Their crack at gates. We look what the to expect next and how manaforts lawyers plan to save the former campaign chair. Were looking at how republicans hope to try to save a seat in congress. Polls are just opening in ohio for a special election that puts the trump factor to the test. The president rallying around the republican in that race this but he has plans today. Ain. Hey dad. So he took aleve. Morning as the democrat hopes to if hed taken tylenol, make history and make hed be stopping for more pills right now. Republicans nervous come only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. November. Were talking about the new red line in silicon valley. Aleve. All day strong. Where does free speech end and hate speech begin . Thats a question now for Tech Companies as they boot alex jones, one of the countrys loudest and most controversial voices. Why theyre doing it. Why now and whats next. Our team is here and ready to go from across the country
A recap of the days news. Firing. He was there shoaleder to shoulder he Doesnt Know What Mueller knows. It seems implausible to me that he doesnt provide factual material thats illuminating about the president s state of mind. So i think raeurlts little bit over confident to be saying that at this point. But the real question is why would trumps lawyers not debrief mcgahn . The white House Counsel has given 30 hours of interviews. Much of which the Trump Legal Team is in the dark with. Its like a book on tape, isnt it . Thats a lot of testimony. The white house got nothing out of this in return for letting all of these people submit to interviews. You would have thought that they would have at least negotiated, been able to debrief everyone. Strategy . Lets go back to the question of whether or not he incriminated the president. The president seems not to understand that mcgahn is not his personal lawyer. So you think about the kinds of things that might have been toads mcgahn under th
Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, Breaking News and international stories. Weve not heard from cohens attorneys either for any comment on our reporting. Stand by for a moment, kara. I want to get back to you. Shimon, what else are you learning . Wolf, some of what were told the u. S. Attorney there in new york has been looking at are payments Michael Cohen received. This all came out that he received them for potential lobbying, potential influence at the white house and other places. Some of the people who have come before the grand jury there in new york were asked questions about this money, about the money that Michael Cohen had paid them. Some of them who have been asked to appear before the grand jury, they were told they did not need to appear right now while prosecutors could be close to negotiating this plea deal. Of course, keep in mind, as kara said, at any time this could fall apart. There are some questions about money, whether or not what kind of fine potentially michael
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Manafort faces. The judge told them to get back to work though. So could it mean we are any closer to a verdict. But we start with some Breaking News. An nbc news exclusive. Former trump personal Attorney Michael Cohen is discussing a plea deal with federal prosecutors. One that could come as early as this afternoon. Thats according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke with nbc news. Tom winter is the nbc news investigations reporter who helped break the story. Our guest is a former u. S. District attorney for the Southern District of new york which is conducting the cohen investigation. Let me begin with you, tom, lay this out. What else did the sources say . How close the possibility of seeing some kind of deal emerge today . Sure. So ayman, as ellie can probably well tell you, no prosecutor counts their chickens and counts a plea deal until they have it. Then insigned. And the person is in court. I think were still a little a ways away from that, based upon
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The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. Taking responsibility for crimes that hes going to say he committed. But this does not open up a can of worms of him now going on to cooperate against bigger fish in this investigation. That we know of yet. Yeah. That we know of yet. Okay. Lets broaden out the discussion and bring in a couple other folks here sitting next to me. I know its a big day when we have four people at the desk here in new york with me. First, just talking Michael Cohen. Good do see all of you with me. Eli, i start with you. Freshly with the microphone popped on. Nice to see you. Lets roll with just how significant is this news from cara, period . Huge. We know the damage that Michael Cohen can do to the president if necessary. And we probably only have a pretty narrow view. He can hurt him on the Campaign Finance with the payments to mcdougall and ms. Clifford. Can he bring home the piece on the Trump Tower Meeting . Its reported that cohen will s