Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. The russian investigation. Thats now off the table the president Praising Manafort as a good man, but at the same distancings from his former campaign chairman. I still feel its a very sad thing that happens. It has nothing to do with washington collusion. This started as russian collusion. This has absolutely nothing to do. Its a witch hunt. It is a disgrace. In West Virginia last night the president whipped up the crowd with his attack on the Special Counsel. Russian witch hunt. We got a whole big combination where is the tlugs . You know, theyre still looking for collusion. Where is the collusion . Find some collusion. Despite all the devastating news for the president. His supporters still revived some familiar chances at this rally last night. Tomorrow, following charges from using Campaign Finance money for personal purchases. In one instance, buying clothing at a golf course and re reporting the purchase as balls
there is not, we can expect will be the detractors saying, oh, they re working together and they re the ones in colusion with each other. ki hear that now this is a better way to do it. zach the politics of this, in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office trying to sway the outcome of an election by keeping two scandals out of the public eye. how cornered is the president here? it s obvious, i think now, if it wasn t kind of obvious before, that he was involved with all of this, that you know these efforts, according to michael cohen, to silence the porn star and a former playmate who were alleging affairs with him. that s pretty incredible stuff. now at the same time i m not sure that trump supporters out there, the legions of them, in this country, i m not sure they re going to be necessarily swayed by this, but it could
so i don t think there is any more questions about a witch hunt. he can chant at rallies. there is no more talk about. that it tells me this whom cooperation angle is very much in play. i want you to remember there are two district investigations the southern district of new york and the bob mueller investigation. those were intentionally separated by mueller so it was within his purview as he looked at russia, he didn t want to bring cohen into to it to give the president and his reporters something oto crow about. there is a rule 75 in criminal practice. a defendant can come back within a year after sentencing and cooperate with the government the government can go to the court and file a rule 35 motion and have the defendant get credit for that. the fact that there is no spelled out cooperation agreement in this plea agreement is a stroke of genius on bob mueller s part. it keeps the plea clean. it keeps the separation there which needs to be there so that
meyer saying he knew about an allegation. but he was not aware of a 2016 incident until last month. meyer later said he did follow protocol by reporting it. smith. who denied abuse allegation was fired last month after his wife received a protective order. after month os of attacks over the nfl and protests. president trump is taking aim at espn. espn announcing they will not air the national anthem before the monday night football game. this is what the president said at a rally yesterday in west virginia. it was just announced by esp n that rather than defending our national anthem, our beautiful, beautiful national anthem and defending our flack, they decided they just won t broadcast when they play. we don t like that. you will remember the nfl put
the russian investigation. that s now off the table the president praising manafort as a good man, but at the same distancings from his former campaign chairman. i still feel it s a very sad thing that happens. it has nothing to do with washington collusion. this started as russian collusion. this has absolutely nothing to do. it s a witch hunt. it is a disgrace. in west virginia last night the president whipped up the crowd with his attack on the special counsel. russian witch hunt. we got a whole big combination where is the tlugs? you know, they re still looking for collusion. where is the collusion? find some collusion. despite all the devastating news for the president. his supporters still revived some familiar chances at this rally last night.