cop. because you mishandled this case. now they believe that avenatti because of cohen pleading guilty, now the stay in the separate, private civil suit against the president will be lifted and i will get a deposition from the president of the united states. they will fight that enabled they will never get that deposition. let s not forget what happened in the clinton administration. it was not just criminal cases that were problematic, it was private, civil suits and depositions and allegation the lying under oath. in a private civil suit with paula jones that led to impeachment. i am not saying that we are going there. but i am saying that the cohen situation could be much more legally and politically perilous for the president and that may be why he is not weighing in. the manafort allows him to jump in and say that this is a witch hunt. dana: you know the history about that because you are
he has all the details on michael cohen s plea deal. specifically on other things he is pleading guilty to campaign finance violations saying that essentially the money he pay to women as the president s personal attorney was paid as hush money and did it under the direction of the client. this is the first time you see anyone in the president s orbit pleading guilty to charges that directly involved with the case. it has nothing to do with russian collusion or directly with the campaign. michael cohen, we are told will get jail time in the neighborhood of 3-5 years after pleading guilty, not just to those campaign finance charges that we mention came about bank fraud, tax evasion as well. the campaign finance violations that mentioned that could be
dana: he was deported several times a month but we don t know if we can say that about christian rivera. is not politicizing an issue for american parents and people who have friends and neighbors to look at a case like this and say, listen, let s look at this rationally. yes, not every person who enters that country legally is going to go on to commit other crimes. i can see that point. the bottom line is 100% should not have been here. if they weren t here, this woman, if the ogg allegations were true would be a lie. that is not allegations or irrational. and certainly not politics for someone to see that. donald trump as being an advocate for the cause. i sit here and listen to matt finn talk about mollie tibbetts, and tears well up in my eyes. it is unavoidable. those tears are not red or blue, they are from the heart. it s from the heart and the gut. i don t think that you can call it politicalization in saying
on about their many virtues and talents. but the one important thing is that they all are satisfied with simply being known as public servants, prosecutors and law enforcement agents who are doing your job. thank you, very much. all right, that was robert. he was the lead prosecutor against michael cullen. i believe we still have bret baier. i m sorry that we interrupted you twice. from the message from the lawyers. this is one for the record books. i will let you comment on what you heard there from that. we are a nation of laws and they follow the case to its logical conclusion. the tax fraud, the case fraud, none of which had to do with president trump, candidate trunk, his ties to candidate trunk, or donald j. trump, in general. the campaign finance violation, because of the way he phrased it that he was directed by the candidate to do that, and submitted that money to be repaid by the trump organization, that is a direct
i think your larger point is exactly right. a lot of people, especially trump supporters will potentially see this as more of the same. as a consequence, not necessarily move away from the president. i will say this in response to what i m hearing. i think that there is a link. remember he had worked for candidates in the ukraine. people who had been supported and at some point subsidized by the russians but there is a link between the russians, manafort being at the campaign, manafort being in the trump-meeting with a lawyer. thus manafort have more to offer prosecutors who are focused on russian collusion? president trump on the tarmac in west virginia where he just landed makes the case, do you know what? this is a witch hunt. this has nothing to do with collusion. i don t think so. look at the nine ace. during the investigation of