Hes just capitalizing on resentments that politicians have been fanning for years. Well, i sort of watched that speech, and i must tell you, i dozed off. I dozed off watching him. Sdodozed off. Welcome back. You saw something unprecedented. A former u. S. President taking on his immediate successor and that prompted that immediate successor to push back. Well dig into that and bring you the latest on President Trumps search for the mole who twleet wrote that article in the oped in the New York Times and one of President Trumps aides just sentenced for 14 days behind bars. And joining me, contributors, former fbi agent and director of progressive media for sirius xm. Start with the former president. Hell be speaking again today as a rally for Democratic Candidates in california, but yesterday he had a lot that he wanted to say. Mike, stat wirt with you and yo reaction. How uncommon this is. President bush went back to texas, leaving office, didnt hear from him for many, many months. Pre
Meet. And after the bombshell report that Michael Cohen said the president ordered him to lie to congress, there is a reckoning around the mueller investigation. But, first, it was two years ago President Trump was sworn into office. The New York Times wrote at the time well two years later on this day after the longest shutdown the government has ever seen, were asking ourself the same question. The government has been shut down for nearly 5 of the time President Trump has been in office. The democratic response to his immigration proposal unveiled yesterday suggests this logjam is nowhere near broken. In his speech, the president offered to extend protection from deportation temporarily for some undocumented immigrants, including socalled dreamers. In exchange for the 5. 7 billion he wants for his border wall. Senate majority leader Mitch Mcconnell, he promised to vote on the plan as it drew criticism from both democrats and conservative figures alike. With that, which is a lot, we w
Multiple diplomats to that country but cnn is just now learning when it came to his decision to block the millions of dollars in critical aid to ukraine the president of the United States was the one under pressure from within the white house and far beyond. Cnn global correspondent sara murray and Jeremy Diamond have the new reporting. Lets dig in. Jeremy first for you. What are you learning about when the president actually finally decided to release this aid to ukraine . Reporter well, brooke, it came down to a phone call between the president and ohio senator rob portman on september 11th. In the afternoon, were told, according to six sources familiar with the call, that ohio senator rob portman repeatedly urged the president once again to release these funds. The president , were told, put up his usual defenses blaming european allies for not providing enough funding to ukraine. What happened after the call is unusual in terms what happened for months before. The president withhol
and certainly by the attorney general who himself with john durham have traveled to italy, they reviewed information. of course, that professor who had contact with george papadopolos during the campaign that started a lot of this investigation. there s a lot of questions about him, and they re looking at that. that is an aspect, a big aspect of this investigation, and, of course, the former cia director john brennan, james comey, james clapper. all of these people that really the president railed against. that s is what s going on now. also keep in mind we have the inspector general s report coming on the entire fisa issue and the fbi investigation. that s due to come out in the next several weeks. shimon, i know we ll talk about that when it drops. thank you, sir, very much. and you know, just what a week. it may be the most dramatic yet in this impeachment inquiry from
tearful apology in may when she bled guilty to this one federal charge but we re not at that yet. still listening to the u.s. and of course waiting for that judge s decision we are expecting very, very shortly. brooke? okay. thank you very much. come back to you the second you get news. bring in a couple smart voices on all this. erica hill following the case, and a former prosecutor, and civil rights attorney. just from a lawyer s view first. the fact the prosecution asked she serve one month. in all of your years have you ever heard of one month asked? very unusual, brooke. usually in any case sort of a bear minimum if you re prosecutor or the judge and jail time. lowest sendenses i ve seen, four months, six months, aside from george papadopolos, 14 days. very unusual. the thinking, first, a big administrative burden to get someone into the bureau of