Wasnt a player of significance . President trump he was a lawyer for me for one of many. They always say the lawyer and they like to add the fixer. I dont know where that term came from. He has been a lawyer for me. Didnt do big deals, did small deals. Not somebody that was with me that much. They make it sound like i didnt live without him. You hear the president s description there cohen pleaded guilty to Campaign Finance violations which is an interesting thing to plead guilty to, considering there are a great many attorneys, including some ive spoken to here, Who Dont Think that rises to the level. See how that all plays out in sentencing and moving forward. Jon, back to you. Jon more to come on both of those cases. Kevin corke at the white house. Sandra another exclusive interview for fox news shan an bream sitting down with one of the jurors in the Paul Man Fort Trial and how close the jury
because they know they had 111 in favor of conviction even on the counts that ended up bei
democrats are stalling because the case against him is weak. the president targeting the top democrat in the senate chuck schumer for his attacks on mitch mcconnell after mcconnell said days ago he s not an impartial juror. yet at the height of the clinton impeachment saga then newly elected senator schumer said this on cnn. this is not a criminal trial. but this is something that the founding fathers decided to put in a body that was susceptible to the whims of politics. it is not like a jury box in the sense that people will call us and lobby us. you don t have jurors called and lobbied and things like that. it is quite different than a jury. as cnn s phil mattingly reports, both sides are playing politics while talks remain at a standstill. reporter: as president trump continued his holiday twitter barrage against democrats on impeachment, speaker pelosi continuing to press her party s
buckle up, here we go. we ll find out together as it continues to develop here. julie: you have 110 nays on the democrat side. the motion to adjourn is pretty much decided. there will be no adjournment. ken starr, former independent counsel joins me now. it could be down party lines more clear. this is a partisan vote, partisan impeachment. the president believes it started before he even got elected to office. remind us back in 1998 when bill clinton was in office and he was impeached. there was much protest. as many republicans are furious today, back then democrats were furious. they stormed out, correct, in protest, the democrats left the room. yes. there was a lot of deep anger, as there is today. the context is totally different. clear crimes committed by president clinton but in a context of his personal relationship. by the way, in the clinton
minority leader during the clinton impeachment trial told cnn today that during the clinton impeachment saga, his staff was in contact coordination with the white house. so how is this any different? well, i m not sure exactly what it was, but i can guarantee mitch mcconnell stole a supreme court justice that barack obama should have had, merrick garland, from him, and who stole a whole bunch of district court judges and mine. my nominee, ed stanton iii, a year out he didn t approve a district court memphis and a bunch of people after him. so mitch mcconnell will do whatever he can do to manipulate the process to his advantage. and i would suspect that what he does will be different than what daschle does, and they ll try to stack the deck. the whole idea of not calling witnesses, which i ve heard is a
americans say remove. only 29% of americans said that at the height of the clinton impeachment saga and the republicans went full steam ahead. even though the numbers have flatlined, that 50% number is not good news for the president. if you look at other numbers in the poll, i think the number for women, the percentage of women who think that he should be impeached has risen in the last month alone. i think this is not good news for the president s re-election, but yes, it does show some problems for democrats in terms of getting republicans on board with their messaging. that s a great point about the two different ways to read this. number one, what s right in front of us, a house vote and a senate trial. but also assuming the house impeaches and the senate fails to convict, what does tv on the 2020 political climate. the president said in his tweets it s the democrats abusing their power. 40% of americans think the democrats right now are going too far. 54% thought that of the