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The president s longtime lawyer, of course, is about to start a fairly long federal prison sentence in part for his role in those felonies. That lawyers himself, Michael Cohen, and the federal prosecutors who worked that case have put in writing in Court Materials and have said in court that the president himself was not just the beneficiary of that illegal payment scheme, he was the person who directed the commission of those crimes for which Michael Cohen is now going to prison. Now, the other party who prosecutors say took part in those crimes was this as a matter of fact tabloid, and that tabloid escaped prosecution and its executives and officers escaped prosecution for their role in that felony scheme because they cooperated with prosecutors. Under terms that were laid out in this nonprosecution agreement, which pro ....
So that the Washington Post and by extension the American People could get a gander at those documents. Specifical specifically the posts motion called for up redacting a whole bunch of the Court Materials from manaforts case that related to how he broke his plea deal when he repeatedly and the judge ruled intentionally lied to prosecutors. The motion also called for the release of an unredacted version of the sentencing submission filed with the court by Robert Mueller and the special counsels office. It was fascinating, the parts we could see, but large parts of it looked like that. So the post filed to have all that stuff unsealed. And, you know, this is this is actually an important dynamic to watch, you know . Today we got the public release of all of these ....
Panicked note to me and the whole staff. He basically said as a heads up, you guys, on a typical day ill start the day with ten to 15 credible ideas for maddowblog posts. This morning i had 29 and that was before new stuff started happening. Ive never seen steve rattled like that. Hes a very even keel guy. It has, in fact, been a very busy news day and big news stuff. In fact, has kept happening all day. It started actually in the middle of the night last night with the almost unbelievable news that the Trump Administration is going to ask the courts to take away Health Insurance from 1 million who have it today. 21 million americans. You or someone you know has Health Insurance today who didnt used to have it because of the Affordable Care act, because o ....