Reminder, dont miss full circle on facebook. You get to pick some of the stories we cover. You can see it week nights at 6 25 p. M. Eastern on facebook. Com Anderson Cooper full circle. The news continues on this very busy tuesday night. Im going to hand it over to chris. Cuomo prime time starts now. Thank you. I am chris cuomo. Welcome to prime time. We have new information and key players for you in the big breaking story. Michael cohen says a candidate for federal office, aka the president , directed him to commit felonies. Those Hush Money Payments to women before the election, cohen says they were made at the direction of trump himself, and they were crimes. This is uncharted territory. A president directly implicated in criminal behavior In Open Court by his lawyer. Were going to have cohens counsel joining us for what lies ahead. And what does this exposure mean for the president Going Forward . Thats where Michael Avenatti,
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The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. The battle to save lives as President Trump sends a tweet about the fire that baffles even his own staff about the cause of it all. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. In the politics lead, rick gates, former number two on the Trump Campaign grilled right now about the plea deal by Defense Attorneys for former Trump Campaign chair Paul Manafort. Gates describing today in vivid detail of he says manafort engineered an elaborate scheme to avoid taxes. Prosecutors say manaforts own emails show him directing the money to multiple offshore accounts. Now, although conspireing with russia on the 2016 election is not officially on the docket, the sub text of it is looming over the trial. Gates says that manafort gave some control over a bank account in cyprus of a man of a
up until 2012 for consulting work for a ukrainian billionaire. Gates went into detail about how Shell
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. That he was not trying to lead them in the direction of believing the law said you had to have an actual loan granted in a case like this. Only that manafort had a applied for that law with fraudulent information, poppy. Got it. Joe, before you go, its also intriguing that we learned that rick gates is not only required to testify as part of this plea deal with mueller team, in this trial hes required to help with the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. The prbroader russia probe. Thats part of his Cooperation Deal in all of this. What do we know about that requirement . Reporter what we know is that mr. Gates has to cooperate. He has to cooperate fully. We also know that there was a discussion earlier in the trial when he was being questioned by prosecution or defense. I believe it was the defense and he was asked if he had been talked if he had talked to the fbi about the campaign
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. There is nothing at the Department Of Justice that indicates that they didnt do overt acts and these investigation investigations 60 days before elections. Its customary, usually around the time of an election they wont do what is called overt acts, that i wont bring indictments or subpoena people or do anything publicly as to try to not sway the election. The idea that we here in that time frame or approaching it is simply not true. I think what we know, poppy is that we expect mueller will continue in september and there may be a quiet period come octob october, a month before the election. As we saw from james comey in the Hillary Clinton email probe, things can be reopened days before an election. That is something that mueller and his team would be conscious of. Mueller was i mean, comey was in trouble for that. That is something they are considering. For sure in their minds. Dana bash got the scoop fro
Ive got a lot of people that care about me. And its going to disappoint them to hear that i did this. I would like to apologize to each and every one of them. Just a broken guy. Got a few screws loose. You think this will get me a job as a pilot . I think theyll yeah, right. Can this thing do a back flip . Do you think . A barrel roll . If that goes good, and im just gonna nose down and call it a night. Lets try to land that airplane safely and not hurt anyone on the ground. All right. Oh, damn it, i dont know, man,
theyre likely transcribing a lot of what you just heard there to get the full picture here of what was going on in this mans head. Of course social media is going to be important too. We know the Sheriffs Department said he was suicidal, but the fbis going to want a fuller picture. Did some specific event trigger him to do what we saw him do yesterday . The ntsb just gave a briefing. We know theyre on the ground. You saw that plane crashed. He died. It crashed in a very hea