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crime. colluding about russians. you start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. the hacking is the crime. the president it s a sign the president s legal team is is trying move the goal posts on the probe as the investigation moves closer to president trump s inner circle, he s trying to distance him from manafort. he was never involved in intimate business relationship with donald trump. the president s lawyer is doing the talking for the president on all things russia. all things michael chone and he s doing quite a lot of talk ing. jake. jeff, thanks so much. let s talk to our experts. laura coates, our former federal prosecutor, i want you to listen about what the crime might have been. i don t know if that s a crime. colluding about russians. start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. the president didn t hack. before we get to the moving of the g
september, then we have a very, very serious violation of the justice department rules that you shouldn t be conducting one of these investigations in the 60-day period. there has been an informal tradition in the justice department. but in a recent report the justice department inspector general noted the 60-day rule is not written or described in any department day policy or regulation and does not call to an end for active investigations. giuliani also attacked the special counsel s motives. he knows the answers to every question he wants to ask. he is going to ask him did you do you think we are fools? you want to trap him into
perjury. the reality is that he doesn t need to ask a single question on obstruction, he has all the answers. the president is not going to change his testimony. stop the nonsense. you don t have a case. president trump joining in on the attack tweeting today, this is an illegally brought rigged witch hunt run by people who are totally corrupt and
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i would be remiss if i did not say it in the outset. here you are of another summer of extreme weather. well, we can talk about that in a second, let s talk about this whole question of coverage of trump. i don t know who was the moron from fox news who made that point of how did that work in 2016. that s the question that i would ask is how is it working in 2018? what happened in 2016, donald trump was running against hillary clinton. we know there were a lot of moderate democrats, suburban women, and just enough that in a choice between trump and hillary ready to say, really don t like hillary and i think i will take a chance on trump. what has been happening over the last two years? trump has been locked at 43% approval and around 50, 53 disapproval. i think wonderful key reasons for that, and we saw in the alabama election and the pennsylvania elec
unpresidential behavior that trump exhibits most in his rally and tweets that we excessively cov cover. bring on the coverage. the reaction like places of fox news, is this what everyone says leading up to the 2016 election. what a great idea, remember what happened the last time the media covered every tweet and rally and every word of donald trump and every wink and nudge became apart of the media s snark-nato, they elected donald trump, the bozos. is it a no win situation or if you are the president, no lose. i want to know what you think. smerconish.com, answer this question at this hour. does covering every one of president trump s speeches,
rallies and tweets and utter rans hurt or help the gop and trump s re-election. thank you for being late. tom, great to have you back. i would be remised if i did not say it in the out set. here you are of another summer of extreme weather. well, we can talk about that in a second, let s talk about this whole question of coverage of
and people are exhausted. trump did respond to michael cohen s plea today. this morning he wrote if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, i would strongly suggest that you don t retain the services of michael cohen! and michael cohen plead guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime. president obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily settled. trump also spoke to fox news about his relationship with michael cohen. he was a lawyer for me for one of many, you know, there was a lawyer and the fixer. i don t know if he was a fixer. i don t know where that term came from, but he s didn t do big deals. did small deals. not somebody that was with me that much. you know, they make it sound like i didn t live without him. i understood michael cohen very well. turned out he wasn t a very good lawyer, frankly. he was somebody that was probably with me for about ten take this all together this being the president of the united states after
least for now, at flooes for a day, trump resoutheasted lashing out in a dramatic and public way. instead, wednesday was a moment for calculation and conversation, a pause for a rattled administration. according to white house officials and outside advisors familiar with the discussions. michael cohen s lawyer is making it clear his client is ready, willing, and able to share what he knows with robert mueller. jonathan lamere is standing by captures the state of affairs in his latest title more dirt on president trump? lanny davis made a series of television appearances today. here is what he said this morning. is he hoping for a pardon from president trump? not only is not hoping for it, he would not accept a pardon. he considers a pardon from somebody who acted so corruptly as president to be something he would never accept. earlier this evening, davis
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lawyers and tweeting of the russians investigation, the president i don t know how you can impeach somebody who has done a great job. i will tell you what. if i got impeached, i think the market will crash. i think everybody would be very poor. reporter: as rudy giuliani talked about rebellion. you only impeach him for political reasons and the american people would revolt against that. reporter: as for the white house has been saying manafort s pardon have not been under discussion. sarah sanders came in and we have put it up on screen. this pardon is not something being discussed in the white house and the president has not made a decision on pardoning of paul manafort or anyone else. wolf, you can look at how carefully worded that statement is. this discussion is not taken place inside the white house.
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With lester holt reporting tonight from the democratic national convention in philadelphia. good evening. on the eve of their big convention, the democratic party has been rocked by a bombshell tonight. the head of the democratic national committee, debbie wasserman schultz, resigning under fire today in the face of an uprear over a batch of emails made public by wikileaks. i know this feels like a lifetime ago, but that was eight years ago, 2016 election, that was how the democratic national convention started. there was already friction in the party between the clinton supporters and sanders supporters, and then there was this release of internal democratic party emails by wikileaks. it was like putting gasoline on a smoldering fire, and the democrats the chair of the democratic national party quit the night before the convention started. she s out after a fire storm over party emails posted by
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