The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. A furjry trap. You have to be thinking the president has to be thinking well if i dont sit down with mueller at all and if i never grant this interview how do i go out there and explain to the American People i wouldnt do an interview even though i didnt do anything wrong. I think thats exactly right and part of the calculation that is creating such hesitancy on team trumps part about whether to sit down, two ways to look at this interview politically and legally. Politically as you point out it might make sense for the president to sit down. He could try to wrap up this investigation quicker, before the midterm elections potentially and tell the public look, i am cooperating like ive been saying im doing nothing wrong legally as the lawyers pointed out his lawyers feel like its a massive risk for the president. Legal experts ive
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. And that may not be the end of it. New york republican Chris Collins was just indicted for Insider Trading and today, in a story we dont have time for tonight, the Second Congress to endorse him, California Republican Duncan Hunter was also indicted for Campaign Finance violations. Noticeably did not mention Michael Cohen by name. I feel badly for both. I must tell you that Paul Manafort is a good man. He was with ronald reagan. He was with a lot of different people over the years and i feel very sad about that. It doesnt involve me, but i still feel, you know, it is a very sad thing that happened. Nothing to do with russian collusion. Had nothing to do with russian collusion. We continue the witch hunt. Thank you very much. Mr. President , what about
months about who should look at the evidence that was seized from Michael Cohen and how should that process go through and a tremendous amount of media attention, Stormy Daniels was in line. It fel
Chris Hayes discusses the days top news. Cohen as the guy who made problems go away. And they just barely pulled it off. Trump winning the electoral college. Remarkably, they are not the first felons among the president s circle. The man charged has surrounded himself with criminals. Deputy Campaign Chairman. Campaign Foreign Policy aide, National Security advisor inside the white house. And that may not be the end of it. New york republican Chris Collins was just indicted for Insider Trading and today, in a story we dont have time for tonight, the Second Congress to
and then stuff that directly implicates the president. That is right. The first five counts, that is tax evasion. Just to be clear, i want to hang a lantern on that. He pleaded today to stealing 4 million from the u. S. Government. What would the taxes have been on that 4 million. Yeah. That is what he did. And then you have another count where he says, and he has pled guilty to, where he lied about his liabilities to a ba
Right now the judge is reading the charges after mr. Cohen told the court, i am truly sorry and i promises to do better. He Apologize Nod country. And the defense team is asking for full consideration of mercy and telling the judge that the client came forward to offer evidence against the most p powerful man in the country not knowing the result. The prosecutors are responding forcefully and saying that powerful and privileged individuals cannot violate laws without impunity, and back with me, this tremendous panel, Danny Cevallos, Ken Delainian, and elliott and jill winebank. And jill, what do you make of what we have heard so far in this robust apology that we have heard from Michael Cohen saying that he was acting out of Blind Loyalty to donald trump. Of course, the phrase Blind Loyalty to donald trump reminds
me of the book by john dean Blind Ambition and there is some similarity between the two of them where they were basically blinded by the power of the president. But you can o
here we are at a point that you can t have it both ways. how do you use the report to make the claim that the president has been exonerated and at the same time you re he questioning the credibility of that very same report? i was questioning the choices made by the mueller team to highlight certain contacts within their purview and then ignore others. here is what i still don t understand. how is it within robert mueller s purview to write 3500 pages when a russian lawyer meets with the trump team and then it is outside of robert mueller s purview to make any mention of the very same russian lawyer meeting with democrat operatives the day before and the day after she met with the trump team? so those choices are worthy of criticism even though at the end of the day robert mueller does clear the president on the issue of a criminal conspiracy with the russian federation and made no decision on obstruction. that decision had to be made by someone, so it was made by the attorney genera