now that didn t sway him. but something we can take away from the michael cohen prosecution is as the months continue and it s a matter of months before a case like this goes to trial, legal fees will mount. weisselberg will face the option of repaying his taxes, perhaps an option, perhaps a command. so the financial pressure mounts with the reality he may ultimately face some time in prison is a sort of pressure that prosecutors will want to play out. but at this point they clearly have to look at options for making this case go forward without weisselberg. there are perhaps other folks in the corporate spear they can use and one of the risks he faces if they do hit pay dirt because now they brought charges, it may shake loose other people who have been hesitant to cooperate or people that aren t aware that are out there with relevant information. so every day that weisselberg
announcement this weekend and it s not like he s leaving because he suddenly got offered some awesome new gig. the l.a. times reports that he has not settled on what to do next in his legal career. so he left the justice department for nothing and it was just a couple of weeks ago when the justice department announced that matt whitaker would be staying on at the department. they found a job for him to land on. after leaving his post as acting attorney general. the fact he is suddenly gone is all the more intriguing given his reported promise that he would come back and clarify his congressional testimony to the judiciary committee. clarify his testimony specifically on the matter of whether or not he was in fact pressured by the white house to lean on the prosecutors in the southern district of new york about the michael cohen prosecution. so that clarification to congress over that testimony that he previously had given say live issue and increasingly
would come back and clarify his congressional testimony to the judiciary committee. clarify his testimony specifically on the matter of whether or not he was in fact pressured by the white house to lean on the prosecutors in the southern district of new york about the michael cohen prosecution. so that clarification to congress over that testimony that he previously had given say live issue and increasingly intriguing live issue with this surprise news that whitaker as of this weekend is a former justice department official and not a current one. and, and, and, i mean, that s not even all. today was the deadline for the white house to respond to a new urgent demand from the oversight committee in the house for information about security clearance and the security clearances and process in the white house. including now this new report that the president intervened to make sure that his son-in-law jared kushner would get a
not just whether we get a report. it s also what kind of a report we get. the attorney general could have a role in telling the special counsel what kind of a report, whether it s skeletal, whether it s extensive to file believing that the report will be made public. so maybe we will shape the report before it s produced. so there are all kinds of ways to play mischief here, but we re determined to get to the truth. there was a letter sent by your colleague, chairman jerry nadler of the judiciary committee to the acting attorney general, to matt whitaker tonight, suggesting that he well, telling him that he needs to clarify his testimony before congress last week, and suggesting that mr. out with kerr may have lied under oath, may have not spoken truthfully under oath last week when he denied that he had communications with the white house about the michael cohen prosecution. there are a few other matters that mr. nadler raised in this letter to whitaker. and that s interesting abo
office had advised the judge in the manafort case that manafort was lying. manafort had breached his plea agreement, breached his cooperation agreement, and repeatedly lied to prosecutors on multiple topics. since the prosecution team told the judge that manafort had been lying to them in late november, that has been the subject of lots and lots of billable hours and a lot of back and forth involving manafort s defense team and the prosecution and the judge. there have been tons of filings. there have been multiple hearings. tonight the judge in the manafort case finally issued her ruling on the question of whether or not manafort lied. whether he breached his plea agreement and cooperation agreement when he lied to prosecutors. and it sounds like a little process thing, but the significance of this is hard to overstate when it comes to paul manafort s life, his natural life and the prospects for what s going to happen in the rest of it. i mean, he s 70 years old. he does not appear to