Yesterday. It was chronicles by long time aide, timber wolfs detail concluded. God speed former president george h. W. Bush, youll be missed by all of us. That is our broadcast on this friday night. Thank you for being with us. Have a good weekend. From nbc headquarters here in new york. Bob mueller revealing Michael Cohens crime as well as new detail on his crimes with russia. Calling for substantial prison time. Lets get right two it. T two major Court Filings that are out tonight. Michael cohen has been helpful in his investigation. Prosecutors up in new york say he deserves years in jail. All of this is a week before a judge will sentence cohen for all the above. Lets look at the latest in the mueller filing. Bob mueller says he is not taking any position on how much time Michael Cohen should serve, but he knows that cohen first came into his office and lied to them. Not just about anything, but specifically about money. Now then mueller says in the new filing that we just got in o
Time. You fight until we can continue to achieve what is right and just for everyone of all backgrounds, all religions and all genders, and ways of life. Thats what the great people like Nelson Mandela stood for. We cant just choose to be good. We must aspire to try and be great. That does it for me. Thanks for watching. Ill see you back here tomorrow at 5 00 p. M. Eastern. Up next, the beat with my friend ari melber. Bob mueller revealing Michael Cohens crimes, as well as new details on his ties to russia with federal prosecutors in new york dropping the hammer and calling for substantial prison time. Lets get right to it, two major Court Filings out tonight, one from bob mueller who says that Michael Cohen has been helpful in his russia investigation and, from these prosecutors up in new
york who say cohen still deserves years in jail for a criminal mindset that allowed him to basically commit a host of crimes. All of this is a week before a judge will sentence cohen for all the abov
what you saw after a period of time was that senators would gather in the majority leader s office, so the minority s office, in the cloak room, they would come to a compromise. the minority the filibuster is signed to have a minority have influence on legislation. that s exactly what happened in those days. even though senators may have voted against the bill, they had some influence. that s what it was designed to do. today, it s pure obstruction. it s pure political. it s creating the disease of divisiveness in this country. we have this chicken and egg situation. you could take senator manchin and sinema at their word, they think there s too much partisanship in the senate. most persons would agree with that. they think if they don t want to do anything that makes it worse than it is. in their opinion let s take them at their word. in their opinion, eliminating the filibuster would do what?
been locked up to prevent you from voting to defend the constitution. but we ll find out just how locked up they are, if that is, in fact, the case. then 50 champions for our constitution have to get in the room and say, how do we rebalance the role of the filibuster? and it s best framing by some of my colleagues, it s about slowing things down to make sure the majority doesn t run over the top of the minority. they get a chance to be heard. they get a chance to offer amendments and a chance to work out compromises. but should that not be the purpose of mcconnell s actions, and i m pretty sure it s not, you know, i mean, his goal is pure obstruction, then we have the responsibility to figure out the second half of that social contract, which is, in the end, the minority cannot obstruct the majority from taking action. and that s the piece that s missing right now, and we ll have to figure out how to
writing, the arrogance, a text message in may to the administration. it says in this filing, unredacted manafort also said he had been in communication with a quote senior administration official through february of 2018, and a review of documents demonstrates similar contacts with quote, administrative officials. who are they? did they lie? this is the trojan horse approach. he is in a corner. he makes a false agreement and a plea figuring at the end of this trail, if he does it right, he will get a pardon from a questionable source, mr. one, mr. trump, and so what he does is he cooperates, he lies when he can, and he conveys the information back to the trump people so they can prepare a defense and attack on the investigation. pure obstruction. now i can t remember seeing a