A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Manafort would send me a list of wire requests. Gates admit that had he used information provided by manafort to create invoices for fake amounts of money but the money never went to the vendors, instead it went to the banks. The purpose of this, according to gates, so that the wire transfers would not be recorded on u. S. Business records. Nonetheless, prosecutors elicited testimony from mr. Gates and from one of mr. Manaforts accountants that tied manafort more closely to russia. The accountant testified that in 2006 mr. Manafort received a 10 million loan from a Russian Oligarch close to president Vladimir Putin. She said she saw no evidence the loan was ever repaid. The crossexamination today getting very personal at times. Gates forced to admit that more than a decade ago he had an
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Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, Breaking News and international stories. Weve not heard from cohens attorneys either for any comment on our reporting. Stand by for a moment, kara. I want to get back to you. Shimon, what else are you learning . Wolf, some of what were told the u. S. Attorney there in new york has been looking at are payments Michael Cohen received. This all came out that he received them for potential lobbying, potential influence at the white house and other places. Some of the people who have come before the grand jury there in new york were asked questions about this money, about the money that Michael Cohen had paid them. Some of them who have been asked to appear before the grand jury, they were told they did not need to appear right now while prosecutors could be close to negotiating this plea deal. Of course, keep in mind, as kara said, at any time this could fall apart. There are some questions about money, whether or not what kind of fine potentially michael
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Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Represents what trumps lawyers expect to be their last word on muellers request for a sitdown interview. The letter from trumps lawyers leaves open the possibility of having trump answer some questions in writing. According to the two people familiar with the negotiations. Earlier today during a live radio callin show, conveniently hosted by his cocounsel jay sekulow, Rudy Giuliani called on mueller to end his investigation, but declined to get into details about these negotiations about the interview. We dont have an internal deadline. We are moving i use the phrase expeditiously through this, and understand the significant constitutional issues that are raised. But mayor, i know youve said and ive said, we want the see this come to closure soon here. Mayor . Yeah, we do. Its about time that it ends. I also think and i hope the Special Counsel is sensitive to it as we are. We do not want to run
Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Penalties are even higher, the evidence is even more volume nous, or will he cut his losses, cut a deal and tell what he knows if anything about potential collusion between donald trump and the Russian Election interference effort . Let me bring in the panel now. I want to get to my legal experts, more of my legal experts. By the way, a little more breaking news, the Cohen Hearing is officially over. Sentencing is scheduled for December 12th for his guilty plea at 11 00 a. M. Hes out on 500,000 bail which was cosigned by his wife and a second person. Were going to go there. But Donald Fryman is is on Air Force One on his way to West Virginia to prepare for a rally for the West Virginia senate race. How is he feeling . We think hes emotionally and politically in as much of a corner psychologically as hes been since hes become president of the United States. Hes worked very hard to get at
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A look at Breaking News, politics and reports from around the world. Matter. The Justice Department guidelines preclude indicting a sitting president. Michael cohen in his own words defying his long time ally. He has said he would take a bullet for President Trump. And now hes publicly saying in court under oath that he committed these crimes in coordination and at the direction of the then candidate. Very specific words. Could cohen still cooperate with the Special Counsel Robert Muellers overall russia probe . As you know, mueller delegated this case to the u. S. Attorney in the Southern District of new york. Reporter thats right, wolf. This investigation began by referral from Robert Mueller. But as part of this Plea Agreement, Michael Cohen is not, you know, coop rating. He is not in Cooperation Deal with the u. S. Attorneys office in manhattan bringing this case. Nothing precludes him from speaking with Robert Muellers investigators or from them reaching out to Michael Cohen. Hes