Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Order simply disrespecting the flag, but about social injustice, a dispute about the Justice System and police brutality. Whats notable here is that though President Trump argues that his players have a difficult time defining exactly what theyre protesting, he revealed earlier this year that he clearly understands their motives. I want you to listen to this sound bite from President Trump in june. We have a great country you. Should stand for our National Anthem. You shouldnt go in a locker room when our National Anthem playing. Im going ask all of those people to recommend to me, because thats what theyre proegt, people that they think were unfairly treated by the Justice System. And i understand that. And im going ask them to recommend to me people that were unfairly treated, friends of theirs or people that they know about, and im going to take a look at those applications. And if i find a
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Unable to define it. In the past hes called them sons of bitches. Now he says they seem to be lacking intelligent. Most recently he suggested lebron james was dumb, we know he thinks congresswoman Maxine Waters is dumb, as well, hes called her low iq. There is history here. Mr. Chairman trump built his brand on the allegation the first africanamerican president was not a legitimate citizen. He demanded to see the africanamerican president s grades in college. More recently he asked white house staffers why the u. S. Should be letting into the country from places like haiti and African Nations instead of, say, norway. Perhaps this weekend on the anniversary of charlottesville, ne neonazis gathering in the white house he will say or tweet something to help bring the nation together. Out, registering voters, a lot of stuff going on. Its sad the president hasnt acknowledged that. This is unfortuna
Telling the truth. He has no Shadow Hanging over him. The uncertainty is gone. He has stepped up to the line and he has admitted what he did wrong, but he is now liberated to tell the truth. Everything about donald trump that he knows. From this point on youre going to see liberated Michael Cohen speaking truth to power. And we will hear a lot more from cohens lawyer who you just saw there, he is going to be joining morning joe later this morning. After four days of deliberations the jury in the fraud trial of Paul Manafort found President Trumps former Campaign Chairman guilty on eight of the counts against him. The jury has unable to reach a unanimous verdict on the other ten counts manafort faced. His trial marked a critical first stage for Robert Muellers investigation. Pete williams has more. Reporter the jury found Paul Manafort guilty of intentionally dodging taxes on millions of dollars that he earned as a
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lastly is that the u.s. attorney s manual which governs the justice department allows them to conduct an investigation if the pbl confidence requires it. and we have had no confirmation of that. all that the me is my concern because like you just said we have to have an investigation. i don t know where that investigationest necessarily goes in terms of indictments but darn it, we need one. can i ask you just a question about the mecke mix, what precipitates the opening of an investigation at d.o.j. my understanding of the role that the benghazi committee played in an investigation being opened into hillary clinton by the justice department was that the committee as they gathered documents and as the hillary clinton state department and i believe the kerry state department at some point, those investigations went on so long, they turned over so much, there were questions about her personal use of a personal email address, and then questions from the committee about whether classifi
so that s what i want to hear tomorrow. and right now, we ve heard really crickets. yes, the justice department s been great in securing convictions of 275 people rank and file people who were involved in the january 6th attack, but we ve heard silence about the higher ups. there s two possibilities here. one is that garland as you were saying a moment ago, possibly too scared of his shadow and he s doing nothing or the other is that he s got a secret investigation and we just don t know about it. and it s rare to think an investigation of this magnitude could be kept secret, but i suppose it s possible. the thing that concerns me is that the governing documents here, the u.s. attorney s manuals do say that when public confidence requires an announcement of an investigation, it can be done. so we ve heard silence in the teeth of what the u.s. attorney s manual says and that to me is concerning. neil, i guess what concerns me is that this is the pattern and as a student of patterns,