We need someone whos going to be able to unite welcome to viewers all around the world. Its valentines day eve. You are very observant. I let everybody know that. I care. I already got my card from you, and its a good one. Because im full of love. All right. This morning a former top adviser to the president says you better get used to it. Steve bannon says now the president knows how to use the full powers of his presidency, we should expect to see more of the venom and vengeance. What one called the retribution tour. Fi t impeachment witnesses and an unprecedented to help the friend convicted of a crime. Republican senators better get used to it or resign to it. Overnight, new comments from someone on the subject that are likely to enrage the president when he wakes up this morning for morning typing exercises. John kelly is standing by fired National Security council official Alexander Vindman who testified in the impeachment investigation. General kelly told them, quote, we did exa
Charges. If your goal is to keep yourself as much as humanly possible out of the crowbar hotel, out of federal prison, probably most lawyers would advise you that the best option you have for doing that is to plead guilty, and then you may or may not have the choice of additionally cooperating with prosecutors. Youll have the choice depending on whether they want you to cooperate, whether you want to cooperate with them, and frankly its very important, it will depend on whether youve actually got something valuable to offer them that they want to hear from you. If you do have something valuable to offer them and they do want to hear it, thats actually the best Case Scenario for you to try to avoid prison or limit your prison time as much as possible. If you can plead guilty, agree to cooperate, provide prosecutors with what they will describe in court as substantial assistan assistance, thats probably the best you can do in terms of trying to alleviate your own potential prison sentenc
Quit the administration after more attacks from the president. I want to thank the Justice Department for seeing this horrible thing. And i didnt speak to them, by the way. Just so you understand, they saw the horribleness of a nineyear sentence for doing nothing. And twitter wars, the president picking a fight with Mike Bloomberg who wastes no time punching back. Somebody said that he calls me little mike, and the answer is, donald, where i come from, we measure your height from your neck up. [ applause ] and good day. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington where President Trump is on the attack. In the last hour alone, slamming his former chief of staff, john kelly, more on that in a moment. First, the president s escalating criticism of the handling of the roger stone case. First he went after the prosecutors who resigned from the case in an unprecedented act, now the president going after the jury, accusing the foreperson of having significant bias. Its all apparently too much for the hi
Administration. That leaves 265 days to go until the 2020 president ial election. It has been exactly one week since the u. S. Senate voted not guilty. After warnings of a Retribution Campaign by the president the president seems to be in the middle of a campaign of retribution. It started with the removal of Lieutenant Colonel vindman and vindmans twin brother and the ambassador to the eu gordon sondland. Then when the feds at the Justice Department announced their intention to pursue a federal prison sentence of seven to nine years for trumping friend of 30 years roger stone, in keeping with federal sentencing guidelines, trump put this out to his 72 million and change twitter followers. A horrible and very unfair situation and a miscarriage of justice. The Justice Department then overruled the recommended sentence, which then led all four of the federal prosecutors on the case to withdraw themselves in protest. The president said with a straight face he didnt get involved and then a
Cnn more resignations could be coming at the Justice Department, this a reaction to the attorney general intervening to reduce a sentencing recommendation by the Justice Departments own lawyers following sentencing guidelines for the president s long time ally roger stone. Lets begin at the white house, with john harwood with more on kellys stunning comments here. As chief of staff kelly often held his fire. Here you have remarkable comments, not just from the former chief of staff, but former and decorated marine general. Jim, i think general kelly felt while he was in the white house that he was going to try to constrain the president s behavior, had limited success in doing that, now hes beginning to open up a little bit more, it has been a while since he left the white house to do that. And other officials in similar roles, jim mattis the former defense secretary, have not really opened up, but on a range of issues, from the president s intervention and the courtmartial case of nav