Brooklynite. Particularly when he is running a negative campaign against us, lets see if he goes back to the kind of tone he said he was going to set early on. If he does that good day, im Andrea Mitchell in washington, beginning with breaking news in the president ial race. Donald Trumps Campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, a drone servi controversial figure, joining me now, katy tur, since the beginning, and Hallie Jackson out of new york, chief legal correspondent, ari melber. Katy, first to you. Tell us what is the campaign saying about this incident . Lets go back and talk about what happened that day. You were there. Reporter i believe that Corey Lewandowski is innocent, they got a notice to appear and given a court date. Was not arrested and he is absolutely innocent of the charge. Ellen ter ellen enter a plea of not guilty and believes hell be exonerated. This has been an ongoing issue. Michelle fields alleges he grabbed her so hard that he bruised her arm. Ben tear rrrace back
March incident involving a reporter. Moments ago donald trump tweeted wow, Corey Lewandowski, my Campaign Manager, and a very decent man was just charged with assaulting a reporter. Look at tapes. Nothing there. He adds this, why arent people looking at this reporters earliest statement as to what happened. This is before she found out the episode was on tape. That reporter michelle field responded on twitter because my story never changed. Seriously, just stop lying. Bring in brian stelter, the host of cnns reliable sources and our legal analyst danny cevallos. The accused the Campaign Manager of grabbing her arm. Fill us in on the details. Trump campaign has a contentious relationship with the press. This was a dramatic example. This this video that comes from one of trumps buildings, you can see Michelle Fields appearing to be grabbed by the Campaign Manager. She says she was shaken up by this incident. Right after it happened she spoke to another reporter from the Washington Post a
Charged with allegedly grabbing a former breitbart reporter when she tried to ask trump a question after a rally in florida this month. In a statement trump says she is absolutely innocent and will enter a plea of not guilty. What do you think of this this has been in the precedent it took pl. March 8th. Could he go to jail over this . I dont think so unless he has tremendous priors. It is a simple battle. If Proven Guilty he wont go to trial. They will offer him pretrial intervention which is a program to avoid trial, he will plead no contest, not admitting any guilt, maybe make him do an anchor management class and it will go away. How important is evidence in a case like this . Evidence is important in every case. If there hadnt been a video the case never would have been brought because it is a lowlevel crime. This is a video circulating around the internet, will be submitted in 2 evidence. There has been a back and forth whether something happened. A lot of people who were there s
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