Drums former Campaign Manager Paul Manafort and his Business Partner are pleading not guilty to conspiracy and a whole lot of other chargers. As a story operating on many levels, legal and political. Lets pick it up with our chief National Correspondent ed henry, who joins us. You have got some breaking news. To speak it income interesting, shannon. All the evening i have been talking to some of the president s top advisors, trying to get a handle on what is happening inside the white house. Of course the president is not happy. Hes been watching the tv coverage. His advisors are scoffing at a New Washington post report, quoting anonymous officials are saying about these developments, the walls are closing in, everyone is freaking out. Not so, according to several trump advisors, including when i just spoke to. His lawyer inside the white house who said of this Washington Post report, this is farcical. A, where are the walls . B, the president is focused on preparing for serious diplom
Memo which would reveal a lot about the firing of former fbi director, james comey. Special delivery. North koreas former spy chief accused of an attack against the United States will come to washington to deliver a letter to President Trump at the white house. Will that pave the way for a summit with kim jongun . Plot against the prince. An isis supporter pleads guilty after encouraging a jihadist to target 4yearold prince george, third in line to become king. How vulnerable are britains young royals . Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Breaking news, President Trump bypasses the Justice Department and pardons dsdsouz and may pardon Martha Stewart and former illinois governor, Rob Blagojevich in prison for corruption. Our correspondents are standing by with full coverage. Lets get to our chief White House Correspondent, jim acosta. He profiles a conservative and more may be on the way. What is behind the latest move . Reporter a new epis
Will send the commandos. What if they just bring a cake with a file like an average person. Laura only a fruitcake. I am laura ingraham, this is the ingraham angle. We have a pack show tonight, with news in every interview. We have the first comments after the president announced his full pardon. And tonights angle, i will examine with that part and says about the lefts purely political prosecution. Plus, the media leaks a disgraced fbi official claimed that the president obstructed justice by firing comey. The president is firing back. Also prosecutors released tooling videos by the Florida School shooting suspect. Raising questions, why now and what good does it deal. Kevin mccarthy is here to react to googles description of the g. O. P. Ideology that you would not believe. But first, for the left, it is suddenly open season on women in trumps family. What a series of vile and vulgar attacks women have endured in the last 24 hours alone. And the assault on ivanka trump on her tbs sho
Coney never should have been fbi director. Hes too partisan. Trumps main mistake was not firing him on inauguration day. Comey defends his prosecution of more that stewart who went to jail for lying to prosecutors. He attacks general petraeus. According to comey, he should have faced more charges for mishandling classified information. He should have gone to prison for lying. In his words lying strikes at the heart of our rule of law in this country. Fair enough. But then comey goes on to talk about the marc rich case. You remember that. On his way out of office, bill clinton sold a president ial pardon to a wanted felon who fled the county. Comey says i never heard of another fugitive from justice was pardoned. So George Stephanopoulos asks the questions, did you draw any conclusions about the clintons from those experiences . Comey says no, none at all. Selling a president ial pardon to a fugitive says nothing about the clintons of their character. And then he says clinton is hard wo
Eyebrows at the white house . Well, donald trump unexpectedly announcing a full pardon this morning for Dinesh Dsouza, a conservative commentator who pleaded guilty to Campaign Finance violations similar to the charges trumps former fixer Michael Cohen could be facing. He also hinted at more pardons to come for former stars of the apprentice, Martha Stewart and former illinois governor Rob Blagojevich blagojevich. Its not hard to connect the dots between them and the russia investigation. Martha stewart was prosecuted by none other than james comey. One of muellers star witnesses and blagojevich was prosecuted by comeys friend and current lawyer Pat Fitzgerald and is probably not a coincidence it all comes on the heels of that damning report from the times detailing andy mccabes account of the comey firing. The times writes, quote, mr. Mccabe described a conversation at the Justice Department with the Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein in the chaotic days last may after mr. Comeys