conspired with others to conceal, among other things, his and Manafort's unregistered for...
