Walter shaw said this, Imagine Nixon Waiting for a stack of pardons after the watergate breakin. He has the power to put his henchmen above the law. That is what trump is telling manafort and others with the pardon of dsouza. For more, we have jim acosta an at t acosta at the white house. Reporter the president is not only considering granting pardons with celebrities, but he granted a pardon for Dinesh Dsouza and considering Martha Stewart and blagojevich. Dsouza has made offensive and racially loaded comments over the years about former president obama. The president is considering each case on merits. Here is what Deputy Raj Shah
corruption charges. And the u. S. Is Hitting Tariffs and they are hitting back. The u. S. Slapped tariffs on the eu, mexico and canada. The three had Temporary Exemptio exemptions, but the white house let those expired after it did not get what it wanted in negotiations. The goal is to help u. S. Steel workers. Metal tariffs could raise prices. Think cars,
A roundup of the days events. The most powerful men in hollywood, ceo chairman of cbs les moonves under fire. And we hear from the reporter who broke the story, ronan farrow. Heres abcs chief National Affairs correspondent, tom llamas. Reporter tonight les moonves, one of most powerful men in hollywood, under investigation by his own company, cbs, after allegations of sexual misconduct. The accusations from six women from encounters that happened 20 years ago that range from inappropriate kissing to sexual assault, surfacing tonight in a new yorker expose by ronan farrow. In the article actress and writer Illeana Douglas tells farrow, what happened to me was a sexual assault, and then i was fired for not participating. She recounts an incident in moonves office. Moonves office. In a millisecond, he got one arm over me, pinning me, she said. Moonves was violently kissing her, holding her down on the couch with her arms above her head. Producer Christine Peters recounts a similar experie
The oval office, President Trump declined to weigh in on the Russia Investigation. At a News Conference with the italian Prime Minister do you feel betray ed by Michael Cohen, sir . A question about cohen and no response. Instead, the president unloaded in his usual safe space where there are no questions, on twitter, tweeting there is no collusion and slamming the Russia Investigation with a personal attack taz Robert Mueller rigged witch hunt and just after the president was tweeting there was no collusion, his outside lawyer was claiming on cnn that collusion isnt a crime. Which i dont know if thats a crime. Colluding about russians. You tart analyzing the crime. The hacking is crime. Add about that, the president relied on his aides. If theres no collusion theres no crime in collusion. Giuliani suggested the Special Counsel may have a conflict and couldnt say what it is. You have to hear the conflict. Not the president. I cant tell you. Not sure. The former mayor railed against coh
David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Change the narrative around this meeting. I want to step back and give us an understanding of how Michael Cohen was his confidant, his fixer, this relationship has turned dramatically here. Yes. Im most interested in how this plies with voters. Im seeing a parallel to what Rudy Giuliani said this summer. Michael cohen was honest with the utmost of credibility. I would hear the same thing from house sources in particular, today talking to people, what is kind of the read on your members after this week, ahead of midterms. They say, you know what, Michael Cohen has always had credibility issues, at this point swrees visavis the don junior
meeting until the Senate Committee subpoenas him to come back and testify once more, to say under oath that liz father did not know about this meeting. I dont see the political implications of this at this moment. We have seen this play out with flair and flourish
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. We will watch the situation very closely. Paula, thank you for the report. Jury selection begins later this morning in the federal trial of the former Trump Campaign Paul Manafort for alleged financial crimes. The first test for special Counsel Robert Mueller and his prosecutors although russia is not the center of the trial. We have more from evan perez from washington. Reporter dave and laura, Paul Manafort, the former campaign chairman, is going on trial in Virginia On Federal Tax and bank fraud charges. This is the first trial to come from Robert Muellers investigation. Dont expect the trial to be about russia or collusion or President Trump. Prosecutors and attorneys plan to stick closely to the issues in the charges which have to do with the governments accusations that manafort used secret Foreign Bank Accounts to hide millions of dollars he earned working for the Ukrainian Government and failed to report it to t