Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york and it is all happening today. We are picking up our special coverage of the tangled legal web now being faced by the four times indicted expresident donald trump today. A collision of two of his criminal cases with massive consequences, not just for the man, the party he leads, but also for the presidency. Our countrys democracy. The Supreme Court heard arguments this morning on trumps claim of president ial immunity leaving the fate and timing of the federal Election Interference trial, a big blank Open Question for now, but what is happening at this hour and what is certain is that the trial that could end up being the only criminal trial that expresident faces before americans go to the polls again in 2024 is the one brought by alvin bragg over falsifying Business Records to cover up hush money to a porn star and keep that silent ahead of a national election. Former National Enquirer ceo david pecker is still on the stand and hes being cross exami
A recap of the days news. A recap of the days news. As part of his plea deal he agreed to cooperate with muellers investigation, and then theres dutch lawyer Alex Van Der Zwaan Who pled guilty to lying to investigators about his discussions with gates. He served 30 days in prison and was deported to the netherlands in june. Richard pinedo pled guilty to Election Fraud running a business selling dummy Bank Accounts to shadowy buyers including russians to sew discord in american politics. His lawyer said he didnt know the identity of his customers. He cooperated with muellers investigation as well. Fired Trump National security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his conversations with former Russian Ambassador to the u. S. Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and hes been cooperating with the special counsel investigation. His Sentencing Hearing was delayed for the fourth time today. Former Trump Campaign adviser George Papadopoulos pled guilty to making a false statemen
A recap of the days news. An admitted liar and is lying now to help the government. It doesnt behoove him to lie. It would hurt him. If he said this was done at the president s direction he better have proof, and if he doesnt, they say it in the plea agreement, the allocution, when the judge tells you, you know, the deal right before sentencing, if you want to say anything, he took that opportunity. If hes lying hes dying in terms what have this deal means. We both know Michael Cohen from the campaign and just from being a character, a person here in new york. Again, this is a total 180 for him. I cannot wait to hear him speak. I cannot wait to hear his side of the story. Boy, is that going to be amazing. I cant wait to seat proof. Lanny davis just said, i said do you think he knows more things about wrongdoing by the president or even any potential criminal behave i dont remember and he said yes, and he said well see what happens. He wants to Tell The Truth but, yes, i believe he know
and share it with congress at least from 50,000 feet. that said, the fact that giuliani seems to be engaged in what could be viewed as political activity, that s likely to generate concern among campaign finance lawyers. campaign finance law is unevenly enforced in this country, and it s often not treated in a very robust way by the courts and federal prosecutors, but the unusual activity surrounding the ukraine question and the behavior of trump s lawyers, especially giuliani, of course, is likely the to the raise concerns. giuliani has said multiple times he s representing president trump pro bono. he s not getting paid and that raises questions about whether or not his work here is a thing of value he s providing to the trump campaign. that would trigger certainly requirements. and it raises questions as to who is paying for the trips to ukraine. it s not very cheap to get over there at this point. according to house democrats,
necessarily even a crime. and it has been proven by many times that this is a civil action. giuliani said that today, but it is not necessarily a civil action. i mean, if it is found we re talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars two weeks ahead of an election. he s directing what michael cohen said were specifically dirty deeds. we ve also seen in the past that campaign finance violations have been handed civilly. president obama took millions of dollars in misreported donations. he was fined $375,000. bernie sanders had illegal foreign assistance during his campaign in 2016. he was fined $14,500. i would just point out none of that was deliberate. it was discovered. but what we also know, and this was brought up in a very good piece this week on the hill is that to knowingly and willfully violate the law, you actually have to know that it s against the law. you have the fec commissioners and many campaign finance