Attorneys office in manhattan gathered mr. Trumps participation in the transaction. Back in april, the president denied knowing of the payments made by his personal attorney and a month later he walked that back telling fox news that he learned about the hush money payments later on. Later on i knew, later on. You have to understand, what he did and they were not taking out of campaign finance. Thats a big thing. Did they come out of the campaign . They did not come out of the campaign. They came from me. All right, joining me now, one of the reporters who broke that story, nicole hahn, the wall street journal had been out on this story from the beginning. This story is 76 news cycles ago. Bring us up to speed on whats new in this. Michael cohen in august, the fixer and personal attorney of trump pleaded guilty in federal court to among other Things Campaign finance violations. He got up in open court and he i am pli he said i did these orders because of president elect which at the ti
Tonight, keeping him honest, given we know there was a duly approved counterintelligence probe under way at the time and there was russian interference in the campaign, what to those words really mean . Are they his way of signaling hes merely ensuring all investigations are conducted properly or do they mean hes embracing the Conspiracy Theory of the origins of the russian probe . The answer matters because barr is the top Law Enforcement officer in the country and the person in that role is supposed to serve the country, not the president. He made a judgment call not to pursue an obstruction of justice case against President Trump, the one who summarized Robert Muellers report in a way that has drawn allegations from inside muellers own team that he misrepresented their work. Hes the one who ultimately decides what we get to see of that report and what we dont, and what Congress Gets to see and what they dont. His judgment matters and the words he chooses are a big part of it, which
The one who summarized Robert Muellers report in a way that has drawn allegations from inside muellers own team that he misrepresented their work. Hes the one who ultimately decides what we get to see of that report and what we dont, and what Congress Gets to see and they dont. His judgment matters and the words he chooses are a big part of it, which is why his testimony today to the Senate Appropriations subcommittee about the origins of the russia investigation was so striking and why lawmakers kept going back to try and make sense of what mr. Barr was saying. First came up when New Hampshire democratic senator Jeanne Shaheen asked about reports that attorney general barr has a special group looking into why the fbi opened their investigation of the russian interference in the 2016 election. Heres what he told her. For the same reason were worried about foreign influence in elections, we want to make sure that during i think spying on a Political Campaign is a big deal, its a big dea
We’re back with another post in our ongoing series on web monetization, the Error 402 series. Before the holidays, we had talked about some of the earlier attempts at monetizing content, which included paywalls, banner ads, search ads, and eventually concepts around upselling into premium services under the banner of “freemium.” I originally was going…