Tomorrow. You can reach out to me any time on social media. Hardball with Chris Matthews starts right now. Up all night. Le lets play hardball. Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Dont do the crime if you cant do the time. Didnt people around donald trump Pay Attention to crime show warning. If you committed federal crimes you could be squeezed by federal prosecutors to rat. Didnt donald trump know if he did business with such people he would be the fall guy. Which gets us to the president s predicament this thursday evening. No man is an island. No man except increasingly now President Trump. The acceleration of his own legal exposure is leaving him isolated. Paul manafort is now convicted
of financial crimes. Former fixer lawyer Michael Cohen has pled guilty to tax fraud and Campaign Violation which is he says were directed by the president himself and now would appear the water around trumps island are rising fast. That sentiment is evident in the new cover of Time Magazi
July 18th. Former acting ice director thomas homan says this tragedy could have been avoided with better immigration policy. He was in the country illegally, if he wasnt here this girl would be alive today. If we had a border wall, border enforcement he wouldnt have been here. Stone cold facts. Jillian he is a fake name and Social Security number to work at an iowa farm for years. His boss is speaking out. I wish i had seen a difference but i didnt. Nobody saw a difference. This guy stayed around for 35 days after he did this. Our employee was not who he said he was. We are still shocked to learn that one of our employees was involved. Shannon investigators are trying to figure out his motive. Mollys family is preparing their final goodbyes at her funeral this sunday. Jillian a lot to unfold here. Secretary of state mike pompeo making another trip to north korea after reports claim the rogue nation is not taking significant steps to denuclearize, a promise made in the june summit betwe
Eric former Deputy Assistant attorney Thomas Dupree will dig into all of it but we begin with rick leventhal. A stunning set of admissions in Lower Manhattan by a man who was one of the president s most trusted employees. He lied, paid women off he says to pay his boss. He walked out of the courthouse late yesterday free on 500,000 bond pled guilty to hiding income from his Taxi Cab Business and hiding debt to secure a Home Equity Loan and arranging payments to two women in the runup to the president ial election in coordination in and at the direction for a candidate to federal office to try to help him win. Mr. Cohen disregarded that training, that tradition and decided that he was above the law and for that he is going to pay a very, very serious price. He admitted he paid 130,000
to stephanie clifford, Stormy Daniels, because she was ready to go public with a claimed affair with mr. Trump. And he arranged to reimburse a tabloid to bury a story about Karen Mcdougal who also claimed
adversaries in china, ukraine and russia. that were paying his family millions and millions of dollars for services that we don t know what they were.e bid we don t know what exactly the bidens did to earn millions and millions of dollars from our adversaries. advand the fact that joe biden during the presidential campaign lied about it, then that s a problem. and legislatively, we ve got to fix this influence peddlingmt . if we don t fix this, this und is only going to get worse. the democrats complaineder aboue it under trump. and i can tell you it n fasmilys a serious proble am with theat s biden family. so there s a legislative req purpose and a national security y we vetorneythat s wh requested that information. congressman hunter s attorney in a letter said that a sent to you that his requestubpn can be compared to democrat assubpoenas to president trump s family that republicans fought in the last session. obviously,s argu he s arguing tt that was more valid since trump s ki