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Three defense lawyers working for the president s campaign chair, Paul Manafort, and Paul Manafort himself, and Paul Manafort himself whos in the courtroom too. We start with an arraignment. Paul manafort you remember was charged just a few days ago with new felony charges. An arraignment is where you stand up in court and face the charges against you and say whether you are pleading guilty or not guilty. Thats what they did first, the arraignment. Courtroom deputy, are you paul j. Manafort jr. ...

News a bit earlier this evening that donald trump has chosen Mick Mulvaney to be his brandnew chief of staff. He announced the choice by tweet, naturally. Mulvaney is currently trumps budget director and was until recently simultaneously the head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that was originally the brainchild of elizabeth warren. The announcement that mulvaney will get his third Trump Administration position comes after trump spent the week pretty much flailing around publicly loo...

The New York Times best sellers list. Tonight is more than an open. Its who i am. Its what i know and what i did for over three decade. As a prosecutor, superior court judge as well as elected district attorney. The way it works is you are innocent until you are proven guilty. Unambiguous word etched in stone. Why would anyone ignore this truth, especially the ranking democrat on senate judiciary, senator diane fine tine, is stunning. But you shouldnt be surprised. The left is committed to the r...

Could still strengthen a little more. 485 miles southeast of wilmington, North Carolina. 125mileperhour winds, down a little bit, but not by much. Sloed down moving northwest at 6. The track from the National Hurricane Center Brings it just to the tip of North Carolina. Some time late friday, but then skirts the coast and makes its way inland some time saturday afternoon as a category 2 storm and then continues across South Carolina and on up back into parts of tennessee, western im sorry, Weste...

Counsel robert s. Mueller to subpoena the president. Now we dont know if Robert Mueller was planning to subpoena the president any time soon. But we do know hes given trump every opportunity to get his side of the story on the record. Mueller haggled with trumps former attorney general john dowd for months about an inperson interview until dowd resigned rather than let trump sit down with mueller. According to Bob Woodwards book fear he pleased with him. I wish i could persuade you, dowd said. D...

The New York Times best sellers list. Tonight is more than an open. Its who i am. Its what i know and what i did for over three decade. As a prosecutor, superior court judge as well as elected district attorney. The way it works is you are innocent until you are proven guilty. Unambiguous word etched in stone. Why would anyone ignore this truth, especially the ranking democrat on senate judiciary, senator diane fine tine, is stunning. But you shouldnt be surprised. The left is committed to the r...

The New York Times best sellers list. Tonight is more than an open. Its who i am. Its what i know and what i did for over three decade. As a prosecutor, superior court judge as well as elected district attorney. The way it works is you are innocent until you are proven guilty. Unambiguous word etched in stone. Why would anyone ignore this truth, especially the ranking democrat on senate judiciary, senator diane fine tine, is stunning. But you shouldnt be surprised. The left is committed to the r...

Its mustwatch television, and if you missed it, here it is, in its entirety. After what has just been a remarkable week in the courts this week, which started with prosecutors in the special counsels office declaring that Paul Manafort had been lying to them, saying he was in breach of his Cooperation Agreement, the president s lawyers then bragging publicly that theyd been using Paul Manafort as a way to gather intelligence on what the special counsel was up to in the russia investigation. Mana...

To in the russia investigation. Manafort had been secretly informing the white house about his interactions with prosecutors since he supposedly became their cooperating witness. After all that this week, what we learned today about manafort in court is that hes not actually going to be sentenced until march, march 5th, which means a lot more time at home, his current home, which is jail. That said, next week, a week from today, the special counsels office says that they will turn in to the cour...

Conversations that they had with the president about potential pardons for former aides under investigation by the special counsel. Thats according to two people briefed on the interviews. The breakdown of manaforts Cooperation Agreement and questions on what about behind manaforts decision to repeatedly lie to investigators, c some of the most unhinged attacks from the president on the special counsel including this tirade this morning. The Fake News Media builds bob mueller up as a saint. Hes ...