A news and interview program, anchored by Erin Burnett. Client, the president , sit down with the Special Counsel. You will recall the latest proposal from mueller willing to limit the number of questions about obstruction of justice. They made clear they wanted to ask the questions in person. They want to limit the questions in person to events that happened before he was inaugurated as the president. That doesnt seem something that mueller is willing to budge on either. The president is at odds with his legal team. He believes if he gets facetoface with Robert Mueller he can prove his innocence and that that interview can bring all of this to an end. The president s legal team has made quite clear they do not think this is a good idea. They are advising their client against it. One of the president s attorneys put it best today when he said ultimately this final decision will be up to president trump. Thank you very much. At the time and we can evoke privilege. When it comes to the q
You know, if you wanted to hold a pageant to decide the president aes favorite Member Of Congress, i dont think any of us knows who the final winner might be. Might be whether the president insisted on a swimsuit contest or something scarier. Without any argument at all, i think almost all of us who paid any attention to the news in this era, we could all name a couple of the pageant finalists were this contest to happen. One of the finalists would undoubtedly be the Member Of Congress who started off today being taken into custody at the offices of the fbi in lower manhattan. Chris collins a Republican Congressman from new york, hes from buffalo, he was the first Member Of Congress to
endorse Donald Trumps president ial campaign all the way back in february, 2016. We know that is the kind of thing that really matters to this president. Congressman collins has since been among the most Faithful Visible Trump loyalists in washington. But now hes been arrested in an alleged scheme that a
making sure that the white-collar criminals, as well as the mafia and organized crime, were gonna be held accountable. - maybe we can t catch all of them, but we sure as heck can deliver a message which is, if you do get caught, you are gonna lose your liberty. you re gonna go to prison. - in 1986 i remember this vividly dennis levine got arrested. - the biggest insider trading deal anybody s ever heard of, dennis levine, made millions trading on insider information. - i realized that i ve committed very serious crimes, which i m very sorry. and it was a very painful lesson to learn. - that was the beginning of this giant scandal that giuliani was able to pursue and capitalize on and get a lot of publicity for. it really went to the heart of this, you know, moneymaking machine on wall street. - wall street has been hit by yet another insider trading scandal. - the merger and acquisition boom. - it s ten years behind bars for one of america s richest men. - the rise of the junk bond w
moneymaking machine on wall street. - wall street has been hit by yet another insider trading scandal. - the merger and acquisition boom. - it s ten years behind bars for one of america s richest men. - the rise of the junk bond world. - the once omnipotent wall street king was left staggering off his throne. - the raiders, the hostile takeovers. - once one of wall street s mightiest, ivan boesky appeared for sentencing, in the judge s words, humiliated, vilified, and cut down to size. - and all of that was entwined with what was a deeply corrupt system. - you find for me in the law where the united states congress has distinguished multibillion-dollar financial firms from other institutions, and you show me where that is. - rudy created the character of himself as a working-class, seam straight, streetwise new yorker who wasn t gonna take all the bullshit from these elites. rudy knew that he was igniting a populist revolt against this class of people.
he always managed to let the press know. he would very much exploit press coverage of walking an accused. - wall street also found itself a giuliani target in an insider trading scandal. - so if you think about the 1980s, when suddenly these guys like ivan boesky and michael milken were becoming insanely wealthy, they were new villains. - certain months aren t always the best, but at the end of the year, it turns out that that s really what counts. - they were the greed is good people, and rudy went after them too. - three persons were arrested and charged with illegal profits of millions and millions of dollars. - among those arrested, nine stockbrokers all in their 20s and 30s, eight of them from one firm. - that was fantastic. and for new yorkers, it was a spectacle. and rudy, in his ruthless way, would make these guys do a perp walk. that is, instead of doing what was considered the correct thing when you have dignified gentleman in three-piece suits,