The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Its not like somebody former president got to report, somebody gave a little more than the minimum, some pac didnt follow a small regulation. This is a fundamental thing. The nominee at the closing days of the campaign, when he thought his campaign was on the line and a story or two stories potentially threatened his nomination went be and said, i have to make this story go away, according to Michael Cohen and said, go make this go away and pay for it. I think that goes not in a resistance way at all. A much more dramatic and more accurate way of stating what happened there. And, yes, it implicates the president in the commission of a felony, but it also implicates the president in what is now a growing sense that a lot of people have and not just resistance people, that this is one more way in which the 2016 election was facacta. Harry litman, were in dangerous territory here. Two nonlawyers
yesterday. as john said, it wasn t a surprise, but it made everything concrete. and so the question that we have to ask ourselves today is where is mitch mcconnell? where is paul ryan? we re hearing the voices of kamala harris and corker, but where is the leadership of the republican party? and so we have to ask ourselves the question, will the congress actually perform its function? or will they reveal that it s not just simply the presidency that has been sullied, that the presidency has been deeply diminished, but congress itself has been diminished as well. i don t think they re ever going to come out and say anything. if access hollywood didn t tip them over the edge, if people coming from bleep-hole countries didn t tip them, if all the examples of the president maligning and smearing the republicans running the justice department and the fbi haven t tipped them over the edge, why would a guilty plea from a pretty shady fixer do it?