Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. The russian investigation. Thats now off the table the president Praising Manafort as a good man, but at the same distancings from his former campaign chairman. I still feel its a very sad thing that happens. It has nothing to do with washington collusion. This started as russian collusion. This has absolutely nothing to do. Its a witch hunt. It is a disgrace. In West Virginia last night the president whipped up the crowd with his attack on the Special Counsel. Russian witch hunt. We got a whole big combination where is the tlugs . You know, theyre still looking for collusion. Where is the collusion . Find some collusion. Despite all the devastating news for the president. His supporters still revived some familiar chances at this rally last night. Tomorrow, following charges from using Campaign Finance money for personal purchases. In one instance, buying clothing at a golf course and re reporting the purchase as balls
Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. Many are linked to iran for card fated manipulation. It comes after microsoft took control of websiteles. Republican california congressman Duncan Hunter and his wife will be arraigned in Federal Court tomorrow, fooling their indictment on 250,000 in campaign funds. The stinging indictment alleges the hunters knowingly conspired with each other, if one instance, buying clothes a at a golf course and reported the purchase as balls for Wounded Warriors. House Speaker Paul Ryan has removed him from Committee Assignments during the case. Hunter was the second member of Congress To Support President Trump. First, Chris Collins was recently indicted on insider trader charges. Details about this. Mollie tibb etc. Is somebody people wanted to find. People started weeping very loudly, very upset about the details of. This from what they know, there was a under Surveillance Camera in the neighborhood. They started going through h
The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. New york saying a crime is not a crime. What is going to be next . The skys not blue . Red is not red, an apple is a banana . It is just a bizarre world. And if thats a defense and thats what theyre going to put forward we are in for a crazy ride ahead. We may already be in one. Jennifer, to you. I just had last hour on a former law school classmate, good friend of rudy giuliani. Hes a former Assistant Prosecutor in watergate. He was just with me. He said that the fact that there is not an official Cooperation Agreement, at least that we know of maybe it is under seal between Michael Cohen and muellers team in the Southern District on this suggest that maybe the Southern District and muellers team dont even need Michael Cohens testimony and that could be a problem for the white house. How do you see it . Well, it is very interesting that Michael Cohen doesnt have a Cooperation Agreement here. It means that t
to pardon. it may be an abuse of power. it may be obstruction by the president. but he can do it. when you get convicted of federal tax crimes and federal tax fraught that means you committed state tax fraud. when the state prosecutes you for state tax fraud that cannot be pardoned. he s in a world of trouble, fred. the president hasn t necessarily said he s going to do it. he just simply has left the door open, right, you know, avery, by praising manafort and saying, you know, he hasn t done anything that s anything unlike a lot of other people who have done stuff. lobbyists, et cetera. think about this, fredricka. he talked about the trial in northern virginia against manafort as a, quote, hoax. well, my goodness, gracious. you had literally all 18. in fact, it s very possible you
mueller on the manafort case? or the president who sounds like he thinks he did on this. well, mueller won resoundingly yesterday. there s no question. the sentence will be the same regardless of how many counts of conviction there were, as long as they got some of those more serious counts, the bank fraud counts, which they did. so there a he no question this was a huge victory for the mueller team here and a huge loss for manafort. trump can try to play the numbers any way that he wants and, yes, there were ten counts that hung. they could retry them. i don t think that they will, in large part, because of what i said this is 100% a victory for the mueller team. ploe paul manafort is going to prison. we have to wait out the pardon question kind of hanging over all of this. but, yes, definitely a win for team mueller and not team trump. is the language you are hearing from the president this morning praising manafort, calling him a brave man, is that pardon language? that is a