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andrea, it is great to see you, congratulations on 40 amazing years. it is great to work with you. thank you. good afternoon to all of you, i am kasie hunt in today for craig melvin. stop this. the president tells is attorney general to end the russia investigation in a string of tweets on the same day his form er campaign chairman s trail. the press briefing should start in about 15 minutes. we ll see how they respond to questions about this. plus, russian influence, hearing on capitol hill reveals russia s push to sway american voters went deeper than we thought. we all these talks, when do we see action to stop it? off message, the president says you need to buy an id to buy groceries the day after his administration floats the idea of a huge tax cut for the rich. we start with president trump s twofold twitter attacks today demanding his attorney general end the special counsel investigation. he defended the target of one of the biggest indictment results in that p ....
Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. historically, because a lot of our viewers will remember. when you and bob woodward were working on the watergate related stories, was president nixon as anxious publicly during your reporting as we now see this president being very anxious, deeply concerned about the mueller probe? first, i think what we re seeing is more than anxiety on the part of donald trump. we are seeing a president who is behaving and acting unhinged. nixon did not really publicly act unhinged, but i think we need to look at something larger. that is that in watergate, the system worked. the president of the united states did not publicly declare the press an enemy of the people and seek to undermine the first amendment and the very legitimacy of what the press did, though he did try to make our conduct an issue, or the issue in watergate, rather than his own conduct. can share my own personal perspective. i ve certainly rec ....
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with in-depth reporting and investigations. took the stand at his trial and the testimony was damaging to say the least. as for the former madam, kristin davis, today we learned she talked with mueller s team. shimon pro-yew pez joins us with the latest. let s talk about what came to light on this day four of the trial. certainly damaging testimony, as you say, for paul manafort. an accountant taking the stand who really is the first person who has direct knowledge of manafort s alleged scheme. she was given immunity to testify. her name is cindy la porter. she was a long time accountant for him, and really a big day for prosecutors here in that really what she showed was that manafort had asked her to falsify documents. some of this activity, you know, when he was running the trump campaign in 2016. in one case, she says that he asked her to say that money that he had in offshore accounts was a loan when it was, in fact, in ....
Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell. Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell. will decide if the president is likely to sit with robert mueller for an interview while at bedminster. but it might not be donald trump s decision to make, admitting that trump might be, quote, forced to testify on matters that occurred before he took office and that might mean real legal jeopardy for the president. that admission comes as we are learning new details about the trump mayor relationship. bloomberg reports that the day after he interviewed robert mueller to be the deputy director of the fbi trump was in an office meeting when it was announced that mueller was announced to be the lead investigator of the campaign. trump and attorney general jeff session were blind sided according to a person familiar with both meetings. trump blasted session for not knowing the announcem ....
Anderson Cooper takes viewers beyond the headlines with in-depth reporting and investigations. knowing that was illegal. cnn chief national security correspondent jim sciutto is covering the trial. he joins us. now what more did gates say on the stand? anderson, you had the deputy there sitting within ten feet of his former his long-time boss, documenting by his accounts numerous crimes, alleged crimes by his boss, paul manafort. and the list started with them setting up 15 foreign bank accounts which they did not report to the government for the purposes of hiding taxes. he said that they filed false income tax returns. he said they failed to file as foreign agents even though they were working as agents for a foreign government, in this case the pro-russian government of ukraine at the time. and rick gates said he did all of this, his words, all of this at the direction of paul manafort, saying these are crimes we did together, in and that certainly holds true for ri ....