2016. on the left, congressman chris collins who was indicted on felony charges less than two weeks ago. he was the first to endorse donald trump for president. and then on the right side, that s congressman duncan hunter. he was the second sitting member of do know support donald trump for president and now today he too has been indicted on multiple felony charges. who was third? as i say, congressman duncan hunter probably considers himself lucky today. if you re going to get indicted, today was probably a pretty good day. because the news of his indictment arrived on a day like no other. in this remarkable scandal ridden candidacy. we actually called michael beschloss to ask if there s anything like this. has there ever been a single day in the news for any u.s. president that held similar
come one in u.s. history would be march 1st, 1974. that produced this headline the next day. march 1st, 1974, was the day a grand jury indicted richard nixon s campaign manage here he had nam
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but the president s own fate is a real front burner issue now because of what just happened with cohen and manafort. let s start with manafort. on manafort, you know by now the basics. manafort was convicted on eight felony counts. the jury in the manafort case was not able to reach a verdict on the other ten felony counts that manafort was facing. they didn t find him not guilty on those other ten charges. they just couldn t come to a decision. that gives the prosecution and the defense both some options here. on the counts where the jury didn t reach a verdict, there was a mistrial for those ten counts, than means prosecutors could decide to try paul manafort again on those ten counts. prosecutors have a choice as to whether or not they want to do that. on the other hand, there are the eight counts, the eight felony charges where the jurors did reach a verdict. on all eight charges they found him guilty. on those
we begin here in berlin at the annual literature festival which is a platform for presenting contemporary developments in all full names of the written word right as an academic from around the world come to the festival as well as of course the literature loving public the nigerian author chimamanda ngozi adichie is one of the top african writers around today and we met up with her at the festival. their presence is enough to feel the holes like here with the literature festival in the early chimamanda ngozi adichie is greeted like a pop star as one of the great voices of world literature is also a feminist icon. and really just a writer you know i want to stay home and write poetry and dream but there are things about the wall that make me so angry that i then want to try and make a difference in her books a deal she deals with racism and sexism at 19 she left nigeria to study in the us
and it was there that she learned for the 1st time what it means to be black she talks about th
marcus shows us the ins and outs of bulgaria s famous power line brand. but 1st need to rocks the world of classical music yet again opera star plus you don t mingle dropped out of a production of verities macbeth on the eve of opening night at the new york metropolitan opera while it was to be his 1st u.s. performance since sexual harassment allegations against him were made public just last month. this is what fields concert halls around the world are used to. allegations of sexual harassment against puffy domingo have grown so known that one day before he was scheduled to perform at the metropolitan opera in new york the singer canceled . we were really looking forward to hearing the voice but we understand too why
he stepped down and. the whole thing is unfortunate but if you know what he in a way i m kind of grabbing stuff it s important that we recognize the suffering of many women and you know like like that women have said for to me too many times up times up for one of the
and baking his way through the impressive repertoire of the new 28 my colleague. ingenuity behind the hungary and potato project. on may 2nd 2900 marked 500 years since the death of leonardo da vinci and the italian renaissance master who spent the last 3 years of his life in the french war valley as 1st painter engineer and architect to the french king well this is why the louvre holds almost a 3rd of the paintings attributed to him including of course the famous one elisa and it s pulled out all the stops to get as many more on site as possible for this exhibition a task almost as more new mental as devon she s genius. the mona lisa is still the star of the louvre but on the 500th anniversary of the old masters death she is getting a lot of competition from a separate exhibition the curators have moved mountains together the most important
vinci s for this. 2 is over the da vinci s works are spread around the globe they only see them as absolute treasures and are reluctant to let