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But today, a lot of other stuff has been happening besides. So were going to be covering the storm. Were also going to get to a bunch of these other stories alongside our hurricane coverage. You should know, for example, that tonight the Washington Post is reporting that the president has talked recently to the man who is now serving as chief of staff to the attorney general, jeff sessions. His name is matt whitacre. Matt whitacre made news when everybody thought Rod Rosenstein was going to be fired as the Deputy Attorney general and the overseer of the Mueller Investigation. Matt whittaker, that day that everybody thought rosenstein was out, he was named by the Justice Departments a the person who ....
Now just to be clear about what this is, what we are waiting for tonight, youll remember that Paul Manafort was actually brought up on federal charges if two different neighboring jus up dictions. He was brought up on charges in virginia and also in washingtono d. C. He could have combined those two. Seems like in retrospect, that might have been a good move buti he didnt. Ve so a week ago tonight we got prosecutors sentencing k submission from manafort in the virginia case where they recommend he serve 19 to 24 years in prison and that he pay fines and restitution ranging from several Million Dollars to several tens of millions of dollars. Were still waiting on the defense, excuse me, the defense submission in response to that from Paul Manaforts defense team in virginia. We actually think well get that response from the ....
The daily mail that they believe these brothels werigence affront by a foreign nationti to trap u.s. officialson and potentially blackmail them. so far, three south korean u.s. nationals have been charged. intel officials say a south korean spy agency could soutd this, but no one really knows. it s the perfect jobehindb. v they could have secretly recorded politicians who showed up to the brothels and then recoians who sho favors. w or what s common in honeypot schemes is the girls get these men to fall for them, and then they start asking for favors. o prosecutors say there could be charges for 28 of the clients that paid to have with these women. names will we ever get their names? co far, we ve got nothing but like the epstein documents, that could change. andrew bustamante is a former cia officer. andrew, how do these schemes work? it s a great question. so one of the things to keept qu in minestihe thingd is that esp ....
Mouthpiece then a lot of the defendants do. where it crosses the line, whether that crosses a lin into criminal conduct or whether a judge is finally going to say that this is goin too far, and i m going to put gag order on the forme president. that is also a tough cal because he s a candidate for the presidency they have to be careful abou his rights but yes, especially social media, i think the attacks o prosecutors, agents, investigators, it is very risky, very dangerous for those folks and a lot of them have protected details now for that reason someone who questions i wan to give to you is the januar six probe. one of the things that the president, the former presiden has been trying to do is prevent pence from testifying. what happens if the cour analyzing that and what woul you expect to hear from pant that could jeopardize donald trump and this case on january 6th? an appeals court has said that mike pence should go ahea ....
Courts an fbi, et cetera, to try to coordinate how you ar actually going to surrende somebody who is guided by th secret service 24/7 so yes, he will be notified, if for n other reason that they have to pick a good date and time fo him to go to court, be tol what the charges are, and as him to enter a plea of guilt or not guilty, which, of course, he ll say not guilty but it s a formal process wher he ll need to be photographed. a full thing walk into th courtroom yes, the whol thing. we should note that they ar preparing for this they seem to think it s happen going to happen as well. they ve been putting together, adding staff members particularly focused on trum pushing out their message from the new york times reporting o a strategy attacks o prosecutors, of course in addition the campaign has been putting together database, members of congress, community figures who have - the allies said none of that really matters inside th ....