misdemeanor standard is quite different. these of course that michael cohen pled guilty to are felony offenses, likely avoiding felony charges for ami and others involved with it. if you judge it on the criminal side, it s quite serious to have the felony assignment to it. on the flip side, part of reason why this is not the sexiest of insent ti insentiv incentives for democrats on the hill, you have the republican-led senate who would have to convict in some way. because of the dynamic and because you still have the majority in one, you probably don t have the overall unanimity you need to have an impeachment. if there was something more serious that went to the core of what mueller s mandate was, perhaps they would. this case was farmed away from
and what s really important here now is that he said he intends to continue to cooperate. so this is just the beginning of the story. this is not the end of the story and one thing that michael cohen said in court that struck me was he said he s committed to ensuring that history will not remember me as the villain of this story. the implication being there s someone else. he believes the implication is being the president. he also cooperated because he believed that, i guess if he didn t or one of the reasons he wasn t because the president might otherwise get rid of the investigation? i think that he, in all respects, is a cooperator according to he was a day late and a dollar short. the timing of this is extremely important, brianna. he didn t start cooperating until after he had been charged with multiple felony offenses in new york. so the point being you don t take it at face value. you cooperated to save your own
we already the president is implicated in ordering two felony offenses and that s on tape. we re pretty sure that happened. we know that there were all these contacts, you know, and it all comes back to russia, this raft of contacts between people in the trump campaign and people who represented or claimed to are represent the president. we know all this is happening at a time when the president is trying to make potentially hundreds of millions of dollars on a trump tower in moscow. we have this pretty clear picture of astounsing morality by this president and his circle including his son and his son-in-law and it doesn t take
his majority opinion. i was astonished at the sad irony here. this is a president who has a great deal of trouble investigate people for his vetting people for his white house. we already have so many criminals in his campaign and administration. you have three who pleaded guilty to felony offenses and his former campaign manager right now in jail for his bail was revoked. i m not convinced that vetting people to ensure that they re not criminals was at the top of his list. he was trying to fulfill a campaign promise and his base is thrilled and they understand this is, you know, anti-muslim hatred that motivated is. on that note, this what is justice sonia sotomayor said in her dissent, she wrote, the majority here completely sets aside the president s charged statements about muslims as irrelevant, that holding erodes the foundation of religious
an important part in understanding who the lawyer is. claire is very rarely a man s first name but in this case it is. clair george is famous for a decades long james bond career at the cia. but what clair george is most famous for is the way his career ended. in 1992 clair george became the first ever senior cia official to be convicted of felony offenses for crimes he committed while serving in his position at cia. he was the third ranking official at the cia, director of operations when he was charged with multiple felony accounts. in conjurngs with the iran/contra affair. ultimately he was convicted of perjury and lying to congress. in december 1992. here s the kind of ah-ha moment about that history and clair george and what s going on right now. clair george was convicted in federal court in 1992 on december 9th. his tenure as a convicted felon