that s why there s ocuvite. ocuvite helps replenish nutrients your eyes can lose as you age. it has lutein, zeaxanthin and omega-3. ocuvite. be good to your eyes. we re back with the hardball round table. susan page, jonathan capehart and shermichael singleton. it seems the republican party is so tight and tucked in with this president. will they? no, they re not going to criticize. no matter what is going on? no, they re not. i think these guys should stop being cowards and put the country before the powered. gop leaders. this guy is destroying the republican party. and mitch mcconnell is sitting around saying absolutely nothing. look, it s great that chuck schumer says something, but he has no power or influence to do something. mitch mcconnell has to say something and do something here. because the country is dependent and relying upon him. and he is absolutely absent from
welcome back to hardball. president trump could potentially face new legal exposure after today s fbi raid on michael cohen s office. and today he is also facing mounting challenges inside the white house. and of course on the international stage. as the washington post reports, trump is more willing than ever to go it alone without the advice of his chief of staff john kelly. quote, the recurring and escalating clashes between the president and his chief of staff traced the downward arc of kelly s eight months in the white house. both his credibility and influence have been severe lly diminished. meanwhile, a reported chemical weapon attack in syria. trump has taken a tougher posture towards syria, saying there will be a big price to pay. we ll see. it comes as trump s new national security adviser, john bolton marked his first day on job. how opportune. here is how the president
actress stormy daniels. president trump addressed the news at the white house a short time ago. and it s a disgrace. it s frankly, a real disgrace. it s an attack on our country in a true sense. it s an attack on what we all stand for. so when i saw this and when i heard it, i heard it like you did. i said that is really now in a whole new level of unfairness. for more on the reaction inside the white house, i m joined by robert costa, national political reporter for the washington post. robert, a whole new level of unfairness. it sounds to me like he is setting himself up to act. white house officials tell me tonight that they saw that pool spray as a necessary venting for the president to get his thoughts out there as he has been watching television all afternoon just before he has dinner with military leaders. he is frustrated, and his aides feel rattled. this was a curveball. well this going into the president s papers, basically, going into his fixer lawyer s
there are specific provisions that apply to searches of attorney records. we have the criminal division that has to have signed off. and we have a federal judge, a federal judge. did sessions do it? did his own attorney general approve this raid today? that s probably unclear because if you re trump you thinking that? there is two places where this applies. one is the special prosecutor regulation, which suggests it went to rosenstein. but there is also a manual for u.s. attorneys which suggests it goes to the attorney general. so we don t know the answer to that. certainly the president suggested that he is more comfortable with sessions in charge of this than mr. rosenstein. renato, i read the mandate of the special counsel. it does say any matters that arise or are discovered during the course of the investigation are fair game. if i were trump, i d be scared to death. that means anything found many that treasure trove today in michael cohen s office i presume in new yor
his job is to get people to be quiet. it seems to me there is a treasure trove here for those whether reporters or lawyers trying to find out what trump did wrong over the years, including his business relations involving new york real estate, which is always murky. everybody knows that and what politicians he s had to deal with, what money he has had to pay to underworld people. we don t know. but it s all apparently potentially in that trove grabbed by the bureau today. you got a clear insight. when you met michael cohen years ago when i started to cover him, he was always the president s personal lawyer. personal matters. president trump, when he was a businessman had a different level of lawyer, different kind of lawyer for real estate. a different kind of level lawyer for finance. cohen was really the best friend, the attorney, the political aide, the media consultant. so if you put him under sodium pentothal, you d get it all, wouldn t you? you d get everything going back f