Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Elections . When were picking whos going to be running the house and the senate . I think right track wrong track is a very important indicator. That and theres often polling numbers of, does this guy or this person, this Candidate Fight for people like you . Those are the type of polls i find a little more credible. Astonishing to me is that it can be down at 35 when the economy on its surface and in its aggregate numbers is doing so well. Id ask an expert like John Heilemann or somebody, have you ever seen right track being 35 when unemployment is below 4 . And since i think the economic numbers wont always be as good, this could really tumble down if theres if there starts to be any blips in the economy. Especially from this continued china trade dispute, which could, you know, start bringing down the economy a little bit. So, joe, since walter invi
A recap of the days news. Another cohenrelated problem out today, New York State tax authorities want to talk to Michael Cohen about the Trump Foundation. The states Attorney General sued the president and his three oldest children, accusing the charity and the trump family of sweeping violations of Campaign Finance laws, selfdealing and illegal coordination with the president ial campaign. No one knows where the next legal blow will land. Already facing many years in prison after yesterdays verdict, the former Campaign Manager Paul Manafort heads to a second trial next month. And then this one, prosecutors are expected to bring even more evidence. Theres the matter of the president s legal team still in the dark over what don mcgahn told investigators in some 30 hours of testimony. The stakes for the upcoming midterms are under fire. Republicans will dodging the questions. That is a lot to get to in one
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A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Reporter this Time Sessions surprisingly jabbed back saying in a statement while im Attorney General the actions of the department of justice will not be improperly influenced by Political Considerations. This is a little bit of a celebration meeting. Reporter earlier in the day the president tried to turn away from the russia probe to celebrate his record until he could hear the questions about the criminal records about his former advisers. President didnt say whether he would pardon his now convicted former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. Mr. Trump focussed his fury on his former attorney Michael Cohen. The president tried to say cohens crimes werent actually crimes. He pled to two counts that arent a crime. I watched a number of shows. Sometimes you get pretty good information by watching shows. Those counts arent a crime. They werent Campaign Finance. Reporter here is the
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Heres how it came to be. In may of this year, may 22nd, the New York Times had a scoop that they probably only got because they are specifically the New York Times. They sent crack reporters to an otherwise sleepy courthouse in albany, new york, not a Federal Courthouse, a state court, because that day in that state court in new york, a longtime Business Partner of Michael Cohens, A Taxicab Mogul Named Gene Friedman Who everybody called the taxi king, he was in court. He had been facing really serious charges in new york, Tax Evasion Charges in new york more than 5 million and four criminal counts of tax fraud and facing a charge of grand larceny. A big stack of charges involving a large amount of money and potentially a large amount of jail time. The story they uncovered at the courthouse that day, for some reason, friedman had gotten this huge Criminal Liability he was facing winnowed down to almost
nothing. He was able to work out some sort of deal where all of that prison time and
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Well go to trial, what evidence was the government to prepare to prove each single count that Michael Cohen pleads guilty to. The ones that involved the president , the government says and i am holding a copy of the transcript today. We were prepared to offer hard documents. Documents that was taken from Michael Cohens Search Warrant back in april. Also, prepare to offer Audio Recordings that were made by cohen. We heard one of those involving the president several weeks ago. Then theyre going to introduce additional witnesses to the to this. Hey, we got hard evidence here thats going to corroborate the information thats included in the these counts. It is not just Michael Cohen is saying well the president is telling me to do this and this is why i wrote or sent this
person a check or money. It was not just his words. They have to have evidence well, not only Michael Cohen say that but we can back it up in these