Comcast, building americas largest gigspeed network. G we tight with new evidence that the Republican Party is now the party of donald trump. In a moment well speak to republican South Carolina congressman mark sanford, who lost his primary battle last night after President Trump encouraged voters to go to the polls for his republican opponent. Until last night gop primaries, congressman sanford had never lost an election and as a rule, incumbents do notsually lose but last night sanford did. Last night the president went on twitter sayingk sanford has been very unhelpful to me in my campaign. I fully endorse katie arrington. Congressman sanford has no apologies. It may have cost me the election but i stand by every one of those decisions to disagree with the president. Last week alabama congresswoman martha robey was forced into a runoff. Sh she, too, has spoken out against the president. An incumbent well known, frequently influence and senators almost never just bow out like this, e
Up california . And a fleet of reports about the president s personal fixer, Michael Cohen from talk hes losing his lawyers to rorts that hes about to flip. Lets get to it. We begin with the news about President Trumps fixe according to the wall street journal and others, lawyers for President Trumps longtime attorney Michael Cohen are set to bail on him by the end of this week. The jou reports that cohen has not decided whether he will cooperate with prosecutors. The split is reportedly going to happen after his lawyers finish reviewing millions of documents that the feds seized a couple months ago. Cohens lawyers are deciding which documents they believe or theyre insisting should fall under Attorney Client privilege. The judge set a deadline for this friday. Cohens lawyers are out once the review is complete. So far, cohen has not commented on any of this. At the moment, hes not charged with any crimes. Theres word he has some serious financial problems. Analysts say his next attorn
You are watching cnn on this friday afternoon. Im brooke baldwin. Thank you for being here. President trumps former campaign chief, Paul Manafort, has been sent to jail until his trial on alleged foreign lobbying crimes. This federal judge just revoked his bail after prosecutors argued that manafort is, quote, unquote, a danger to the community. They also said that he has committed new crimes, namely witness tampering and conspiracy to obstruct justice, all the while being under house arrest. Manafort, hes pleaded not guilty. And when he walked into court today, he was greeted with shouts of lock him up. Lock him up lock him up lock him up lock him up lock him up for his part, President Trump is trying to distance himself from manafort as much as possible. I feel badly about a lot of it, because i think a lot of it is very unfair. I look at some of them where they go back 12 years. Manafort has nothing to do with our campaign. But i feel so i tell you, i feel a little badly about it. T
Warm con congratulatory call. I said, senator, thanks so much for all you did to support me through this process. He said, when you leave . I said, senator . He said, when do you go to baghdad . I said, i go back to kansas and wrap things up. He hung up. He was impatient. He was relentless. He was determined. No one had our backs more than he did. We start in a state thats been under the spotlight since saturday. Today th today, the same day arizona is preparing to pay tribute to john mccain, republicans in the grand canyon state are going to the polls for the other senate seat, the one big vacated by jeff flake. Whats really fascinating about todays contest is that it speaks to what weve been discussing since mccains death. What and where is the heart and soul of the Republican Party . Both in arizona and around the country. Three candidates, none embracing mccain, all allies of President Trump. Former state senator kelli ward, who joined the campaign trail with controversial figures
We are going to see what happens. How to interpret President Trumps paws on the north korean summit. And mind the store. Financial filings expose a new realm of president ial profit. This is mtp daily mtp daily, and it starts right now. Good evening im chuck todd here in washington. Welcome to mtp daily folks what on oath was this whole spygate conspiracy about . Its been more than 24 hours since congress was briefed on the hyped and hi documents that would prove that the Justice Department planted spies in Donald Trumps campaign. What have we heard, adam schiff said it rei firmed their view that there is no evidence to support any of those allegations. And mcconnell suggested it reaffirmed his support for muellers eggs investigation and he added the inspector generals investigation of the Justice Department. Was the whole thing, the fights, the freakouts just a big fat distract so there would be less interest in this story, about a second trump tower meeting meaning russia wasnt the o