or not, the public deserves the right to know. my special thanks to matt miller and david corn. we ll be seeing you again as part of our special coverage. what i m going to do right now is reset where we re going. we have been watching with baited breath. everyone is watching what you see in the corner of the screen, which is when the judge resumes this sentencing proceeding for paul manafort, the only thing left is to actually hand down his jail sentence. paul manafort just spoke, as i was discussing with our panel, saying he felt humiliated and shamed, that would be an understatement. he was repentant, he said. he had time to think about it in reference to solitary confinement, but he didn t say a lot else. we re waiting to see when that sentence comes. there is other developing news tonight, which is, get this, michael cohen, trump s former lawyer, is formally suing the trump organization basically for an unpaid bill of about $2 million dating from last year. now, we ve reported b
does likability beat out experience and wonkiness? i think we are. i think we ve been inching that way for a long time. it s not so much, you know, that he doesn t have policy chop. he s been in congress and all of that. that was the criticism from republicans that his message is pretty straightforward and doesn t have substance. remember in 2008 barack obama stormed on to the scene with his convention speech was in 2004, but in 2008 his message was hope and change and he took a little criticism for that as well. sometimes that positive message resonates with people and you don t need a whole lot else. a message, an organization and a whole lot of money and that can make a difference. i think o rourke feels like he can do all of that. sure. i think i think obama those who knew obama, even senator obama, would argue he would
this is important, if whittaker was to become acting deputy attorney general, if rosenstein is forced out and whitaker steps up to that job, yeah we think rosenstein s aide would take over. but whitaker would take over a lot else. he would take over day-to-day operations of the justice department and its 100,000 employees. he would also suddenly oversee every other active investigation related to but not officially part of the mueller probe. so all the stuff that the mueller team has handed off to other prosecutors, including the u.s. attorney s office in d.c. and their prosecution of alleged russian spy maria butina, or the southern district of new york and their prosecution of michael cohen. also, the reported ongoing investigation by those same southern district of new york prosecutors into the finances of the president s business, the trump organization. those prosecutors investigating the trump organization s finances in the event of rod
attorney general, and he steps up to that job, we think francisco would take over supervising the mueller investigation, whittaker would take over a lot else. he would assume day-to-day control and day-to-day operations of the entire justice department and it is 100,000 employees. he ll oversee every other active investigations related to but not officially related to the mueller probe. all the stuff that the mueller team handed off to other prosecutors including the u.s. attorney s office and d.c. and maria butina. those prosecutors investigating the trump s organization finances. in the event of rosenstein s dismissal, they would report to matt whitaker.
pretty assertively. and he had this to say about the u.s.-mexico border. president trump: and we are going to have tremendous border security that will include the wall. a lot of people don t know it, but we have already started the wall. we have $1.6 billion and we have started large portions of the wall, but we are going to need, even the way we negotiate, we will need more and we will get more and we may have to do some pretty drastic things, but we are going to get it. tucker: the border wall of course the centerpiece of the president s 2016 campaign and yet republicans in congress for the past year and a half have not been eager to provide funding for that wall, or the border enforcement with the president has repeatedly promised. they are content to produce ag master tax cut and not a lot else. byron york has been watching carefully and he joins us tonight.