David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Change the narrative around this meeting. I want to step back and give us an understanding of how Michael Cohen was his confidant, his fixer, this relationship has turned dramatically here. Yes. Im most interested in how this plies with voters. Im seeing a parallel to what Rudy Giuliani said this summer. Michael cohen was honest with the utmost of credibility. I would hear the same thing from house sources in particular, today talking to people, what is kind of the read on your members after this week, ahead of midterms. They say, you know what, Michael Cohen has always had credibility issues, at this point swrees visavis the don junior
meeting until the Senate Committee subpoenas him to come back and testify once more, to say under oath that liz father did not know about this meeting. I dont see the political implications of this at this moment. We have seen this play out with flair and flourish
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. We will watch the situation very closely. Paula, thank you for the report. Jury selection begins later this morning in the federal trial of the former Trump Campaign Paul Manafort for alleged financial crimes. The first test for special Counsel Robert Mueller and his prosecutors although russia is not the center of the trial. We have more from evan perez from washington. Reporter dave and laura, Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman, is going on trial in Virginia On Federal Tax and bank fraud charges. This is the first trial to come from Robert Muellers investigation. Dont expect the trial to be about russia or collusion or President Trump. Prosecutors and attorneys plan to stick closely to the issues in the charges which have to do with the governments accusations that manafort used secret Foreign Bank Accounts to hide millions of dollars he earned working for the Ukrainian Government and failed to report it to t
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. The cfo knows. Was there Money Laundering . Is there wire fraud or fraud on Karen Mcdougal . What did she think she was signing . Theres a host of questions and possible crimes that could be charged. I think they are running scared from Michael Cohen. I think also theyre running scared from him because of what has come out about what hes saying about the 2016 Trump Tower Meeting with also goes a long way, if true, in helping to put trump in a conspiracy with the russians. Its important to note sort of one of the main take aways. Because Rudy Giuliani did address that. And he suddenly says that trump, it wasnt that he didnt know the Trump Tower Meeting took place. Its that trump wasnt there. We already knew that President Trump was never at that Trump Tower Meeting. The issue always that he absolutely had no knowledge of it. Now Rudy Giuliani
The TrumpPutin relationship is examined. Russia. Putin has an untrammeled authority. I dont see any checks on his power. He is able to make singular, rapid decisions. The absolutism there is unlike anything ive ever seen in russia. All that power is propped up by an astonishing Approval Rating, over 80 . And thats according to american pollsters. Donald trump wins the presidency. But when the United States elected a new president , it looked like russia had fallen for a new leader. There were toasts all over moscow. At the parliament, known as the duma. On talk shows. And at bars. [ laughter ] we are the champions of the world but one man seemed utterly unsurprised by trumps victory. Hes happy to take credit. And that means that he won the u. S. Election. The man who is simultaneously president of russia and in charge of the United States. At the heart of all this are some deadly serious questions. Does Vladimir Putin have some kind of hold over donald trump . We simply dont know. But
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. They will appear before lawmakers just, at that point, less than two months before the election again, i understand theyre going to ask some more questions, some more hearings. What is congress prepared to do to stop this, to say were do everything you possibly can to make sure there is not outside influence in our elections . Well, Lindsey Graham told me this shows we need an olive government approach. Introducing this legislation in part. Trying to get the president to joinest. He wants to see more pressure being put on russia. Were also hearing that some of these pages have been identified, and russia is an equal opportunity offender here. That our Political Leadership not to necessarily follow the rabl trail that the russians are
from the white house on this issue. Donald trump had his First Ever National security meeting the other day devoted to this subject. Didnt make any statements, didnt give any orders a