lawyer is testifying in a matter of hush payments in a federal court in west texas behind closed doors, no cameras, no audio recordings. we start there because what happens in this courtroom and this judge decides could ultimately have consequences for every single woman and every single family in america oral arguments took place in a case brought by anti-abortion groups challenges the completely legal, completely safe long-ago approved routine and decades old use of medication for abortion those groups today asked a judge to order a stop to the use of an abortion pill as their case makes its way through the courts it s reported at the hearing the judge, quote, asked government lawyers on wednesday about what he characterized as an accelerated process for approving one of two drugs used in most pregnancy terminations nationwide in response the justice department lawyer said there s tremendous evidence showing this pill as safe, even when a doctor does not administer it it s
Manager, respectively. We are waiting to hear from the lawyers. But we can tell you at this point, the president is off to West Virginia to continue doing what he does. As president of the United States, a town in economic recovery. We will leave it up to that. The five is not. Welcome to the five. We are covering three breaking new stories this out. Guilty of 8 of 18 counts in his child. Have Major Developers with Michael Cohen. President trumps lawyer reaching a plea deal. In a News Conference in iowa after missing College Student Mollie Tibbetts has been found. We will bring you there live as soon as heavens. We will head to chief National Correspondent ed henry for latest on the cohen plea deal. First, live in alexandria, virginia, for the verdict of Paul Manafort. Just in the last 45 or 60
seconds, we watch as kathleen mena fort, all metal parts wife exits surrounded by cameras and reporters asking how she thinks and how she feels. She did not respond. Now we wait for manaforts De
prosecutors who i keep coming back to the same thing but the sdny found trump to have committed crimes of campaign fraud violations in two instances and they alleged that he committed those crimes, they were so sure of it, they put it in black and white it s in the public record. he was president then. he hasn t been for over two years. prosecutors, as human beings, have looked at trump s crimes and criminality and they are not a flat line. they are on a scale of escalating brazenness and have decided over and over and over and over again to do nothing i wonder what you think the rule of law stands to lose or gain this week if bragg decides to charge trump we are at the precipice of a remarkable moment in our presidential history, in our nation s history i have to tell you, i do have concerns about this case
president trump, or candidate trumpet it is someone who is tied to trump world. he is tied to all of that. then you have the president s former personal attorney, pleading guilty to eight counts, bank fraud, tax fraud, campaign fraud violations i just heard from ed henry on the same day within a few hours. in the michael cohen situation, it s exponentially more explosive when it comes to direct ties to the president, specifically on the campaign finance issue. juan: i think people are going to wonder, what is the president s next move? let me ask you that. how does the president respond to michael cohen, rudy giuliani, his lawyer, would expect to hear? i don t know. i think you would expect some of the same terminology that you heard from rudy giuliani, before they are going to parse that this was not campaign finance violation, but when you have michael cohen leading guilty to