Good morning, everyone. It is friday, december 7th. Im Ayman Mohyeldin alongside Yasmin Vossoughian and louis burgdorf. New documents scheduled for release today could shed new light on Robert Muellers russia probe. Prosecutors for the Southern District of new york and the special counsels office both have until 5 00 p. M. Tonight to deliver sentencing memos concerning michael cohen. Those documents are expected to detail cohens cooperation in both of those ongoing investigations. Muellers team should also be filing a document that outlines the crimes and lies that led to the collapse of former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manaforts plea deal. Meanwhile, nbc news has also learned that in recent days President Trumps legal team has resumed discussions with the special counsels office. Thats according to two people familiar with the matter. Its been just over two weeks since trump admitted those written answers to mueller regarding the russia probe. Back in july, President Trumps lawyer
Flagrant hypocrisy double standard democrats in the commonwealth of virginia. Democratic Governor Ralph Northam has now embarrassed himself and the state that he calls home. Now, as you know, he first openly supported infanticide. Well, first the baby will be born and then we will make sure the baby is comfortable. After the baby is comfortable, the mother will decide whether to resuscitate and then we will have a little conversation. He represents yet another chapter in his partys long disgraceful history now on the issue of race. And meanwhile, as Lieutenant Governor, democrat justin fairfax, who democrats want to replace the current governor, he, tonight, is facing very serious accusations of Sexual Misconduct. Now the democrats are now facing their very own serious me too issue. The commonwealth of virginia has descended into total chaos and turmoil tonight. Will the democrats now declare, i believe, all victims. Were going to address that question in a few minutes. To remind you o
Democratic Governor Ralph Northam has now embarrassed himself and the state that he calls home. Now, as you know, he first openly supported infanticide. Well, first the bean wil baby we born and then we will make sure the baby is comfortable. After the baby is comfortable the mother will decide whether to resuscitate and then we will have a little conversation. He represents yet another chapter in his partys long disgraceful history now on the issue of race. And meanwhile, as Lieutenant Governor, democrat Justin Fairfax who democrats want to replace the current governor, he, tonight, is facing very serious accusations of Sexual Misconduct. Now, the democrats are now facing their very own serious me too issue. The commonwealth of virginia has descended into total chaos and turmoil tonight. Will the democrats now declare, i believe, all victims. Were going to address that question in a few minutes. To remind you on friday extremely disturbing 1984 yearbook photo from Eastern Virginia Med
Wouldnt be such a good idea after all, especially because it left republicans in congress feeling a little queasy at a time when they were already having a hard time defending him in these impeachment proceedi s proceedings. Even though the president blamed democrats and the media for this change of heart, its quite clear that the reason that he changed on this is because republicans were not standing by him on though decision. And the big open secret of the Trump Presidency is that this president cannot bear even the smallest amount of pressure from republicans. Any pushback from republicans, particularly republicans in congress, and instantly, he caves. And so, he caved on bringing the Big International summit to his own golf club and forcing foreign governments to pay him, if they want to come to that summit. Its a very big story all weekend and into today, as well. One story you might not have heard that much about alongside that big story is a story that is actually a much bigger
They are going to start convening public hearings of their own on the legal and constitutional basis for these impeachment proceedings against the president. But even as the process is moving forward in that way, right . With the scheduled public hearings for the Intelligence Committee wrapped and the Intelligence Committee writing up their report now on what their investigation determined, theyre planning to hand that over to the judiciary committee. So judiciary is preparing to receive that report. They have now announced the start of their own scheduled public hearings. All of that toward their ultimate end, which is to draw up the articles of impeachment against the president and put those on the floor of the house for a vote. I mean, even as that is all moving forward at pace right now, we are still getting more about how this whole thing went down including inside the executive branch with these previously unreported protest resignations inside the white house, inside the White H