Kate Bolduan gives a fresh take on todays top stories. Reporting violations where they failed to report some things inadvertently. I think in the obama case it was what are called 48hour report, failure to report contributions. In none of those cases that im aware of has the actual candidate or the president been implicated in ordering it be done. It wasnt that obama said lets not report these contributions. Those are kind of the more the regular violations that you see in president ial campaigns. Here we have an allegation that the president directly ordered cohen to pay money to prevent people from talking about alleged affairs. Thats a potential violation on several counts. One, people talk about the reporting violation. These were contributions that werent reported. Thats true. But, they were paid by the trump organization. That makes it a corporate contribution. It is illegal to make a corporate contribution. It is also illegal for an officer of a corporation to authorize a corpor
years in prison, plus there is a second criminal trial on additional charges next month. the president s open sympathy for manafort begging questions about a possible pardon unless manafort decides to work with the special counsel in hopes of reducing his sentence. cnn legal analyst paul cowan. yesterday the jury sent the note saying we can t decide on one count. it led the impression everything was set on the other 17. eight guilty eight counts they found manafort guilty. the other ten a mistrial. is 8 out of 18 a win? it is a win because the jail sentence that can be attached to those eight counts is probably as great as if he was convicted on all the counts. i say that because you always hear about these cases. they say he s facing 90 years in prison. that s not really true because when you apply federal guidelines, it will come down to a much shorter sentence that a judge is likely to impose. probably around 10 years.
was. neil: and people were saying we don t like either. and then of course it turned out okay for him in the end. and now, mrs. romney, she is the most active of the wives on the stump, she almost always introduced him, peps up the crowd, and she, generally i am told by people who are at the events that she is highly regarded. does that help warm him up or what? guest: well, he needs that. put it that way. and to the extent she gets attention she will help to warm him up, whether it is fair or not, mitt romney has the image of robot. you get the impression everything has come easy. you mentioned, she has m.s. and