president s campaign chair in terms of what this says about the president s campaign. what may be important for the country here is that this is very much looking like the end of the line for paul manafort. i mean, what was he thinking in blowing up his plea deal by lying intentionally to prosecutors from the special counsel s office? i mean, he had to know they were going to catch him, given everything else they caught him on. well, the judge says one of the things manafort intentionally lied to prosecutors about was the extend of his communications with the guy who prosecutors say is linked to russian intelligence. just think about that for a second. that s what he deliberately lied to prosecutors about, even after he had entered into a cooperation deal with him, when he knew that lying would be essentially a fatal offense. that means at great personal expense, at the cost of potentially dying in prison, paul manafort, the president s
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has not condemned the prince. top of the hour. monday morning. i m jim sciutto in new york. i m poppy harlow. hope you had a nice weekend. we re glad you re with us. a few moments ago, we saw james comey arriving back on capitol hill. the former fbi chief is in for his second round of closed door testimony in ten days, just before house republicans give up their majority. over the weekend, comey had a very public response to a fresh attack from the president on those fbi searches that helped send his former lawyer, michael cohen, to prison. the president falsely called those searches break-ins. blamed them for supposedly turning michael cohen into a, quote, rat. of course, there was a warrant for the feds to do that. tomorrow, the president s first national security adviser finds out whether he will go to prison for lying to the fbi, as he pled guilty to. and the woes of michael flynn and michael cohen and several other former aides or allies have led the president s team to a de
by the way, sarah sanders was asked yesterday what she wants her legacy to be. she says she wants to be remembered as, quote, transparent and honest. let that one sink in for just a moment. transparent and honest. all right. let s move on. so we know this was important enough to the president to pay off two women and it was important enough to the president to straight-up lie when he said he didn t know about the payment to stormy daniels, but now, presto change-o, suddenly it s no big deal according to the president. two days ago he tweeted, i m quoting, now the dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution. okay. keeping them honest, it s not the dems. the dems have nothing to do with sending michael cohen to prison. the president s lawyer is going to prison. the president calls it a simple private transaction. again, let s remember what we re talking about here. we re talking about hush money. money paid to keep women quiet, within the words
about the payment to stormy daniels, but now, presto changeo, suddenly it s no big deal according to the president. two days ago he tweeted, i m quoting now the dems go to a simple private transaction, wrongly call it a campaign contribution. okay. keeping them honest, it s not the dems. the dems have nothing to do with sending michael cohen to prison. the president s lawyer is going to prison. the president calls it a simple private transaction. again, let s remember what we re talking about here. we re talking about hush money. money paid to keep women quiet, within the words of the southern district of new york, the intent to influence the election. and if it s just a simple private transaction, why would the president feel the need to lie about it? yesterday, the president spoke to reuters and said, number one, it wasn t a campaign contribution. if it were, it s only civil. even if it s only civil, there was no violation based on what we did, okay? keeping them honest, the pres
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