Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Close associate to Paul Manafort for 12 years, but now hes flipped, he pleaded guilty, and hes telling all he knows to prosecutors. So, it will be interesting when he is back on the stand for more Cross Examination this morning. Christine and phil . Jessica, thank you for that. Legal woes multiplying for michael cohen. The Wall Street Journal reporting President Trumps former lawyer and fixer is now under investigation for tax fraud. Sources tell the journal the federal prosecutor in manhattan is looking into whether cohen underreported income from his taxi medallion business. The Taxi Licenses yielded hundreds of thousands of dollars over the last five years. The Wall Street Journal also reporting federal investigators are looking into possible fraud against the bank that financed cohens taxi medallion business. Cohen has not been charged with a crime, and the journal reports he previously denied wrongdoing. Firefighte
Information he needs to wrap up the case within weeks. We do not want to run into the november elections. Back up from that. This should be over with september 1st. We have now given him an answer. He obviously should take a few days to consider it. We should get this resolved. Giuliani says the Trump Legal Team says this should wrap up before the november election. He believes republicans will benefit if the probe drags into november. Prosecutors in the bank and Tax Fraud Trial of Paul Manafort expect to rest the case against the former Campaign Boss on friday. The defense will present its case. 18 witnesses have testified. Notably rick gates. A former adviser to the trump campaign. Also taking the stand is a former irs agent on how manafort avoided paying taxes on millions
phil. Matthew, it wasnt just democrats, but republican chairman in the house asking to impose sanctions. Another round could come in a couple of months. Matthew chance, thank you. China vows to fight back against t
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Russias largest Arms Expo Set to Desk Plisplay the fighter je hyper sonic missile. Another way they want to challenge america. Guys. Fascinating. Fred live for us this morning in russia. Thank you. Three minutes past the hour. Imagine a world where you and your allies are under investigation, but you get to dictate how the investigation proceeds. President trump using monday about pushing Robert Mueller aside and running the russia investigation himself. In an interview, the president has chosen not to get involved in the probe. He says i dont have to stay out as you know. I can go in and i could do whatever. I could run it if i want. Jeff mason was on the reuters team that interviewed the president. He was out of it. It was better if he did. It is interesting. He was making it clear he viewed it as a decision and he made the
decision to stay out. It wasnt the only option he had. President trump also said he is concerne
A recap of the days news. A recap of the days news. A stay will be lifted in a civil case ear you will have the right to depose trump. So why do think youll be able to depose and what you think youre going to get. Stkpwhrrs the entire purpose of the stay was, as argued by Michael Cohens attorneys too, see whats going to hap in in the governments investigation. It its basically over because he skwrusz pled out two days ago. As it relates to the deposition, weve laid out our rational and i think were on better footing now, first of Michael Cohen, of tkaopb don. What the president knew, what the Communications Burr Tween him and Michael Cohen. What they did to cover up the existence of the nba, the flow of money. Theres a host of issues that go to the heart of our case. And i also believe theres a significant likelihood were going to follow that up with the president. When we come back another big legal issue for the president. One that. My name is jeff sheldon,
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Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. 11 00 p. M. In hawaii. We will have the projections of Hurricane Lane. We start with the white house. The white house struggles to contain the fallout from the Michael Cohen guilty plea. President trump is turning to personal attacks. Cohen implicated trump for coordinating Hush Payments to a porn star to sway an election. Yesterday with an interview with fox news, the president tried to minimize cohens role in life and in business. He was one of many lawyers for me. They say the lawyer and they like to say the fixer. I dont know where that term came from. I dont know if he was a fixer. He has been a lawyer for me. He did not do big deals. Small deals. Not somebody with me that much. Somebody who said i did not live without him. I understood Michael Cohen very well. He turned out not to be a very good lawyer. Thats what the president says now about the man who once
what he did, some of the charges they threw against him