i have been here for every supreme court nominee since john paul stevens. them, voted for most of republican, democratic nominees. including the chief justice. the reason i am most concerned about it is that there are questions about whether judge kavanaugh was truthful you last time he testified. we now know he provided a misleading account of his work at the bush white house. he gave that account undergrowth. under oath. the only way we're going to know the whole truth is with a full record. we rightly demanded that from justice kagan, sotomayor, and the chair of the committee by the time i joined him on that. it is also what the american people rightly deserve from judge kavanaugh. there is still time to get this right. it may mean a consideration that judge kavanaugh does not occur in september. maybe a few weeks later but no need to rush. no extraordinary circumstances here that preclude the senate. from actually doing its job. doing what they are sworn to do, paid to do, elected to do, and what the american people expect us to do. if the senate is to

the first one was john paul stevens, and it was president ford. and i voted on every current member of our nation's highest court. when i was in vermont over the weekend, i was thinking back over this, and i don't think i've ever seen so much as stake with a single seat as with the current nomination of judge kavanaugh. now, one thing we can all agree upon, republicans and democrats, like many supreme court nominees before him, judge kavanaugh has impressive academic credentials and judicial experience, but unlike most of his predecessors, judge kavanaugh also has a lengthy, partisan career. prior to his time on the bench, judge kavanaugh was a political operative engaged in some of the most divisive fights in our nation's recent history, including kenneth starr's investigation of president clinton, including bush i's gore, and five contentious years has a senior official in president george w. bush's administration. so it's really no surprise that judge kavanaugh has quite a paper trail. actually, over one million pages. his lengthy, controversia

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and learned that a banker that gave questionable loans to paul manafort was angling for a job in the trump administration, this banker of steven caulk and he, manafort then forwarded the requests. we have the e-mail of the i don't believe that is this banker who again gave paul manafort these loans in the order of preference, the jobs he wanted there. this took three months after manafort left the campaign. what does that tell you about manafort's role in the come pain? does this look like an unacceptable quid pro quo in your view? >> well, it certainly raises major questions. we know the manafort trial rested so that case is now going to the jury. we know there's an active investigation by mr. mueller. these raise very serious questions as to whether there were any laws broken during these exchanges. >> senator ben cardin, thank you for joining us tonight. >> thank you. >>> coming up next, breaking news as president trump hurls nasty insults at former reality star and former white house aide omarosa, the white house says it cannot guarantee that no recording exists of the president using a racial slur. >>> paul manafort tell

to paul manafort from steven calk. date november 15, right after the election. subject. stephen m.k. will you please advise what changes is that improvements should i make. my goal is to ensure you or my designated prosper, huh? has all the information they need to have me successfully chosen by the president-elect. my designated prosper. i look forward to your response. he then taxes to that e-mail what he says are his qualifications to be the next secretary of the army including his passion, also his loyalty to donald trump. he then attaches his resume in a nice professional head shot. then look at the last page. perspective roles in rank order. secretary of the earl. deputy secretary of the treasure riflt secretary of commerce, secretary of hud, deputy secretary of defense, undersecretary of the treasury for housing. do not call the man inflexible. he also took liberty of listing out his preferred ambassadorship that's the none of those cabinet secretary jobs worked out. first he would like to be ambassador to the united kingdom, france, germany, italy, spain, japan, ireland, au

i've been here for every supreme court nomination since john paul stevens. i voted for a lot of republicans and democrats on the supreme court. for 20 years i served as a chairman or ranking member of the senate judiciary committee. those 44 years -- in those 44 years, i can tell you frankly that the vetting of judge kavanaugh is the most incomplete, most partisan, and least transparent for any supreme court nominee of either democratic or republican president i've ever seen. it's not even close. 44 years -- i take the experience i've had here with democrats and republicans as president. i have never seen such incomplete partisan or the least transparent vetting. yesterday i met with judge kavanaugh. a very pleasant man. i had the opportunity to ask him about many issues, including his work in the bush white house. and following our meeting, i believe even more strongly the documents he authored or contributed to during his three years as the white house staff secretary should be released and made public now. what he wrote is far more important than what his

convict on was the one out of the federal savings bank out of chicago involving steven calc, the one in discussions with paul secretary of the treasury or secretary of the army. one theory there is i wonder if they didn't consider that more of an inside job because steven calk was involved and that's solely in the hands of paul manafort. hard to read what's going on. and again, it could be just one juror who was holding out on those. but nonetheless, paul manafort was convicted of eight felonies and i would consider it a significant victory for the special counsel. >> do you expect on the ten counts on which there was a hung jury that the prosecution will try to bring those charges against manafort again? will they go back and try again with a different jury? >> i don't know. but i would suspect not. i think they won significant convictions today with the eight. the sentence is likely to be significant with just those convictions. and the judge is permitted to impose a sentence that includes what's known as relevant conduct under the sentencing guidelines. so if he finds by a preponderance of the evidence, a

about paul manafort's time at the trump campaign at all until today when they called upon dennis raco who used to be a senior v.p. at the federal savings bank testified that his boss there stevenock who had expressed an interest in politics spoke to manafort and then a day later helped figure out a way for his bank to lend paul manafort $16 million raico the witness said he had never seen a loan approved that fast. a few months later paul manafort emailed rick gates suggesting that steven cock, who helped out with that big loan, should be considered as secretary of the army. that's according to testimony that gates gave earlier in the week. he never did get nominated but deserve on a trump campaign economic counts. today's proceedings started five hours late. second day in a row the judge received a most from the mueller team complaining about him. this time about a thursday comment where the judge suggested the mueller team should stop asking about loans paul manafort had been denied the special counsel's office wrote in the motion quote the court's suggestion, however, that the government was unnecessarily spending time on a loan that manafort did not receive undermines the

paul manafort was a trump chairman? >> we weren't privy to the questioning of jurors but the idea is they aren't supposed to have preconceived notions. they know now and stevenchicago banker, paul manafort is accused of defrauding his bank. there's a question why he was recommending this guy for a job who had loaned him $16 million. that was not part of his testimony but it's in court documents and it may come up at a later point in the trial. >> very interesting. ken dilanyan. thanks very much. >> content from spreader and alex jones who argued 9/11 was an inside job has been removed from a number of prominent outlets including facebook, i tunes and spotify and youtube. accused of jones of violating hate speech and a fraud. few reasonable people would be upset to see him go. but in an age where extremism and outlandish conspiracy theories flourish online, some prominent voices are wondering where to draw the line between free expression and censorship. with me now, will sumert, tech and internet reporter for the daily beast. will, this goes beyond alex jones being somebody that's banned. this is about -- there's qanon theorists who are calling hollywood cel

gates also testified today that two weeks after donald trump's election, paul manafort recommended that his banker steven call become secretary of the army. caulk allegedly loaned manafort money under false details. gates said how broke manafort was when he joined the trump team. manafort's consulting firm had no clients then and that they were at the time trying to secure another political consulting contract in the ukraine, but had not yet been able to. in a 2015 email exchange, manafort was clearly frustrated. wtf manafort wrote to gates. how could i be blindsided like this, manafort said? this after learning that taxes he was due to pay were much higher than he had anticipated. gates testified that manafort made more than $5 million between 2011 and 2012 doing consulting work for ukrainian billionaire. gates went into detail about how shell companies were used to move money into hidden accounts in cyprus. in one instance according to gates, a payment supported lobbying in the united states. gates state that had manafort reported some of the payments to u.s. tax officials as loans, though they were, i

the mueller team didn't mention this, but we know that steven come has drawn interest from them because paul manafort got a loan from mr. cox's bank. cox was later on an economic advisory counsel during the course of the campaign but was never offered the position of secretary of the army. and at the time of this exchange, manafort was not in a position to off him that job. >>. >> shepard: you mention that loan. from what i remember of it, that was a big loan compared to the assets on hand at that bank. it was than enormous percentage, out of the order, right? >> right. and a lot of the trial has focused on loans out of the order. just when the mueller team started to bring this person up, steven cox, the judge interrupted them and said wait a second, why are you bringing this person up, do they have anything to do with the bigger picture, with giving loans to mr. manafort and the mumer team said yes. we expect more detail. >> shepard: it's my understanding there was testimony about a time when paul manafort essentially ran out of money. >> he did. they're saying in 2014, when his former top

they gave a $16 million loan to paul manafort and their boss at the time was steven call k. his name might be familiar because democrats in the house have been looking into whether or not paul manafort was trying to exchange a quid pro quo for that loan in exchange for making calk secretary of the army. so looking into that loan, and the potential quid pro quo. we just heard a little bit about that earlier in the week. it's been a dangling thing we haven't got a lot of answers to yet. i think the jury will want to hear more about that. as we move forward and tie up loose ends on the financial crimes of paul manafort. >> you've gotten your work cut out for you today. a former u.s. attorney who has appeared before judge ellis in the past. chuck, we talked about this earlier in the week. but things have gotten more heated between the judge and the prosecution. so much so that he had to apologize for what he has said. what's your take on all this? >> deeply unfortunate, stephanie. look, there's a middle path here. when you're in trial, you're stressed, i you're tired, people make

thing that came up, and this is a piece of evidence of the e-mails between paul manafort and jared kushner requesting that steven caulk be named secretary of the army if donald trump were to win. these are the e-mails and the e-mail from kushner to manafort saying "on it" after he had requested him to be the secretary of the army and quid pro quo and could kushner be in trouble? >> what is important about the e-mails is that it is taking the defense of the talk between, that manafort was talking smoke and promising something that he couldn't deliver. but we know that he took it to the inner sanctum of the campaign. so he took this ludicrous request in lieu of his $16 million bank loan. >> and he is the man who gave him the $16 million bank loan when paul manafort did not have the money to justify that sort of loan or income to justify that sort of loan. thank you for joining us. we appreciate it, and keep us updated an break in if you find any news. >>> next up, next tuesday, another round of primaries and steve kornacki is come up with the races to watch, and also that white house press briefing. don't go anywh

paul manafort was in charge of the trump campaign. this witness just testified that he knew his boss, ceo steven kopp was interested in politics. ntually he participates in a meeting with paul manafort. expresses he would be interested in help serve the trump campaign. the witnesses said the day after he expressed that manafort. the bank that he ran approved a 16-million-dollar loan for paul manafort. the witness says he has never seen a lone get loan get d that fast. manafort emailed this witness dennis raco asking for his boss' resume that is notable. rick gates testified that paul manafort once emailed him during the trump transition to try to get this ceo considered as a nominee knee for secretary of the army. that never happened. but he did previously serve on economic advisory council to the trump campaign. t.s. ellis did not do what the mueller team wanted to today was tell the jury maybe he was too hard on the government's lawyers yesterday when he chastised them for talking about loans paul manafort didn't get instead of loans did he get. the government filed a motion. the court's suggestion, however, that the governmen

obviously there's no relation to paul manafort, michael cohen, an d steven mnuchin negotiating the trade have a situation now where republicans are trying to get the president to act tougher on situations like russian sanctions, and you also have a situation now where legislation, there are uneasy republicans who want to rein in the president's negotiating power on trade policy. political capital, political capital, political capital. the president is going to have to exert a lot of political capital in order to defend himself domestically on this issue of michael cohen and paul manafort, and it is political capital they are not going to be able to expand on something like trade talks, selling it to the american. yvonne: always great to have you. thanks for staying up. kevin cirilli, chief washington correspondent. kevin: this is why we do it. [laughter] yvonne: this is what we are watching, out of west virginia right now, the president speaking about trade. it seems like he is exerting that political capital when it comes to trade policy, the president saying trade deals take time, but

quote, former trump campaign chairman paul manafort's name has been dragged into a high dollar divorce case. the divorce case involved chicago banker steven calk. indeed, we on this show later obtained these court documents from that divorce case. i think these have never been shown on tv before. these documents show that as part of the divorce proceedings involving this bank's ceo, his wife's attorneys specifically subpoenaed, quote, the entire loan file for any and all loans made to paul manafort or any third party on his behalf. the wife's attorneys updated subpoena to demand evidence referencing the source of funds use to fund any and all loans made to paul manafort, summer breeze llc or any agent or third party on his behalf. why are they showing up in the divorce filings? next piece of the puzzle came when the judge unsealed names. two of the five witnesses granted immunity in exchange for the testimony turned out to be employees of the same little bank in smik made these loans. why did they need immunity? so you see all of these pieces of the puzzle falling into place over the past, more than a year now. today in court they finally

steven caulk. it is almost as if the defense was starting to lay the foundation for an argument that paul manafort in some ways is so dirty that the real reason that he got this loan was not because he committed bank fraud, but because he offered to do a personal favor for the ceo by trying to get him an administration job, and that for them to basically set up the argument to say, hey, this might be a bad guy and he might are have done a bad thing to get this loan, but it is not the bad thing that is charged in this indictment, and so you have to rule or say that you have to vote not guilty. >> chris, i am holding this e-mail in my hand, and where this bank ceo talks about the job titles he would like such as secretary of the ar amy, treasury and ambassadorships. uk, france, germany, big allies of ours. talk about the nexus between the trump campaign and the manafort case. >> this is one of the most interesting parts of the trial. this is one of the few places that the trial overlaps with politics and the trump campaign. most of the charges have nothing to do with the campaign or paul manafort's

what they're saying is that steven caulk certainly wanted to get a job in the trump administration and went in fully informed about giving paulve of any false information that manafort supplied. the problem with that argument the prosecution contends is, look, this is a guy, quite frankly, who had a lot of problems. and this is a guy also who signed a document -- i'm talking about manafort now. signed a document like any other loan document you see that indicates, if you provide false information, you could go to jail. the other piece, of course, jared kushner, that's simple, kate, on november 30 of last year, after the campaign was over, manafort wrote him an e-mail suggesting steven caulk for secretary of the army. jared kushner wrote back on it, no indication at all that jared kushner knew anything about bank fraud, conspiracy, loans or anything else. back to you. >> joe, thanks so much. >>> joining me now, defense attorney and former federal prosecutor shan chen. getting word that the manafort trial is now going to be resuming. the sealed hearing is over. people are starting to file back into the courtroom. i'm seeing thi

steven caulk at numerous dinners. there was a relationship built here that was just not about numbers. that's underscoring the financial piece and the piece of paulnafort character that the prosecution wants to bring. >> dan, final thought to you. when do you think we'll hear closing arguments? >> i think we'll hear closing arguments tomorrow. i think this is going to wrap up today on the government's end and i don't think the defense will have much of a long case and we should get to the closing arguments tomorrow. >> thank you to both of you. julia ainsley and daniel goldman for watching it all closely and helping us understand, appreciate it. >> we'll have much more ahead. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msnbc. xeljanz xr is a once-daily pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well enough it can reduce pain, swelling and further joint damage, even without methotrexate. xeljanz xr can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections, lymphoma and other cancers have happened. don't start xeljanz xr if you have an infection. tears in the st

paul is in moscow right now and has just invited russian lawmakers to washington. what is going on there? and the russian government giving a formal diplomatic role to former action star steveny he is expected to do. what will you discover with a lens made by essilor? sharper vision, without limits. days that go from sun up to sun down. a whole world in all its beauty. three innovative technologies for our ultimate in vision, clarity, and protection. together in a single lens. essilor ultimate lens package. purchase the essilor ultimate lens package and get a second pair of qualifying lenses free. essilor. better sight. better life. >>> air force one had an unexpected visitor over the weekend. and the appearance has a lot of people paying attention, playing the guessing game. on saturday former white house communications director hope hicks was spotted boarding air force one as the president held a rally in ohio. hicks stepped down from her white house role in february, one day after she testified before the house intelligence committee and told those lawmakers that she had told white lies, remember, that was her comment, white lies on the job. with me now, evan mcmullen, fo

steven colbert needed a lesson on the economy. we could all use one so last night he went on a wild ride with nobel prize winning economist paul krugman >> no, never. >> this is the first time ever? you're going to love it. here's the big question for you. why do you think that in times of recession the government should favor stimulus over austerity? >> what's happening in recession is that everybody -- >> new york times columnist try to explain the ups and downs of global macro economics while holding on for dear life. >> look at him now. >> still kwiedquite lucid if terrified. >> there's ways to make discussions about the economy exciting. >> i think he was a good sport. >> yeah. >> welcome back to cbs this morning. it's time to see headlines from around the globe. >> they're warning parents from using plastic containers. they believe they can cause hormonal problems for humans. they especially warn against microwaving food in microwav abe containers. >> a miracle poodle was found alive hiding in an outdoor oven after the deadliest wildfire in. amid the ruins rescuers found a 4-year-old poodle cowering in an oven. he was there for

steven miller, they are outside protesting at his apartment this is getting closer and closerrer to somebody getting hurt. steve scalise shot. >> rand paulvictors and show up and shoot for and allow radicals regain control of congress. we are the democrats denouncing this. ainsley: how did they know you were in that restaurant. >> they had four people that were sitting tables down from us that had antifa decals on their bag. they recognized us. they recognize us no. big deal. we didn't think they would send out a signal to come harass us. it doesn't matter what they do. they harass us on the streets. this is not going to change the effect of this administration. i said it many times before on this couch. we saw the rasmussen poll last week. black support for donald trump has doubled since this time last year. the reason is because people are starting to recognize the left, the democrats they are the party of hate. brian: there is something about you articulating your message as a young fraternal woman that really scares the left. >> i have been tremendously effective. i have been showing the truth and tell the truth and telling them abou

convicted donald trump's former campaign chairman paul manafort of bank and tax fraud — prior to his work for the president. for more analysis on this now, steveno him are now guilty of crimes, and one of them, his personal lawyer, as you have put it, has implicated the president in the commission of that crime. if donald trump were not president, he would be indicted tomorrow. but generally, sitting president are not indicted. the point is, these are campaign finance issues. this is not the russian issue, which i think it matters more to americans, the question of collusion or conspiracy with the russian government. trump presents himself obviously as the victim of the washington swamp, the elites, the fbi, robert mueller, all the clilntonites and everyone who didn't want him to be president, and he is pushing that line. that is going to be much more awkward for him, particularly as the mid—term elections come in november, if the republicans suffer badly. the presidency will have a big hole in it there's no about that. but in the president'sview, this is a witch—hunt. he says there is no evidence of collusion with the russians, so how does thi

paul manafort, hide millions of dollars from the irs in offshore accounts and that months after manafort left the trump campaign, he reached out to gates who stayed on seeking an administration job for stevenalk that allegedly loaned manafort millions based on false information. the defense tried to paint gates as an unreliable witness who would say anything for a lighter sentence after pleading guilty to lying to the feds. the defense asks, after all the lies you've told, do you expect this jury to believe you? gates responded, i do. adding, i'm here to tell the truth, i'm here to take responsibility. under cross-examination gates admitted to an affair with a mistress in london using money embezzled from manafort and the defense asked if there's another rick gates, a secret rick gates in london. gates said his wife was aware of the affair. manafort who was gates' boss and mentor for years has pled not guilty to all charges including bank fraud and lying to the irs, alleged financial crimes unrelated to manafort's work for the trump campaign. gates is expected back on the witness stand today for another few hours of cross-examination. after that the government will get a chance to redirect

i could hear paul stevens the air marshals know this is utter horse in late may an air marshal complained to colleagues about having just surveilled a working southwest airlines flight attendant as part of a quiet skies mission subject wearing too much make up he's clearly hiding something all right so subject passing out cans of liquid to passengers could be toxic fluid subject stayed on flight for multiple trips from back and forth from chicago to new york and i thought suspicious i don't know what is subject seems to concerned about whether people's feet are in feet or in the aisles so you know one could say it borders on obsessive compulsive tendencies take her down don't go down . these with guns who trained how to shoot things in a plane like this this is a real image of the trip it's completely unrealistic this is the fraud that the mannequin would be currently screaming god i got our feet by step. and secondly you look at that leg room are you kidding ok. well you know this. is the reserve for the queen of england mother because. i mean the u.k. to get your gun out when your knees