al capone was jailed for tax fraud. he know donald trump knows all about al capone.compared paul manafort to. >> paul manafort who is a nice man. you look at what's going on with him. it's like al capone. >> 2005 tax case. >> it's just a sad thing. it's a very sad thing for our country to see this. >> it's like al capone. it's like my campaign manager is like a convicted gangster. this is the defense. you can know that type of sympathy from the president became a punch line. >> trump does have sympathy for manafort because he tweeted looking back on history who is tweeted worse alfonse capone or paul manafort. >> trump really knows how to make you seem sympathetic. compare you to america's sweetheart, al capone. >> you have been hot on this as a theory of prosecution. explain. >> sure. i'm only hot because it's simple. as opposed to following the money and the documents, tax cases are simple. that's why al capone got 11 years in 1931 because they couldn't get lihim on anything else so they went after him on the fact that tax returns are required. the payments that ma

al capone, he'd pick you up at the airport. good guy." ( laughter ) chicago mayor rahm emmanuel also is not happy. >> this is, without a doubt, a whitewash of justice, and sends a clear message that if you're in a position of influence and power, you'll get treated one way. other people will be treated another way. there is no accountability, then, in the system. it is wrong, full stop. >> stephen: yes, it's wrong. but on the other hand, isn't this a hopeful sign for america, that regardless of race or sexual orientation, all rich, famous people get off easy? ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) it's hopeful. it's hopeful, jon. >> jon: there's a message of hope, i guess, yes. >> stephen: i believe it was martin luther king who said, "i have a dream that one day, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave-owners will hire the very best publicists to leverage their social media profile, escape charges, and then make a big comeback on 'the masked singer!'" ( cheers and applause ) different speech. totally different spe

in the words of the trump adviser, this is al capone's vault all over again. that's in reference to the live tv expose about al capone's vault that ended up -- that's how they feel. i talked to a separate trump adviser source close to the white house who said listen, in terms of the next coming steps, they're just trying to enjoy this moment. they feel vindicated in all of this. there is going to be this question of pardons and will the president be issuing pardons in this investigation. according to the source, other source close to the white house i spoke with, it's way too early to have that conversation in terms of how the president is going to be doing all of this. but in the words of this other adviser, you're much better off being a paul manafort at this point than you are being a michael cohen has paul manafort demonstrated throughout his entire ordeal, he stayed loyal to the president, and obviously is in a much better position for a pardon if the president decides to issue one than michael cohen. and nobody likes a rat in jail and so i suppose they s

prohibition has a bad name, the great experiment that bailed al capone that we forget it constituted one of the most important of the progressive reforms. the leaver act under the mandate of preserving scarce food authorized the president to limit food stubs to make alcoholic beverages. we will have extensive participation by the court on this issue. six, personal liberties we have to deal with emerging modern notions of free speech and press. that will be covered in the last of the lectures on december 6. during the war of congress the administration has passed the most restrictive laws on speech and press since the alien act at the end of the 18th century. seven, the league of nations. too often the fight over american entry is portrayed as a spitball fight. wilson and senator lodge of massachusetts. that is only partially correct. the constitution gives americans treaty making powers but needs approval of 2/3 of the senate. this is a typical example of the checks and balances built into our system by the framers yet wilson took no senator with him and when he returned with the tre

keep in mind that al capone only got 11 years for charges similar.s there a single person in america who believes that manafort would be going to jail if he hadn't run donald trump's presidential campaign? everyone in washington knows that. there's a lot of republicans who are grateful they didn't take the job. the judge in the case clearly understands what's happening here. he reminded those watching that manafort was, quote, not before this court for not having anything to do with collusion with the russian government. that's true. nobody has been charged with a charge related to russian collusion. that's a fact. that's not an opinion. there's no dispute about it. somehow, a lot of people are still out there lying about this, probably because nobody in the press calls them on it. watch your elected official say something totally untrue in the most self-righteous possible way. >> the american people would be justified in feeling that there is some miscarriage of justice. manafort potentially threatened our very democracy, the principles of our democ

the same example is it took a long time but eventually, al capone found his rightful home. if you can't get him in the front door, we will come through the backdoor and it looks like san francisco has to be treated like other cities like new york, chicago, new orleans. it may seem to local press that the government is untouchable? unfortunately, in history, there used to be the untouchable. let's put it this way. when the locals can't get the job done, then people will step in, people will observe from far away and eventually somebody is going to make the decision to allow others to clean up the city. there's only so much that can be allowed to happen. maybe somebody from the national security administration, will give us permission to do what needs to be and they will no longer laugh at us and make fun of people like me. thank you. >> chair chiu: chalk. any other public comment? agenda item 3, draft minutes of the ethics commission february 15, 2019 regular meeting. public comment on this item? i move to approve these minutes. second from commissioner smith. all in favor.

in arkansas, two drunken patrons tried to steal a statue of al capone from hot springs bar. o robbers, there they are in full view of the other patrons, made off with the statue. eventually dropping the thing. now, they broke al's fedora arm, and leg. they were apprehended by the bar owner and have been charged. you see them carrying them off. the bumbling robber of the week goes to this fellow. he a stole an atm machine and tried to use new jersey transit to make off with his loot where the problem is the bus driver n would not open the door. >> laura: i love that he is doing the rotation thing, that's what i do when i'm moving heavy furniture. >> the lesson is if you are going to steal something, don't use public transit they are not a good idea. have a getaway car, or if the loot is bigger than a bread box -- >> laura: i still like it when they go to rob a house and they say don't a sandwich. you don't have the mustard i like, they are complaining. >> something serious i have to mentioned that after the christchurch shooting in new zealand, we are not hearing anything abou

. >> tucker: saw al capone's vault is finally open, there's nothing in it, and they pretend it's fullld? we would not have had this investigation or any of these without the claim that there was collusion. at no collusion no legitimacy. so i guess there is nothing we can do about it. >> think about this. we have heard nothing, not a scintilla, a shred of evidence that trump colluded with foreign russian actors to overthrow the election.. no evidence that any of that is true, correct? we do know that the dossier, this fake thing used to spy on them. the additional information is going to come out. jim comey described it as the mosaic of information,as right? the corpus of intelligence. and andy mccabe describedte it as articulate facts. is anyone ever going to articulate what that says? all we have is the dossier. is anyone ever going to articulate what the actual facts are?he the answer is no because there are no facts. it will not work. and i'm sorry, but your of moron if you believe in this collusion hooks. i'm very sorry, but you're really stupid.li you believe in and aesop's fable

elliott never found the smoking gun audiotape of al capone giving the order but got him on tax be evasionp. i think they will get him eventually even if it does come out of a smoking gun mueller report. >> i'm glad you brought this up. about elliott ness and the untouchables, does that line from sean connery, right, what are you prepared to do now and what we don't know is what the democrats are prepared to do now. so far, not a lot. >> the democrats, you've got the southern district of new york, you've got very professional prosecutors there. >> you worked there. >> i did. >> they can't be shut down by this. >> i know the woman who is now in charge of that investigation. audrey strauss. shea is excellent. she's is super intelligent and super diligent. she is a female robert mueller. there is no way anything is going to be covered up in the southern district of new york. >> you also have state investigations, investigations of the state of new york, cy vance investigations, [ inaudible ] is still out there. i wonder about the democrats quickly, let's go to that side of your reporting, are

you remember al capone, who committed so many spectacular crimes, but what they got him on was incomehear a lot about other investigations into collusion or paying off women. we're being very deliberative. we're going after something very specific. getting all the facts. and i believe in the end it will be very clear that he used public money to get private profit. >> if he did use public money to get private profit, if he is using his office to financially benefit himself and his company, is that a -- is that a crime? and if so, who prosecutes it? >> well, we're going to talk to the justice department. that's why we want to be deliberative. that's what we want to have hearings. but you need information in advance of that. also, as you pointed out, they've lied about it. ms. murphy from the gsa said, no, no, there weren't really any meetings. it was the fbi that wanted to do it, but i think the evidence will show that he was very much a part of this, and it will depend on how you want to define corruption. i think the public can look at that and see that's just not the way government'

like i said, it is like al capone being indicted for tax evasion. in the great scheme of things, that was the least of his crimes. but that is the way the judicial system works. amy: has the u.s. responded to the report? , no. my knowledge the full report will come out march 18 i think. callis is what you would an executive summary. 22 pages. i imagine the full report will be c considerably y larger. amy: sara hohossain, what do you wawant to sesee come out o of ts reportrt? to seeenk we would like some action, actction by isrl and d the palestinian authority and the internationanal communi. i wawant to mention n one thingn terms of the findings, we did also make findings that on two of the incidents we looked atatn the 14th of may y and the 12 of october, there may have been some justification for the shootings. on the 14th of may, we found an incident in which 21 people were killed, but we think there may have been an issue of hosostili, possssibly justifying the requiresgs and that further investigation as well. but we thank all of the findings i

. >> well, they were if they -- i'm not sure if they all that, but it would be like al capone. we cannot get him for being a mob guy, but we will get them for abating taxes. that will be one of the things. i sit back and sort of giggle. i don't know about you guys, but i certainly did not have this problem when i graduated high school. when i hear my son or daughter had a 4.2 i'm going what is a 4.2? i thought 4.0 was -- i had no problem. >> not anymore. >> and his parents are saying i need them to go to harvard or yale or stanford. >> there's definitely a lot more pressure on kids now. >> oh my lord, we've gone way too far! i mean we have taken what college is about. they've taken the fun out of it, they've taken the education out of it, and now their moral compass is tilted because these kids are going to look at the college and go this is what we are about? no, what are we teaching our kids? it is wrong. >> legal analyst michael cardoza, thanks for coming in. >>> an undocumented immigrant from el salvador was in court in san jose charged with the murder of ,59 bambi. police

. >> tucker: so al capone's vault is finally open and there is nothing in it and they pretend it's fullf gold? we would not have had this investigation or any of these investigations without the core claim that there was collusion. no collusion, no legitimacy. there is nothing we can do about it. >> tucker, think about this. right? we have not heard a scintilla of evidence that trump colluded with forward russian actors to overthrow the election for not a scintilla of evidence. we do know as a matter of fact that the dossier, this fake thing, was used to spy on the trump campaign for this additional information, describe three different ways. jim comey described it as a mosaic of information. john brennan described it as the corpus of intelligence. and andy mccabe described it as articulable facts. articulable meaning is someone going to articulate what these facts are? all we have is a hoax dossier and we've heard about these for two years! is anyone going to articulate what the actual facts are? the answer is no, because there are no facts. you all got work to, but i'm sorry, you are

it would be a bit like al capone running on being anti-criminal in the course of this. so i don't think it's a good line of attack. i think we're going to move past and we'll obviously have more controversies next week. i don't think it's a good ground for the president to fight on. >> yeah, in this news cycle we may be on to something else quickly, but in the meanwhile, it is taking up a lot of air time in washington. and let me ask you specifically about the representative at the center of this, tara was talking about her, her name is ilhan omar and she's a freshman congresswoman from minnesota. she kicked off this furor by making comments that were widely panned as anti-semitic and now she's making news against by criticizing saying former president obama saying, he quote, got away with murder by hiding behind a pretty face talking about his policies about detaining children at the border and also launching drone strikes overseas. so as the democrats prepare to take on president trump in the 2020 campaign, do you think this in-fighting we're seeing could be damaging?

. >> this isn't al capone. >> i feel badly for both. i must tell you paul manafort was a good man. he was with ronald reagan. he was with a lot of different people over the years. i feel very sad about that. >> he worked for railroad. he worked for bob dole and john mccain or his firm did, he worked for many other republicans. he worked for me what, 49 days, or something. i feel very sad about that. it doesn't involve me but i still feel it's a very sad thing that happened >> are you considering pardoning paul manafort? >> i have great respect for what he's done in terms of what he's gone through. >> hmm. today our friends at axios described this moment right now in the russia probe this way -- even without seeing robert mueller's report we have already witnessed the biggest political scandal in american history, and that is where we start today with some of our favorite reporters and friends. at the table meme yee roquio, former assistant u.s. attorney, bloomberg executive editor from bloomberg opinion, tim o'brien's back. heather mcgee, senior distinguished fellow at the public a

alexander butterfield, a white house aide, who revealed president richard nixon's taping system and al capone's evasion. welcome to 2015, i guess. >> it would be very character if he hired these lawyers. these two who face the judicial committee are hardly the first. and rudy giuliani has caused headache after headache as well. at this point we have to operate under the assumption that president trump's lawyers are not necessarily helping him out the way they ought to. >> joyce, phil, thank you so much for joining us. >>> when we come back, a large field of 2020 candidates fanned out over the weekend. the latest polls and latest count of candidates. i'm mildly obsessed with numbers. so, i started with the stats regarding my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. like how humira has been prescribed to over 300,000 patients. and how many patients saw clear or almost clear skin in just 4 months - the kind of clearance that can last. humira targets and blocks a specific source of inflammation that contributes to symptoms. numbers are great. and seeing clearer skin is pretty awesome, too. that's what

una cosa, al capone, que fue un gran hombre fue a la cÁrcel por los taxes.entas de banco mientras Él estaba arrestado. este seÑor esta metido en un lÍo muy gordo. >> con todos los problemas y las acusaciones al final es por no pagar la manutenciÓn de los hijos. yo creo que luego le va a venir todo. carlos: que dicen de esta selecciÓn natural que ha hecho el pÚblico de tal vez no hacerle tanto caso el tema de michael jackson y poner el ojo en r. kelly. francisa: yo creo que lo que pasa es que michael jackson no estÁ vivo para defenderse y este seÑor se defiende y acapara la atenciÓn de todo el mundo. carlos: recuerdan a ese seÑor con los brazos extendidos y con cientos de fans a su alrededor? no se ve esto con r. kelly. jomari: no te creas porque ha dejado de dar conciertos y no tanto porque no tenga pÚblico sino porque hay un movimiento muy fuerte. y es cuando dicen este tipo ha destruido la vida de tanta gente y tÚ lo contratas para hacer dinero. es una cosa muy alocada. hay un movimiento en contra de todos los productores que comienzan a contratar a person

trump adviser who speaks to the president regularly said, quote, this is like geraldo rivera and al capone'sault all over again. joining us now, cnn chief political analyst, gloria borger and cnn senior political commentator, former senior adviser to president obama, david axelrod. also with us, former special assistant to president george w. bush, scott jennings, and cnn national security analyst, samant samantha venegrad. >> on the question of collusion, obviously still questions about obstruction out there. but -- and the democrats will pursue that. but if you're sitting at the white house right now and you believed that mueller's investigation was illegal, as the president stated today, and you believe that there were angry democrats out to get you on team mueller, and now you see what barr has done, i think you're breathing a huge sigh of relief. and i think you're going to use it as a cudgel in the 2020 campaign. and i think the democrats in the congress are going to continue to pursue, as they should, the underlying information here. because i think there's a lot more to learn about t

. >> but is this like -- are you basically imagining an al capone situation where after everything that'sgets in trouble for tax deductions? >> perhaps. >> perhaps. >> because for one thing, trump could pardon himself, but he couldn't pardon himself for violating state law. and the income tax returns that he filed on behalf for the state would be false because he presumably deducted the payments to michael cohen. >> well, david, take a listen to the way the white house is handling this, deflecting basically on cohen, a problem that won't seem to go away. take a look. >> why did the president write a check to michael cohen for $35,000 in august of 2017? he testified about this. he specifically accused the president of engaging in conspiracy to engage in campaign violation. >> the president has been clear there wasn't a campaign violation. >> didn't know about the hush money. the story has changed. >> again, i would refer you back to the president's comments. >> david, your view of their struggle to even explain what is corroborated, which is these payments for, again, an nda that they lite

we know al capone didn't go to prison for the various mob crimes he was convicted on 23 counts of incomeasion. sometimes prosecutors get people the way they get them. is donald trump at risk, probably more risk for potential money laundering, tax evasion, financial crimes than at this point he is on russian collusion? >> something really weird going on with deutsche bank. no one would give the trump organization a loan. again, donald trump is not a good businessperson. he repeatedly filed for bankruptcy. that's why he had to lie according to michael cohen about the actual value of the properties. by the way, that's insurance fraud and bank fraud. but deutsche bank are giving him these loans and then trump is doing all these cash deals. nobody at this level does cash deals. again, that certainly raises a prosecutor's suspicion about money laundering. >> seema iyer, insurance fraud, bank fraud, money laundering, tax evasion. is donald trump at risk of being prosecuted while a sitting president? >> 150% yes. i brought today even more support for my argument that the justice department regul

i don't want to disour friend geraldo this, is al capone's vault. telling you right now, listen, new "nbc/wall street journal poll," trump's numbers done up in the last month. strong ratings on president trump gone up in the midst of all of this. now the dems are saying, hey, we think the mueller thing will be a dry hole. we'll do our own investigation. you said mueller was the ultimate investigator, what will you do? going down all the paths they will look like bitter people. i'm telling you they are speaking to a small, small part of their constituency who mate donald trump and not to a whole lot of people who would like to see america do better. stuart: while you still have the fire in the belly here, charles, i want to ask you about your spat with congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez over the weekend. >> yeah. stuart: take me through it, go through. >> start at the beginning. goes back to the mark meadow hearings with representative talib who made pretty tough accusations towards mark meadows. was visibly upset and by it. elijah ecummings said

have student pilot as co-pilot and that's what they had, they have track records that al capone wouldn't want to mess with in terms of safety. let's not compare southwest airlines with foreign carriers that may not be nearly as good. maria: yet messaging is so important, how do you see this? >> i don't think that they've necessarily done a good job in messaging. the way they did this one is the same way they did with lion air. they are almost identical. when crisis turns into tragedy, more important than any other time to be human. everybody is looking for you for direction and they want to hear that people are afraid to fly, you want to hear about the safety and all of the actions that you're taking, they are very cautious right now. what happens behind the scenes legal is controlling what we can and can't admit. it's all about the facts at this point but used to be about reassuring people that they're going to be safe, showing -- tons of action that they are taking right now. talk about them, high legislate them, make sure people are feeling safe. look another what happened to stop ble

remember al capone gangsters in chicago he was nabbed on tax evasion. you. steve: great point. todd, thank you very much. kim foxx also said smollett was not exonerated she said, quote. we believe the facts were sufficient to charge him for the crime. this office believed they could prove him guilty. so now the fbi is investigating although they won't confirm it to wls that broke the story out in chicago. they are looking into was there something funny going on behind the scenes? ainsley: chicago police furious about this. they released a 61-page report that you can find online. steve: the evidence. ainsley: talking about how they got a warrant to search his icloud account and details about $3,500 check that he sent that he gave to the brothers. brian: foxx said the clerk who sealed the records, well we didn't advocate that we don't believe the court file should have been sealed. things are going well for her and her office. six minutes after the top of the hour. things are going well for the president. he feels like weight off his shoulder for the firs

we think of organized crime in the united states, we think of the mafia, we think of, you know, al capone, all that sort of thing. i believe in russia, those distinctions with much less clearer or practically nonexistent. when you have little rule of law in a country like russia, it's extremely weak, i would argue in some places nonexistent. it's very difficult then to determine who's an organized criminal and who's not. when you have vladimir putin, the head of the country, essentially approving murders outside of his own country, how does that not make him an organized criminal? so, that's said, we have, in the west, and intelligence services, have gone to some extent to try to map those out. you know, who are the different key mob bosses, if you will? again, for me, it's a little bit of an artificial construct because it's all sort of organized crime. the oligarchs play a key part of that. the way i look at this is i think the simplest way to look at this is, again, like, you know, any of the guys, whether it's kaspirski, any of the others, if you get a call from the kremlin or call fr

al capone. the son of italian immigrants. not all of those people who came through ellis island were saints. scarface was a bootlegger. prostitution, gambling. one of the greatest criminals this country has ever suffered. the son of immigrants. it's unfortunate. i would never want a scarface in our country. i don't want him ms-13 in our country. but i also don't want to see a wall as a solution to a humanitarian crisis. madam secretary, these border patrol agents are also victims. the children are the agents of victims, too. because they are required to enforce a corrupt policy. policy that separates babies from their mothers, places them in cages. i was at the border, i saw those babies locked up on top of each other. animals -- not treat the humane society wouldn't allow it, the way those babies were treated. madam secretary, they are victims. you have all of these vacancies, in part because a good many people don't want to be a part of that kind of circumstance. they are victims, too. the children are victims and the peopl