For the principle purpose of influencing the election. President trump today is claiming that those Campaign Violations are, quote, not a crime. Thats not what the Justice Department said and same president named as individual one in the plea deal. You can believe individual one who is implicated in the crimes. The president. Who does have a long and storied history of saying thing that is arent true. Or you can believe Career Prosecutors at the Justice Department, two federal judges and a jury of Paul Manaforts peers but you have to pick one or the other. Another falsehood of the president saying that he did not learn of the Hush Money Payments until after theyd been made. Despite the fact, of course, that Michael Cohen recently released an Audio Recording of September 2016 in which donald trump can be clearly heard discussing a potential payment to playboy model Karen Mcdougall and President Trump verified that Tape Tweeting at the time, what kind of a lawyer would tape
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Business news and analysis. Violations. It could land him in prison from 35 years. Mercedes, that issue will come up whether mr. Cohen has decided to do this to get at this out of the way and hope and pray for a pardon down the road. Certainly what our calling is done as wonder if they are going to get cooperation. Frankly, they could have a discussion with mueller later on and find out what he knew. Whether President Trump knew of the meeting and what the meeting was taking place. And the payment to Stormy Daniels. Whether the president knew about either of them. And, of course he has come forward and said, look, i think you did know. The backandforth can whether there are some continuation of discussion with mueller is left to be seen. He is without a doubt looking at
something down the road. No lawyer wants to sit, even with that, no lawyer wants to sit in 35 years. That is a significant amount of time. Neil the former doj prosecutor, still better than what he could have made. The p
A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Yeah. I think thats a good point. On Paul Manafort, the former Trump Campaign chairman convicted yesterday on eight felony counts, bank fraud, tax fraud, stealing literally millions of dollars from american taxpayers, not reporting income on tens of millions of dollars, is there a chance hell still cooperate with the Special Counsel Paul Manafort . He has another trial coming up next month. Right. Look. If youre Paul Manafort, i mean, youre looking at possibly some serious jail time. There is an incentive. But i think what you are seeing is the president telegraphing directly to Paul Manafort, if you stay put, if you do not as he said, if you refuse to break, if you see that tweet that he he contrasts Paul Manafort with Michael Cohen its very clear that hes telegraphing to Paul Manafort that if he doesnt break with him that perhaps theres a pardon in the offing and you can see, also, by the way, Paul Manaforts legal t
he asked russia to interfere. when he won defers why people think there might be collusion, well, there s why. here is a president who says, russia, come help. that doesn t prove collusion, but it sure proves he doesn t mind foreign powers interfering with an election. the president s comments, again are undemocratic, un-american, disgraceful. the president s comments suggests he believes winning an election is more important than the integrity of the election. that idea is flat-out wrong. the president s idea that winning the election is everything and the integrity of the election is nothing. his won small step away from dictators and autocrats woman into late the results of an election because they care more about staying in power than they care about democratic principles. top democrat senator chuck
collusion or knowledge of the russian hacking before the leakage of that information and we have questions for him about his involvement in the proposed moscow trump tower. there are open questions on that issue, as well. so, if mr. davis is going to make him available to mr. mueller, i hope he s available to our committee, as well. how can you rely on what michael cohen says? i mean, hasn t he contradicted publicly or his lawyers have contradicted publicly things he said behind doors closed to your committee under snoet. clearly you will have to take some of mr. cohen s comments in context just as you have to take mr. trump s comments in context. i still remember that video of mr. trump saying i believe on air force one he had no knowledge of any payments to the adult porn star and clearly there s evidence not only knowledge but may have instructed now. so obviously, any of mr. cohen s comments taken in that context