The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Ears is that trump was not at au walled off from the seedier aspects of being donald trump. In fact, he was very much hands on. If cohens account proves true, Donald Trumps Daily Collusion Denial may undergo an extreme make over and his supporters may soon be conditioned to accept that collusion isnt a crime instead of there was no collusion at all, and that is just the p. R. Battle front. The legal problems for the president may be twofold. One, the Trump Tower Meeting is under scrutiny in the Obstruction Of Justice track of the Mueller Probe, and on the Collusion Track Bob Mueller has charged russian officials for Election Meddling and he may be building a conspiracy case and working to Connect The Dots to any unwitting or witting accomplices inside the trump orbit. Cohens bombshell contradicts many months of denials from donald trump about his knowledge of the Trump Tower Meeting, like this
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. No comment on cohen who was released on 500,000 bail. His sentencing, interestingly, is scheduled for december 12th. The judge noted that cohen could serve up to 65 years in prison, though we should hasten to add the prosecutess recommended sentence is something closer to four or six years. Manafort is expected to be sentenced to seven to nine years when its all said and done. He also faces another trial on related charges next month in washington. Meanwhile, both men now join rick gates, michael flynn, George Papadopoulos on the roster of Trump Associates who faced criminal charges. On that, let us bring in our expanded leadoff panel for a consequential tuesday evening. Nicolle wallace returned to the night shift. The veteran of the Bush White House and host of deadline white house. And here in new york mi
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. New york. Day 579 of the Trump Administration turns out was the day the president was placed in real legal jeopardy. Here is the story from tomorrows front page of the New York Times. Cohen pleads guilty implicated president. The president s former personal lawyer turned himself into the fbi today and stood in Federal Court and pleaded guilty to eight charges including two related to rush Money Payments to women which he admitted were at the direction of his boss, donald trump, for the purpose of influencing the 2016 election. Cohen pleaded guilty to tax evasion and lying to a financial institution, as well as two Campaign Finance violations. Again, both involving trumps quest for the white house. The payoffs described match the cases of Karen Mac Dougall and stormy daniels. This case is being brought by the feds. Attorney for the Eastern District of virginia. Also happens to be a senior official
confidants say he will be following minute by minute, maybe not every second of the actual hearing because of the time change, but you have a president who had thisha man, m cohen, at his side for over a decade. someone who worked with him on intimate issues, personal issues. and the question for republicans tomorrow is will anything rise to the threshold to be a threat politically to them?rr so far they ve suffered a lot of indignities that president trump has brought upon them and their owngh party. but they want to see is this going tosh a threat for them in 20 to. emily jane fox, what can you say if anything about the attitude, mindset, bearing of the witness going into tomorrow? this is a day that michael cohen has been preparing for, looking forward to, and readying for the last several weeks. he has spent every single day with his lawyers in intense preparation as it was described to me over the weekend.e he has written a statement, rewritten his statement, practiced his sta
issue a tweet like that in this context. but practically, as a practical matter the way this would work, the department of justice would not self-initiate an investigation here. congress would have to refer it for investigation. i don t know that that will happen in this case. i think the good news here is that michael cohen is agreeing to cooperate and that it s not the first time he has suggested he s felt intimidated about his testimony. i think that demonstrates that he is very interested as emily jane said, he wants his story out there. and it s not going to stop him that someone tried to intimidate him. emily jane fox, long before there was a trump administratio the one intersection between politics and the mob was you we don t touch families. you leave families out of it. in coming to know the people we cover for a living, you in sometimes come to know their families.kn what matt gaetz said was not ini