carried out at trump s direction. tonight there has been no response as of yet from the white house, but a source inside the trump organization told nbc news cohen s allegations were more lies from a serial liar. well, with that, let s bring in our leadoff panel for a friday night, three returning veterans, ken thomas, political reporter for the associated press, the aforementioned emily jane fox, senior reporter at vanity fair, her recent book is born trump, inside america s first family, and jason johnson, politics editor at the root. welcome to you all and thanks for coming on. ken, how you ve been switched over to covering just these midterms from your usual beat so i ask you, with that in mind, how unusual is this to have two presidents basically head to head race for race as we go into a midterm election on tuesday? it s striking. i mean, you have to go back decades to find an ex-president
resend to his followers. well that he message limited to twitter. with us tonight to talk about all of it, emily jane fox, senior report for vanity fair. she also happens to be the author of born trump, inside america s first family. she also happens to be the first to report last week on michael cohen s talks with robert mueller. michael crowley also returns to our broadcast, national security editor at politico. and still with us, former u.s. attorney joyce vance. emily, this is built on your reporting and i want you now to build on the reporting that s out there. what more do we know about these sessions, these questions, and possible answers from cohen? so, here s what i have discussed and last friday night i sat with you here talking about how michael cohen had been speaking with robert mueller and in the weeks since what i ve learned is that michael cohen has been an open book. he had signalled for months that he was willing to be an open book, that he wanted to share
he pleaded last week to charges in manhattan court, during his allocution, he said he violated campaign finance laws at the direction of a candidate for federal office. the next day president trump accused cohen of making up stories to get a deem him joining our conversation tonight the aforementioned emily jane fox senior reporter for vanity fair who happens to be the author of the book that came out this year born trump, inside america s first family. still with us, michael schmidt, barbara mcquaid, jeremy bash. emily, what has michael cohen s life been like these past couple of weeks? it is a much quieter existence for him, both because he has had to stop talking after he pleaded guilty in august and talking to friends, associates, people who he had been speaking to, even in a run-up to what happened in august. there is a sense in the world
book that came out earlier this year, born trump, inside america s first family. still with us, michael schmidt. barbara mcquade, jeremy bash. emily, what has michael cohen s life been like these past couple of weeks? it has been a much quieter existence for him both because he has had to stop talking after he pleaded guilty in august. talking to friends, associates, people who he had been speaking to even in a run up to what happened in august, there is a sense in the world around michael cohen that something was happening, that something serious was going on. people around him started talking about he must be talking to robert mueller. and as i reported today, that has been the case. it is unclear what those conversations have been like and how serious they are, how far down the road they have been. this is a man who i interviewed him last labor day weekend. to say that his life has turned in a stunning way is such an
separation of parents and children. really? well, until today, ivanka had been publicly silent as the government took more than 2,500 children away from their migrant mothers and fathers. the president ended the separations in june, reportedly after some pressure from his daughter and others. but tonight, hundreds of those families are still torn apart. with us for more, emily jane fox, senior reporter for vanity fair. her recent book is born trump: inside america s first family. and the low point for the children, the infants in baby jails, was being yanked out of their mothers and fathers arms, and the low point for ivanka trump was reading about it? was the press scrutiny. maybe the low point was the scrutiny she got on twitter for posting this picture. was that the low point?