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
amendment right not to testify. that means that a prosecutor could compel him to testify and make him answer questions. a couple of wrinkles with that. number one, when you compel a witness as opposed to having a witness cooperate, they re a lot less likely to volunteer and tell the fulgt story. they may answer yes and no truthfully but they re not going to volunteer the information you really need to tell a compelling narrative. they re not quite as useful as a cooperator. the other thing is i m not so sure you could get that compulsion order. what you have to get from a judge based on a showing you re giving a person immunity or they don t have a 5th amendment right. there is the possibility of state charges against paul manafort for other crimes. so i don t know that a pardon for federal offenses would completely get him off the hook because the president doesn t have the power to pardon for state offenses. so it s a little more
didn t really get a straight answer on that. they have phones. heilman? there is no one i ve paid attention to more than emily jane fox. she s inside mueller s head than any reporter. one of the things you ve read, nothing about yesterday, as shocking as it was, is surprising. she said at the very top of the show. michael cohen is throwing donald trump under the bus. that s a colloquial way of putting it. if you read the art of the story, he came to understand as we saw yesterday, if he did not make some kind of deal, he could be in jail 40 years, right? he s not going to go to jail for 40 years for donald trump. that sentence might be five years if he works out, this cooperation agreement gets settled, bob mueller eventually walks in in december when the sentencing come up, he s been helpful to us, i d like to
what does it really change? it all comes down to the republicans. they re the ones who hold the key. there is concern, maggie and your colleagues use fisher. the news cycle like yesterday may be the beginning of some cracks? don t you think the republicans should have fissures more than we think. we are the fissures. we are the crackpots of the crack. more is going to have to be learned, right? you re not a crack head. thank you. we got that. we got it all. mueller investigations are going forward. not just mueller, the southern district of new york. rosenstein is an unsung hero. if you think about the coordination and supervision he s done, the protecting of the southern district in this whole story, again, that s where i think republicans can do. let the investigation go forward. trump, it turns out, was actually he was right in a certain sense to hate as soon as mueller was appointed, he saw how dangerous it was. he saw that given his history,
it s not like somebody former president got to report, somebody gave a little more than the minimum, some pac didn t 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, we re in dangerous territory here. two non-lawyers talking about what may be under investigation in the southern district is a conspiracy.