Telling the truth. He has no Shadow Hanging over him. The uncertainty is gone. He has stepped up to the line and he has admitted what he did wrong, but he is now liberated to tell the truth. Everything about donald trump that he knows. From this point on youre going to see liberated Michael Cohen speaking truth to power. And we will hear a lot more from cohens lawyer who you just saw there, he is going to be joining morning joe later this morning. After four days of deliberations the jury in the fraud trial of Paul Manafort found President Trumps former Campaign Chairman guilty on eight of the counts against him. The jury has unable to reach a unanimous verdict on the other ten counts manafort faced. His trial marked a critical first stage for Robert Muellers investigation. Pete williams has more. Reporter the jury found Paul Manafort guilty of intentionally dodging taxes on millions of dollars that he earned as a
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part of our democracy, with the freedom of information act, where we ve updated a number of years, senator cornin and i have been the key sponsors of legislation and joined by senator grassley and senator gervin and others to improve the freedom of information act. you talked about the detailed opinions. you ve written to try to do the same thing. i think it s safe to say, you believe transparency is central to the duties of a judge. do you intend to carry that attitude when and you will. and you will. become a member of the u.s. supreme court? thank you, senator. the value of public confidence, which i was just discussing, i
looking for this, but we ve talked a lot how they could take the house. and look for impeachment records being written on day one. and yesterday from federal court michael cohen saying the president directed him to participate in a federal crime, gervin everything that happened yesterday, all of the moving pieces, what are insiders telling you as axios about the president s mind-set following specifically michael cohen s guilty plea? from the mood inside the white house, from folks we spoke to who work in the trump administration, more buoyant have taken on a dark and somber tone. a historian referred to the broader sensitive incident as an inflection point, drawing watergate parallels. interesting, not a good sense of president trump s mood himself. didn t talk about it very much on his way to west virginia,
the corporate tax rate was lowered to 15% and, again, not there was no benefits to it but we didn t see the benefit you re talking about in terms of wages increasing. canadian growth is doing really well. translating into income growth now. not that percentage. don t forget also in canada the canadian regions have a much larger share of overall tax revenue. be afl which rate you look at when sturdies canada. i was at a conference there a year ago, economists said a lot of analysis how the corporate rate benefited canada even a paper with a bunch of curves on the corporate tax base were from canada. dropped lapper s name. on monday. we ll continue this conversation with him. terrific. gervin good to see you. great to be back. keep the conversation going. the kind i want to have about tax policy as opposed to fact