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The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. associate independent counsel for the watergate investigation and the clintons, and former ethics czar, belongs to a watchdog organization that filed multiple lawsuits against the trump administration, and also with us cnn legal and political commentator, former virginia attorney general. i ll start with you. the president in his own words admits to making the payment. your reaction? kim or ken? kim, go ahead. ken, we ll go to you next. all right. sorry, i misheard. go ahead, ken. who do you want to start? i think this is going to come down to whether or not this is deemed campaign efforts. the president long before his campaign had been in negotiation periodically with a couple of these women without keeping as you talk about credibility though, you do bring up a good point. michael cohen has said a lot of different things about this payment. but i also want you to take what we just heard from the p ....
A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. did you find him to be credible? no. i think he would have done anything that he could to preserve himself. that s just obvious in the fact that he flipped on manafort. shepard: but that juror went on to convict paul manafort. peter doocy will have more on that in just a moment and john roberts will have a detailed wrap-up on a renewed throw down between the attorney general jeff sessions and the president. first, let s get to rick leventhal with more on the reported immunity deal for the publisher of the national inquirer and now former trump friend david pecker. former friend. sources are confirming this wall street journal report that the u.s. attorney s office offered immunity to david pecker so that he would talk about what he knew about michael cohen s handling of those payments to those women, david pecker, long-time friend of the president and runs the national inquirer. the journal rep ....
World or the special counsel s office, or the justice department. why is that well, you re not going to hear it from the justice department because that s not what they do. they are not going to publicly chastised her, although jack has come very close to it. they are not going to file a motion to disqualify her because right now she hasn t done anything that rises to the level of a basis to disqualify her. she hasn t shown an appearance of impropriety yet. she hasn t done anything so terribly wrong or unethical that there s a reason to remove her the one thing that is clear though, is she is not ruling on all of these motions because she does not want to be appealed by the government. again, she s already been criticized a lot by the 11th circuit in both of the cases, they reversed neuron and she knows that she can t continue to get this criticism from the 11th circuit and survive as a judge can i just switch quickly to another matter if financial disclosures released today, they sh ....
Gate investigation open. it s how we found out the funneling came in through the dnc and hillary clinton campaign. and, in this instance, when you are talking about president biden, who denied this claim, this monetary payment, all that we have to see is these monetary payments of 1 million plus dollars going to multiple biden family members from the c.c.p. and affiliates. just change the characters, one if don jr. and eric trump received multi 7 figure payments while president. again a two-tier system of justice and a media that won t cover but thankfully you guys are covering it. brian: someone asked the question and said what about these payments to your family and he said not true. i m pretty sure that s not going to fly for much longer, at one point he has got to sit down with somebody besides the daily show. so we will have to find out. kash, we look forward to see if the former president comes to new york tomorrow. if he is indeed indicted. thank you so much for put it in pers ....
Recruiter for law firms, and that her work poses a strong possibility of conflict of interest for the chief justices, but these reports that kendall price, who worked with jayne roberts, recruited lawyers, and quote, provided records to the justices in congress, indicating that miss roberts has been paid millions of dollars in commissions for placing lawyers at firms, some of which have business before the supreme court. a letter accompanying the material that he submitted to the justice department, kendall price wrote, i do believe that litigants in the escorts, and and especially in the supreme court, deserve to know if the judges households a receiving six figure payments from the law firms. no sheldon whitehouse of rhode island, member of the senate judiciary committee, and chairman of the senate budget committee. the offer of the scheme, how the right-wing used dark money ....