Tantrum. Hes contradicting his sons original story about the Trump Tower Meeting with russians saying the purpose was to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. Well, if trumps lied about the purpose of the meeting once it became public, and just over a year ago the president himself dictated the statement to his son saying we primarily discussed the program of adoption of russian children that was popular and active with American Families years ago. But emails from donald trump, jr. Show the premises of the meeting from the get go was to get dirt on clinton. Now, the president admits the meeting was for Opposition Research and admits its no big deal. Hes wrong. Its a violation of federal law. Dana bash reporting that trumps advisers want him to stop tweeting about the meeting. Lots to discuss now. Cnn contributor frank bruiny and Global Affairs analyst max booth, a senior fellow on the affairs of foreign relations. A recap of the days news. Took the stand today incriminating really his former bo
Also wired money to some of these vendors that we heard about last week, including the clothing people that ostrich jacket. He explained how those money flows went there. So hes connecting the dots for prosecutors. He also explained how he helped falsify documents at manaforts request at the banks so manafort could get mortgages and he also explained how they falsified his tax returns, explaining how they moved things that should have been income to loans and back to back dated documents. At One Point Manafort was under financial duress. Prosecutors showed an email of manafort sending to gates which manafort says w. T. F. , we need to discuss options. This is a disaster. Hes Instructing Gates to help him come up with some solution with the accountants about how to fix his tax returns so he doesnt get hit with quite a large of bill as he was expecting. So gates testimony is continuing and we expected the crossexamination to begin in a
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A recap of the days news. The russia investigation, but i think in terms of optics as people watch all of this, it doesnt paint a picture of a group of men and donald trump is among them in the broader sense who play outside the rules, who bend rules when it comes to the financial stuff. Who are playing with players, oligarchs, that word thats been banned from the courtroom. And i do think it lends a general impression from the general public of people who have secrets to hide and those secrets coming out. What i think what was so interesting today is that rick gates also admitted that hes a liar, that he cheated paul manafort. Hundreds of thousands of dollars. Right, so how do you figure out that testimony which is very damning because Defense Attorneys are going to get up and say have you not admitted youre a liar . And unreliable. And is it all the best people i hired all the best people. People who are accused of Money Laundering, tax evasion. Theyre all the best people. I hire the
Ami or at his direction. This is not a positive development by any stretch of the imagination for donald trump. Its obvious to me that these documents that are being referenced would already be in the hands of government prosecutors and investigators, and, again you think only a matter of time. Theres a concern that, well, theyre been moved and they may never be heard from or seen again. You think they already have . Well, i think they absolutely already have them unless they were destroyed before mr. Pecker was granted immunity but when the government grants immunity to someone, thats a big deal. The government just Doesnt Hand Out immunity that easily and they would have required any such documents at that time to be turned over. So, i want to play something for you, this is what President Trump told fox news about the crimes Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to. Listen to this, michael. What he did and they werent taken out of Campaign Finance. Thats a big thing. Thats a much bigger thin