that was making the rounds tonight is right on point. maga now stands for my attorney got arrested. his campaign manager is now a convicted felon. his personal attorney today is pleading out in federal court and implicating the president directly while he was a candidate in law breaking. we ve got a whole constellation of other trump people who have plead guilty or cooperating with prosecutors because this is a guy who was standing atop a gigantic mountain of corruption. he s standing atop a gigantic mountain of obstruction as well. all these things that have been slowly building up for donald trump, that this is an unfair witch hunt by hillary s angry minions is falling apart. people are seeing this now, you can t spin away the fact that paul manafort, who was donald trump s campaign manager is going to spends the rest of his
the president s former fixer michael cohen pleads guilty to eight criminal counts on the same day paul manafort is convicted of eight financial crimes. remember when donald trump said he was the law and order candidate? joining me now to discuss is mike shields, the former chief of staff at the rnc and rick wilson, the author of the book, everything trump touches dies. gentlemen, good evening. my sources are telling cnn white house staffers were stunned and rattled by these legal bombshells and the president has been stewing. what s your reaction to what we saw today? well, it s obviously not good. you don t want your lawyer to be pleading guilty and also to try to implicate you as he s trying to plead himself out of the sentence that he has or his wife
president? what are the chances of that? i think the likelihood of us being able to depose first michael cohen and second donald trump, i think those odds went through the roof today as a result of the plea, as a result of the language in the plea, and the facts that michael cohen pled to. i think there s little question as to whether we re going to get a deposition of michael cohen, and i m going to be permitted to ask him specific questions about what happened and the level of communications, and i m going to get to the details relating to that and then i am guessing. i m not guessing, i m speculating, i m on solid ground i m going to get a deposition of the president of the united states. zero doubt that michael cohen is already cooperating and has been cooperating with investigators, do you mean the special council or the southern district? i m referring to the southern district. it does not sound to me that he has cooperated with the special council. i don t think they ve
rick was saying is that the president calls this whole thing a witch hunt, what he s referring to is the mueller investigation trying to create a conspiracy case around the president s campaign, and he s repeatedly said there was no such thing, and now we re saying, oh, my gosh, two people around him have gotten into trouble. neither one of them has anything to do with what that was originally about. and what democrats talk about every time they can, about mueller, which is russian collusion, neither one of these two things has anything to do with that. go ahead, rick, what were you saying? this is the first couple steps in a long waltz. and this is never going to get better. and robert mueller is circling around closer and closer, the cohen thing was ancillary. because it was ancillary, the individual charges and case issues were ancillary to the overall investigation. mueller s charter was to explore russian interference and the role the trump campaign may have