Michael bloomberg is not competing in iowa or New Hampshire in the early primaries and committing lots of money later on in the process. What does that do to the relevance of your primary . Guest there are all these questions about the relevance of the New Hampshire primary, dating back to its mundane beginnings. People are not going to campaign, they are going to spend a lot of money or they are not. The short answer is i dont know. There are 10 or 11 serious candidates for the democratic nomination, and he is blowing by the early ones and thinks he can get street cred by buying it, which i think is probably not going to work for him. He said recently that even if he does not win the nomination, he will spend money to help whoever wins the nomination get elected. But i think that just underlines, i have all the money in the world, i am going to spend it. People asked about the relevance of the primary when these televised debates, which i hate to call them debates because they arent,
Plead guilty in connection with a criminal investigation in los angeles and that the plea deal requires he cooperate with other investigations. Reuters puts it this way, quote, the guilty plea agreement which is under seal and has not been previously reported, could add to the legal pressure on manafort. Yohai has not been specifically told how he will be called on to cooperate, but the two people familiar with the matter say they will consider it a possibility that hell be asked to assist with muellers prosecution of manafort. You may recall Paul Manafort is facing indictments brought by mueller in federal courts in both washington, d. C. And the commonwealth of virginia. The charges range from tax evasion to bank fraud. Manafort has pleaded notably not guilty. Hes slated to be tried later this year. Jeffrey yohai was once a manafort business partner, was divorced from manaforts daughter last august. Both reuters and nbc news are reporting mueller has been focusing on yohai for the pa
Focusing on yohai for the past six months, and reuters says muellers team has already interviewed him. Meanwhile, there are also developments in Robert Muellers fight to keep the judge in Paul Manaforts virginia case from tossing out some of the charges. Today muellers team gave the judge a full, unedited version of the Justice Department memo that lays out the scope of this inquiry and what crimes he is authorized to pursue. As we mentioned, the president weighed in today on twitter on the russia inquiry. Here it is. Congratulations, america. We are now into the second year of the greatest witch hunt in american history. There is still no collusion and no obstruction. A few hours later, there was this. Wow, word seems to be coming out that the obama fbi we switch to caps here spied on the Trump Campaign with an embedded informant. If so, this is bigger than watergate. The rest of the message seems to have come directly from this interview with former federal prosecutor andrew mccarthy
Administration. And as the president marks one year of the russia investigation with a new dose of vitriol aimed at Robert Mueller and his team, there are new reports out tonight about a plea agreement between former Trump Campaign chair Paul Manaforts former soninlaw, jeffrey yohai, and the Justice Department. Reuters was first to report today that yohai has agreed to plead guilty in connection with a criminal investigation in los angeles and that the plea deal requires he cooperate with other investigations. Reuters puts it this way, quote, the guilty plea agreement which is under seal and has not been previously reported, could add to the legal pressure on manafort. Yohai has not been specifically told how he will be called on to cooperate, but the two people familiar with the matter say they will consider it a possibility that hell be asked to assist with muellers prosecution of manafort. You may recall Paul Manafort is facing indictments brought by mueller in federal courts in bot
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