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Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell. presidency took a giant step toward impeachment. it happened in a courtroom in manhattan when these words were spoken. at the direction of, meaning at the direction of the president of the united states. and when a defendant is pleading guilty in court, it is very difficult for the defendant to say something more important than the word guilty. that s usually the most important word a defendant speaks during a guilty plea session. but today in federal court in manhattan michael cohen said guilty, your honor eight times and he s also said at the direction of twice. and both times he meant at the direction of the president of the united states. and so today donald trump made history by becoming the first president of the united states to be accused under oath in federal court of ordering someone to commit a federal crime to win a presidential election. at the direction of. h ....
The day s biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. ricochetting across the political universe tonight which are the ones that involve appear to involve the president of the united states. that he was directed to make payments in coordination with the candidate and with the campaign of president donald trump to two women. one was in one involved a payment to a woman $150,000, believed to be karen mcdougal. the second to a payment believed to be stormy daniels in october of 2016, rather, for $130,000. and for that payment michael cohen told the court that he received restitution for that payment or he received the money back for that payment from the candidate who is believed to be donald trump. throughout this investigation, this particular investigation which stemmed from the special counsel s office, from robert mueller, has been done in coordination with that office and prosecuted by career and seasoned public corruption ....
washington post good morning to wreck. does cohen s guilty plea mean that the president broke the law well it certainly makes it more likely that s people that investigators will figure out that he did break the law in case what cohen said was in fact true but whether that s going to have any legal consequences that s a totally different question ok the legal call a consequence of right now is the possibility of an indictment for the u.s. president how likely is that scenario. well that s an area which is not very likely at the moment because the department of justice has actually done a few analyses in the past and they ve always concluded that indicting we re charging a sitting president is simply impossible so you would have to have a prosecutor who s willing to take the risk to challenge that ok you know we ve seen legal troubles for the president before and for his associates i m thinking of general michael flynn one example is the cohen case different than that well a co ....
thousands and thousands of pages of documents dame kane thank you so much. good to visit with both of you. ed: all right. welcome to this knox news alert. just sent the key findings from special counsel robert mueller s nearly 2-year investigation into russian meddling impossible ties to the trump campaign to congress and there s a verdict. i m ed henry. and i m dana perino, attorney general barr sending to judiciary committees, highlights from the report including that special counsel robert mueller did not exonerate president trump of obstruction of justice or find that he committed a crime. democrats are demanding attorney general send over the whole thing. we will have complete coverage throughout this hour and this evening, let s start with molly, outside of justice department, you have been out there all day, worth the wait. exactly, hi, dana, 2800 subpoenas, 500 search warrants, 50 witnesses interviewed. first look at mueller report, joining me now fox justice d ....
across the midwest. lawlessness of the and they haven t stopped. administration. to the court of public opinion and the political we re live in oklahoma. reality of impeachment or even and nbc news exclusive. an impeachment inquiry, wen we documents revealing thousands of were talking about this a short migrants detained by i.c.e. were time ago. there s a big article in the force good solitary confinement new york times. they talk to folks, people who not for breaking the rules but for being gay, disabled or have left the democratic party in youngstown or at least as mentally ill. voters have left the democratic a federal judge rules party. i m going to reread something i against the trump administration read earlier. ordering the president s one guy said the democratic accounting firm to turn over party has lost its voice to financial documents to congress. speak to people that shower and speaking of congress, a after work and not before work. all we re saying is he won t ....