Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Comments are anything to go by. The New York Times reported that the serving White House Counsel Don Mcgahn has done more than 30 hours of voluntary interviews with the special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team of prosecutors. Shortly there after we got new reporting from the times about the president s personal lawyer being sqozed, for look of a better term. The Wall Street Journal is first on the story as they have bone the criminal intrigue surrounding president trumps long time lawyer Michael Cohen from the very beginning. But following the initial reporting a couple weeks ago that the potential charges Michael Cohen might be facing, now the New York Times as of yesterday and the Associated Press as of today, who have both match that had story. So the Wall Street Journal and the ap and the New York Times, all now reporting that Michael Cohens legal vulnerability may be at least in part rehated to
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Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Has publicly verifiable information, tread lightly. Dont go too fast around this corner. This may be someone trying to trip you up. On top of the mcgahn and cohen news, there have been a bunch of new developments today and into this evening including one that relates to this guy. Remember this guy . He is the one person who has gone to prison already. Actually served his custodial sentence in the russia scandal. His name is alex van der zwaan. Hes a lawyer that served 30 days in federal lockup as punishment for lying to investigators about his role in one of Paul Manaforts foreign lobbying gigs. It has always been possible there was a Big Biographical coincidence about him. It is totally possible its a coincidence. But one of the more intriguing details about him, who has
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attorney general has already brought charges against the president s foundation, the president himself and the president s three eldest children, don jr., e-ivankaa and eric. they have already referred that case against the trump foundation to the public integrity division at the justice department, to the federal election commission and to the irs for federal prosecution. the federal prosecutors brought a huge civil tax case against ivanka trump s business partner, from what used to be her luxury jewelry brand. trump organization executive allen weisselberg in the case relating to michael cohen is that the new york state case that relates to the trump foundation. reports of his possible immunity deal, at this point the reports are intriguing and a little hard to sort out. it is fair to say that we don t
original concerns related to russia that started the special counsel s investigation in the first place. after initial reports last week stoked in part by the president himself that he might be considering a pardon for paul manafort, following his conviction in virginia, tonight gabriel sherman reports at vanity fair .com that the president is so committed to the idea of pardoning paul manafort now that he is willing to do it even over the objections of his white house counsel don mcigan. the president has said he is considering bringing in a new lawyer to draft a manafort pardon if mcgahn won t do it. in that context tonight, the wall street journal reports that he was trying to do a deal. manafort who would not flip. manafort, the guy going all the way to trial of not once but twice, the one guy implicated in the trump/russia scandal who absolutely would not do a deal with prosecutors and was praised by the president for that, manafort has apparently trying
attorney general has already brought charges against the president s foundation, the president himself and the president s three eldest children, don jr., eric and ivanka. they have already referred that case against the trump foundation to the public integrity division at the justice department, to the federal election commission and to the irs for federal prosecution. the federal prosecutors also recently brought a huge civil tax case against ivanka trump s business partner, from what used to be her luxury jewelry brand. trump organization executive allen weisselberg in the case relating to michael cohen is that the new york state case that relates to the trump foundation. reports of allen weisselberg s