jonathan turley joins us in a bit to discuss it and other things. peter, thank you. it was all in print. president trump suggesting his decision to pull john brennan's security clearance was in part about the rash investigation. the former cia director called the president desperate in an op-ed out today. this has more than 300 papers blasted the president for his attacks on what he calls big news. correspondent kevin corke joins us from the white house tonight with a look at the war of words today. >> it was the president who suggested in an interview that john brennan was among those he held responsible for the russia collusion investigation. the president noting that it was brennan who briefed him about so-called russian interference leading up to the inauguration. this is the latest twist in a running feud that added a new player late this afternoon. >> thank you very much. >> with his attention focused on trade and tariffs to the diplomatic dustup with turkey, president trump's cabinet meeting today offered a welcomed respite. the political storm brewing in wash

we have jonathan turley, danny cevallos and barbara mcquaid. we'll go through each of you. how bad is this for the president and what are the possibilities. >> well, it couldn't be worse. and i have to say, i'm not as convinced about this new morality play featuring michael cohen. this idea that he has suddenly been liberated in the sense that he will tell the truth. it really doesn't fit with the i i i i in-indictment. he has a reputation in new york of being something as a thug. and so he is not that credible of a witness. if everything that was said yesterday was true, than most of the things he said for the entire year before were lies. and so that means that his use as a witness will require corroboration. but having said that, he just did inch pli indicate tmplicatea crime. the president is an unindicted co-conspiracy tore if you believe everything that was in this filing. that makes this campaign finance case which is a difficult thing usually to prosecute stronger than the john he had waedwards . they didn't have a michael cohen to say i knew i was committing a crim

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federal courthouse in alexandria, virginia, breaking down the manafort verdict, law professor jonathan turley in the studio with expert analysis. but we start off with john roberts with the cohen guilty plea. >> we heard from the president briefly as he touched down in west virginia for that campaign rally tonight, he didn't really mention too much about cohen talking mostly about paul manafort. let's play for you what the president said a few minutes ago. >> president trump: i feel badly, it had nothing to do with russian collusion. we continue the witch hunt, thank you very much. >> the president saying he feels badly for both, both michael cohen and paul manafort. let's start with cohen, he pled guilty this afternoon it was a surprise. we had gotten wind yesterday that he might be trying to cut a plea deal. he pled guilty on eight counts, 52 tax evasion and he also pled guilty to one count of filing fraudulent information to get a bank loan but the ones that could be most problematic for president trump are counts seven and eight in which he said he coordinated with a candidate for federal

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"the new york times" and msnbc analyst nick confessore and from george washington university jonathan turleytion. jonathan, let me start with a question. i'm going to draw on my legal training and years of legal practice and ask you an in-depth question regarding juris prudence. what is going on the manafort trial? i mean you have the jurors are not sequestered on one of the most important trials where witness tampering, it would seem, would be an utmost concern to any judge, russians running around. you have, of course, the judge making just crazed attacks at the prosecution on and off and apologizes and then continues poking them, accuses one prosecutor who stared town mob families and had his life threatened by mobsters of crying in court. just this is a bizarre trial. i must say there is so much evidence just in the documents against paul manafort and the jury is still out. what is going on here? >> well, the most curious thing is actually the defense. it makes no sense if you think he's trying to win. i don't think he is. i don't think this is an acquittal trat acquittal strategy, other

is jonathan turley right? >> not quite. the way i look at it, for one thing, the fact that cohen pleaded to a particular charge doesn't mean that other people are automatically deemed guilty. that is why we have trials, that's why we have evidence and that's why we have juries make these determinations. i will also say that one of the most complex and byzantine areas in the entire sphere of federal law is the election code. and lawyers will argue to the nth day about whether something constitutes an election violation or it doesn't. to me what this will come down to is whether cohen has something other than his own word this is what happened, that these payments were made for the purpose of influencing a campaign, that they were done with the direction of presumably donald trump. if cohen has trump on tape, if cohen has evidence to support his allegations, then it can pose greater jeopardy for the president but right now, all we know is it's just cohen's word against presumably the president's word. >> jason: but there are

jonathan turley, first let me start with what we just heard from lanny davis.reaction about michael cohen and the plea and michael cohen's claims that the president says are not true. >> well, i thought it was rather interesting when my friend, lanny, said that michael cohen came to this epiphany watching the press conference in helsinki. that struck me as a bit odd you would watch a press conference in helsinki and say i need to start telling the truth. that's the problem with michael cohen as a witness. if what cohen said yesterday is true, then virtually everything he said for the prior year was a lie. and that makes him a very difficult fact witness to get a jury to believe. now, that doesn't mean that he can't be corroborated by other witnesses. but standing alone, this doesn't make out a particularly strong case. having said that, if people don't think this is not a serious development, they haven't been paying attention. you have the president's lawyer implicating him in a federal crime. even if that lawyer is michael cohen. that's a serious matter. now,

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williams argument that this is an in-kind contribution, because if you make that argument, then jonathan turley's the same liability, criminal liability on hillary clinton for an in-kind contribution that she received from a foreign source. she paid for it, but it doesn't matter. it's a conspiracy to get the information. whether you pay for it or not. >> i'm saying to you, attorney ingraham, that the meeting of the minds, the conspiracy between -- having that meeting -- you don't need -- they met to get dirt from a government agent and that's what i'm talking about. >> laura: don jr. was on the radio show today in the morning and i asked him about -- i asked him about this meeting. let's listen to what he said. >> the cycles of the media narrative. the other stuff isn't sticking so they're back now. tomorrow they will be back on the 25th amendment. nothing's changed. they don't talk about the genesis of that meeting and that these people were dealing with fusion gps before and after the meeting, et cetera, et cetera. 20 minute meeting, it ended up being about essentially nothing that was releva

. >> jonathan turley will talking about the hypocrisy of the left in a piece written in "the hill" today. if this is illegal, the clinton -- the amount of money spent by her campaign to gather dirt on trump. charlie? >> he's absolutely right about this. there is endless hypocrisy. the difference between the way the fbi handled feinstein and the way they handle trump and we know this from all the texts that we've seen that a lot of the people in the fbi that have been conducting this investigation were horrified at the prospect of a trump residency. what they were willing to do, everything they could to prevent it from coming. >> sandra: austin will on the last word to you. >> what i hope is the investigation is concluded and donald trump had nothing to do with it. it would be a very traumatic thing for the country. we hope it's low level staffers and it will pass. >> sandra: seems like it could go on for a while. austin will, charlie, thank you very good tuesday evening to you both. fox news alert as we await the pole to close in five states tonight including that high-stakes special ele

here now is jonathan turley he's the constitutional law attorney at george washington university, what is your take? what do you make of what you just heard? >> i think we need to know what shake he ordered. we need to send him back there and find out. the fact is that this is not uncommon for it to go into a third day. it's certainly true that if a jury is getting close to a decision they will often ask to extend the day. you can't read too much into this. i took over a case in this very court from another attorney who was a trial attorney and in that trial, the jury went over a week and a still ruled against him. they brought in verdicts against him on all of the counts. you can't really read that much into the time passage. as a general rule, the defense likes the passage of time, it indicates that the jury is questioning and really seriously considering each count. what you don't want is to be called back in the first 48 hours because that's when jurors tend to bring in fast convictions. i can see why they are hopeful but i wouldn't get too hopeful. >> melissa: then there's that id

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we're joined by robert barnes, who covers the supreme court for the "washington post," and jonathan turley, a law professor at george washington university. gentlemen, welcome to you both. thanks for being here, a lot to cover here. bob, let me start wi yo. these two questions, can a sitting question be charged wite a crcan he be compelled to turn over evidence, physical evidence or testimony? what has brett kavanaugh said about that in his record?l, >> we hasn't answered either of those specifically, but there are a couple of ings in his past that we know that the committee is going to look at closely., you knere are two cases about turning over evidence for the president to do that. one is u.s. v. nixon in which president nixon was order to turn over white house tapes. jones v clinton where clinton was told by the u.s. supreme court that yes he had to sit fop a deposition iula jones'l cise against him? n u.s.xon, we have conflicting views from brett kavanaugh. in 1999 he raised the question whether the unanimous decision by the supreme court wasrongly decided. he knew that was hearsay bu

jonathan turley, how important is paul manafort in this?the critical sense that he is one of the top people working around trump. for those who think there is a russian collusion, if you look at the usual suspects, his name is on the top. he worked for people who were quite frankly, blood—soaked and also had ties strongly with the kremlin. essentially the ukrainian you talked about fled to moscow in exile. if the russians were to find somebody to get to donald trump, ma nafort‘s somebody to get to donald trump, manafort‘s resume would pop out right away. does that mean he has anything? we're not sure. the fascinating dynamic here, if trump is going to pardon manafort, he would be do wise to do it before the next trial. this trial in virginia was the best shot manafort had. the one waiting for him in dc is a parade of horrible is. it has about four times the documents and gets into this nasty business involving manafort. he is not going to look very pardon ready after that trial. when we hear about paul manafort, his background and dealings

professor jonathan turley at george washington law school wrote.ttle about the special counsel investigation since the allegations against manafort are unrelated. it would say a great deal by manafort because these crimes are unrelated to the election, does not mean he is not a criminal. well, he is innocent before judged otherwise. what about the impact if there is a conviction or if there is an acquittal on robert mueller's investigation. >> this is nothing to do with manafort's time on the trump campaign and only on him as an individual. i don't think that's entirely true. it does lend a window into the man that came to work on the trump campaign for free and that's a man that was severely in debt. he was really desperate and there were specific instances in the discovery that showed manafort at least once tries to use his influences in the campaign to obtain $16 million of loans from an executive of a bank promising him a position in the cabinet. you can say it doesn't have to do with his time on the campaign but lends insight into the type of

jonathan turley writing in usa today said those who insist these tweets constituent obstruction of justice are misinformed. they don't surrender their first amount rights. judge andrew napolitano writing in the washington times says that the ferocity of these tweets and the defense by rudy giuliani of the president's tweets give mueller just enough ammunition to petition the federal judge to have giuliani removed as the president's counsel. that's because the rules of legal ethics prohibit lawyers from attacking the credibility of likely witnesses against their clients outside the courtroom. this is eptionly so for government witnesses when defense counsel attack those witnesses in public the government often views that as witness tampering but both turley and napolitano agree it would be wise for the president to simply stop his tweeting about mueller. the white house, however, disagrees. >> look, the president is not obstructing. he is fighting back and stating his opinion. he is stating it clearly and he certainly is expressing the frustration that he has with the level of corruption th

jonathan turley was talking about if there was a crime have you got to define it very narrowly. >> theefense is, in fact, a difference of the crime. one thing i think to keep in mind here, is that this has always been a controversial area. they brought these charges against john edwards and it failed in court. now, they did not have someone like cohen who is saying that i made these payments intentionally with the motivation of influencing the election at the behest of the candidate. this makes stronger case than edwards. controversial as to the motivation. is it really to influence the election as cohen says or is it because is he a married man and he wanted to bury the scandal? steve: ainsley, the question of whether or not there was a violation of campaign finance law comes down, to according to the experts i was reading this morning, the prosecutors would have to show that mr. cohen and mr. trump knew they were breaking the law, which is a gray area and it's hard to prove. ainsley: that's right. that's exactly right. democrats are scream impeachment, impeachment, impeachment. that'