Speaking of crime, the president took to twitter today with a gangsters lingo, describing his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen as, quote, a rat, again calling the special counsel investigation a witchhunt and bringing up Hillary Clintons emails. And just when you thought there might be a holiday break, heres whats on deck this coming week. Former fbi director james comey is back testifying on capitol hill tomorrow, monday, over those emails. And former National Security adviser Michael Flynn is due for sentencing tuesday. And fresh today, our nbc wall street journal poll shows 62 of americans dont believe the president has been truthful about his contacts with russians, but a majority of republicans, 70 , do. Joining me now, eric eric sony, a blogger and talk show host based in atlanta, pete dominick, host of a radio show stand up on sirius xm. You got it. And katie benner who covers the Justice Department for the new york times. Kate, let me go to you first. Collusion is not a cri
An investigation. Mrs. Mccord, thank you so much. I dont want to violate your privacy about what you know and what you cant say, but your perspective on this is important, and i appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Be well. Thank you for watching. A lot to get through. Big breaking news. Cnn tonight with don lemon will pick up the story right now. What a big headline tonight. It aint over, don, and the special counsel thinks that Michael Flynn should not go to jail. Yeah, and it looks like i dont think its wrapping up. Everyone says, oh, its wrapping up. It looks like its just starting. Ive got the memorandum right here. Youve been going over it. Were going to go over it. Actually, chris, its not a really good day for this president , toer this administration. Well talk about all of that. Nice job on the breaking news, chris. Ill see you tomorrow. This is cnn tonight. Im don lemon. Heres our breaking news. The filing that we have all been waiting for all day, finally out. Here it is. R
This time i am not talk about the government. The president tonight threatening to shut down the entire southern border. All 48 points of entry. That is if he doesnt get the money he wants for his border wall. Tweeting this, we will be forced to close the southern border entirely if the obstructionist democrats do not give us the money to finish the wall. In the shut downs 7th day this is the new wrinkle. More money or else. Just how much money will the president settle for . 2 billion, 5 billion. More or less . The white house now unwilling to say. You give us any idea what the president will be willing to accept financially for Border Security for his border wall where you could reach a deal if democrats would get there . We made that clear to the democrats. The president has been willing to negotiate on this point. Really . Pretty much all the evidence proves otherwise. It was just over a week ago that the president spiked the Senate Approved deal. The daily to avoid a shut down all
Tells you a lot more. Redactionses. Two documents just came out. One is the main memo. I will take you through all of it. Then an addendum supposed to provide the particulars. Wait until you see whats in that document. Lets get after it. The special counsel again saying that general Michael Flynn gave such good cooperation, so substantial, he should serve no time in jail. How did we get here . 2017, Michael Flynn pled guilty to lying to the fbi to the department of justice about his contacts with russian ambassador, sergei kislyak. Flynn has been cooperating ever since. The special counsel answers a very early informative question. Did flynn cooperate right away and how much was he into cooperating . There has been so much specul e speculating that he didnt want to cooperate. The special counsel said none of that speculation was true. He was one of the first. With long range understanding of the campaign and the interactions with russia and other entities to come forward and cooperate.
Who wrote an anonymous oped. Describing a resistance trying to secretly stop the president from destructive decisions. The president s reflexive response is to trust the authoritarian leader. President putin is extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. And now we see it with saudi arabia. I am here today not because i want to be. I am terrified. This is moment that is going to galvanize the nation. You have replaced advice and consent with search and destroy. I want you to vote. Democrats roared this week crushing donald trump with this blue wave. We are engaging in a change of the balance of power in this country. The president s Campaign Chairman and deputy Campaign Chairman and National Security advisor have all pled guilty to felonies, his inaugural committee is now under criminal investigation, and this is all separate and apart from the special counsels investigation. There was no collusion, there was no obstruction. We need to find out. This new congress will be Somethi