A recap of the days news. That is a lot to get to in one hour. I want to bring in a man who can make sense all of this. He know pwaoutz white house under siege. Dan rather the host of tvs the big interview. Im grateful to be here. Before we get to the stuff we had ready for you. Is this madness . Well, it is a kind of madness and what goes through my mind with events of the last 24 to 48 hours with cohen and manafort is president Abraham Lincoln had his team of rivals and trump had his flock of fellows. He had what turned out to be felons. Theres never been anything like this in american history. Watergate is the closest thing weve had to this. Evidence abounds. Yesterday he implicated the president in a crime. He became an unindicted Co Conspirator in a criminal case. You have a conspiracy to defraud the American Voters a criminal conspiracy to win the election campaign. This is to say serious understates it. I come back to mueller has been digging away and to kphb who thinks yesterda
so the president claiming today that the payments were not feined, they were. they didn t come out of the campaign and that s fake. it s not even a campaign violation. so i want to bring in three cnn contributors now. ambassador norm a finance law expert and former general counsel at the federal election commission and the author of the threat matrix . good evening everyone. not much to talk about tonight. nothing s going on in the world. you know today the president says since the money came from him, not a campaign finance
that is a lot to get to in one hour. i want to bring in a man who can make sense all of this. he know pwaoutz white house under siege. dan rather the host of tv s the big interview. . i m grateful to be here. before we get to the stuff we had ready for you. is this madness? well, it is a kind of madness and what goes through my mind with events of the last 24 to 48 hours with cohen and manafort is president abraham lincoln had his team of rivals and trump had his flock of fellows. he had what turned out to be felons. there s never been anything like this in american history. watergate is the closest thing we ve had to this.
keeps it away from a campaign but it is in fact a campaign contribution. so looks like they have trouble. talk to me about that. in the court of public opinion, does it matter if it was campaign money or not? well, don, the president is trying to fudge that. but michael cohen standing up in court yesterday and not only the court of justice but the word of opinion that he committed campaign finance crimes at the direction and control of a candidate. we all know who that is, the president of the united states. and i think you ve seen this reverberation across the country. there are some things that get confined to the cognizant. the connoisseurs of law. not this one. the smell, you can only ignore