Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Laura Ingraham shines a spotlight on everyday Americans and examines how their lives are affected by politics at the federal, state and local level. Pleas. Jason a case that has nothing to do with the original manafort directive. This is drums campaign chairman. It was his campaign chairman. Jason anyone that has ever worked for you Paul Manafort here has been found guilty. Look jason of what . Something he did a long time ago . The team took a gamble, the case in exile andrea virginia, hoping for a much more conservative jury. Jason you dont believe that he would have been prosecutor except for his proximity to donald trump . They looked at him. I agree, his proximity to donald trump brought the case. It doesnt mean that the only thing. Jason if someone has grown to the tax laws, i want them to be convicted. But to have the National Spotlight on them just because hes worked for 100 days for donald trump seems a bit on the top. Let me get toms take a mess. Tom, what do you think is happening here with Paul Manafort . A few things, i do think he was the wrong guy in the wrong
place at the wrong time. Look, the fact that bob mueller is poking around, mueller has a broad mandate, the authority to investigate any crimes he uncovers in the course of investigating russian collusion. Unfortunately for manafort him up at the spotlight on him. I think as far as a president goes, i think there is no legal jeopardy to the president from todays verdict, as we all know, this involves things that they are not connected to manaforts work on the campaign or manafort Services Donald trump. I think at most the president is guilty of making a very poor personal decision when he chose manafort to be his campaign chairman. Jason but the reason the president picked manafort, i mean, that could be debated. But the question about theres a reason why the special counsel, right, decided to push this off to a different prosecutor rather than holding it for himself, correct, tom . Manafort was tried by the special counsels team to this part of the case, mueller is keeping close to heart. I agree with you that if manafort jason i guess the point i should make, worded better, why do that . Is he now putting the squeeze on
mr. Manafort, saying, i made my case, you are going to be convicted here, you have been convicted, and im going to put the squeeze on you, you better caught something up on donald or im going to actually is that is what is going on . Muellers team has been putting the squeeze on manafort for many, many months now, and he hasnt caved. I suppose the pressure will continue although at this point, manafort has lost a lot of the leverage that he had at the outset, given that he stands criminally convicted for a that says, its possible that at some point theyll reach a deal. Manafort has another trial coming up in a few months, there might be an opportunity to do wheeling and dealing. I tend to think of manafort has a bigger value to get to mueller and he was willing to turned over to mueller, you think mueller would have it by now. Jason lets talk about Michael Cohen. Thats a different scenario. Vinoo, how do you read that situation . The first thing, i think this is a big political victory for the republicans today, with announcing that Michael Cohen is trumps personal attorney paid
hush money to a porn star and playboy model. Hes an attorney, this is a guy who has committed a crime, multiple, tax evasion, violation of Campaign Finance laws. He is going to be automatically disbarred. The question is, how much time on the Base Plan Bars . The deal says 43 to 63 months but that judge can give much more than that. That is the reality of the case. So for him, it leaves open the possibility of cooperating. There are still an opportunity to cooperate. I wouldnt be surprised at all of the december date is pushed back. Jason harmeet, how do you read this situation and i think its pretty interesting who Michael Cohen picked as his attorney, because lanny davis is obviously no friend of donald trump but very close in proximity to hillary clinton. A couple things to give in mind about Michael Cohen. He is a guy who tapes his clients that hes a guy, who, a
few months ago, looking at potentially 60 years in prison for these potential charges, that is when he was saying the president had nothing to do with any of this stuff and there is no Campaign Finance issue. Fastforward to today, when he were facing 60 years in prison on the altar and alternative is five years in prison and you cat that five year deal if you say that a couple of things that arent crimes are crimes, and pin them on the president. So i think that the overwhelming power of prosecutors here in those situations in every situations have led to this result. Lanny davis has really sold his client out because i think it is a real stretch im a lawyer does election law, Campaign Finance data a real stretch to say that someone says that paying off hush money to a blackmailer is necessarily trying to affect the outcome of an election. I suspect that throughout his career, donald trump has been approached by women like this who have shaken him down and
this is a standard way that people are paid off and i dont see that Campaign Finance violation here at all, and so it is really unfortunate that he was forced into the situation and did this. Again, nothing to do with collusion or russia and no crime here for the president. Jason Jonathan Turley, noted attorney come on fox news earlier criminals listen to him and tom, i would like to get your reaction to that. Unless its unidentified candidates as bernie sanders, its going to be bad news. You are not paying attention. If the prosecutors accept what is in this indictment, then the president just became an unindicted coconspirator. That is a simple matter of it. Jason tom, youve got deep experience a department of justice. As Jonathan Turley right . Not quite by the way i look at it, for one thing over the fact that cohen pleaded to a particular charge doesnt mean that other people are automatically deemed guilty. That is why we have trials, evidence, that is why we have
juries making these determinations. I will also say that one of the most complex and byzantine areas in the entire sphere of federal law as the election code. End lawyers will argue to the ants day about whether something constitutes ms doesnt. To me what this will come down to is whether cohen has something other than his own word this is what happened, that these payments were made for the purpose of influencing a campaign, that they were done with the direction of presumably donald trump. If cohen has trump on tape, if cohen has evidence to support his allegations, then it can pose greater jeopardy for the president but right now, all we know is its just cohens word against presumably the president s word. Jason but there are tapes. It is a trump team able to hear and listen to all of these tapes if they are in the possession of the Special Prosecutor . Or is that something that they may have only heard snippets of . My guess is the president has not heard everything that is in the possession of the prosecutors. Lord knows what sorts of things cohen was taping. There have been some tape that
addresses some of the Subject Matter of todays indictment, we dont know if those are all of them and the tapes that we have heard have been somewhat ambiguous to say the least. Jason but vinoo, i have a hard time believing that this is the dash first of all, i have not heard the word russia yet and collusion. You havent seen anything there regarding russian collusion, have you . Thats not what this is about. Jason i know but this is with a Special Prosecutor is spending all of his time, about a guy who is dealing with Medallions On Taxis thats the Tax Evasion Part of it. You have here, Donald Trumps personal lawyer, the man who said he would take a bullet for donald trump, who has now said in open court that at the direction of the candidate, he funneled this money to influence the election. Right . The question of Russia Collusion, thats a separate question. The fact is jason whats the Prime Question of what the prosecutor supposed to be going for . He can investigate different things. All of us came from us and the fact that you have trumps
national security advisor, his former campaign jason there is a lot of evidence out there that he was manipulated along the way. All guilty. Jason harmeet, last read, how do you read the situation Going Forward . What happens next . Obviously, the left and is divided country is going to go crazy like vinoo just did, Guilt By Association here. But this is a tragic tale of a lawyer gone awry in many ways and its important for him personally. But the president has done mike is very focused on his agenda, popular, wouldnt be surprised f this doesnt affect his popularity one branch because people are beginning to see the results in this country and yet after all of this money, all of this effort, drama, all these indictments, all he is god is zero to do with Russia Collusion company on the person who committed Campaign Finance violations with respect to russia, Court Foreign countries, is hillary clinton, and she nevr got indicted. I think this really underscores with the president s position that this is a witch hunt to end
legitimate needs to end by jason thank you. I appreciated. Harmeet, gentlemen, we appreciated. Authorities say the Murder Suspect in the Molly Tibbetts cases and Illegal Immigrants immigrants. Well have the details on this shocking situation directly ahead. Stay with us. woman learned to play an instrument. Gavin, former assistant fbi director in new york. Gentlemen, i think you all for being here. And fortunately youve had experience with these types of horrific cases. We want to get your insight because not only is the family going through an Amazing Traged tragedy, but the police work, 30 fortieths, an important thing that we also look at and we want to get your perspective on it. Mark, i would like to go to you first. What is your assessment of how Law Enforcement dealt with this case and does it sound to you again, its an allegation, and b, it is not very early in this process. For a Probation Want to have seen so far, in your professional experience, what is your assessment . I think the written media kind of skips over the police investigation, making it seem like it all happened in a day or two. I think they were very patient, i think they approached a very intelligent and very skillful approach once they had a suspect, when i got to interrogation. The suspect didnt just walk in and give enough information. They had enough investigative tools at their disposal to
actually prod that suspect into somewhat of an somewhat of a confession. He leaves out that he actually murdered the victim but i think the police did an incredible job. Jason he says he actually blacked out during the time that the actual murder happened. But you have experience in the fbi, if someone leads you to the body, is there any more evidence that you need that maybe this was the actual perpetrator . I dont think there is any doubt hes the perpetrator. I agree with mark, i think the police did a terrific job. One of the concerns that i have is, how long did he stock her, by what means did he kill her, strangulation, blunt force trauma, stabbing, whatever, where she sexually molested . I think the other thing, jason, that concerns me, he was in the country, they say, four to seven years, four years, and maybe three years or more else. They need to go back and look and see. Has there been any other crime
similar to this . There is no he stalked her. Has there been any other similar crimes . In the Sanctuary Cities . Where has he been, what has he done . Jason he was charged with firstdegree murder. As Ajith Joe Mike lead you to believe that he was stocking her as opposed to a chance happening, she was running, driving back, decided, this would be a good target . I think he was probably stalking her. The police did a marvelous job. They didnt let out any information until they had the details pretty well collected and lined up for the information that they give out this afternoon. They did a marvelous job with this. Another thing, we get so many people complaining about cameras, the Civil Liberties are violated when they appear on camera, the police did have trigger a drop in contacting people as they went through thio had a camera who saw the chevy malibu, who actually saw the runner. What a great job they did, and have done my cats after the Police Department. Jason smallerLaw Enforcement organization, not like the Los Angeles Police department with ample number of assets other disposal, for a Smaller Department like that to do this kind of police work. Michael, it does beg the question, deriding me in studio, this person should have never been in the country in the first place, right . An allegation but we should have never been here, right . Thank you for having me come adjacent. A horrible, senseless act of violence, my heart goes after the family. There should be called on my cloak consequences to this man for committing this murder for the rest of his life. The truth is, the political arena of immigration is not going to be satiated through legislation. You can to legislate your way out of a murder. Its many ways jason you can put up a wall. You can enforce you can start expelling people that are here illegally. I understand but when you look at the facts, we have u. S. Marines that marry foreign nationals and the vetting here is critical. Even if you bet, you have more
u. S. Citizens grieving, more heinous crimes, undocumented or legally permitted jason he would have never been able to even have a chance to commit a crime if he was here in the first place. You are saying we need to shut our doors and not have them here. I dont know how you can stop a murderer, despite all of the jason if hes here illegally, that says to me, at least on the first blush, that he should have never been here. What about the Million People we bring on legally and lawfully . I have a higher moral obligation, i think this country has come much of those people then it does i agree. I agree with the other two speakers, former director of the fbi and the officer, because in all truth, when it comes down to it, the Beautiful Police work that is being done, the system here, should standard we should have redundancies between state, local, and federal crimes, so that the vetting doesnt stop. What about the people who radicalize, who are citizens, when they travel internationally and come back to the u. S. . If a local cop gets them, and
reports it redundantly to the intelligent services, yes, jason, we should be able to stop us but we cannot blame immigrants as the scapegoat. Jason im blaming this one. Sim too as a father. Jason i worry, not having a total Immigration Debate but there is a difference between being here illegally and being here illegally. You do a disservice to the Illegal Immigrants by just saying, this guy was an immigrant, no, he wasnt, he was an illegal immigrant. Its an allegation at this point. I want to get back to the case here. Mark, hes being charged with firstdegree murder. What is it going to take to prove that . What would police have proceed in order for a prosecutor to feel comfortable that, yeah, it was actually firstdegree . Its firstdegree because he wasnt involved with the victim. It wasnt a hot blood murder where he was involved in an argument with a spouse or a livein girlfriend. This was a directed intent to murder where he actually formed the intent, which can be formed in just a matter of seconds, to
actually kill her, and they are going to do this forensically. Theyve got him to get to the point of capturing her, and then he blocks out until hes shes in the trunk. So they are going to fill that gap in forensically, they are going to have the cause and method of death, they are trying to get as much dna. The problem here is, 30 days in the elements, insects, animals, and the heat, which is the average temperature is about 87 degrees in iowa at this time of year, that creates a lot of decomposition. But i think they are going to achieve their goal and they will get a firstdegree conviction. Jason bill, is the fbi, the federal bureau of investigation, helping these Smaller Departments and agencies . Do they have the types of resources and can they quickly turn us around to help a Smaller Agency such as in iowa . Absolutely. That is why the fbi has a resident agencies all over the country. In the smaller area