he s not guilty. remember what he was accused of. he was accused of lying to the fbi, about who he was working for and who he was working for, hillary clinton. we want to get to our reporter. david, this trial was as taking a look at not just the fact that he lied but whether or not he can bring into focus anything else that s going on. once it was found out that he was working for hillary clinton, what else didn t we know? reporter: harris, exactly what this lie material to the fbi s investigation. that s something that jurors had to find out. apparently, they think that he did not lie to the fbi or may be it wasn t material. i m getting texts from our justice resource who was inside the building. michael sussmann indicted. not guilty for a charge of lying to the fbi. harris, to give everyone a back story, we ve been reporting this for about two weeks. michael sussmann was a clinton campaign attorney in september 2016. he texted the fbi general counsel, james baker, who wa
Than liebermann at the pentagon and this cnn welcome to cnn and Special Coverage. If former President Trumps Hush Money Criminal Trial, im wolf blitzer in washington, along with abby phillip. Whos just outside the courthouse in new york today, Michael Cohen, trumps former were fixer and lawyer is back on the Witness Stand. Prosecutors appear to have some work to do during their redirect of cohen after he made a purely stunning admission during crossexamination . Today, defense attorney todd blanche was able to get cohen to admit to stealing Tens Of Thousands of dollars from the Trump Organization. Abby, you were inside court today . Playing, how it all went down thats right. Wolf, earlier in the trial during the direct examination, cohen had actually said this, that he had pocketed monday money from the Trump Organization. That was meant for a technology company. But today, while he was being pressed by the defense attorney Todd Blanche Cohen agreed that it was essentially plants said,
Right now cnn stories this hour on opposite coasts of the United States of america and Los Angeles Police are Making Scores of arrests as they swept through and antifa the war in camp man in the heart of uclas campus. Im taking tapper washington. Youre watching sports, Cnn Special Live Coverage and im Kaitlyn Collins in new york mark where in minutes Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial is going to resume. My weeks ago, we saw the former president of the United States walking back into court where he has no choice but to sit and listen two witnesses tell a story in which he is the main character and for which he could potentially end up in prison soon. Keith davidson, who was the former attorney for the Adult Film Star Actress and director stormy david. Stormy daniels will go back under the oath in minutes. The judges also going to hold a hearing to consider if the former president has again violated his gag order for me more times. So you will be able to see on the left hand of your screen
Leaders in congress, are to pretend didnt happen. Is that just Mitch Mcconnells nature . What has to happen for something to get done . Tell me what you saw when you watched the Press Conference today. Reporter well, Mitch Mcconnell knows when youre the leader, a party in the senate, youll take shots. Thats part of the job, a guy who takes incoming fire and allows your caucus to get things done. The two men appearing sidebyside today was politically smart or at least acknowledgement of political reality. Their goals in most cases are the same and desperately need each other to get any of them done. On tax reform, they cannot have the same problems they had on health care. If theyre sniping back and forth at each other day after day its gawk to be that much more difficult to get done. You heard some of that today. The president praising Mitch Mcconnell. Saying hes the guy to get it done on all of these issues and put a bunch of additional issues on Mitch Mcconnells plate now
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They just need tax relief and this is taking a tax burden off their backs but the stimulating nature is well designed so for example, i was at a Manufacturing Company not long ago and my constituents in suburban chicago. The company said this. Peter, were going to invest 30 million in our plant next year if that Tax Bill Plans with full expensing as we proposed, were not going to spend 30 million. Were going to spend 50 million its that type of approach that were trying to create here which is why there was so much enthusiasm about it among republicans in the house. You havent seen this in a long long time. Maria well you have enthusiasm sure but not so much from those 13 republicans who voted no against the house bill. God bless them and if youre chasing everybody all the time in terms of a Roll Call Vote youll be waiting a long time. To get 227 House Republicans to agree on something as big as this is i think incredibly
significant and a good milestone but we still have good work to