The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Order is, territory now. And i wonder if theyve had a chance to explain to the president what you reported last week, that under this beefed up postenron witness tampering law, he may have more exposure than he understands. They seem to be leaning on a First Amendment defense, which is not going to hold up if your reporting holds up hes being scrutinized for the way these fit together. What Rudy Giuliani said today is this is ridiculous, the clip you played. The Idea Obstruction by tweet. He said it was bizarre and idiotic and there was nothing to it and the president can express his opinions. The thing about the president and obstruction and collusion, you know, interference or whatever you want to call it is the president usually focuses on the russia question. He says, this is a witch hunt. There was no collusion. He repeats that over and over again. The thing is that does the president rea
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Special counsels case. Then he called gates honesty into question. But charges were brought against manafort before gates agreed to cooperate with the special counsel. Many of the initial charges were based on missing Tax Documents and bank statements. Manaforts lawyers Accused Gates of embezzling money from the pairs Lobbying Firm during work with the ukrainiian politicians. Attorney prosecuting said the republican operative created cash out of thin air. Prosecutors ticked through some of the 30 million that he allegedly wired to the United States without declaring or paying taxes. Spenzing on things like moment renovations and clothes at stores in new york and Beverly Hills where he spent nearly 1. 5 million. Including a 21,000 watch, and a
couple levels. We have a federal Criminal Trial of the president of the United States former Campaign Manager on tens of millions of dollars of fraud. Thats a huge deal. Paul
2 00 p. M. In washington where today the president s lawyers are scrambling to clarify his tweets. It is unusual since the president s lawyers dont respond so quickly to clarify anything, he says, which makes you wonder if the tweet in question got them worried. In a series of official president ial statements, remember the white house has called his tweets official statements, trump called the russia probe a disgrace to the usa and seemed to demand his Attorney General put an end to it. Quote, Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this rigged witch hunt right now before it continues to stain our country any further. As reported in the New York Times last week, Special Counsel Rocky Mountain is keepi m rob Robert Mueller is keeping an eye on the president s twitter. No, say the president s lawyers. Katy Tur hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Clinton campaign, and the indictment of 13 russians and three entities who allegedly used a Sophi
A recap of the days news. Twitter and apparently from watching me on cnn, which he denies, by the way. I know this because he has tweeted a nasty hateful swipe at me and lebron james weve been discussing here. Youve probably read about it or saw it somewhere. I sat down with an nba great after lebron just opened a school for 240 at risk third and forty graders. And during our conversation lebron said this. We are in a position right now in america more importantly where this whole race thing has taken over, and one because i believe our president is kind of trying to divide us. But for him to like i said use sports to kind of divide us is something that i cant i cant sit back and not say nothing. What would you say to the president if he were sitting right here . I would never sit across from him. You would never . You wouldnt want to talk to
him . No. I would sit across from barack, though. He made lebron look smart, which isnt easy to do, i like mike. Unlike this president who lashes
What was he projecting when he was tweeting that meeting at the trump tower was about getting dirt on Hillary Clinton . Why would he tweet something that completely contradicts the statement that they wrote saying it wasnt about that and that he lied to us saying he had nothing to do with it. I rest my case. Come on, hes saying exactly what is happening and exactly what is true about him. He cannot help himself. Listen, you know, chris, we do not take this lightly. When this man was on the campaign trail with every being to be objective and report him in a fair equitable manner. And then when we became president of the United States, the same thing. It always gets me when people say this study shows theres 90 of the reports show about this president are negative, but they dont talk about the things that comes out of his mouth and the policies he proposes and what he says or does to people. How are we as media to report positively on something thats negative . The president called count