Special counsel. Is he hoping for a pardon from President Trump . Not only is he not hoping for, he would not accept a pardon. We all knew that this was going to be used as a hush money kind of payment from Campaign Finances. You knew at the time . We knew. The conviction of Paul Manafort is another blow to President Trump and a boost for Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Mr. Manafort is disappointed of not getting acquittals all the way through or a complete hung jury on all counts. He is evaluating all of his options at this point. Its a bad day for the president and im sure he understands that. It looks like manafort and cohen only have more to say, only may cooperate more. This could get worse. I dont think he can be indicted while sitting in office, but well just have to see where this all works out. The heart and soul of this is about collusion with the russians and obstruction of justice. First of all, the House Of Representatives draws up articles of impeachment. Think of the hou
The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. Against Michael Cohen. But give us your testimony and well sort out who needs to get charged. It can depend. It may not be with regard to state crimes. I know there was some talk today that the state the District Attorney locally looking in to trumps issues as well. It is just not general immunity for all things everywhere, but specifically as it relates to this. And this is the u. S. Attorney who granted immunity to weisselberg in the cohen case, but as you point out, we learned the manhattan d. A. Is also considering pursuing criminal case involving the Trump Organization and two of its executives. Do you think that those two jurisdictions are talking to each other . I would guess they are. One of the hall marks of effective Law Enforcement and prosecution is cooperating with other offices. If you look back at the cohen case, it seems to be the case that that sprung out of the states investigation of this guy friedman. S
to me it means we have to take that step back from being hand in glove with the defense. a reminder that senator murkowski is on our list of key senators to watch in the weeks to come. she s not up for reelection until 2022 but she has been known to break from party lines before including voting against brett kavanaugh the supreme court nominee. cnn s lauren fox and tamara keith. and from west palm beach, florida, michael sheerer with new york times. let s talk a little bit about murkowski. she can raise concerns about the process but ultimately the key question is how does she vote, how does she vote on compelling witnesses to come testify. does she vote against any sort of rule that does not have a deal or witnesses and documents. how does she vote on acquit tall. she also criticized house democrats in her statement.
something of an essence of a green light signaling to president trump that he would potentially be okay if president trump wanted to fire sessions after the midterm elections. also, notingly yesterday, we heard from another key republican, senator grassley, his comments really telegraphing a bit of the same sentiment. senator grassley s chairman of the senate judiciary committee. he had previously said about the potential that he didn t have time to get another nominee through his committee but yesterday he changed the tune a bit saying potentially there would be time if trump wanted to fire sessions and led to another nominee and would have time after brett kavanaugh the supreme court nominee, getting him through. that a small but significant shift of grassley. he said publicly he had nothing to do with the back and forth
a former attorney general has written in the new york times that a president can be indicted and the trial postponed until he s not president and he writes, that should not however preclude a grand jury from indicting a president when the facts and the law warrant even if the trial itself has to be postponed until he or she is no longer in office. can you give me your thoughts on that? sure. its a debatable question but the bulk of the authority is in favor that the sitting president cannot be indicted. in fact, that s what the justice department has concluded in its official regulations. robert mueller has said he will abide by those regulations. mueller has made clear he will not indict the president as part of his investigation. interestingly, brett kavanaugh the supreme court nominee when he was working for kenneth star said it was an open question and he thought the president could be indicted or at least as you suggested indict the by a grand jury and the trial would take pla