Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Bookminder, executive director for citizens for responsibilities and ethics. And Midwin Charles is an attorney. President trump reacted to cohens plea this morning on twitter where he writes if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, i would strongly suggest you that dont retain the services of Michael Cohen. Okay. Lets remind our audience, the president is downplaying this. Being funny, almost cute. Theres nothing cute about it. The president of the United States is the chief Law Enforcement officer. That is what he is. And yesterday, he has been accused as a coconspirator of a federal crime, maybe multiple. So, please, let that sit in. Midwin what is your take here . My take is this is consistent with donald trump. We have seen him react this way to a varietydifferent thinks
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te bla tetant. how are his colleagues on the hill handling this one? reporter: it was blatant and it had been talked about for quite some time. there were a lot of concerns that this investigation might find something that was worth indicting him for. lo and behold, it did. he was going to his golf club. maybe it is related to the campaign, so i ll just expense those golf balls. i ll pay to send a relative of mine to a pittsburgh steelers game. this was a situation where he was treating his campaign bank accounts like his own. you know, there are instances where this goes on, and people don t notice simply because they re not paying attention to what one member of congress was doing. this became so blatant and flagrant that it s caught up to him. we ve noticed. what do his colleagues plan to do about it because he doesn t seem to want to go anywhere. paul ryan stripped him of his committee assignments while this indictment is going through the courts.
this is what we do in the overnight. there s no more paper in the budget. we re rationing. good morning, everybody, i m rob nelson. and i m diana perez. the storm season is threatening the entire country with whiteout conditions and even tornadoes. stay tuned for more from accuweather. also this morning, congressman jesse jackson jr. s apology. he pleaded guilty to using campaign bank accounts to go on elaborate shopping sprees. really is amazing the arrogance on of some folks to think what they re going to get away with, as like no one is going to trace that $40,000 rolex. and think, hmm, how did you pay for that, congressman? another one bites the dust. and the last thing you see is them crying in court. you didn t think about this while you were spending the money? it always begs the question, are you sorry you did it or are you sorry you got caught? you got caught. you got caught. you got caught. that was a pretty rolex. hope it was worth your career. then a med