Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Inaugural address, which my old boss had colorful language to describe. George w. Bush called it some crazy bleep. I was thinking about the line about carnage and i was thinking that the real carnage and it was all in motion when he came that day. The real carnage is the people closest to donald trump. The lives that are being destroyed for crimes theyve committed. I mean, you know, its not a night to feel sympathy for Michael Cohen, but the events that are sending him to jail potentially are events put in motion by the things donald trump demanded of the people close to him. It may end up ensnaring his family. But just this idea of wreckage. A source close to Michael Cohen tonight told me that everything donald trump touches is tainted by his toxic brew of lack of ethics and lack of any adherence to the law. I also thought of something that someone who advises this president said to me earlier i
it turned out what the jury was trying to say they wanted to know what the process was if they couldn t come to a verdict. it turned out that on ten of the 18 counts against manafort, they were deadlocked. we don t know by what margin. we don t know if it was 11-1 or 6-6. we just don t know that at this point. it did kind of go out with a whimper. but i must say if you re the defendant to hear yourself pronounced guilty on eight felony counts in a federal courtroom, it s certainly not a good day for you. and i saw paul manafort swallow pretty hard when the first guilty verdict on the first tax charge came in. after that he pretty much just froze. yeah. bracing moment none of us want to experience firsthand. hey, daniel, now as an ex-fed center us up as the way they see this in washington. if you re mueller s office, is a win a win? yes. very simply yes.