summer makes it seem like it s finally going to have to go. in five years of court battles, the legal team beat back u.s. efforts to bring him to trial in illinois. the tide appeared to turn in the summer when the justice department won a ruling in austria securing firtash s extradition. at that point as bloomberg reports tonight, firtash essentially hit the panic button in his case, or at least decided he was going to put plan b into action. up until that point, his highest profile u.s. lawyer had been a man named lanny davis, which might have made sense for a while for mr. firtash, but after mr. davis became publicly associated with michael cohen, president trump s one-time personal lawyer who famously turned against president trump, one lanny davis and michael cohen were an anti-trump force out there in the world, that no longer was a good look for mr. firtash s defense efforts. to mr. firtash after that ruling
the problem is that with the southern district, there are no constitutional defenses. these are business investigations. and of course the president can t be indicted, but his businesses can be indicted. they can look into loans that he may have secured, foreign investments, foreign involvements, and he has fewer defenses. that s why from day one i have said, we never needed a special prosecutor or a special counsel. the u.s. attorney s office can do all the investigations that are necessary, and if i were trump s lawyers i would be focusing all of my defense efforts on the southern district and let the mueller probe go. that was harvard professor and trump defender alan dershowitz arguing the real threat for the president does not come from special counsel robert mueller s investigation, but what can be dug up by prosecutors in the southern district of new york. with me now staff writer for
and cohen has suggested he knows about that. and then even potentially the hacking conspiracy, cohen is draw in. and one quick final point is the two immunities to the cfo and to david pecker are in connection with the cohen probe, but i think it s very likely that the prosecutors will have plumbed the depths of what those two men know and it figures to be quite a lot. when you say plum the depths, i don t know whether to close my eyes, close my ears or just get a sensor. let s watch alan dershowitz along the lines of what you re saying, harry. if i were trump s lawyers, i d be focusing all of my defense efforts on the southern district and let the mueller probe go. i think people who support president trump ought to hope that the businesses were conducted entirely aboveboard. or if there are minor violations, there are corporate violations, not personal violations, but the president has to be focused on this,
a leader that his country can put more trust into jason strother and so found here . despite president chum s praise for that i summit is a turning point in relations with the north and critics they accuse the u.s. president of conceding too much sweden s former prime minister carl bildt currently serves on the european council on foreign relations treated as fit to trump evidently agreed to a limited u.s. defense efforts in south korea in return for so far nothing more than words we have seen before business feeney who had seen nobel prize winning nuclear disarmament group i can also condemned aspects of the summit outcome tweeting there is no agreement on nuclear disarmament and this all a looked more like a big welcome party to the nuclear armed club.
apologize. felt horrible for the actions. and moved on. sticker democratic party was already moving her from being te former president was still a popular surrogate heading into the midterms. now several democratic strategists say those candidates may no longer want his public support. they certainly won t be inviting him on the campaign trail. maybe they will still be happy to have him help raise money for them behind closed doors. sexual harassment is a huge issue for voters living into the midterms. according to a cnn poll last month, 80% of democrats described it as extremely or very important to them. shannon: kristin fisher, thank you very much. former defense secretary, national security advisor, number two at the cia, frank carlucci, has died. he served four u.s. presidents in a variety of roles. he was perhaps best known as the pentagon chief who supported president ronald reagan s so-called star wars defense