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A recap of the days news. The idea that somehow this is floating out in the ether somewhere in orbit far away from the central focus of this investigation is just not true. Those lines of investigation are open. And this is a man who has shown himself willing to do some fairly dodgy work for people supported by the kremlin abroad in the ukraine. And thats one reason why hes standing in court today. And this is just the beginning and again, one of two trials. The first of two trials for Paul Manafort this summer. So this is and the first one as far as the russia investigation. Listen, theres they have to go a long way, as you said. Theres a long way to go, and april, the judges name is ts ellis. He banned any mention of President Trump, russia or collusion from the courtroom. I mean, that may be, but the trial is no doubt weighing on this white house. It is definitely weighing ....
Morning joe. It is thursday, august 23rd. Joe has the morning off. He will be back tomorrow. We have Donny Deutsch with us along with professor at Princeton University and column at New York Post and contributor editor of Weekly Standard john and sam stein and washington Anchor Katy Kay and benjamin. Good to have you all onboard with us on another very busy morning. We begin with the very latest in President Trumps former lawyer implicating him in his guilty plea yesterday. Trump appeared to acknowledge his attorneys Campaign Finance violation and then walked it back in an interview all while ....
Fraud, falsification of business records. it involves transactions part of the mueller investigation. and many of them were entered into evidence in manafort s virginia trial. some legal experts have raised the question of double jeopardy. you can t be charged twice for the same crime in the united states but it s common, though, for you to face state charges on the same fact pattern as federal charges. but new york has a tougher standard of double jeopardy. nonetheless, manhattan district attorney believes he ll prevail. also these state charges, i think loom larger in importance today because we re learning the top prosecutor in the manafort case, mueller s top prosecutor, is leaving his office. how do we read that? i have just confirmed that with a source close to how should we read that? how should we interpret weisman leaving? it s the latest sign the mueller investigation is reaching its end. but what that doesn t mean is that the criminal investigations into donald tru ....
Now, he did address the court today. he said, please let me and my wife be together. we need each other. i am sorry for my conduct. this is a bit of a contrast last week when he did not express any remorse. he said i m a different person than i was in october of 2017 when he was arrested. but this apparently did not impress judge amy berman jackson. she said it s hard to overstate the number of lies and the amount of fraud that he pleaded guilty to committing, hiding his income from the irs, hiding it from his obligation to report foreign income to the federal government. judge jackson said she was surprised that manafort did not write his own letter to her, which is a common thing for defendants to do before their sentencing. she said his attitude during this trial all along has been look what they have done to me. she said he squandered his chance to plea for a lighter sentence. now, his lawyers said that he ....
At paul manafort s trial and part of public exhibits that were found and developed as a result of search warrants, investigative efforts by special counsel s office and their own investigative efforts at the manhattan district attorney s office. in addition to that, these surround properties and business transactions that we reported prior to any manafort indictment involving several of his properties in new york state, in the city of new york. in addition to that, andrea, things such as his statements regarding season tickets to the new york yankees and statements provided to american express, some of those statements and circumstances we heard about at trial, where he said he had some financial difficulties trying to pay down his new york yankee season tickets in 2016 that documents and things associated around that are part of the charges here today. we re not going to hear from the manhattan district attorney. they are not going to hold a press conference today. that s according to ....