Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 783 of this Trump Administration. And before we bring you the news of this day more or less in order, we thought we would begin with the one moment from this day that nicely sums up the state of our current politics and the story weve been covering. To set the scene, earlier today Paul Manafort had just received his second federal prison term, and from the bench the federal judge took great pains to say this case was not about whether or not there was any collusion with the russians. Minutes later manaforts lawyer goes outside before the cameras and he misquotes that federal judge. His job ease saw it apparently was to go outside and say two words for one man watching across town. Those two words were no collusion. That man of course, the president. But as the lawyer is talking, as you will see and hear, the veneer of Civilized Society cracks open. In that moment on the sidewalk in washington. He gets he
Well, good evening once again from our nbc news headquarters here in new york. Day 783 of this Trump Administration. And before we bring you the news of this day more or less in order, we thought we would begin with the one moment from this day that nicely sums up the state of our current politics and the story weve been covering. To set the scene, earlier today Paul Manafort had just received his second federal prison term, and from the bench the federal judge took great pains to say this case was not about whether or not there was any collusion with the russians. Minutes later manaforts lawyer goes outside before the cameras and he misquotes that federal judge. His job ease saw it apparently was to go outside and say two words for one man watching across town. Those two words were no collusion. That man of course, the president. But as the lawyer is talking, as you will see and hear, the veneer of Civilized Society cracks open. In that moment on the sidewalk in washington. He gets he
Personally and professionally is in shamble hambles, now, i wan emphasize, this is a remarkable moment in history, Campaign Chairman of a president ial campaign sentenced to prison, going in handcuffs, 47 months. I want to say this is a big blow for mueller as well. They had asked for 19 to 25 years. The judge, ellis, going against that request from prosecutors and going for only 47 months. That is a stunning development. Obviously, manafort is going to be sentenced again in a week in the d. C. Court. But this is not what team mueller had been hoping for. Now, manafort is the first person from trumps inner circle to be sentenced. He was, of course, the first person who was indicted by mueller. I want to go now to Shimon Prokupecz outfront outside the virginia courthouse. Shimon, this is not what team mueller wanted. They wanted up to 25 years. 47 months. Thats what they got. Reporter way lower than what really anyone expected, erin, when you think about it, way lower than what the pros
Spreading the reimbursements to you over the 12 monthly installments . That was in order to hide what the payment was. I obviously wanted the money in one shot. I would have prefer it had that way but in order to be able to put it on to the books, Alan Weisselberg made the decision that it should be paid over the 12 months so that it would look like a retainer. And did mr. Trump know about this reimbursement method . Oh, he knew about everything, yes. Thank you, mr. Cohen. So the president now only knew about the payments, he knew and hope to hide the payments and the reimbursement to you . We discussed it. Everything had to go through mr. Trump and it had to be approved by mr. Trump. And now youre going to prison and hes im going to prison, yes, maam. I yield back. If i thank you, mr. Chairman. I yield my time. Earlier you said im assuming new york is a one party one person can record the other one without it being illegal . Correct. You also were a member of the new york bar . I was,
Good morning, everybody. It is wednesday, july 24th. Im yasmin vossoughian. Ayman is not feeling well today so he had to take a sick day. Were going to start after two years of investigation. Dozens of indictments and hundreds of attacks on the president of the United States. Special counsel bob mueller will publicly testify on his report into russian interference in the 2016 president ial election. And the episodes of potential obstruction he examined by President Trump and the white house. The Justice Department has directed mueller, now a private citizen, to only discuss what is within the, devote, boundaries of his report which contains nearly 1,000 redactions but no one knows for sure how far mueller will go in explaining the decisions he made throughout his twoyear investigation. However, we have learned that one of muellers longtime aides will accompany the former fbi director, aaron zebley, who oversaw daytoday operations of the probe, listed alongside mueller not as a witness