Pages really brings back memories. This, for me, forever is going to be the sense memory of the donald j. Trump administration. Redacted, redacted, redacted. What this is is a 20page long order from the top judge in the federal court in d. C. , chief judge barrel how well, judge howell issued this order in late august. She only made it public today. As i show you, a bunch is blacked out. But what we can see in the parts that arent blacked out is sort of show stopping. What this document reveals is that federal prosecutors at the u. S. Department of justice have been actively investigating what the judge describes here as a, quote, describriberyforpardon scheme, and secret lobbying scheme, by which some people were suspected of bribes to the president. Those substantial political contributions would be the bribe. The act they wanted from the the president in return for that bribe was allegedly, quote, a president ial pardon or reprieve of sentence for, person whose name is blocked out.
All those black bars on the pages really brings back memories. This, for me, forever is going to be the sense memory of the donald j. Trump administration. Redacted, redacted, redacted. What this is is a 20page long order from the top judge in the federal court in d. C. , chief judge barrel howell, judge howell issued this order in late august. She only made it public today. As i show you, a bunch is blacked out. But what we can see in the parts that arent blacked out is sort of show stopping. What this document reveals is that federal prosecutors at the u. S. Department of justice have been actively investigating what the judge describes here as a, quote, briberyforpardon scheme, a quote, secret lobbying scheme and bribery conspiracy by which some number of people were suspected of arranging bribes to the president. In the form of, quote, substantial political contributions. The substantial political contributions would be the bribe. The official act they wanted from the president in
Himself. I then have which frankly i think is very unfair to the president. How do you take a job and then recuse yourself . If he would have recused himself before the job, i would have said thanks, jeff, but i cant you know, im not going to take you. President also accuses fbi james comey as using that dossier as leverage over him and issues a warning to the special Counsel Robert Mueller about delving too far into his familys finances. This comes as were learning tonight dates are set next week for hiss son, don junior, his soninlaw Jared Kushner and former Campaign Manager Paul Manafort to testify under oath in the russia investigation. Plus this. Senator john mccain, patriot, president ial candidate, war hero facing another battle tonight. Diagnosed with brain cancer. Our dr. Sanjay gupta has information on that tonight amid an outpouring of support for the senator. Lets get to that interview with President Trump. Joining me on the phone is maggie. Maggie, you conducted that inter
Promised dirt on Hillary Clintons campaign and learned the russian government wanted his father to win the presidency. Paul manafort, who was then the Trump Campaign chairman, also attended that meeting, along with the president s soninlaw jared kushner. Donald trump, jr. Said he spoke with white house aide hope hicks when news first broke. Tonight, a lot of people in the white house are looking over their shoulders and wondering who said what to whom. One person who is definitely paying close attention to all this is special counsel robert mulers. Mueller. After refusing to tell the whole story to investigators, donald trump, jr. Takes to twitter tonight, like father, like son, slamming democrats and al franken saying nothing like trying to claim the moral high ground weeks after you should have, and when its clear that its over. No one is buying it. You can call that an incredible lack of selfawareness. Blasting democrats for being late. Holding al franken, whose days in the senate m
Overlooked despite how qualified off to saudi arabia and the white house refused to tell the they have been in business and public who he met with at a time in politics. When kushner was becoming bff i think thats a point we need to continue to drill home. This is not about because people, what conservatives want with the Saudi Crown Prince to do is paint diversity as giving someone an opportunity muhammad bin salman. All that time Jared Kushner held a very high security clearance who is undeserving and democrats which we now know senior need to push back against that intelligence officials did not want him to have, but to which narrative. Every single women running this donald trump really, really cycle is extraordinarily wanted to give him. Qualified, point one. Point two, every single democrat according to the New York Times, giving Jared Kushner that top security clearance met running is infa it inially more defying the recommendations of qualified than donald trump. Senior intelli