Manafort and others and the very next day, at least one of those loans was approved. One of those loans was for 5. 7 million. Whats interesting about this is this is the time when mr. Manafort was the Campaign Chairman or the Campaign Manager of the trump campaign, and it was pretty clear that this man wanted, in other words, the ceo, wanted to do something with the Trump Organization. And he expressed that. It wasnt clear whether he was talking about the Trump Organization in new york, the business, at least from the testimony i heard while i was there, or whether he was talking about the trump campaign. Nonetheless, its also clear that this individual, steven, did get recommended for a job inside the administration, we know from other sources. The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. Application. And apparently, he forgot about it. So then he started bawling out the prosecutors in front of the jury and that causes them to lose their credibility. Then a second i
and i think, too, if you look at the way that trump responded to it, trump is not giving it oxygen. which is fascinating. interesting. yeah. what do you make of that? we ve seen trump go after critics. i mean, no matter who they are, he will go after them, and that was not the case with that statement that trump released. exactly. well, you know, in a very real sense, remember this, too. why was pence brought on to the ticket to begin with? i wrote about this extensively in the book. you know, back in july of 2016, why is he brought on to the ticket? and it s because of the new demographics he can bring into the fold for trump. but also remember, too, that reince priebus and paul ma manafort, when they pushed pence for the ticket, they were thinking about the down ballot races. a lot of the same groups, i write about this a bit in terms of the difference between
i m going to go out there every day and fight. i m going on tv, i m going on info wars, and i think this tells you he s going to continue that same approach now that they ve officially brought these charges against him. he said the fbi agents, the way they came, if they had just called me, i would have let them in. are there guidelines, are there reasons is there some reason to believe, talking about like they did when getting the warn of violence, right? when you look at cohen, when you look at paul ma manafort, they were allowed to surrender. roger stone, if you look at all the rhetoric, all the things he has has said publicly that if they gave him a heads up and they would like him to surrender, in these kinds of cases normally
that may or may not have been right or wrong, that doesn t have anything to do with the president. cnn s abby phillip joins us at the white house. why would we think this has nothing to do with the president? reporter: it s a one-two that you heard from sarah sanders in those clips. when it involved paul manafort, when it involved michael cohen, the move is essentially to say it has nothing to do with president trump and then to reiterate how these individuals had other relationships with other political candidates. in this case sarah sanders talking about how roger stone had advised other presidential candidates and other people in the political sphere in the past. but the reality of president trump s relationship with roger stone is, of course, that all of this was happening in the context of president trump s 2016 presidential campaign, and in fact, the indictment makes clear that what roger stone was indicted for lying about were things that had to do with his
that s not the case, but krlt every time these guys have been confronted with information, by nchgs they wanted to protect the congress, they wanted to protect the campaign. even the white house going in after trump was elected, they all wanted to protect it. and i think that s the theory that mueller has taken. the big picture connecting all these other dots with documents. we re going to take a break now. the campaign chairman, paul manafort, was also back in court today. we expect to hear from the president shortly this afternoon. some new ideas, apparently, how to bring an end to the partial government shutdown. busy day. we ll be right back. at fidelity, we help you prepare for the unexpected