Interviews with political figures and news updates. Lets take a look. This whole thing about flipping, they call it. I know all about flipping, for 30, 40 years, ive been watching flippers. It almost ought to be outlawed, its not fair. If somebody defrauded a bank and hes going to get ten years in jail or 20 years in jail but if you can Say Something bad about donald trump and youll go down to two years or three years which is the deal he made, in all fairness to him, most people are going to do that. And ive seen it many times. Ive had many friends involved in this stuff. Its called flipping and it almost ought to be illegal. It almost ought to be illegal, barbara . What is that telling you as a former prosecutor . I think its an appalling statement. He calls it flipping. I call it telling the truth. When someone has information about criminal liability and they want to plead guilty, if they want to go under oath and tell the truth they get something in chanexchange for t. Thats how o
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Daniels and other women during the campaign. It was always so clear to him that he did something wrong that he lied about it when he was asked about it on Air Force One, which became the next question in the briefing. So many people now look back at that tape of him on Air Force One saying he knew nothing about these payments, when in fact we now know he knew everything about those payment, so has he lied. Thats a ridiculous accusation. The president has done nothing wrong and there are no charges against him. So now it is a ridiculous accusation if you ask the question has the president lied after the whole world has watched the president lie on Air Force One. Mr. President , did you know about the 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels . Then why did makele cohen make that. You have to ask Michael Cohen. Michael is my attorney and youll have to ask michael. Do you know where he got the money to m
The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. Associate independent counsel for the Watergate Investigation and the clintons, and former ethics czar, belongs to a Watchdog Organization that filed multiple lawsuits against the trump administration, and also with us cnn legal and political commentator, former Virginia Attorney general. Ill start with you. The president in his own words admits to making the payment. Your reaction . Kim or ken . Kim, go ahead. Ken, well go to you next. All right. Sorry, i misheard. Go ahead, ken. Who do you want to start . I think this is going to come down to whether or not this is deemed campaign efforts. The president long before his campaign had been in negotiation periodically with a couple of these women without keeping
as you talk about credibility though, you do bring up a good point. Michael cohen has said a lot of Different Things about this payment. But i also want you to take what we just heard from the president admitting he
Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. There could be a slow down in the production of these kind of things like Exhibit Lists because Paul Manafort maybe has begun a conversation with the prosecutors about what happens next . I dont know how much a, i dont know how much transparency we would have in that process. And, b, i dont know what to expect in terms of timing from this court. With the previous Paul Manafort trial, it was in the Eastern District of virginia, which is not only known for being fast, it is famous for being fast. It is the rocket docket. Theyre the originals. We knew to expect things to go fast and we knew to notice any delay as interesting and potentially suspicious in virginia. In d. C. , we dont have those kind of cues to set baseline expectations. So its really hard to know. It is remarkable that prosecutors have more than double the number of pieces of evidence in d. C. Than they did in virginia. But i dont
Chairman of the senate jacket, he was in judiciary committee. None of them know exactly what senator collins is going to do. Just to set the stakes here, wolf, you named senator jeff flake. Thats 49. If he stays where he is, thats 49 senators, republicans need 50 and the tie breaking vote from Vice President pence. If Susan Collins says she will vote yes on the nomination, that is the vote that they need. Obviously were still waiting to hear from senator joe manchin, whether he plans to maintain his vote as well. A senator who has been undecided for the last couple of weeks, who has been going through a very, very difficult and complex process, a senator who on some of her crucial issues, most notably health care, roe v. Wade
said she feels very comfortable. She spent a lot of time behind the scenes reviewing that fbi report and now she has to make the decision, guys. Well find out soon enough, in the next few minutes. If she says shes going to vote yes in favor of confirmation, thats