Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Attorney general Jeff Sessions should stop this rigged witchhunt right now before it can stain our country any longer. Bob mueller and the democrats that are doing his dirty work are a disgrace to the usa. The key sentence, Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this rigged witchhunt. Thats what the president said. He said stop it right now. It sounds like the president , who Chief Executive wants to see jeff session, who works for him and the russia investigation ended right now. That is what it sounds like, because that is actually what the president wrote. Unless, of course, you believe his Press Secretary and tv lawyer who scrambled to try and convince the public that what the president said about what he wants to see happen and happen right now was in no way a directive to actually make it happen and happen right now. No, according to them, it was only some guys opinion, the guy who h
Doh spicer. All right, so, the white house used to claim that the president s tweets are not just idle opinionating, theyre official statements with the power of the white house behind him. How many times have people working for the president said the president s tweet speaks for itself or words to that effect . Except for todays tweet. That apparently doesnt speak for itself. That needs a spokesperson and a tv lawyer speaking for it, sweeping up after it, quietly trying to wipe it off the bottom of their shoes. When the president of the United States says that one of his subordinates should do something and do it now, how is that just one guys opinion . It all smacks of another effort that was made recently to suggest that the president didnt really say what everyone heard him say. And a key sentence in my remarks, i said the word would instead of wouldnt. The sentence should have been, i dont see any reason why i wouldnt, or why it wouldnt be russia. Sort of a double negative. That a
of an fbi agent. and he introduced some of the evidence that they got during this raid of paul manafort s condo last summer. and one of the items said gates agenda. so, as soon as that came up, the judge stopped the proceeding. again, the judge has been very vocal here, and the judge said, why are you questioning him about something gates did? gates work product. if you re going to have gates up here testifying. that s when prosecutors said, well, we might, we might not. so it s possible it was bluff. it s also possible they re trying to throw the defense off their game, because of course, the defense has said they will rely on rick gates testimony, essentially, to discredit him as the real liar, the real stealer, the real embezzler. so, it remains to be seen. there were also more details that came out today about the raid on manafort s house. that s exactly right. they had an fbi agent on the stand who was present for that predawn raid last july at paul manafort s condo right h
predawn raid last july at paul manafort s condo right here in alexandria, virginia. he really laid out what happened. now at the time there were some reports that this was a no-knock raid, that fbi agents just burst into the home. this fbi agent said no, we actually knocked three times, waiting before each and every knock. and then when there was no answer, we entered the home with a key we had. that s when we saw paul manafort standing there. of course paul manafort has portrayed it as him being stunned. fbi agents at this point did take hundreds of documents, all of which they re relying on heavily in this case for their prosecution. anderson? jessica, i appreciate it. joining me now to discuss cnn senior legal analyst preet bar radar w . first mgates may not take the stand. clearly the defense is putting a lot on saying gates is the villain here. as an additional matter the government made the decision to