Sh issue. First time they have r had interesting way to take over the magazine. That does it for me. Hardball starts now. Crime and punishment. Lets play hardball. Today Paul Manafort, the president s campaign. Facing years in a u. S. Prison. Whatever you choose to call it, it is past. For a year and a half our country has been contorted into a reality tv show. This is the day we discovered
reality bites. Good evening, i am chris matthews. Heading into round one now. Investigation is underway at a courthouse just across the potomac. He is facing 18 counts of tax evasion and bank fraud. Charges that predate his time on the Trump Campaign. If found guilty, he could get up to ten years in prison. Facing similar charges in Federal Court in washington. Manafort joined the Trump Campaign in march of 2016. Manafort did work overseas. He also had Business Ties with russia. And he took part in that Infamous Trump tower meeting with russians. Where the Trump Campaign was promis promised damaging
A talk show focusing on government, politics and the impact of the populist movement in the U. S. And around the world. Sunday shows to make sure i was caught up on the important developments. Good morning, thank you for joining us. This week we saw how Micheal Cohens knowledge of the president s past could determine trumps future. Let me start with the Micheal Cohen situation. Thank you for joining us. I want to start with Micheal Cohen. I dont want to start with a Micheal Cohen situation. I dont want to waist your time with him at all. This is crazed russia obsession. This has zero impact on your life. What does have an impact . We hit 4. 1 growth. This is leading to higher productivity and higher income. Thats what we should be talking about . We must make sure we keep things
moving and not go back to the bad old decades of Wage Stagnation and skyrocketing riches for the elite. We need to be clear about why the turn around is happening. We have a Pro Enterprise president in the whit
Meeting. That trumps own son took it explicitly being promised damaging information on clinton and then the times gave the actual information. The meeting, if it is what you say, i love it. If you did that, you might need a wider defense than denial. In october came the multiple denials. October 30, the Special Counsel announcing the indictments against Paul Manafort who goes on trial tomorrow, plus his deputy, Campaign Manager rick gates. Mueller also announced guilty pleas of George Papadopoulos who admitted contacts with who . Russian nationals. Who he thought were tied to the russian government. Who offered him what . Yes. Information about the possible release of Hillary Clintons emails. So following those indictments we then saw allies of the president including now and this is key, the president s own lawyers, picking up the argument like Go Pro Camera, collusion is
it went away for a few months. The president was focusing on just the straight up no collusion point. You see it i
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. And Senior Reporter for the Washington Post,er rinne blake and anna palmer. Carol, let me go to you. You are writing now about how the president sees this interview with Robert Mueller, how his legal team sees the interview. Heres the thing, Rudy Giuliani is talking and talking and talking about this. You know whos not . Roberts mueller. Thats absolutely true, hallie. Robert mueller has been silent and the president s lawyers have been la quashs. But one thing has not changed and thats the essence of donald tru trump, which is he believes hes his best lawyer and own best pr guy and own best thinker and diplomat and in this instance, he does believe and has as we were reported back in the spring, has always believed that if he could just sit down with these people, he could straighten this all out and explain no collusion, this is a hoax. Now, his lawyers also have changed slightly in the sense that some put their
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. America and everywhere around the world, the one that keeps people home from voting is as serious if not more serious. Yeah, i think thats exactly right. This is much broader than just about elections, as i mentioned earlier. Its broader than changing votes or anything like that. A lot of the activity that we see that is ongoing did not stop after 2016 and in some ways has actually grown. What we are seeing is a concerted effort to Pit Americans against one another, to make polarization more extreme. We are a pretty polarized country. But russia and others are taking advantage of that trying to turn us against each other in order to weaken us. One of the examples i cited this morning was actually of a fake page created by the Russian Internet Research Agency that used an issue like the Flint Water Crisis and Police Brutality as a way to try to influence americans views on an issue like syria. So theyre basically t