Martha good evening everybody i am Martha Maccallum and this is the story, a selfdeclared fixer implicated the president in hush money payments and said he was aware of communications with wikileaks. But cohen did not have evidence the president ever colluded with russia during and the entire investigation. Questions have been raised about whether i know direct evidence that mr. Trump or his campaign colluded with russia. I do not. And i want to be clear. Martha republicans slammed cohens credibility. Mr. Cohen committed four crimes over a period of several years. He was motivated to do so by personal greed and repeatedly, repeatedly used his power and influence, but the democrats dont care. They dont care. They just want to use you mr. Cohen, you are there a package today. They have got to find somebody, somewhere to Say Something so that they can try to remove the president from office. Martha trey gowdy, former chairman of the committee will appear today that first democratic congre
At alone in virginia. He faces ten more years for his case in d. C. Time he might not have faced has he not broken his plea agreement. That sentencing is next week. Now, Paul Manafort arrived in the courthouse this afternoon in a wheelchair. We could see from the sketches in our Court Reporters. In the green jumpsuit. The same as his last trip to court in october. This judge, t. S. Ellis, who at times has been critical of prosecutorial overreach did not give manafort any credit for accepting responsibility. His ruling on the sentence, as i mentioned, could come at any moment. I want to go right to the courthouse. Nbcs ken dilanian is there. Ken, the latest news we have that i want to talk to you about that is pretty interesting is muellers prosecutors going into on Paul Manafort here. This is the last time they get to do that before the judge decides, as you know and for your analysis. We hear muellers prosecutors saying they spent, quote, hours of him with him, but that was not reflec
So many amazing dramatic, personal and even kinetic funny moments. Were not doing any of that. Were going to create a giant list about concrete revelations we didnt know before. Theres about 30 of those. Were not going to do any of that. Now we need to focus on the serious, you know, multivariant criminal allegations this guy is making about this president since hes been in office because you have to prioritize that because of its importance. But this is 30 days worth of material today. Yeah, and none of it, not a single thing that we saw today, none of it would have happened, the hearing would not have occurred if the democrats did not win the house of representatives yep. On election night. Tonights lesson in your vote really, really matters. Yes. And to hear Elijah Cummings in his emotional roundup at the end when he talked about he gave his own closing statement and even when he spoke to reporters thereafter, talking about what he hopes for this committee and what he wants in terms
Welcome to inside politics. Im john king. To our viewers in the United States and around the world, thank you for sharing your sunday. It was a miserable week for President Trump. He could not close a deal with kim jongun and his longtime confidante called him a cheat and a liar whose crimes carried into his presidency. A twohourplus speech yesterday left no doubt about the president s mood. They fight so hard on this witch hunt, this phony deal that they put together, this phony thing that now looks like its dying so they dont have anything with russia. Theres no collusion, so now they go and morph into, lets inspect every deal hes ever done. Were going to go into his finances. Were going to check his deals. Were going to check these people are sick. Plus, that speech offered telling glimpses into just how the president thinks. Mocking the southern accent of his former attorney general. Repeating a nickname offensive to native americans and this, questioning immigrants in congress. We
After donald trump became president. The second, cohen said candidate trump knew that roger stone was talking with Julian Assange about wikileaks releasing stolen dnc emails. Roger stone denies that, setting up, as he said a he said he said between two known liars, essentially, with another known liar in the middle. Another. Cohen said conversations about the trump tower project in moscow went into the summer of 2016 and that the president directed the negotiations throughout the campaign and lied about it. A fourth, he brought don junior much closer to wrongdoing in a number of ways, saying the president s son was briefed multiple times about that moscow deal and strongly implied the president s son told the president about the Infamous Trump tower meeting promising dirt on Hillary Clinton. He also said that don junior signed at least one of the hush money payment checks. Cohen also hinted at other investigations or avenues of current investigations we dont know about, saying his last