Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort is on trial. Charges predate the Trump Campaign but could have ramifications for the campaign if he is convicted and could face up to 10 years. Lets take a look at some evidence presented by the Special Counsel against Paul Manafort. Case stands on two basic legs. One that manafort Made Tens Of Millions working for ukrainian politicians and russian oligarchs that he never paid taxes on and two that he took out fraudulent loans from u. S. Banks. Manafort spent upward of there is 14 million to buy several properties in alexandria, virginia, landscaping, housekeeping and Home Improvements done to boost the value of the homes. Then allegedly inflated his worth on loan applications like this one, taking out even more money. As the Specialty Counsel put it, he created cash out of thin air. He spent more than 1. 4 million at Clothing Stores in new york and and beverly hills. T
it isn t whether or not the mueller team leaders it s not the facts that will clear the administration, this republican member of congress says it is up to us to clear the president. it reflects the same kind of line of discussion you heard from rudy jewgiuliani that work for the president. right behind that is an assumption there is something he needs to be protected from. that there is something very serious underlying there. it is also go ahead. that is why it is the worst for rudy giuliani right now. devin nunez is the house of the committee, and he almost single handedly debased the idea. and the coequal branch of government. he is redefining patriotism.
or intimidate the entire investigation to undermine the mueller investigation, and think we ought to stop calling it the mueller investigation. weal ought to be calling it the russia investigation and we shouldn t allow the president to determine the words we use. he used the word collusion. word is conspiracy. conspiracy to commit a crime, and collusion is simply a s synonym for that. if the best argument he has is a semantic one, he s going to lose. what about rudy jewgiuliani comments? walking it back, having the white house say it s not really what he meant, having rudy giuliani going on and saying it s no the what he meant. to some degree does that help the president that he s one big dust ball of confusion? i don t think anyone wants a president who s just simply one
potentially significant. that s what i interpret from davis tweet but i think the facts matter here more than the spin. well, for sure. do you obviously the president and michael cohen who used to talk probably daily are no longer speaking to one another. that s sort of a given. but do you see this as a way of them or michael cohen trying to speak to the president through the air waves and trying to gauge his temperature? i think that s part of it. i think it s been clear that michael cohen feels somewhat betrayed by the president, cut loose, ignored, demeaned. and you know, that one issue that s hovering in the air is the possibility of a pardon. rudy jewgiuliani poo pooed the a and it would be controversial to give michael cohen a pardon. but that s really the only thing that trump can do for cohen at
because this is the moment, wolf. they re coming down to crunch time in terms of f whether or not he s going to sit with mueller. if he doesn t, he s got to have a really compelling case because i don t believe they want to go the legal route. i don t believe they ll win. i don t think he wants that drama and expectation of outcome, so you re getting into a period as you get through this summer, decisions are have to be made. and when you re in rudy s position, you want time. on your side. tha and that means he needs to get things going in his way right now. otherwise, you wouldn t have heard him say these things today, wolf. i know there s a lot of smack talk about how he s functioning. the president is happy with him. he has changed the dialogue several different times and put this out today at bait and the media is chomping on it. we ll put him to the test on it tonight. we re always happy when these guys make themselves available. certainly rudy giuliani is making himself avail