The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Ricochetting across the political universe tonight which are the ones that involve appear to involve the president of the United States. That he was directed to make payments in coordination with the candidate and with the campaign of President Donald Trump to two women. One was in one involved a payment to a woman 150,000, believed to be Karen Mcdougal. The second to a payment believed to be Stormy Daniels in october of 2016, rather, for 130,000. And for that payment Michael Cohen told the court that he received restitution for that payment or he received the money back for that payment from the candidate who is believed to be donald trump. Throughout this investigation, this particular investigation which stemmed from the Special Counsels office, from robert mueller, has been done in coordination with that office and prosecuted by career and seasoned Public Corruption Public Corruption
a consensus on one count. everyone in the courtroom kind of assumed it meant one count and they would reach a consensus on the other 17. you could see that is somewhat of a small victory for the defense. this was really a sweeping success for the prosecution. we have to remember mueller s team already said they have three times as much evidence for the september trial as they did for this trial, over a thousand pieces of evidence versus just under 300 for this trial. so there is definitely an incentive for paul manafort to work with the government now, now that he s seen a jury is willing to convict him on charges like these. but i would also not homeland our brea hold our breath because no one thought manafort could go to this trial either. ty, a lot of this case was documentary and paper trail-y. the fact is these complicated cases are hard for juries because people don t understand the terms that are in them.