Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. New york. Day 579 of the Trump Administration turns out was the day the president was placed in real legal jeopardy. Here is the story from tomorrows front page of the New York Times. Cohen pleads guilty implicated president. The president s former personal lawyer turned himself into the fbi today and stood in Federal Court and pleaded guilty to eight charges including two related to rush Money Payments to women which he admitted were at the direction of his boss, donald trump, for the purpose of influencing the 2016 election. Cohen pleaded guilty to tax evasion and lying to a financial institution, as well as two Campaign Finance violations. Again, both involving trumps quest for the white house. The payoffs described match the cases of Karen Mac Dougall and stormy daniels. This case is being brought by the feds. Attorney for the Eastern District of virginia. Also happens to be a senior official
Howard: what, if any, missteps did the strum p team make? make up your mind going in if your position is at the non-disclosure agreements on legal, then you can t treat them like kryptonite in the trial. saying to the jury they re fine and have trump take the position he needs to stay a million miles away from him and it s all cohen. then the other thing they did, howie, that i just don t get is they open to the jury telling them that trump never reimbursed cohen and it was like an avalanche of evidence that reimbursed cohen out of his own mouth. howard: yeah, and signed checks and all that. yep. howard: do you think, obviously, a former president being a
But you can t sustain too many days where the president s former fixer lawyer stands up in court and said i committed crimes at the request of the president. and look the other way. they did it after that access hollywood tape. they ve done it after every sort of these are serious crimes being charged of the people that were closest to this president. michael schmidt, i don t know that anyone at the new york times has assigned the side bar. i suppose it s plausible that today was the day on two fronts when the good guys, meaning men and women woman. in northern virginia, a jury of paul manafort s peers acquitted themselves well and put in a lot of effort in that case. and in new york, we got to work watch the career publicer is vanlts of the southern district of new york. one of them actually called cohen out as a fellow lawyer. as someone who had disregarded his training and tradition. but to a lot of people watching,
Court and said i committed crimes at the request of the president and look the other way. they did it after that access hollywood tape. they ve done it after bleep hole countries. they ve done it after every sort of norm gets broken. but these are serious crimes being charged of the people that were closest to this president. michael schmidt, i don t know that anyone at the new york times has assigned this side bar. but i suppose it s plausible. that today was the day on two fronts when the good guys, meaning men and women, won. in northern virginia a jury of paul manafort s citizen if not financial peers acquitted themselves well and put in a lot of earnest effort in that case. and in new york we got to work we got to watch the career public servants of the southern district of new york, one of them actually called cohen out as a fellow lawyer, as someone who had disregarded his training and tradition. but to a lot of people watching it felt leek a recentering today. part of