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Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Howard fineman, an nbc news analyst who spent his tuesday in judge ellis courtroom marveling at Paul Manaforts wardrobe. Anyway, mimi, let me start with you. Define Obstruction Of Justice and is it something that has to be done in secret for it to be a crime . Sure, chuck. I want to answer the second part first. It does not have to be done in secret. The definition of Obstruction Of Justice, there are different prongs of it,...

Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Bookminder, executive director for citizens for responsibilities and ethics. And Midwin Charles is an attorney. President trump reacted to cohens plea this morning on twitter where he writes if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, i would strongly suggest you that dont retain the services of Michael Cohen. Okay. Lets remind our audience, the president is downplaying this. Being funny, almost cute. Theres nothing cute about ...

Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. Completely debunked the campaignrelated charges. Lets take a look. The general counsel for the clinton mob family, lanny davis, he had his client pleaded to two counts of criminality that dont exist. These Campaign Finance violations all over tv saying implicates the president directly. Re first, lets back up. It is a guilty plea. It is a plea bargain between ale prosecutor and a crimi...

Special counsel. Is he hoping for a pardon from President Trump . Not only is he not hoping for, he would not accept a pardon. We all knew that this was going to be used as a hush money kind of payment from Campaign Finances. You knew at the time . We knew. The conviction of Paul Manafort is another blow to President Trump and a boost for Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Mr. Manafort is disappointed of not getting acquittals all the way through or a complete hung jury on all counts. He is evaluat...

Business news and analysis. Business news and analysis. 1186, and this is 1998, it toppled 19 by august 31st. A lot of anxiety there. But then, it mostly move sideways during the Senate Hearings which began early february, ended on february 12th, 1999. Look at the chart, you can see the stock market was up to the races after that. Neil you have a good economic or market backed up. I think it helps if you are president to base of the like his. Richard nixon was not so lucky, if you think about it...

Analysis and discussion of the days top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence ODonnell. Presidency took a giant step toward impeachment. It happened in a courtroom in manhattan when these words were spoken. At the direction of, meaning at the direction of the president of the United States. And when a defendant is Pleading Guilty in court, it is very difficult for the defendant to Say Something more important than the word guilty. Thats usually the most important word a defendant speaks du...

Sentence in this case and you agree to cooperate. And i think from Robert Muellers perspective it would be worth it because even if Paul Manafort doesnt have anything incriminating i think Robert Muellers quest is to get to the truth and Paul Manafort certainly knows a lot of what happened. He was present at that june 2016 meeting at trump tower. He has all the connections with the russians and the ukrainians and so it seems that hes in a position to know a lot of what was happening with regard ...

And people are exhausted. Trump did respond to Michael Cohens plea today. This morning he wrote if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, i would strongly suggest that you dont retain the services of Michael Cohen and Michael Cohen plead guilty to two counts of Campaign Finance violations that are not a crime. President obama had a big Campaign Finance violation and it was easily settled. Trump also spoke to fox news about his relationship with Michael Cohen. He was a lawyer for me for one of many...

Details about payments mr. Cohen arranged with woman who alleged sexual encounters with President Trump, including mr. Trumps knowledge of those deals. The journal report which cited people close to cohen and others familiar with prosecutors discussions posted late last night. It preceded a tweet from the president at 1 10 in the morning washington time, trump writing in all caps, no collusion, rigged witch hunt. And Republican Leaders remain silent but the rank and file did weigh in. Former pre...

News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Cnns Abbie Phillip is live at the white house. The president just had an event where he met at the white house with republican lawmakers. Did he clarify anything today . Reporter well, nia, the president just let reporters into the room for that meeting. It was originally scheduled to have been closed, but he said nothing. He didnt respond to questions about any of these issues floating around him. He didnt expand on any of his commen...