Thats a closed session but its significant for several reasons. First, you mentioned hes the president s personal lawyer. Hes known him for years, they go back in terms of business dealings. This is a person whos been in a lot of private, personal and confidential conversations with the president so it will be very, very interesting to see what kind of information hes going to be able to reveal. And then of course its a sign of a potential escalation or widening in the russia probe given there have been other significant interviews. Of course, Jared Kushner met with the Senate Intel Committee as well. But this will be a very interesting interview to watch and again as the headlines play out with that on the hill, on tuesday, while the president is in new york, trying to focus on things like the threat from north korea, the current Iran Nuclear Deal and other pressing issues. He will be trying to make this a global debut on The World Stage where others may be talking about some of the d
truth to congress but it will be interesting to see how michael cohen reacts. often lawyers don t make good witnesses and donald trump had trouble throughout his career and recently getting top him be seems to want to them to do things that they don t feel ethically comfortable with. it s also interesting to me that michael cohen, when asked, didn t know if this senate intelligence hearing was public or private but it would seem a competent lawyer would want to know that going in. do you expect him to cooperate fully on tuesday or do you think he is going to potentially try to strike a deal to wave off some of the other investigations, the house side investigation? i think that s entirely possible. his number one goal seems to be protecting donald trump. that seems to be he s positioned himself as his pit bull. his first line of defense. i want to remind people that sometimes he s not very good at
the white house special counsel says the fact there was no apparent response shows that there was no sign of collusion. you think that s going to be enough for the senate? i don t think so. it would appear by e-mailing essentially the spokespr person for president putin, he didn t have a real connection. todd hammer of the washington post reported the e-mail was tantamount to info @kremlin.spy if you will. and it was boneheaded and tells me that donald trump really wanted to get this deal going on a trump tower in moscow and it sent michael cohen to make it happen. it doesn t seem michael cohen was freelansing here. he was acting on behalf of then candidate trump. but i get a sense he may not be the most efficient at what he was trying to do since he was e-mailing this alias. it s something somebody would do when you don t have a connection and you have to try anything to get it done.
jong un s rule if beijing wanted it. now they don t want it, but also got to remember we do not give china the costs to make the incentives to get them to do this. certainly, we haven t talked about russia and what role the u.s. can play to incentivize them to cooperate. unfortunately we have run out of time. great to see you. thank you. well, coming up more on the breaking news we re following in the russia investigation. we told you about michael cohen he s set to testify before the senate intelligence committee on tuesday. boost. it s about moving forward, not back.
defending president trump. the first time he burst onto the national scene, it was because reports had surfaced of an old rape allegation by ivana trump to donald trump and he defended the president not by saying that never happened but one can t rape one s wife which is a lousy, awful, horrible defense that had donald trump been in his place would not have made. he s going to try to do his best, but his best is very often not very good. and rick, michael cohen is one of these individuals, a top tier individual in the world, a person who straddles both his personal and business relationships. it was in august that they reported that cohen e-mailed vladimir putin s personal spokesman about advancing a stalled trump tower project in moscow and that was, by some accounts, the most direct outreach known to have happened by a senior trump aides during the campaign with someone high up in the kremlin.