Week . Its not. Its only wednesday. Its 4 00 in new york. We have had two days of testimony in the first criminal trial of an american expresident. We have learned so much. We have heard extraordinary details of a conspiracy to interfere in a president ial election. The prosecutions first witness, former National Enquirer ceo david pecker painted a vivid picture of that explicit agreement between himself and the expresident , one of mutual benefit. Negative stories about donald trump are bought and buried and negative stories about trumps rivals were embellished or in some instances fabricated. Stories of women having affairs with trump were hidden. Fake stories with hillary clinton, ted cruz, marco rubio were written up and published. Photos were doctored, like this one, amounting to a phenomenon Andrew Weissmann referred to as ground zero of fake news. David pecker comes back for more tomorrow. Court is quiet today. It resumes today. He takes the stand tomorrow. Likely picking back u
Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Pleas. Jason a case that has nothing to do with the original manafort directive. This is drums campaign chairman. It was his campaign chairman. Jason anyone that has ever worked for you Paul Manafort here has been found guilty. Look jason of what . Someth
Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Again, he worked for bob dole, he worked for ronald reagan, he worked for many people, and this is the way it ends up. It was not the original mission, believe me. It was something very much different. So it had nothing to do with Russian Collusion. We continue the witch hunt. Significant the president did not say anything about the cohen case, leaving the attorney Rudy Giuliani to put out the statement, there is no allegations of any wrongdoing against the president and the governments charges against mr. Cohen. It is clear that as a prosecutor noted, mr. Cohens actions reflect a pattern of lies and dishonesty over significant period of time. But cohens plea deal alleges he broke the law to influence a 2016 election on behalf of an unnamed candidate who clearly is the president. Cohen will get somewhere between 43 and 63 months in prison
the special counsel stated emphatically that the information that i gave to them was credible and helpful. there is a substantial amount of information that they possess that corroborates the fact that i m telling the truth. reporter: in an interview with abc, cohen pushed back on the president s claim that he didn t issue an order to make hush money payments to a porn star and playboy model alleges affairs with mr. trump. i didn t direct him to do anything wrong. whatever he did he did onhis own. reporter: giving direction cohen insisted is what the president always did. nothing at the trump organization was ever done unless it was run through mr. trump. he directed me. reporter: as for the president s claims he didn t commit any crimes, cohen noted the critical timing of the payments just before the 2016 election. you have to remember at what point in time that this matter came about, two weeks or so
media he does have disdain to the media but he takes this to a different level. kimberly atkins thank you very much. john, thank you as well. up next the president s legal problems are back in focus. new reporting on the hush money payments to a porn star and playboy model. the rain kept president trump from honoring the war dead. that s what they said. it didn t hold back jfk in 1961. or barack obama in 2010. we ll talk to presidential historian and nbc s andrea mitchell. morning joe is coming right back.