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Is back on stand this morning. The jury hearing directly from the attorney and fixer for donald trump right now as we speak. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, these hours go by fast. Bill reading e. Mails as fast as we can. He shut down the story of daniels before the election. The former president striking back hard before he went into court as the whole process unfolds for what is what, day 17 . Here he is last hour. Check it out. The gag order has to come off. When you ask me a ques...

Progress until everybody has that to give their grandchild. Ill see you back here next sunday. Now to my colleague. Wise, wonderful words. My biggest take away youre going to go from being rev al to papa al. 9 00 a. M. Here in the east and 6 00 a. M. Out west, and heres whats happening. Now President Trumps lawyer says you cant believe what youre hearing on that Michael Cohen recording about paying a former playboy model. I think they put it out because they wanted a doctored version to obscure ...

The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Ears is that trump was not at au walled off from the seedier aspects of being donald trump. In fact, he was very much hands on. If cohens account proves true, Donald Trumps Daily Collusion Denial may undergo an extreme make over and his supporters may soon be conditioned to accept that collusion isnt a crime instead of there was no collusion at all, and that is just the p. R. Battle front. The legal pro...

Using Cohen's own notes, and recollections of Israeli soldiers who heard him, Matti Friedman teases out the astounding story of the Jewish singer-priest on the Yom Kippur frontline

Campaign, but those felonies had been directed by president trump. according to federal prosecutors in the cohen case, it was president trump who directed the commission of the felonies for which cohen was convicted. cohen is one of the people who carried out that criminal scheme after being told to do so by the president. thats why he went to jail. the president, himself, was not criminally charged. presumably because under justice department policy, a president cant be criminally charged. but ...

And if thats not enough, cnn also broke this story today. you may remember that up of the cute little nicknames sdny has for president trump is, quote, individual 1. when the presidents first personal lawyer michael cohen was sent to federal prison, that was in part for campaign finance felonies that federal prosecutors said had been committed not only to benefit president trumps re-election campaign, but those felonies had been directed by president trump. according to federal prosecutors in th...

Weird posthumous pardon to jack johnson and then pardoned scooter libby. he definitely made public overtures that seemed to send the signal that, hey, he liked giving pardons and he was amenable to granting pardons, even not in the ordinary course. so i dont think its that odd. >> gloria, when cohen was reassured by his attorney that everything was, quote, very, very positive, you are loved, saying, sleep well tonight, you have friends in high places, what do you make of the fact that cohen ulti...

Pardon? >> and thats the big question. let me ask our legal analysts how they interpret it. jennifer, friends in high places? does this sound like a pardon dangle to you or just somebody trying to keep the relationship strong or even repairing a relationship that may not be as strong? >> well, you know, its hard to tell, obviously, its very vague. but here is a time when the feds have gone in and seized, pursuant to court order, a bunch of materials. a lot of that communications between trump an...

Fixer. cnns gloria borger has the exclusive reporting here. also back with us are caroline polisi and jennifer rogers. gloria, tell us more about these e-mails. >> we have obtained two e-mails that have been given to congressional committees and they contain communications that were done in april of 2018. and remember, that is after michael cohens office was raided by the feds. and theyre between michael cohen and an attorney named bob costello, who has a long-standing close relationship with ru...

Last dual sovereignty doctrine, which states basically that a state can, its its prerogative, prosecute for the same underlying conduct if theres a different state crime, but in new york, it has heightened double jeopardy laws which give you more protection than the constitution does. and there was some rumblings, i dont know if you remember a while back, congress was trying to amend those laws for this very instance so they could continue to prosecute under that lower standard. it never went th...