Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Trumps fixer in congress and the American People can judge for themselves, because they have now heard it for themselves. He is saying it is his job and the republicans job to clear the president. And some people have said, look, this is a part san politician making a partisan speech at a fund r fundraiser and to that, what do you say . Well, america was attacked by russia. They did not attack us to just screw around or test software. They attacked the idea of america that if you are working hard here, you can make it anywhere here. They want to undermine that so that the idea does not go to russia, so you think that democrats and republicans would unite as an antedote, and every time we need devin nunes, he has chosen not to. And now the voters in 89 days have an opportunity with a new prosecutor to go in a different direction and make it not about politics, but about us, and our
country and our democracy. If it were a democratic president , there were people who felt the same way to protect their democratic president well, i hope not, anderson. But congress is to be a check and balance on the exec executive branch. And ted liu said that he should resign for perverting the oath that he took. I think that paul ryan, speaker ryan should remove devin nunes from being the chairperson, but he should not resign. That is on the constituents, and if they also believe that we have a duty to proetect our country above anyone else, they should vote him out on november 6th. I hope they do. They have a strong candidate who i think that will work in a bipartisan way, andrew jans who is going to hope it does not happen again. And you saw our reporter trying to get a statement from devin nunes has been trying to get a statement from paul ryan and radio silence. Should the house leadership condemn these comments in your opinion . You said that he should take him
off of the committee. Paul ryan should condemn this, because this goes to the corruption that donald trump promised americans he would clean up. When i go across the country or talk to my own constituents, they are concerned about their health care and paychecks and concerned that nothing is solved in washington, because it is all about power and corruption. If we want to show the American People that is not what washington is about, and that they are empowered, we need to get rid of the corrupt chair ma to do everything he can to protect a president under invest gamt. That is something that paul ryan could do right now. You really believe that he is corrupt . I think that he has been corrupted with power, and he believes that his job is to protect President Trump. Our country suffers because of that, and anderson, because the House Intelligence Chairman Cannot show unity and protect us from future russian attack the, as we speak, the russians are attacking us, and they are not afraid of us. They believe that devin nunes
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with indepth reporting and investigations. Shocking look, im not surprised, because devin nunes is as intelligent as a warm bucket of spit, but he did nit n a room where there could be a recording device. So he did it where someone is inornd naordinantly corrupt, an aiding and abetting russian attacks on the country. And ken, it is really the cabinets job to clear the president . Not the clear him sh, no. But he is come to the conclusion quite publicly that there wasnt collusion. That is different from the russian attacks on the election and you heard the congressman before us conflate the two, and jump from one to the other quite smoothly and the president quite fr frankly messes himself up between the two. There is a difference between the two and what devin nunes is doing inelegantly, and he is out
to say, elect me to impeach the president , and you have one of the biggest donors Tom Stir Funding that program, and so this is an element of the campaign this year. It is an element of the campaign and whether it should be or not, and i think not, it is on both sides of the aisle. One side wants their selling impeaching the president , and the other side is selling protecting the president from impeachment, and that is the reality of this e leng shun and it is election and it is not n new. Rick . I want to say this clearly, ken. Devin nunes did not come to the conclusion that there was no collusion with russia or conspiracy to engage with russia. He has simply said that he is going to stop any investigation that could lead to the that. We are never with going to find out if we have devin nunes in charge of this, and this is the Proverbial Fox in the henhouse problem, and nunes has stated
over and over again, you know, that he is caught up with these wild claims of unmasking, and the secret reports that he has use and complete nonentities and nothing burgers of the worst kind and now we see the secret agenda underneath all of the theater that he has been engaged in, and that agenda secret . To protect the donald Trump Presidency no matter what. That is not his job as a sworn member of congress. They swear to uphold the constitution and a coequal branch of government, and you know, that ken. They are a coequal branch of government and they are not a bunch of Junior Managers at a Trump Golf Club trying to make the boss happy. Look. Devin nunes can easily and he appears to the believe that he is doing both of those things. He of course has not said what you just said that he said. He has said that the president Hasnt Colluded with the russians, and this is his conclusion, and you may not agree with that conclusion, and
you are waiting for actual evidence to show up of it. I have evidence. Why would we want that. And then of course, the continuing rhetorical problem of people on both sides of the aisle that conflate the russian involvement in our elections, plural, and the question of collusion of which there is none. And ken, the president himself continues to call the Mueller Investigation a witch hunt. And there is no evidence of that. And ken, as you point out and the president ken, as you pointed out can i finish no, because you pointed out that the president impeeachment is a political undertaking. Ken, as you point out. And the constitution, and if you keep going, i want to ask you this question. The president continues to call the Mueller Investigation a witch hunt. He is not talk about the allegation of collusion, but he is talking about the entire thing as a witch hunt. Devin nunes in that tape says that if sessions doesnt
unrecuse himself, if Mueller Wont Clear the president , it is up to house republicans. That is not sounding like a coequal branch of government. That is the conclusion that he has come to. And he has done that insofar as he has the authority do that and what about well, that is not completely true. There Isis Overlapping evidence that the mueller folks have. And he has not seen all of the evidence we are further down the road than in watergate, and still no evidence of collusion, and that is because there wasnt collusi collusion. There was involvement by the russians in the election, but it is not collusion. And so you are saying that based on and you have seen the mueller evidence . No, i have seen what you have seen, anderson. Lets not get trif yal about this. And so you dont know. And the double standard in 2012 when we had a President Lean over to say to the president of russia, hey, lets
deal differently before the election, and when we get past my election, i will go easy on you, that is what president obama said on a hot mike. Ken, i will see you and raise you with the president in the oval office with the russian spy. That is actual collusion. I will see you and raise you the president of the United States in the oval office with a russian spy and Russian Ambassador to say that i fired comey to get the pressure of russia off of me and the president whose son met with and if you are bringing me what i think it is, i love it met with the representatives of the russian government and then lied about that meeting persistently, and in fact, the president of the United States wrote a statement and helped to write a Statement Lying about that meeting to cover up the conspiracy or the conclusion, and people ha collusion, and we have a lot more trail to go down what the Mueller Investigation is gathering, and what you have seen with this recording of devin nunes, he does not care. And devin nunes can have a
videotape of Vladimir Putin handing trump a bag of cash and he would say, no, we have to protect the president , and we have to get the Deputy Attorney general fired so that we can have our people Short Circuit the president s relationships with russia and the investigation of the interference which is part and parcel of the president s team colluding with russia in this election. Ken, i want you the respond and then we have to go. This is not appearing to be where you end up, and then where you start. You heard the book title. I am a truth seeker, and i have litigated in the fisa course, and the unmasking is a serious deal to me. There is no collusion here. You cant say that, because you have not seen the evidence. You said that you care about what happened in court anderson, i have answered that question. Asked and answered, your honor. And you have not seen but i said, what we have seen
is more time than spent in watergate is no evidence yet, and you dont have any either, and you are describing the we dont have the evidence, but we should as americans all wit for the investigation to conclude and as a court off z i assume that you believe the same thing. Yes, and i believe that all of the information they need is available at this point. What else is there to get . Thank you, rick and ken. We requested devin nunes of course tonight, but he did not respond to the request. And what may be happening with Paul Manaforts previous partnership. And why the citizenship of the first ladys parents, and how they acquired it. Ookus. To take care of any messy situations. And put irritation in its place. And if i can get comfortable
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that in fact, the focus of this investigation beyond the manafort trial and the question of russian interference and whether the Trump Campaign cooperated with the russian interference is still an open investigation. There was testimony on tuesday where rick gates, of course s, former Deputy Campaign chairman for the Trump Campaign was questioned about the interviews more than 20 interviews with the Special Counsel. The prosecutor here said that he banted the wanted the testimony kept secret, because that relates to an ongoing Criminal Investigation in his words. The two the lines of the investigation that the Special Counsel are looking at is manaforts financial crimes as we have been following here in the last few days in court can, but also russian interference and any cooperation from the Trump Campaign. By the prosecutor saying there that it is part of the ongoing Criminal Investigation, you get the indication that this line of inquiry at least is not closed, anderson. That is fascinating. Also clashes between the prosecutors and the judge in the case. The judge at one point admitting that he was wrong. What ems tid d what else did e say . That is interesting things in the trial. The judge chastised the pr prosecutor almost like a tool teacher telling him to look him in the eye and give a yes answer instead of yeah answer, but there was a moment yesterday where the judge disputed the prosecutions ability to keep an Expert Witness inside the courtroom, in this case, a former irs agent and expert tax witness. Of course, the crimes alleged here involve tax evasion. The prosecutor said, wait a second, judge, you approved this decision earlier, just look at the transcript. Lo and behold they looked at the transcript and the judge did in fact approve that. Today, a bit of mea culpa from the judge, i did say that was okay, my fault, my bad. Thanks very much. A happy moment for first
lady Melania Trump as her parents were granted citizenship today, the parents of Melania Trump. Obviously what is a big day for her and her parent is drawing attention to the president s controversial calls to end the Immigration Policy that brought them here. According to a source with direct knowledge, she did what many children do, sponsored her parents green cards. This is what the president is trying to eliminate. He calls it chain migration. Under the current broken system, a single immigrant can bring in virtually unlimited numbers of distant relatives. We want to get rid of chain migration. Ending chain migration. Ending chain migration. You have chain migration. This is a schumer deal. Schumer wanted this. We have to get rid of chain migration, all of these things were talking about. A guy comes in and then you have to bring his aunt, his uncle, his father, his grandfather, his grandson. A total desires that
threatens our security and economy. His third niece by a different marriage. Provides a gateway for terrorism. They think it is good politically, but i will tell you that i think it is horrible politically, and what do i know . I did become president in like a year and a half. The first inlaws attorney calls it family reunification, not immigration and bedrock policy. The first ladys office declined to comment. What can you tell us about the process the first ladys parents went through to become citizens . Were learning how Melania Trumps parents came to this country and became citizens earlier today. It was in fact the first lady who sponsored her parents for their green card. To be clear, and you made clear, this is not out of the ordinary, a way Many Americans bring their Family Members to this country. The first ladys parents are
from slovenia. Weve seen them around washington, d. C. , and sometimes travel with the president and first lady. Up until this point we didnt have clarity how they had gotten their green cards, turns out the first lady took advantage of the Family Migration Policy like so many others do in this country so her parents could settle down here. All in contrast from the president s personal position. Has the white house had anything to say about the disconnect . Its incredibly noteworthy melania did this for her parents and a practice her husband does not like. We heard President Trump, you just played a great clip there, rail against the Family Migration Policy many many times, refers to it as chain migration. That particular part of family visa is a Category Trump wants to get rid of all together because he says they are harmful to this country. The first ladys office is not commenting on any of this, however, we do have a statement
from victor and his wifes immigration lawyer, he told me earlier today, i cant comment on the president s politics when it comes to my clients but i have stood up against the president s Emigration Policies personally. Youre seeing a disconnect between the president s policy views and the fact his wife has taken advantage of that policy for her parents. A source close to the white house tells cnn President Trump is scheduled to have dinner with his personal attorney, rudy giuliani, in the middle of the going back and forth whether the president will agree to be interviewed by the special couns counsel. We will have more on that. phone ping
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