He did address the troops for about 20 minutes. I think what we need to find out next here we have a little bit coming out from reports from reuters, as well. Number one, the president is not going to withdraw from iraq. Thats something he said they are going to stay there. He thinks the world will come around and the rest of the International Community to his decision to withdraw the 2,000 troops from syria. He said that the current or soon to be acting secretary of defense will be there for some time. The president s next stop is going to be the air base in germany about five hours away on the plane. So far the head lines, president making an unannounced trip to iraq. Stay with us if you will. I want to bring in hally jackson. What can you tell us about the trip . Significant moment for President Trump given he had come under fire for not having visited troops. At this point in his presidency barack obama had been to afghanistan. A couple of things to note here. The president is goin
This trip were secretary pompeo, this individual that worked on iran and Jared Kushners team in the white house. Theres been very little readout about what actually went on in saudi arabia and, like we said, thats concerning members of congress. Erin banco, thank you. Im ana cabrera in for brooke baldwin. Any minute now Paul Manafort learns his fate. Donald trumps former Campaign Chairman is facing the first of two sentencing hearings today which will determine whether the 69yearold will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Manafort was found guilty of defrauding banks and the government and failing to pay millions of dollars in taxes charges stemming from the special counsels investigation. Now prosecutors say manafort deserves up to 25 years in prison. Again, in this one case, the case in which he was convicted on all these charges and he should pay millions of dollars in fines and restitution. He was convicted by a jury after a three week trial last summer and since then, manafor
The information adds detail about the workings of the investigation itself. As well as insight into the minds of investigators as they plo probe the inner workings of President Trumps finances. Also on the investigation front this morning, Rod Rosenstein staying on. Pete williams reports that the Deputy Attorney general overseeing the Mueller Investigation is staying on a little longer than he said. That has prompted people to speculate about what that means on the timing it of the Mueller Report. Lets tackle the cohen news with tom winter. Weve got new information on this part of the story. What do we know . A little bit of new detail here. Were kind of getting an understanding of how this investigation into the Campaign Finance crimes part of this, the payments to Stormy Daniels, how that came about. This came about in the course of the bank crimes investigation. So basically investigators were studying Michael Cohens Bank Accounts and transactions, they were going through it and in
so what do you think? the obama campaign had technical violations in 2008 for which they paid a $360,000 fine. they did not pay essentially pay hush money to keep women from speaking out in a way that might damage the campaign. there s no kor larry. this is the difference between a parking ticket and a fundamental crime. and to compare the two. this moral relativism is what he does. everybody does what manafort does. no, everybody doesn t do that. he was involved in bank crimes. he hit the money. he says everybody does what he did with michael cohen in this case. that is not true. it is not true that everybody meets with russians to get dirt on their opponent. that is not true! ok. and when he says that, he s
what he did, some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant, every lobbyist in washington probably does. if you look at hillary clinton s person, you look at the people who worked for hillary clinton. look at the crimes that clinton did with the e-mails and she dlee deletes 30,000 e-mails and this justice does nothing about it? and all the other crimes that they ve done. that was about paul manafort. so much fact checking in that, i don t have three hours to do when it comes to the 33,000 e-mails and the crimes that have already been discussed. there were hearings held. hillary clinton is the president in his head and probably in the head of the folks who work for fox news. he s talking about manford. by him saying, susan, that it s something that every lobbyist in