News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Its something that i think the president and his lawyers know, the Special Counsel will be looking at. So interesting. Im really glad that you pointed out the similarity and language there, particularly since there are reports that the Special Counsel is looking at whether tweets can be used as obstruction of justice. Lets look at the trial. Whats happening in the manafort trial as we speak, shimon . Todays really been so two witnesses so far that have testified. One of them, i think, the important witness here, the fbi agent who entered manaforts home. They did a Search Warrant at his home in alexandria, virginia. Theyre talking about some of the documents that they found. And this really goes to the meat of the prosecutions case. These are documents about his loans, bank records, things they found with his name on it. Wire transfers. Goes to the meat, to the heart of the case and the evidence that the fbi has gathered and
The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. On matters that have nothing to do with the campaign. I think that even mr. Manafort as i read it had requested that there be no mention of his brief tenure at the Trump Campaign several years ago. This has nothing to do with collusion, russia, nothing to come with the Trump Campaign. Reporter the case centers around his past lobbying work for the pro Putin Ukranian government for which prosecutors say he received 60 million. The government alleges manafort hid millions and failed to pay taxes while still spending the money on real estate and luxury purchases, including homes in manhattan, virginia and the hamptons, expensive suits, and baseball tickets. And prosecutors will present hundreds of emails, photos and financial records to prove it. Prosecutors say manafort also lied to banks about his income to secure more than 20 million in loans. And this trial now underway, it is expected to l
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. Rosenstein look, Jeff Sessions he recused himself. Had to have recused himself because theres a regulation in place that says if you work on a campaign and theres a criminal investigation relating to that campaign the president says it was a bum move and he should have told him about it and it was a total hoodwink. Wrong, wrong, wrong. As far as it being a hoodwink, sessions would have had to have had the gift of prophecy along with the president in order to believe at the time he was ainterest poed, there was was going to be to an investigation thats why i was confused by your initial writings on this one because of my respect for your mind and that rosenstein the only thing he could do is get a prophylactic in play, get somebody who had one layer away from the president , which technically a Special Counsel does, because otherwise he could have been fired like that if he were running it. The questi
News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Mueller lately. Seems like every ten days or so, this whips back up. You have the manafort trial, as jeff mentioned. I also think he probably doesnt distinguish too much between what mueller is doing and what prosecutors in new york are looking into with cohen. You have that sort of implied threat from cohen over the trump tower meetings. And all this stuff is together. Also at a time when we know his team wants him to focus on what mueller is doing as far as election hacking. We know that trumps team wanted him to try to own this issue, to focus on what we have now, over two dozen russian nationals and companies that have been targeted by mueller. It seems like some real work is being done there to sort of unwind what happened during the 2016 elections, but its hard to for this administration to focus on that or do anything
of New Washington rules. So we dont Know If Mueller will abide by that traditional thinking. But peop
Chris Cuomo asks the tough questions to newsmakers in Washington and around the world. And what we see are passions on the rise. Trump gets this very well. He plays to it for better and worse. I think that doing what works for him and his base, stoking discontent, abusing the truth, stoking conspiracy theories, may come at a cost. His lies have become so trek. Okay . When we look at these kinds of things. The Washington Post has the truth detector that they do on it. The fact checker says he now lies at a rate of more than 7 1 2 times a day to you. And that works. Its reduced the impact on you and the ability of the media to track the same types of data and make the case to you that it matters. This tweet about the the tweet about the 17 angry men and the mueller conflicts, if it smacks of Alex Jones Junk thats because a lot of it is. Remember, the president is privy to information thats way better than what i have and what you
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