Implicating the President

The Daily

The New York Times

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🗓️ 22 August 2018

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Michael Cohen, President Trump’s former personal lawyer, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to campaign finance violations — and said Mr. Trump himself had ordered the crimes. Minutes later, Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chairman, was convicted of financial fraud in the first trial resulting from the special counsel’s investigation. Guest: Joseph Kahn, the managing editor of The New York Times. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:00.0	From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbarale.
0:02.4	This is The Daily.
0:08.9	Today, the president's personal lawyer
0:12.1	pleads guilty to campaign finance violations
0:15.3	and says Donald Trump himself ordered the crimes.
0:19.8	Two minutes later, the president's campaign chair
0:23.7	is found guilty of financial fraud
0:26.4	in the Mueller investigation.
0:32.4	It's Wednesday, August 22.
0:39.6	Jocon, we were going to do part two
0:43.4	in our series on family separations for today's show.
0:46.4	That was our plan.
0:47.9	You're the managing editor of the Times.
0:49.9	You're kind of all of our bosses here.
0:52.9	Tell us why we can't or maybe shouldn't do that.
0:57.8	Well, it happens to be likely the most disruptive day
1:02.8	in the Trump presidency so far.
1:05.4	After months and months of potential possible threats,
1:11.3	he has his first direct legal threat
1:14.6	from one of his own very close aides
1:18.6	and a legal conviction of his former campaign manager
1:21.3	coming within two minutes of each other in the afternoon.
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