A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. yeah. i think that s a good point. on paul manafort, the former trump campaign chairman convicted yesterday on eight felony counts, bank fraud, tax fraud, stealing literally millions of dollars from american taxpayers, not reporting income on tens of millions of dollars, is there a chance he ll still cooperate with the special counsel paul manafort? he has another trial coming up next month. right. look. if you re paul manafort, i mean, you re looking at possibly some serious jail time. there is an incentive. but i think what you are seeing is the president telegraphing directly to paul manafort, if you stay put, if you do not as he said, if you refuse to break, if you see that tweet that he he contrasts paul manafort with michael cohen it s very clear that he s telegraphing to paul manafort that if he doesn t break with him that perhaps there s a pardon in the offing and you can see, also, by the way, paul
Presidency. the other option here, where you have a special counsel, is turn that information over to the special counsel and then there are other places where potentially criminal cases could be brought. if there s concurrent jurisdiction with respect to the particular conduct at issue. do you expect other individuals, unnamed individuals, named in this yesterday, possibly executives at the trump organization to face charges? you know, again, it is hard to predict with any degree of certainty but certainly given the surprises so far and given a lot of things that were said in regards to open court and the documents suggest that there were people involved in the payment, consultation with other people in the trump organization and the trump campaign in connection with the payment for which michael cohen pleading guilty so, you know, common sense tells you there are other people involved. whether or not they ll be charged, you know never know to a certainty. i would not be surprised
reporter: this is something that we have seen democrats careful in large part about, especially over the last 24 hours. yes, there are indeed some democrats saying every option is on the table. including impeachment but in large part coming from the democratic leadership up here on capitol hill saying hold all talk of impeachment. let mueller s investigation play out, try not to muddy the waters essentially with the politics of calling for impeachment. look no further than the house minority leader nancy pelosi who today sent out a dear colleague letter saying hold your fire through the loins on impeachment talks leading to november. we as a party need to be focused on the economy and similarly here in the senate today we saw a very coordinated strategy to attempt to link this cohen and manafort news instead to the supreme court justice nominee. democrats saying that
Coming the political ramifications are then bolstering turnout on the left among democrats very energized. on twitter, laura, the president slamming michael cohen and praising paul manafort, former campaign chairman. such respect for a brave man. is he setting the stage for a pardon? certainly seems like he s at least giving him credit for staying loyal. right? of course, paul manafort can flip. for whatever reason, he decided to cooperate, he has another trial. facing in september. but to take a step back, it is somewhat ironic to see the president praising someone who is now convicted by a jury when this is supposed to be the law and order administration. they regularly tout that they want to follow the rules, jeff sessions, the justice department, regularly says we are here, we are here to enforce the law but yet the president is praising somebody because he had his back. praising someone now convicted of stealing millions
Learned about all of this, quote, later on. we have that audio tape and rudy giuliani confirms it is the president s voice in which he and michael cohen are discussing in advance payment to karen mcdougall, the former playboy playmate. is cohen s admission in his plea deal he committed a felony at the direction, the coordination with president trump enough to begin impeachment proceedings in your view? this is what i have told folks for months. let the mueller investigation take its course. some of my democratic colleagues want to go forward with impeachment months ago. i would tell them now, look, if you did it then and maybe get one shot at this, you wouldn t have all the information we learned about yesterday. at the same time, i tell my republican colleagues who shut down this investigation and who want to continue to shut down the want to continue to try to shut down the mueller,