He was talking about when he said trump reimbursed mike cohen for his hush money payment to Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election. Ill tell you what, rudy is a great guy but he just started a day ago. But he really has his heart into it. Hes working hard. Hes learning the subject matter. And hes going to be issuing a statement, too. But he is a great guy. He knows its a witch hunt. Thats what he knows pep started yesterday. Hell get his facts straight. Hes a great guy. Well, that flies in the face of what giuliani told nbc news last night. Youre not going to see daylight between the president and me. Trump today distanced himselves from that Giuliani Media blitz that was while designed to clear the president of potential Campaign Finance violations seems to have increased his legal exposure. That was money that was paid by his lawyer the way i would do out of his law firm funds or whatever funds, doesnt matter. The president reimbursed that over a period of several months. Imagi
Good evening from new york. Im joy reid in for chris hayes. Donald trumps efforts to clean up the mess made by his new personal attorney Rudy Guiliani have managed to make things worse. Speaking to reporters this morning, the president suggested that giuliani didnt know what he was talking about when he said trump reimbursed mike cohen for his hush money payment to Stormy Daniels just before the 2016 election. Ill tell you what, rudy is a great guy but he just started a day ago. But he really has his heart into it. Hes working hard. Hes learning the subject matter. And hes going to be issuing a statement, too. But he is a great guy. He knows its a witch hunt. Thats what he knows. He started yesterday. Hell get his facts straight. Hes a great guy. Well, that flies in the face of what giuliani told nbc news last night. Youre not going to see daylight between the president and me. Trump, today, distanced himself from that Giuliani Media blitz that was while designed to clear the president
This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. President trump went off on Christine Blasey ford in front of a raucous crowd, mocking the woman who testified for hours in excruciating detail what she says Brett Kavanaugh did to her when they were teenagers. 36 years ago this happened. I had one beer. Right . I had one beer. Well, you think it was no, it was one beer. Good. How did you get home . I dont remember. How did you get there . I dont remember. Where is the place. I dont remember. How many years ago was it. I dont know, i dont know. I dont know i dont know what neighborhood was it in . I dont know. Hmm. So you heard that laughter. No matter how this whole thing ends, professor ford does not deserve to be laughed at. Not again. Made the punch line to a joke thats not at all funny. Indelible in the hippocampus is the laughter, the uproarious laughter between the two and their having fun at my expense. Kind of what happened tonight at that rally. We are learning more about Brett Kavanaugh. As
Them the section richie neal is using is a controversial portion of the tax code that has never been challenged. Once you challenge it, some other pieces start jumping out at you and it can get very scary for anyone messing around this. You are in your happy place. David cay johnson will join us tonight with very important new reporting that he has done on the legal risks that secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin is running tonight by delaying the irs handing over Donald Trumps tax returns to house ways and Means Committee chairman richard neal and that legal risk for secretary mnuchin includes the possibility of five years in prison. There are a lot of legal trip wires surrounding the treasury secretary tonight and the commissioner of the irs tonight. Well get to all of that. Also tonight, katie porter has done it again. You met congresswoman katie porter on there program. She has delivered some amazing performances in her five minutes in House Committee hearings. She did it again
Dollars from the alleged tax fraud schemes that she and her sibling concocted and ran for years. Judge berrys own share of the wind fall from fred trumps business estate was nearly 200 million. Her sudden resignation from the bench, again, just report this had time last night that resignation ends the judicial conduct inquiry into her role in that alleged fraud scheme. She made it go away by resigning. But that just makes the spotlight that much hotter on the taxes and the tax related controversies surrounding her younger brother, who right now is the sitting president of the United States, whos administration is now two days in to just defying the law and refusing to hand over the president s tax returns for review by the chairman of the house ways and means committee. And its interesting. This trump taxes standoff with the house, it really is a little bit different than all of the rest of the conflicts that have arisen between trump and the democratic led congress. In this case about