Hours of testimony. Not only are the president s attorneys still in the dark about it, the president himself is rattled. Remember it was don mcgann who threatened to quit when President Trump attempted to fire Robert Mueller last june. Sources confirming that federal authorities are preparing charges against michael cohen. The u. S. Attorneys office is investigating cohen for possible bank and tax fraud as well as Campaign Finance violations for Hush Money Payments to stormy daniels. Those charges could come next week. And today, Paul Manafort served the Trump Campaign for 18 months. Hes facing 18 separate counts
of bank and tax fraud. He also faces charges on Money Laundering and fraudulent lobbying. Good evening, everyone, welcome to the program. Heres what the sources are telling cnn, mcgann didnt provide incriminating information about the president. He doesnt believe he implicated trump in any wrongdoing. Give me your assessment of this . I dont understand how they can say that so
had strange issues for coconspirators and one of the close friends of jeffrey epstein later gave this man a pretty good job. i think we don t know where this leads. we don t know where this goes. we do have a president who say sexual predator and in this case has a lot of ties to him as well. ruth, this is a story that could only happen in the trump presidency because this issue came out during the vetting of alex acosta and he survived the trump vetting because in trump vetting, this isn t a problem. let s recall how we got alex acosta. we got alex acosta because the previous candidate for labor secretary had to withdraw when there were allegations of spousal abuse. alex acosta s issues relating to
we do have a president who say sexual predator and in this case has a lot of ties to him as well. ruth, this is a story that could only happen in the trump presidency because this issue came out during the vetting of alex acosta and he survived the trump vetting because in trump vetting, this isn t a problem. let s recall how we got alex acosta. we got alex acosta because the previous candidate for labor secretary had to withdraw when there were allegations of spousal abuse. alex acosta s issues relating to this clearly inadequate prosecution deal looked mild in comparison to that. more broadly, this is not an administration that let us say is well-known for its excellent vetting. even when they find things, they tend to think they won t cause
axios has an exclusive look, jonathan, at leaked trump vetting documents. what do they show us? so a source leaked me internal trump team vetting documents for nearly 100 people who went on to become top officials in the trump administration or were considered for the top jobs. it s a pretty stunning and rare look inside what the trump team considered to be the ethical and political vulnerabilities for much of the cabinet and for many senior white house officials. what we have learned, there were a lot of things we learned. but one thing is that a lot of the problems we saw with the trump administration in terms of people like scott pruitt who had to who lost his job after serial ethical abuses, tom price, similar situation, not only were these problems foreseeable but they were foreseen. so the scott pruitt i ll give you an example. they had the sections in the documents called red flags. we looked through the scott pruitt vetting dossier it
espousing racist views. what does that say about the trump vetting process? it s lacking. i don t even know if it exists at all. it does speak. i don t know if it exists at all. the additional questions i believe this raises, don, what kind of access did the white nationalist that spoke at this conference or the folks that don t self-identify as white nationalists but sub describe to a white supremacist ideology. what type of did this influence make it into any of the president s speeches? has it made it into talking points? into concrete policy? have these folks had an audience with other senior advisers of the president? this is absolutely dangerous. and the fact that the white house didn t know until the k file did their reporting and asked about it, i think should be concerning to us all. we re going to continue this