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The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Thoug a sense the timing of the conversation was while the Manafort Trial was under way . Im going to credit Rudy Giuliani in his last corrected statement in which he says to me that he believes it was quite a bit longer before the trial. Now, manafort was facing a lot of charges in a pretty damning case of tax evasion and bank fraud. It was fairly, you know, high odds that he was going to be convi...

Interviews. just contradicting himself and claiming crimes arent crimes. from mayor of new york city who would prosecute squegee men now trying to say crimes arent crimes. it bears repeating. ahead, the silent shutdown. nobody is talking. nothing is happening and the clock just keeps on ticking. well talk to a member of democratic leadership, next.

Would prosecute squegee men now trying to say crimes arent crimes. it bears repeating. ahead, the silent shutdown. nobody is talking. nothing is happening and the clock just keeps on ticking. well talk to a member of democratic leadership, next. a m democratic leadership, next. ♪ voice-command navigation with waze wifi wireless charging 104 cubic feet of cargo room and seating for 8. now thats a sleigh. ford expedition. built for the holidays. (hurry!) its the final days to get zero percent fi...

He was doing nothing to defend himself except ding his job. whats striking is muellers numbers o stabare stabilized or up. hes succeeded in discrediting the investigation among republicans but not as much as he hoped. its got a lot of support. the house will pass it quickly. theres a lot of republican senator who is are open to it. the appointment of whittaker is part of that. the day after the election in november. this is very much a strategy thats oriented towards february 15th when the muell...

All right. brand-new this morning, the president says that the crimes michael cohen pleaded guilty to were, quote, were not crimes. so what about the hush money payments? did the president direct michael cohen to make these payments? he was just asked that directly. listen. >> now hes saying that you directed him to make these payments. did you direct him to make these payment? >> he made the deal. he made the deals. by the way, he pled to two counts that arent a crime, which nobody understands....

>> and thats what michael cohen has testified to -- >> pleaded guilty to, yes. so its up with thing to argue that a charged crime is not a crime. but when you have a sophisticated defendant with sophisticated -- >> whos a lawyer. >> who is himself a lawyer, pleading guilty, its really, i think, a tough -- a tough argument that it is not a crime. >> i agree with that. i agree with that. but that is what we heard. matt schlapp, we heard it start -- we heard it bubble up yesterday at probably 8:00 ...

They list out the evidence that they have here. david pecker, according to the "wall street journal," is also testifying to federal prosecutors that the president knew about all of this. i do want to move on to the discussion. still wearing your fbi hat, the president very critical of michael cohen, not for breaking the law. doesnt seem to have a problem with the idea that moen moichaen pleaded guilty to many crimes, or paul manafort, for that matter. his real issue is with flipping. >> its call...

Accountability for president trump, even as more and more of those people who surrounded him, people he, himself, picked to have key roles, they face accountability in the court system and the like. but the president himself, not only at the moment faces no accountability, its fascinating to watch his sort of un-reality show collide with the very difficult fact set hes now facing, which is the conviction of his former campaign chairman, the cooperation of his former lawyer and confidant with the...

Lets play it from this morning. >> are you considering pardoning puerto vallar -- paul manafort? >> i have great respect for what hes done, in terms of what hes gone through. he worked for ronald reagan for years, he worked for bob dole, i guess his firm worked for mccain. he worked for many, many people, many, many years. and i would say what he did, some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant, every lobbyist in washington probably does. if you look at hillary clintons person, ...

Of the night overnight. all it said was no collusion, witch hunt. you know, this is a guy who despite the spin, despite the aggressive statements that hes giving in this fox interview, it seems to me that trump is sort of like richard nixon, shouting at the walls in the white house at this point. you know, hes like very, not only naive about the justice system, but basically, he doesnt seem to have much of a strategy beyond saying that crimes arent crimes and, you know, i think thats what makes ...