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Michael cohen, youve never said they were part of the campaign. >> they dont have to be part of the campaign. >> you had michael cohen, who ive known for 12 years and served on a trump world tower board with, ive known him for a long time. every time cnn had michael cohen on as a guest, you identified him as the executive vice president of the trump corporation. you never said he was on the campaign. why is that relevant? you want these things to be in furtherance -- >> it doesnt have to be -- >...

Know you are raising a point here but that is not the universal answer to the question. people can study what you are saying there and make it -- its a distraction for the main point. >> i think you folks ignore anything that is counter -- >> no, i think the knowingly and willfully is a defense the president will give, and theres a lot of legal room there. i dont think the fec not going after a criminal violation of campaign finance laws means there was not a violation of campaign finance laws. ...

Defense that the president is not guilty by reason of galactic ignorance? >> which is probably true. the galactic ignorance part. weve got -- they have evidence of the meeting where they agreed to buy these. hes got motive. we have a tape. we have documents to support the legal aspect. we have the financial records. we have lying about it afterwards which is consciousness of guilt evidence. when you add that all up -- still we dont know about other corroborating evidence, but we know that much a...

Chairman, paul manafort. he now lives in the same jail as maria butina, although, he is on the boys side and he is convicted of multiple felonies and she is awaiting trial. according to the associated press today, prosecutors are ramping up their investigation in to foreign lobbying by two major washington firms that did work for former trump campaign chair paul manafort. in a flurry of new activity, justice department prosecutors have begun interviewing witnesses and lawyers to schedule additio...

Investigation in to foreign lobbying by two major washington firms that did work for former trump campaign chair paul man a foft, in a flurry of new activity, justice department prosecutors have begun interviewing witnesses and lawyers to schedule additional questioning, related to the podesta group and mercury public affa affairs. those were two firms that were accused in manafort court filings of essentially illegal lobbying. of knowingly, getting paid to represent the pro russia ukrainian gov...

Misled fisa court judges. by the way, and the american people. we have sally yates, also fired. insubordination. she signed off on one of the fisa applications. susan rice, she lied all over the place, over and over, about benghazi, when they knew better. a matter of national security. really? knowingly? lying? get rid of her clearance. michael hayden, gregg jarrett iy calling his security clearance case "questionable" remember, hes currently employed by cnn as a talking head. finally, we end on...

Government, a pro-moscow ukrainian government, he was doing activities all of which werent being reported at the time, and where he was getting paid under the table, tens of millions of dollars. and all of this eventually would transport itself into the trump campaign. theres reporting that he was actually in debt despite the fact he was receiving tens of millions of dollars in these activities. and then, when he came on as the campaign chair, for donald trump, he was offering russian owingly ga...

He is charged with false bank returns. and bank fraud. so what theyre trying to do here is to show he did this knowingly. the defense is trying to say they relied on gates and theyre the innocent victim of rick gates bad acts. >> and he flipped on him and is working with the government and testifying against him. >> the reason they start with some of the extravagant living, in tax cases like this, they do a net worth analysis. she living above his reported income. therefore he had knowledge of a...

Have been reunited. many hundreds have already been deported. the coercion that has existed in this process has been profound. these parents, i was down in el paso speaking with detained parents two weeks ago. we spoke with dozens of parents. nobody had any information at the time they were being asked to sign paperwork. no consultations with lawyers, information was not presented in a language that they could understand and they didnt get copies of papers. so we have to make sure that any famil...

Protected. >> helsinki seems not to have damaged the presidents popularity. in a new nbc poll it rose to 45%. 1% up from june. the highest its been. >> sandra: thank you. >> bill: another big story today. there is a lot of reaction in from president trump and the justice department after the release of the details behind the heavily redact edifies yeah application that led to the surveillance of a former trump campaign aide by the name of carter page during the campaign of 2016. here is the twee...