Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. One day before President Trumps former Campaign Manager is going to stand trial in Federal Court for Money Laundering and bank fraud in relation to his work for a prorussian Political Party in ukraine and one day after the president went on possibly his most aggressive twitter rant yet about the mueller investigation, which he called the operation an illegal scam, trumps lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, was out today wildly, desperately spinning to try to accomplish two very specific things. One, move the goalposts to say that collusion is not a crime, and two, to get ahead of the emerging storyline of a Trump Campaign strategy meeting that maybe occurred two days before the Infamous Trump tower meeting that had promised dirt on Hillary Clinton. In two interviews this morning, interviews that were often confusing, bewildering, and in which giuliani often seemed confused, one goal of mr. Giuliani was pretty evident. Chris Hayes discusses the days top ne
Indepth interviews with leading newsmakers, plus discussions with Americas preeminent political minds. Indepth interviews with leading newsmakers, plus discussions with Americas preeminent political minds. Indepth interviews with leading newsmakers, plus discussions with Americas preeminent political minds. Havent read the Washington Post story, part of that is that donald trump has become enamored of the new Talking Point from his tv lawyer Rudy Giuliani that collusion is not a crime so they have gone from no collusion, no collusion, no collusion to collusion isnt a crime and give us more about whats reported about his mood and raging. He privately has been raging about whats happening vrnl hes upset about the News Coverage, about why isnt he getting more credit for what he views as the good works hes done and as the post reported on friday on the front page, 4,229 lies in the first six month of the this year alone. The reason hes not getting the favorable News Coverage is because the
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. His plea agreement, including that he stole some hundreds of thousands of dollars from Paul Manafort, rick gates did, by filing false expense claims. So really, just a long list. It was remarkable to be there in the courtroom as rick gates over the course of 80 minutes detailing that long list of alleged crimes. So allegedly, theyre both Stealing Money through not paying taxes and other means, and then gates is also Stealing Money from manafort . Thats exactly right. So you have listen, this is one of those cases when i was inside there, anderson, having followed a mob priel or two, it struck me as you had the case of the bob boss there with his capo testifying against him. Of course in many cases like this, the person who is gates witness doesnt have the cleanest record himself. And that certainly holds true for rick gates. I should mention he also pleaded guilty to lying to federal prosecuto
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Knowing that was illegal. Cnn chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto is covering the trial. He joins us. Now what more did gates say on the stand . Anderson, you had the deputy there sitting within ten feet of his former his longtime boss, documenting by his accounts numerous crimes, alleged crimes by his boss, Paul Manafort. And the list started with them setting up 15 Foreign Bank Accounts which they did not report to the government for the purposes of hiding taxes. He said that they filed false income tax returns. He said they failed to file as foreign agents even though they were working as agents for a Foreign Government, in this case the prorussian Government Of Ukraine at the time. And rick gates said he did all of this, his words, all of this at the direction of Paul Manafort, saying these are crimes we did together, in
and that certainly holds true for rick gates. I should
put out a package and deal on pieces of it, isn t going to work this time around. and i think the one thing i think we have to give credit to the president for on this is to say, look, if he gets to the point where he does have to go to the american people or to go along with just pushing this through on a straight party line vote, he can at least say, look, i did everything i could. i talked to the republicans as long as i could. but i think we have to add one more thing here, joe, and that is that there s some unforcd errors on the democratic side. when you ve got manchin and king basically being top cover for other democrats whose staff are in the washington post and the new york times saying, hey, a lot of us didn t like s-1 either, that s a bad thing to have happen. so it may be time to just think about what are the things that you can pass, and then if the republicans won t come with you, even on the bare minimum of