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4 million. Filing false statements to a bank in order to obtain a loan, and the real stunner, two counts of Campaign Finance violations. The reasons those were such a stunner, because Michael Cohen detailed in a little bit exactly what those Campaign Finance violations were. One, 150,000 payment to the ceo of a Media Company for a contract which we know from our previous reporting has to do with karen mcdougal, who accuses President Trump of an affair, which he, of course, has denied. And then t...

Interviews with political figures and news updates. Lets take a look. This whole thing about flipping, they call it. I know all about flipping, for 30, 40 years, ive been watching flippers. It almost ought to be outlawed, its not fair. If somebody defrauded a bank and hes going to get ten years in jail or 20 years in jail but if you can Say Something bad about donald trump and youll go down to two years or three years which is the deal he made, in all fairness to him, most people are going to do...

Essentially an unindicted coconspirator. Yesterday we saw how the judicial system is supposed to work. Now, in a Functioning Congress, All Of The Lights would be blinking red today. In a Functioning Congress, the outgoing House Speaker would be directing the outgoing House Judiciary Chair to be beginning the very similar process of investigating cohens investigations. I wouldnt say you start an impeachment hearing, but you start the process. The president was accused of committing a crime in a f...

And so why are they lying about this? because all of these people are smart enough to know that this is the central issue that could bring their guy down. no one will sit still for this notion. and the question that muellers trying to tease out -- the answer hes trying to tease out is when did the russia infection occur. was it a pre-existing condition, to use my medical metaphors? was it something that came well before -- yeah, pre-existing condition meaning the president and his staff came int...

Favorable things i think in it hopes that paul manafort will continue to stand strong. i dont think hell pardon him now, i think hell wait until later when perhaps the dust has settled a little bit. to do it now i think does scream of potential obstruction of justice. if he does it for a corrupt purpose. a pardon is supposed to be given as a sign of mercy and forgiveness that you have atoned for your crimes and gotten on with your life. to do it at this point really would suggest that he is just...

Going to come back, and its going to hurt this president, and it should. you know, you can fool people for a long period of time, but you cant fool all the people all the time. and i think what youre beginning to see is this make-believe world that the president has created, as you does from day in and day out, based on lies and fabrications -- this is falling apart, and people like michael cohen, people like paul manafort, theyre going to disclose what they know because theyre interested in sav...

In exactly those districts that they have to gain them, and i dont think that this helps. it would have been one thing if you could begin to add some of those, but what this indictment -- well, not even an indictment anymore, its a guilty plea and its manafort being found guilty by a jury of his peers. what that does is it solidifies the opposition, i think, of moderates and independents and gives them a reason to go to those democrats in the swing districts. >> let me play sarah sanders today, ...

President wont do it. >> go ahead. >> what jeffrey said about the firing of mueller or directing someone to do that. you heard richard blumenthal say that to you. chuck schumer has been talking about this. elizabeth warren, mark warner. the democrats are circling around this notion of readdressing this about how important they see it to protect mueller. you heard in lindsey grahams statement, a nod to this as well. this is where the political conversation on capitol hill is going to move from th...

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