e-maili e-mailing, if it s what you say i love it and set up a meeting at trump tower. jared kushner was there and paul manafort and a russian government attorney who describes herself as an infor informant. trump himself even called on the russians for help. russia, if you re listening, i hope you re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. trump says that was a joke. but according to court documents, on or around the same day trump asked for those e-mails, russians began attacking new e-mail accounts tied to hillary clinton for the first time. it didn t end there. after the election, contacts between the trump team and russians continued. according to the washington post, jared kushner went so far to suggest a secret back channel with the russians, one that would prevent u.s. intelligence
advising the president in this situation, i would tell him he needs to be prepared for a potential indictment for the southern district of new york after he s in office. the southern district of new york made very clear that the same crimes that michael cohen is going to be serving time for were directed by him. they have concluded it based on whatever evidence they have, the probation department totally separate form of government came to the same conclusion and if the judge agrees with the prosecution and the probation department, which i suspect the judge will, then you ve got another branch of government concluding the same thing. that s a lot of jeopardy for him and regardless of what happens in the meantime, after he leaves office, there is a very significant question as toliabi mueller accused three people close to the president of lying about their russian contacts, michael flynn, michael cohen and paul manafort. flynn was working in the white house and in contact with the wh
known so far? look, we don t have enough information at this point. you know, i think it was senator marco rubio today that said look, there is a lot of information that s in these filings, but there is no charge of conspiracy, there is no allegation that the president or his campaign was engaged in it. yes, manafort was doing things he shouldn t have been doing and was he acting on his own because he was endebted and on behalf of the campaign? a lot of that hasn t been shown and there is a lot of redaxs cts in that filing. i want to come back to that court filing on friday from the southern district of new york. that says now michael cohen broke campaign finance laws when
application. and apparently, he forgot about it. so then he started bawling out the prosecutors in front of the jury and that causes them to lose their credibility. then a second incident occurred when the judge told the jury to disregard testimony about paul ma manafort applying for a loan and said words to the effect of to the prosecutors, why don t you focus about the facts of the case, it s about the loans he did get, not the loans he applied for. the prosecutors later came back and said, judge, this is a conspiracy case, and that application for the loan he didn t get is part of the case. we want a curative instruction. now, when a judge gives a curative instruction, he s saying to the jury, disregard what i told you before, and consider the evidence that the prosecution offered. but the defense in that case is now going to say, judge, you re endorsing the veracity of their testimony, you don t have the right to do that. so it s a big argument. why would they take several
manafort and others and the very next day, at least one of those loans was approved. one of those loans was for $5.7 million. what s interesting about this is this is the time when mr. manafort was the campaign chairman or the campaign manager of the trump campaign, and it was pretty clear that this man wanted, in other words, the ceo, wanted to do something with the trump organization. and he expressed that. it wasn t clear whether he was talking about the trump organization in new york, the business, at least from the testimony i heard while i was there, or whether he was talking about the trump campaign. nonetheless, it s also clear that this individual, steven, did get recommended for a job inside the administration, we know from other sources.