properties. vice president pence said no one told him to do that, he just thought it was a good idea. but that is one part of the house investigation and now this is another. this will be part of the question of whether the president is violating the emoluments clause against self-enrichment in office. it shows how the probe moves forward in the house, jewel yarks that they re not getting the answers that they want. house stonewalled probe of military sleepovers at trump resorts. the defense department not getting the documents, what are the steps that could be taken in the probe here if the defense department, if the pentagon says we re not going to give you that information? i think the house oversite committee investigating these issues of conflicts of interest with president trump. and the businesses have been
i don t think they ve done that either of those things. jewel yarks you have teed it up for congress, and congress is with us, tonight. in the person of democratic congressman steve cohen of tennessee. congressman cohen is a member of the house judiciary committee which has jurisdiction over the impeachment process. congressman cohen, to what jill wine banks just said, what do you see as the distinction between your obligations on the judiciary committee and robert mueller s obligations as a federal prosecutor. jill was exactly right. robert mueller was limited to russian involvement in our election. we are not limited to that, and we could have laws that we see that need to be passed concerning interference in our elections, concerning gaps in the what you, campaigns. and with administrations and
so jewel yarks let s talk about michael cohen. i wonder how much trouble or maybe how worried the president should be because here is what the reporting is, right is that the administration or the president and his people are more concerned. their big concern really is what s happening in the southern district of new york. that s right. that would be untouchable by whatever, mostly untouchable by whatever changes might occur to rosenstein. i think for a long time, i guess michael cohen has been demoted to like, you know, caterer. i don t know what he is anymore. he s a freelance temp hired by a temp agency. right. came in to do a little stenography every once in a while. that s right. but whatever he was, he actually did have a lot of documents. those have been raided and those have been taken in fbi sweeps. that s going to have a lot of information about the sort of the business side of the trump
crazy idea on my part. that s part of the problem. just to underscore, that is part of the problem. we don t know what they said. number two, president trump is not good with facts and figures and understanding these things, compared to president putin. and number three, i hope what they did what any other administration could do. in fact, i know that translator and did this with other meetings i have been to, i hope they sat down with her and had her jot down to the best of her memory everything that was said. vladimir putin brought pencil and paper to him. shooirm he read out to his side everything. i don t know if we did that on our side. jewel yarks chris wallace on fox news did what so many people were hoping but never truly believed donald trump would do with putin would do. chris wallace walked in with the latest mueller indictment. he presented putin in the
i have no doubt his briefers, staffers before they walked into the press conference were briefing the president on how to answer that question correctly. he could have taken the middle ground and said nobody should ever violate the sochbty of the united states of america when we are choosing our president and not even talk about russia. he chose not to do that. as everybody said it was deeply lamentable. it makes him look week weak in the eyes of putin and i think it makes him look weak in the eyes of america. he s our commander in chief. he s supposed to defend us. he didn t do that today. jewel yarks as the only moscow born turned american scholar and author, tell us as best you can how this is being viewed in russia. i think about the way mike described it. it s seen as but at the same time, the people i spoke to in moscow today said, we don t really know what that was.