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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insurrectionist and they can give the guidelines as to who decides. is it a secretary of state, is it the state supreme court. is it a federal court or is it congress and that s an open question that is being teed up for the supreme court. i want to be clear, john and you as a student of government know this as well as everybody else, this is why you have the supreme court. this is literally why the framers crafted a body of individuals to decide these thorny questions of constitutional law and this is a thorny one and an open one, who decides, how do they decide, when do they decide, someone s got to fix it. the reason i was going to ask you is former attorney general bill barr who stipulates he does not want donald trump to be president says that he does not think there is a 14th amendment argument with the states to get him out and his argument is because trump hasn t been charged with insurrection. right. an argument is made does it need to be a criminal charge? was it impeachm
and as for hareno how she. that s what people asked about biden s second vacation in a week, huh, reno? maybe that s explains. laura: maybe hirono was one of the more prominent people in that impeachment trial. so one would think was it impeachment or was it brett kavanaugh? it s all become one big long investigation. you are right. it all runs together. laura: all right. turning to pop culture, raymond, bradley cooper is kind of a big liberal but he finds himself now in the crosshairs for he is portraying leonard bernstein and what s happening? when the trailer dropped for cooper s new movie maestro it became clear the actor is wearing prosthetic nose so he looks more like bernstein u.s.a. today and the guardian are claiming cooper is part of, quote: hollywood s y jew s facd
a high level, respected irs agent who went through the entire process the way that you should, has been apolitical, simply saying we ve never done it this way before. and we could be wrong because we ve said this before, but this feels like the type of thing that could break through. will: it does feel like it could break through, but with i said that to you both off camera, and your rebuttal to me was how does it break through. we know it is highly unlikely it breaks through at the doj and results in any serious criminal investigation that would include joe or possibly even jim biden on these serious charges. then you ask yourself, well, what is the mechanism for accountability? is it impeachment? and you said how many democrats are going to switch over and go, oh, i see, this is really bad. the answer only is yes if they joe biden can t win a presidential election and it s time to turn the page. rachel: this is why people are losing faith in our country, and this is the real damage t
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