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The charges in exchange for paying fines, doing community service and admitting that kraft would have been found guilty if he went to trial. the plea deal reportedly called for kraft to take an std test. kraft pleaded not guilty and denies any wrongdoing. >> he is worried about the embarrassment that would be caused by him admitting wrongdoing. he has a lot of money and time to try to hire the best lawyers possible and to fight this. >> reporter: kraft and his legal team are tonight fighting in ...

Scenarios. one white house official telling cnn today, were tea leaf reading like everyone else but emmitt flood has held meetings to determine how they might respond. their response will be based on what attorney general bill barr decides to release to congress about muellers conclusions and what, if anything, the president is asserted of as wrongdoing. >> its sort of interesting that a man, just out of the blue, writes a report. i got 63 million votes and now somebody just writes a report? i t...

Underlying it will make it much easier to do our job. >> if the white house did seek to substitute executive privilege, it would only -- things that can only -- only things that happened in the white house, after the president actually became the president, not during the campaign. >> thats right. >> not during the transition. >> thats right. >> nothing is covered by executive privilege? >> no. executive privilege is a doctrine to protect the right of the president to get personal advice so he c...

Administration may want to exert executive privilege. jerry nadler already said there taught to be no assertion of executive privilege in this situation, especially if the president of the united states is implicate in wrongdoing. >> it was a big fight for nixon up to the supreme court. joe johns, thank you very much. a woman who spent 14 critical months and a spokeswoman, strategist and sounding board for president trump has agreed to cooperate with house investigators. we are talking about h...

What does that say to you? >> that this president doesnt want this investigation to go forward. hes made clear that he doesnt think the special counsel will find anything. but the american people deserve to know what the special counsel has found and given the long history of wrong doing, cheating consumers, engaging in shell game trades to launder money for russian oligarchs, there is a a legitimate possible nexus between foreign interference in the elebz and mr. trumps elebz and what deutsche ...

Executive privilege over many people who had administrative positions. the white house has not responded to the congressional request. last night on anderson cooper chairman nadler said that the wrongdoing -- im sorry, that executive privilege is not a shield for wrongdoing. >> it is fundamental law that executive privilege cannot hide misconduct. you cannot use the executive privilege to hide misconduct by the president or anybody around him. in the nixon case which was very dispositive on that...

>> thats right. >> nothing is covered by executive privilege? >> no. executive privilege is a doctrine to protect the right of the president to get personal advice so he can make his judgments. if hes not president, that doesnt apply. and in any event, as i said, executive privilege cannot be used to hide wrongdoing or misconduct. >> your committee has sent out 81 requests to individuals and entities as part of the investigation into the president and the inner circle. can you say how many of th...

President michel has been arrested in connection with a large scale corruption investigation prosecutors say ten there was arrested on charges related to alleged graft in the construction of a nuclear power plant tender was president of brazil from twenty sixteen to twenty eighteen and he has denied any wrongdoing. at least five people have died and more than twenty have been injured in a series of blasts in the afghan capital kabul the explosions occurred near a shiite shrine as people gathered...

Either go for a softer break sit or to put it to the people again have a second referendum these calls are getting louder and louder arent good masseur reporting from london and i want to ask you to stand by as well because we are hearing that the british prime ministers office which has announced their theresa may. they will be giving it first conference in brussels later today about the possible brags that extension and of course we will bring you live coverage when and if it happens and analy...

Cross-examined under oath but a very good defense lawyer and stood up. the jury clearly credited rick gates as to many of the accounts. all of this tells me that the prosecutors have real plans to use rick gates again not just as a background witness, but as a trial witness. >> quickly before i let you go, we heard them say executive privilege is not here to shield wrongdoing. but executive privilege hasnt been extensively tested in the courts. how do you see this playing out? >> the last real t...