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A roundup of the day s events. justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations. but president trump telling fox he thinks politics matters in prosecutions. if you look at president obama, he had a massive campaign violation, but he had a different attorney general, and they viewed it a lot differently. you know, we have somebody, they seem to like to go after a lot of republicans. reporter: one top republican, now a convicted felon, paul manafort, president trump s former campaign chairman, found guilty by a jury this week of tax crimes and bank fraud. i have great respect for what he s done in terms of what he s gone through. some of the charges they threw against him, every consultant, every lobbyist in washington probably does. reporter: the question now, will the president pardon manafort? his press secretary says he s never discussed it. that s not something that has been up for discussion. i don t have anything for you on that. reporter ....
unlock all doors and i see the pride when they say i am an american. to see how florence s program unlocks the doors of the american dream, go to cnnheroes.com. thanks for watching. our coverage continues. happening now. hurricane lane battering hawaii with strong winds and deluge rain. another ally appears to have broken with the president. the executive who helped kill stories about the president s affairs before the election cooperating with investigators. and a predominately black georgia county could close most of the polling places before midterms. critics say it is doing to muzzle the majority vote. good morning. i m christine romans. i m dave briggs. happy friday. august 24th. 4:00 a.m. in the east and 10:00 p.m. in hawaii. we start with hurricane lane on final approach to hawaii. it is now category three. officials are warning the storm is a significant rainmaker. more than 19 inches fell on the big island. governor david ige says some parts of the island ....
case. also, arming teachers. the department of education weighing whether to let states use federal funding to arm teachers. we re going to hear from a student and a parent from parkland, florida. and unsportsman-like conduct. one of college football s most decaded coaches, ohio state s urban meyers, suspended for his response to domestic abuse allegations. a lot of critics are saying it was a slap on the wrist. is there a double standard at play? we ll dig into that. but we start with that breaking news. nbc news has just confirmed one of president trump s longtime friends, a man who may know his secrets better than just about anyone, was granted immunity in the michael cohen case. his name is michael pecker. he is the ceo of the company that published the national inquir inquirer. let s start with tom winter. hans nichols is standing by for us at the white house. tom, tell us all that you know. and somebody who either decided to cooperate and capitulate and pleaded guilty. ....
Wolf Blitzer looks at politics, breaking news and international stories. somebody, in other words make up stories if you don t know, they just make up lies. alan dershowitz stayed composed. i ve seen it many times. they go from ten years to a national hero. they have a statue erected in their honor. it s not a fair thing. but that s why he did it. he made a very good deal. all right. let s immediately go to our white house correspondent kaitlan collins at the white house. this is a big deal that a long-time friend and associate of the president of the united states, david pecker of american media, cooperating with federal prosecutors in exchange for immunity. what are you hearing of these latest attacks and the revelations about david pecker s role in helping michael cohen facilitate these hush money payments? reporter: yeah, wolf, you re right. this is a big deal, and it s not good news for president trump. the wall street journal reporting that david pecker and an edit ....
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 ....