A look at breaking news, politics and reports from around the world. Yeah. I think thats a good point. On Paul Manafort, the former Trump Campaign chairman convicted yesterday on eight felony counts, bank fraud, tax fraud, stealing literally millions of dollars from american taxpayers, not reporting income on tens of millions of dollars, is there a chance hell still cooperate with the Special CounselPaul Manafort . He has another trial coming up next month. Right. Look. If youre Paul Manafort, i mean, youre looking at possibly some serious jail time. There is an incentive. But i think what you are seeing is the president telegraphing directly to Paul Manafort, if you stay put, if you do not as he said, if you refuse to break, if you see that tweet that he he contrasts Paul Manafort with Michael Cohen its very clear that hes telegraphing to Paul Manafort that if he doesnt break with him that perhaps theres a pardon in the offing and you can see, also, by the way, Paul Manaforts legal team is hearing him. Heres a little bit from his
lawyer speaking to the president. What was your reaction to the president today . Very happy to hear from the president and supporting mr. Manafort. Its very clear that Paul Manaforts legal team is sending word back to the president. Look, we hear you. Everythings going to be okay. I think thats exactly what is going on the there in plain sight between the tweets and the response from Paul Manafort. That was Paul Manaforts lawyer last friday leaving the courthouse saying hes thankful for the President Tweeting nice things of Paul Manafort and once again the president tweeted i feel badly for Paul Manafort and his wonderful family. Such respect for a brave man. Even though this brave man that the president calls a brave man convicted of Stealing Millions and millions of dollars from american taxpayers. Thanks so much, evan, for that report. Lets get some more now. Joining us from chicago is democratic congressman mike quigley of illinois, a member of the house intelligence committee. Congressman, thank you for joining us. Lets get right to the sensitive issues after denying knowledge of the Hush Money Payments back in april, to these two women, President Trump now says he did know about them. Just, quote, later on. And he argues that since the money came from him its not a Campaign Finance violation. Do you believe that argument holds up . Not at all. Part of its at least because of the fact that the president s story seems to be changing all the time. But lets remember which account were talking about. The shell account used to pay off the porn star was also the same account that the Russian Oligarch with ties to the kremlin paid 500,000. I tell folks when they look at this investigation, there are no coincidences. And everything is tied together. Give it time. The American Public will find out what really took place. Yeah. Even though the president today in this interview says he only
learned about all of this, quote, later on. We have that audio tape and Rudy Giuliani confirms it is the president s voice in which he and Michael Cohen are discussing in Advance Payment to Karen Mcdougall, the former playboy playmate. Is cohens admission in his plea deal he committed a felony at the direction, the coordination with President Trump enough to begin Impeachment Proceedings in your view . This is what i have told folks for months. Let the Mueller Investigation take its course. Some of my democratic colleagues want to go forward with impeachment months ago. I would tell them now, look, if you did it then and maybe get one shot at this, you wouldnt have all the information we learned about yesterday. At the same time, i tell my republican colleagues who shut down this investigation and who want to continue to shut down the want to continue to try to shut down the mueller,
investigation look at what happened if we did this. The American Public wouldnt know. Let it take its course. If you find criminal activity you dont stop an investigation. You go forward to see if theres more. I think the president obstructed the investigation and i do believe mr. Cohen said in court yesterday is the truth. When you couple it with the totality of all the other evidence, these recordings and the Video Evidence that have taken place. Lets let it keep going because we havent completed the investigation as to conspiracy, obstruction or Money Laundering. Theres a lot more information out there. I think the Second Manafort Trial could be instructive on that, as well, given the Money Laundering issues. Did the president in the interview today admit to committing a crime with Michael Cohen . I think he put it in totality of circumstances, if mr. Cohen committed a crime then the
president did. Was cohen honest with your committee, the intelligence committee, giving an interview Behind Closed Doors in october of last year . I dont think so. I think that months ago after his interview and before yesterday there was enough new evidence, documents, circumstances and things we have learned from other witnesses that made us all in the democratic side want to bring mr. Cohen back. Yesterday you saw the bipartisan leadership on the Senate Intel Committee basically say after yesterday does your evidence still stand . I think he was alluding to the same points that i am today. Before yesterday, there was reason to call mr. Cohen back. Right . Was he in prague in 16 . Was he an intermediary through cr ukraine in 2017 to pass a message of general flynn about
lifting sanctions . Of course, now, what was that 500,000 payment for . And did the president have foreknowledge of the trump tower meeting . Did the president have foreknowledge of the attacks . And the information that his son had of constant contacts, direct contacts with wikileaks . Again, its obviously all connected. Its just going to take time to get the information together. Cohen as you know claims that President Trump knew about that controversial trump tower meeting in new york ahead of time and his lawyer lanny davis and ill be speaking with lanny davis shortly here has indicated that President Trump may have some advance knowledge of the russian hacked emails. Do you believe Michael Cohen . I think hes yesterday hes under oath and his whole life was on the line. Hes aware of what the investigators have after the raid on his office and What Hundreds Of Thousands of documents that were put together
during the raid. So clearly, with his back against the wall and all the circumstances already out, im far more likely to believe mr. Cohen yesterday than the president today. Congressman quigley, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you. Any time. Still ahead, the political fallout of the president s latest version of the story about the Hush Money Payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougall. Will republicans in Congress Investigate anything . And will democrats talk of impeachment gain any traction . The first survivor of alzheimers disease
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nonresponse. Heres what they said. All we know about it is that hes pled guilty and Everything Else that youre asking me is speculation and i dont think i should be speculating. I dont know enough about it to, again, process just beginning and i think we ought to let it it makes you very concerned but the president shouldnt be held responsible for the actions of people that hes trusted. Mr. Cohens credibilitys going to be challenged is my best guess. Reporter among the republicans speaking out with any sort of substance taking the white house Talking Points on all of this, attempting to down play the significance of the news, calling into question the credibility of Michael Cohen essentially trying in large part to look the other way and certainly those calls from Many Democrats up here on capitol hill for investigations have gone nowhere fast. Wolf . Are you hearing calls for the president to be impeached up there on capitol hill . Reporter this is something that we have seen democrats careful in large part about, especially over the last 24 hours. Yes, there are indeed some democrats saying every option is on the table. Including impeachment but in large part coming from the democratic leadership up here on capitol hill saying hold all talk of impeachment. Let muellers investigation play out, try not to muddy the waters essentially with the politics of calling for impeachment. Look no further than the House Minority leader nancy pelosi who today sent out a Dear Colleague letter saying hold your fire through the loins on impeachment talks leading to november. We as a party need to be focused on the economy and similarly here in the senate today we saw a very coordinated strategy to attempt to link this cohen and Manafort News instead to the Supreme Court justice nominee. Democrats saying that
kavanaughs nomination is tainted because in their words he was chosen by a president whens been implicated in a criminal conspiracy and they want to postpone his nomination hearings. The president identified as an unindicted coconspirator of a federal crime, an accusation not by a political enemy but by the closest of his own confidants is on the verge of making a Lifetime Appointment to the Supreme Court, a court that may some day soon determine the extent of the president s legal jeopardy. In my view, the Senate Judiciary committee should immediately pause the consideration of the kavanaugh nomination. Reporter and while that was the democrats attempt at messaging today thats falling on deaf ears up here in a republicanled majority. Chuck grassley, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee saying that, of course, the hearing will continue on on september 4th. Wolf . September 4th. Well be watching. Thank you very much. Coming up, theres more aftershocks from President Trumps latest change in his story about when he knew of Hush Money Payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougall. What legal troubles could the president be facing . Lanny davis is joining me live here in the situation room. Done. Hit the Snooze Button and get low prices on School Supplies all summer long. Like these for only 2 or less at office depot officemax. And get a second pair of qualifying lenses free. Essilor. Better sight. Better life. Lets do an ad of a man eating free waffles at comfort inn. They taste like victory because he always gets the lowest price on our rooms, guaranteed, when he books direct at choicehotels. Com. Or just say, badda book. Badda boom. Book now at choicehotels. Com
back to the breaking news, the president an allies struggling to contain the fallout. We have more analysis. Laura jarrett, the president named as an unindicted cocon spore or the according to some. What obligation is there . Must he report all of this up the Chain Of Command to the top officials at the Justice Department who will then have to make a decision what to do with hit . There are a couple of different Justice Department guidelines fall play here and a little bit tricky but the number one to realize the Southern District of new york prosecutors arent in a vacuum. Theyre coordinating with main justice here in d. C. Rereported yesterday that the deputy Attorneys Office consulted on the charges originally. Consulted on the plea deal. Hes been involved which means he knows the evidence in the
case. He knows whats happening. But the other thing, of course, is that there is an old 1973 memo under the Justice Department guidelines youre not supposed to indict a sitting president. Now, that doesnt mean when President Trump is out of office and a private citizen that he cant be indicted for what happened. Also doesnt mean that State Prosecutors cant go after him right now if he commits a crime, wolf. Could he prosecuted at the state level . He can. The president is the overseer of Executive Branch of the government and nothing to do with the State Attorney generals or the people not a part of the federal u. S. Attorneys offices and dont serve at the pleasure of the president but because theyre a state level officials. Some e lebllected, some Career Attorneys and he has no power over them and they could do so. But there is still a same argument of laura talking about, about not wanting to indict a sitting president because the theory is if you arrest the head
of the Executive Branch you arrest the Executive Branch and can overtake the federal government and arrest it. Theres still a lingering doubt and theres state level aon tuty but its relevant even at the state level. In terms of Michael Cohen and people not the president of the united states, they can do the state Level Prosecutions provided they dont have one in the federal court to cancel it out. The president clearly lied today in the latest interview of fox news saying he didnt know about the payments until, quote, later on after the fact. But here he is on this audio tape with Michael Co