the unity reform commission under the leadership of my good friend larry cohen and jan o'malley dillon took their charges very seriously, deliberating for months. of importantes recommendations designed to make it easier for people to participate in our primary and caucus process. i want to give a special thanks to everyone on that committee. especially jim roosevelt and lorraine miller. debated for months and produced a package of proposed reforms that we will vote on shortly. this process has been inclusive throughout. rbc happened vigilant to ensure everyone possibly was heard. becausen important time we want to make sure everybody possible is was heard. there is a consensus on a significant portion of the package of reforms. we are going to -- the rbc proposal states that superdelegates retain all their powers except that they will not vote on the first to ballot unless the outcome has already been decided by the grassroots voters. that is what it is. we have two votes we have to take, the votes of significance. number one, does the change require a charter amendment and number two

that was the charge and the unity reform commission under the able leadership of my good friend larry cohen, they took their charge very seriously, deliberated for months and amid a series of important recommendations, designed to make it easier for people to participate in our primary and caucus process. the rules and bylaws committee deliberated for over 80 hours. i went to say a special thanks to everyone on the committee, especially our distinguished cochairs. the deliberated for over 80 hours over a period of months and produced a package of proposed reforms that we will vote on shortly. this process has been inclusive throughout. in the urc and the rbc, they have been vigilant in an sure that everybody's voice was heard and every idea was given careful consideration. we spent a lot of time in this room yesterday and it was an important time, because he wanted to make sure that hard.ody's voice was it is clear now that there is in fact, a consensus on a significant portion of the package of reforms. i listenedrankly, as yesterday, it seems to me that they are 2 substantive issues that

aftermath of the cohen guilty pleas and then a force conviction what does it mean for the president and the russian probe we'll take a look at that on this edition of politic. politicking on larry king michael cohen donald trump's personal attorney and fixer pleads guilty to eight counts of criminal charges paul not afford the former campaign manager of a down drums presidential campaign convicted on eight charges against him leading democrats labeling donald trump as an unindicted coconspirator to say the least it's been a lousy week for the presidency and that has had many horrible weeks in his twenty month existence so what is the man avoiding throwing cases being the donald trump and waiters robert moses russian probe which has been the thorn in the president's side for well more than a year where does that go from here for us is to these are very true to its constitutional scholar harvard law school professor emeritus bestselling author his latest book is the case against impeaching trump. he joins me via skype ok alan what's your reaction to the cohen guilty plea but i think both sides are over stating their positions the democrats a senate that a coconspirator total nons

aftermath of the cohen guilty plea is and man affords conviction what does it mean for the president and the russian probe to take a look at that on this edition of politicking. politicking on larry king michael cohen donald trump's personal attorney and fixer pleads guilty to eight counts of criminal charges paul not afford the former campaign manager of the donald trump's presidential campaign convicted on a charges against him leading democrats labeling donald trump as an unindicted coconspirator to say the least it's been a lousy week for the presidency and that has had many horrible weeks it is twenty month existence so what is the man avoiding throwing cases being the donald trump and where does robert moles rush a probe which has been the thorn in the president's side for well more than a year where does that go from here for answers to these an. issue it's constitutional scholar harvard law school professor emeritus bestselling author his latest book is the case against impeaching trump. he joins me via skype ok alan what's your reaction to the cohen guilty plea but i think both sides are over stating their positions the democrats say he's in a data coconspirator total no

aftermath of the cohen guilty plea isn't man a force conviction what does it mean for the president and the russian probe take a look at that on this edition of politicking. politicking on larry king michael cohen donald trump's personal attorney and fixer pleads guilty to eight counts of criminal charges paul not a for the former campaign manager for donald trump's presidential campaign convicted on a charges against him leading democrats labeling donald trump as an unindicted coconspirator to say the least it's been a lousy week for the presidency and that has had many horrible weeks in his twenty month existence so what is the man affording cohen cases being the donald trump and where does robert moses rush a probe which has been the thorn in the president's side for well more than a year where does that go from here for answers to these an. issue it's a constitutional scholar harvard law school professor emeritus bestselling author his latest book is the case against impeaching drunk. he joins me via skype ok alan what's your reaction to the cohen guilty plea but i think both sides are over stating their positions the democrats say he's in a data coconspirator total nonse

that was the charge, and under the able leadership of larry cohen, the charge was taken seriously, deliberating for months, and making important recommendations, designed to make it easier for people to participate in our process. the rules and bylaws committee deliberated for over 80 hours, and i went to thank everyone on the committee, especially our distinguished cochairs. they deliberated for over 80 hours and produced a package that we will vote on shortly. this process has been inclusive throughout, and the rbc have been vigilant in ensuring everybody's voice was heard and every idea was given careful consideration. we spent a lot of time in this room yesterday and it was important because we wanted to make sure everybody's voice was heard. it is clear now that there is consistent on significant reforms, and as i listened yesterday, it seems to me there are two substantive issues that will require a vote in the body, and they both relate to the subject of superdelegates. the rbc proposal states that superdelegates retain all of their powers, except that they will not vote on the first , w

larry kudlow is speaking to cnbc about the paurkmarkets. >> reporter: we're getting our first reaction from a senior white house official to what we saw yesterday in terms of that michael cohen guilty plea and that paul manafort guilty verdict. larry kudlow, the national economic council director offering some comments just a little while ago to cnbc.com, putting it all through an economic lens and explaining why he thinks we're not seeing as dramatic of a market move as some might have expected, given the drama inherent in the news larry kudlow saying the economy is everything when it comes to markets and confidence, and i think that markets frankly look through all these various political issues there's no change in policy coming and that's what really matters. keep your eye on the ball and i think the markets have done a good job so larry kudlow there offering a thought here on what the markets are looking for, which is no change in economic policy from the trump administration and so, therefore, with a strong economy, we're not seeing a dramatic reaction in markets to this dramatic political news, michelle. >> yeah, it seemed to move lower yesterday but not my much. kind

the latest development has been confirmed that cohen's lawyer was actually one of the main sources for a c.n.n. story about collusion despite the lawyer larry davis himself backtracking on those claims to a c.n.n. host live on air the network still defended the decision to run the story anyway. well set for myself and the team for this i would join us again in thirty five minutes for the latest global news of. it was you know provision out of my pocket i wanted to. ask but i. just i don't hide oh i lost his boss because i just put paid to do that then you just got to go to the resources you like and just like anybody on a month all of those it doesn't but that's on us i don't know if that has been any of the feel so i'm not as you know but i was you know i got you know just i mean my most wanted i'm already but it was sped up out of me just a lot of the media and even i mean i was told a lot were going to go on which i don't know if it up i must admit that it heals i just don't get it on the disabled list but those were the old they're just beautiful songs people are going to respect i'm one of those but i was listening to this but it was o

larry noble, former general counsel to the general election council. this tweet we saw earlier today from the president, i'll read to you here -- "michael cohen pled guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime. president obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily settled." what do you make of that? >> well, that's nonsense. first of all, he pled guilty to two campaign violations that are a crime. they are violation of the criminal law so they are a crime. comparing it to the obama settlement is also not fair, accurate and makes no sense. virtually every presidential campaign -- or probably every major presidential campaign comes up with campaign finance violations. they are what we used to call routine violations. they aren't excused but they are reporting violations where they failed to report some things inadvertently. i think in the obama case it was what are called 48-hour report, failure to report contributions. in none of those cases that i'm aware of has the actual candidate or the president been implicated in ordering it be done. it wasn't that obama said let's not report these contributions. those a

president's long-time attorney, michael cohen, pleaded guilty and whether he expects a presidential pardon. >>> and honoring john mccain. nfl star wide receiver larrytalk about how he will be paying

cohen. you said, i'm paraphrasing, what is it you do? that you want to explain? -- do you want to explain? larry: i was a big supporter of him. there was speculation. i guess my name had popped up once or twice. yeah, i think i did. i asked him -- i remember. i asked him what his daily routine was. he said, that is a great question. he walked through what a director does, time with the president, issues, policies, staff meetings. because i had worked in this building. omb is down the road someplace. and you have a routine, but i was not sure. there was no nac when i worked in reagan's first term. he was extremely cooperative in -- and helpful with my transition. i am a big fan of his. i figured it out. i showed up there, so i sat there. i had a visitor's past. i wasn't allowed in the meetings -- visitor's pass. i wasn't allowed in the meetings yet, but i was able to talk to him and observe what goes on. >> you ever see rochester students for a democratic society? it wasn't the fds, it became later on. i was for gene mccarthy. worked as an intern on capitol hill, went back to school, and wound up actually not completing. i did

president's long-time attorney, michael cohen, pleaded guilty and whether he expects a presidential pardon. >>> and honoring john mccain. nfl star wide receiver larry fitzgerald joins me to talk about how he will be paying tribute to his close friend. let's go outfront. >> good evening, i'm jim sciutto in for erin burnett. out front a significant white house shakeup. in a surprise announcement on twitter, president trump revealing that white house counsel don mcgahn will be leaving his position in the fall. now mcgahn may know better than anyone else whether the president obstructed justice. in fact it was just 11 days ago we learned mcgahn had been cooperating extensively with the special counsel. three voluntary interviews lasting all told some 30 hours. yet today trump telling reporters that he's not concerned. >> very good man. don, excellent guy. yeah, don mcgahn is a really good guy. been with me for a long time, privately before this he represented me. he's been here now it will be almost two years. >> any concern about what you said to the mueller team? >> no, not at all. not at all. i knew he was going also. i had to approve it. so we didn

aftermath of the cohen guilty pleas and man affords conviction what does it mean for the president and the russian probe to take a look at that on this edition of politic. politicking on larry king michael cole and donald trump his personal attorney and fix him plead guilty to eight counts of criminal charges paul not afford the former campaign manager of the donald trump's friends eventually campaign convicted on eight charges against him leading democrats labeling donald trump as an unindicted coconspirator to say the least. it's been a lousy week for the presidency and that has had many horrible weeks in its twenty month existence so what does a man avoiding throwing cases being the donald trump and where does robert malas russian probe which has been a thorn in the president's side for well more than a year there's echo from here for answers to these an. issue it's a constitutional scholar harvard law school professor emeritus bestselling author his latest book is the case against impeaching trump. he joins me via skype ok alan what's your reaction to the cohen guilty plea but i think both sides are over stating their positions the democrats say he's in a data coconspir

this headline from the "wall street journal" -- "michael cohen pleading guilty, saying he acted on the president's direction." from alabama, larry you are next. turn the volume down on yourself. go ahead with your comment. caller: i think the general public in the united states is about tired of all of this crap. i am not a democrat. i am not a republican. but president trump is a legally president of this country. robert mueller is on a witchhunt. he is supposed to be investigating russian collusion. host: larry, that is going to come out next week, or in two weeks, in a washington, d.c. courtroom. caller: i understand that, but hey, he is a dearly elected president. people need to lay off of him. he is helping this nation. thank you, larry, from alabama. the lawyer for paul manafort speaking to reporters. it was brief. here is what kevin downing had to thank you, larry, from alabama. say. [video clip] kevin: you may have heard the verdict. host: that was the lawyer walking out. i think we were able to hear from him as well. we will try to get that fro for you. let's go to bill, republican line. extortion, is the word young man

dealing up of dirt on hillary clinton regardless this is what we've heard from larry davis the attorney representing michael cohen this is some of what he's been saying i can tell you that. mr cohen has knowledge on certain subjects that should be of interest to the special counsel and is more than happy to toe the special counsel all of that he knows now following multiple big stories that have come out regarding these claims from the attorney we now hear the attorney representing michael cohen start to backtrack this is what are you saying more recently i should have been more clear including with you that i could not independently confirm what happened i regret my era president trump has reacted to the backtracking from michael collins attorney on twitter he said the following michael cohen's attorney clarified the record saying his client does not know if the president knew anything about the trump tower meeting of which came nothing the answer is that i did not know about the meeting just another phony story by the fake news media now why is this such a big deal in the first place well if this story had inde

larry, good evening to you. >> thanks for having me. >> how serious is it for the president that his former attorney directly implicates him in coordinating a campaign finance violation? >> it's very serious. what michael cohenourt directly implicates the president in a campaign finance violation. he says he directed and coordinated with cohen to do these acts which were the campaign finance violations, and that is the first time -- i've been practicing campaign finance law for i hate to admit it 40 years, where the president has been directly accused of these type of campaign finance violations. >> it's just then you're saying it's uncharted territory. what does that mean for the president? we've been going back and forth about whether a sitting president can be indicted or not. you can be found guilty of a campaign violation, i would imagine that's serious, maybe, i don't know. you tell me. >> this type of violation is very serious. this violation -- there's several violations here. it's a corporate contribution. more than one corporate contribution. it's failure to report corporate contributions, successive contributions and what the president did according to michael cohen is both direct that these contr

larry noble, i'm going to turn to you before i turn to my "newshour" colleagues toif clwhat is the violation here, if any, ofcampaign finance laws? we've had one version, we've heard from michael cohen in the courtroom yesterday, his plea, and then the president tod saying something different. how do you interpret all this? m >> well, if whhael cohen has said is true and if the information the u.s. attorney vpresented is true you e several campaign finance violations. i have a corporate contributlon because its like the trump organization reimbursed for the payments, you ove anther corporate contribution from american media, if that's the company they're referring to, paying for other payments for karen mcdougall. >> woodruff: the "national enquirer." >> national inquiring paying for payments for karen mcdougall. you have excessive contributions by michael cohen because when hs paid out the the money to stormy daniels, then that was a coribution from him until it was reimbursed, so an illegal contribution, and report all of this. >> woodruff: so when the president said today the money came from me personally, there is still a disagreement between the two men about whether the presid

larry kudlow coming up at 8:30. brian: bragging. >> katie: i got to get it all in. brian: michael cohenas made a lot of dumb statements and done a lot of dumb things. dumbest thing is hiring lanny davis. a smart guy, is he a lawyer. i get it he is a crisis manager, that's true. but lanny davis is representing michael cohen simply on behalf of hillary clinton. you want more proof of it. look at what he has done over the last few days. caught lying. lying lanny caught lying about what michael cohen knew about russia hacking and that famed trump tower meeting. steve: in particular, let's talk about that trump tower meeting. mr. davis made it clear that his client, michael cohen was willing to talk to the mueller team because he had information that donald trump personally knew about that meeting before it happened. well, now, lanny is walking that back because he doesn't have a little egg on his face it's a whole omelet. he talked to buzzfeed last night and here is the headline. lanny davis says he was a source for cnn's trump tower story. brian: and "the washington post" story. unnamed so