Paul manafort is spending his first night in a virginia jail, this after a federal judge in washington, d. C. Revoked his bail privileges and ordered him detained. All of this coming after allegations from Robert Muellers Team Manafort had tampered with witnesses in the russia investigation. Manafort is already facing charges of money laundering, fraud, and conspiracy and has pleaded not guilty to all of those counts. He will now be held in pretrial detention until september. The criminal case against manafort is not directly connected to allegations about Russian Election interference, but his role in the campaign and his ties to russianbacked politicians have made him a target for muellers team. Reporter Josh Gerstein of politico, who is standing by to join us, sums up the importance of this latest development, writing, sending the 69yearold manafort to jail could boost the pressure on him to cut a deal with mueller, whose main task is to determine whether the Trump Campaign coordina
South lawn of the white house where in just about half an hour the president is expected well, its the front of the white house, but the president is expected to board marine one heading to his new jersey resort and sure to face reporters questions about this new report, raising questions again about any legal implications and p provocatively is this the only time cohen taped a conversation with the president. Theres a good question for you. Well, Stormy Daniels lawyer, Michael Avenatti, spoke about that earlier on msnbc. Michael cohen is one of or was one of the worlds great evidence hoarders in that he rarely threw anything away, he maintained past cell phones, he maintained multiple audio recordings, he maintained documents, emails and text messages, and from an evidentiary standpoint that is a very, very bad thing for the president. But the take from the president s legal team is this tape helps us. Nbc has confirmed what Rudy Giuliani told the New York Times, that nothing in that
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That case revolving around hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal. Hes saying very clearly that he never directed you to do anything wrong. Is that true . I dont think theres anybody that believes that. First of all, nothing at the Trump Organization was ever done unless it was run through mr. Trump. He directed me as i said in my allocution and in the plea. He directed me to make the payments. He directed me to become involved in these matters. Including the one with mcdougal, which was really between him and david pecker. And then david peckers counsel. I just reviewed the documents. In order to protect him. I gave loyalty to someone who truthfully does not deserve loyalty. He was trying to hide what you were doing, correct . Correct. And he knew it was wrong . Of course. And he was doing that to help his election . You have to remember at what point in time that this matter came about. Two weeks or so before the election, post the billy bush comments. So, yes, he w
That case revolving around hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal. Hes saying very clearly that he never directed you to do anything wrong. Is that true . I dont think theres anybody that believes that. First of all, nothing at the Trump Organization was ever done unless it was run through mr. Trump. He directed me as i said in my allocution and in the plea. He directed me to make the payments. He directed me to become involved in these matters. Including the one with mcdougal, which was really between him and david pecker. And then david peckers counsel. I just reviewed the documents. In order to protect him. I gave loyalty to someone who truthfully does not deserve loyalty. He was trying to hide what you were doing, correct . Correct. And he knew it was wrong . Of course. And he was doing that to help his election . You have to remember at what point in time that this matter came about. Two weeks or so before the election, post the billy bush comments. So, yes, he w