September, then we have a very, very serious violation of the Justice Department rules that you shouldnt be conducting one of these investigations in the 60day period. There has been an informal tradition in the Justice Department. But in a recent report the Justice Department Inspector General noted the 60day rule is not written or described in any Department Day policy or regulation and does not call to an end for active investigations. Giuliani also attacked the Special Counsels motives. He knows the answers to every question he wants to ask. He is going to ask him did you do you think we are fools . You want to trap him into
perjury. The reality is that he doesnt need to ask a single question on obstruction, he has all the answers. The president is not going to change his testimony. Stop the nonsense. You dont have a case. President trump joining in on the Attack Tweeting today, this is an illegally brought rigged witch hunt run by people who are totally corrupt and or conflicted i
A roundtable ensemble discusses and debates the days news. It. But by then, its already taken us back. Thats what troubles me with how theyre doing this. Dana juan, do you want to weigh in . Juan i would love to. First and foremost, there is no deal. Cohen spoke in open court and said what he said. He has no deal with mueller. He has no deal with the Southern District of new yorks federal prosecutors. He made a plea deal because he understood and said he was guilty of having committed these crimes. And then named the president as someone who had directed him to make these payments. What we have learned today in terms of what american media, the National Inquirer has done, that he was involved in an effort to cover up these things, jesse, in advance of the campaign, that these payments were made in cooperation with the Media Company to protect the president. Interesting language in there. They said this was basically a tripwire so that they would learn of anybody who was coming to poten
Elected, they were ready and they launched hundreds of conservative nominees all at once. There were plenty of vacancies for them to fill because republicans had all those seats opened. Republican haves been running those nominees through like a factory made chocolates on a conveyer belt. They got to hurry through as many of these nominations as they can. On july 19th, despite this well oiled if fairly frantic system, one of their judicial nominees failed. His name is ryan bounds. The Trump Organization nominated him one level below the u. S. Supreme court court. Again, in general republicans in the senate have been ramming through trumps nominees by the fistful. This ryan bounds no, maminati
school as this guy at the same time. I remember those fights. In despite the fact that he tried to hide those writings from the senate, his nomination did appear to be on track and get confirmed through senate anyway. Senator tim scott decided he was not okay for this guy and not willing to vote o
,but i have to i don t know .him. i know this is a highly and c respected person and he couldn tou stand to see this wae his line. he couldn t stand to sees thigs guy who s already a convicted hemean, he s a felon. he s been to jail. and this is a unstuff not having to do with me. his reputation is terrible. bew, before all of this happened, hifos reputation was e was a normal lawyer. me i tt made sense to use somebody like that.that they always like to sayterm. a fixer. he was a fixer. he s a they use that term.e of he was a he was a lawyer, but lr he was one of many, manyce lawyers that i use d. that letter goes on to say, in private, a private transaction. before the u.s. presidential election. mr. cohen used his own electio e funds to facilitate the hundred and thirty thousand dollar payment to mr. clifford. neither the trump organization nor the trump campaign was a party to the transaction with miss clifford and neither reimbursednd mr. cohn for paymet directly or indirectly and
doesn t this prove that ain t true. they called it disgraceful and unlawful but what you see here is the meticulous work of prosecutors and fbi agents to go through and establish probable cause. it s not easy to do and this is i read through it this morning too. it is done effectively and done well. it further highlights that michael cohen and frank i everything that s happening in the southern district of new york is a far greater threat to the president of the united states than anything else he s facing right now because this is the proof of what happens when the president and his folks are investigated. let s get into it. i read through this. cohen was paid more than $500,000 from this company called columbus nova controlled by russian oligarch viktor vekselberg who was close to putin, subject of sanctions because cohen was consulting, right, and it was that money that he received that he then funneled through his llc, essential consultants which is how we reported months ago