Conversations between mr. Cohen and stephanie winston, a former advisor to Melania Trump who worked on the events. In the recording she expressed concerns how the inaugural committee was spending money. People familiar with the matter tell the wall street journal that the criminal probe is looking into whether the committee misspent some of the 107 million it raised and, quote, whether some of the committees top donors gave money in exchange for access to the Incoming Trump administration, policy concessions or to influence official administration positions. The journal also reports investigators have spoken to this man, rick gates, about the inaugural committee spending. Gates previously served as the Deputy Trump Campaign manager and deputy chairman of Trumps Inaugural Committee. Hes currently cooperating with federal prosecutors as part of his plea deal. The report of an investigation into Trumps Inaugural Committee comes as nbc news confirms donald trump was the third person in the
Formidable exdemocrat opponent. Now its time for the last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, rachel. Im glad you talked about abigail coming on. Its a fascinating video were going to show what congressman bratt said. But i want to talk about what donald trump has been doing in relation to the fbi building across the street from his multimillion dollar Hotel Business in washington, d. C. And in the middle of your conversation you asked the congressman just what are the possible legal implications for the president , and i found him to be kind of reluctant to go right into a forceful answer, because i was sitting at it looking at it saying at any previous time the president would be under serious impeachment investigation threat at minimum threat that would be the beginnings of impeachment investigations over this very issue. Weve never had a president with a multimillion dollar business on pennsylvania avenue before. So weve never seen this particular thi
Im glad you talked about abigail coming on. Its a fascinating video were going to show what congressman bratt said. But i want to talk about what donald trump has been doing in relation to the fbi building across the street from his multimillion dollar Hotel Business in washington, d. C. And in the middle of your conversation you asked the congressman just what are the possible legal implications for the president , and i found him to be kind of reluctant to go right into a forceful answer, because i was sitting at it looking at it saying at any previous time the president would be under serious impeachment investigation threat at minimum threat that would be the beginnings of impeachment investigations over this very issue. Weve never had a president with a multimillion dollar business on pennsylvania avenue before. So weve never seen this particular thing before, but it is truly stunning. Well, and also just nailing a president black and white, with photographic evidence and the emai
Trump confidant roger stone. But theres something new, emails and texts that raise questions. We will test the man to questions. Point two, in four days Something Big is going to happen with these elections and its down to two voices, obama versus trump. The president now wants a strong comparison to the past president. He said that should be the voters measure. So we have a deep dive for you how the two sizeup. And a republican is here tonight who refuses to stay silent on what the president is putting out there. And he is walking the walk in a really unique way. The head of his party is making as many enemies as he can. This man is actually forgiving someone who threatened to kill him. Friday night, grab your beverage and lets get after it. Okay, so heres what we know. Cnn has obtained some of the messages that are now in the hands of the special counsel. In them trumps long time political advisor roger stone, unloads the man as he once described as his back channel to wikileaks. Sto
Concerns how the inaugural committee was spending money. People familiar with the matter tell the wall street journal that the criminal probe is looking into whether the committee misspent some of the 107 million it raised and, quote, whether some of the committees top donors gave money in exchange for access to the Incoming Trump administration, policy concessions or to influence official administration positions. The journal also reports investigators have spoken to this man, rick gates, about the inaugural committee spending. Gates previously served as the Deputy Trump Campaign manager and deputy chairman of Trumps Inaugural Committee. Hes currently cooperating with federal prosecutors as part of his plea deal. The report of an investigation into Trumps Inaugural Committee comes as nbc news confirms donald trump was the third person in the room in august of 2015 who was talking about hush money payments to women with Michael Cohen and National Enquirer publisher david pecker, the gu