Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Here in new york. Day 581 of the trump administration, and just tonight a short time ago, in fact, new legal troubles potentially for the president on a new front. Well let the New York Times tell it. Quote, the Manhattan District Attorneys Office is considering pursuing criminal charges against the Trump Organization and two Senior Company officials in connection with Michael Cohens Hush Money Payment to an adult film actress, according to two officials of the matter. A State Investigation would settle on how the company accounted for its reimbursements to mr. Cohen for the 130,000 he paid to the actress, stephanie clifford, who has said she had an affair with President Trump, closed quote. Mostly along those same lines a big story today had to do with a long time friend of the president who has apparently turned on him. The publisher of the national
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damaging. of course that kicked off the impeachment drama with clinton. clinton survived. how did he survive, why did he survive and what does that tell us about trump s situation now? number one, there s this, when the lewinsky story broke he was very popular, already at 60% in the polls. and the numbers didn t crash. they kept going up. clinton was forced in the summer of 98 to admit to the affair. his popularity got higher. september 98, almost exactly 20 years ago ken starr came out with a report that formally accused the president of the a imcro crime, committing perjury. the white house party, we tell you every time we re on this doing election previews this year, the white house party always loses seats. they gained seats. that told folks there was a backlash against the idea of impeaching clinton. this is the bottom line story of 1998. by the end of that year when impeachment was being pushed by republicans the question was asked, did the president of the united states commit
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committed a crime, the crime of perjury, the crime of suborning perjury, committing others to commit perjury to cover up an extra marital affair that could be politically damaging. of course that kicked off the impeachment drama with clinton. clinton survived. how did he survive, why did he survive and what does that tell us about trump s situation now? number one, there s this, when the lewinsky story broke he was 41% in the polls. and the numbers didn t crash. they kept going up. clinton was forced in the summer of 98 to admit to the affair. his popularity got higher. ken starr came out with a report accusing the president of a crime, perjury. the white house party, we tell you every time we re on this doing election previews this
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