with 70 years of american foreign policy. that wasn t a good week. you can t call that a great week. i started by saying the bipartisan prison reform bill is a big win. could have been a big win. and the resignation, the decision on syria, was a very bad decision. i ve written about that in the washington post, and the think the consensus of the conservative foreign policy establishment is that it s a bad decision. but that doesn t mean that he is in a worse position at the end of this week because he had lost last week to chuck schumer. this week at least he s back in the game. i couldn t disagree more. the other thing that happened earlier in the week, was last week cohen was sentenced in the mueller investigation and the szny investigation. this week the flynn sentencing came up and it was delayed in part because the judge wasn t buying the trump legal echo chamber argument that he was somehow hot boxed by the fbi, and the judge said i m not going there unless you want m
hyperbole? it s hard to imagine such a thing could have taken place even in 1999. you know, it s embarrassing and indicative of we often say there s a tweet for everything he commented on every subject under the sun, and it s not going to prove anything. as the president claims and his supporters claim that, well, he didn t know the money to-in sto daniels or mcdougal could be seen as a campaign contribution. turns out he s a big expert on that. and first the flynn sentencing, it was a shocker for lots of people in the courtroom, and then he ruled on the president s asylum sisso president s asylum
laws. $2,000 for a senator. but i like it because it keeps your spending down. you understand that, right? sam, in his own words. he seems to get in trouble by his boasting, and this is anas saying he is an expert in this field and, therefore, you know, he knows the insides and outsides of government and you should elect him. now can be used against him in witness testimony. this is problematic. the campaign finance case and the sdny is really it seems incredibly vulnerable for trump. but then step back and there s like four other vulnerabilities. the trump foundation was just dissolved. the inaugural committee. serious questions around who was donating to it and why. new developments on why they were talking about sanctions relief during the transition. of course, the flynn sentencing. so there is just so many pressure points this president is facing that it s remarkable to me that in the missst of all of this he s doing things like completely revamping our syria
the bill was backed by the white house and negotiated with the help of jared kushner, the president s son-in-law and senior adviser. the house is expected to take up the bill on thursday. the news continues. i will hand it over to chris cuomo. cuomo prime time starts right now. thank you, j.b. i am chris cuomo. welcome to prime time. some big blows to the president s case he has done nothing wrong. first, a sitting president forced to shut down after a quote shocking pattern of illegality that involved his campaign. could the president of the united states really be banned from ever running a charity? and treason. the flynn sentencing postponed asking the attorneys if he was treasonous. the judge forced flynn to report in court that theories of entrapment were bogus. the white house promoting that lie. why?
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