A recap of the days news. A recap of the days news. As part of his plea deal he agreed to cooperate with muellers investigation, and then theres dutch lawyer Alex Van Der Zwaan Who pled guilty to lying to investigators about his discussions with gates. He served 30 days in prison and was deported to the netherlands in june. Richard pinedo pled guilty to Election Fraud running a business selling dummy Bank Accounts to shadowy buyers including russians to sew discord in american politics. His lawyer said he didnt know the identity of his customers. He cooperated with muellers investigation as well. Fired Trump National security adviser Michael Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his conversations with former Russian Ambassador to the u. S. Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and hes been cooperating with the special counsel investigation. His Sentencing Hearing was delayed for the fourth time today. Former Trump Campaign adviser George Papadopoulos pled guilty to making a false statemen
A recap of the days news. An admitted liar and is lying now to help the government. It doesnt behoove him to lie. It would hurt him. If he said this was done at the president s direction he better have proof, and if he doesnt, they say it in the plea agreement, the allocution, when the judge tells you, you know, the deal right before sentencing, if you want to say anything, he took that opportunity. If hes lying hes dying in terms what have this deal means. We both know Michael Cohen from the campaign and just from being a character, a person here in new york. Again, this is a total 180 for him. I cannot wait to hear him speak. I cannot wait to hear his side of the story. Boy, is that going to be amazing. I cant wait to seat proof. Lanny davis just said, i said do you think he knows more things about wrongdoing by the president or even any potential criminal behave i dont remember and he said yes, and he said well see what happens. He wants to Tell The Truth but, yes, i believe he know
The president is suing to block elijah cummings subpoena of trump financial documents from an accounting firm that did several years of work for donald trump and trump businesses. the judge ruled the subpoena must be obeyed and the judge refused to grant a delay in the execution of his order because the judge said that donald trump s lawsuit does not present serious legal questions about the subpoena. the judge said this is not a serious case. president doesn t have a chance of prevailing. the president s private attorney arguing the case told the court last week that congress did not have a legitimate investigative reason for obtaining the trump financial documents, the judge traced the committee s interest in those documentses in detail beginning with who else, stormy daniels. the judge noted that the committee was seeking documents related to trump s reporting of debts and payments to his personal attorney michael cohen to silence women alleging
Beginning with who else, stormy daniels. the judge noted that the committee was seeking documents related to trump s reporting of debts and payments to his personal attorney michael cohen to silence women alleging extramarital affairs before the election. he went on to list several other matters of interest to the committee and stressed congress s power to investigate is broad. judge meta wrote it is not the court s role to decipher whether congress s true purpose in pursuing an investigation is to said investigation or something more sinister such as compacting political retribution. congress s motives are off limits. the president s lawyer argued to the judge last week that congress is not allowed to conduct criminal investigations. it is only authorized to conduct investigations for legislative purposes. to that, the judge said today it is simply not fathomable that a constitution that grants congress the power to remove a
Enquirer, long-time trump friend david pecker, told federal prosecutors he, too, worked with trump and cohen to suppress stories of women alleging affairs. and that he did so to protect trump s campaign. president trump s story about the hush payments has changed over time. first, he told the american people he knew nothing. did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? no, no. reporter: then, he said he only knew after the fact. did you know about the payments? later on, i knew. later on. reporter: now, he calls the payment to porn star stormy daniels a simple private transaction, and says it s michael cohen s fault if he it broke nil any laws. it s a lawyer. a lawyer that represents a client is supposed to do the right thing. that s why you pay them a lot of money, et cetera, et cetera. reporter: but on fox news, the normally trump-friendly former judge andrew napolitano said prosecutors have evidence the president of the united