Theres no way to unring the bell in our view. Blanche also accused the prosecution of purposely trying to embarrass trump. And trying to enflame the jury following a conversation between the prosecution and Stormy Daniels. Her testimony has now been different after the lunch break. Shorter answers. Less narrative. Lets get right to it. Back with us, nbc news correspondent, Vaughn Hillyard and joining us for the hour, former fbi General Counsel and nyu law professor, andrew weissman, adam pollack and amy parnes. Okay, vaughn, catch us up on whats going inside right this very second. Reporter theyve been going back and forth over that period of time between august of, October Of 2016 when daniels entered into that 130,000 agreement to keep her story silent with cohen. She believed he was a party up until March Of 2018 when she appeared on 60 minutes and publicly detailed the encounter in 2006. It was not until the Wall Street Journal story by the Wall Street Journal in January Of 2018 in
substantially from his and that he wants to make sure that his perspective gets represented. you know, this is a democracy. you can t fault someone for putting their hat in the ring. and i believe that mike has a lot to add. he s done a lot for the country over the last number of years. do you think that he s right that perhaps elizabeth warren and bernie sanders, some of their economic models, are too far from the mainstream? in your opinion, where does andrew yang sit in comparison to those? well, i think that we need to have 21st century solutions for 21st century problems, not solutions that have not worked in the past. unfortunately, some of the candidates in the field seem like they re reaching backwards for solutions to today s problems and they don t seem to have a sharp understanding of how technology is transforming our way of life and particularly the decimation of millions of manufacturing jobs in the midwest that led to donald trump s victory in 2016.
it is about the truth, the constitution. we will do so in a way that brings people together that is healing rather than dividing. reporter: republican standing firmly behind donald trump, not a single gop member backing the resolution. not only did every single republican reject these soviet style impeachment process but we were even joined by democrats who couldn t stand anymore. reporter: two democrats got the are, colin peterson, both representing districts from 2016. andrew explain his load in a statement, quote, without bipartisan support i believe this inquiry will further divide the country carrying it apart at the seams and ultimately fail in the senate. the white house also issued a statement saying the president has done nothing wrong and democrats know it. nancy pelosi, the democrats unhinged of session with his
against joe biden, sanders and warren. i think it is worth noting first off that these polls are not like it is the network saying these are the results. polls are contracted out. nbc does that, fox does that. other networks do that. it is important to know. it just goes to show what president trump expects from fox news, which is unwavering support. if he doesn t get that, he lashes out like he did over the weekend here as he was coming back here to washington. what i would be more interested in seeing is these head-to-head matchups in the key midwestern states like wisconsin, michigan, pennsylvania. those states that were critical to president trump s win in 2016. andrew, we opened the show with this, the administration is going out on the offensive
rule on those lies today. more details of manafort s meeting with the russians during the summer of 2016. andrew weissman says the meeting goes quote, very much to the heart of what the special counsel s office is investigating. the washington post reports manafort and russian it could be manafort handing off internal data. all three men left through separate doors. joining me now our reporter, tom winter and rosalind. in the words of the special counsel s office, this goes to