Repeatedly to mueller and to the fbi. Manafort already faces a significant prison sentence after his august conviction in a Virginia Federal Court on eight counts of financial crimes. After that conviction in an attempt to avoid another trial and more jail time he agreed to plead guilty in a separate d. C. Court, promising to cooperate with the ongoing russia investigation. In his plea fan frt agreed to cooperate fully and truthfully with the special counsels investigation. That meant participating in interviews, producing any relevant documents he had, and agreeing to delay sentencing. No details yet about manaforts alleged lies. His attorneys say their client is living up to his end of the agreement, providing valuable information to muellers investigation. So what does all this mean . Lets bring in now matthew rosenberg, juliette kayyem, and jack quinn. Good evening. Good to see all of you. Jack, how significant is this new development . Look, its doubtless significant. This is a ve
Cooperate fully and truthfully with the special counsels investigation. That meant participating in interviews, producing any relevant documents he had, and agreeing to delay sentencing. No details yet about manaforts alleged lies. His attorneys say their client is living up to his end of the agreement, providing valuable information to muellers investigation. So what does all this mean . Lets bring in now matthew rosenberg, juliette kayyem, and jack quinn. Good evening. Good to see all of you. Jack, how significant is this new development . Look, its doubtless significant. This is a very rare thing to have happen, for somebody to have made a plea bargain, a cooperation deal, and then back out of it at the 11th hour. Its very unusual. I mean, obviously manafort threw away a lot. He threw away the possibility of having his sentence reduced. He had some degree of certainty in what was going to happen. Mueller arguably loses something. He loses manafort as a witness. Although its importan
President now sees impeachment as a real possibility when democrats take control of the house in january. Another source close to the white house tells cnn the issues causing the west wing the most concern are the Campaign Finance violations alleged by prosecutors for the Southern District of new york. Those are the hush money payments President Trump directed his former Attorney Michael Cohen to make payments to trumps alleged mistresses just before the 2016 election. Also breaking tonight a Bipartisan Group of 44 former u. S. Senators penning an oped in the Washington Post warning the countrys entering what they call a dangerous period, saying the foundational principles of our democracy and our National Security interests are at stake. Theyre calling on current senators to zealously safeguard our democracy. A lot to get to. So i want to bring in now ryan lizza, juliette kayyem, and greg miller. Hes the author of the apprentice trump, russia and the subversion of american democracy.
Also breaking tonight a Bipartisan Group of 44 former u. S. Senators penning an oped in the Washington Post warning the countrys entering what they call a dangerous period, saying the foundational principles of our democracy and our National Security interests are at stake. Theyre calling on current senators to zealously safeguard our democracy. A lot to get to. So i want to bring in now ryan lizza, juliette kayyem, and greg miller. Hes the author of the apprentice trump, russia and the subversion of american democracy. So good to have all of you on this evening. So let me start with you, ryan. Here it is right here. You see what im reaching for. This is the letter, the oped that 44 senators wrote, saying we have to be guardians of our democracy. What does that say about the state of our country to you, that you have these people doing this . Well, first of all, it was mostly democrats, but there were about half a dozen or so republicans in there. And it suggests that there are these p
Business, had an affair with a porn star, lied about the payment, can you what what do you think republicans would have done . I dont even want to think about it, because look at what they did when he had none of that stuff. You know what i mean . Look at the amount of heat that president obama had to take and he was scandal free. So i dont even no, no, no, no, he was not scandal free. Whatd they have . And i have to be careful, because im wearing a light suit. He wore that tan suit, remember . That was who does that how dare he . Thats why i wear a black suit. I was so messed up by that, ill never wear a light suit again. I dont know how you do it. Im surprised he wasnt impeached by that. Im sure they were trying. And look, thats the hypocrisy of it. And for this president , of all people, you know, to say, nobody ever did this to obama. You did the birther thing the most bigoted, obvious, expressly ugly type of harassment that could be thought of, that would have never worked on any