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violations. it could land him in prison from 3-5 years. mercedes, that issue will come up whether mr. cohen has decided to do this to get at this out of the way and hope and pray for a pardon down the road. certainly what our calling is done as wonder if they are going to get cooperation. frankly, they could have a discussion with mueller later on and find out what he knew. whether president trump knew of the meeting and what the meeting was taking place. and the payment to stormy daniels. whether the president knew about either of them. and, of course he has come forward and said, look, i think you did know. the back-and-forth can whether there are some continuation of discussion with mueller is left to be seen. he is without a doubt looking at
something down the road. no lawyer wants to sit, even with that, no lawyer wants to sit in 3-5 years. that is a significant amount of time. neil: the former doj prosecutor, still better than what he could hav
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reporting violations where they failed to report some things inadvertently. i think in the obama case it was what are called 48-hour report, failure to report contributions. in none of those cases that i m aware of has the actual candidate or the president been implicated in ordering it be done. it wasn t that obama said let s not report these contributions. those are kind of the more the regular violations that you see in presidential campaigns. here we have an allegation that the president directly ordered cohen to pay money to prevent people from talking about alleged affairs. that s a potential violation on several counts. one, people talk about the reporting violation. these were contributions that weren t reported. that s true. but, they were paid by the trump organization. that makes it a corporate contribution. it is illegal to make a corporate contribution. it is also illegal for an officer of a corporation to author
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cohen as the guy who made problems go away. and they just barely pulled it off. trump winning the electoral college. remarkably, they are not the first felons among the president s circle. the man charged has surrounded himself with criminals. deputy campaign chairman. campaign foreign policy aide, national security advisor inside the white house. and that may not be the end of it. new york republican chris collins was just indicted for insider trading and today, in a story we don t have time for tonight, the second congress to
and then stuff that directly implicates the president. that is right. the first five counts, that is tax evasion. just to be clear, i want to hang a lantern on that. he pleaded today to stealing $4 million from the u.s. government. what would the taxes have been on that $4 million. yeah. that is what he did. and then you have another count where he says, and he has pled guilty to, where he lied about his liabil
doesn t stop there. cohen s attorney tells msnbc he has information that bob mueller would want to know and is more than happy to start talking to the special counsel. meanwhile, paul manafort who two years ago literally ran donald trump s campaign is now a felon. he is facing serious prison time and like michael cohen sits atop this list of trump associates who are indicted or convicted criminals. that is a lot of witches. good morning, and welcome to morning joe on this wednesday, august 22nd. joe is off. he s tweeting. he ll be filing for the washington post. we ve put together an all-star lineup for this morning s incredible amount of news. a small law firm of legal experts, msnbc legal analyst danny savalas, john thnathan tu and barbara mcquade and two experts or the cohen stories
i do not think there s a parallel. we ll see what you come up with. a legal landslide like none other in the history of the presidency. what the conservative drudge report described as trump hell
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this is why he did that, why he won. the american people rejected more of this, more blood on politicians hand, the democrats want this issue politically more than they want a solution and that is a factor. if i was advising this president i would say tell mitch mcconnell to go nuclear. national security issue, simple majority of the senate for border security. rob: the president asking congress to provide $5 billion next year to start building that wall along the southern border. donald trump approving a disaster declaration of hawaii braces for hurricane lane. incredible video showing a weather plane flying directly into the eye of that category 4 storm with winds of 150 mph. also some stunning video of the hurricane, that is the plane flying into the storm and video
that will be tested but there is still blood in the water but the president saying he did nothing wrong and