I havent heard mueller say a word in a year. The lead starts right now twitter, pressure, President Trump calling on his Attorney General to quote stop the investigation into himself and his team. He may have given the Special Counsel all new evidence in the property sechlts a lead exclusive, something that may have been unthinkable the tsa considering ending security screening at 150 airports in this country to save money. Is this what President Trump meant by make america safe again . Plus from the target corners of the web to the trump rally who are the fringe theorists who call themselves qanon. Hello, im jake tapper, President Trump escalating the russia version going each further in his calls to shut down a Law Enforcement investigation into his team, far
before from this president or any president since richard nixon. Trump tweeting quote Attorney General jeff session should stop this witch hunt right now bist continues to stain our country any further, this is now official white house language for describing a Law Enforcement investigation. Signed on by the president s own Justice Department and the own fbi director is not a witch hunt. Heres the spokesperson for the most powerful planet this an. Its ridiculous the corruption and dishonesty thats gone on with the launching of the witch hunt. The entire investigation is based off a dirty, discredited dossier. All right, that last statement from sanders is a like of course. The investigation was launched before the dossier was drafted. It has continued gathering evidence since, including during the trump presidency. Special counsel mueller is investigating whether or not the
team has special Obstruction Of Justice at play. The president s lawyer Rudy Guiliani quickly stepped in to insist the president ial tweet calling for his Attorney General to stop a Law Enforcement investigation was not obstruction because the president said should not that he must stop the investigation. Guiliani claiming that the president was merely expressing his penalties. She should do it. This afternoon, sanders echoed that. I do mean echo. Its not an order, it is a penalties. The president is stating his penalties. There is no reason he shouldnt be able vice his penalties. The president stated his penalties. I think i stated this ten times now. Its the president s penalties. Penalties or official orderer, Susan Collins glanced to when a bloom borg News Reporter read her the tweet. Jeez. This is unbelievable. Those comments are totally
The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. Us a proposal. We responded to their proposal. They took about ten days and yesterday we got a letter back from them. Now were in the process of responding to their proposal. How much of this is ka bookie . Do you think there is anyway the legal team for the president will let mueller interview him . It will be hard to respond to what he said that jeff session should do . But what is interesting, we are learning more about this letter. What this letter essentially one person described it on the trump team is saying is baby stems. However, its significant in that its clear based on this letter, on this information we now have, that mueller still wants trump to do a sit down. That is not going. They are willing to do some written questions according to this source we spoke to. But significant in all of this is that mueller still wants trump to do a sit down. You know, jark it could perhaps explain some of the president s
response and all his tweets. Certainly significant in many ways that they are still in negotiation and mueller wants this interview. All right, thanks so much. I want to play another interesting bit of sound from the briefing. Take a listen, its Major Garrett from cbs asking a question. If its corrupt, why Doesnt The President act or use the power . Smr once again the president is allowed why doesnt he follow through on this . Once again the president allowed this process to play out. He thinks its the time to come to an end. Its a thing if he wanted it to end, he could order Rod Rosenstein to enit. He would pull an Elliot Richardson and resign before that. As kaylin said, its odd. Either he doesnt know the process or knows the process and this is a political step. Ultimately, he has the power to do it. Look, their Talking Point continues to be for months to month, it should end. There is no evidence. Any legal expert will tell you because it ended doesnt mean they have anything. This will play out. Its unlikely, it seems that mueller will come out and conclude right near the election. We are getting close. Can you guess that might be into next 84. So it doesnt seem like it will end any time soon. I think its important when you say there is something there or not. I think mueller, with respect to the president or the president s son are looking at perhaps ob suction or some tuned of a Perjury Type Thing in the fbi. Theyre certainly not looking at conclusion. With the Manafort Trial you have one guy with all the wes e connections. Look at all the charges. You dont have any idea what theyre looking at or dont. I know hes on trial. We know theyre looking at everything from collusion to obstruction. To say theyre not the charges they brought against Paul Manafort, who is against people they have indicted. It has nothing to do with collusion. Right . Hes the guy with the russian connections. There is papadopoulos. Carter paige, michael flint. Look. Cohen who is currently under a total separate investigation could pop up in the Mueller Vechlgs i think its important for us to remember that we only know but a fraction, but a bit of what Robert Mueller knows. In keeping with that point, we are speculating on the teeny tidbits or the tip of the ice be thaerg we actually have. So we dont know. So we should not pontificate few will like the president should about went will end, we have no idea. To follow up, there have been critics that said muellers probe could expand. We saw yesterday, he seems to be trying to combat that and push bag on that he referred those cases to the Southern District of new york. He seems to keep his scope to a limited amount and expand to
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central player in the trial. During opening statement, they deflected blame to rick gates saying he embezzled millions from manafort and turned on him after he came under pressure on muellers team. They say it was gates who had his hand in the cookie jar. Gates pleaded to two charges the in d. C. And is now cooperating with the Special Counsel, already they have called democratic consultants that worked with manafort during his lobbying work in ukraine and fbi agent matthew mancusa, he searched the condo. And says they knocked three times, disputeing some news reports it was a no knock raid. He says agents announced the fbi was there to execute a Search Warrant when agents walked in, manafort was standing nearby, he testified. The agent alleged told the jury manaforts name was on Self Documents showing loan and wire
transfer invoices. One document was a Loan Agreement with a California Bank who is listed as one of the victims of manaforts alleged fraud. Judge ellis blocked them from showing certain photos illustrating his extravagant spending, rebuking, saying mr. Manafort is not on trial for having a lavish lifestyle. They did hear from an employee at a high end store, saying manafort was one of the stores top five buyers and manafort was the only client who paid with Wire Transfers. And its been a flurry of witnesses this afternoon the jury has heard from a Mercedes Benz employee and Real Estate Agent and contractor talking about Hits Penchant for luxury items. All of them have talked about the fact manafort paid via a Wire Transfer from those off shore accounts. Thank you so much. Lets talk to our experts, glen,
prosecutors today said gates might not steph. What does that say to you . And do you think they can get a conviction without him . Jake, it says to me if they dont call gates that means they have more than enough evidence, well beyond a reasonable doubt absent gates the i prosecuted thoroughly 30 years, recently retiempld i tell you if i were going to patriot cooperating witness on the stand, can you bet i would stand up in option and tell the jury what a cooperating witness is all about. How they enter into Plea Agreement that may reduce their charges, which may seem they have an incentive to tell the lie. But they have a incentive to tell the truth. If they fail to testify truthfully, we rip up the Plea Agreement and revise her to charges and their maximum exposure to prince time goes up. As prosecutors we need to lay all of that out for the jury if we intend to put a cooperating witness on the stand. I talk to people inside the courtroom during the Opening Statements and the prosecutors didnt go there. They referred to gates, but they neff explained much about his Plea Agreement what a cooperating witness s. I think thats a signal they may not call him in this trial. Interesting. What does this play to you . I love playing this on tv. It looks on an shuchlt number one, lets step back. The feds dont lose that many cases. Secondly in this case, are you not talking about the feds. You are talking about Robert Mueller, the fbi director, witnessing injustice at the Department Of Justice and the fbi. Lastly i would say this is not about he said, she said. You are looking at emails and phone records. I dont know why manafort didnt play, maybe as we were discussing in The Green Room before, maybe its because mueller didnt offer him a plea. If he walks away unconvicted. I will eat a hat the day on your
show the day after he walks. Hes not going to walk. Glen, im thinking about you eating a hat. Well make it a make America Great hat. That will be the Poetic Justice of it. Prosecutors are Pangt Manafort as greedy, he had ill gone gains. One of the things is you show the lavish lifestyle the skrunl today blocked prosecutors from showing the jury the luxury photos, looking i understand theest, at some point its not relevant. What do you make of that . You are absolutely right. We do like to show how manafort got the ill gotten gains. Do you need to show the Mansion Homes and putting greens and the ostrich jacket . I think judge ellis is doing a couple things here. He is gaining the evidence as it comes in. He sees it mounting, his job is not only to give Paul Manafort a fair trial but to protect the
record on appeal in the event Paul Manafort is convicted. The way a judge does that is he begins to reign in the prosecutors when he senses the lavish lifestyle is a little overkill and ratchet it back to something more relevant. This is dead on. The prosecutors are walking in saying let me give this 21 a shot. I want to persuade the jury, this is a rich guy and you wasted a lot of money the judge says, I Dont Begrudge what the prosecutors did the judge says appropriately, i live in this neighborhood. Theres a lot of rich people over there. The judge says being rich is not a crime. I want to see the evidence whether he inappropriately transferred money. I think he shut it down. Whats the point about provingb is rich . There is a lot of rich people. Another interesting thing judge ellis did was tell them not to use the word oligarchs
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