News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Cnns Abbie Phillip is live at the white house. The president just had an event where he met at the white house with republican lawmakers. Did he clarify anything today . Reporter well, nia, the president just let reporters into the room for that meeting. It was originally scheduled to have been closed, but he said nothing. He didnt respond to questions about any of these issues floating around him. He didnt expand on any of his comments or explain, you know, his view of the situation. But what he has been doing over the last day or so, specifically in a lengthy interview with fox news that aired last night and today, is really take the lead in the administrations response to all of these problems. Theres no question the white house staffers were caught by surprise by a confluence of bad news stories. Paul manaforts verdict and also Michael Cohens guilty plea, but President Trump has been the one left to test out various stra
The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. Taking responsibility for crimes that hes going to say he committed. But this does not open up a can of worms of him now going on to cooperate against bigger fish in this investigation. That we know of yet. Yeah. That we know of yet. Okay. Lets broaden out the discussion and bring in a couple other folks here sitting next to me. I know its a big day when we have four people at the desk here in new york with me. First, just talking Michael Cohen. Good do see all of you with me. Eli, i start with you. Freshly with the microphone popped on. Nice to see you. Lets roll with just how significant is this news from cara, period . Huge. We know the damage that Michael Cohen can do to the president if necessary. And we probably only have a pretty narrow view. He can hurt him on the Campaign Finance with the payments to mcdougall and ms. Clifford. Can he bring home the piece on the Trump Tower Meeting . Its reported that cohen will s
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
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i want to put up the tweet to remind people. i also want to remind people you decided to own it. very rare these days that somebody admits they made a mistake. what was your mistake? well, chris, your viewers and my constituents know i find hard, sometimes too hard. this was one of those cases. i should not have mentioned michael cohen s family if that tweet. i apologized. took it down. i ll try to do better. and just to be clear, there s nothing coming that you have or anybody else that you know about has about any of these suggestions you made in the tweet. i m not going to discuss that because to do so would be to invoke someone s family and it s not a line i m going to cross. my challenges with mr. cohen deal with his credibility, not his family and that s why i m not going to go into that stuff. good for you, keep it clean. if you can t win the argument on the facts, you re not going to win it at all. i will thank you, though, chris. yes. the other cnn personalities
what was your mistake? well, chris, your viewers and my constituents know i find hard, sometimes too hard. this was one of those cases. i should not have mentioned michael cohen s family if that tweet. i apologized. took it down. i ll try to do better. and just to be clear, there s nothing coming that you have or anybody else that you know about has about any of these suggestions you made in the tweet. i m not going to discuss that because to do so would be to invoke someone s family and it s not a line i m going to cross. my challenges with mr. cohen deal with his credibility, not his family and that s why i m not going to go into that stuff. good for you, keep it clean. if you can t win the argument on the facts, you re not going to win it at all. i will thank you, though, chris. yes. the other cnn personalities were calling for me be arrested and imprisoned. you made the point i wasn t threatening michael cohen, i was trying to cast him in a bad light. i did so unartfu