News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Meaning in this other than you have to pay your taxes, and you cant lie on a loan application. Time is going to tell who is to be trusted around here and who isnt. 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 coconspirator in a felony Campaign Finance case. If that isnt 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. Hes 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 democrats who say
a felony campaign finance case that does seem to be linked to the impeachment scandal. these are my friends, lev and igor. cnn is reporting tonight that rudy giuliani, himself, is now looking for his own defense lawyer, potentially in conjunction with this case. do you think that is a wise move for mr. judiany? absolutely. look, rachel, even witnesses in federal criminal investigations? people who have no criminal exposure, it s often wise for them to get an attorney and probably very likely mr. giuliani is not merely a witness. he is at least the subject of the investigation, if not a target. one very interesting thing to look for, any good lawyer, any good white collar criminal defense lawyer will tell her client not to talk. and so one, it will be a measure of how effective this attorney is. and, two, if mr. giuliani really follows that advice, if he really doesn t talk anymore, it will be a gift to us all. strain the bounds of physics
opinion becomes the final word. and its ruling governs the parties. if they write more broadly and talk about presidential immunity both from investigation and from prosecution, maybe the supreme court is interested and they take the case and it issues the final word. so, i don t know that we ll necessarily end up in the supreme court. i imagine the supreme court will have an opportunity to decide whether or not it wants to weigh in on the case. chuck, let me ask you about one last thing. this argument s happening at the federal courthouse in new york today about the president potentially being prosecuted. this crazy argument about him committing murder and the police being enjoined from stopping him. at the same courthouse today an hour later, two associates of the president s lawyer, rudy giuliani, were both arraigned in a felony campaign finance case that does seem to be linked to the impeachment scandal. these are my friends, lev and igor. cnn is reporting tonight that rudy giuli
famous crime. falsifying business records? that s not like bank robbery or reckless driving or even hamb g hamburglarring. does anybody ever actually get charged for that? well, remember i said it is a 16-count indictment today against paul manafort in new york. count 8, falsifying business records in the first degree. count 9, falsifying business records in the first degree. count 10, falsifying business records in the first degree. count 11 and count 12 and count 13 and count 14 and count 15, eight are falsifying business records in the first degree. and falsifying business records is what the trump organization is effectively accused by prosecutors already of having done in the felony campaign finance case that is sending michael cohen to prison in a matter of weeks and in which the president is also have alleged to have directed the buyer scheme. and it s true there is a federal
eight are falsifying business records in the first degree. and falsifying business records is what the trump organization is effectively accused by prosecutors already of having done in the felony campaign finance case that is sending michael cohen to prison in a matter of weeks and in which the president is also have alleged to have directed the buyer scheme. and it s true there is a federal justice department policy that arguably constrains any federal prosecutor from indicting and prosecuting a sitting president. but that federal justice department policy doesn t bind state prosecutors whatsoever. and neither state prosecutors nor federal prosecutors are barred from bringing any sort of prosecution against the president s business or against people who work for the president at his business, whether or not they re his children. is this today new york prosecutors showing the president how to expect this