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Particularly in the courts. Just tonight, for example, after close of business, the u. S. Attorney in washington, d. C. Filed this motion in federal court in washington asking for a gag order to be imposed by the court on the Legal Defense team court on the Legal Defense team representing maria buttina. To try on influence the 2016 election on behalf of the russian government. Maria butinas lawyer has done lots of interviews and made lots of appearances. Prosecutors are asking for the judge to p...

Out saying we need to raise 500,000. You need to contribute by 9 00 p. M. If you contribute by 9 00 p. M. , were going to give your name to the president. So donald trump will see that youre one of his strong supporters, and they were telling these victims of the trump fundraising operation that they were going to be contributing to, quote, the official secure the border fund. The fine print showed you were contributing to the trump president ial campaign, but normally when theres a big fundrais...

Class voters. No, no, no, im not talking about joe biden. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. We begin with wrak breaking news right now, Paul Manafort is about to learn his fate. He is in federal court for his sentencing, facing up to 25 years in prison, which for a man who turns 70 next month could effectively be a life sentence. Charged with bank fraud and failing to pay taxes on millions for pro russian ukrainians, charges that stem from special counsel Robert Muellers investigation. Lets t...

That defines this moment with legal and political history. Telling the court, quote, all of this appeared to reflect his ongoing contempt for and the belief that he has the right to manipulate these proceedings and the court order did not apply to him. All of this was a problem for me, because court is one of those places where facts still matter. And prosecutors in manhattan apparently another place where facts and crimes still matter, effectively pardonproofing manaforts sentence, moments afte...

New and undeniably trumpian, that there should be no Mueller Report whatsoever. In a twitter tirade today, misquoting from a right wing news outlet this morning, the president wrote new evidence that the obamaera team at the fbi, the doj, and cia were working together to spy on and take out President Trump. All the way back in 2015. Well, the catalyst for his latest outburst, according to the Washington Post was a longdebunked Conspiracy Theory that the fbi infiltrated trumps campaign, something...

Trying to get him to do that he doesnt want to do, in order to really figure it out, you got to go back and look at the history of, like, Harriet Myers as white House Counsel or janet reno for bill clinton and the eric holder contempt controversy in the barack obama presidency. I mean, you have to go back to George Washington and the whole idea of executive privilege in the first place. I mean, its it is the exact kind of rabbit hole that i fit perfectly inside. I could live the rest of my life ...

Emergency. The chairman of the Homeland Security committee, republican senator ron johnson, responds in moments. And step right up. More democrats throwing their hats into the president ial ring. I am a candidate. I have decided to run. Who can win the progressive wing of the party . New york city mayor bill deglde blasio will be here. Hello. Im jake tapper in new york where the state of our union is alarmed. Two major breaking stories about the russia investigation are consuming all the oxygen ...

Breaking news. President trump is on his way back to washington from the south eern border. He seems poised to declare a National Emergency to get the wall funding he has been demanding. The white house is prepping a Legal Defense of the move as we have learned mr. Trump rejected a compromise proposal by a small group of republicans. Also breaking, the former fixer who knows many of mr. Trumps secrets is now set to testify in public. Michael cohen has agreed ed td appear before the House Oversig...

Welcome to the lead. We begin with americans on pins and needles. Two days until another partial Government Shutdown and no one seems to know for sure whether President Trump will sign the bipartisan and provide funding for new border barriers chl. When i say no one seems to no i mean no one. It is hard to say whether or not the president is going to sign it. House and Senate Democrats refraining from gloating about the deal and the fact that the president will get less than Border Security fund...

Flynn to be sentenced that day, in the end, he was not sentenced. It was sort of a shocking day in court. You might remember. Flynn of course had plead guilty to lying to investigators about his contacts with the russian government while he was serving in the trump transition. When he plead guilty, he became a cooperator, became a cooperating witness. The special counsels office thereafter told the court repeatedly and officially that flynn was a good cooperator, that he had cooperated extensive...