Sh issue. First time they have r had interesting way to take over the magazine. That does it for me. Hardball starts now. Crime and punishment. Lets play hardball. Today Paul Manafort, the president s campaign. Facing years in a u. S. Prison. Whatever you choose to call it, it is past. For a year and a half our country has been contorted into a reality tv show. This is the day we discovered
reality bites. Good evening, i am chris matthews. Heading into round one now. Investigation is underway at a courthouse just across the potomac. He is facing 18 counts of tax evasion and bank fraud. Charges that predate his time on the Trump Campaign. If found guilty, he could get up to ten years in prison. Facing similar charges in Federal Court in washington. Manafort joined the Trump Campaign in march of 2016. Manafort did work overseas. He also had Business Ties with russia. And he took part in that Infamous Trump tower meeting with russians. Where the Trump Campaign was promis promised damaging
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. That decision still has not been made. They have been delaying this time line here and stretching it out to some great length. Although Rudy Giulianis comments yesterday campaigning for house candidate of all things in New Hampshire were interesting. Essentially trying to call Robert Muellers bluff. Saying if youve got the goods, now is the time. Heres some of giuliani extending that Poker Metaphor a bit. We believe that the investigation should be brought to a close. We think were at the end of it. They should render their report. Put up i mean, i guess playing poker, we say put up or shut up, what do you got. We have every reason to believe they dont have anything. Chris, we play aed a lot of that sound yesterday. Let me make a small distinction here i think is notable. What i am starting to hear from Congressional Republicans on the hill,
A news show featuring the top headlines of the day from pop culture to politics, which are discussed by a rotating panel of four women and one man. And the Associated Press quoting sources who say the enquirer kept the safe filled with documents on hush money payments and other potentially damaging stories on the president as the tabloid is said to do with many celebrities. Cohens attorney has told cnn he believes his client would be willing to testify before Congress Without immunity. Juan, i come to you first. Democrats have talked the word impeachment. And im curious, now, if that will stay in the Mow Nomenclature for you, or youll see where things shake out . I dont think there is avoiding the reality when you have the president s personal lawyer say in open court in the course of his plea that the president was involved with this, and then you have the repeated contribute,s or changes in stories coming from the president , that his political opponents would say, well, is this meri
proper. it is very common for me and other senior officials to weigh in on matters that they think may be ill-advised and may have ramifications down the road. for example, just a few months before that, i had weighed in repeatedly to complain about the idea of prosecuting senator menendez. i think i made three calls. i think it was two to a.g. sessions and one to rosenstein. i didn t know senator menendez. no one was paying me to do it. in fact, i don t support senator menendez politically. but i carefully watched this case. my friend was his defense counsel. it was very much like a line of cases that i had been concerned about when i was a.g. so i was watching it. and i thought the prosecution was based on the fallacious theory that would have bad