business deal and having these other kind of candidate negotiations and positions on sanctions, on nato, on all sorts of things that were of interest to russia. that is why it would have been intolerable if the truth had been known then and that is why it is such a big deal politically that we know it now and one other question that still seems open to me. did this end? did this end after the lech? what do we kn what do we know about that? this was an incredible offer to vladimir putin himself. with the controversy, harry, about the withdraw from nato arguments that he s made at nato summits. i ve heard that from people who were in the room and who were leaders and heard it themselves, and the most recent lifting of sanctions against deripaska and manafort, how does he get away with this politically? boy, you tell me. that s at least the $32,000
hear from all the major players this hour. we have a press conference coming up. mitch mcconnell in about 30 minutes from now taking questions from reporters. president trump in 90 minutes. nancy pelosi right after that. but there are some contests that are still basically a nail biter right now. for that, we turn to national political reporter live and in the flech steve kornacki. i m lucky enough to be heat i seeing you in the human flesh. let s talk through some of the races that are still out there. this morning we re waking up to seeing florida, florida, florida, bill. nelson not conceding. put that up on the screen for you. here s the nelson race. he s behind by 35,000 votes right now. that s a lot to overcome, but you can see the state law there is under half a percent is automatic recount. it certainly looks like it s a a steep hill to climb. the famous florida recount after the 2000 election.
word for word. courtroom deputy. your honor, good morning. this morning, we have case number 17-2001-1, united states versus paul j. manafort jr. will parties approach the lech turn and identify yourself for the record. mr. weissman. good morning, your honor. andrew weissman for the government. and with me is greg andress, lorna masher, kyle freeney, genie rhee, and josh wilen from the fbi. the judge. good morning. good morning, your honor. richard westling, thomas zehnie and kevin downling. and i note that mr. manafort is present. i understand the defendant wishes to enter a plea of guilty. is that correct? that s correct, your honor. before we can proceed, he can join you at the lech turn. the courtroom deputy says, are
names. it s smart for them to leak names. got to test it out. that sort of flushing out whether there are any problems with the nominees. certainly the ones that laura was talking about are quite, are quite possible, but there are other names that are possible as well. so you know, i don t know if you heard the reporting, but our understanding from a gop source is they want this done around labor day. michel mcconnell wants it done well before the lech, but given those pieces of information, when do you think president trump is going to announce his pick? in a couple of weeks. mitch mcconnell will hold the senate 24 hours a day if he has to to get this thing done. i mean, this is is the thing that mcconnell cares about more than anything. this is why he stole the seat from barack obama. remember, you know in the united states, our terms for president are four years. but president obama s term was three years when it came to
former federal prosecutor. harry, i mean, take a step back here. you ve got this cousin or whatever it is. in an american company. you have a company affiliated with one of the most powerful oligarchs in russia. a putin insider paying half a million dollars to michael cohen. trump s personal taerattorney. after the lech. over a period of months. cohen was fully aware that anything involving russia was a b problem. how does this happen? yeah, even if it s innocent, an extremely reckless and foolish thing to connect yourself to someone like a russian oligarch with ties to putin. we ve hired cohen to do business consulting for us. the prosecutors and vest garretts will see if that s true. what is the evidence? to we see e-mails and business