campaign, and joining us, former democratic congresswoman donna edwards, both msnbc political analysts. good to have all three of you with us. you have a lot of political experience within the three of you and legal expertise, and you can give the differences between these cases. for not though, i will start with you, breaking news, there s more documents that were previously disclosed at biden s residence in delaware. that material has already been turned over to the doj. does this latest discovery change anything at all in this case? no, it really does not. i think you said it well, ayman, when you say there is nothing more than a surface level similarity to these two cases. they really are quite different. i think the better comparison for the biden case is the hillary case, where you have inadvertent mishandling of sensitive material, and in both cases, there s a review taking place, taking a look at that, but just as with that case, the
different. i think the better comparison for the biden case is the hillary case, where you have inadvertent mishandling of sensitive material, and in both cases, there s a review taking place, taking a look at that, but just as with that case, the only potential statute that could be implicated s mishandling and gross negligence of classified material, and just like in that case, where they came out and said that s a high bar i believe that will happen here. the only difference then donald trump is stumping his nose at the justice department and obstructing a federal investigation. donna, let me get your reaction that there is some frustration from the democratic party in regards to how the white house responded to this,
all statement charges abound in mueller probe in contrast to hillary clinton case, it lays out, i think about five people in this trump bit have been charged with making false statements. tons of people lied to the fbi in the hillary case. one person said that lying his a-s-s off, can you believe he just said it? never prosecuted for making false statements per there s a little bit of false statements. right now i can hear shep throw something at the tv. on the upper you re sitting there, thinking they want hillary clinton to win, they can t believe this happened, but they blame comey for that. the go in and pay money to
michael cohen case could be more damaging to the president because in that case he is directly implicated by cohen. a far cry from the manafort case with major developments today. it has nothing to do with the president or 2016 or russia collusion. the former trump campaign chair found guilty on five counts of filing false income tax returns. one count of failing to file report of a foreign bank account. two charges of bank fraud. the jury could not reach a verdict on ten other counts against manafort. prosecutors have until the end of the month to decide on a possible retrial. there is also the possibility that manafort would be pardoned by the president who declared again that the mueller probe is a witch hunt. he was frustrated with that but he said nothing about the cohen case to leave it to his attorney rudy giuliani to provide a written statement today saying, there is no allegation of any wrongdoing against the president in the government charge against mr. cohen. it s clear as
we have the great one mark levin joining us and we got a lot of reaction to get to. we have only begun to touch the service. joining us first for reaction to this, we have the former federal prosecutor himself and he worked at the southern district of new york. for 20 years. big cases like the blind sheikh case and the first trade center bombing, andrew mccarthy. doug schoen, criminal defense attorney and civil attorney. andy, let s start here with what i think is so obvious. how did we get from russia collusion to five years of taxes in the case of paul manafort? tax and bank charges against him and by the way, i m advising everyone, pay your taxes and don t lie on loan applications, don t lie to the f.b.i. three lessons to take out tonight. how did we get from russia collusion to this? sean, i agree with what you said about the two-tiered justice system. because i don t think you can