white house, ken dilanyan in the washington bureau. epic news week and the president is talking about all of this in this interview? he s making a nonmarvel argument that what he pled to is in fact not a crime. the president of the united states isn t the ar bitter of that. it s judges and prosecutors that decide and a jury that decides whether or not something is a crime. also in that interview, you had a frank admission from the president that he made the payments. he s trying to clarify things and make sure this wasn t a campaign violation but listen to what he had to say and we ll come back on the back end. he made the deals. and by the way, he pled to two counts that aren t a crime, which nobody understands. i watched a number of shows. sometimes you get pretty good information by watching shows. those two counts aren t even a crime. they weren t campaign finance. did you know about the payments? later on i knew. later on. but you have to understand, what
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collude and corrupt the american democracy system in the 2016 election which the trump tower meeting was all about. but also, knowledge about the computer crime of hacking and whether or not mr. trump knew ahead of time. lanny davis will be joining me in just a moment. so stick around. the president s involvement of a federal crime. despite having been caught, his role. despite the audio tape we have all heard, the president and cohen planning the mcdougal payment. the president says he didn t know about the hush money until after the facts. did you know about the payments? later on, i knew. later on i knew. but you have to understand ainsley, what he did, and they
lawyer and assistance to tell a story. that is useful, but the legal question here is michael flynn pleaded guilty and cooperated and we never heard about it sort of on the outside. just strange to me, our conversations already happening to mueller. has michael cohen alre
ami or at his direction. this is not a positive development by any stretch of the imagination for donald trump. it s obvious to me that these documents that are being referenced would already be in the hands of government prosecutors and investigators, and, again you think only a matter of time. there s a concern that, well, they re been moved and they may never be heard from or seen again. you think they already have? well, i think they absolutely already have them unless they were destroyed before mr. pecker was granted immunity but when the government grants immunity to someone, that s a big deal. the government just doesn t hand out immunity that easily and they would have required any such documents at that time to be turned over. so, i want to play something for you, this is what president trump told fox news about the crimes michael cohen pleaded guilty to. listen to this, michael. what he did and they weren t taken out of campaign finance.
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a hearing in which you can see them. also coming up tonight a battle motivated by pure fear america s commander in chief goes to war with america s chronicler in chief. and. the things that some of the things trump did and does jeopardize the real national security. are we begin the day in sweden and the election that didn t go right far right as planned swedish voters elected a new national parliament yesterday it was an election that europe watched with a mixture of anticipation and dread the anti immigration sweden democrats were poised for an upset victory a rebuke of the country s generous policies towards migrants but that did not happen instead the governing social democrats remain the biggest party the sweden
democrats the party with neo nazi roots not just up four percent but still failed to meet its goal of becoming the country s second biggest political force however it s not business as usual forming a new government will be much harder because mainstream parties all los
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let s take a look. this whole thing about flipping, they call it. i know all about flipping, for 30, 40 years, i ve been watching flippers. it almost ought to be outlawed, it s not fair. if somebody defrauded a bank and he s going to get ten years in jail or 20 years in jail but if you can say something bad about donald trump and you ll 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 i ve seen it many times. i ve had many friends involved in this stuff. it s 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 it s 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 fo
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mean? i will boil it down to immunity is cooperation like. this is how immunity comes around. feds want to talk to a witness. that witness then takes the fifth amendment, which means they have some potential criminal exposure of some nature or other. then it is back in the feds court. what the fed can do is apply to get a program through immunity, and that is a lengthy process, prosecutors are not very generous with immunity, you have to ask, is this a person who i want to give a pass to and be, need to get the testimony? if the answer is yes you have to send an application to had to doj headquarters, immunity is a significant thing to give out. and what it tells me is that the southern district really wants the testimony of the two people. ed: let s talk about weisselberg, somebody very close to the president. and he told the new york times, if the separate probe, ever gets into my business dealings, that is a redline, and that mi
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2016 election. it was also the follow up on any other criminal activity that might have been discovered in the course of that investigation. as these things unfold, and again this is the nature of an investigation where one witness leads to another, more information comes to light, and when and if prosecutors find reason to believe that other criminal activity has taken place, they not only have the right to follow up on that, they have a duty to pursue it. and certainly given robert mueller s charge here, he has a duty to pursue it. i really do think this goes to a broader point. i ll make it very quickly. i think it s really important at this juncture that the president changes approach. i think he s got to stop the combat with this investigation because this is going downhill for him. he needs to now, i think, adopt a posture of more
particular story about kavanaugh, to continue to develop through the weekend. republicans definitely want to steam ahead with voting on him as soon as next wednesday or thursday. it s hard to see how that happens while this story is still developing, but watch this space. that does it for us tonight. we will see you again on monday. now it s time for the last word with lawrence oh dodge. good evening, lawrence. you know how this show starts at 10:00 or i should say is supposed to start at 10:00? mm-hmm. and every once in a while it starts 15 seconds later, 30 seconds later. my fault, sorry. and it s a pretty organized and ritdialistic thing, and that s the way it s supposed to work. but we can change that. we can change that on the fly if we have to and if something happens and if there was some kind of giant breaking news event, we would deal with that whole concept differently, and the senate judiciary committee can do exactly the same thing. ask that is what they did wit
didn t go right far right as planned swedish voters elected a new national parliament yesterday it was an election that europe watched with a mixture of anticipation and dread the anti immigration sweden democrats were poised for an upset victory a rebuke of the country s generous policies towards migrants but that did not happen instead the governing social democrats remain the biggest party the sweden democrats the party with neo nazi roots notched up four percent but still failed to meet its goal of becoming the country s second biggest political force however it s not business as usual forming a new government will be much harder because mainstream parties all lost some support to the far right and with that sweden has become the next step in europe s dangerous dance with populous. this
divide to make it possible to govern sweden so regardless of the final election results this will be the death of bloc politics. i but his invitation to the center right to engage in cross party
important questions that are not yet answered. is he alone? is this person acting alone some is this person the suspected bomber or someone connected to it? we are following all of this as we follow the progress of that van and the developments in this case. keeping our eyes on the white house as well as president trump is expected to speak any moment. thank you so much for joining me. i will hand it off to john king with inside politics. we will continue our coverage. thank you and welcome to inside politics. as kate noted, we will continue to following the dramatic breaking news this hour. the justice department confirms federal authorities have arrested a man in south florida in connection to the explosive packages sent across the country. that arrest a bit earlier today and now a dozen packages in total sent to political operatives and opponents of the president and cnn. a news conference led by the
attorney general here at 2:30 h here eastern time. in new york, tracking this