no question this is potentially, potentially, devastatingy testim for manafort. >> reporter: manafort's charges are relate today lobbying wor with the ukrainian government, not his time on the campaign but gates testified that once president trump was elected manafort tried to get a cabinet level position for a banker who helped get him a loan and gates also admitted that he stole money fm manafort, many of many attack lis as the defense began its cross-examination today. >> mr. gates is a criminal. mr. manafort is aned acc criminal. criminals tend to hang out with criminals, and so what you're seeing here i not at all unusual. >> reporter: experts say even if a jury does not trust gates, bank and tax records will make the cgovernment'se. so what is president trump saying about all of this? well, todayth g, but last week he tweeted and asked why the government did not tell him why manafort was under investigation while he worked for the campaign. jim? >> blayne alexander, blayne, thank you. >>> we've beenut telling you a the preparations ahead of this sunday's white supremacist rally in