like yourself about the mueller investigation and that it s not collusion, collusion in and of itself wouldn t be the crime. it s the conspiracy to impact the election. do you think that is what the southern district is investigating when it comes to the hush money payments? do you think that s what they went in looking for? we know from the day of the raid that s one of the things they were looking for when they seized items from michael cohen s homes and offices. well, look, they were probably looking for the whole mother load of financial miss deeds that they found. but they also found this point and i can t say strongly enough, john is so dead-on here. the second defense of team trump now is, oh, a technical campaign finance violation. that makes it seem ministerial. it s the exact opposite. it gives rise to the watergate comparisons. what cohen says in court by the way, it s not in the information. he made a point of saying it. not only was it at the direction of trump, but it
pardons work? manafort may not have to go to jail but he would be required to testify in court. as the wall street journal reports, beyond that former aides like mr. manafort or cohen could lose constitutional immunity against self-incrimination if they were offered to testify in matters invofling mr. trump. barbara mcquade is back with us. you explained every inch of this manafort journey with us. flesh out the idea even if trump pardons him, he s not safe for what manafort could reveal about him and mr. gates who is manafort s deputy who is already a cooperating witness. there is probably nowhere to hide from what manafort and gates know. yeah, you know, it s interesting. you d have to sort of game this out how it would work with a pardon. if manafort were pardoned, that means he is no longer able to be convicted of a crime and so that means he doesn t have a 5th
court of the united states of america has accepted a guilty plea from someone who was the lawyer for the president of the united states, and that person in pleading guilty basically made very clear that it was the then candidate and now the president of the united states who directed him to commit a crime. this is a serious matter. i ve been here 11 1/2 years, and this is i don t think i ve witnessed anything like i ve witnessed over the last year and a half. probably the american people haven t in modern times. i feel like corker is desperate to scream. one of these days. senators from both sides of the aisle in rare agreement these are historic times. in the wake of his former fixer s guilty plea and his former campaign chairman s conviction, the editorial boards of the two largest papers paint trump as a crook. and even the wall street
western democracy. it is called active measures . i have a particular type of mark. they go after someone with business resources, shady morals and political connections or aspirations. i ve just described donald trump. the crown jewel for any intelligence agency is to recruit an asset inside your adversary intelligence agency. they seem to have premonitions of things that would happen that in fact did happen. and the question is who helps guide the decisions the russians were making. trump tower was a money laundering paradise. anybody who was anybody in russian organized crime bought a condo unit at trump tower. we have the serious intelligence operation in the home of the man that becomes president of the united states. joining me now, the director and writer and producer of the film, jack brian.
trap situation and asking to end this probe even though sessions has recused himself but the mechanism would be there to end this if he wanted to. more obstruction of justice. this comes after just days of reporting after we know that the mueller team is examining trump s tweets as exhibits possible evidence of obstruction. not just to be looking at what he says behind closed doors and trump being so transparent does that quite a bit. we re also by the way, i just want to say, we were talking about this with somebody yesterday and they said, well, is it a crime if he does it all in public? if i walk into a bank and there are 30 armed guards and i say stick up, give me all your money. that is still a crime. the fact that he continues to try to obstruct justice in