Special counsel. Is he hoping for a pardon from President Trump . Not only is he not hoping for, he would not accept a pardon. We all knew that this was going to be used as a hush money kind of payment from Campaign Finances. You knew at the time . We knew. The conviction of Paul Manafort is another blow to President Trump and a boost for Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Mr. Manafort is disappointed of not getting acquittals all the way through or a complete hung jury on all counts. He is evaluating all of his options at this point. Its a bad day for the president and im sure he understands that. It looks like manafort and cohen only have more to say, only may cooperate more. This could get worse. I dont think he can be indicted while sitting in office, but well just have to see where this all works out. The heart and soul of this is about collusion with the russians and obstruction of justice. First of all, the House Of Representatives draws up articles of impeachment. Think of the hou
president told reporters on air force one he didn t know about the payments cohen arranged while he was president he said that, but a month later on may 3rd he finally acknowledged that he did know about the payments which cohen says were meant to effect the outcome of the election. joining me now, former assistant director of the fbi ron hossco and former senior vice president of the national enquirer, stu z-ak a.m. the president is implicated in michael cohen s court documents. we can forget about the technicality of whether its an unindicted co-conspirator or whether he s the elections violations are not actually criminal, the fact is, michael cohen has confessed to making these payments for the purpose of influencing the outcome of the election. now what happens? well, look, if i m robert mueller, if i m looking through his eyes, i m looking at the
senator? rosenstein, who he s holding up there as someone who did the right thing, is the guy who referred this to the southern district of new york, where trump s appointee went ahead and went for this search warrant. what do you make of his response to the question? i think the question is frustrated that the attacks keep coming and that everything he s trying to do in running the country, like dealing with the issue of syria, keeps getting side tracked with more and more investigations. i understand frankly, i sympathize with the president s frustration with jeff sessions recusing himself. i don t think there should have been a special counsel. i ve said that on this network for over a year now, because they can be endless, as we saw with ken starr and a lot of others. but you got, what, 16 people charged? i mean, hard to say it wasn t worth doing. with all due respect, erin, none of them with respect to what the investigation was all about. collusion with the russians. i