Commentary, newsmaker interviews and panel discussions. Finance violations. Far worse crimes committed by others. Earlier today, bret baier raises very, very important question. Lets take a look. Speak of Campaign Finance violation, because the way he phrased it, he was directed by the candidate to do that and submitted that money to be repaid by the trumpy organization, that is a direct liability. But i cany. Already see the bate lines being drawn here illegally because i just got an email saying the fact that he pleads guilty to Campaign Violations does not mean that the payments were criminal violations. This did not go to trial and you could have people like former fec chairman Bradley Smith saying that payment is not a violation, which is what Rudy Giuliani was saying in his interview earlier. So that, you can arty begin to the Trump Lawyers potentially, and others, make my case that this would not be a violation. Obviously the prosecutors. Sayig it is and Michael Cohen is on the hook for it right now. Sean meanwhile, many of the other charges against Michael Cohensur around, lets
see, russia to the family taxi medallion company. Once again, these charges have russianto do with collusion. From Russia Collusion to taxicabs. Hello . Now President Trumps attorney, Rudy Giuliani, released a s statement. N there is no allegation of any wrongdoing against the president and the governments charges against mr. Cohen. It is clear that is the prosecutor noted,io mr. Cohens charges reflect a pattern of lies and dishonesty. While Michael Cohen did say today, i would argue, knowing him all the years ive known him,. Forced by prosecutors, hes changed his storyhe about whethr or not trump knew about the payment to Stormy Daniels and karen mcdougal. Back in march, he claimed, trump did not know that he paid clifford the 130,000. A month earlier, the New York Times, mr. Paper of record, said the same thing, he paid the money out of his own pocket, without trumps
knowledge. Today we learned one more piece of Breaking News about another mueller target, and that his former National Security advisor, Lieutenant General michael flynn. His sentencing has now been delayed for a fourth time. 2017, he pled guilty to lying to the fbi, even though james comey later testified that, in fact, the investigators did not believe that flynn had intentionally lied. Again, with his guilty plea, nothing to do with russia. Russia, tax returns, fraud, Bank Applications, taxi medallions, lying to. The fbi. Nothing about russia. Neither did the guilty plea from the Trump Campaign volunteer george papadopoulos, whose wife was n on last night. He pled guilty to lying to investigators. His wife, mrs. Papadopoulos, now weighing in on his Legal Options and that he may withdraw directly. Withoutth a doubt, lets be straight forward here. It is wrong. There are lessons to learn from today. Dont ever knowingly lied to the
fbi, do not lie on a Bank Loan Application ever or commit bank fraud, pay your taxes, but did we need Robert Mueller for all of those . Think about this. How do you go from an investigation into Russia Collusion in the 2016 election and this is what we have . Taxes from years and years ago, bank fraud, medallions, lying to the fbi . Where is russia stuff . Would any of these people that we are talking about tonightd have been investigated or charged if not for their connection to donald trump . Is it also a listen, dont lie to the fbi, pay our taxes, Dont Be Friends With Donald Trump . Is this not now the witch hunt to the president has been saying, and attempt to turn the screws, as judge ellis says, about a manafort, two wouldbe
witnesses, to find dirt on one man. In other words, so they will sing or compose to either prosecute or impeach the president of the United States. And ifand so, how is that not a political selective persecution and not prosecution . Now i dont care if you are liberal or conservatives, we better take a very close look at where this country is today. We did learn valuable lessons, pay your taxes, dont fly on a loan application, dont lie to the fbi. But this is it . Robert mueller . Are you proud of this . Did we need you for 500 days for this . How did we go from Russia Collusion to this . Now today, the president reacted to muellers ongoing witch hunt. Lets take a look at his reaction. I feel badly. I must tell you that Paul Manafort is a good man. He was with ronald reagan. He was with a lot of different people over the years, and i feel very sad about that. It doesnt involve me but i still feel, you know, its a very sad thing that happened. This has nothing to do with russian collusion. They started as russian collusion. This has absolutely nothing to do. This is a witch hunt and its a disgrace but this has nothing to do with what they started out, lookingg for russians involved n our campaign. There were none. This is the way it ends up. And it was not the original mission, believe me. It was something very much different. So it had nothing to do with russian collusion we continue the witch hunt. Sean hang on, im looking for russians. Oh. Tonight, its not funny because these are real peoples lives. These are real families. This is way beyond what this mandate was. Every american that cares about our constitutional republic, the rule of law, equal application of our laws, you better be concerned tonight. In West Virginia, the president raised an important question,
wheres the collusion . He raised it again lets watch. Fake news and the rajan witch hunt. We have a whole big combination. Wheres the collusion . You know, they are still looking for collusion. Wheres the collusion . Find some collusion we want to find the collusion sean i hate to say it, equal justice under the law, equal application of our laws is dead. Ill explain in a minute. Cohen and manafort are literally prosecutor to the fullest extent of the law for bank and for tax fraud, et cetera. Lets take a look at prominent liberals to an end, shall become a that committed similar crimes and t who did not face the same consequences. Tim gardner . A name You Havent Heard in a while, under paid his Taxes Tens Of Thousands of dollars over the course of multiple years before becoming obamas first treasury secretary. No indictment for him. Remember al sharpton . He used to be a guest on the
show. Works at conspiracy tb msnbc, he wants old millions of dollars in back taxes to the irs. Also find 285,000 by the fec over an illicit political donation. Of course, sharpton is enjoying his freedom because hes about Michael Cohen at msnbc. Former new york congressman charlie ringgold, the picture of him laying on that beach chair, he failed to pay taxes on Tens Of Thousands of dollars in real estate income. He was inserted in the house of representatives. Hes enjoying his retirement. Former democratic senator tom daschle. Remember, rush used to talk about that . He failed to pay more than 128 grand and taxes. Look at this oh even the Obama Campaign in 2008, they were hit with a near fine which come at the time was a lot, 375 grand, four Campaign Reporting violations over 2 million worth. Cohen is now getting prison time. Somehow, team mueller missed all those crimes. I wait, because there was no connection to President Trump. In todays two tier Justice System, as a democrat, clearly, you can commit financial fraud and get away with it. By the way, that is just the tip of the iceberg. If you are a democrat, and you have subpoenaed information, well, first of all, you can mishandle and destroy classified information, which violates the Espionage Act clearly, you can have top intelligence, and then you can deletema subpoenaed emails. Act i, not ten, 33,000 of them, and acid wash your hard drive with bleach bread and eliminate then have anand adas match up your devices with hammers and get away with it. And then you can even have an exoneration written month before you were even investigated and by the way, the guy that is during the interview of you hates your opponent. Loves you. If your name is donald trump or
you aredo associated with donald trump, your entire life, it will be scoured for potential crimes. While, your doors will be kicked down, late in the night, early in the morning, the screws are going to be turned, as judge ellis had, and they will ask you to sing or compose or youll go to jail for crimes that other people have committed and dont go to jail for. Asked Paul Manafort tonight. Ask michael calling tonight. Ask general flynn, boy, he served his country for 30 years, not even the guy that interviewed him at the fbi. B thought he lied. Not even comey that he lied. Not even peter strzok that he lied. Asked george papadopoulos. I that he regrets volunteering for the Trump Campaign. Just ask the white House Counsel, donald mcgahn. The white House Counsel for the president , interrogated by muellers team for 30 full hours. Trump thinks, you know, his lawyers out, well cooperate, well turn over 1. 4 million documents. Well cooperate with mueller, it will go away because we didnt
missing. Today, sadly, her body was recovered, and now the police have arrested an illegal immigrant they believe is responsible for her murder. Watch this. The firstdegree Murder Charge was filed today in connection with the disappearance of mollie tibbetts, who was last seen jogging in brooklyn, iowa, on july 18th, 2018. A complaint and Affidavit Names christian rivera, age 24, who resides in the rural county and hes been charged with murder in the first degree. Wee have confirmed it with Homeland Security investigation that he is an illegal alien and we believe he has been in this area now for 47 years. What happened to these young woman, molly tibbets, a senseless, evil, horrific crime. Now we believe the charges against an illegal immigrant. Tonight, we extend our deepest condolences, first her familycoi and friends. Well get to all of that in the. Said about the two tiered Justice System because i dont think that you can justify how the same or similar cases have been handled on the two different categories of people. Im not as convinced that what we started with was russian collusion. I really think that what we started with was russias interference in the election, and that still is sean thats what they were calling it. No, they said they collusion was one thread of an investigation into russias involvement in the election. Im pretty convinced that mueller is not pursuing Anc Collusion case sean now its an Obstruction Case. I thinking as an Obstruction Case and as far as manafort goes, i dont think that manafort i dont think mueller think Manafort Hasru anything with respect to the Trump Campaign, collusion with russia, that mueller couldnt already get from gates, who was manna manaforts partner, cooperatingRobert Mueller. And again, we go to taxi medallions, tax fraud, and another big question, a side note, answer both, would any of these people, flynn, papadopoulos, manafort, or cohen be in trouble tonight and anyway if it werent for the issue of russia . It didnt come up in any case. Sean, i think the last question is the easiest one to answer. These guys got on the government cross hairs because of their connections to the first candidate and now President Trump. I dont think there is any question about that. But i do think that the cohen case ended up in the Southern District because mueller didnt see him, cohen, as someone who is going to advance his russia investigation. The Southern District had a different line of interest in cohen sean lets focus he said the direction of the president , he previously did not, why do i think that had to be a big part of what they
wanted from cohen to get the deal they got . He was otherwise facing 65 year years. But sean, its a straight up guilty plea. Its not a cooperation agreement. I dontt think they regard hims a witness. I think for precisely the reason you pointed out, he has made statements that are all over the map. They did elicit that from him today when he gave his allocution at his guilty plea but i think if they regarded him as a valuable witness or a cooperator, youd see a very different kind of plea agreement. Sean i do agree with that,ee too. David, youve seen a lot of these cases over the years, and we talk about at length what, we have there are russian issues here. Hillaryia paid for a phony russian. Ca with funneled money to a law firm to an op Research Group that hired a Foreign National which i thought was bad for our elections, and he came up with russian lies that were disseminated to theAmerican People to impact, that were never verified, never corroborated, to impact our election. Evan such information was also used as the bulk of information against fisa warrants on a Trump Campaign associate. Russian lies were used and i believe fraud was committed before fisa court judges. None of these people, nor is Hillary Clinton, who i think is the most open and shut case on obstruction, none of them are indicted today. Why . What should the American People take from that . The answer why is purely political one. I think the American People are entitled to hold the United States attorney to his word today when he said the message from the cohen cases of the rule of law is to be applied equally and evenly across the board. We havent seen that yet. Mr. Mccarthy is exactly right, the mandate started out as a question of russian interference. I think the case today, manafort, perfectly illustrates how wrong they went in the
breadth of that mandate. It is so far beyond that, has nothing whatsoever to do with the president certainly come but the. Charges to date, nothing whatsoever to do with russia, and of course, your original question, how did i get to the seven district, we know that a member of the tibbetts comes from the unit that prosecuted him, andrew goldstein, lets hold them to their board and get past these cases that have nothing to do the president andi get on with the business that you have reported day after day, ctthe misconduct before the fisa court is outrageous. A the American People cannot withstand that kind of Treachery Beforere that kind of secret cot and an ex parte proceeding. We have to have the answers and full disclosure. Sean doesnt it happen every day, andy mccarthy, that people that commit fraud on their t taxes and people that
commit Campaign Finance violations, obama, 2 million worth. Michael cohen is about 300 gran grand. The only paid a 375,000 fine. Ive used the hillary case. I use the fraud before the fisa judges. I wouldnt andy, i wouldnt lie to any judge ever. Its dumb. Ii wouldnt also if i had a subpoena by congress for my emails, i wouldnt delete them, i wouldnt acid wash My Hard Drivesiv and beat up or have somebody beat up my phones. I think america has to look tonight and ask itself, is this a witch hunt, as the president is saying, based on what we know are real crimes and some of them actually have to do with russia. Sean, i dont think Anybody Objective could look at the way that the clinton email investigation was handled in the way the Trump Campaign hasru ben pursued and say that there is a single standard of justice. I just dontt see how that coud be. At the same time, i dont want to see mueller pursuing the investigators or what happened in the hillary case. As i understand it, that is being looked at by the justice department, inspector general, and by the u. S. Attorney from utah, who the Attorney General assigned to this. I think we ought to let them do their work. I would rather see them do it then see mueller do it. I think muelleri should stay on what hes doing and bring it to an end. Sean andy mccarthy, david show on, Thank You For Being W with us. Now earlier tonight, West Virginia rally, President Trump asked, where is the russian inclusion. Heres what he said. Apparently,