call for a quote today. >>> new developments in legal problems for trump's former campaign chair, paul manafort. local new york prosecutors want to revive the criminal charges against him with a lot of talk about whether he could ever get a trump pardon. manafort srverved some time in prison but then got spared and got home confinement. he was convicted in federal court on a range of charges, but that state case that was separate was previously dismissed by a judge on double jeopardy grounds. a legal concept that no matter how bad the thing you did is, you can't be tried twice for it. trump has been hinting for a pardon for a different person who was actually paul manafort's business partner, roger stone. he was convicted of obstruction, witness tampering, and lying to the feds during the mueller probe, but he has not yet reported to prison. that would be on july 14th, two weeks from today, unless something changes. we are joined by david corn, the author of the book, "russian roulette: the inside story of putin's war on america and the election of donald trump." and if you don't like a hard co

barr your department released paul manafort out of concern from the coronavirus. in march 26th and april 3rd, your department released guidelines, criteria setting priorities by which people would be released early. by your own department's admission, manafort did not meet that criteria. since the start of this pandemic, we have repeatedly urged you to use your authority to protect vulnerable populations in prisons and instead, you released the president's former campaign manager. sir, do you know how many federal inmates have tested positive for covid-19 as of today? >> yeah, i have that number. >> quickly, sir, the clock ticks. we have a slide if they will bring it up that shows us that 10,000 inmates have tested positive and over 1,000 staff tested positive. do you know how many have died? >> about 100. almost 100, i think. >> that's right. it's about 9 9 inmate haves died and yet, only 5% have been released under your guidelines. >> 7, -- >> you stated in may you were taking quote every measure that we can to protect federal inmates. the numbers however tell a

. —— paul manafort, roger stone.ere this isa approve this theory but there this is a paul manafort, michael flynn, rajasthan should not be in jail because the basis of the evidence that used to go after the trump administration and trom campaign was flawed to begin with. i don't agree if you do something wrong, you should be... eric bolling of america this week. ceremonies have been taking place in the bosnian town of srebrenica to mark 25 years since the massacre of 8,000 muslim men and boys by bosnian serb forces. nine recently—identified victims have been buried during a ceremony at potochari cemetery. the incident was the worst act of mass killing in europe since the end of the second world war. our special correspondent allan little reports. this is notjust a day of commemoration. it is also a funeral. the bodies are still emerging from the killing fields where many have laid undiscovered for a quarter of a century. today, i am burying my father. the oldest among these victims here. it took 25 years until we fou

paul manafort also stated that he spoke with trump about stone's predictions and his claimed access to wikileaks and that trump instructed manafort to stay in touch with stone. he was their inside line to the material that the russian government had stolen to help him in the campaign. the way they were going to help him in the campaign with that information was to release it publicly in ways that were designed to cause maximum damage to the clinton campaign and maximum benefit to the trump campaign. roger stone was their inside line on those forthcoming dumps of information, which increased the ability of the campaign to leverage those information dumps, to hype them, to tell people they were coming, and to make the most of them once they arrived. he was their force multiplier for what russia did to help put donald trump in the white house. notably, three of the trump associates who were all involved in the roger stone intermediary gig were later sentenced to prison time. rick gates, michael cohen, paul manafort all got sentenced to prison. tonight actually only michael cohen is physic

barr, your department paul manafort, the president's former campaign manager early from prison in may out of concern for the coronavirus, in march 26 and april 3rd your department released guidelines, criteria biwhich senate priorities by which people will be released early, by your own department's manafort did not have that criteria, we have asked you to use your authority to protect vulnerable populations in prison and instead you released the president's former manager. downhill how many convicts have been released? >> i have that. >> quickly because the clock ticks. we have a slide that shows us that 10,000 inmates have tested positive and over 1,000 staff have tested positive. do you know how many have died? >> about a hundred. almost a hundred, i think. >> that's right, about 99 inmates have died yet only 5% have been released under your guidelines. >> 7,000 and -- >> you said in may you were taking every measure we can to protect federal inmates. the numbers, however, tell a different story as do your actions. despite releasing manafort your lawyers continued to argue against

barr, your department released paul manafort, the president's former campaign manager over concern forirus. -- your department guidelines my criteria by which, priorities by which people would be released early. by your own department's, manafort did not meet that criteria. since the start of this pandemic, we have are -- we have repeatedly urged you to use authority to protect vulnerable populations in prisons. instead, you release the president's former campaign manager. do you know how many federal inmates have tested positive for covid-19 as of today? mr. barr: i have that number. >> quickly. a slide. 10,000 inmates have tested positive and over 1000 staff have tested positive. you know how many have died? mr. barr: almost 100 i think. >> that is right. 99 inmates have died. yet only 5% have been released under your guidelines. mr. barr: 7000 -- >> you said you were taking "every measure we can to protect federal inmates." the numbers tell a different story, as do your actions. despite releasing manafort, your lawyers continue to argue against the release of prisoners. in april, vu

paul manafort's case the president hasn't yet do you think -- he'll intervene in the manafort case?e're looking at a desperate president. one of the interesting things the president does when he's in trouble is he does distract us. distracting us from coronavirus pandemic may not be a bad thing in his mind by how he uses the power of the presidency to do controversial things. and, you know, this is a controversial thing. i think your point about manafort in particular is very interesting. because remember that in the mueller report, robert mueller explicitly points to donald trump publically dangling a pardon before manafort, suggesting that he would pardon him if necessary, and considered it one of the possible obstructions of justice that donald trump should be answerable to congress to. now, here's the thing. donald trump didn't do it. and we know that paul manafort got a healthy sentence, and we know that paul manafort was certainly having conversations with the white house as his trial was pending and that he was quote -- i would call loyal to the president and clearly had a lo

does he do the same in the coming weeks or months with paul manafort?> nia, ellie, thank you very much. we'll continue to follow this story. >>> meanwhile, tonight arizona is one of the epi centers for the coronavirus pandemic here in the united states. as the number of new cases continues to shoot up, hospitals there are getting overwhelmed. so what can be done to turn the tide? u.s. congressman rubin gaiellego, live we'll discuss right after this. with 2 unlimited lines for less than $30 each. call 1-800-t-mobile or go to t-mobile.com/55. we all know customers can save big. [ cellphone chimes ] um, so, we're talking 24/7 protection. as it -- [ cellphone chimes ] [ clears throat ] mara, hello. [ cellphone clicking ] yeah? we can see you on your phone. oh, my bad. you can continue. [ clicking continues ] [ cellphone chimes ] i think she's still on the phone. [ cellphone chimes ] if you have a garden you know, weeds are low down little scoundrels. draw the line with roundup. the sure shot wand extends with a protective shield to target weeds precisely an

my question to you is we have seen this now with papadopoulos, we have seen it withju paul manafort.w it with general flynn. we have seen it with you. i'll be honest, roger. i believe in our constitution. i believe in our rule of law. i think i read a lot about equal justice and applications of our laws. i don't see this in any of these cases. i see a travesty of injustice. you have been a part of it. i don'tstof know. i'm losing faith in the system, roger.r. >> well, you have a good reason to. you examine the d.c. circuit court of appeals where i had to file a last-minute emergency appeal of judge jackson's room sending you toi jail. she ignored all the legal precedents in that. she ignored my health conditions. she ignored the conditions at the prison at that time, and she ignored the current policies of doj and the bop. you would've thought it wouldn't been reversed in the appeals court the they ruled for herd 3-0. i'm afraid this is a fixed system. above all, though, i guess i would have to say the most important thing here is the courageous and as of the president's act. i know

i think the person to keep your eye on now is paul manafort, the president's former campaign chairmantiple felonies, who pleaded guilty to multiple felonies. but the president has praised him as well. so, i think it's entirely possible that the president is going to either pardon or commute the sentence of paul manafort, trying to wipe out entirely the legal legacy of the mueller investigation. he has that authority under the constitution. but the abbuse of power it woul represent would really be profound. >> we'll see if that happens. thank you. david axelrod, thanks to you as well. there's much more coming up in our special "situation room" even as coronavirus cases are spreading, the virus is spreading through latin america and the caribbean, four countries in the region are now among the top ten most infected in the world. one country has found a way to buck the trend. stay with us. you're in "the situation room." weeds are low down little scoundrels. draw the line with roundup. the sure shot wand extends with a protective shield to target weeds precisely and kill them right down

paul manafort refused to roll on the president. he was convicted by a jury of his peers, and he has been granted release by the bureau of prison ns because of coronavirus. michael flynn pleaded guilty and the department of justice withdrew the conviction. they're now tied up in appeals over whether they could even do that, whether it is proper what they did. but michael flynn is not going to prison. michael flynn is supposed to report next week. and michael cohen, the one who did roll on the president, he is released from prison, is now back in there. and jeffrey berman who oversaw the investigation into trump ink and michael cohen, that guy got fired by the president. like, you know, there is not -- it is not too hard to connect the dots here. >> no, it's not very hard to connect the dots. and you could assume that at some point in november that manafort is pardoned as well, and you can assume that flynn will be on the campaign trail. there is nothing but outrage and corruption going on at the department of justice, and it's -- it

that includes roger stone, former national security adviser michael flynn, and paul manafort, who ise in prison. this is very much a sign of donald trump essentially basically looking to erase the memory if you like of that whole mueller investigation. is the president's power to commute absolute? well it is. it is in the sense that he can now effectively clear the record insofar as roger stone, he won't be going to prison. this president has indicated he is quite happy to commute sentences, he did so with the former illinois governor earlier in the year, ditto the former new york police chief, so president trump is not a man who is afraid to use those powers, and he has done so again with his longtime friend roger stone here. david willis, there. leading democrats have condemned the white house's announcement. senator elizabeth warren said it showed donald trump was the most corrupt president in history. the chair of the house intelligence committee, congressman adam schiff, said there were now two americanjustice systems — one for mr trump's criminal friends and one for everyone el

well as roger stone, former national security adviser michael flynn, and trump campaign manager paul manafortntly serving time in prison. so this very much a sign of donald trump essentially, basically, looking to erase the memory, if you like, of that whole mueller investigation. is the president's power to commute absolute? absolutely it is in the sense that he can now effectively clear the record as far as roger stone, he won't be going to prison. and, indeed, this president has proved he is quite keen to commute sentences — he did so with the former illinois governor rod blagojevich earlier in the year, ditto the former new york police chief bernard kerik, so president trump is not a man who is afraid to use those powers, and he has done so again with his longtime friend roger stone, here. david willis, there. and staying with the us, which is seeing a record number of new coronavirus cases this week, with more than 63,000 infections recorded on thursday alone. this comes two months after some states began reopening their economies, without having met the federal guidelines on how to do s

i mean, everything about this is just -- i mean, set aside paul manafort, roger stone. you're absolutely right, the president sends those kinds of messages to those people, and we should judge that accordingly. but i mean, we are talking about despicable crimes with, you know, victims who faced years of trauma and damage because of these actions. and you know, for the president to -- i mean, he clearly has familiarity with the situation. he takes the question, seems to engage with it like he's the person that's in those photographs that we were just showing, you know, from years ago in new york or palm beach or wherever they were taken, and he just sort of throws prince andrew in there on top of it. not even a name that was previously mentioned. does he want to be part of that situation? i mean, i have so many questions. and i think to your point, joe, for the victims of this, it had to be really, really hard to watch. >> well, and kasie, you raise an incredible point here, because i let it sit a little bit after we played that because we have got to stop allowing this

he's been dangling pardons for roger flynn and paul manafort. he has been calling it a witchhunt. it wasn't a full pardon, as the report mentioned. but they started to convince trump that he needed to do this. those in stone's intercircle because this was an attack on trump himself. and trump is all about himself. but trump has really focused on pardoning individuals that wouldn't really be popular to pardon in the american public. it's a who's who of white collar criminals, politicians, law enforcement, that have gone above the call of duty. we see rod blagojevich was pardoned. he was a corrupt democratic politician. joe arpaio, the controversial law enforcement from arizona. you had mike milken, white house said scooter libby. these are people that wouldn't be popular to pardon. it demonstrates, if you are close to trump, if you are loyal to him and you're a powerful person, he will see to it that you are poardoned and absolved from your crimes. >> and roger stone, the self-proclaimed dirty trickster. his closest ally says he will see if the president is a second term, if he is

it has also happened numerous notedsince 2018 when he pardoning his former campaign chairman, paul manafort are in the government shutdown, during the summer months of 2019, as he took on the squat, and then later in the fall as impeachment became a reality. trump weathered each storm and bounce back a strong or stronger than he previously been. what is different about this time? nott: the president has stepped back. what typifies some of these times is a moment of some contrition, like after access where he, or a period is not the person making news with his attacks. the other times or more normal politics. what we are looking at now is two national crises and an thetity crises, and president has not provided the sort of decisive leadership and often uses those as examples or platforms of which to launch into a petulance and grievance-based assault on the media. that is not what americans wanted when he stops doing that, i will -- i think he will start to see his numbers come back. there is a story that a number of senior aides and cabinet members of the george w. bush administration are p

it was june of 2016 when trump replaced corey lewandowski with his new campaign manager, paul manafort. let's talk about the attacks on joe biden i addressed a little earlier. do you think this approach is going to back fifire? >> the trump campaign's strategy is to throw everything at the wall and see if anything sticks. not going to help in attacking joe biden. we know trump himself is no stranger, you know, to receiving allegations that he is not mentally fit for office, and so it could potentially open the door for biden's camps and other democratic operatives to pull up old footage, to pull up trump's own comment to note that the president himself may not be fit for office. politically, it may not be seen as the best move. these attacks are coming amid a recent polling showing bind soaring over trum. we saw a poll from quinnipiac university that shows trump's economic approval rating has cratered 15 points in just one month. that's something because trump has said, i am the guy to get the economy on back t guy you can trust. according to this polling, voters don't see it that way.

but this was the judge that gave i believe solitary confinement to paul manafort. al capone didn't have solitary confinement. so these are things that happen, and if you look at president bush, president clinton, president obama, take a look at what they did. frankly, it's very unfair. roger stone was treated very unfairly in my opinion, and so were many others on this side. you have the other ones who are admitted to lying -- they admit it's a before congress. they leaked classified information. which is something you just can't do, and what are they doing? so we will see what happens. but we are getting rave reviews for what i did. >> hold the convention in jacksonville -- >> president trump: we are going to do something that will be great. we will do it very well. we had some numbers a little while ago that are great. the suppression polls that we had. sony polls. fake news, sony polls. we are doing well in georgia. we are doing well in texas. i read that we are one point up in texas. or not one point. many points. i saved the oil industry. i created it, became

for context, they let paul manafort out early after felony convictions because he was at risk for covidlk us through. our understanding of the story, these children haven't been convicted of anything. >> no. they're here to seek asylum. the international right to seek asylum. and this is what, with the family separation crisis, all the way to this day, and why their lawyers are saying arguably, it is worse right now. their health is at risk and they are being held, not because they're criminals but because the trump administration has decided not to release them despite the orders of a federal judge. >> now, jacob, you in your work with us, sometimes do you the questioning and the interviewing. isn't that right? >> yeah. >> you know the thing where somebody spends two years writing a book and then we say tell us about it in two minutes. i want to give you a chance to tell viewers about your important book. i will flag one news worthy item that has gotten attention. you've obtained these documents that show trump aide steven miller going after another official. tell us about what you're

played that clip earlier of the way the president used to talk about folks like mike the cohen and paul manafort when they got caught up in the criminal investigations of his presidency, and they looked like they were in trouble. it was sort of this kiss of death line when trump would come out in a similar fashion and say, you know, diminish his relationship with him. in this case, it looks like that same kind of presidential distancing, but in this time, it's to show that he is healthy and that there is no risk to him. and obviously that would be the probably ultimate embarrassment for the president to get sick amid all of this when he has taken the approach he has, when he's refused for so long to put a mask on, that, getting the virus, would be pretty damning. so it sort of makes sense if you understand the way the president tries to put distance between himself and things he does not like for him to make a remark like that. >> kim, we've talked about how it's become a running matter with members of the public particularly on social media trying to keep us in the news media to account for the

but this was a judge that gave, i believe, solitary confinement to paul manafort. al capone didn't have solitary confinement. these are things that happened. and if you look at president bush, president clinton, president obama, take a look at what they did, frankly it is a very unfair -- roger stone was treated unfairly in my opinion and so were many others on this side. in the meantime, you have the other ones who are admitted lying before -- they admitted they lied before congress. they leaked. they leaked classified information. which is something you just can't do. and what are they doing? so we'll see what happens. no, we're getting rave reviews for what i did. >> are you going to hold the convention in jacksonville with all of this virus spread -- >> we're going to see it built up a little bit but we're going to do something that will be great. we think we're doing well. we have some poll numbers that are great. it is the same story. it is suppression polls that we had in 2016, phony polls, fake news, phony polls, same thing. and we're doing very well. we're

they were referrals for lying, crimes that put paul manafort in stone and michael cohen in jail. that's going to publish in 2019. how they've profited from their lies, great piece, foxnews.com and fox news contributor dan bongino. first thing i got up this morning, i read this, i said to text you, show you some of the next thing is i said please get me all the information on all the profits that these deep state actors are going to make. >> it's pretty despicable that these disgraced, corrupt, lying people are profiting financially from their pathology of lies. peter strzok is the latest, his book is perversely ironic that i can't think of a more compromised person in america, a guy carrying on an extramarital affair and trading stunningly hostile text messages about the very man he is investigating. andrew mccabe, whose dishonesty was epic fired for lying and not once, but four times. he penned a book called threat. he can't think of a guy who was more of a threat to the fbi than andrew mccabe. and of course, you've got the ever vain glory egocentric james comey who penned a boo

there's also michael flynn and paul manafort in the sense that all of these cases could be subject toons or clemency. what do you think this does to the justice department to have this kind of activity going on by the president and in some cases by the department itself? >> well, it's incredibly corrosive to the men and women in the department of justice to sit back and watch legitimate, righteous investigations and prosecutions to be constantly debased by the president. it's got to make them wonder about the very, the you been stands and foundations of the rule of law they're trying to enforce. it's no secret why the president is frustrated with the conviction of stone and the guilty plea of flynn and the incredibly complicated status of that matter. the president doesn't like the fact that these investigations exposed his eventual reliance on russian assistance to get elected. russians weighed in, in our political system in 2016 in a way that i think everybody understands now and they did so for the benefit of president trump. that's a narrative that he will spend the rest of his li

campaign chairman paul manafort is a felon. michael flynn, a felon. is a felon and just the latest beneficiary of the presidential gift to loyalists. a commutation of his 40-month sentence. even though one of the prosecutors testified they had pressured to go easy on stone because of the relationship with president. he tampered with witnesses, he was the campaign's primary conduit to wikileaks and had hoped to be rewarded for not rolling over on trump. not even nixon rewarded the henchman this way. but from sheriff arpaio, to a navy s.e.a.l. court-martialed and to dinesh souza. only one is still actually in prison. that would be michael cohen. what makes him different? he spoke out against trump and now after a furlough is back in prison. why? some thing it was this photo of him eating outdoors violating the house arrest but that's not it. according to his lawyers it's to stop him from publishing a tell-all book about trump before the election. he was suddenly sent back to prison after refusing to sign a document about no contact with the media. you m

in 2016, president trump had a bunch of campaign managers, paul manafort, kellyanne con way. a lot of people are saying it doesn't matter all that much who the campaign manager is. ray: political writers love to talk about inside campaign intrigue, especially now when there's not much campaigning going on. neither major party nominee can really get out there and campaign and sketch out their platform. so it's similar of to criminologists watching the mayday parade in moscow and seeing who was standing where. campaigns hire and fire people, they promote and demote of people. howard: particularly in this campaign, donald trump ultimately is his own campaign manager. let me get a break. when we come back, the new york times in turmoil as the top editor resigns, blasts the liberal colleagues for bullying her. people used to care. heck, they'd come all the way out here just for a blurry photo of me. oh, that's a good one. wait, what's that? that's just the low-battery warning. oh, alright. now it's all, "check out my rv," and, "let's go four-wheeling." maybe there's a little part

so these people, and paul manafort, what they did to that man is a disgrace. >> sean: have you thought about pardons or commutations at all? >> president trump: i am always thinking. i'm always thinking, so you'll be watching, like everybody else in this case. he'll be watching. roger stone, papadopoulos, manafort, what they did to that man, what they did to that man. putting him in solitary confinement. al capone, the great gangster, the ultimate gangster was never in solitary confinement. you know, what they did to him was just incredible. you know, look, it's a very sad thing. here's a group, we have them cold, they lied, they leaked, they did everything. we have them already. they could get more evidence, it doesn't matter. they have them cold. i hope that they act. i hope that lindsey graham does something with the judiciary committee. we have all the evidence they need. now, maybe they're getting new stuff. i let them handle that. but the judiciary committee should act, and it's also -- people don't like to say it president obama. he knew everything. he was probably in charge of

barr, your department released paul manafort, the president's former campaign manager over concern forirus. -- your department guidelines my criteria by which, priorities by which people would be released early. by your own department's, manafort did not meet that criteria. since the start of this pandemic, we have are -- we have repeatedly urged you to use authority to protect vulnerable populations in prisons. instead, you release the president's former campaign manager. do you know how many federal inmates have tested positive for covid-19 as of today? mr. barr: i have that number. >> quickly. a slide. 10,000 inmates have tested positive and over 1000 staff have tested positive. you know how many have died? mr. barr: almost 100 i think. >> that is right. 99 inmates have died. yet only 5% have been released under your guidelines. mr. barr: 7000 -- >> you said you were taking "every measure we can to protect federal inmates." the numbers tell a different story, as do your actions. despite releasing manafort, your lawyers continue to argue against the release of prisoners. in april, vu

one of the big questions will be, will other figures from the russia investigation, whether a paul manafort or george papadopoulos or a michael flynn receive clemency from the president as well? ali? >> kelly good to see you as always. thank you, my friend. >>> nbc news white house correspondent kelly o'donnell. >>> coming up, speaking with congressman eric swalwell, a member of the intelligence and judiciary committees to get his take on roger stone's commutation, and it's only taken 155 years but the country's dedication to honoring figures of the confederacy is finally winding down. my next guest, the great-gre great-great-granddaughter of edmund pettus. why she feels this is long overdue. more "velshi" after a quick break. a quick break. ask about xeljanz a pill for adults with moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis when methotrexate has not helped enough. xeljanz can reduce pain, swelling, and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections. before and during treatment, your doctor should check for infections like tb and do blood tes

donald trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort was released from prison because of the threat of coronavirus. donald trump issued a tweet today saying that of course american schools can reopen because schools have reopened in germany, denmark, norway and sweden, countries whose example donald trump doesn't usually follow. yesterday the united states reported a record high of 54,130 new cases of coronavirus. denmark had 10. norway had 11. sweden had 283. germany had 397. and as of tonight, the united states has reported a new record high of 58,238 cases. that means that as of tonight there have been 3,058,250 confirmed cases of coronavirus in this country and that as of tonight this country has suffered 132,873 deaths from coronavirus. willy garcia knows more about public schools than anyone named trump ever has or ever will. >> we see what happens when they let bars open prematurely and you saw those young adults in there in that nice life little bar and they went home and they infected everybody around them. this isn't a bar. we're talking about second graders. i had 39 sixt

but i expect that he'll use his pardon and commutation power on behalf of paul manafort.on behalf of michael flynn, if necessary. if that case moves forward, even though all of them have either been convicted or have pled guilty. to crimes related to the mueller investigation. so, you know, i think he sees -- he sees everything, including the pardon power as a political tool to be used on his own behalf and on behalf of his ally. >> does this move the needle? you heard the explanation that the president offered this morning to lay off on both obama and biden previous conduct, the mueller probe. they sort of preconditioned the gop fox base for that. aren't the people who are upset about this news already upset about the president? >> absolutely. i think those who are disinclined to vote for trump will find this one more reason not to vote for trump. and the trump base will buy his explanation for what he did. his problem is that the base isn't large enough to win. and everything he's doing lately seems to be almost designed to shrink himself to his irreducible core base. s

if you remember four years ago, the president was in very deep yogurt one paul manafort was at the helm brought in kellyanne conway and steve bannon thing sort of turned around. it's also interesting he is going for a more traditional establishment person in stepien who was going to lead the campaign. it also tells you that the unorthodox approach, and the solely digital, they feel that that isn't enough and they have to do something. that's always good when you can respond, but we will see, the pudding is quite some time for being set. that's where the proof will be. that's what they say, melissa. >> melissa: yes, they do say that a lot. leslie, i am familiar with the polls. i also know i personally have been polled twice recently. i am very popular when it comes to polling. [laughter] because i'm not affiliated with a party, i am married, i have three children, i think i am a woman of a certain age, so i am sort of the vote people are looking for. i have a blast when they call me, and none of the information. sometimes i'm 70 voted for de blasio but is thinking about trump, sometimes

act, cnn obtained a less redacted version of the report, noting that former trump campaign chair paul manafortormer deputy chair rick gates, and former trump attorney michael cohen, all told investigators that in july 2016 roger stone told donald trump and others that wikileaks founder julian assange told him that the website would soon begin publishing damaging documents. >> prosecutors accuse roger stone of lying to protect the president. >> roger stone and donald trump have been friends or sometimes fremimies for 40 years. he briefly worked on trump's 2016 presidential bid before he was either fired or quit, depending on which of these men you ask. they've had a very up-and-down relationship. they've always reconciled. >> stone was convicted by a federal jury on witness tampering, obstruction and lying to congress. the jury found stone guilty of lying during his testimony to the house intelligence committee in 2017 to conceal his role in the trump campaign's efforts to learn about the hacked dnc emails. on february 10th of this year, federal prosecutors submitted their sentencing recommenda

wish her well, is the same kind of turn of phrase that he used for people like roger stone and paul manafort and others who he later, you know, gave help to. but it seemed at the time was trying to send a signal to. and that's how i took it. that he wanted to use the opportunity to, you know, get it out into the ether that, you know, he's on her side. whatever that means, for whatever reason, that's what he wanted to do in that moment, episode to go what presidents normally do, which is say nothing. >> dana bash and sanjay gupta, thank you both very much for this conversation. >> so the coronavirus crisis in texas is escalating. it has gotten so bad, a judge tried to issue an emergency stay-at-home order, but the governor is blocking it. that judge is going to join us next. whether it's bribes to roll over. ...or an overdue makeover. get all your pet essentials right when you need them, with curbside pickup at petsmart. just order online, drive up, check-in, and pick up. tonight, try pure zzzs all night. unlike other sleep aids, our extended release melatonin helps you sleep longer. and long

paul manafort was convicted of, among other things, bank fraud.rms which they use to try to make something sound innocuous doesn't really carry the day when it comes to other defendants as well. >> all right, thank you so much. really appreciate it. >>> and as president trump rewards roger stone, he is at war with his own former attorney general jeff sessions, and sessions is firing back to a degree. stay with us. heumatoid arthriti. and take. it. on... ...with rinvoq. rinvoq a once-daily pill... ...can dramatically improve symptoms... rinvoq helps tame pain, stiffness, swelling. and for some... rinvoq can even significantly reduce ra fatigue. that's rinvoq relief. with ra, your overactive immune system attacks your joints. rinvoq regulates it to help stop the attack. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious infections and blood clots, sometimes fatal, have occurred... ...as have certain cancers, including lymphoma, and tears in the stomach or intestines, and changes in lab results. your doctor should moni

election is about donald trump, and he did have a lot of changes in 2016, including notably pushing paul manafortbefore he went to jail. >> dana: in addition to the pandemic in the economic crisis, now violence in cities across america. not all cities, but many. the crime rates spiking, and the national organization of police endorsed president trump yesterday. they set out the 2016 race. they endorse democrats in 2012, so is this a significant endorsement for president trump at this point in the campaign? >> i think it's a statement of the highly obvious right now. police, law enforcement overwhelmingly for donald trump. they didn't really need the union to put the punctuation mark on the end of the sentence, but these are working blue-collar americans who use tv democrats. they use to be the working soul of the democratic party along with union officials. now they are republicans. they are donald trump republicans. so it is significant because it shows how the electorate is continuing to fracture working-class people. college educated, increasingly joe biden. >> dana: jessica, i will give you t

i ever talk about a judge, but this is the judge that gave, i believe, solitary confinement to paul manafort. al capone didn't have solitary confinement. these are things that happened than if you look at president bush, president clinton, president obama. take a look at what they did. frankly, it is very unfair. roger other ones who admitted lying. they admitted they lied before congress. they leaked -- they leaked classified information which is something you just can't do and what are they doing? we'll see what happens. we're getting rave reviews for what i did. >> are you going to be able to hold the convention in jacksonville with all of this virus? president trump: we're going to do something that will be great. we think we're doing very well. we had some poll numbers a little while ago that were great. the same story, the polls we had in 2016. phony polls. it's the same story. it's a suppression polls that we had in 2016, phony polls. fake news, phony polls, same thing. and we're doing very well. we're doing well in georgia. we're doing well in texas. i read where i was one point up i

there is a pattern, a through-line with donald trump where you have paul manafort out of jail, michael of jail, or afforded jail, all thanks to donald trump and he's going back to work for a campaign which is going to, or already impeached president who tried to enlist the aid of a foreign government to be re-elected there are some parallels here and a pattern. >> you know, and howard, last night, hillary clinton implied that donald trump, that this is part of the cover-up, right, that there were crimes committed and the reason this commutation happened was to cover up for those crimes you interviewed rong stone very recently i'll read a little bit of this and stone says to you "i had 29 or 30 conversations with trump during the campaign period he knows i was under enormous pressure to turn on him. i would have eased my situation considerably it would have eased my situation considerably, but i didn't they wanted me to play judas i refused. what do you know about what roger stone did or didn't do >> well, what i know is that he told me that he had during the course of the campaign year

doesn't bring prosecutions unless there are real crimes that's why the justice department went after paul manafortwent after michael flynn who pled guilty to those things. and you have trump and barr engineering light sentences and commutations. i thought the most telling thing was representative swalwell's question, have you ever intervened in any other sentencing ever in your time as attorney general? answer, no. just for the president's pal, no one else. that's not justice, that's political favoritism. >> neil, thank you very much for joining us on this important night. really appreciate it. >>> and when we come back, senator cory booker will join us. we'll get his reaction to joe biden's handwritten notes about a certain possible vice pattial candidate. that's next. vice pattial candidate. that's next. ...not caused by a heart valve problem. so if there's a better treatment than warfarin, i want that too. eliquis. eliquis is proven to reduce stroke risk better than warfarin. plus has significantly less major bleeding than warfarin. eliquis is fda-approved and has both. what's next? reeling in

a washington post article about paul manafort's reless and a testimony from the principle council 33 for the record. >> without objection. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to start by thank you, attorney general barr, for joining us and for the work that the committed public servants in your department are doing to keep our country safe. but a few months ago in may you said you would take the president's position and urging the supreme court to overturn the affordable care act. when asked if you will still take that position, even if it means, and i quote, stripping millions of americans of their health care in the middle of a pandemic, you stated that the case would not be argued until october. and that the president expects to fix and replace obamacare with a better system. attorney general barr, let's be very, very clear. as public health officials and data have shown us, this pandemic is simply not going away. just last week it was reported that one hospital was planning to send coronavirus patients home to die. due to limited resources to treat them. so we're still facing an e

paul manafort was supposed to come in and install a more disciplined rigorous campaign and get thingsack on track and now he's doing it went good sepien. >> jake sherman, do house and senate republicans want to run on this same law and order message or do they want to run on a slightly different message having to do with fiscal issue? >> well, i haven't seen many senate republicans run on this law and order message. frankly there are very few house republicans, because they've been wiped out in the house, there are very few in competitive messages. cory gardner is running ads about an outdoor bill he did. they might do it in some places but the fiscal matters, the stimulus to the economy, i think that is what they're running on in the immediate. and who knows where this could go. they could split with him in a dramatic way if this goes south. but everyone republican in the senate is becoming more and more bear is about their prospects in 95 days that is remarkable and stunning to me. >> it does feel like it is every republican for themselves now. and and it begins with the guy running

but this was a judge that gave i believe solitary confinement to paul manafort. al capone didn't have solitary confinement. so these are things that happened and if you look at president bush, president clinton, president obama, take a look at what they did. frankly, it's a very unfair -- roger stone was treated very unfairly in my opinion and so were many others on this stied. in the meantime you have the other ones who are admitted lying -- they admitted they lied before congress, they leaked, they leaked classified information which is something you just can't do and what are they doing. so we'll see what happens. but no, we are getting rave reviews for what i did. okay. reporter: are you going to be able to hold the convention in jacksonville with all this virus spreading? >> we are going to see it built up a little bit but we are going to do something that will be great. we think we are doing very well. we had some poll numbers a little while ago that are great. you know, it's the same story. it's suppression polls that we had in 2016, phony polls. fake news