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the united nations taking on donald trump s attacks on the free press. the top story, the closing circle of pressure on trump from the manafort trial. michael avenatti has popped back up with a dvd, doing some breaking news of his own on who is in possession of it. do you have anything else you can tell me about this dvd? as soon as we get it back from law enforcement, i ll be happy to talk about it. that is new. the assertion that law enforcement are sufficiently interested in this dvd collected as evidence. we do not know, and this is important, if avenatti is alleging it s in the possession of federal law enforcement, which could mean mueller or cohen prosecutors in new york, or whether it is some other local case which could be far less important. meanwhile, the other news tonight is that mueller has completed interviews with another new roger stone associate, her name i
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giving this story way, way, way too much oxygen. okay. the tweets that he s been doing brooke on mueller, on the witch-hunt, on, you know, the democrats working for robert mueller, which is by the way not it is a red herring, that is not something the people working around the president on strategy are concerned with. this crossed the line. specifically on the piece regarding getting dirt on a political opponent, this to you. the president saying it s politics, everyone does it but federal law makes it a crime for any person to solicit accept a contribution for a u.s. political campaign or for the purpose of influencing any action for federal office. what is the trump tower meeting peter against the law even though as they say they didn t actually get anything on her, the fact that that was the
intent. i would say they are all, everyone who participated in that meeting has a great deal of legality jeopardy. and
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my panel. joining me on set political reporter to axios, jonathan schwan. greg bauer, former u.s. attorney and fbi assistant director. ken dilanian who covers security and intelligence for nbc news. and white house correspondent for bloomberg news, shannon petty piece along with ashley parker doing white house duty for the washington post at trump s summer get away in new jersey. thanks to all of you for being here on this sunday night. i want to set the stage with you first, mr. brower, about the potential legal jeopardy the president is putting himself in or not. how do you assess the statement that jay sekulow made there essentially saying that it s not illegal? do you think that they are now in a worse legal position than they were? well, they are certainly not doing themselves any favors with statements like this. i ve said it before, i ll say it again. it s a really bad idea f
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lenders considered for a job in the white house. we ll head to the courthouse in a few minutes for more on this developing story, what it means for the president and the mueller probe. as big as that legal story is for the presidency tonight, we ll begin with a political development that might be bigger for him and his party because it is happening at the ballot box. you are looking live at people voting in ohio s 12 special elections where tonight s results could show a looming disaster for republicans in november. recent polls show this race between two generic candidates here, no real superstar, it s a coin flip right now. folks, in a district like ohio 12 which really is a district that straddles the suburbs and the exurbs out there outside of columbus, in play for a democrat like danny o connor, the democrats are looking at a
battleground approaching 80-some seats. if republican troy balderson can eke it ou
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leadership criticisms for this president that we know about, let s be clear and fair. anger, ego, incompetence, that s not enough. the higher bar here is corrupt intent in a person s mind. so mueller is saying, like any careful prosecutor, he must question trump before he can conclude his work. and tonight trump s lawyers are leaking their new ongoing negotiations with mueller to show that as of tonight, they re not accepting this full interview yet. so they re using two tactics. leaking information with their new letter to mueller about a kind of a narrower counteroffer, and also talking to each other, these lawyers, in a radio call-in show, an appearance that can only be described as another bizarre chapter in one of the most bizarre live action legal defenses of a president in our history. we give you the unusual scene this morning. rudy giuliani joining trump lawyer jay sekulow on