indictment of donald trump on thursday donald trump became the first former commander in chief in history to face a criminal indictment. that s after a grand jury in new york voted to indict the former president as part of manhattan district attorney s alvin bragg s investigation into a hush money payment made into adult film star stormy daniels back in 2016 now that indictment is currently sealed, and that means we and a whole lot of people do not know the specific charges or charge that have been levied against donald trump we do know bragg has been focused on a felony charge of falsifying business records which carries a maximum prison sentence of four years donald trump denies any wrongdoing, denies having an affair with stormy daniels, and he is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty in a court of law that trial has not yet occurred. bragg s investigation is one of many against the ex-president. back in 2018 cohen, trump s former lawyer and fixer, was ntenced t
I have recused myself in the matters that deal with the Trump Campaign. That statement by the Attorney General On Thursday came after the Washington Post revealed that sessions met twice last year with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak. Sessions scrambled to clarify. In retrospect i should have slowed down, but i did meet one russian official a couple of times and that would be the ambassador. Sessions met with kislyak on july 18th, after speaking with a group of ambassadors in the Republican Convention and he met again with the Russian Ambassador at his office on september 8th, just three days after President Obama took a hard line on russian sanctions in a g20 meeting with vladimir putin. Since the election, trump and his surrogates have repeatedly denied any contacted between the campaign and russian officials. Im telling you its all phony, baloney garbage. All of the contact by the Trump Campaign and the associates was with the American People. You are not aware of any contacts dur
Crisis, he will have all elements of being Commander In Chief. Barbara starr, thank you so much and theres nothing more serious in terms of being the president than keeping this nation and its people safe. A reminder as the President Elect and Vice President elect go to the tomb of unknown of that solemn responsibility. Back to you, wolf. Thanks. Were standing by at the blair house, official guest house for visitors of the president across the street from the white house. Youre looking at live pictures momentarily the President Elect and his family will be leaving the blair house, well have live pictures, to head over to Arlington National cemetery, well have coverage of that, we have a really good panel to assess what we have heard today, and david gregory, we have heard what almost five hours of testimony from the secretary of
that. Hes held up pretty well. Do you agree . I think democrats who are hoping to score political points is that for most of these its really a tail of two nom
Money charges against Paul Manafort but a surprise revelation, George Pep Adopt Lus pleaded guilty earlier this month making a false statements to the fbi. His emails related to the arrest came out today, couple of things we did not know until now. They provided key points along a time line that Robert Mueller could possibly build a case that Team Trump Colluded with russia to win the election. Ood suggestion that george may have been wearing a wire. We have correspondents covering all the angels tonight. We begun with manu raju on george. What have you been learning . Thats true joining the campaign in march 15, george had a meeting with a london base
professor who he promised dirgt on Hillary Clintons campaign. He had multiple interactions with this professor. This professor came in around the same time that John Pa December that, Hillary Clintons former campaign manager, his emails were hacked. We do know that george lied to federal prosecutors and admitted to lying about these inte
A recap of the days news. Truth is a choose your own adventure kind of thing because he cant explain away the following fracts. So listen, write dedown if you have a pen, if you have your phone on record it. So the White House Counsel Don Mcgahn sat down for 30 hours of interviews with Robert Muellers team and the white house doesnt know exact lewhat he said. The fact that in a matter of days the president s former attorney and socalled fixer Michael Cohen could Face Criminal Charges related to possible fraud and Campaign Finance violations. The fact that former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort is on trial on charges that could land him behind bars for the rest of his life if convicted, and the fact that so far the special Counsel Robert Mueller has brought a total of 191 criminal charges against 35 defendants. There have been five guilty pleas. Those are the facts. That is truth. And the president cannot
distract and deflect from that. Facts matter. Now i want to bring in a man w