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A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. interesting part of the president s answer to ainslie earhart s question, that hasn t played in that portion that you aired there, shep, where the president said this was not a campaign contribution, because it wasn t the campaign that paid it, it was me. and i have tweeted about that in the past. now, you remember, the president put an awful lot of his own money into the campaign. so i asked sarajevo hah huckabee sanders how did the president dlinity what was going to the campaign and what might have gone to other people for campaign purposeles. listen in here. how do you draw the line between what was a campaign contribution and what might have been a payment to somebody for other purps. secretary sanders: i m not going to get into the back and forth of the legal part of. this i would refer to you the president s outside counsel 678 as i told cecilia, what i can tell you is what the president has s ....
A look at the day s top news and headlines. because under the guidelines, the department of justice believes you cannot charge a sitting president with a crime. but the talk around here these days is of impeachment. if democrats were to flip 24 seats in november, which is a possibility, they would then control the house and it is the house that would begin impeachment proceedings. even if the president were impeached, a conviction in the senate is unlikely, that would take a two-thirds vote. nobody could see that many republicans defecting to try to take down the president. dana: also it s never happened in america s history. john, thank you. for more, let s bring in james trusty, former d.o.a. prosecutor. let s start with what the president told ainslie earhart, if he was paying the money himself that could not have been a campaign violation. what do you make of that? well i m not an expert on campaign finance law. there may be? truth to it. there s an added layer, just t ....
The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. meeting with labor leaders this afternoon in the roosevelt room outside of the oval office when this story was breaking. no statement of any kind from the white house. he s scheduled to leave here at about 4:00 to head to a rally in west virginia in support of patrick morsi. the president usually doesn t hold back in these rallies. he may speak to reporters as he leaves the white house. white house not reacting to plea deal from a top associate in michael cohen but the fact that paul manafort jury could come back at any moment. president connected to all of these but so far not commenting. let me turn to my four brilliant people sitting to my right. you have been out front in this cohen reporting. he s going to plead guilty to x, y, and z. what will you be listening for? i think this is really going to be something to listen to because the judge is going to say to cohen i want to hear in your own words wha ....
essentially an unindicted co-conspirator. yesterday we saw how the judicial system is supposed to work. now, in a functioning congress, all of the lights would be blinking red today. in a functioning congress, the outgoing house speaker would be directing the outgoing house judiciary chair to be beginning the very similar process of investigating cohen s investigations. i wouldn t say you start an impeachment hearing, but you start the process. the president was accused of committing a crime in a federal courtroom. and if enough evidence is found in a functioning congress the committee would begin to draw up articles of impeachment. of course this isn t a functioning congress. right now it is sort of not around, controlled by republicans w.h.ho have been unwilling to hold its party leader accountable. is there a point riepublicans will decide enough is enough and abandon ship? the house isn t in washington but here s what some senate republicans said today. these are serious ....
Chris Hayes discusses the day s top news. collude and corrupt the american democracy system in the 2016 election which the trump tower meeting was all about. but also, knowledge about the computer crime of hacking and whether or not mr. trump knew ahead of time. lanny davis will be joining me in just a moment. so stick around. the president s involvement of a federal crime. despite having been caught, his role. despite the audio tape we have all heard, the president and cohen planning the mcdougal payment. the president says he didn t know about the hush money until after the facts. did you know about the payments? later on, i knew. later on i knew. but you have to understand ainsley, what he did, and they lawyer and assistance to tell a story. that is useful, but the legal question here is michael flynn pleaded guilty and cooperated and we never heard about it sort of on the outside. just strange to me, our conversations already happening to mueller. has michael c ....