Captioning performed by vitac although your report states collusion is not a specific offense and you have said this this morning, or a term of art in federal criminal law, conspiracy is in the colloquial context are collusion and conspiracy essentially synonymous terms . You are going to have to rethat for me. Collusion is not a specific offense or a term of art in the federal criminal law, conspiracy is. Yes. In the colloquial context no public context collusion and conspiracy are essentially synonymous terms, correct . No. If not on page 180 of volume 1 of your report you wrote in as defined in legal dictionaries collusion is largely synonymous with conspiracy 18 usc you said at your may 29 press conference and here today you choose your words carefully. Are you testifying Something Different from what your report states. What im asking is if you can give me the citation i can look at the citation and evaluate whether it is accurate. Let me just clarify. You stated that you had stay
Investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. Next, we show you the first hearing, which was focused on potential obstruction of justice by President Trump. This Judiciary Committee hearing is three and a half hours. [indistinct chatter] [indiscernible] [gavel] gavel. Gavel. [indiscernible] idiot. He should wait for someone to Say Something when the cameras are here. [gavel] rep. Nadler the Judiciary Committee will come to order. Without objects in the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time, we anytime. We welcome everyone to the hearing on oversight of the report in the investigation into russia interference in the 2016 president ial election. I will now recognize myself for a brief Opening Statement. Director mueller, thank you for being here. I want to say a few words about our themes today, responsibility, integrity, and accountability. Your career is a model of responsibility. You are a decorated marine officer, awarded a purple heart,
Donald trump is standing by his campaign manager, who is charged with battery, corey lewendowski, and aljazeeras David Schuster reports. Corey, good job, corey. Good job. Reporter it was just two weeks ago, after the initial complaint, when donald trump publicly thanked his campaign manager. On tuesday, the Jupiter Police department charged corey lun gdowski with battery. And released this video. It appears to show reporter, michelle fields, on the top with a tape recorder, trying to ask trump another question, and lun gdowski appears to stop and grab her. Other video also caught part of the intersection. Fields insisted that she had been manhandled and she tweeted a photo of bruises on her arm. This has to be, aside from my fathers death, the worst experience ive gone through. On the airplane, trump said that the criminal charges charge is absurd. The News Conference is over, and it was done and finished, and she was running up and grabbing and asking questions, and she wasnt supposed
A ton of stuff tonight, plus a closer look at the legal troubles surrounding Trump Campaign manager corey lun dooe lewandowski. We begin with the abortion 180 and sunlen serfaty. Walk us through what happened. Reporter this all stems from some very hard line positions that donald trump said today during a town hall, an interview during a town hall today over abortion. And trump was asked during that town hall, point blank, responding to a question, whether he would punish a woman for having an abortion if it was made illegal in the united states. Heres first that exchange which set off this controversy. Should the woman be punished for having an abortion . Look this is not something you can dodge. If you say abortion is a crime or abortion is murder, you have to deal with it under the law. Should abortion be punished . Well, people in certain parts of the Republican Party and conservative republicans would say yes, they should be punished. How about you . I would say that its a very se
Before christmas. I immediately called and said lets get it ready. We thought you didnt watch the news because you were reading all the documents. With nothing less than the prospect of impeachment hanging in the balance, the white house has started to freak out behind the scenes about the 2018 midterm elections. While midterms are typically an uphill battle for any president s political party, the shellacking the republicans aligned with donald trump took in virginia and alabama have the president s motley crew of inside and outside political advisers sparring amongst themselves. As talk of more staff shakeups loom large. Three stories in three different publications today detail the commotion. From politico, speculation about additions to the cast of characters in season two of trumps west wing has ramped up as the administration braces itself for a bloodbath in 2018 and a wave of staff departures. From todays New York Times, dispute over political strategy erupts inside the white ho