tom barrack was released after posting $250 million in bail. elie honig author of hatchet man, how bill barr broke the prosecutor s code and corrupted the justice department joins us now. elie, great to see you, as always. one viewer wants to know about this. how likely is it that tom barrack might cooperate with prosecutors? i think that s the question on a lot of folks minds right now. that would be interesting. it s a big question, jim. barrack is in a tough spot. he s been charged with illegal foreign lobbying and with obstruction of justice. we can t know what a person is going to do when it comes to cooperation, it s an intensely difficult personal decision. but if we look at his incentives here, he s looking at serious charges. the evidence laid out in the indictment is really powerful. it s almost entirely barrack s own words in emails. he s 74 years old. if he gets convicted, he ll go to jail several years. very interesting development yesterday, as you said. prosecutors
course would be left up to kim. today the president is expected to have a quiet day in new jersey before flying off to will alto participate in a rally for the election of senator luther strange, who is in a tight race against the very is popular former georjudge roy moore. let s discuss it with editor at large chris solizza and national security analyst david sanger. great to have both of you. david, before i get to the overheated, colorful rhetoric coming from pyongyang, can we talk about what was a development yesterday. that was what was happening in beijing. it appears that china central bank sent some instructions to its ancillary banks to stop doing business or transactions with pyongyang. how big a development is that and do you think that s a byproduct of something president trump has done?
people we re waiting for that announcement and we ve got some high profile folks approaching that podium to speak in support of herman cain. interesting development yesterday, launching of a website, women for herman cain, which they say that it is run by his wife gloria, and you have women coming on there, and particularly, addressing mrs. cain, saying that these women who are criticizing him, don t pay attention to these pathetic husbandless women who are jealous of women like you in long, happy marriages, they re just jealous and et cetera. what do you make of this, the starting of a website like this, with gloria cain s name behind it? again, i think behind the curtain there s all kinds of things going on and i m not sure, she signed on for that. i m not sure that this is genuine and more importantly, why do we want to go through the political equivalent of the kardashian marriage,
reporter: i heard about that. i was in complete shock when i heard that development yesterday. i m sorry, kyra. you know, four years ago he gives us his first interview, we had a little fun, he visited us on the set. now he s big-time once again and he s got to fly off and to oprah and not us. i m heart broken. will you let him know i m heart broken. reporter: i ll get it right to him after he s done with the oprah interview. okay, thanks a lot, mark. i ll talk to you later. well, shots are fired at a college campus in illinois this morning. it s one of our top stories. a student is wounded in that shooting at northern illinois university. that s in the city of dekalb just west of chicago. that shooting took place near a residence hall and police have a suspect in custody. they say this appears to be an isolated incident. you may recall in february of 2008 a man shot 21 people killing five of them in the same place. is she insane? this is professor amy bishop at the univers
c mon! he didn t threaten not to pay social security. i think what is interesting is that debate moved beyond. you have the fact that the house cannot pass the tax increases. they coulded under the pelosi house either. it s ridiculous to say the republicans want to starve government. we have a representative government for a reason. people say we want the spending cuts, not just raise debt limit. a development yesterday where senator mitch mcconnell put forward a creative plan, i think will probably be rejected by the house. at least initially. not good enough for conservatives. they re not conservatives. they re right wingers. george bush didn t scare seniors. he said if we don t go into iraq we ll be subject to weapons of mass destruction. which we still haven t found. that is so ridiculous. no, it s not. yes it is. why? i had it with the liberals who brick that up all the time. it s a baloney.