News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Meaning in this other than you have to pay your taxes, and you cant lie on a loan application. Time is going to tell who is to be trusted around here and who isnt. Including everybody. We begin there with the president in crisis and the stunning fact, yes, fact, that the foundation of that crisis. The president of the United States is an unindicted coconspirator in a felony Campaign Finance case. If that isnt enough, the Special Counsel won convictions on eight counts in his first major trial. That are the former Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort. The president s reaction today is beyond telling. Hes attacking his longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen who decided to cooperate with the feds and is praising Paul Manafort who the president says is refusing to break under pressure. Both Michael Cohen and Paul Manafort face prison time. What now for the president is
the big question here in washington. There are democrats who say
skirted the rules that obama was going to be furious about it and there were going to be consequences for you. and there were consequences for people, even low-level people that folks don t know about who crossed a line and the president said that s it. we re not tolerating that. and this president doesn t have that line. and people around him don t have the expectation that if they cross a moral or ethical line they ll get in trouble with the boss. in addition to the law and order issues, the gentleman we just showed you. tom price had to leave the cabinet. scott prupruitt. finally left the cabinet. omarosa who the president is now mad at. he broughter in ev er iher in e everybody else said don t bringer in. rob porter. that s been one of the biggest problems. they can t separate this because they all fully realize these are people the president chose to surround himself with. that s one thing they have a lot of trouble defending themselves against is these are problems of