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>> in a deposition. >> >> in a deposition or otherwise. as it relates to him defending himself in the case. and asked us to agree to a stay or a delay in the case. we said we dont believe a stay or delay is appropriate. >> why would they want a stay? >> well they want a stay because they want to avoid having michael cohen answer questions and potentially plead the fifth amendment in response to questions we may pose. >> i want to be clear. you heard this directly from michael cohens attorney. >>...

Story -- is that in a civil case a jury can take into account a defendant pleading the fifth as -- as a negative where in a criminal case it doesnt mean that -- its not to be taken one way or the other. but in a civil case a jury can think he is pleading the fifth because its -- he doesnt want to answer it for because it makes him look bad. >> thats correct. in a federal civil matter if a witness pleads the fifth or invocation the fifth amendment or her fifth amendment right, the fact finder, wh...

Were committed or werent. >> thats kind of a line youve heard from establishment republicans, people who are concerned about the possibility of donald trump firing rod rosenstein. then you have the people like steve bannon, jason mill, he and others who are saying get rid of them. how do you square it? >> this is something that were hearing from a number of republicans who have come out and said -- who are pleading either privately or publicly with the president that firing the special counsel o...

Four either guilty or cooperating. now to cooperating witnesses who have not been charged with anything. sam nunberg. he initially said he would not work with the special counsel. he testified anyway. and george nader mixed up in all sorts of stuff. he allegedly facilities a meeting with erik prince, the brother of the education secretary. now to those charged but pleading not. paul manafort opted to go to trial rather than plead guilty. hes charged with conspiracy against the united states and ...

More than 40 people were injured and six of them seriously. the bus was carrying 38 students from long island high schools and five chaperons which just returned from the european trip. investigators say they were heading from jfk airport to a shopping mall to meet up with parents. the driver was being evaluated and did not seem to be familiar with the roadway commercial vehicle height restrictions. a jury is seated in the retrial of bill cosby. it is expected to begin at 9:00 a.m. eastern. th...

I need to read the whole thing. past hour robert mueller prosecutors using information they gasolined from paul manaforts belongings in their investigation. they executed a warrant as recently as march 9th. the information is related to, quote, ongoing investigations that are not the subject of either of the current prosecutions involving manafort. what does that tell you? >> so just quickly, this begins with sort of you know gates, manaforts number two pleading. so that happened a month before ...

Manaforts number two pleading. so that happened a month before the new subpoenas went out. you have to assume there is some conversation going on. we also have the rod rosenstein memo that got released earlier process week or leaked earlier about allowing mueller to look into new charges against manafort. we can surmise -- and remember this is the fourth sort of filing in the mueller investigation in ten days. so there is- there is a quick pace going on here. >> wow. >> thanksgiving hints and su...

Pleading this week, this authorization from rosenstein to investigate broadly manafort, expansion of lines of investigation. again, we just know about it because mueller had to tell the court in response to a pleading. we should well assume that there are many many other lines of investigation that we dont know about, that could include many other players. and so what mueller is doing is, again, what prosecutors always do, prosecution, you start at the bottom, you work your way up to the top. ag...

Lobbying on behalf of the ukrainian government. >> seems so far that you have got general michael flynn. pleading to lying to the fbi. and you have papadopoulos dealing with lying to the fbi and then you have gates who pled guilty to financial fraud. and then things have nothing to do with the trump campaign. let me read you one point. instead fitfully answered questions -- denied having conversations in 2016. when confronted with an email, the defendant again lied. in fact he had a series of ca...

Today after these findings. if the attorney general does not bring charges against the two officers, the findings will be handed over to the baton rouge police department and the mayors office and theyll have the opportunity to decide whether or not they will file their own charges. still here in baton rouge, not very optimistic from community leaders and activists and supporters of the family of alton sterling. >> nick valencia, thank you. the grandmother of a sacramento man shot and killed b...