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The institute has released a guide to help auditors deal with a new standard on assessing the risks of a material misstatement.

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Investigation. his firm has deep democratic ties. the false statement was maid five years ago about trump and russia. the deadline to bring charges is coming up this weekend. sossamon denies the wrong doing. joyce, what do you make of this indictment? >> we are seeing this indictment for the first time this afternoon. there maybe more evidence to come but based on that indictment, it looks pretty thin, the core of this crime thats charged, making a false statement to a government official. this ...

Crimes but political sins, not the proper function of a special counsel. the inquisition found sins but prosecutors are only supposed to find crimes. >> bill: what do we need to understand about this sentencing tomorrow with flynn? >> two things. number one, i think the judge has the authority to throw out the plea if he believes the plea was not to a crime. i have think he should find as a matter of law that when you tell an untruth to the f.b.i. about a matter that they already know the truth ...

Fbi agents as part of the mueller probe. is it possible that learning more information has made papadopoulos feel that he gave up too quickly? one of the theories here is that the type of stuff he was hearing about wasnt really real, that is to say wasnt coming necessarily from all the way to the kremlin, even though he may have actually literally mis led the fbi at a later point in the chain of events. >> hard to know for sure whats actually in his mind. important to remember that his crime is ...

How? its a material misstatement of the fact to deceive. weve pushed back on propaganda before. and the president is the only person that can start a war, not the press. and its exactly his vast power, thats why people like don lemon hold him to account. lies are dangerous. >> you know what projections are, and i say chris, youre projecting. >> you actually do say that. >> if you will listen to this president, what he says, what he tweets, what he writes, its always projection. whatever he says ...

At what cost? >> ill tell you as much as it would usually make me jealous and angry towards you to be maen mentioned in the same sentence with lebron james, it is warranted here because you both were bringing about the best in what that situation was supposed to be. heres what the president tweeted about us. the fake news hates me saying theyre the enemy of the people only because they know its true. im providing a great service by explaining this to the american people. they purposely cause gre...

Tells us he does want to avoid a protracted battle that will ultimately decide whether or not a president had been subpoenaed for his testimony. we already know he can be forced to produce documents. we learned that in the nixon case. what we will learn next if there is a battle is whether or not the president had been subpoenaed and the weight of legal authority and legal scholarship says that he can. >> joyce answer this for me, for us non-legal minds f. the president somehow negotiates a conv...

Didnt feel like he needed to get ready for those debates. he was ready as is. so why do you think hes agreeing to this prep now? >> well, because in a presidential debate, if you make a misstatement, its just a political event. in a deposition or under oath, grand jury appearance, if you make a mistake, which is a material misstatement, it can land you with a felony charge of either perjury if youre under oath or making a false statement if youre not under oath. each of which carries criminal pe...

E-mails, hope hicks right there at his side throughout all of this is very likely to know what was happening, what president trump knew, when he knew it and what they were saying. and also what they were saying publicly about these things and whether those two things matched up. the statement about telling white lies i think also is a really interesting statement. weve all told white lies when our friend asked us, does this dress make me look fat? is that the kind of thing shes talking about or ...