Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Here in new york. Day 581 of the trump administration, and just tonight a short time ago, in fact, new legal troubles potentially for the president on a new front. Well let the New York Times tell it. Quote, the Manhattan District Attorneys Office is considering pursuing criminal charges against the Trump Organization and two Senior Company officials in connection with Michael Cohens Hush Money Payment to an adult film actress, according to two officials of the matter. A State Investigation would settle on how the company accounted for its reimbursements to mr. Cohen for the 130,000 he paid to the actress, stephanie clifford, who has said she had an affair with President Trump, closed quote. Mostly along those same lines a big story today had to do with a long time friend of the president who has apparently turned on him. The publisher of the national
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sessions and the democrats are in control of the senate it would be very hard for him to get somebody confirm. i think it would be hard for him to get any cabinet position confirmed, any supreme court justice confirmed for the rest of his presidency for that matter. i do think, though, the difference here between firing comey and firing sessions is this. there s no one telling trump that firing sessions is a good idea right now. and when he fired comey there were people telling him that, notably jared and ivanka. so i think that even the president in all his impetuousness is not ready to pull this trigger before the mid-term elections because he knows how politically calamitous it would be or at least he s being told how politically calamitous it would be. they say hayes talking about after the election because they ve got to wait on the mueller report on obstructions release. mueller s going to do that
office in the country. and there after the election i think there will be some serious discussions about a new attorney general. so jeremy, lindsey graham says very little by accident. did we just move the time line up that the president could be allowed to replace the a.g. and the senate if it s after the mid-terms? i think lindsey graham, if that s the case, is assuming a lot we don t know. and that s what the margin of victory is in the senate. if for the republicans if they hold onto it or if for the democrats if they surprisingly seize it. so we just don t know. i think if trump does fire sessions and the democrats are in control of the senate it would be very hard for him to get somebody confirm.