a trump voter, a strong trump supporter still, who is ready to vote for donald trump again is telling the president of the united states not to pardon paul manafort because she studied the evidence in the manafort case and decided paul manafort was guilty of everything, everything. forget what rudy giuliani says to the president about pardoning paul manafort. what paula duncan says is much, much more powerful. the paula duncans of this country are now donald trump's worst political nightmare. paula duncan was supposed to think it was all a witch hunt, that paul manafort didn't do anything wrong, that truth isn't truth. but the brainwashing didn't work. donald trump and rudy giuliani pumped all of those messages into the propaganda fog that was supposed to make trump supporters unable to see the truth. it didn't work. paula duncan took an oath to put aside any sympathies or biases that she might have and evaluate the evidence placed before her and that is exactly what she did. and so donald trump has to worry tonight how many paula duncans are there in his loyal base. of all those peop

trump, donald trump jr., ivanka trump, eric f. trump and the donald j. trump foundation. for more than a decade the donald j. trump foundation has operated in persistent violation of state and federal law. this pattern of illegal conduct by the foundation and its board members includes improper extensive political activity repeated and willful self-dealing transactions and failure to follow basic fike pu obligations or to implement form formalities required by law. alleging the trump foundation that before trump ran for president he used his foundation as a fake charitable enterprise that only benefited himself. once he started running for president he basically converted his foundation into a fake charitable foundation that didn't just benefit himself anymore and now a vehicle for making illegal campaign expenditures on behalf of his campaign for president. when she filed that lawsuit in june, a lot of the allegations she made against trump's foundation were familiar, particularly to anybody who followed david farenthold's pull listser price report in the west in which h

trump white house, steve bannon, steve miller and the incompetent trump cabinet. who can forget donald trump's homeland security secretary in her confirmation hearing lying under oath about norway? >> norway is a predominantly white country, isn't it? >> i actually do not know that, sir, but i imagine that is the case. >> her white immigrant ancestors are from skand knave yeah, and she actually pretended to know nothing, which is a level of incompetence that is hard to believe even from a trump secretary of homeland security. tonight omarosa stands accused of incompetence, not just by those who knew she didn't have the competence to work in the white house but by the president that hired her to work in the white house, the president that promised his supporters that he would not hire people like the person he has spent all day attacking. >> we've got the best people. >> i know the best people. >> we're going to use our best people. >> the best people. >> i know guys that are so good. >> it's hard to rank the importance of the lies candidate trump told, but the lie

trump. assistant united states attorney andrea griswald described two crimes she believes were committed by the president of the united states with the president's former lawyer, michael cohen. both crimes involved an illegal contribution to the trump presidential campaign and andrea took her place in history as the first federal prosecutor to describe a large, illegal presidential campaign donation made with criminal intent and done as she put it, at the, quote, suggestion of a candidate. when michael cohen got his turn in court to describe his crimes yesterday, he was even more specific when it came to the active participation. michael cohen described arran arranging two large campaign donations, quote, in coordination with and at the direction of a candidate for federal office. michael cohen said that he knew that that conduct was criminal when he was engaging in that conduct and he said that donald trump and he committed those crimes, quote, for the principal purpose of influencing the e

what's he got on trump?ot a lot up trump, when he went to new york city, he was $4 million in debt, and koutcout get a loan anywhere. and then a company called bay rock, that has russian ties and they started doing business with him and they brought him back to life. a guy that's $4 billion in debt is not going to be elected president. >> why did he say to lester holt that he didn't have any dealings with russia? >> it's just a lie. >> why does he say things that are provably not true. where is this all going to lead, a lifetime of dealings with russian mafia, bailing himself out, how is that going to turn out to be a bad decision on his part? >> i think he'll be forced out of office, or he'll be forced to do extra constitutional measures that are pretty horrifying. >> you're a serious writer and it's a serious book, i'm glad we finally got it on record here. the book is called "house of trump house of putin". go to the bookstore this weekend and get it. >>> two former advisors facing felony convictions. loo

, which is trump believes there's no investigation, trump goes into meeting with comey and asks comey to let go of an investigation that as far as trump is aware does not exist. >> and so john, this reporting if true, is yet another really clear block on the issue of is donald trump ever going to sit down for an interview with the special prosecutor. you and i are have been saying all along he's never going do it. but this is the kind of thing that shows you why it's been impossible, because the trump team has known for over a year that priebus and mcgahn say and have told the special prosecutor that they told donald trump that the fbi investigation was ongoing. and so how does donald trump handle that? in any kind of interchange with the special prosecutor. >> because just like the word collusion and the word conspiracy are not in robert mueller's remit and obstruction of justice is not in it neither is the word perjury. perjury's a big problem for donald trump not only because he's a liar but because he's already told so many lies that so many people on the inside know are lies, the

the problem is he can't take trump there because trump can't get arrested. this was no political master stroke today. it was just the president doing his routine to an adoring crowd of republican primary voters. i'm sure it made him feel good. i don't think it moved the need sgll a tie? i tie in the senate race in texas with ted cruz as of tonight? >> it's unbelievable. i mean, if the democrats knock off ted cruz this year, they will be dancing in the streets. it is not clear it is going to happen. texas has been a strongly republican state for a long time. cruz is, you know, pretty effective at the cut and thrust of politics and he has a lot at his disposal, including a lot of money to try to take him down. but this is the kind of thing that indicates there could be a true blue tsunami that goes beyond re-taking the house and goes down to the state legislators and is a transformative election. i don't think we're there yet. i think democrats have this habit of kind of going on miller time, you know, going, okay, we got this in the bag. you know. all the sig

this is trump's craziness.n laugh at it because it is so absurd and so contrary to the way our government operates. in another way it is very telling. we keep looking for the obvious. it is hiding in plain sight. trump thinks he can use the justice department as his personal lawyers to protect him. it comes out in these tweets. it comes out in the way he talks about mueller and the way he talks about jeff sessions. so, yes, it is very amusing because it is so crack pottish and so evidently trump, but there is a serious side to it, i think. >> and david, the president can fire the attorney general. he can fire the deputy attorney general. he can pretty much rip that investigation apart. >> yeah, sure. he can do that and of course that's what's troubling about having a president who is as cray as trump is. abnormal has become the new normal. every day we have not one, not two, but half a dozen things. you didn't list the fact he said he kind of likes kim jong-un and he'd like to meet with kim jong-un. we didn't t

where is donald trump on this? the extent of not caring about factsal defendant rights, and logic, do we really care about russian collusion? hillary clinton's campaign and the dnc, and he is the i paid -- fbi paid russians for information on donald trump. most of the media has always been liberal. ime new york times -- i am the new york times most loyal reader. made thosewould have first six paragraphs the first for a rough, but essentially i will get facts. you cannot turn to the gold standard of journalism and expect to get facts. we need to destroy the media and rebuild it among more ethical lines which is one thing we may get out of donald trump. host: if you destroy the media, what does that mean for you? media,we still have a just an ethical media. they would tell the truth. it would not be fake news. they would not be sending away citizens in a democracy that needs facts with a false story. host: on the conclusion that -- a delusional,e may be chemotherapy for the country. you vomit, your hair falls out, yo

they put no fire walls between the trump campaign, trump organization, trump charity or the family.onal enquirer. i don't know how it survives this or how the trump organization survives this. once you get in there there are supposed to be fire walls between all entities. there are supposed to be certain ways you interact with media. this is all mingled together in one big mess. the fact that the cfo has immunity and david pecker has immunity should tell you that they have something big to give up. >> i think what it gets to is with the cfo on the hook this business is largely built on some illegal behavior, money laundering, so on. what i continue to wonder is if some of what we are looking at now is almost a side show, the women, covering it up, even the conversations with russia. if there is anything i take away is it is trump is in close contact with his people. no way he didn't know about the conversations with russia. at the end of the day what he will protect over everything else is the money and the organization. i continue to think that is ultimately what will take him down

trump, not his father, owned the apartments. - that's right, all the way back in 1982, trump apparently got onto the very first "forbes" list by lying about his net worth and claiming that the stuff that his dad owned was actually his, which is a classic lie every 20-year-old would recognize. you know, it's like, "let's get out of here, girl. "i've got my own place... above my dad's garage." [laughter] now, trump lying to "forbes"-- 'cause he easily-- it could easily be seen as just someone trying to boost his ego. but it turns out that trump's lie may have gotten him a whole lot more than just some flattering press. - because donald never had an actual statement of his assets and his liabilities, he used the "forbes" 400 and this statement of inflated assets to borrow billions and billions of dollars, which he used to build atlantic city and overleverage himself. - you're saying he wanted to use the "forbes" list to fraudulently induce people to fund him in ways they otherwise would not? - that's correct. - okay, i don't know about you, but this is mind-blowing. trump lied to get onto

donald trump, jr.'16 meeting at trump tower with a russian lawyer. so let's bring in now cnn contributor michael d'antonio the author of "the truth about trump." good evening, sir. you wrote a great piece tonight in this title, to protect himself trump is willing to undermine his son. you say the president will do the unthinkable for most people, betray his son to protect his own hide? >> oh, i most definitely think he would. you know, think about being donald trump's son. it must be the most disorienting thing a person can go through. a father is supposed to provide a stable environment, to provide moral guidance, help form the character of a child. donald trump is a serial liar who's betrayed everyone in his life. he demands loyalty but gives none. he's entirely malformed morally. i don't think you could think of a worse parent for a child. this young man goes into adult life trying to please this man. and figure out what the right thi thing to do is. no wonder he exhibited such poor judgment by atten

trump foundation and to donald trump. it's a name not everybody knew about more than a few weeks ago after we heard the tape from michael cohen, but this guy has been with trump from the beginning. >> that's right. donald trump tebded to treat all points of his personal empire -- personal expenses, company, charity -- as one big pot of money and the person who oversaw all as one bit pot of money and wie weisselberg handled that. he would bring in checks individually for donald trump to sign. he didn't have a lot of executive responsibility, but he had a lot of administrative responsibilities, he handled the ins and outs of the money. if i was to pick one person besides donald trump sr. that was sort of integral to the operation of the trump organization, it would be allen weisselberg, it wouldn't be don or eric, it would be allen weisselberg. >> interesting. we're trying to get to the bottom of how valuable weisselberg is to investigators. given what you know about how the trump organization works -- and it's a little uno

whether you like '70s donald trump, lifestyles of the rich and famous donald trump, 8'80s donald trump them on a scale. of wrongdoing. let's just say everything is wrong. i'm just -- i'm just generalizing here. there is the scale, like donald trump would weigh the scale down and would be like a seesaw and hillary clinton would go flying off. i'm just wondering, is this just pure misogyny, people won't say it? >> people have hated hillary clinton. and responded extremely viscerally negatively from the minute she arrived on the political scene in 1992, long before anyone was suggesting he was corrupt. remember, back then it was the idea she wouldn't bake cookies -- >> she was standing by her man. remember that? >> right. she has been always as potential woman president and as a feminist a tremendous threat to the established order and coming on the heels of barack obama who represented a -- >> a tremendous threat. >> -- profound shift. the conversation, i remember going to the 20 16 republican convention and looking at the paraphernalia sold outside. i'm telling you it was near pornograp

in trump tower. it was the glitziest building in america, he comes in and buys five condos, paying all cash. this is the first time donald trump properties have been used to launder money for the russian mafia. >> his property is being used to launder russian mafia, that's not what cnn is reporting, it's what you're reporting. what proof of that do you have? >> absolutely. >> trump says he has no contacts with russia, i found 59 people who were in a meeting between trump and russia, i traced them over the years, i found not just hundreds of millions, perhaps billions of dollars in money laundering from the russian mafia. you had criminals living in trump towers and the fbi was chasing mobsters, they found that they weren't living in brooklyn, they were living in trump tower, this went on for more than 30 years, i found 59 people one of the key parts of this, one of the most important things i want people to understand. the russian mafia is a state actor. russia is often called a mafia state. ahead of

he's even worked with trump's father before he joined trump's organization. he -- when trump became the president, he put weisselberg in control of the company along with the two sons and his knowledge is not just at the trump organization. he's helped prepare donald trump's taxes and he's a treasurer of the trump found decision and the ties with donald trump are very deep, wolf. >> know about the specifics of the immunity deal? >> reporter: right, wolf. a source tells us that weisselberg was given immunity for the testimony. he went in and testified about several weeks ago. the questions were focused on michael cohen and the payments that surrounding those hush money payments to women and that weisselberg not called back to testify so it appears as though it's limited and of course we can't rule out that there could be other things or other areas that the prosecutors would want to talk to him about. >> you know, one other thing, kara. he might not be the only legal concern for the trump administration right now. talk about that. >> reporter: last night "the

let's be real, trump is trump. he was trump. he will be trump.'d feel at home. pretty at the awful. that's "hardball" for now. thanks for being with us. "all in" with chris hayes starts right now. >>> tonight on "all in." >> we have a good sense obviously of what mr. mcghan testified to i can figure it out. >> the president is worried he's got a rat in the white house. >> do you intend to communicate with the special counsel, mr. mcghan in. >> tonight the white house testimony to the mueller probe and the furious reaction from donald trump. then -- >> i always liked michael. >> the president's former fixer michael cohen nation potential criminal charges on bank fraud. >> he'll lie like crazy, he's lied all his life. >> the manafort jury back to

you have donald trump jr. now as a key surrogate for president trump ahead of these midterm elections, traveling around to different red states, trying to rally the president's base. he's someone who's inside, if not the white house, he's inside of the president's circle politically. he's an important force. and you see him going to laura ingraham, someone who has been very supportive of president trump and trying to explain his position, but at this point, what really matters is not what he says to a conservative commentator, what matters is what does robert mueller want to do in terms of prosecuting or not prosecuting. that's his choice, with regard to this meeting in 2016. >> all right, that's where it seems to lay with so many of the questions on this topic. we can talk about what we think, what the political world thinks, but ultimately, it matters what robert mueller thinks of it. robert costa, susan page, michael steele, daniel alonzo. >>> coming up, week two in the manafort trial begins as a key witnes

well, that significantly contradicts a written statement from trump on behalf of donald trump jr. about the purpose of that meeting which we were told was the adoption of russian childre children. >> when you look at a meeting that took place over a year ago, what rule or regulation? nobody has pointed to one. >> let's go to jonathan capeh t capehart, david jolly and joining me by phone, msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos and joyce vance. i'll get to the lawyers in a second. i want to give you a chance to react that donald trump has tweeted out a contradiction to his own previous statements about what that trump tower meeting was about. >> what we have here is another example of the president of the united states willfully lying. the other thing is he has a tendency to do two things. one, hide in plain sight so by saying i'm not worried about my son don jr., that means he's really worried about his son don jr. given the story in the "washington post" today. this only makes sense if you understand the president of the united states, that donald trump plays primarily in the court of

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trump saying good guy. nothing stopping trump.his used to be bad behavior when nixon went after charles manson and that was messing with the jury and the jury pool, and this is talking to a jury and a jury that is sitting this weekend. >> he is also projecting a bit. one of the things that scares him a bit is mueller might have his tax returns. and that is one thing that manafort is on trial for tax evasion and other things. i don't think he cares about manafort. i think he cares about how it reflects on him. i do think he's very concerned about where this investigation is going and where his tax returns will show up. >> the amen corner, will they back him if he is caught as a cheat? >> i don't know. i find it so hard for me to say. it's so disappointing these members are not doing their job, and they are not putting country first, and, you know, that's where president trump is successful. he made it about an individual, about brennan who has been talking badly about him and that's where unfortunately he is able to be successful i

out front, trump the money man. granted immunity in the michael cohen investigation according to a source familiar with the matter. he was someone very close with trump. some say like a family member and another source says allen knows where all the financial information is buried. listen to a man who worked for trump for years. >> he knows everything about donald, and in terms of the money trail, donald can be hurt, i believe a great deal by allen weisselberg. >> he knows every single financial transaction. he's responsible for creating the business system they had there. >> i do believe he got more and more involved as time went on, and donald trusted him. he was almost a family member. >> listen, you don't have to tear their world for it. donald trump wrote in his 2004 book "think like a billionaire" weisselberg is so top most banks would rather i negotiate the deal than him. a loyal employee and ultimate master at playing the parts of business. but will weisselberg remain loyal? his interview with investigators

this was typical trump.he also evidences he doesn't really understand what happened back then. >> how do you see your role? i mean, obviously you don't see yourself as a rat. >> well, what i did -- i tried to internally end the cover-up as the tapes would later show. and when i failed at that, i advised the president that i was going to hire a lawyer and i was going to go see the prosecutors and stop the cover-up. so they were very aware of the fact i was going to do that. in fact, their tapes were saying the smartest thing dean can do is go down and appear to cooperate with the prosecutors. he didn't realize i was going to tell the truth. >> that's the other thing is that i have seen a lot of historians on social media noting that it's unusual that president trump believes that you are the villain of the watergate story, at least based on that tweet. >> exactly. i didn't snitch. i advised them what i was going to do. i do that to encourage them to do likewise, we had to end the cover-up, it was going to be

or the trump organization. that would have had to have been disclosed. >> another part of the interview. i said, i followed up, and he -- it would be good for -- okay, this is not verbatim, it is notes. some things i can't divulge, attorney/client privilege, certain complications, we are unable to correct michael cohen. has information that we would be -- that would be of interest to mr. mueller. this is paraphrasing here, i won't call it a smoking gun. someone will have to characterize it, but he does have information that would be of interest and it pertains to a crime most people would call the fbi about. >> don, i think the big effort problem right now for donald trump is, that he has lost control. he's lost control over manafort, he's lost control over cohen. these two individuals now are going to be looking to do whatever they can to cut their own criminal sentences, to protect their families, and there's not a lot that donald trump is going to be able to do about it, and i will just tell you, though, if

trump: thank you.he women's unemployment rate is not the lowest ever recorded, it is only the lowest level and 65 years. i'm sorry. i'm sorry 65 years. but we think by the next report, we should have lowest in history. there -- of the veterans, i love the veterans, the unemployment rate. it reached its lowest level in nearly 20 years. almost 3.9 million americans have been lifted off food stamps. that means they are getting income, are working, living their life, getting jobs, they pay much more than what they can make any other way. that is some number. that is a big number. all for food stamps. our new workforce initiative will deliver job training to more than 4 million americans and it is growing. and even though it is 110 degrees in this crazy room, -- [cheering] pres. trump: if you can take it, i can take it. [cheering] pres. trump: in all fairness, to the hvac, engineers and contractors, this room was not designed quite for this crowd. and you people are hot. [cheering] pres. trump: if anybody w

trump: later on i knew. you have to understand, what he did, and they weren't taken out of campaign finance, that is the big thing. that is a much bigger thing. to they come out of the campaign? they came for me. amy: trump's comments came as he hinted at a possible pardon for paul manafort, who was convicted on eight criminal charges tuesday, quitting tax evasion am a bank fraud, campaign-finance violations. trump tweeted -- at the white house, press secretary sarah huckabee sanders repeatedly insisted trump had loss. the laws -- no >> i'm not going to get into the back-and-forth details. as the president has stated on numerous occasions, he did nothing wrong. there are no charges against them. just because michael cohen made a plea deal does not mean it that implicates the president on capitol hill, a number of key democratic senators are calling for a halt the nomination process for supreme court justice nominee brett kavanaugh until special counsel robert mueller completes his investigation. sit a minori

at this point, he is a trump guy, so trump is putting himself all in. the trump tweets.says if he tweets something, people go out and do it. and they might do it. >> between republicans, the idea that a trump tweet will drive a low intensity, low information voter who would vote republican if he were going to vote to the polls, that is not only untested and we have no reason to believe that he is different from any other president which is to say when the midterms come, going out to say vote for this guy to support me is something that doesn't work. >> it is untested. a lot of what we have seen in the cycle are the primaries. so a few special elections and the republicans have held except for one so we don't know. there is a lot of enthusiasm and this will abe big test. the other thing that i am interested in seeing as the results come in is we talk about the energy of the democratic base. the other half of the district, the other story here, i wish i was at the map to show folks this. but this jumped out at me, zanesville, trump won it by thi30 points. this is a distric

whether you like 70s donald trump, '80s donald trump. we're looking at it saying these people round you have done wrong. >> let's say you put them oen a scale. of wrong dining. let's say everything is wrong. donald trump would weigh the scale down and hillary clinton would go flying off. is this pure misogyny and people won't say it? >> people have hated hillary clinton and responded -- long before anyone was suggesting she was corrupt. it was the idea she didn't cookies. >> she was standing by her man. >> as a feminist and a tutenshal woman president a threat to the established order. and come canning on the heels of barack obama, that combination -- i remember go thing to 2016 convention and looking at the paraphernalia sold outside. near porpbographic sexism. that gave me an insight into what was really going on. >> we got to go? we got to go. i got to go. kwr go ahead. >> i'm in little rock, arkansas. i know everything about hillary clinton. people died in benghazi and that is a result indiana large part on inaction by hillary clinto

trump pizza adds, khan pepsy. trump three marriages, so did khan.lamabad, i should have stopped but the rhythm kept can me going. ( laughter ) before elected, khan was embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal and got through it, like trump. for some strange reason, billy bush got fired again. poor billy was just trying to start a new life! now it would be one thing if the two leaders were the same but what's mind blowing is they used the same casting director to find their supporters. >> donald trump's rowdy campaign rally is getting increasingly violent. >> his followers are very, very young but are known for being very rude and very disruptive. >> there are thousands of people inside just to camp a glimpse of donald trump. >> thousands of pakistanis are waiting for they are here. >> a rock star reception for donald trump. >> pulling his plane into an arizona rally. >> imman's flyover whips them into a frenzy. >> trevor: i love how people are impressed which someone in an aircraft, like the 1920s. look! he's up in the sky like a bird! hey, everybod

trump.says,, a basketball player way before his time, well before colin kaepernick, 20 years ago in 1996 he refused to stand before the national anthem. he received death threats. his house was burned down. >> oh, man. >> so some interesting cultural trolling by the former iranian president, or maybe they're trying out for a sports show. >> take a page out of the book of the president. >> mahmoud ahmadinejad is enjoying retirement. >> maybe it means he is coming out of retirement. thanks, cal. >>> still ahead, what we know about the explosion that took place while venezuela president maduro was speaking. >> a new announcement shows voter turnout is surging among the blue side. a check on those stories when we come back. the first person to survive alzheimer's disease is out there. and the alzheimer's association is going to make it happen by funding scientific breakthroughs, advancing public policy, and providing local support to those living with the disease and their caregivers. but we won

donald trump jr. eagerly soliciting what they call dirt on hillary clinton after they had clinton dirt to contribute to the trump campaign. the president's tweet yesterday said that the meeting, quote, went nowhere. the trump line of defense about the meeting was that the russians didn't hand over any dirt on hillary clinton. as we sit here tonight, we don't know if that's true. we don't know what happened in the meeting. we don't really know what happened after the meeting. we don't know whether the russians directly handed over dirt to the trump campaign about hillary clinton directly to donald trump jr. or to anyone else in the campaign. but there are three ways to violate federal election law on contributions from foreign nationals. the trump line of defense says the trump campaign did not actually receive any dirt on hillary clinton from the russians, and, so, there was no crime. they are now insisting that the meeting was legal because they did not receive any dirt on hillary clinton. and so if

trump: thank you.ow. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you, ohio. i love ohio. what a victory. remember these guys saying on television over and over again, you cannot to win? great stateet the of ohio. we got the great state of ohio. [cheering] pres. trump: remember they used to say that trump can't get it because it all goes through ohio? they did not know we would win by a lot. we won by a lot. [cheering] by a lot.p: we won i'm thrilled to be back. this is an incredible place. we have done well p we have really produced. last time, i told you what we are going to do. you have people coming back into our country. you have all these things happening. much easier now. we have the greatest economy we have ever had. we have the best numbers. we are setting records in every perspective and it is much easier for me to do this than it was when it was campaigning -- when i was campaigning. this is a much easier situation. [cheering] it is an incredible time for our country. america is respected again. a

swung to trump. the focus on this half swung to trump. the other half swung away. very interesting story about which group is more excited. >> you're allowed to go home for a change of clothe bus we have to have you back here tomorrow night. >> you got it. >>> coming up as we continue, president trump told ohio supporters there could be a red wave come november and he could destroy any gop politicians who refuse to support him. we'll talk about all of it when we come back. >>> i said troy, did you invite trump in here, the president? he said, no, i didn't. so i think donald trump decides >>> i said troy, did you invite trump in here, the president? he said, no, i didn't. so i think donald trump decides where he wants to go and i think they're firing up the base, but i have to tell you, at the same time he comes in here, i was with some women last night who said, hey, i'm not voting. and they're republicans. i'm not voting for the republicans. see, this is the problem the party has now. >> that of course is the sitting governor of ohio, john kasich this week on abc

the trump tower meeting. the cover up of the trump tower meeting. and now, yanking the director of the fbi, former director fbi's security clearance for just retribution. i've got to tell you, as a career prosecutor, i have handled countless conspiracy and obstruction of justice cases and i only wish i had evidence like this to support those prosecutions. i didn't. it is really dramatic and over the top. >> jennifer, i'm not a lawyer, but i am a student of trump. and i have watched him in his wily ways and he has a number of weapons. if he sees he is in trouble on one topic, he holds something out here. even if it embarrasses him. and there it is robbery in plain sight. i did it because i don't like him on the russian friend. he has accused me. approxima and also gets away from the face of omarosa. >> that is not a win in a court of law. he is deepening the problems. he is on television to a major newspaper just like he did with lester and confessing his corrupt intent. >> why does he do it? >> he can't help himself and can't get it through his head

kids, trump children, donald trump, eric trump, ivanka trump, what will happen with them? >> look, that june meeting in trump tower is dynamite, despite rudy giuliani who i referred to this morning as rudy clown saying well, they didn't know they were russians. of course they knew they were russians. they had the e-mail that said the russian government wants to help find evidence to help your father win the election. he goes -- and he says i love it, it's great, i think there was a crime there already. so i think then he covers up the crime. he cooks up with his father a false statement that it was about adoption. it wasn't about adoption at all. i think he's in the soup. and i think i know 1% or 10% of what's going on. so i think that the longer this goes on, the greater the exposure is going to be. the federal government is very good at this. >> leah, speaking of exposure, do you envision president trump, can you see president trump from his personality and psychology of person who would resign the office of president if he is, in fact, facing the fbi? >> absolutely not.

involvement at the direction of donald trump and frankly donald trump has come out since the plea deal and said yes he reimbursed michael cohen with personal funds why that matters is cohen and prosecutors and a federal judge all agreed this week that a crime had been committed and donald trump has now suggested he was part of that crime so the idea that he is today an unindicted coconspirator i think is a is an accurate description of the president and states you tweeted that trump is done. how do you mean i believe yes. i believe he is i think the validity of his presidency from here on out will always remain in question but i i actually think we may be seeing a bit of the unraveling of this presidency and what i mean by that is it will be hard for donald trump to escape culpability coming out of the cohen case at the same time under the moeller investigation this week we saw the man afford conviction which though not directly touching donald trump the actual conviction we know that manna for male timidly end up cooperating if he's offered the opportunity to do so by miller very impo

trump. >> for michael cohen, the campaign finance law conviction carries i think a five year prince sentence. is there a way for him to avoid any jail time whatsoever if he continues to give information and koomts on something else now? >> absolutely. his sentencing will be up to the judge in the documents that were filed yesterday. the government suggested that a sentence of approximately four years in prison for all the crimes would be appropriate. but one thing that federal judgings always reward is cooperation. if you agree to testify against others, if you make successfully, honestly other cases, you can get credit from the judge who sentences you. it's a tremendous incentive to cooperate and if michael cohen cooperates and it turns out to be truthful and effective, that could reduce his sentence. that's also true of paul manafort. paul manafort so far has shown no sign that he's cooperating, but he's now looking at the prospect of spending many years in prison, he's a 70-year-old man a

investigation of donald trump. in other words, david pecker and the "national enquirer" have flipped. >> this whole thing about flipping, they call it, i know all about flipping for that 30, 40 years i have been watching flippers. everything is woerndful and then they get ten years in jail and they flip on whoever the next highest one is or as high as you can go. it almost ought to be outlawed. >> i have had many friends involved in this stuff. it is called flipping and it ought to be illegal. >> he knows david pecker has flipped and he knows what david pecker knows about him. and last night at 1:10 a.m., the sleepless president tweeted this primal scream. no collusion-rigged witch hunt! there is the president of the united states, three hours after we first reported on this program that david pecker had flipped and the president is rage tweeting no collusion-rigged witch hunt. when the special prosecutor was closing in on richard nixon, he wandered the halls of the white house at all hours of the night. but he did

, coordinated by president trump then candidate trump to affect the election. the president's defenders have argued and again this is an odd defense but this guy's been paying off women to keep their mouths shut for a listening time, not just women, other people, too. not necessarily related to the presidential election. do they have an argument to make? >> they have to come up with something. john edwards made a similar argument having to do with my girlfriend, not campaign. but the timing and the circumstances are so different and the edwards case, it was months if not years removed and it was a current girlfriend. this was people he had affairs with allegedly ten years ago on the very doorstep of the election so the timing's very different and the actions mr. trump took to make the payments, through the attorney, through a corporation. prosecutors argue would be to disguise the nature of the transaction, all circumstantial evidence of wrongdoing or criminal intent. >> cohen said in court that trump directed limb him to quie women. why wouldn't they have that

trump and his son donald trump jr.nitially claimed the meeting was designed to discuss russian adoptions here in the united states. let's dig deeper with correspondents and analysts, gloria borger. why is the president admitting to the true purpose of the meeting? >> i think it is on his mind. you never know why donald trump is tweeting about anything, but i think he is probably worried about his son as dana bash is reporting, and he wants to sort of say look, everybody does it. everybody gets opposition research, this is no big deal, somebody comes in, wants to give you dirt on your opponent, so what. so what. everybody does it. so it has shifted from suddenly a meeting about russian adoptions and don't forget the president dictated that statement from air force one about this meeting to now being well, so, it is not a big deal. and i think that's the point he wants to get across to his supporters is look, democrats do it, republicans do it, and my son is not to blame. >> i have been told by some supposedly that know

that is what donald trump wants. he wants to give the sense that he needs voters to come out because he is engaged in the fights, whether or not they exist. >> taking a step back here, this is one of the moments and we had many in the trump presidency where an action or pronouncement of his shined a light on the bureaucratic procedure that we never paid attention to before. the former officials and the security clearances, i don't think anyone had given thought to it. what is the universe of folk who is are not in the administration at any time who have the clearances? what's the origin of that and the purpose of a former administration staffer still retaining that clearance? how did that come about? >> there are a lot of official who is want to be eligible for clearance and they take other jobs for which they need a security clearance. there are officials who are working on defense contracts and law enforcement and other areas where they need ongoing access to the information to do their jobs because they are doing

trump is as war against the political class. >> it is my film. "trump at war." showing that trump is at war with the class, the opposition party media, and basically, he is at economic war with china. when you look at this film, you see that president trump is a disruptor and innoivator, he is delivering- the promises he put forward to the american people. that he is not into just managing the decline of the country, he will try to turn it around. that is what the film is. it is a film focused on getting our base jacked up and out. if we don't get the base out on november 6th, we will have a a bad day at the polls, the invisible trump voter. >> what do you say to republicans who say, why take your help if you haven't backed winning candidates in the special elecs thus far? >> i think i did in the primary. the republican establishment. roy moore would have won that election, if mcmccolon and others didn't turn against him. a good feel how to turn people out. >> i have been involved in this, since the tea party, lection in 2010. we have a very good idea how to mak

>> so he was trump before trump was. he's hawkish on immigration.ld not to do something like of course he did it. not surprised. he ignores the political advice and a republican state and still probably win but he is a much more controversial figure even in conservative kansas and the democrats think it's a more chance to win this state over brown and fairly unpopular in kansas and i think makes a more winnable race for the democrats and still think kobach has the advantage. >> this is an obviously pattern with president trump. the party advised him stay out of the primary. and then he's involved in the florida governor's race. primary race. picked a congressman over the front-runner and in georgia endorsed kemp for governor and won. south carolina obviously against mark sanford and he lost the seat in the process. why do you think he does this? how frustrating is this for the establishment? >> i'll be honest. i don't think they're actually is a whole lot of evidence that he has been totally unconventional in this area. talking about a few where the