organization. beyond their investigation into the company s role and hush money payments made before the election to women claiming to have affairs with mr. trump. peter, there s this notion out there what the southern district of new york did was investigate the hush money scheme, and they basically named donald trump, and your byline is on a great story that came out the weekend after the cohen sentencing memo told us the most information we had that basically the southern district of new york, the federal government sponsored the cohen testimony, either they corroborated it or they accepted it, and named the president as an unindicted co-conspirator. this reporting from your colleagues over the weekend suggests the hush money scheme is just one bucket to borrow one of the ways we look at the cohen or the mueller investigation, that there are other buckets, the inaugural committee, perhaps tax fraud. people people, lawyers talk about a rico prosecution. what does this reporting tel
doing our jobs. it s on focussing on the things that americans care about. right now it s focusing on preparing for the meetings that will take place next week. and looking forward to having a great trip. sarah sanders understandably trying to keep the focus on north korea. this is going to be a huge week for the president, not just because of north korea. there s a national emergency fight, three days of cohen testimony, the summit, venezuela. i m already tired talking about it. david, this is a big week for the trump presidency. it s a huge week. you have the summit in north korea. lots of expectation. i think the fact, i think success is just the fact that they are continuing to talk. there s no more nuclear testing. no missiles flying. that s been a success. you have what s going on in venezuela. this testimony on the hill from michael cohen. it s hard to see what s going to lead the news any particular day. is it possible, you are a former white house communications director
that americans care about. it is focusing on preparing for the meetings that will take place and looking forward to having a great trip. sanders understandably trying to keep the focus on north korea. it is going to be a huge week for the president not just because of north korea. there s a national emergency fight, three days of cohen testimony. i m tired talking about it. this is a big week. sit a huge week. there is lots of expectation. i think the fact that they continue to talk, there s no more nuclear testing, no missiles flying. you this testimony in the hill for michael cohen. it s hard to see what is going lead the news any particular
so if trump s going to be paying attention to the cohen testimony, he s not going to get much sleep between his first night of meetings with kim jong-un and the second day of meetings with kim jong-un on thursday. it could be quite a split-screen moment for this president with all of the revelations that cohen could potentially be making in his open testimony. joyce, what could go wrong? a sleep-deprived president meeting one on one with no note takers with a north korean dictator? i hate to think about it. joyce, take us through this manafort sentencing document. and i reference the cohen sentencing memo because that was a watershed moment in terms of this white house s understanding of the potential legal exposure that the president had in the cases out of the southern district of new york. why are sentencing memos an opportunity to detail and sort of provide us sort of the public with more a narrative more of a narrative explanation of the crimes, or in manafort s case the crimi
conduct. he calls it an attack on the nation when his offices were raided. what sort of preparations there s never much other than sending rudy out to fox news prime time, but what other preparations are under way to deal with next week? nicolle, if you just look at the calendar for next week, i m going to be on that trip, by the way, in vietnam with trump. in vietnam time, he s going to have his first day of meetings scheduled so far with kim jong-un on wednesday. wednesday night in vietnam is going to be the morning here in washington when cohen is testifying. so if trump s going to be paying attention to the cohen testimony, he s not going to get much sleep between his first night of meetings with kim jong-un and the second day of meetings with kim jong-un on thursday. it could be quite a split-screen moment for this president with all of the revelations that cohen could potentially be making in his open testimony. joyce, what could go wrong? a sleep-deprived president meeting