That all happening all at once. Maybe its a coincidence, maybe thats what happens when the charges start to get filed. They all interrelate. They must be at least some level read into whats going on in muellers shop, we would hope. This all looks like its designed to protect donald trump. Not get at the meat and potatoes of what russia did to us. I feel like so much of what were seeing is it to protect donald trump i dont know maybe im a little paranoid thinking that is disturbing. None of us are naive. But the part of it that i have been a little bit dismayed by is that its one thing for people who are partisans of the trump
administration or who are republicans and see it as their job to defend the president , to say, you know what, this collusion thing didnt happen. What russia did was terrible. We are against that. But Dont Try To Drag Donald Trump into this, dont try youre saying that he was involved in this to try to undercut his election. He won his election fair and square. And
Respect. And i think we could use a lot more of that spirit in washington these days. A lot to talk about over the next two hours. Lets go to our panel, jessica and mo, also shawn steele and ron brown. Ron, to you first, with The Big Picture here and the implications for the coming m midter midterms. Every special election, we say focus on the final margin, not who won. What does this say . This put a big you sharpie underline on everything thats been happening since Donald Trumps victory in 2016. On the one hand, there was an unmistakable move toward the democrats in this district. Oconnor won 65 of the vote
there. An unprecedented showing for a democrat. He gained as well in delaware county, and not as much. Thats what ultimately sank him, and republicans retaining very big margins with slightly disappointing turnout in the rural parts of the district. Thats what we saw in virginia, alabama, and in pennsylvania, the distribution of the district was a little different, which allowed r
Also wired money to some of these vendors that we heard about last week, including the clothing people that ostrich jacket. He explained how those money flows went there. So hes connecting the dots for prosecutors. He also explained how he helped falsify documents at manaforts request at the banks so manafort could get mortgages and he also explained how they falsified his tax returns, explaining how they moved things that should have been income to loans and back to back dated documents. At One Point Manafort was under financial duress. Prosecutors showed an email of manafort sending to gates which manafort says w. T. F. , we need to discuss options. This is a disaster. Hes Instructing Gates to help him come up with some solution with the accountants about how to fix his tax returns so he doesnt get hit with quite a large of bill as he was expecting. So gates testimony is continuing and we expected the crossexamination to begin in a
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federal prosecutor and cnn legal analyst jennifer rogers. one of the big questions today is whether trump s legal team will try to get this moved from state to federal court by noting he was holding a federal office when the alleged crimes took place. how does a judge decide that, and how likely is it that will succeed? it s unlikely to succeed. the judge will refer to the statute at issue. so a defendant can t try to remove to federal court if she or he is a federal court and if the conduct charge involves their duties as a federal officer. he would argue that as president. he s responsible for ensuring that elections for presidents are secure and that s all he is doing. of course, the indictment is full of allegations, that there are people charged with ensuring elections are fair and clean, and those are the state election officials who conduct the elections in the states and he was interfering with them.