Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Very troublesome for the president here. The fact is if President Trump were president right now, he could be indicted for these Campaign Finance violations, couldnt he . Absolutely. When you look at the way the prosecutors have described it, when you look at the way Michael Cohen described it in court, these documents, its criminal information, so its essentially laying everything out. If this was an indictment and trump, donald trump was not the president , we could be looking at an indictment against the president. We could also, you know, if this was an indictment, look at this as the president being an unindicted coconspirator. Think of that, and certainly, the ramifications of that. Its really serious here. Well see what happens from here. The other thing in these documents that the prosecutors have talked about was that Michael Cohen, and we dont know who these people are, was working w
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Perhaps even before watergate that a federal criminal guilty plea has taken place. And the guilty person has said i committed this crime with and for the president of the united states. If this were any other person, given the evidence that was presented in court today, it seems to me a virtual certainty that donald trump would have been indicted and charged, too. Remember, who benefitted from this Campaign Fnls Violation . It wasnt Michael Cohen. The beneficiary was, according to Michael Cohen, the person who directed and then helped cover up this Illegal Campaign contribution. This brings this criminal case to the door of the Oval Office Like nothing we have seen before in this investigation. But jeff, obviously, you know, sitting president ,
according to precedent, not law, cant be indicted. Had the president leaves office, is this something charges could be pursued against him for . Well,
think this is right, and i m sure giuliani and others have been arguing this. that it was a gratuitous slap by someone who has been left behind and now has an ax to grind with the president, to throw this in in open court under oath. it still is the case, he said it. would prosecutors have accepted this agreement if they didn t believe michael cohen? i think if prosecutors thought he was lying about that aspect of why he did what he did, i think they would have a problem accepting his plea agreement. they would have to say something in court. so i think it s enormously significant. it s not clear to me, though, not knowing what other evidence there is to back up michael cohen, who is, by the way, a criminal and a liar and now a convicted one, you need something else to back that up. you pointed out that this president go ahead, jeff. if i could just add, preet is exactly right that this allegation by cohen is not in the charging documents. but just if we step back and ask
pending for some time. it looks to me, feels to me that, and this may be completely the opposite of the way the president would think, but it feels to me that the more the cases get tried and the more that it gets public, that manafort essentially didn t pay taxes, and benefitted in this extravagant way financially, and remember, the september case is going to be all about the political side as well. so it is the heat is going to continue to turn up. i think personally i think it gets harder and harder for the president to pardon him. jeff, do you agree with that, that it gets harder? again, this is a president who often, that may be the conventional wisdom, and a sensible way of looking at it. it doesn t mean it s the way the president views it. you know, conventionally, you know, no president would even consider pardoning someone who was so close to him. and remember how seedy the behavior was here. i mean, basically, what this case was about was lying about how much money you
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