Time. You fight until we can continue to achieve what is right and just for everyone of all backgrounds, all religions and all genders, and ways of life. Thats what the great people like Nelson Mandela stood for. We cant just choose to be good. We must aspire to try and be great. That does it for me. Thanks for watching. Ill see you back here tomorrow at 5 00 p. M. Eastern. Up next, the beat with my friend ari melber. Bob mueller revealing Michael Cohens crimes, as well as new details on his ties to russia with federal prosecutors in new york dropping the hammer and calling for substantial prison time. Lets get right to it, two major Court Filings out tonight, one from bob mueller who says that Michael Cohen has been helpful in his russia investigation and, from these prosecutors up in new
york who say cohen still deserves years in jail for a criminal mindset that allowed him to basically commit a host of crimes. All of this is a week before a judge will sentence cohen for all the abov
Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Federal prosecutors in new york have accused the president of criminal violation of the federal Campaign Laws. They say trump directed thats the word Michael Cohen to cover up a Campaign Contribution in the form of payments with two women with whom he had sexual relations. This comes from the Southern District of new york, not Robert Mueller, not the socalled 17 democrats the president says are working against him, not the deep state, not from a witch hunt. Its from one of the two Sentencing Memos filed in the case of trumps former lawyer, Michael Cohen, today, which are shedding new light on the president s potential legal exposure. As trumps longtime fixer, cohen pleaded guilty in august to Campaign Finance violations and making hush payments to two women on trumps behalf. And now, tonights Sentencing Memo makes clear that with respect to both payments, cohen acted in coordination with and at the direction of individual
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all smoke and no fire? and if you look at his argument, did you think that s the same position we are in now as we were for three years with mueller? totally different. so mueller, that was an issue because president trump was framed by his own government, okay? so the whole mueller thing. i m not sure mueller knew what was going on. you can probably bring up the clips. when i asked mueller directly when he was presenting to the united states congress what he knew about christopher steele and the dossier, he didn t remember. so look, i don t know if he had cognitive issues at that time but the whole mueller investigation should be investigated and i hope that durham is looking at that because you had all kinds of clinton campaign operatives and dirty cops in the mueller probe. totally different. what you have with durham by the way, you went every single day with a leak. let s not forget that.
that s not my experience with the facts. i always say profiling is bad because it doesn t deal with individuals, all profiling. when you look at 21 point surge among republicans what does that tell you about republican doubts about what the president may or may not have done on ukraine? actually, what it tells me if i ve touched on this last week. the fact of the matter is and we have to be very honest about this, in 2016 he was not a favored candidate at first for most republicans. and many republicans saw him as hijacking their party. so to me that always leaves an opening for republicans to say, you know, i m done with this guy, this is embarrassing. also it s very similar with nixon. nixon had a scandal before kwaurtigate now it s itt, a technology scandal. that kind of softened the ground for people to move towards impeachment. so mueller in 2016 and russia
those tight seats in a position where they have to go on record with a vote. but don t we run the risk with mueller citing ten examples of obstruction and other things? now we have questions of the president enriching himself. don t we run the risk of lowering the bar of what is acceptable behavior and make impeachment almost something you can t reach? i mean, if you can t move forward on this president, then who can you move forward on? well, i mean, republicans and democrats read that mueller report very differently. i mean, both sides were celebrating when the report came out. republicans see that report and they say there is nothing in here. the president did nothing wrong. mueller clearly said he did not exonerate the president. you can t read that but one way? again, you can t exonerate something that didn t happen. he could. he exonerated him in terms of saying whether or not he colluded with the russians. so if you tell me on the same