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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that was at his rally in west virginia, comparing his view of international diplomatic relations to how great his mom s cooking is. it comes as we are getting new reaction from overseas to the michael cohen guilty plea and the paul manafort verdict. for that we want to go live to london to somebody who knows a thing or two about cooking turkeys, nbc news international correspondent it was too easy, cal. it was too easy. let s talk about the reaction overseas to all of the legal woes that are unfolding here. has it been muted or how are you seeing it play out? it s a tsunami. so the bbc, right, the self declared last bastion of all things that protects foreign news led today donald trump the top two stories, the third story was a million people displaced by indian flooding. that i was go us an idea how donald trump is blocking out all foreign news. let s go through the british broadcasters. itn, quote, trump directed payment of hush money to influence election. the daily mail got
didn t mention it in the rally. we saw no tweets since i put my phone down. interesting today what i ll look forward to. the public reaction the president or top aides have to the revelations yesterday. as we ve seen before, too big for any other distraction that may come into play in? a broader sense, really, a bad day for the president. overall for the presidency, what kind of shift does this one-two punch we saw yesterday give to the political landscape there? a huge deal. talk about the one big thing. talking realistically about the things that could be used for it impeachment. now the president is in federal court accused by his former lawyer of being implicated in a federal crime. easy for democrats to begin, possibly in control of congress right behind me in congress to draft articles of impeachment and house democrats take control become the majority party they
miles from oahu. the winds are not the concern with this, the biggest tlit is a slow moving storm with extreme rainfall. they are saying that the peak amounts could end up over two feet of rain in the hawaiian islands. this red is ten inches, that s the big island. as we go through maui and oahu, everyone could easily get up to a foot, highest totals could be up to two feet of rain, extreme flooding, mudslides, rock slides, things that are typically a trickle will turn into a raging river. we will keep monitoring that. could be a billion dollar weather disaster in hawaii. otherwise some showers racing through the northeast. those will exit for a decent afternoon in the mid-atlantic. el of the country no problems at all. all eyes will be on the hawaiian islands over the next 48 hours. still ahead, president trump not talking about the legal troubles of michael cohen and paul manafort during his rally last night. up next, we will go to nbc s
we re proud of our country, you re proud of our history an unlike the nfl, you always honor and cherish our great americ american it was just announced by espn that rather than defending our anthem, our beautiful, beautiful national anthem, and defending our flag, they ve decided that they just won t broadcast when they play the national anthem. we don t like that. welcome back. time now for sports. that was president trump addressing the crowd at his rally in west virginia last night. once again taking aim at the nfl and failing to address any of the big headlines yesterday, while also criticizing espn for its policy of not airing the playing of the national anthem