so he gets 60 more days of freedom. before he goes to prison, we also found out today that mr. cohen in addition to closed-door testimony he s expected to give to the intelligence committees, he s also going to testify in open session before the house oversight committee on february 27th, next week. pass the popcorn. again, this one is going to be public and the house oversight committee has listed the topics that will basically be the scope for the hearing. you ready? the scope for the cohen hearing, again, open session. quote, the president s debts and payments relating to efforts to influence the 2016 election. oh. the president s compliance with financial disclosure requirements. the president s compliance with campaign finance laws. the president s compliance with tax laws. the president s potential and actual conflicts of interest. the president s business practices. the trump international hotel in washington, d.c. the accuracy of the president s public statements. potentially f
stone on this long dumb path of people saying mueller is done. we ve been hearing that forever. this absolutely could be that. it could also be, on the other hand, on the other range of possibility, it could be that attorney general william barr has just shut it down, and william barr was hired to be attorney general, a, because there was a vacancy. why was there a vacancy? because trump fired jeff sessions as the previous attorney general. why did trump fire jeff sessions as the previous attorney general? well, what he said about it out loud for months is that jeff sessions wouldn t shut down the russia investigation. so that made him a terrible attorney general. so william barr knows that s what he was hired to do. the old guy left because he wouldn t do this thing, then you were hired. clearly, you were hired to do this thing. if that s what s happening, if barr is shutting it down, because that s what he was brought on to do, now s the time
to do that. well, now tonight s the night to ask how good were those contingency plans? how d they do? because cnn and the washington post tonight are now reporting that less than one week into the tenure of president trump s new attorney general william barr, it s over. the mueller investigation is being wrapped up as soon as next week, as soon as monday. time s up. that s what s being reported by cnn and by the washington post. and there is a few different things this might mean. this might just be the latest in a long, long, long string of reports that turned out to be wrong that said the end is nigh and mueller is definitely finishing very soon. we ve been hearing reports like those from the very beginning. we ve been hearing reports like those from the president s lawyers from, like, a minute after mueller got appointed. remember when trump hired giuliani to be his russia lawyer in the first instance, and giuliani guaranteed that once he was hired he would have the whole thing
sentence delayed from march 6th to may 6th. oh he gets 60 more days of freedom. before he goes to prison, we also found out today that mr. cohen in addition to closed-door testimony he s expected to give to the intelligence committees, he s also going to testify in open session before the house oversight committee on february 27th, next week. pass the popcorn. again, this one is going to be public and the house oversight committee has listed the topics that will basically be the scope for the hearing. you ready? the scope for the cohen hearing, again, open session. quote, the president s debts and payments relating to efforts to influence the 2016 election. oh. the president s compliance with financial disclosure requirements. the president s compliance with tax laws. the president s potential and actual conflicts of interest. the president s business practices. the trump international hotel in washington, d.c. the accuracy of the president s public statements. potentially fraudulent o
instead he made the trek from the apartment to the new york federal courthouse. one hour from now the president s long-time lawyer is due to be sentenced on nine counts ranging from tax evasion to lying to congress. new york prosecutors want the president s former lawyer to do serious time and his family is bracing for the worst. it s a sad day for them. you can see it in their faces there as the sentencing approach approaches. just about one hour from now. early next week the retired general who served for less than a month as the president s national security adviser will face his sentencing for lying to the fbi. michael flynn says he shouldn t go to prison because he cooperated with the special counsel. he says the fbi when they came to talk to him never told him not to lie. so that should help him out but he should know that. while that sinks in, let s preview the cohen hearing. because of the images you just