the best thing that she can do from an insider capitol hill perspective. and having followed all of the trials and tribulations of the house republican majority for eight years, we ve seen this play out on the other side in different ways. i do think, however, especially because they ve in a sense watered down the resolution by expanding it to other things that rightfully need to be condemned and condemned forcefully, because it watered it down somewhat, i think democrats have to be careful when they look at this from a 2020 perspective. there s a great case to be made from moderates and disaffected republicans who consider themselves conservatives and do not like the way president trump behaves. democrats can make this case that we re going to restore civility. but if democrats end up on their side of the party from wings of the party that deal with anti-semitism and very insensitive rhetoric, they re going to have a much harder time
republicans can do to whether republicans can bring it to the floor tomorrow when democrats are hoping to pass their sweeping hr 1 bill. some democrats wanted to avoid the embarrassment of having that step on their message tomorrow. you heard pelosi say this is an opportunity to condemn hate speech and anti-semitisms and other unpleasant isms in their forms. again as we stand here at 11:15 in the morning, we don t have that. david drucker, i want to ask you, is nancy pelosi making the best of a bad situation, preventing what is this controversy about the split in the water as an opportunity? so, i think from the perspective of reading the house majority caucus and dealing with all of the different factions and all of the different pressures she s probably doing
family, and anyone who works in the trump organization. so, joyce, from your perspective, what might he have, and how nervous do you think the white house should be? if i was in the white house now, i d be relatively nervous because michael cohen who is a convicted felon, convicted of lying to congress, is not something whose testimony isn t and of itself is sufficient for law enforcement to rely on. but if he has documentary evidence, whether that s e-mails or legal documents or financial forms that back up what he s testifying about, then his testimony will carry much greater weight. the fact that he came in with boxes which have likely previously been looked through by federal prosecutors is going to be of great interest to congressional investigators. yeah. you know, it s this crazy image. he goes into this unit and he s going through all of these boxes and he loads up this suitcase. david, obviously, there s a lot of talk about what he s given to
that michael cohen will deliver about donald trump, including an expansion of what michael cohen said under oath in federal court in manhattan, that donald trump ordered him to commit federal election crimes in providing hush money to two women during the presidential campaign and that donald trump himself knowingly directed those crimes to be committed and joined in the commission of those crimes against the united states of america. that s what we are now guaranteed to be covering one week from tonight, but we might also be covering the end of the mueller investigation. leading off our discussion about all of that now, harry litman. harry is a legal scholar who has been following every turn of the mueller investigation and the investigation of michael cohen. harry litman is a former federal prosecutor and a former deputy assistant attorney general in the clinton administration. and also joining us with the capitol hill perspective, lisa graves, who is a former deputy assistant attorn
america. that s what we are now guaranteed to be covering one week from tonight, but we might also be covering the end of the mueller investigation. leading off our discussion about all of that now, harry litman. harry is a legal scholar who has been following every turn of the mueller investigation and the investigation of michael cohen. harry litman is a former federal prosecutor and a former deputy assistant attorney general in the clinton administration. and also joining us with the capitol hill perspective, lisa graves, who is a former deputy assistant attorney general in the clinton administration and a former counsel to the senate judiciary committee. and sam stein is with us. he s the politics editor of the daily beast. he is also an msnbc political analyst. he will cover the politics of what is looming for next week. and harry litman, let me go to you first on what we re hearing about the mueller investigation. sync that with the now announced scheduling just tonight, the