Eric former Deputy Assistant attorney Thomas Dupree will dig into all of it but we begin with rick leventhal. A stunning set of admissions in Lower Manhattan by a man who was one of the president s most trusted employees. He lied, paid women off he says to pay his boss. He walked out of the courthouse late yesterday free on 500,000 bond pled guilty to hiding income from his Taxi Cab Business and hiding debt to secure a Home Equity Loan and arranging payments to two women in the runup to the president ial election in coordination in and at the direction for a candidate to federal office to try to help him win. Mr. Cohen disregarded that training, that tradition and decided that he was above the law and for that he is going to pay a very, very serious price. He admitted he paid 130,000
to stephanie clifford, Stormy Daniels, because she was ready to go public with a claimed affair with mr. Trump. And he arranged to reimburse a tabloid to bury a story about Karen Mcdougal who also claimed
penetrating certain counties in the state and they now have free rein to move about. when you look at the race right now with the polling the average, you are leading your opponent by 1.2%. 45 1/2 to 44.3 for bill nelson. what is it going to take for you to pick up some momentum and increase that margin? sure. well, we have 76 days to go. i continue to travel the state. just like i did in my two governor s races. we ll get out the vote. we ll change the direction of washington term limits for congressmen and women. we need to have a 2/3 majority to raise taxes out of congress. putting that on the ballot in florida for our state legislature. give the president a line item veto. most governors have it. president, republicans and democrats can save money. my opponent can vote to shut down government, he gets paid
very favorable for democrats right now. in fact, when you go to real clear politics and look at every single poll taken, it s all blue. and this is the average right here, 45 1/2 essentially to 39 1/2, a 6 point lead to democrats. does that sound right to you right about now where we sit here in the beginning of may staring down november in a handful of months? well, it s between 6 and 7 percent. that s substantial but it is not nearly as large as has been measured from time to time just a few months ago. nor is it all that substantial compared to some past cycles where democrats did in fact take over one or both houses. also i tell everybody, it is early may. you mentioned it. i give you credit for that. some people seem to think it is election eve. loads of things will change and will happen between now and november. so i love following it. you love following it. everybody in the political community is obsessed with it. but it s too early to say that this absolutely predicts the
committee so that we prevent this kind of russian interference in our democratic institutions in the future. reports and recommendations are tremendously important. they ought to be a willing and cooperative party to the effort. president bannon or president trump. thank you so much. thank you, senator. from the great state of connecticut. it s great to have you on. mark halperin, i ve got a question. so, obama was 44. trump is 45. is bannon 45 1/2? 45.5. 45.5? i call him prime minister. you think he s prime minister bannon? yes. no. he s the defacto president. i don t buy it. a month ago, everyone says bannon is out. this president is so volatile with his leadership within the west wing. you could say president bannon today, kushner tomorrow,
projects are changing america and designed to spotlight putting people back to work and moving the country forward. repursue bishing ellis island in new york harbor. 32 million for electric vehicles made in kansas city where the president visited back in july. and 13.7 million dollars used to upgrade grand canyon park, but in los angeles, an audit by the city controller 111 million dollars in stimulus spending has only created about 55 jobs so far. the audit reveals the city s department of public works has received 70.65 million dollars and created or retained 45 1/2 jobs. the city s department of transportation has been awarded 40.8 million dollars and created or retained nine jobs, with unemployment in l.a. at 12%, the controller says the city must do a better job of cutting red tape. the major problem was the delay in getting the dollars out, that the jobs that we