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He said he had this come-to-jesus moment with michael: when he was watching the helsinki press conference. for the average american who hears that, thats not really believable and thats lanny davis putting a political spin on a case which i dont think helps him. he also begged for money twice in that interview where he talked about the website. go and donate money to michael cohen. that money you would assume will go to his defense and go to lanny davis, which was a little distasteful. >> i thin...

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>> does this change the way we look at the supreme court justice position? because you pointed out with a huge majority in favor, bipartisan or nonpartisan, whatever it was. but does this fight kind of cheapen or weaken? >> andrew: i think that ship has sailed. i think a lot of people, myself included, look at the court as much more of a political institution done a legal institution in the way it used to be. these battles are political. donald trump is president today because of justice the lea...

Disputed that. he said thats what he played it, but he himself didnt feel that. >> that was basically agreeing with the facts of the case. i think that if donald trump wasnt president and didnt have those justice department guidelines, theres a good chance he would have been indicted yesterday as i coconspirator in this and a lot of legal experts think thats the case. also take a step back, john edwards was brought to trial over something very similar with less evidence about the real question i...

What mueller is trying to accomplish is to squeeze manafort, it looks like he has them on 80 years of criminal exposure. >> you dont think he will appeal it? >> that judge put these prosecutors through the paces. and then he has the d.c. case is a home game, and im sure he was happy that that was first. and its not like he was acquitted yesterday, he has ten more points in his pocket. >> it boggles my mind a little bit when people say the manafort thing has nothing to do with russia because that...

President of the united states to be picking a supreme court justice who could soon be effectively a juror in a case involving the president himself. >> the white house spokesman responded saying "democrats pledged to block judge kavanaugh with everything they have." frankly the latest attempt looks quite desperate. there is a hearing scheduled for september 4 and judge beat 18 will be there. i think you will get questions in his confirmation hearing about whether he would recuse himself, if, fo...

And purchase a new samsung phone. visit your local xfinity store today. >> melissa: we come in with this fox news alert. new reaction from the president after a federal jury found his former campaign chairman paul manafort guilty on eight counts of the 18 on bank fraud and tax fraud. and a mistrial was declared on those other ten. manafort could face a maximum of 80 years in prison. president trump reiterated, manafort, and the case brought by robert mueller have nothing to do with his work for ...

That happened. this had nothing to do with russian collusion. it started as a russian collusion and has nothing to do, its a witch hunt and a disgrac disgrace. >> melissa: meanwhile as a president headed to a political rally in west virginia, chuck schumer warned the president against any pardons of paul manafort or his former attorney michael cohen. >> i understand the president is on his way to a rally. he better not talk about pardons for michael: , paul manafort tonight or any night in the f...

Choices, die in prison or give me a story can i use to get the president. im not suggesting that happened here. the risk is what judge ellis talked about in the manafort case. we may see that at work here. were a long way from tolling the bells for this administration. its a bad day, negative day but not a fatal one. >> tucker: bad for sure. but im a bit confused. some one comes to you and says to you, youre running for office and the person says give me money or i will humiliate you in public a...

The manafort case, alex sawyer. thanks for coming on this morning. the cohen case is more interesting because it does have ties to the president potentially and we are talking seventh and eighth counts. lets look at what he is charged with. tax evasion 5 counts, federal income, making a false statement or financial institution, bank fraud, not a big deal but the extent of campaign contributions causing an unlawful corporate contribution is what he says he did at the suggestion of donald trump an...