What did the president know and when did he know it. And we all know where that phrase comes from. You know on days like this within this week of big news around Michael Cohen and other people like Paul Manafort, sometimes we will hear an Immediate Response from the white house. We have not yet heard anything as far as i know from you, john, but this is one of those situations where the president would say, what about the situation . I mean it is not i said situation twice in one sentence, i apologize. But now is it more apparent perhaps of why he would have passed this on to federal prosecutors . I was talking with Brian Kilmeade about this on the radio this morning and even though this was not about the mueller case and a mueller hand of the soft to the Southern District of new york because they felt it fell outside of the purview of the investigation into russia collusion, it would definitely seem to be a loop
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Serious allegation she took time and she is putting all of your doubts out in public. She is not trying to say oh, im certain when she is not certain. She is saying im not clearly certain. I was drinking. So i think that is pretty straightforward. Ronin farrow says he considers what he did high level of evidence. Im quoting. And says that direct account from people she told right afterward this happened with kavanaugh. That is what farrow says. He says he applied that in other stories of similar instances of Sexual Misconduct and says it has proven to be ironclad and a good way to do it and he considers this is a High Standard of journalism. Jesse i didnt know that is the way he went about it. Thought he found someone who heard Something Like that had happened. Not that this woman had told a friend about it afterwards. Lisa the piece says they have not confirmed with other
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Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. 11 00 p. M. In hawaii. We will have the projections of Hurricane Lane. We start with the white house. The white house struggles to contain the fallout from the Michael Cohen guilty plea. President trump is turning to personal attacks. Cohen implicated trump for coordinating Hush Payments to a porn star to sway an election. Yesterday with an interview with fox news, the president tried to minimize cohens role in life and in business. He was one of many lawyers for me. They say the lawyer and they like to say the fixer. I dont know where that term came from. I dont know if he was a fixer. He has been a lawyer for me. He did not do big deals. Small deals. Not somebody with me that much. Somebody who said i did not live without him. I understood Michael Cohen very well. He turned out not to be a very good lawyer. Thats what the president says now about the man who once
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He has the inside scoop coming up. First, chief National Correspondent ed henry kicks off the coverage with breaking news. Good evening. Great to see you. The District Attorneys Office here in manhattan is thinking about bringing criminal charges against President Trumps business, the trump organization, in connection with how officials they are reimbursed Attorney Cohen for his payments to that adult film performer. According to the New York Times tonight. The president said months ago of the special counsel started probing his business dealings, that would be what he called a redline that could spark Robert Muellers firing. This is more complicated because it would be State Charges against the trump organization, not federal charges brought by mueller. It would be harder to justify a meal or firing perhaps. Plus the president has the power to pardon Paul Manafort or anyone else for federal charges but he does not have Clear Authority to pardon people or corporations for criminal char
A roundtable ensemble discusses and debates the days news. It. But by then, its already taken us back. Thats what troubles me with how theyre doing this. Dana juan, do you want to weigh in . Juan i would love to. First and foremost, there is no deal. Cohen spoke in open court and said what he said. He has no deal with mueller. He has no deal with the Southern District of new yorks federal prosecutors. He made a plea deal because he understood and said he was guilty of having committed these crimes. And then named the president as someone who had directed him to make these payments. What we have learned today in terms of what american media, the National Inquirer has done, that he was involved in an effort to cover up these things, jesse, in advance of the campaign, that these payments were made in cooperation with the Media Company to protect the president. Interesting language in there. They said this was basically a tripwire so that they would learn of anybody who was coming to poten