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Perhaps even before watergate that a federal criminal guilty plea has taken place. and the guilty person has said i committed this crime with and for the president of the united states. if this were any other person, given the evidence that was presented in court today, it seems to me a virtual certainty that donald trump would have been indicted and charged, too. remember, who benefitted from this campaign finance violation? it wasnt michael cohen. the beneficiary was, according to michael cohe...

Out, the benefit of this is for the president. doesnt make sense for a lawyer in good standing to have done these actions without the permission and the direction of the president. you could make a case. im just saying i dont know how much direct hard evidence there is to corroborate. >> not regarding stormy daniels. theres audiotape regarding the karen mcdougal situation in which donald trump and michael cohen, i dont know if conspiring is the right word, but they seem to be talking about and d...

To distance themselves from him, saying look, he was with us for a couple weeks. a couple months. underplaying his role. now the president seems to be pointing out, oh, he used to work for reagan and bob dole, too. im one in a long line of republicans he worked for. hes saying it has nothing to do with russia. it does ignore the fact that manafort at the convention, they did change the platform to be more russia friendly. >> i mean, completely. and its important to remember that this has been a ...

Prospects. mueller has to decide whether he wants to retry him on the ten counts in which the jury hung. and theres an entirely separate trial with different crimes that is supposed to start in september in washington, d.c. so manaforts ordeal is not over, and the question of whether he pleads guilty now is even more pressing, i think, because why he would want to go through this again is a mystery to me. >> the president did say hes a good person, a good man. he feels sad for him. the president...

Michael cohen accused the president of, is a serious difference from what we have seen, where we were just even a couple days ago. >> i want to pick this up after the break. want to get a quick break in. >> also tonight, the other big case today, the conviction of paul manafort, the other guy the president suggests he never knew, also known as the man who ran his campaign. that and more ahead on the program. before discovering nexium 24hr to treat her frequent heartburn, lucy could only imagine ...

For mr. trump. but after president trump assumed office and certainly after the fbi raided michael cohens home and offices, that all changed dramatically. randi kaye tonight has an examination tonight of what was once a close relationship. >> reporter: michael cohens loyalty to donald trump seemingly unmatched, once telling "vanity fair" magazine hed take a bullet for his boss. >> they say im mr. trumps pit bull, that im his right-hand man. >> reporter: right-hand man until the relationship went...

>> melissa: and i think theres enough here. and as -- it doesnt sound like something you would get fined for. >> i think its a tough case to him, but the other thing you have to bear in mind with respect to cohen, cohen was originally muellers case. mueller allowed the case to go to the southern district. >> melissa: he kicked it there there. >> andrew: right. but he would have done the same thing to cohen as he did to manafort. >> melissa: theres one different ingredient with michael cohen. he ...

Indicate he wasnt interested in trump at all. leave three the new narrative that you may have picked up has nothing to do with me which is what the president said. and that i would say would be better nomenclature. or better narratives. >> andrew: it would be better than a full frontal assault on the prosecutor who up into this point has not indicated there is anything corrupt. so it does make sense for president trump to wage this battle against mueller because it is a political fight, it is a ...

End. they didnt do that with him. its the one theres two different things going on, there is a legal angle which you just mentioned i do think president trumps legal liability is low in this case. you look at campaign finance violations that happen all the time and his 2008 campaign was the largest we have seen, and lets talk about politics of this as well, which is the other angle. i do think this is bad for republicans in a sense and ive always been told in a political narrative, it comes in t...

Accused of murdering iowa college student mollie tibbetts was in our nation illegally for years. president trump mentioned this case at his rally last night in west virginia. and the heated immigration debate. stay close. >> president trump: you heard today about the illegal alien coming in very sadly, from mexico. and you saw what happened to that incredible, beautiful young woman. alright, i brought in new max protein ...to give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you dont. ill tak...