Boy rick gates. They bounced around Eastern Europe collecting fat paychecks and living what the indictment calls a lavish lifestyle, taxfree. The trumps were new to politics. So suspected connecticutmen like gates and manafort for drawn like maggots toed a wounds. Manafort apparently met ivanka and jared and offered his services for free. Who can turn down that kind of offer. The d. C. Set produced selfinterested people like manafort and his sidekick who weighsled their way inwith empty promises. They should have better vetted its operative. But here we are. Whos on board next . It will be no surprise manafort turn on each other then turn on everyone else. Here we are. Im kennedy. Along the charges of tax fraud and Money Laundering and his aide gates was conspiracy against the United States. Trump was dismissive of the home whole thing. Sorry, this was years ago before man for the was part of the Trump Campaign. But why arent crooked hillary and the dems being investigated. There was no collusion. James rosen, what happened . Reporter we saw the unsealing this morning of the indictments against Paul Manafort, the president s former Campaign Chairman and his business associate rick gates on 12 counts of alleged financial crimes from failing to report lobbying activities. These crimes allegedly took place between 2006 and up through 2017. But they have nothing to do really with the trump am kane pain or allegations of collusion between the Trump Campaign or collusion. Manafort and gates appeared in federal court and they pled not guilty. They agreed to home detention. We saw unsealed a document describing a guilty plea entered earlier this month by a man named George Papadopoulos who pled guilty to lying to fbi agents when he was questioned by them one week after the inauguration about this contacts with foreign nationals mr. Papadopoulos believed were well plugged into the kremlin. These peements would probably never have gotten him into trouble. They were promising dirt on Hillary Clinton, and thousands of her emails. They were trying to seek a meeting with the candidate himself. But he did get in trouble when he lied to the fbi when he said the contacts occurred before he joined the campaign. The leniency will be conditioned on the special counsels probe cooperation. Kennedy you see them squeezing manafort and gates like lemons. What do you think their motivation is with manafort and gates. They will go to some of that money in the offshore accounts. Guys like that love money. Once you start touching that, thats when they start talking. Robert mueller has great leeway to investigate just about whatever he wants. It started with alleged collusion between the Trump Campaign and the kremlin. But the entirety of the indictment. Manafort and gates is focused on lobbying work they did for ukrainian interests. Again with no reference to the Trump Campaign. So clearly mr. Mueller may be intending to use his leeway to investigate related areas. In order to compel their testimony on the central matter of alleged russian collusion in the Trump Campaign its interesting mr. Mueller chose this day to sun seal the guilty plea from mr. Papadopoulos. He chose to do it today because i think he wanted to convey to the American Public im not just rooting around in old tank returns old tax returns. Kennedy it also takes the news cycle off the fusion gps russia stories that eclipsed so much. It was a bad week for Hillary Clinton and by association a bad week for Robert Mueller since he was head of the fbi during some of those investigations into the russian operatives trying to get as much of the u. S. Uranium market as they possibly could. Does this investigation as far as anything you have read, heard or said, does it extend to potential russia collusion with uranium one and fusion gps and the dossier . Reporter you could work as a prosecutor for bob mueller. I love the way you framed thats question. According to anything i have read, heard or understood. That covers the waterfront. According to all that i have read or heard or understood, the uranium one sale from 2010 when secretary clinton was in office is not part of mr. Muellerments probe. But we have seen he has placed under investigation tony podesta, the democratic powerhouse lobbyist who announces hes leaving his own firm, the Podesta Group which bears his name. It seems democrats, too, will have something to fear from the mueller juggernaut. But mr. Podesta has not been charged with anything. Kennedy his brother got vased shown at his head on Election Night and he had to come out and give that speech because Hillary Clinton refused coto concede. Reporter there you go covering the waterfront again. Kennedy they call me an emotional lands skypeer, james. Now we go to my uranium party panel. Guy benson is here webs joined by comedian joe devito, and tom shillue. Welcome, everyone. So much to get into. I will let you take first crack. Ben the Big Questions are about papadopoulos, manafort and gates what they have to offer the prosecutors and mueller. If they information that points to collusion, now is the time to get it off their chest and get the best deal for themselves. So thats the concern inside the white house. Kennedy manafort and gates pled not guilty. Ben they are going to fight fit which may suggest they dont have much to give mueller. The guy manafort hired to represent him is a specialist in tax law. That might and relief to people inside the white house. Stepping back for a moment, the fact that tony podesta, the brother of john podesta, chief of staff to president bill clinton, and Campaign Manager for Hillary Clinton, the fact that hes stepped down from his firm and there may be some more indictments coming down. This suggests the net has been cast wide what attacks against mueller as a hack or someone interested in a witch hunt, i think those are unfair and sounds desperate to me. Let this man do his work. Kennedy we dont know what mueller has yet. We have seen some curious leaks. But let the facts speak for themselves. As we talk about Paul Manafort and some of it is intriguing. So far it hasnt touched the white house. Its not about president obama. According to anything i have read, heard, understood, or seen in on a tattoo or puppet show. I think im only person who hasnt been offered money by the russians. Ill take money from uranium three at this point. If this is suppose to be the big bombshell, so far it hasnt looked like a lot. If you look at what papadopoulos got pad for piptd the Martha Stewart way of being guilty. Its not so much as what you have done but the fact that you lied about it. Kennedy go ahead. This is all confusing. I dont understand it, so i dont think President Trump understands it, so i dont think hes in any danger. Kennedy apparently what you say can be used against you in a court of law. Therefore, if i were one of his lawyers, i would say dont say so much. Talk about the economy and taxes. People love when he talks about 401ks. They eat it up like a buffet full of brownies and bacon. His tweets he can get in trouble for . Hes not under oath. Kennedy you can influence the markets and policy. Democrats reportedly pushing a bill that would prevent President Trump from firing Robert Mueller. The president says he has no plans to do so, but what if he were to par done those involved . I dont think the president s power is all that absolute as people have been suggesting. The president cannot pardon people if its an effort to obstructed justice and prevent bob mueller from learning about the president s own conduct. There are limitation. Kennedy what would happen if the president tried or if he fired Robert Mueller . I think he will pardon everyone. Ben he may want to pardon mueller but it would be disastrous for him to do so. Optically it would look terrible. And a lot of people who havent been freaking at this point would start to freak out. If the president s power is pretty absolute when it comes to pardoning discretion on federal crimes, the question is maybe there will be state indictments that would be beyond trumps jurisdiction when it comes to pardoning. So maybe that would be the direction prosecutors might go. But you get like oprah. He can do that. Again, how would that look . Kennedy you might as well take that russian money now if you are going to get a pardon for it. This sounds like something that will take a long time to resolve. He needs to wait until it gets boring. When it gets bore together American Public he wont have to do anything. Kennedy he has blanket pardon. He will have a pardon party. I think schiff knows hes not going to pardon mueller. Kennedy you mean fire mueller. Kennedy maybe he will fire mueller then pardon him. Tom thats why hes tweeting because he knows he didnt collude. Kennedy i read if you are pardoned you give up your fifth amendment privileges and can be compelled to testify later. You cant get charged again because of double jeopardy. Ben the incentive could be there for someone to say i dont have to tell the whole truth. I will button up, clawm. They cant do anything to me. And thanks to President Trump. We shouldnt go down this route. Kennedy at some point well drink a bought of something then return it to earth. First up, as republicans prepare to unveil their tax plan on wednesday, a powerful Corporate Group has come out against it. Well discuss after the break. For your heart. Your joints. Or your digestion. So why wouldnt you take something for the most important part of you. Your brain. 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Kennedy republicans are set to unveil their tax reform bill wednesday. The powerful pro Business National association of Home Builders are coming out against the plan after learning the mortgage taxes would not be included. Details of the plan remain scarce on whether it will include the contribution to the 401k. Chris, welcome to the show. I read about this and obviously there are so many powerful lobbying forces in d. C. , and every single one of them will want to have a say. How important is this nahb declaration . I dont think its that important. I assumed they would be against it. And i think its shortsighted. These folks are Small Businesses. Republicans are going to be slashing tax rates and Small Businesses. There is often a difference on what the lobby groups are saying in washington and what Middle America believes. If you own a homebuilding business, republicans are cutting your taxes. I dont think these lobbies are that important. Kennedy you sayloring that Corporate Tax rate to probably 20 , probably higher, thats the most of critical thing they need to do when discussing taxes . Absolutely. About half all businesses in america and half all gdp is corporate gdp. Republicans are cutting tax rates for corporate businesses and homebuilding businesses. Republicans are cutting your taxes. So that in itself create a powerful voice for tax reform. Kennedy lets talk about 401ks. This is a hot potato. And we are getting so many different answers depending on who you ask. The pretax contribution cap is 15eu9,000. 18,000. But kevin brady wants to lower that to 2,400. At first blush was struck by this. 50 million americans depend on their 401ks to save for retirement. But republicans may be adding new rothstyle accounts on to 401ks. So they would be expanding savings ability for americans. So they would be change the tax treatment of 401ks but creating an opportunity for americans to save. Ill have to see the details on that one. Kennedy Social Security isnt going to be there. Thats a reality of the people in neighbor 40s, 50s are facing. You cant expect the government to save for you, and you cant expect for tolerate the government forcing you to do anything. So isnt the universal Health Savings account the best Case Scenario . Absolutely. We want americans to save more more retirement, for healthcare, for education, for all their family needs. That way they become less dependent on the government. This idea of universal savings accounts which i talked to brady and ryan about. I hope its in the plan they introduce wednesday. Kennedy they are rewriting something. But we wont know what it is until wednesday. President trump will visit south korea during this trip to asia next week. Traders theyre always looking for advantages. The smart ones look to fidelity to find them. We give you research and datavisualization tools to help identify potential opportunities. 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