The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Its not like somebody former president got to report, somebody gave a little more than the minimum, some pac didnt follow a small regulation. This is a fundamental thing. The nominee at the closing days of the campaign, when he thought his campaign was on the line and a story or two stories potentially threatened his nomination went be and said, i have to make this story go away, according to Michael Cohen and said, go make this go away and pay for it. I think that goes not in a resistance way at all. A much more dramatic and more accurate way of stating what happened there. And, yes, it implicates the president in the commission of a felony, but it also implicates the president in what is now a growing sense that a lot of people have and not just resistance people, that this is one more way in which the 2016 election was facacta. Harry litman, were in dangerous territory here. Two nonlawyers
A recap of the days news. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. You want to Pay Attention to this hour. Weve got a lot going on. Its 11 00 p. M. On the east coast. Were live with breaking news tonight. A source tells cnn that white house staffers are stunned by todays news. The men who led the president s campaign for five critical months leading up to the election found guilty in Federal Court. Former Trump Campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty of eight Financial Crime charges. A victory for Robert Mueller in the first trial to come out of his investigation. While the president continues to push the lie that the case against manafort wasnt part of the Special Counsels original mission, i want you to look at what the Trump Appointed Acting Attorney General wrote. Mueller is authorized to investigate any links and or coordination between the russian
even his childrens telephones. Well, now he has stepped up to the line and he can now speak again and he feels liberated. How far is he willi
credibility, and robert mueller if i could, robert mueller might have been on the short list for fbi director. and he was not given that chance, and instead came here and somehow trump is trying to spin that as if he has something against him. i think nothing could be further from the truth. robert mueller, for anyone who knows him, has worked with him, does not hold personal grievances and i don t think wanted to take a second shot at having that job. he d been fbi director a long period of time before that. he s trying to dee legitimatize rod rosenstein saying he was the deputy. he had the biggest purview over the investigation. it was his memo that led to the firing or at least justified the firing of jim comey and it s his next guidance, his next assignment was to hire robert mueller as special counsel. so dee legitimatizing him by saying he s only a deputy doesn t go very far. i do think kristen is right to point out this is big, he s saying let the people see it. although that mi
judiciary chairman jerry nadler of new york says the firing of jeff sessions is a crisis moment. that s what he s calling it. so what can democrats do to protect the mueller investigation? it s going to take more than taking to the streets. that s a good start, i m sure. joining me now is congressman david sisalini on the foreign affairs committee. good to have you on. thank you, sir. my pleasure. what do you think of the protesters first, what we saw in the video from chicago? does that give you at least some sort of inspiration to make sure that this investigation is protected? well, i mean, it s great to see people engaged in protecting our democracy all over the country, but we don t need any more inspiration. our love of america is going to require us to do that. the president has attempted to undermine this investigation from the very beginning. he s attempted in many ways to impede, to dee legitimatize, to
democrats in congress as candidates, but they haven t been able to coherently put them all together and puch it in such a way. we re heading into 2019. we are going to have 20, 25 democrats running for their party s nomination. there will be no coherency. i ve always suspected he wants to bring up the h. because he s still angry. this is what some of his aides have told me. he s still angry that he s had to acknowledge, at least on one occasion, that, yes, barack obama was born in the united states and that whole birther argument he made for such a long time was clearly wrong. he resents the fact that he had to acknowledge that he doesn t like to lose, we know that about him. but david is right. this is in his repertoire. not only to other eyes, but to dee legitimatize in particular people of color. we heard it about andrew gillum. we heard it about stacey abrams.