they would subpoena white house officials by friday of this week if their demands on documents for ukraine are not met. and this on the afore mentioned adam schiff. we re not fooling around here. they need to know even as they try to undermine our ability to find the facts around the president s efforts to coerce a foreign leader to create dirt that he can use against a political opponent, that they will be strengthening the case on obstruction if they behave that way. earlier today, trump was asked by a reuters reporter, jeff mason, to explain exactly what he wanted from the president of the ukraine and it left us with this exchange. mr. president, can you just make clear right here, what do you or what did you want president zelensky to do with regard to joe and hunter biden? i was having a problem with are two things. number one, ukraine before him, tremendous corruption, tremendous. more than just about any country in the world. what about mr. biden? what did you want
slammed the democrats for, quote, wasting everyone s time and energy on bs, the polite form of the word he used. there is no reporting on this story, involving trump s personal lawyer, rudy giuliani and trump campaign chairman paul manafort because actually it s been months since we heard his name. he s currently in the slammer as a federal inmate. the washington post reports giuliani has told them that in recent months he has, quote, consulted several times with manafort through the federal prisoner s lawyer in pursuit of information that would bolster his story that the real story of 2016 is not russian interference to elect trump but ukrainian efforts to support hillary clinton. the post adds that it s all still about mueller. the alliance stems from a shared interest in a narrative that undermines the rationale for the special counsel investigation. the post also reports that trump involved his vice president in efforts to pressure the president of ukraine to dig up dirt on joe
do could be construed as a message to michael cohen, hang on, the cavalry s coming. this is why we hired rudy. number one, do you believe that s what s going on? and number two, does rudy have that much charm in the southern district of new york to derail an investigation like this? i think alan dershowitz has some legitimate points, but i think he goes too far in many of the things that he says. by saying that everything is criminalized if you want to find it is wrong. it s flat-out wrong. i don t know that alan dershowitz is trying to send a message to michael cohen or otherwise. i think the better message might have been the scooter libby pardon, that if you stick around, i ll take care of you, like i did with scooter libby. but at the end of the day, the southern district of new york is going to go forward with their investigation and they re going to follow it to the end. rudy giuliani is, obviously, a very well-respected former u.s. attorney there. but when i was there, i dealt
magoo and rosenstein mr. peepers. and about sessions, the president has been famously willing to publicly thrash his attorney general, ever since he recused himself from the russia investigation, and on the day of that raid involving trump s attorney, michael cohen, he went at him again. he should have certainly let us know if he was going to recuse himself. and we would have used a put a different attorney general in. so he made what i consider to be a very terrible mistake for the country. but you ll figure that out. this new reporting on sessions reminds us that president trump is facing a number of serious legal battles that could pose a grave danger to his presidency. the fbi raid, which as the washington post mentioned, was approved by rod rosenstein, was part of a larger criminal investigation into michael cohen by federal prosecutors in new york. the washington post also reports tonight the former attorney for porn star, stormy daniels and playboy model, karen
different than anyone else. so, either mueller or the southern district. they re going to finish their investigation and rudy giuliani may be able to negotiate some agreement, as to an interview or something, but he s not going to be able to make the investigation evaporate. fair enough. and thank you for the honest answer. hey, vivian, how does this look, this sessions matter specifically, politically, within the trump white house? reporter: well, obviously, sessions has been under fire since day one and, so he has recused himself from the russia investigation. this is something that has gotten really under the skin of the president. he has repeatedly expressed his frustration. you just showed one of many clips where he did that. but, obviously, when jeff sessions pushes back on these issues and if there s an incident where he says this compromises my integrity as an attorney, as a prosecutor, as the attorney general and i might