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it s been pretty unreal, we didn t expect any kind of attention like this at all. certainly never had anything like this in our life before. got to the point where we had to turn off the phones and facebook and twitter. we find out how the family is doing after their interview went viral. good evening and welcome to bbc news. theresa may has called the passing of the so called brexit bill the legislation that allows her to start the process of exiting the european union a defining moment for the united kingdom. yesterday nicola sturgeon announced her intention to hold a second independence referendum because of the uk government s approach to the brexit talks. mrs may told mps that any deal she reaches with the eu will work for the whole of the uk. this will be a defining moment for our whole country, as we begin to forge a new relationship with europe and a new role for ourselves in the world. we will be a strong, self governing, global britain. with control once a ....
The latest political developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. we re not doing enough. look at these five people. here s the thing, john. there is a whole cottage industry of distraction folks. this is a distraction from x or distraction from mueller. i m not sure that was the case because there are a lot of fires happening now around this administration. the robert mueller, paul manafort, special counsel, jeff sessions fire series is one of them. there is also the election en r interference fire, big deal. i had conversations with folks on the other side of folks on capitol hill, both parties. one consistent theme i heard in relation to election interference, leadership starts at the top. i asked point blank, who do you talk to in the white house, who do you talk to in the administration? nobody, we don t know who the point person is, we don t know what their strategy is. this is somebody who is at a high level over there. this seemed to be a wa ....
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. jay sekulow on abc yesterday. would that meeting constitute a violation of the law? and what you have is a situation and i ve said this well over a year. you have to look at what laws, rules and regulation statutes are purportedly violated here. he s been saying that for well over a year. well over a year ago, he said the opposite about that meeting in trump tower. remember, it was all about adoptions. i didn t hear anybody talk about babies this weekend. and there are some potentially relevant laws. for example, u.s. code of federal regulations. quote, a foreign national shall not directly or indirectly make a contribution or a donation of money or other thing of value or expressly or impliedly promise to make a contribution or a donation in connection with any federal, state or local election. and, quote, no person shall knowingly solicit accept or receive from a foreign national any contribut ....
The day s top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. the battle to save lives as president trump sends a tweet about the fire that baffles even his own staff about the cause of it all. good afternoon, everyone. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. in the politics lead, rick gates, former number two on the trump campaign grilled right now about the plea deal by defense attorneys for former trump campaign chair paul manafort. gates describing today in vivid detail of he says manafort engineered an elaborate scheme to avoid taxes. prosecutors say manafort s own e-mails show him directing the money to multiple offshore accounts. now, although conspireing with russia on the 2016 election is not officially on the docket, the sub text of it is looming over the trial. gates says that manafort gave some control over a bank account in cyprus of a man of a up until 2012 for consulting work for a ukrainian billionaire. gates went into d ....
fraud and bank fraud according to three sources and the deal would include jail time and a substantial monetary fine. this plea is no doubt a big blow to the president with cohen having been part of president trump s inner circle for more than a decade. we anticipate prosecutors with the office of the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york to address the public about the deal. any minute now that will be live when it happens. for now, let s go to cnn s brynn begi gingras. has he pled guilty yet? reporter: these proceedings happen on time. very timely here at federal court, especially with the sdny. one can only assume he is in the courtroom right now and i can tell you we don t have transmission from the courtroom. it is a federal courthouse and not able to verify that 100%. certainly any minute now safe to say. these are, of course, as you mentioned, jake, charges of bank and tax fraud related to cohen s business of taxis and campaign finance and cohen is going ....