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From a lot of jail time. thats huge because as you know, the looming question in the entire end game of the mueller probe is why the former chair of trumps campaign, paul manafort, kept lying after pleading guilty. it didnt seem like something you would do to protect yourself, so who was he protecting? and why did he keep parroting no collusion? if you watch this show we first reported on this back in august 2017 when we wrote and reported on the beat about the ways that state ags could investig...

Dobl loss. fwhun getting more time in federal prison and literally moments before that, before he was necessaryly briefed on it, he didnt reference it, paul manafort indicted, and as you mentioned it seemed to be the whole point. >> a little twitter bromance going on. >> i think we have a graphic for this. we were charging and reported out in the beginning of august 2017. we have been on the story, presidential pardons may not end russian prosecutions. i reported august 2017 that legal fact and ...

The best years of my life as a parent and ill never get those years back. >> he will also never stand trial for his wifes murder again. exonerated now. and free finally to speak his mind about his terrible 15-year ordeal. >> from my standpoint personally, i think one of the greatest hip of course czys in our country is our criminal justice system. there is nothing fair about it. >> cal did more than just speak out n august 2017, his legal team filed a sweeping 26-page federal complaint claiming ...

Puts the finishing touch on the arc of this story. quote, t-mobile acknowledges its patronage of trumps washington hotel increased largely after the announcement of the merger with sprint. in a letter responding to questions from democratic lawmakers, the company says before the announcement of this merger that needs government approval, quote, only two top officials from t-mobile had ever stayed at trumps hotel with one overnight stay each in august 2017. but since the merger was announced, sin...

>> reporter: michael cohen painting an unforgiving are portrait of president trump before the house oversight committee. >> he is a racist, he is a con man, and he is a cheat. >> reporter: for a full day, cohen leveled explosive accusations against his former boss. potentially the biggest blow, trumps former fixer detailed how the president told cohen to lie about hush money paid to adult film star stormy daniels. >> what did the president ask or suggest that you say about the payments or reimbu...

Donald trump, i kept him posted every step of the way and he paid me back. there is one of the 11 checks he said he got. one of the other checks was signed by alan weisselberg, the cfo of the organization and donald trump junior. theres plenty of ground to continue this investigation, notably by asking weisselberg and donald trump jr. about this whole affair. but, and of course whats so significant about this check is that its dated august, 2017, when donald trump was president. thats now out th...

Colleagues are so disconnectedover what disconnec of what it means to have the president sending checks to cover bribe payments you made on his behalf. one in 2017 of march and another august 2017 after he was sworn in as president. they are upset while my colleagues are trying to discredit by some of your own unlawful acts and lies they are disconnected with the fact that you were the personal lawyer for this president and this president close you as his legal counsel. my stance has always been...

What it means to have this president of the united states senting checks to cover bribe payments you made on his behalf. one in 2017 of march and another august 2017 after he was sworn in as president. they are upset that while my colleagues trying to discredit your testimony by some of your unlawful acts and lights they are disconnected that you were the personal lawyer for this president of the united states. this president chose you as his legal counsel. my stance has been the same mr. chairm...

Years for the wheels of justice to turn in panama. during that time, holberts wife divorced him while they sat in separate panamanian jails. chers family finally got the news they had long waited for. in august, 2017, william dathan holbert, the man the people knew as "wild bill cortez," was found guilty of the robbery and rom honorable -- and homicide of five people according to a tweet from the panama department of justice. he was sentenced to 47 years in prison. the woman once known as jane c...

Practices around extortion, and whose benefit, whose benefit? right now everything we know about ami is everything theyve done is to benefit donald trump. >> donald trump. >> whitaker, who literally thanks to sam clovis, becomes a cnn legal analyst in order to get the attention of the trump administration for a job, and in august, 2017, calls the mueller probe the mueller lynch mob. and refuses to do even what william barr was willing to do which is to say this is not a witch hunt, there are rea...