decade. why not have a thorough investigation instead of just the two of them he said/she said? it doesn t matter. it does not matter what everyone else has to say. this is what happened, though, with clarence thomas and anita hill. the fbi investigated. it took three days. done. why not now? this is not the same. this is a high school kid. there s no anita hill story. does something that allegedly happened some 30-plus years ago matter today? you can t judge the character of a man based on what he did at 17. and i would hate to think that 30, 40 years later somebody s going to destroy your life because someone at some party you it s not right. but maybe you touched somebody the way you re not supposed to and who brought the alcohol for these kids? as women, though, do you have some sympathy for her for what she s going through? no, i have no sympathy. and perhaps at that moment she liked him and maybe he didn t pay attention to her afterwards and he went out wi
they have to choreograph these things, as you know, down to the minute or else, you know, everything can go awry. and clearly, in telling her story it would seem to me, reading between the lines on manu s reporting here, is that she wants to be able to tell her story as she recollects it and tell everything about it and tell how it has affected your her life. and so you know, usually in congressional hearings there are time limits about testimony. and i think this is one of the things she and her advisers have said. if she s going to do this and she s going to appear before congress and the world, she wants to be able to tell it all. david, we re learning also, the washington post is reporting that thursday is a potential date. that seems to be a fair compromise. it s good for senator grassley for moving in that direction.
story i did several months ago. president trump went out of his way to treat michael cohen like, quote unquote, garbage. now, trump is not exactly easy on anyone, as we all know from our reporting. but he could be particularly tough with cohen. trump s allies and current advisers would say that s because cohen had made some errors and made some mistakes that the president was unhappy with, then candidate trump and before that businessman trump was unhappy with. but he was very tough on him. unfortunately, trump has this sort of one-way loyalty that he exhibits with his aides. he expects it and he often doesn t give it in return. i think you are going to see potentially some of that playing out in cooperation with investigators. maggie haberman, appreciate it. thanks very much. let s get some information from cnn senior legal analyst preet bharara. before being fired by donald trump he served as u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york where michael cohen took his guilty pl
care about that? i m not saying they don t care. i say i think they care more about other things. number one, to say he surrounded himself with convicted criminals, i mean, they were not convicted criminals when he surrounded himself with them. i think that s a little too much. they had been. because they had already broken the law. but they weren t convicted. so the idea they were criminals. the idea that he knew they were criminals. unconvicted criminals. you re making the assumption he would have known they were doing criminal activity, which of course, he did not. unless he was engaged in criminal activity and that s why he had so many around him, like his attorney. that s what his attorney has accused him of. preet bharara did a good job of explaining this is his side of the story. it s obviously president trump has a different story. the big problem with president trump s story is it s not been a consistent story. and that s problematic for him. but we re stil
self-professed crooks. and some of whom are now at least one, his former lawyer, who is now pointing the finger at his former client, saying he was a crook, too. i know the base may not care, but just fair-minded people, don t you think you re selling them short to say they don t care about that? i m not saying they don t care. i say i think they care more about other things. number one, to say he surrounded himself with convicted criminals, i mean, they were not convicted criminals when he surrounded himself with them. i think that s a little too much. they had been. because they had already broken the law. but they weren t convicted. so the idea they were criminals. the idea that he knew they were criminals. unconvicted criminals. you re making the assumption he would have known they were doing criminal activity, which of course, he did not. unless he was engaged in criminal activity and that s why he had so many around him, like his attorney. that s what his at