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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spoke to the house select committee on it, was what trump wanted to put in the speech and whether trump was going to mention mike pence. it was one of those things that was in the speech, out of the speech. miller was involved in the discussions and that s one of the things the grand jury would likely want to know from him. what this respects with all the other people going into the grand jury as well. top pence advisers, trump advisers, miller now. those people are all the firewall around donald trump s presidency, and clearly the justice department with the special counsel are chipping away at that, trying to get more and more questions very close to donald trump. while we have you, what about the fact that the south carolina supreme court has ordered mark meadows to testify in georgia s meddling investigation. do you expect that meadows will still fight this? reporter: we don t know exactly what s going to play out with meadows one on one when he
director. somehow they were all wrong and approximate pursuing this investigation. the russia investigation. they were bias and some kind of conspiracy. that is not going to happen. much of it will say the opposite. that the fbi had the right to open the investigation. meddling investigation. and the right predicate. enough support to do this investigation. there was enough information contained they had obtained they can go ahead and open this investigation. so the idea there was a conspiracy, a witch hunt by the fbi to go after the president to go after people in the campaign. that s not going to happen. there s going to be some sloppiness here. that s what the according to people we have talked to that s what the report will focus on. fbi. listen that s serious. if you re an fbi agent or work with the fbi and make a mistake. no excuses for that.
meddling investigation that he is dangerously close to crossing. i believe that s the red line that the president discussed in an interview with you and your colleagues about looking into his business interests. what s your sense of matt whitaker s vision for the mueller probe? well, that red line has been sort of complete lly destroyed the justice department when earlier this year they went to the offices of the president s lawyer, executed a search warrant and took documents with them as part of an investigation into something unrelated to the russia probe. now you have that person who thinks that if mueller did it, that was over the line, overseeing the justice department. i can t believe that he thinks that since he wrote the op-ed that the investigation has become more tame. it will be interesting to see what he does now. does he really try and rein mueller in. is it something simply as not approving measures that mueller wants to do? does he cut his funding or just not do anyth
notion. with me now, ken dilanian, intelligence and national security reporter. ken, obviously everybody involved in the mueller investigation and the attendant ancillary investigations is wondering what this means. yeah, ali, absolutely. one thing it could mean is that you have in matthew whitaker, the acting attorney general, a man who has expressed hostility toward the mueller investigation. back in august of 2017 he wrote an op-ed, this was after the president said it would cross a red line for mueller to investigate his family and his finances, and matthew whitaker wrote the president is absolutely correct. mueller has come up to a red line in the russia 20 2016 election meddling investigation that he is dangerously close to crossi crossing. so what this means is that yesterday s election results are even more consequential than imagined when it comes to the russia investigation. for the first time you have the