Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Bookminder, executive director for citizens for responsibilities and ethics. And Midwin Charles is an attorney. President trump reacted to cohens plea this morning on twitter where he writes if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, i would strongly suggest you that dont retain the services of Michael Cohen. Okay. Lets remind our audience, the president is downplaying this. Being funny, almost cute. Theres nothing cute about it. The president of the United States is the chief Law Enforcement officer. That is what he is. And yesterday, he has been accused as a coconspirator of a federal crime, maybe multiple. So, please, let that sit in. Midwin what is your take here . My take is this is consistent with donald trump. We have seen him react this way to a varietydifferent thinks
even when accused of Sexual Assault by women. Now, what is shocking that i think all of us need to recognize on august 21st, 2018, the Trump P
sdny. how significant is it? it shows mueller s team which was formed in may of 2017, just two months later in july of 2017 had sent an application to a judge in d.c. which gave them a search warrant to search michael cohen s e-mail accounts looking back as far as june of 2015. right at the outset of the launch of the special counsel s investigation they started looking at michael cohen and looking at his e-mails going back several years at that point. michael cohen, of course, at that point donald trump still one of his closest allies, his personal attorney, his quote/unquote fixer. so they are looking right away into michael cohen s communications. we learned it wasn t just limited to the e-mails. mueller s team was getting pen register warrants looking at
even when accused of sexual assault by women. now, what is shocking that i think all of us need to recognize on august 21st, 2018, the trump presidency changed forever. his longtime attorney, his quote/unquote fixer. the guy who said he would take a bullet for him. a bullet. at this point, we can all agree he is not a fixer because he bungled. you know what, eight is enough. he pled guilty to eight different counts. manafort was found guilty of eight counts. apparently, eight is the magic number here. but he walked into court yesterday and told a federal judge that the president of the united states coordinated with him and directed that he make a payment to two women in violation of campaign finance laws. he implicated the president in a federal crime. and a felony. the president of the united states, right now, is an unindicted co-conspirator. and i think that that changes