Cohen could not be trusted and this entire sham trial has been built on a Foundation Of Sand politicized sand i might add. And today we were proven right, again. In a Bombshell Moment during crossexamination, defense attorney Todd Blanche Masterfully and singlehandedly destroyed what little shred of credibility Michael Cohen may have had left. Now it started earlier this week when cohen testified about an october 24th, 2016 phone call he had with trumps body guard keith schiller. He said he called schiller to talk directly to trump. And he claims that he needed to talk to the boss after he trferredz i mean cohen transferred 130,000 to Stormy Daniels. Well, the entire call lasted 1 1 36 seconds. Text messages from minutes before reveal that cohen wanted to talk to shirley about Something Else entirely. Prank calls from a 14yearold. Blanche says that cohen texted schiller who can i speak to about harassing calls to my cell and office. Shischiller said by calling cohn and texting call me.
team, cooperating and he is providing information to the grand jury. shimon, do we know if nader has remained in contact with senior administration officials? there was report that he has maintained contact with jared kushner and steve bannon. there have been reports indicating that he was visiting the white house recently during the after the president, after the inauguration. so he has had some contact at least to some, according to some of these reports. all right. thanks so much. great reporting. with me now chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. george nader, not russian. that is good, i guess. seems to be a different character with a deferent set of issues. what is the significance here? well, i don t know. and the story is suggestive but
comes from director mueller. a different level of importance. lastly, tonight is the first night in some ways a midterm elections. given what you have seen so far, do you respect republicans to hold onto the house in 2018? it is very much in play. i would say it is a coin flip. the map in pennsylvania was just thrown out. if the map imposed democrats will pick up seats in our states. the house is in play and the democrats certainly have an advantage in terms of energy and intensity going into the election. clearly with history as it is, we know that the party of the president is going to lose seats during the midterm and that is going to be the case this time. the question is how many. are we running into a hurricane force wind or a gentle brice. i suspect a very strong wind. so right now we are in a tough
different folks and take a look at them. quite frankly more than those two. the president is going to expand it out and it might not be the chasm of say navarro and cohn. maybe he wants it more on one end of it. but one thing to keep in mind is the only person that anybody voted for in this white house is donald trump. yes the staffing story is important today. cohn will be out of the news tomorrow and we will be moving on to something else. there are a ton of all-stars in this administration, whether it is mnuchin. you look at mulvaney, general mattis. a lot of good people within the administration. and the president is going to put them together and see who fits the bill. thanks everyone.
he is also a strong free trader who has been actively saying don t do this with respect to tear tariffs. a source said the president likes different points of view, bring on kudlow. it is not the opposite of chaos, it is total chaos all the time at the white house. cnn caitlin s collins and jason miller. caitlin, i want to start with you, you have got a doozy of a scoop involving the president, the chief of staff john kelly and anthony scaramucci. and to give you back story, scaramucci is the communication director at the white house for