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Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Very troublesome for the president here. The fact is if President Trump were president right now, he could be indicted for these Campaign Finance violations, couldnt he . Absolutely. When you look at the way the prosecutors have described it, when you look at the way Michael Cohen described it in court, these documents, its criminal information, so its essentially laying everything out. If this was an i...

Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. 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 Camp...

We just want a hint. dont you think mueller hearings would be of wide interest to the american public? >> i think they would. you said it best. 37 indictments, 7 guilty pleas. clearly this investigation is a serious importance to the american public and fundamentally im going to turn in, are you, ari to our rule of law in the united states there are a litany of questions that i think congress be prepared to ask and would want to ask of him. again mix, hope is at the end of the day that the attor...

Russian witch hunt they would be 25 points higher. bob mueller and the 17 apg angr democrats are using this phony issue to hurt us in the midterms. no collusion. he doesnt talk publicly. the presidents attacks are having a big effect on bob mueller, you see it there. manafort conviction, plea deal. not that mueller cares about this. but it does matter in the court of public opinion, his numbers are on the rise. >> i dont think its proving to be that successful, this strategy. we dont know and wo...

>> brenda feigan, thank you so much for walking us through. >> my pleasure. >> airing this monday night at 9:00 eastern time, really, you dont want to miss it. thank you for joining us. "ac 360" starts now. president trump keeps talking witch-hunt and the russia probe keeps finding broomsticks. john berman here in for anderson. one more guilty plea in connection with the investigation. one more cooperator for robert mueller. he is samuel patten, the washington lobbyist with busy ties to a russ...

Manafort conviction, and then of course the additional headlines that have come out as well in the last week in both the russia probe, but also the back and forth that we saw with john mccains deaths and how the president handled that. david, do you think this polling shows maybe the limitations of trumps efforts to discredit attorney general jeff sessions and the justice department. >> well i think there is always some limitation there becauses country is still generally divided politically. so...

His businesses can be indicted. >> dana: so were talking about taking things outside the courtroom and the public of opinion. were talking about these on tv. theyre of interest. i wonder what you think about alan dershowitzs concern for the president saying the mueller investigation, not as big a deal or worrisome out of the southern district of new york. would you agree? how would you explain that? >> alan is the master of inside and outside the courtroom. i dont want to disagree with him. i ag...

Pope francis must be the first to set a good example for cardinals and bishops and resign with them. in ireland this week, pope francis a poll gaysed again for sexual abuse crimes by priests and the lack of action by the church. but yesterday aboard the papal claim, he didnt deny or confirm the allegations. >> read the document carefully and judge it for yourselves. i wont say a word on this. i think the statement speaks for itself. >> viganos claims are unsubstantiated. skeptics say theyre call...

Whats more important to david pecker is david pecker. hes a businessman and this is hurting his business. hes going to take care of himse himself. at the end of the day, the guys a survivor. >> that was a former executive with the national enquirer on nbc last night. in light of david pecker cutting an immunity deal. its one of several legal bombshells hitting close to the president. one after the other this week. joining me now, denny heck, a member of the intelligence community. always good to...

In violating campaign finance laws, thats a serious problem for the president. period. >> jen, of all the things that have gone on over the last year and a half, in your opinion, is this the biggest shoe to drop so far? >> look, i think if there was a movie script about what happened today and cohens statements in court and the manafort conviction, you wouldnt believe it. >> this is like one of those movie montages where several things happen at once and youre like its getting to the end of the ...