Cnn cnn tonight starts right now. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. A classic case of good news, bad news for the white house tonight. A huge accomplishment topped off with a lie. The good news for the president hes on the verge of signing a signature accomplishment for his office, the tax bill. A couple of technical bumps in the road forcing the house to revote. But the bill is expected to reach the president s desk by tomorrow. And it is a big deal. A lot of people have thought it might not happen, but the president and the republicans, well, they got it done. The bad news it looks like americans arent that happy about the tax bill. Our brand new cnn poll shows more than half are against it. Maybe one reason they arent convinced this bill is not in their best interest and not in the interest of the president personally and the super rich because President Trump and his administration have sold it i a lie. That lie being hell take a big financial hit himself. This is going to cost me
Deal . Mexican officials deny striking a deal with the Trump Administration to keep Asylum Seekers in mexico after it was first reported the two sides did come to an agreement. Were live on the southern boarder with tboar border with more on that. 48 hours until the special election that will decide the Mississippi Senate race which has its share of drama. The president will campaign for cindy hydesmith on monday who has come under fire for racially charged remarks about hopponent. Democrats prepared to go after the president and his inner circle on a multitude of fronts when they take over the house in january. Well start with adam schiff today saying hes going to do what he thinks mueller is not doing. Schiff saying he would like to investigate russian Money Laundering schemes with the trump organization. Take a listen. The republicans would not allow us to investigate when they were running the committee. I dont think congress has looked into this at all is whether the russians have
So lets just jump right in. There are two major figures in the president s orbit whose legal worries got much worse today for themselves and whose relationship to the overall scandal involving the president somewhat changed today. One of them is the president s Campaign Chair, Paul Manafort. And one of them is the president s longtime personal lawyer who served for a decade as a Senior Executive at the president S Real Estate business. Now heading into today, we had expected that the filing from prosecutors in the manafort case might be the one that would advance our understanding of the scandal and the status of the investigation the most. It would help us understand any further potential prosecutions, for example, more than anything else weve seen thus far. We do now have the manafort filing as promised. The special counsel in that filing lays out for the benefit of the judge and in the manafort case what mueller and his team say are the lies of Paul Manafort since hes been supposedl
There are two major figures in the president s orbit whose legal worries got much worse today for themselves and whose relationship to the overall scandal involving the president somewhat changed today. One of them is the president s Campaign Chair, Paul Manafort. And one of them is the president s longtime personal lawyer who served for a decade as a Senior Executive at the president S Real Estate business. Now heading into today, we had expected that the filing from prosecutors in the manafort case might be the one that would advance our understanding of the scandal and the status of the investigation the most. It would help us understand any further potential prosecutions, for example, more than anything else weve seen thus far. We do now have the manafort filing as promised. The special counsel in that filing lays out for the benefit of the judge and in the manafort case what mueller and his team say are the lies of Paul Manafort since hes been supposedly cooperating with prosecuto
Southern district of new york includes this passage concerning coens illegal hush money payments to two women who had affairs with trump. As cohen has now admitted with respect to both payments he acted in coordination and at the direction of individual one. As a result of cohens actions neither woman spoke to the press. Prior to the election. Okay, lets be clear. Individual one is donald trump. Federal prosecutors, not Robert Muellers team, the sdny, are saying that donald trump committed a serious felony, that he was intimately involved in the illegal scheme to pay the hush money. Actually, he was more than intimately involved, no pun intended, trump directed the hush money scheme. Think about that. Faced with this reality, trump decided to create his own, the president tweeted. Totally clears the president , thank you. No. Thats not just a lie. Thats the actual opposite of the truth. Federal prosecutors are saying in black and white that donald trump broke the law, that he directed