government hackers in the 2016 election interference operation, the evidence they would be looking for if they were trying to distinguish what he did from what ordinary traditional journalists do would be a sign of a knowing relationship with moscow. taking direction moscow. conspiring and colluding with them. we certainly know they were looking for that. we don t know if they found it and whether or not they found it before moving to this step of filing a criminal complaint will be crucial to understanding whether this is something that has pro find implications for investigative journalism going forward or a one off related to the unique circumstances by what wikileaks and mr. assange were up to. i want to bring in danny cevallos, our legal analyst. coincidentally or almost simultaneously the wall street journal reported the u.s., the justice department in particular is optimistic about julian assange s return to the u.s.
way and this is their best chance to get a reduction in sentence at that date. that is what paul manafort wants. that s what he needs and he only has information to bargain with so the time to cooperate is now. the government doesn t like to wait for a cooperator to give up the goods. danny cevallos, i m confused. you re a new dad. you don t look tired. you don t act tired. what s going on besides you have an angel on your hands? it s makeup. lots and lots of makeup. i know that trick. and for my next trick, i m about to fall asleep right now. congratulations, danny cevall cevallos. now let s go to the florida recount which is being done by hand and smoother than machine recount. florida s two biggest counties, broward and miami-dade are already done with their recounts. this is just for the senate race between bill nelson and governor
to take a closer look, peter bak baker, new york times chief correspondent. phillip bump, washington post political reporter and msnbc legal analyst and brand new dad danny cevallos. i ve spent over the last 24 hours or so looking at baby pictures. i want to hear what the president had to say hbim answering robert mueller s questions. i write the answers, not my lawyers. i was asked a series of questions. i ve answered them very easily. i m sure they re tricked up because they like to catch people, gee, was the weather sunny or rainy? he said it may have been a good day, it was rainy, he told a lie. so you have to be careful when you answer questions with people that probably have bad tensions but the questions were very routinely answered by me.
influence of alcohol they were all shocked when brett kavanagh shoved her friend up against the wall aggressively and sexually. republican investigators asked kavanaugh about the new complaint during a call on tuesday. when asked about the allegation, kavanaugh denied the claim, telling staff, quote, we are dealing with an anonymous letter. it s ridiculous. no, i ve never done anything like that. joining us onset danny cevall cevallos. this hearing is not a trial, but what are you personally looking for to come out of this? we should be looking for the maens means of questioning the accuser and judge kavanagh. they have a lawyer rachel mitchell who s going to be asking questions. what will be her mission?
all right. well, it keeps going and it keeps going. for the record, michael cohen and i did not discuss the tapes. in fact, they came out about an hour or so after our breakfast. but thank you, nbc s danny cevall cevallos. now, back to the very interesting week, to say the least. we have with our russian counterpart, foes, enemies. joining me now, peter emerson, who worked for three democratic administrations and jen kearns, a former spokeswoman for the california republican party. jen, let me go to you first. the president goes, stands shoulder the shoulder with vladimir putin. says that he has no reason to believe that russia interfered with the united states elections in 2016.