Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Lamier. Thank you for making the trip. Caroline, i want to start with you though. How legal csignificant is this . This is a 10. The reason people are scratching their heads because it is so blatant. I dont think you can over state the importance of this mission because thats what it is. His son took a meeting to get dirt on hillary clinton. Why it is important is because there is a specific criminal statue that makes it illegal to accept something of value from a Foreign National as it pertain to the federal election. Hes taking all those boxes in terms of a statutory case. The president says it is totally legal and it is done all the time. Getting information from a foreign enties ties is not all
affiliated people with that conspiracy. These people now this meeting could be unindicted Koch Conspirator of the larger agency. Stay with us, here in new jersey, phil rucker, as you are brewing of everything thats goin
Interviews with political figures and news updates. Looking at. If you are looking at, as Robert Mueller had been known to do, how tweets fit into a larger pattern of obstruction of justice, the contrasting this weekends tweet and the statement that the president put out, helped put out in july of last year, obviously, will go to, you know, that argument. Does that constitute an illegal act or as jay sekulow says, is it not relevant to the law . And elli, what is elvent to the law . Its hard to tell what mueller is looking at. But we hear from a lot of reporting that youre looking at that june meeting. June 2016 meeting. Yeah, andrea, and they should be. If im prosecuting a case for soliciting illegal Foreign Campaign aid and a witness testified to exactly what the president tweeted yesterday, my next move is to say no further questions. Its really an astonishing admission by the president. He essentially admits to 95 of a crime and the other 5 is obvious. We can break it down. The pre
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Jury to buy. It most certainly is and prosecutors will hammer one concept, follow the money. In these fraud trials, if you follow the money trail, that will lead you to the conclusion that you will finding when in the prosecutions mind is guilt. Theyll see readily Paul Manafort made exponentially bigger amounts. He set up the business and the shell companies. So its a very tough sell for the defense team to say its the lower level, the subordinate whos in position to take orders from the man above thats the true mastermind. Follow the money and that will lead you to the Promised Land for the prosecution. If i were rick gates, i would have taken a larger cut for myself, which he apparently did. Joining us now, ken dilanian. Ken, we were just speculating about this last night about when this might happen and it sounds like its a little quicker than we might have thought and that we are going to hear from gates
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