His former soninlaw has flipped. Hes now cooperating with the feds. As part of jeffrey yohides plea agreement, the soninlaw is now cooperating with new yorks Attorney Generals Office as well which is working with bob muellers investigation which as you may know turned one year old today. Yohide first met with investigators in 2017, according to sources providing information to federal investigators for the manafort probe in possible money laundering, tax evasion violations, all that was under way. He started to provide information which was turned over to bob mueller. Manafort has been charged with a whole lot of things including money laundering, failure to disclose himself as a foreign agent, bank fraud, and tax fraud. He continues though to maintain his innocence. I want to go straight to Kara Scannell in washington breaking this story. Carol, what are you learning about this plea deal with manaforts former soninlaw . Erin, thats right, so manaforts former soninlaw, jeffrey yohie, h
Im wolf blitzer, youre in the situation room. The president s soninlaw Jared Kushner has been stripped of his topsecret security clearance and access to the most important u. S. Intelligence report, the president s daily briefing. Hes still failed to qualify for security clearances. Kushners troubles mounting as the Washington Post reports officials in at least four countries have been privately discussing ways to manipulate kushner. Ill get reaction from senator chris coons, a democrat, on the judiciary and Foreign Relations committees. And our correspondents and analysts are standing by first. Lets go to jim acosta. Jim, this is a significant loss for kushner. It is, wolf. The president we should point out ignored questions about his soninlaw Jared Kushner losing his top secret security clearance at the white house earlier today. The questions are coming in response to a change made here at the white house by chief of staff john kelly that will affect white house staffers who are ope
Veteran prosecutors because Paul Manaforts sentence of nearly four years in prison on eight felony financial fraud counts was far less than the 19 1 2 to 24 years that were recommended by the federal sentencing guidelines for his crimes, far less than weve seen people sentenced for for anything from mistakenly voting in an election with a previous felony conviction or being convicted for marijuana possession. For a lot of people watching that sentence, yesterday felt like an object lesson in rich mans justice. And then last night, manaforts lawyer exited the courtroom with a complete non seq. Sequiter t point that had nothing to do with what happened in the court. As you heard in court today, mr. Manafort finally got to speak for himself. He made clear he accepts responsibility for his conduct, and i think most importantly what you saw today is the same thing that we had said from day one. There is absolutely no evidence that Paul Manafort was involved with any collusion with any Gover
The two of you had a conversation about the unemployment numbers that was so detailed and broken down and the fact that, you know, why you have that big bulge in unemployment numbers. Yeah. Employment numbers in january. It was so smart. Thank you. I literally was writing down the name of that guest. Diane, i have been talking to her for 15 years. As i told her today, every time i talk to her, i get a little bit smarter. As i always do watching you, a ali velshi, have a wonderful show. Im ali velshi in for lawrence odonnell. Tonight lets begin with a little game. Lets imagine the 2020 election is right around the corner. How does trump world spin the last 24 hours into a winning message . You have a resignation, a prison sentence, a weak jobs report. Are those things even spinable . Thats what the trump 2020 campaign is facing at the moment and no event may be roiling the white house more tonight than the exit of another senior staffer. President trump just lost his fifth Communication
Sentence Paul Manafort got. One that shocked even veteran prosecutors because Paul Manaforts sentence of nearly four years in prison on eight felony financial fraud counts was far less than the 19 and 19. 5 to 24 years that were recommended by the federal sentencing guidelines for his crimes. Far less than weve seen people sentenced for for anything from mistakenly voting in an election with a previous felony conviction or being convicted for marijuana possession, for a lot of people watching that sentence yesterday, felt like an object lesson in rich mans justice and manafort and exited the court with a complete talking point that had nothing to do with what just happened in the courtroom. Good evening, everyone. Mr. Manafort got to speak for himself and seen what we said from day one, there is absolutely no evidence that Paul Manafort was involved with any collusion with any Government Official from russia. Thank you, everybody. What do you think of the sentence . Thank you, everybod