News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Meaning in this other than you have to pay your taxes, and you cant lie on a loan application. Time is going to tell who is to be trusted around here and who isnt. Including everybody. We begin there with the president in crisis and the stunning fact, yes, fact, that the foundation of that crisis. The president of the United States is an unindicted coconspirator in a felony Campaign Finance case. If that isnt enough, the Special Counsel won convictions on eight counts in his first major trial. That are the former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. The president s reaction today is beyond telling. Hes attacking his longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen who decided to cooperate with the feds and is praising Paul Manafort who the president says is refusing to break under pressure. Both Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort face prison time. What now for the president is
the big question here in washington. There are democrats who say
A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. Interesting part of the president s answer to ainslie earharts question, that hasnt played in that portion that you aired there, shep, where the president said this was not a Campaign Contribution, because it wasnt the campaign that paid it, it was me. And i have tweeted about that in the past. Now, you remember, the president put an awful lot of his own money into the campaign. So i asked sarajevo hah Huckabee Sanders how did the president dlinity what was going to the campaign and what might have gone to other people for campaign purposeles. Listen in here. How do you draw the line between what was a Campaign Contribution and what might have been a payment to somebody for other purps. Secretary sanders im not going to get into the back and forth of the legal part of. This i would refer to you the president s outside counsel 678 as i told cecilia, what i can tell you is what the president has stated a number of
the biggest problem with hang peddling business may have been his father, the president, thought it was fine. do you think that an inquiry can be opened up if there is not clear illegal activity? well, we know, dana, that the democrats, when they controlled the house in 2019, actually impeached, filed articles of impeachment against president trump under circumstances where they didn t have a crime, abuse of power can be a high crime and misdemeanor. here we are talking about the potential of high crimes and misdemeanors and bribery. a separate category for impeachment purposes. they have a basis to have an inquiry. where it goes from there, we ll have to see. bill: the house speaker kevin mccarthy this week talked about this. there is a legal question here, andy, and a political question. some people within the republican party of the house
if we had 18 witnesses other than 17, maybe it would have been better but the prosecutor in the house of representatives said we have seen enough. this president has committed high crimes and misdemeanors against the american people and a crime in progress and danger to the public. john bolton had the same lawyer as kupperman, according to some testimony we saw on the house side, that it was a drug deal and hand grenade with rudy guilliani, going to blow everybody up. knowing that with witnesses to testify in the senate trial, does that underscore anything there? it does underscore having a real trial in the u.s. senate. the way the constitution is set up in article i for impeachment purposes, the house acts like a grand jury and prosecutor. it brings the charges. two charges have been brought forward, abuse of power and obstruction of congress in our
witnessed was all about politics even though it s in the framework of law enforcement. as a commentator on the side who has some legal background and can look at this, i can certainly make a judgment that i think that the report seems to have a lot of credible investigation and that governor cuomo is unfit, but in the four corners of the criminal justice system he s supposed to be presumed innocent and it s utterly inappropriate that just happened happened, other than they could have put out a one-line even this would have been unusual, a one-line press release that said that the complainant, not the victim, but complainant formally filed a complaint. this was just so an elected official could go out a number of times and refer to the complainant as a victim, which for impeachment purposes is very consequential, but in a