continues to deny the underlying claim. i m giving the best information i had at the time. reporter: he blind-sided many other legal advisers who feared he was winging it and not fully prepared. some speculating the comments were playing solely between he giuliani and president trump, who were long time friends. i have known donald trump for almost 30 years, and he has created and plushaccomplished g things. reporter: one said giuliani undermined the defense strategy in the daniels case and mueller probe. giuliani continuing to insist that it wasn t a campaign finance violation. it was to save their marriage as much as their reputation. reporter: moments later, the president s lawyer undermining his own argument. imagine if that came up in
and in that case, he can be interviewed just like any other witness, with a grand jury subpoena. of course, if he s a target, subpoenaing him is much more complex and frowned upon by doj policy. phil, we quoted your yowork this broadcast last night. the piece you did about the president s utterances, calling it a witch hunt. and yet the tone and tenor and content of what he s saying on twitter sure doesn t sound like he s trying to proclaim michael cohen s innocence for one. i almost said guilt there for a minute. it s again and again, president trump is talking about the russia probe and the other legal challenges, such as the cohen situation in new york from a perspective of guilt almost. and it may be totally unconscious on the part of the president, but the way he speaks about it gives the impression that he has something to hide,
boxes that say federal evidence. we all learned in civics that it doesn t imply guilt. so what does it mean in this case? well, the sort of bare case that it doesn t mean that much is that following the searches and the revelation that there is an intensive investigation of michael cohen, any defense lawyer who represents michael cohen would say i m not going to have this guy under oath, even if he s innocent, because somebody else thinks he s committing crimes. so anything he says could be used by them and therefore could be incriminating. but it s not, as michael avenatti said, necessarily an admission that if i speak under oath i could be incriminating myself. that s not what the fifth amendment is and that s not what he s doing by asserting the fifth amendment. are you telling me stormy daniels lawyer is zealously protecting his client and may have overstepped the bounds
ronny jackson, his nomination has been in deep trouble right fou. current and former colleagues, most of whom still active duty military describe their rear admiral using among other words unethical, explosive, toxic, abusive, volatile, despicable, dishonest and vindictive. whe with us tonight, the ceo of iava. his title before this posting was u.s. army first lieutenant and platoon leader in iraq. full disclosure, i have raised money for iava happily and am a donor, though not near enough for this guy, our next guest. so paul, welcome first of all. good to see you. what got my attention last night is when senator tester, democrat from montana said he had 20 active duty military. now this means they busted out of the chain of command. this might mean the chain of command did not help them in this case. they felt the need to approach the u.s. senate.
which his lawyer cohen told us would not be attorney/client, and the president saying i ll personally be available to look them over, almost as if he wants to get a first cut at the government s evidence before anyone else does. attorney joyce vance who almost makes it easy for we civilians to understand all of this. to julia ainsley and joyce vance and phillip rucker. our thanks for starting us off on a wednesday night. coming up for us, michael cohen announces he ll take the fifth in the daniels case. as you might imagine, stormy daniels lawyer has had something to say about that on more than one network tonight. and later, a nomination hanging by a thread as the president s navy doctor nominated to run the v.a. facing new allegations of prescribing himself meds, drunkenness on the job, wrecking a government vehicle and more. the 11th hour just getting under way on a wednesday night. ways t. the northern percussion massage.