A recap of the days news. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. You want to Pay Attention to this hour. Weve got a lot going on. Its 11 00 p. M. On the east coast. Were live with breaking news tonight. A source tells cnn that white house staffers are stunned by todays news. The men who led the president s campaign for five critical months leading up to the election found guilty in Federal Court. Former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty of eight Financial Crime charges. A victory for Robert Mueller in the first trial to come out of his investigation. While the president continues to push the lie that the case against manafort wasnt part of the Special Counsels original mission, i want you to look at what the Trump Appointed Acting Attorney General wrote. Mueller is authorized to investigate any links and or coordination between the russian
even his childrens telephones. Well, now he has stepped up to the line and he can now speak again and he feels liberated. How far is he willi
Nationwide in total, 12 people have died so far. The number of infected has risen as well. There are now at least 226 people who have tested positive with the virus in 19 states. Those numbers really dont tell the entire story because of how few americans have actually been tested. Well talk more than shortly. However, testing has begun on passengers aboard that cruise ship off the coast of california, you see it there. Authorities are using coast guard helicopters to fly testing kits out to the ship and then ferry them back to a lab. Californias governor says the ship will not be allowed to dock in San Francisco until the results are in. And in other developments, the economic side effects are growing. The International Air transport association today raising its estimate of what this could cost the airlines. Last week, the predibz was 30 billion globally in lost ticket sales. Now its 113 billion, nearly four times higher. One Airline Executive today called the travel slump a, quote,
Charges. Alexandra field is in the courtroom and is getting to a live location to tell us what she saw. Obviously you see Joyce Mitchell was emotional. Lets bring in paul cowan who is here with us as well as gary hayward who worked as a prison guard and ultimately also served time in prison so has some experience on both sides. Paul, the deal, 2 1 2 years to 7 years in prison, pleading guilty. What does the county get out of, it what does she get out of it . She got a great deal. I think her attorney negotiated a very, very good deal. Lets face it, this is a very serious offense. These guys are murderers set loose on the community. They could have killed somebody. Ound this deal she could be out in as little as approximately 2 1 2 years. Its more likely shell serve more time but shes parole eligible after that short period of time. So thats a very, very good deal for her. Now, she could do the entire seven years depending upon what the parole board things. Good deal for her but then wh
And his proposed deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants. We need to control our border just like people have to control who goes in and out of their house. But if people think that we are going to shift 11 Million People who are lawabiding, who are in this country and somehow pick them up at their house and ship them out to mexico, think about the families, think about the children. So you know what the answer really is . If theyve been law abiding, they pay a penalty, they get to stay, we protect the wall. Anybody else comes over, they go back. But for the 11 Million People, come on, folks. We all know you cant pick them up and ship them back across the border. Its a silly argument. It makes no sense. Youre lucky in ohio you struck oil. Thats one thing. Let me just tell you that dwight eisenhower, good president , great president , people liked him, i like ike, right . The expression, i like ike, moved 1. 5 million Illegal Immigrants out of this country, moved them just bey
That is clearly not happening. All right. Okay. Were going to keep our eye on this. In fact, sara ganim, squeeze te shot, keep it in the shot as we continue the conversation about whats transpiring there in new york at the same time watching developments in arizona just outside of phoenix where a number of people have gathered in demonstration of Donald Trumps soon arrival there in phoenix. So to the right of your screen youre seeing the earlier images where roughly 50 people, according to the sheriffs deputies opposite blocked a major thoroughfare, blocking the passage for many motorists to get to a donald trump rally thats expected to take place at any moment now, and then on the left of your screen youre seeing antitrump demonstrators described by our sara ganim there in midtown manhattan outside of trump towers where people are gathering right there. So i have a few people with me, i believe, both in front of the camera and perhaps even on the phone. Mike shields is in washington,