He has the inside scoop coming up. First, chief National Correspondent ed henry kicks off the coverage with breaking news. Good evening. Great to see you. The District Attorneys Office here in manhattan is thinking about bringing criminal charges against President Trumps business, the trump organization, in connection with how officials they are reimbursed Attorney Cohen for his payments to that adult film performer. According to the New York Times tonight. The president said months ago of the special counsel started probing his business dealings, that would be what he called a redline that could spark Robert Muellers firing. This is more complicated because it would be State Charges against the trump organization, not federal charges brought by mueller. It would be harder to justify a meal or firing perhaps. Plus the president has the power to pardon Paul Manafort or anyone else for federal charges but he does not have Clear Authority to pardon people or corporations for criminal char
A recap of the days headlines and a look at whats in store for tomorrow. Lawyer would have done what Jeff Sessions did. He was part of the campaign, you cant oversee an investigation of a campaign you were part of so he had to recuse himself. Shannon why does the president get that . I dont know. Is that a lawyer, he is frustrated, he thinks this is a witchhunt, jeff did the right thing legally but mueller is now very deep into his investigation. This conflict is far beyond mueller and recusal. This is not a good working relationship from what i can tell. For the good of the nation we need an Attorney General that has the confidence of the president and im not blaming Jeff Sessions. There is no finer man but at the end of the day there are plenty of conservative judges and lawyers that i think could do this job, the we can get somebody confirmed but if he does replace Jeff Sessions the burden will be on the president to pick somebody highly qualified, give mueller the space he needs to
shannon: we had pulling out yesterday, congress picked up to 23% approval which for them is good. to be out of the teens is gigantic. you know that americans hate congress but they like their member. the other 434 jerks come i don t like them. shannon: let s talk about races. new jersey. the democrat incumbent, senator bob menendez, he is in a lot of legal trouble. one of the stats that came out about him said 49% of people there polled believe he has been involved in serious wrongdoing. he has been cleared legally. he has a tighter race than people would expect. you member pigpen from the charlie brown cartoon with the stink waves. menendez has a stink wave situation. a guy gaming the medicare system
being friends with the guy gaming the medicare system and being friendly friends with this guy is not a good look. even in new jersey where there might be a lower standard in west virginia, lower standard for ethical conduct among politicians and the republicans, self funding, moderate businessman who offered a viable alternative so the race looks close. you mentioned texas earlier. within four points. a charismatic house member, running against ted cruz in the race looks close but all i would sell you all i would say to you is august is going to look different than late september. what will happen is partisans will come home to roost and both parties are looking at fools gold whether it is new jersey or texas i don t know. shannon: a lot of undecideds out there.