A weeknight look at the news, featuring interviews, analysis and Panel Discussions hosted by Bret Baier. Guilty to one count of filing fraudulent information to get a bank loan but the ones that could be most problematic for President Trump are counts seven and eight in which he said he coordinated with a candidate for federal office whose name was not revealed and worked at the direction of that candidate to provide payments of 150,000 to one woman which would likely be Karen Mcdougall. Remember that payment she received from the National Enquirer was 150,000 and that was classified as an unlawful corporate contribution and a contribution of 130,000 to Stormy Daniels that was made on october 27th just a week before the election. Again, cohen saying he did this on behalf of and the direction of and in coordination with a candidate for federal office, that person unnamed. Just heard from Rudy Giuliani a
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an election. if those payments were a crime, then why wouldn t they be a crime for donald trump? catherine, in the plea information that we have, cohen admits to reimbursing these payments for karen mcdougall and stormy daniels. in the case he agrees to reimburse the national enquirer to the payment made to mcdougall. the payment was made in coordination with the chairman of the coronation david packer and one or more officials from the campaign. it s the first indication from the plea agreement, a lot of developments today. let s focus on the cohen part. i think we ll talk about both
active duty and first time home buyers. here is nick ackerman. let s start with the indictments. what are they? why are they? normally you seal an indictment when you re concerned about somebody fleeing. and you don t want them to know the indictment s under seal. i think here though, more likely what we have is the actual plea information that rick gates is going to plead guilty to. so the sealed indictment might be a plea. right. they ve done that. mueller has done that with other indictments. and so it wouldn t surprise me in the least if what s under seal right now is the risk gates plea. it s very possible. all right. so i want to play two theories for how this is going. tell me what you think it is. one is that there were a lot of stretchy people around the president in his campaign and along comes an adepartment prosecutor with a good staff and picks up the rock and goes look
lying to investigators about his interactions with gates. at some point, mueller also filed the new charges in the gates is/manafort case. while we don t know the specifics of the new charges we do know investigators are now probing whether manafort promised a chicago banker a white house job in exchange for home loans totaling $16 million. so much money it totals 5% of all of the bank s loans. all from a bank that describes itself on facebook as having a focus on va and fha lending for active duty and first time home buyers. here is nick ackerman. let s start with the indictments. what are they? why are they? normally you seal an indictment when you re concerned about somebody fleeing. and you don t want them to know the indictment s under seal. i think here though, more likely what we have is the actual plea information that rick gates is going to plead guilty to.