this is vacation. how is that? yeah. mike flynn, then former national security adviser whose sentencing was delayed again today suggesting that he s still speaking known for his ties to both putin and the turks is hired not despite that but because of that. today was the day in which anyone still supporting this administration, including the republicans on the hill, have to face the fact that corruption is the feature, you know, of this white house and of this campaign, and it cannot be dismissed. that s how you put all the pieces today together. yeah. listen, you know, you guys are raring to go to talk about this, and two of you at least came off of vacation to discuss because you thought that this was a monumental day. harry, i ll bring you in next. eight serious guilty counts against paul manafort and ten counts, they couldn t reach a verdict. what do you think of the result, and what do you think about the day? well, you know, the first thing i want to say about the day i
analyst. jack quinn is one as well. also, former u.s. attorney michael moore and the former corruption prosecutor for the southern district of new york. good evening, thank you all for joining with us. laura, i ll start with you. michael cohen pleading guilty to eight felonies and paul manafort guilty on eight counts. a dramatic and monumental day in u.s. history. it absolutely, is and if you re talking about this from the perspective everyone saying hold on. none of this says russian collusion happened. none of this is actually about russian collusion. well, that is quite the distractor that s trying to fuel the narrative from the president. in reality, these cases all came out of the mandate that mueller had to probe russian collusion. the fact that he was able to sense out the dangers, the criminality and farm out one of the cases does not mean this is a witch-hunt. what he did was showcase to the american people that there was solidity to his charges, credibility to his overall c
stormy daniels? no, no. why would michael cohen make that to her? you ll have to ask michael cohen. michael is my attorney. do you know where he got the money to pay her? no, no. rudy giuliani said trump reimbursed michael cohen for the payment. here s the question. jack, are we in impeachment territory here? sure. if by that you mean are the acts of which with which the president has been accused here, would they constitute high crimes and misdemeanors? of course they would. rudy giuliani has acknowledged in the past that the president directed michael cohen to make these payments. right. it s not that he just knew about them after the fact and reimbursed them. at least davis says that donald
is there a parallel, do you think? there is a parallel but this is a much stronger case. really? john edwards was indicted and tried, and he was there was a hung jury on several of the counts, and he was not convicted on others. he was acquitted on other accounts. what happened there, one of the big issues there was whether or not in fact the payment made to keep a love affair he was having and a child he had, keep them quiet, whether those payments actually were from the campaign because they started actually long before the actual election, and the woman who made the payments was said to be a longtime friend. in this situation we have cohen saying that the whole purpose of this was to stop the information about these affairs getting out before the election. we have the corporation one which is presumably ami saying they were basically going to catch the stories before they could go out so these payments were for the purpose of influencing a federal election,
the fbi after he lied about his interactions with foreign officials close to the russian government. mueller last week told a judge that papadopoulos lied repeatedly and caused damage to the investigation. the special counsel has recommended that papadopoulos be sentenced up to six months in prison. this is no witch-hunt. these are not the best people. a lot of lying going on there. a lot of russian connections. these are facts, and another fact the president won t like, meuller s investigation is far from over. let s discuss. laura coates is here, a legal