Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. 2017, quote, the president was not involved and did not issue the statement. In june of this year, trumps lawyers conceded to muellers team and dictated a short but accurate response. Now to our panel, aaron blake, a Criminal Defense Attorney and danny cevallos, msnbc legal analyst. I want to read a little bit more of what don jr. Said. It is sort of the cycle media narrative. The other stuff is not stick sog they are back and tomorrow theyll be back on the 25th amendment. Nothings changed and it is ridiculous. They dont talk about this and half of congresses on both sides and i mean basically, she did not do that to us. She didnt tell us that was going on. There is really nothing beyond that. Aaron, nothing is beyond that and factcheck that for us. The idea that the russian lawyer who was tied to the creme len who was presenting the information to the Trump Campaign is doing this all the time is going at the capi
Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on todays top stories. Zeldin. This is a very serious allegation. He misunderstands, i think, that his failure to directly sell his own shares is whats at issue. Whats at issue is his provision of nonpublic information to his son and another so that they could cut their losses in their sales. That violates the mail fraud statutes, securities fraud statutes, and there is not really much of a defense if in fact the facts in the allegation are true. Michael, this is sdny indicting a sitting member of Congress Months before an election. We know prosecutors are confident but i mean how airtight does this case need to be . Well, two things. First, we know from the from that which happened during the last 2016 election that youre
not supposed to bring indictments against congressman and other political people within 60 days. So they just sort of snuck under the 60day donor election statute. Just. Yeah. But the fact is that, you treat public corruption in the sa
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Washington post also reports tonight the white house is preparing an Executive Order that authorizes the president to punish foreign interference in u. S. Elections. The post writes, quote, the eightpage draft order appears to be an effort to stave off aggressive legislation, including a bill introduced in congress this month and to quell criticism that trump seems to give more credence to russian president Vladimir Putins denials of interference than to u. S. Intelligence agencies conclusion to the kremlin sought to undermine the 2016 election. That comes to us as Florida Democratic senator bill nelson, whose running in a tough reelection fight, tells the tampa bay times, quote, russian operatives have penetrated some of floridas Election Systems ahead of the 2018 mid terms. He said any further information is classified. Today the white house actually did impose new sanctions on
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Happening to him. Hes a hate news monger. Hes being challenged in court for things hes done. I do think this is another example of how these companies are struggling to figure out how to handle content on their platforms. Its harder than having an algorithm decide what to do. And what is the policy moving forward. Unclear. Appreciate it. Thank you all for being with me. Im poppy p py harlow in new yo. Next hour starts now. Hello, everyone, here is a question for do you believe an admitted liar or an accused one . That is exactly what jurors are face floodinging today in a Vid Courtroom as the star witness is back on the stand in the trial against Paul Manafort. So far Rick Gates Has been telling the court a riveting tail of betrayal, theft, and years of financial fraud. And while there is nothing here about what either man did for
the trump campaign, this is the first trial to come out of the Special Counsels russia investigation, and theyre back at it now. Joe johns is outside the cou
Be asking themselves regardless of the nuclear deal, why do you want to do business with the Worlds Largest financer of International Terrorism . Bill Benjamin Hall has more. That story Live In London. Good morning, bill. What these sanctions do are give companies two options. One to deal with the multitrillion economy of the u. S. Or to deal with iran. What weve seen overnight is Companies Choosing to deal with the u. S. Despite European Countries trying to force them in other directions. President trump tweeted this morning saying the iran sanctions have officially been cast. These are the most biting sanctions ever imposed and in november they ratchet up to yet another level. Anyone doing business with iran will not be doing business with the United States. Im asking for world peace, nothing less. And the response was quick. Just in the last few hours the French Oil Giant has said it will quit its multibillion
the door was open for negotiations. Iranians refused. Bill. Bill we await