trusted reporter, bob woodward, is warning the american people that they can no longer be dismissive of the president s behavior. as he told npr, i am convinced that people need to wake up and not kind of pretend this is just politics or this is partisan. similarly, woodward said in a new york times podcast that his reporting backs up the notion that this administration is teetering on the brink of collapse. you basically say that the administration is teetering on a catastrophe or a collapse. well, i provide the evidence of it, and it s just supported by fact, i believe. it s not a partisan position. this isn t about democrats or republicans or left, right, it s about the stability of the country and it s not something you can read and feel comforted by. i m joined by jonathan la mere, white house reporter for the associated press.
undercut cohen and try to paint him as someone who s dishonest, someone who s changed his story and someone who would say anything that needed to be said to cut some sort of deal with the prosecutors and lessen his jail time. three, i just really think that, you know, the president, time and time again, has been very successful at undermining government institutions and the media by just continuing to repeat things that aren t necessarily true and sort of keeping on that and saying that. i think in this case, he s trying to do that, despite what we ve seen in the court doubts. i think for people in the white house, you know, this is a huge deal, but they re also going back to this bunker mentality that they have. where they re, like, this is just another crisis. sure. we ve seen all these crises before and this too will pass. nancy cook, thank you. jonathan, thank you, as always. right now in a federal courthouse in san diego, congressman duncan hunter and his wife margaret are
now that breaking news. attorney general jeff sessions now pushing back on criticism from president trump. in a statement he issued just a few minutes ago. the attorney general writing, in part, quote, while i am attorney general, the actions of the department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations. i demand the highest standards and where they are not met, i take action. however, no nation has a more talented, more dedicated group of law enforcement investigators and prosecutors than the united states. i am proud to serve with them and proud of the work we have done in successfully advancing the rule of law. let s bring in nancy cook, white house reporter for politico. and jonathan la mere, white house reporter for the associated press. he is also an msnbc political analyst. nancy, let me start with you there. because, again, pete alluded to this earlier, chuck rosenberg talked about this as well. the president has made it a
he was then claiming he didn t have income, and trying to hide it and using that bank fraud scheme as a way of getting loans that he wasn t entitled to get. it will be interesting to see if the jury saw a connection between these two kinds of counts and if we ll see some bank fraud convictions, as well. ken, is there an update? i see you on the bottom of our screen. paul manafort has been found guilty of the eight counts. is that the correct number, eight counts? reporter: that s right. so we have the full verdict. in addition to the five tax fraud charges, he was convicted of one count of failing to file a foreign bank account, and two counts of bank fraud. one involving $3.4 million loan from citizens bank, and another involving $1 million from the bank of california, where he was accused of doctoring a profit and loss statement. manafort was charged with four counts of failing to declare foreign bank accounts for different years.
but it s not surprising to me that it s taking them a long time in light of the fact that they didn t get a chance to see those documents as they were presented during the trial in many instances and they had to look at them and reconstruct it for themselves. so this could be one of the ways that the judge s efforts to hurry things along has harmed their ability to decide the case. ken, let me get you have an update. go ahead, ken. reporter: sorry. nicolle, i m being told that the judge is now going to poll the jurors individually to determine whether they think they can come to agreement today on these counts that they re deadlocked on. if they don t think they do, he s going to send them home. that s all i have, nicolle. chuck, can you weigh in on that? help us understand the significance of what ken just reported, that the judge is going to pull this jury and ask them if they can come to some sort of resolution by the end of the day, is that a is that