shortly thereafter and you ll be hearing the decision. but, we can t let astrotion citieaatrocities like we all witnessed and you can see that and it s horrible. we can t let that happen. bill: that s the president at the white house about an hour ago huddling with the nation s top military leaders. right now at the white house that meeting is underway. question is what to be done with the devastating suspected chemical weapons attack that has happened yet again apparently in syria. dozens said to have been suffocated many who sat inside their homes over the weekend. disturbing footage and reports still coming in about survivors struggling to breathe. some foaming at the mouth and exhibiting signs of paralysis. all this makes quite a first day on the job for the brand new national security advisor john bolton who just recently said that the international community has not done enough to deter assad. not done enough on president obama s red line on syria. a line that was crossed by
hour ago unloading for the cameras tonight after news that his long time lawyer was raided today by the fbi after a tip from the special counsel bob mueller. from more on how all this went down. chief intelligence correspondent catherine marriage trying to piece tonight the story tonight from washington. catherine, what do you have at this hour? thank you, bill, good evening, a source close to the trump legal team told fox news that the cohen raid was, quote: a big deal. very aggressive. and also an attempt in their words to squeeze the president. the source said the raids on cohen office, apartment, and temporary hotel accommodations probably seals the fate of the near term of the president using the term puts a fork in it seizure of attorney-client privilege will require a clear team what can be used by investigators what happened is out of bounds. this can be done by a magistrate or team of fbi agents. but for some context, given cohen has been cooperating the source said there is
eight to have him here. it s important to get out in front of the issue. the fact is he going to testify tomorrow and spend several hours answering questions is part of the accountability that we need to expect from him and his company. bill: i read a statement. he seems contrite. was what your inel pressure? it is. i think he gets it i think he really understands that they made mistakes and he has to own up to those and tell us what he is going to do to protect users data going forward. and what they re going to do to stop the harmful conduct that now they are trying to go back and deal with. these problems need to be address you had. bill: here is part of his statement. i started facebook, is he going to say. i run it, and i m responsible for what happens here. republican lawmakers don t like to regulate. are you seeing a case being made for this company? well, i mean, in terms of regulation, bill? bill: yes. well, look. i think that we re not
bill: when we talk about impeachment proceedings that s all it is proceedings. pick any one in ten if you don t like this president to go after. i want to clear on that. that s right. bill: i think things changed today a little bit in the state of florida. rick scott is going to run for senate seat. popular governor. won two statewide races. a thick wallet. take on a pretty popular democrat in bill nelson. this is going to be watched, chris, as one of the marquee matchups. how do you see it play out? what is your view how competitive this became today. a person with high statewide name recognition plus a big fat wallet that he has been more than willing in the past to dump into competitive races before. so this automatically moves this race into a top tier contender where we are going to have to watch it very closely. what it means in a larger sense though is that for democrats, they are already dealing with the worst map in the senate in generations. it s tough for them becaus
we don t know who the judge is, to invade the attorney-client privilege. we are asking for a search warrant to invade the office of michael cohen whose principle client is the president of the united states whatever they told the judge was sufficient to judge. not bob mueller s team in washington. the judge signed the search warrant. there were apparently four search warrants. and the raids occurred early this morning and throughout the day. bill: couple things here. this was day break earlier today? yes. bill: there was a fire on the 50th floor of trump tower saturday night. cohen s office is on the 26th floor of trump tower. right. will bill these men were hand in glove for a long time on a lot of things. yes. bill: trump was his only client. yes. apparently michael cohen has one two offices one across the street where we are rockefeller center and one on the 26th floor of trump tower where he did the legal