More news right now. Right now on Andrea Mitchell reports, former president trump, today scrambling for a half billion dollars in cash to post bond in the new york civil fraud case against him and the trump organization. While saying democrats hate israel and any jewish person that votes for democrats hates their religion. Thats a quote. That set off a political firestorm. This after President Biden and Prime Minister netanyahu argued over rafah. President biden saying they can root out hamas without a fullscale invasion that would kill thousands of civilians. Today, netanyahu says, theres no way to eliminate hamas without entering rafah. Americans allies on russias border. Natos front line against an aggressive russia. Stunned by congress failure to vote for needed help to ukraine. Good day, everyone. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. Trump said the Democratic Party hate jewish people. His spokeswoman issued a statement that the democrat party, her words, hates israel, has turned into
become a reality among democrats. up first, a tale of two felons. president trump praises paul manafort, his former campaign chairman, now convicted on eight federal counts of tax and bank fraud. the president tweeted this, i feel very badly for paul manafort and his wonderful family. justice, and he puts the word justice in quotes took a 12-year-old tax case among other things applied tremendous pressure on him and unlike michael cohen, he refused to break. make up stories in order to get a deal. such respect for a brave man. the president took another swipe at michael cohen, his former lawyer and personal fixer for more than a decade who pleaded guilty to eight charges and implicated the president of the united states in a hush money scheme. the president tweeted this. quote, if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, i would strongly suggest that you don t retain the services of michael cohen. let s bring in our white house
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meaning in this other than you have to pay your taxes, and you can t lie on a loan application. time is going to tell who is to be trusted around here and who isn t. including everybody. we begin there with the president in crisis and the stunning fact, yes, fact, that the foundation of that crisis. the president of the united states is an unindicted co-conspirator in a felony campaign finance case. if that isn t enough, the special counsel won convictions on eight counts in his first major trial. that are the former campaign chairman paul manafort. the president s reaction today is beyond telling. he s attacking his longtime lawyer and fixer michael cohen who decided to cooperate with the feds and is praising paul manafort who the president says is refusing to break under pressure. both michael cohen and paul manafort face prison time. what now for the president is
the big question here in washington. there are demo
That the vast majority of the people in the prison never were. the fact in administration would intervene and prevent him from the crimes he s committed indicates they see themselves and everyone associated with them as above the law. take a listen, matt, to what trump was saying when he got the news about manafort s prosecution. can we. i feel badly for him. i think it s a very sad situation. and i saw that just a little while ago. and certainly on a human basis, it s very sad thing. i feel badly for him. matt, what do you think having worked around these issues? with respect to the president s comments, when he talks about law and order, he s always meant law and order that don t look like him or his friends. with respect to what the department did here, it s unusual for the deputy attorney general to do this. i don t remember a deputy
Wardens typically deal with this, not the number two at doj and that most federal inmates facing state charges are held in likers. experts tell us this is nearly unprecedented. manafort s team argue this case is not like most other inmates so these comparisons it don t really matter they say. we ve done several reports on the horrific conditions at rikers on the beat, the allegations of staff abuse, staff negligence, there was a beating of an inmate to death. i pressed the top federal prosecutor of new york about the conditions and he told me it may it be time to close it is rather than try to reform it. today the trump doj suddenly take aginterest in protecting an inmate from likers as the trump administration hosts kim kardashian at the white house just last week and all of this can obscure something that s really important. when and how do they care abouts who in jail? what about inmates who are not