Huge news impacting the Trump administration and the Mueller investigation as two of the President’s men went down in a single day.  First, Ginger Gibson, political reporter for Reuters, joins us for the news that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been found guilty on 8 of 18 charges of fraud and what the bigger picture is for the Mueller investigation.

Next, President Trump’s longtime personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, has plead guilty to 8 counts of tax and bank fraud, and also campaign finance violations. Daniel Lippman, reporter for Politico joins us for more, including the news that Cohen said that at the direction of Trump, he arranged to make hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal.

Finally, another update in the case against the Golden State Killer.  We now know where he will be tried in court, Sacramento. The district attorneys from the 6 counties in CA where Joseph James DeAngelo committed his crimes agreed to coordinate and prosecute him in California’s capitol. Sam Stanton, reporter for the Sacramento Bee joins us for the latest including 13 new charges laid out against the Golden State Killer.

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