He has the inside scoop coming up. First, chief National Correspondent ed henry kicks off the coverage with breaking news. Good evening. Great to see you. The District Attorneys Office here in manhattan is thinking about bringing criminal charges against President Trumps business, the trump organization, in connection with how officials they are reimbursed Attorney Cohen for his payments to that adult film performer. According to the New York Times tonight. The president said months ago of the special counsel started probing his business dealings, that would be what he called a redline that could spark Robert Muellers firing. This is more complicated because it would be State Charges against the trump organization, not federal charges brought by mueller. It would be harder to justify a meal or firing perhaps. Plus the president has the power to pardon Paul Manafort or anyone else for federal charges but he does not have Clear Authority to pardon people or corporations for criminal char
A recap of the days headlines and a look at whats in store for tomorrow. Lawyer would have done what Jeff Sessions did. He was part of the campaign, you cant oversee an investigation of a campaign you were part of so he had to recuse himself. Shannon why does the president get that . I dont know. Is that a lawyer, he is frustrated, he thinks this is a witchhunt, jeff did the right thing legally but mueller is now very deep into his investigation. This conflict is far beyond mueller and recusal. This is not a good working relationship from what i can tell. For the good of the nation we need an Attorney General that has the confidence of the president and im not blaming Jeff Sessions. There is no finer man but at the end of the day there are plenty of conservative judges and lawyers that i think could do this job, the we can get somebody confirmed but if he does replace Jeff Sessions the burden will be on the president to pick somebody highly qualified, give mueller the space he needs to
this point who the white house chief of staff is, what his name is, whether he is acting or formal. this is a president who has never understood the job of the white house chief of staff, who doesn t believe that he needs one, who feels empowered to just act out and make decisions without any input. it s a president for whom focus and discipline and process are anathema. and that s dangerous. i think we were lucky with this latest raid. like the big california quake, there may be a bigger national security crisis on its way, and this white house won t be prepared for it. chris whipple, always great to have you here. carol lee, again, great reporting thanks to you. ahead, democratic congressman eric swalwell will join me just minutes until the house democrats begin marking up impeachment legislation. your airport and how you
was accused of sexual assault by two different women. lawmakers were planning to introduce impeachment legislation. but this morning a ingmorning, lawmaker seemed to have a change of heart. saying additional conversationings are needed. democratic state delegate patrick hope said, we all owe it to all parties involved, especially the victims, to make sure we have thought through every option. so we can build more consensus on a path forward. nbc s geoff bennett is live in richmond. at this point, you might need to get an apartment. what s going on? that s right, as this scandal enters week two. the lieutenant governor justin fairfax is refusing to resign. over the weekend, he issued
said democrats would be for us to talk about and asked if democrats win back the house, the likelihood there will be in impeachment vote is higher than they seem to want to admit. impeachment legislation was introduced long before cohen implicate a president rouhani a campaign finance violation. lee split with the party leadership. there s nothing to talk about. it s clear that if you get the majority in house and senate and given the democrats and this president has given them a lot of reasons to want to impeach him beyond the politics, remember the mueller investigation is still out there. cohen is still cooperating. and so once that gets complete it which a lot of democrats think we ought to let it run its course and then figure out whether we re going to impeach someone or not. it s way too premature. i think the democrats are right. let s say hypothetically that the democrats control the house right now. same facts that come all the circumstances are exactly as they are today