Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Very troublesome for the president here. The fact is if President Trump were president right now, he could be indicted for these Campaign Finance violations, couldnt he . Absolutely. When you look at the way the prosecutors have described it, when you look at the way Michael Cohen described it in court, these documents, its criminal information, so its essentially laying everything out. If this was an indictment and trump, donald trump was not the president , we could be looking at an indictment against the president. We could also, you know, if this was an indictment, look at this as the president being an unindicted coconspirator. Think of that, and certainly, the ramifications of that. Its really serious here. Well see what happens from here. The other thing in these documents that the prosecutors have talked about was that Michael Cohen, and we dont know who these people are, was working w
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Perhaps even before watergate that a federal criminal guilty plea has taken place. And the guilty person has said i committed this crime with and for the president of the united states. If this were any other person, given the evidence that was presented in court today, it seems to me a virtual certainty that donald trump would have been indicted and charged, too. Remember, who benefitted from this Campaign Fnls Violation . It wasnt Michael Cohen. The beneficiary was, according to Michael Cohen, the person who directed and then helped cover up this Illegal Campaign contribution. This brings this criminal case to the door of the Oval Office Like nothing we have seen before in this investigation. But jeff, obviously, you know, sitting president ,
according to precedent, not law, cant be indicted. Had the president leaves office, is this something charges could be pursued against him for . Well,
other than michael cohen, who i will concede to you is one of those, you know, smarmy characters. manafort has been a smarmy character for, it seems like, if not decades, at least years. given what he has now been convicted of. in fact, the president will tell you he was a smarmy character long before i ever got involved with him. he wasn t smarmy and illegal when i was actually involved with him. so if anything, all his indiscorrections, according to the president, happened long before. well, and one of the smarmiest things or smarmiest things he s done or was involved in was trying to get a trump tower in moscow. we haven t talked at all about because there s so much more interesting news today, about michael cohen being the front guy for trump s business in russia. you know, this is something i m sure we re going to delve more into. we ll learn more about in the coming weeks, and manafort, yes, his conviction wasn t related to trump, but he was still the guy negotiating the demo
with him. he wasn t smarmy and illegal when i was actually involved with him. so if anything, all his indiscorrections, according to the president, happened long before. well, and one of the smarmiest things or smarmiest things he s done or was involved in was trying to get a trump tower in moscow. we haven t talked at all about because there s so much more interesting news today, about michael cohen being the front guy for trump s business in russia. you know, this is something i m sure we re going to delve more into. we ll learn more about in the coming weeks, and manafort, yes, his conviction wasn t related to trump, but he was still the guy negotiating the democratic platform that made it friendlier to russia. this still will go back to that. there are a lot more lies that michael cohen told that are going to unravel over the coming weeks and months, i would suspect. senator santorum, appreciate it, jen psaki, jeff toobin as well. as we touched on a bit while michael cohen wa
i feel like paul ryan s little piece of paper he put out through a spokesperson is not a profile in courage. this could be a constitutional crisis. yeah, i think at the moment the republicans are not and you re right, ryan not even going on camera himself, this was a weak move sending it to an underling. if mueller were to be fired i suspect you would see more republicans come on board and say that was the wrong thing to do at this point it would be too late. what we have learned and you re right about donald trump through the years, is that he views the board through the prism of win/lose. if andrew mccabe is getting his pension, that s a win for andrew mccabe therefore it must be a lose for donald trump. especially about mump. trump is obsessed with money. and he has these two storm clouds over him which we re about to get to. and he has the mueller storm cloud. everyone said i can t do this, i don t that and there would be