A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. The government and for manafort to keep things moving along. They did. That is the same judge that challenged the special counsels office and accused them of just trying to use charges of financial crimes to squeeze manafort in giving them information that they could use against President Trump. The trial proceeded anyway and the former Trump Campaign manager that was a wakened by an fbi agent performing a noknock raid is being confronted with evidence that he hit 60 million from the irs which he received consulting ukrainian politicians. The charges are for falsifying income tax returns, bank fraud and failing to file reports. If convicted, manafort could face 305 years in jail. Theres Sentencing Guidelines for federal cases like that that would suggest that the judge would probably give him something less than that, shep. Shepard what is the next step in this trial, peter . Any minute, shep, we expect
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Clinton and don, jr. Among others. And there is more. A federal judge is forcing a longtime aide to Trump Advisor Roger stone to Turnover Documents and testify before a grand jury hearing, Hearing Evidence in the mueller investigation. Stone sought damaging information about Hillary Clinton from wikileaks, the website which published thousands of hacked democratic emails, emails stolen by russian hackerses, hackers the Trump Justice Department identified as agents of the russian government. There are also new developments in the trial of the president s former Campaign Manager, Paul Manaforts bookkeeper testifying that her boss was effectively broke and lying to banks about his precarious financial situation after losing his biggest client, which is the prorussian former ukrainian president. And that was right about the same time that manafort started working for the Trump Campaign. The bookkeeper also testified that she knew nothing of foreign accounts controlled by manafort. That pos
The days biggest political and news stories, with interviews and reporting from around the nation. Why would the American People believe what youre saying about the fbi when the president says that the investigation on the Special Counsel is a hoax, and the Press Secretary yesterday said there was a lot of corruption within the fbi, do you have any respondent to those statements coming from the white house . Well, i can assure the American People that the men and women of the fbi, starting from the director all the way on down are going to follow our oaths and do our jobs. That wasnt an answer to the question asked. The fbi director sidestepping the question about trumps attacks on the mueller probe, attacks that have been escalating as the pressure appears to escalate. The Manafort Trial is under way. Reports indicating a trump mueller interview is looking more likely. Well get to all of that tonight. Start with the warning from trumps very own intelligence officials, a warning that l
News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Several other top campaign officials, and with russians who had ties to the kremlin. On sunday, this tweet describing in the clearest terms yet what this meeting was about. This was a meeting, the president tweeted, to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics and it went nowhere. Adding lastly, i did not know about it. Now remember, when the New York Times was first breaking news of this meeting, the president Helped Don Junior Draft a statement that claimed it was about adoption policy. After that was proven to be a lie, the president s story began evolving, to use a polite term. This is a year ago in paris. I think from a practical standpoint, most people would have taken that meeting. Its called Opposition Research or Even Research into your opponent. Ive had many people ive only been in politics for two years, but ive had many people call up, we have information on this factor or th
Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. You need a recount. If that is correct and get what it is, the other thing we know is they have apparently under state law until august 24th to certify this election. Were sitting here on august 7th, weve got 17 days, more than two weeks until this has to be certified. If you have that tenday waiting period and then it comes under 0. 5, you know, youre short of that certification. So the law isnt putting a real lot of pressure on them here to get this certified. The law as we understand it is saying its going to be ten days before they can open these. Again, if im a betting man, if you come out here and say, kornacki, your life is on the line, who is going to win this thing, i would tell you balderson, he looks in much better position than oconnor to win this thing. Are you telling me are you sure hes going to win it by more than 0. 45 points and therefore avoid a recount, oh, no, i wouldnt tell