Doubling down on Holding Trump associates in contempt if they do not comply with house subpoenas and that includes former white House Counsel don mcgahn. So lets start up on capitol hill with our senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju. And you just talked to chairman nadler. What did he say . Reporter well he is threatening to hold don mcgahn in contempt if the former white House Counsel does not comply with the subpoena theyve issued compelling his appearance by may 21st. Youll recall that already the white house is instructed him not to turn over documents to the House Judiciary Committee because, according to the white house, it could breach confidential discussions. Democrats are giving him a chance to come before the committee before holding him in contempt but there are a number of other administration officials, other witnesses that democrats are trying to get cooperation from but the administration is stonewalling, resisting their requests and now democrats are considerin
Were going to get into why that matters. That bombshell completely changes the enormous pressure on mr. Manafort and the white houses entire calculus and leverage up until today. This woman slbombshell dropped after his team walked out of court. The scene far harsher when the news of the lighter sentence broke. The judge adding about three and a half more years to that snans sentence last week wp. Paul manafort has received 47 months in prison from this judge in virginia. 47 months. A fairly light sentence as compared to the guidelines up to 24 years. Judge amy jackson has sfl sentenced him to additional three and a half years. Hell get out of prison when hes 75 or 76 years old. Paul manafort with todays news set for incarceration on the federal charges. This is important as you hear every one debate what bob mueller has done. Thats the harshest sentence of anyone in the Mueller Probe thus far. Its close to the longest sentence for anyone in any special prosecutor probe which was about
Everexpanding president ial field, that is according to the latest numbers from monmouth, check it out for yourself which shows biden hanging on to his lead and edging out Bernie Sanders, who comes in at number two. Mayor Pete Buttigieg and senators Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren round out the top five in all three in singledigits in that poll. Josh green is Bloomberg Business Week National correspondent and a cnn political analyst and may reston is our National Political reporter. So welcome to both of you and well get to the other democrats here in just a second but first hone in on joe biden so hes jumping in the race. It is really happening. It is happening this week, josh. So let me start with you. He has been at the top of the polls even before jumping in. So what does he need to do once hes in to maintain that lead in the most diverse president ial field in modern u. S. History . Well, i think the first thing he has to do is show that he belongs in the modern Democratic Part
That several Senior Administration officials are keenly aware of the risk of a downturn. Those officials have, quote, begun discussing whether to push for temporary payroll tax cut as a way to arrest an economic slowdown. Its one of several ideas the administration appears to be considering as the post puts it, the internal discussions reveal growing concerns about the economy among President Trumps top economic aides. A reminder that both trump and his economic advisers have spent the last two days denying theres a risk of recession. And they claim they werent preparing for one, although they also admit theyre not ruling anything out. Its the kind of bizarre push and pull weve seen play out with this president time and again. Especially when it comes to the economy. The Washington Post offers up the following example. When barack obama was president and the Economic Statistics were good, thencandidate donald trump said they were fake. When trump became president and inherited the exac
So much for that christmas unity. Hours after calling for a, quote, deeper understanding of respect, the president spent the day on twitter, calling nancy pelosi crazy and her district filthy. Mr. Trump is notably frustrated about pelosi refuse iing to tur over articles of the impeachment to the senate, until republicans and democrats negotiate possible rules for a trial. As Phil Mattingly reports, neither side seems to be budging as a crack is emerging at the red wall of trumps gop in the senate. I heard that, i was disturbed. Reporter a key republican senator expressing concerns with Mitch Mcconnell on impeachment. We have to take that step back from being hand in glove with the defense. And so i i heard what leader mcconnell had said. I happen to think that that has further confused the process. Reporter senator Lisa Murkowski of alaska, a moderate who bucked her party on health care and Supreme Court justice kavanaugh, responded sharply to this. Everything im doing on this im coord