Speaker fired, it has been a day for the history books. Indeed. Kevin mccarthys old job will no longer no doubt safe to say, jake and anderson, of course, the news continues tonight. Our special coverage here certainly does. Joining me now, abby phillip and laura coates. Good evening, everyone, i am abby phillip alongside my colleagues laura coates and kaitlan collins. This is a Special Edition of Cnn Primetime for an unprecedented moment in the history of the United States. The headline tonight the American Government is broken. The tyranny of a minority is now paralyzing this countries institutions. Depending on where you might stand politically, it could be for better or worse, in your view, but right now, here is where we are there is currently no speaker of the house and, after narrowly avoiding a shutdown, the government is set to run out of money in less than 45 days. And houses now leaving for a week. Now, all of this is because, for the very first time ever, republicans have s
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. His plea agreement, including that he stole some hundreds of thousands of dollars from Paul Manafort, rick gates did, by filing false expense claims. So really, just a long list. It was remarkable to be there in the courtroom as rick gates over the course of 80 minutes detailing that long list of alleged crimes. So allegedly, theyre both Stealing Money through not paying taxes and other means, and then gates is also Stealing Money from manafort . Thats exactly right. So you have listen, this is one of those cases when i was inside there, anderson, having followed a mob priel or two, it struck me as you had the case of the bob boss there with his capo testifying against him. Of course in many cases like this, the person who is gates witness doesnt have the cleanest record himself. And that certainly holds true for rick gates. I should mention he also pleaded guilty to lying to federal prosecuto
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Knowing that was illegal. Cnn chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto is covering the trial. He joins us. Now what more did gates say on the stand . Anderson, you had the deputy there sitting within ten feet of his former his longtime boss, documenting by his accounts numerous crimes, alleged crimes by his boss, Paul Manafort. And the list started with them setting up 15 Foreign Bank Accounts which they did not report to the government for the purposes of hiding taxes. He said that they filed false income tax returns. He said they failed to file as foreign agents even though they were working as agents for a Foreign Government, in this case the prorussian Government Of Ukraine at the time. And rick gates said he did all of this, his words, all of this at the direction of Paul Manafort, saying these are crimes we did together, in
and that certainly holds true for rick gates. I should
i do see a commonality, and the common denominator is the president is responding to people who have said things that have been negative or harsh and attacked him personally or attacked his character. the president has done this to african-americans, to white people, to white men, to white women, to members of his own cabinet. professor west, do you think there s a commonality in no. he has called some white sisters dumb. i think he called sister mika on msnbc dumb. he uses dumb across race, across gender. but the problem is that when he focuses on people of color and talks about that uses that kind of language, we have a history that goes a long way that accents the deep white supremacist overtones even as he s calling a white male dumb or white woman dumb. so that, yes, paris, it s true.
we know that the parameters have been, you know, something in terms of an in-person interview about the whole notion of collusion and the connections he or people who worked for him had during the campaign with any russians and what the president s team has been fighting is any question or questions about while he was president, and that would have to do with potential obstruction of justice. dana bash, dana, thanks. thank you. so now that the president s current strategy at least on twitter is to say the trump tower meeting was legal, something that s done all the time, it didn t go anywhere and he didn t know about it, there s a lot to talk about. the story has changed multiple times. we ll talk about whether that matters next. the louisiana purchase, is complete! instant purchase notifications from capital one . technology this helpful. could make history. what s in your wallet? but climbing 58,070 steps a year can be hard on her feet,