They broke into an attorneys office. Why didnt they break into the dnc to get the server or cro crookeds office. Crooked is the nickname hes given to Hillary Clinton. Rudy giuliani is the president s current lawyer who went after cohen on tv in interviews this morning. The man is pathetic. Thats a lawyer. He says he directed me to do it. Oh, my goodness. Hes a lawyer. Hes the guy you depend onto determine whether or not you should do it this way or that way. Whether youre donald trump or me or you. Cnn White House Correspondent is live with us now. Boris, we have to mention some factual errors in the president s tweet. Hes wrong about the special counsel investigation being illegal. Hes wrong about the fbi breaking into Michael Cohens office. They had an approved search warrant. Putting that aside, what are we seeing here . Reporter yeah, the white house very clearly trying to discredit everything that Michael Cohen has become saying even in that tweet. Cohen said they were respectful
Their fight for the full unredacted version. We suddenly have a lot of news this morning. Our team is here with that and lets start with hans nichols at the white house and legal analyst and former federal prosecutor anita White House Correspondent for politico and ken political reporter for New York Times. Hans, this lawsuit accuses democrats of declaring an allout war against President Trump. Whats the deal . This is an aggressive, offensive lawsuit by the president s personal teern attorn attorneys. We asked the white house if theyre in agreeance with this. We havent gotten word back on that. This is essentially a defensive posture. What the president s personal lawyers are trying to do is set up a ring fence around the president s old Accounting Firm. Now, theyre the Accounting Firm that did all kind of things for the president including his tax returns. They are trying to ring all documents according to this document. When we talked to jay sekulow he indicated this had to do with
Good to be with you this morning, im Frances Rivera in new york at msnbc world headquarters. It is 7 00 in the east, 4 00 out west and here is whats happening. The president and the impeachment fight. New takes on whats at stake, plus where Public Opinion is leaning right now. When the president obstructs and the white house stone walls, its going to be very difficult to meet these timelines. The democrats really need to get this right. Our democracy is in grave danger. Its never happened in american history. No president has ever been removed from office. Overseas new clashes in hong kong ahead why the next few days are key to the cause. And Britains Boris Johnson under fire. We will tell you why. Developing this morning, sunrise in washington where the battle lines are being drawn as House Democrats impeachment inquiry ramps up. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi telling democrats in texas last night that holding the president accountable is more important than politics. People say you have
what more can you tell us about that? well, i think the key point here is this could be an al qaeda central plot against the united states. so the intelligence suggests that these individuals coming back to america, including an american citizen are linked to al qaeda central. at this point point it s uncorroborated information. they re not corroborating the information. but it s caused a lot of concern in u.s. counterterrorism cycles right now, brooke. haven t we, when i say we, the u.s. been looking for something like this? didn t the cia in the raid in a bot bad find a notebooks with writings about mounting an attack on such an anniversary as this sunday? well, that s absolutely right. osama bin laden appears to have been somewhat obsessed by attacking the united states ten years after 9/11. he was handwriting some notes about this. he also reportedly was in communication with another al qaeda operative. trying to think through how they could launch this sort of atta