The latest news from around the world with Victor Blackwell and Christi Paul. Today, victor, christi. T streets remain quiet protected by a perimeter, heavy Law Enforcement presence, a presence that some members of the Community Welcome and others say is an overcorrection after what they see as failures a year ago. Kaylee hartung In Charlottesville, thank you so much. Listen to this, russian trolls apparently exacerbate the racism in the aftermath of the charlottesville rally last year or they did, blaming the violence on black lives matter. This year there are fears they may try to do the same thing. Former Senior Adviser to president Obamas National Security council is with us. Sam, thank you for being with us. What evidence is there that russia did try to use the division in the u. S. As an opportunity for them . Christi, this is a big weekend for Vladimir Putin. It is a prime opportunity for him to sew divisions and create confusion in the United States which we know are two key te
Special counsel. Is he hoping for a pardon from President Trump . Not only is he not hoping for, he would not accept a pardon. We all knew that this was going to be used as a hush money kind of payment from Campaign Finances. You knew at the time . We knew. The conviction of Paul Manafort is another blow to President Trump and a boost for Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Mr. Manafort is disappointed of not getting acquittals all the way through or a complete hung jury on all counts. He is evaluating all of his options at this point. Its a bad day for the president and im sure he understands that. It looks like manafort and cohen only have more to say, only may cooperate more. This could get worse. I dont think he can be indicted while sitting in office, but well just have to see where this all works out. The heart and soul of this is about collusion with the russians and obstruction of justice. First of all, the House Of Representatives draws up articles of impeachment. Think of the hou
Interviews with political figures and news updates. Interviews with political figures and news updates. The jury that there is a third option, there is guilt, there is not guilty, and there is a hung jury. The judge declined to do that and said that if the jury were to come back again and say they remain deadlocked, the judge will ask them how many counts theyve reached a verdict on. Hell then consult with the lawyers and decide whether or not to take whats called a partial verdict which means to have the jury announce those counts to which theyve reached unanimous agreement. Now, correct me if im wrong, the trials that ive covered in the past, dan, and youre the lawyer and former prosecutor, a judge will only repeat that allen charge so many times, or else risk, you know, being overturned on appeal if it ends up being a conviction, that east putting too much pressure on a deadlocked jury. Youre exactly right, andrea. Even the judge mentioned that his objective was not to be coercive t
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. He said that initially. They later reversed themselves and flynn was indicted for making a false statement to an fbi agent. But as point of fact, judge, hes told them things that were not true and things that he should have known and recollected in realtime. Right. Maybe he did. And maybe he did it because he thought there was some impropriety about having the conversation with kislyak. Thats why sally yates, then at the a. G. s office, then went to don mcgahn and said you better figure out Whats Going On with this. I dont think there was any impropriety in that conversation at all. In fact i think flynn would have been committing malpractice if he had not had the conversation with kislyak. He is the guy who was going to be the National Security then why did he lie about it . Beats me. Thats a good question, no . Its an excellent question, but i dont know the extent to which he lied, whether h
Look, again, i think thats a ridiculous accusation. The president in this matter has done nothing wrong and there are no charges against him. Reporter today on twitter, the president falsely claimed that, quote, Michael Cohen pled guilty to two counts of Campaign Finance violations that are not a crime. They are, indeed, a crime, spelled out by federal prosecutors. And on fox news, the president floating another defense. Did you know about the payments . Later on i knew. Later on. But you have to understand, what he did, and they werent taken out of Campaign Finance, thats the big thing, thats a much bigger thing. Did they come out of the campaign . They didnt come out of the campaign. They came from me. Reporter but lawyers say that still doesnt make it legal if the money was never disclosed. And cohen has released a secretly recorded conversation with the president seeming to discuss another hush money arrangement weeks before the election. When it comes time for the financing, which