The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. Has gone through. You know, he worked for Ronald Reagan for years. He worked for bob dole. His firm worked for mccain. He worked for many, many people, many, many years. And i would say what he did, some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant, every lobbyist in washington probably does. We are a long way from drain the swamp, unless you are Paul Manafort and you do what everybody else also does. The president was asked about Michael Cohen, his longtime attorney, somebody who worked for him for more than a decade. He is trying to distance himself now from Michael Cohen, who has pleaded guilty to eight Felony Charges and implicated the president in the Campaign Finance violations to which he pled guilty. This comes, of course, as the specter of Michael Cohen and what he could possibly say to prosecutors further, if
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Interesting to see the white house parsing its words over this issue. This is something under discussion, something been on the president s mind and appears its been on the president s mind lately as well. To hear the president yet again go after Attorney General Jeff Sessions, going after him in that interview, we will talk to him more about it later. Where do things stand on that. You heard him earlier on fox, What Kind Of Man is this, once again seizing on this recusal Jeff Sessions decided to go with early on in the administration to stay out of the russian investigation. That has obviously been under the president s skin ever since then and he went after Jeff Sessions. What changed, a watershed moment often this Punching Bag Relationship the president constantly beating up on Jeff Sessions, Jeff Sessions fired back showing what a lot of people in washington have been waiting for for a lon
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Out of millions of dollars. The president says he is a friend of ours, as they used to stay in the mob. Jim acosta joins us. I understand youre learning more about the advice the president is getting about issuing pardons related to the russian investigation. Reporter thats right, anderson. I have been told by a source inside the president s legal team he has been advised for months now to avoid any pardons in the russia investigation including Paul Manafort. Interesting to point out earlier this evening the Washington Post was reporting Rudy Guiliani told them in just the last several weeks, Rudy Guiliani had to talk the president out of pardoning Paul Manafort until it is over. Whats interesting here about all of that is that at the white house secretary, sarah sanders, apparently was giving us a false or incomplete information that did not add up when she said that a pardon was not under di
leak to the fake news promoting the hoax. the durham probe has been the opposite of that. with durham he is doing it by the book. there has been zero leaks. so i think durham has a lot of credibility moving forward here. the issue will be is that some of the laws that were broken weren t crimes. and that s really the problem. like it should be if an f.b.i. lawyer lies to a fisa court. nobody thought there is not a law on the books for that. that should be like 20 years minimum sentence because we can t have dirty cops, people within these intelligence agencies playing politics and lying to a court. however they got a slap on the wrist. i think durham is building a larger conspiracy case and hopefully build enough evidence to bring all of these people to justice. dana: i love your thoughts on this as a former intelligence chair. president trump said this to
rehabilitate people who stray strayed off the path. once you you have the criminal proof, the idea is to stray as far away as possible. then attorney general sally yates actually banned the use of for-profit prisons in the prison system. unfortunately, her orders were countermanded by attorney general jeff sessions once he took over. every time we see the use for for-profit prisons, there is a need to fill the beds rather than for the crime that arose. perhaps that drove this judge s decision that children should be arrested for things that weren t crimes even with police officers and school district officials questioning that move, because that s what happened in the propublica reporting. there were school officials and two police officers who didn t want to make the arrests. the middle tennessee state