Wasnt a player of significance . President trump he was a lawyer for me for one of many. They always say the lawyer and they like to add the fixer. I dont know where that term came from. He has been a lawyer for me. Didnt do big deals, did small deals. Not somebody that was with me that much. They make it sound like i didnt live without him. You hear the president s description there cohen pleaded guilty to Campaign Finance violations which is an interesting thing to plead guilty to, considering there are a great many attorneys, including some ive spoken to here, Who Dont Think that rises to the level. See how that all plays out in sentencing and moving forward. Jon, back to you. Jon more to come on both of those cases. Kevin corke at the white house. Sandra another exclusive interview for fox news shan an bream sitting down with one of the jurors in the Paul Man Fort Trial and how close the jury
because they know they had 111 in favor of conviction even on the counts that ended up bei
Rachel Maddow takes a look at the days top political news stories. Charge of grand larceny, a big stack of charges involving a large amount of money and potentially a large amount of jail time. The story they uncovered at the courthouse that day, for some reason, friedman had gotten this huge Criminal Liability he was facing winnowed down to almost nothing. All the prison time and felonies evaporated. Instead of being tried for evading 5 million in taxes, prosecutors let him plead guilty to one count of evaluating 50,000 worth of taxes. Not 5 million, 50,000. Instead of decades in potential prison time the deal he cut with prosecutors got him zero prison time. People do plea deals all the time they offer their testimony for prosecutors letting them off the hook and going easier on
them. This was like the mother of all plea deals. The amount he offered must have been very very valuable to the government given how sweet the deal was he got from them in return. That happened in late may.
Republicans are saying monday or no way. Is it going to be about getting it through, or getting it right . And President Trump orders the declassification of documents in the russia probe. Why . Transparency, he says. Give all the information, do it right. Oneonone with republican congressman matt gaetz. And, cnn has Stormy Daniels book where she shares explicit details of her affair with donald trump. Chris cillizza on what we learned after months of allegations and denials. Busy tuesday. What do you say . Lets get after it some more. A lot of people thought that Brett Kavanaughs accuser would testify on monday before the senate committee. But cnn has obtained a letter
that says professor ford wants to testify, but she wants the fbi to investigate first. Now, theres a plus minus here. Its a boost to her credibility, but on the negative side, it smacks of politics. Because this is what the democrats have been pushing for. So, lets test this. We have Florida Republican matt gaetz with u
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Listen. Are you considering pardoning Paul Manafort . I have Great Respect for what hes done in terms of what hes gone through. You know he worked for Ronald Reagan for years. He worked for bob dole, i guess his firm worked for john mccain. He worked for many, many people. Many, many years. And i would say what he did, some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant, every lobbyist in washington probably does. Well, so much for draining the swamp. It seems very much that President Trump is not at all concerned about those charges Paul Manafort was found guilty of. In fact he later told the fox news interviewer that one of the reasons he had respect for manafort was that he didnt flip like Michael Cohen did. This is clearly something the president believes is part of a broader conspiracy against him. He even went on to say that he believed his own Justice Department was still under the control of
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Interesting to see the white house parsing its words over this issue. This is something under discussion, something been on the president s mind and appears its been on the president s mind lately as well. To hear the president yet again go after Attorney General Jeff Sessions, going after him in that interview, we will talk to him more about it later. Where do things stand on that. You heard him earlier on fox, What Kind Of Man is this, once again seizing on this recusal Jeff Sessions decided to go with early on in the administration to stay out of the russian investigation. That has obviously been under the president s skin ever since then and he went after Jeff Sessions. What changed, a watershed moment often this Punching Bag Relationship the president constantly beating up on Jeff Sessions, Jeff Sessions fired back showing what a lot of people in washington have been waiting for for a lon