Become a reality among democrats. Up first, a tale of two felons. President trump praises Paul Manafort, his former Campaign Chairman, now convicted on eight federal counts of tax and bank fraud. The president tweeted this, i feel very badly for Paul Manafort and his wonderful family. Justice, and he puts the word justice in quotes took a 12yearold tax case among other things applied tremendous pressure on him and unlike Michael Cohen, he refused to break. Make up stories in order to get a deal. Such respect for a brave man. The president took another swipe at Michael Cohen, his former lawyer and personal fixer for more than a decade who pleaded guilty to eight charges and implicated the president of the United States in a hush money scheme. The president tweeted this. Quote, if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, i would strongly suggest that you dont retain the services of Michael Cohen. Lets bring in our white house
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Erin Burnett stays ahead of the headlines, delivering a show that is indepth and informative. Nice to have you all. John dean, let me begin with you. You heard the president out there try to defend himself today. Did he do himself any favors . Every time he opens his mouth he seems to conflict with a prior statement so i dont think he did himself any favors. They have not developed a Clear Strategy or approach or answer or response to any of this. And it is reminiscent of others in high places that got themselves in trouble. Some of them kept a better message than trump has. David, to you, the defense from the president again and again is, you know, the payments didnt come out of the campaign. He said and i quote, they being the payments, came from me. If what he said on fox is true, that statement, then at the very least he admitted to a payment that was not disclosed on the Financial Disclosure forms, which very well may be illegal, but how does the court of Public Opinion see it ton
have taken classified documents with them. but they weren t waving it around at a golf club we don t know if he was waving it around, they weren t disclosing and talking about it with people who don t have security clearances out in the open at a golf club. honestly don t know what conversations the others have had about the documents that they had or what those documents were. all we know is that they had left with classified documents. you know, there s an interesting dynamic when someone takes classified documents and they re trying to cause harm purposefully to the united states of america. one added dynamic when you take that away is that in this case, it s someone who has the power to declassify documents. it s one thing if you re a specialist, you don t have the ability to do that. but do you think this was declassified do you think donald trump declassified these documents? this is a legal question. his defense is going to be that he believes that he did and what
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interpretations of federal law and a lot of confidence on both sides of the argument in the argument. if it gets to that point this is going to be a unique case because we re not talking about a case where someone is taking the document to try to cause harm. we don t know why president trump we just don t i m not comparing him yeah, we don t know what his motivation is is what i m saying the. high-profile case from a few months ago where the person was on, like, the gaming platform. fair but we don t know what his motivation is but we have a lawyer here, elie. it is true, biden, mike pence and donald trump had classified documents in their possession. that s just the beginning of the inquiry. knowledge and intent. we don t know whether joe biden or mike pence knew they had classified documents. they ve denied it. donald trump has many times over acknowledged that he knew and in this new recording we have reporting on he again acknowledges he knows he has classified docume