2016 Shepard News Today

A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. The government and for manafort to keep things moving along. They did. That is the same judge that challenged the special counsels office and accused them of just trying to use charges of financial crimes to squeeze manafort in giving them information that they could use against President Trump. The trial proceeded anyway and the former Trump Campaign manager that was a wakened by an fbi agent performing a noknock raid is ...

This event that has been outlined in these court papers occurred during the campaign, during the summer and fall -- da summer and spring of 2016. >> shepard: we know theres a lot we dont know from mueller. we know that mueller, to your knowledge and all of our reporters knowledge, has not done any leaking. this is a big screwup on manaforts lawyers part. >> yes, yes. such a screwup that the man fort people have decided not to challenge this allegation of a lie, meaning theres not going to be a h...

>> shepard: and this is -- the reporting is not as a result of an affair. the reporting is to determine for your readers whether the was withholding information from the people to affect the election. >> the idea here is to show the federal prosecutors have determined these two payments, these arrangements were campaign finance violations. >> shepard: thats already been determined -- >> thats been determined. michael cohen has pleaded guilty to that. were showing and our reporting shows the pres...

Fallen teammate but a group of people dont hold anyone accountable for his death. if only they can have the courage jordan had. the gop governor of maryland, larry hoe began, issued a statement, quoting again, the university system has let down the university of maryland community, and the citizens of maryland, and now it is time to fix it. well, of course within hours durkin was fired. with the university president, saying, quote, this is a difficult decision but the right one for our entire un...

The jury, six men and six women to be given instructions about how to proceed and then possible that sometime late this afternoon we could start to hear opening statements. once those opening statements start, dont expect to get a lot of information out there or dont expect the attorneys and prosecutors to be talking about manaforts role with the trump campaign. seems like the government is laser focused in their case on manaforts work as a lobbyist and a consultant for those ukrainian politicia...

Tied to hillary clinton. its not somebody that i think is doing a good job at the fbi. so his feelings there still raw. he denied the tidbit about asking andrew mccabe who he voted for in 2016. >> shepard: were led to believe hes part of the nunes distraction memo, too. >> thats right. a lot of wrangling right now between the white house and the justice department and fbi about whether to release this. there were some warnings given to the white house that this document shouldnt be released on n...

Example of somebody who has failed the leadership test. more than anything else in these jobs ive learned theres no lead. everything else you can be taught. you cant be taught how to lead and how to make decisions. said hes not precluding anything in the future, which means he seems to be leaving the door open for a possible run in 2016. shepard? >> shepard: there will be no run in 2012, just to be clear? >> no running in 2012. >> shepard: okay. >> shepard: good. glad we spent all this time on i...