A lot of people over the last year that have lied to congress. And to me that would not be acceptable. I dont want to do anything to intersupt whats happening with judge kavanaugh. And i think the process i must say, hopefully as mitch said, theyll have a vote by the end of the week and it will be a positive vote. Well, i say that its a very scary time for young men in america when you can be guilty of something that you may not be guilty of. This is a very, very difficult time. Whats happening here has much more to do than even the appointment of a Supreme Court justice. It really does. You can be somebody that was perfect your entire life and somebody could accuse you of something. It doesnt necessarily have to be a woman, but somebody could accuse you of something and youre automatically guilty. But in this realm, you are truly guilty until proven innocent. Trumps comments come on the fourth full day of fbi the fbis Background Investigation into sex allegations against Brett Kavanau
Publisher America Media which is run by longtime trump ally david packer admitted that it have paid off Karen Mcdougall ahead of the 2016 president ial election in concert with the trumpet campaign. They reacted to the sentencing. Those are the charges that should not had been on there. They put that on to embarrass me. I never directed him to do anything wrong. He is a lawyer. A lawyer who represents a client is supposed to do the right thing. Thats why you pay them a lot of money et cetera. The former Justice Department also served as an assistant u. S. Attorney. Welcome mister trustee. Appreciate you being here. Let me ask you i guess the bottom line is what kind of legal jeopardy are they and over the Campaign Finance violations. Its not totally clear at this point but it was not a great day for the president to see the language in the plea agreement and the language that is being used to describe his activities. Every time a criminal defendant pleads guilty they are pleading for t
Plus, a new scandal surrounding a member of the president s cabinet. Did he help give cover to an accused serial pedophile . Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Shocking news with special Counsel Robert Mueller announcing a Cooperation Agreement with and a new felony charge against the president s former lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen. Cohen making a surprise appearance in a federal court today pleading guilty to lying to congress about President Trumps business dealings in russia, and cohen said he did it to help then candidate donald trump who was telling voters at the time he had no commercial or political ties to russia so cohen repeat that had lie before Congress Testifying today, quote, i made these statements to be consistent with individual ones, political messaging and to be loyal to individual one. Individual one is president donald j. Trump. The Court Documents lay out cohens multiple false statements which center around the proposed trump tower project in moscow. Cohen say
Have paid off Karen Mcdougall ahead of the 2016 president ial election in concert with the trumpet campaign. They reacted to the sentencing. Those are the charges that should not had been on there. They put that on to embarrass me. I never directed him to do anything wrong. He is a lawyer. A lawyer who represents a client is supposed to do the right thing. Thats why you pay them a lot of money et cetera. The former Justice Department also served as an assistant u. S. Attorney. Welcome mister trustee. Appreciate you being here. Let me ask you i guess the bottom line is what kind of legal jeopardy are they and over the Campaign Finance violations. Its not totally clear at this point but it was not a great day for the president to see the language in the plea agreement and the language that is being used to describe his activities. Every time a criminal defendant pleads guilty they are pleading for themselves theyre not biting anyone else. It doesnt mean the ahaz dismissible evidence. Its
They did. But otherwise its sending a message. Something seems real sketchy. If they wanted to rob him, ample opportunity. Doesnt look like a robbery. Its got to be a beef of some type. Its really, really terrible. The end of the day i am glad that he is okay and im going to talk about this at the end of my show. I lost a very good friend, a friend ive had since college, you know he didnt show up for work last week, coworker went to the white house. Died of a heart attack. Going to give a tribute to him at the end of this show. Life is so fragile. People loved it, by the way. Oh, good. I am always struck by how people are struck that we are actually friends off tv the way they see on tv. They cant believe i am friends with such a terrible person. They just dont understand it. Its the tender mercies that come from your compassionate upbringing. Im always surprised and happy when people show up, right, and im humbled by it. I cant believe there was a line around the corner to see to see