and donald trump, you forgot to mention, of course, who spoke to michael cohen on friday, another dumb move, because what is he doing talking to a key witness, is really, according to white house sources, everything we know has got donald trump absolutely panicked. judge sugarman we know that the president did take jay goldberg s advice about getting solid new york lawyers to handle this. the president has joanna hendon handling the case, former federal prosecutor herself. but now to michael avenatti s point, which is echoed by jay goldberg, that michael cohen will probably face charges in this, is that an assessment that you can almost bet on because of how high the bar is in getting search warrants to go after a lawyer.
new reporting that trump blocked the russia sanctions. senator chris murphy is here to respond. there is a nonzero possibility that the russians have some sway over him. plus, a new push from some republicans to protect robert mueller. and about last night i don t think he is medically unfit to be president. i think he is morally unfit to be president. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. well, well, well. a federal judge right here in manhattan just rejected an effort by the president of the united states to block federal prosecutors from looking at thousands of documents seized last week in the criminal probe of the president s lawyer and associate michael cohen. it was an extraordinary scene at a federal courthouse downtown today where cohen, the president s personal lawyer and fixer was ordered to appear in person exactly one week since being raided by the fbi. now cohen was joined by a new attorney for the president,
selected for the job by liberal democratic senator daniel patrick moynihan and officially nominated by president bill clinton. if joanna hendon were on robert mueller s team, donald trump would be calling her a democrat loyalist. instead of paying her to defend him tonight, which is what he is doing. but that s not the best part. the most maddening thing for donald trump about the law firm he has hired, spears & imes, the founders of that law firm, spears & imes, david spears and linda imes were assistant u.s. attorneys serving with assistant u.s. attorney james b. comey. spears and imes and comey all worked in the criminal division of the united states attorneys office for southern district of new york, the same unit that donald trump is now fighting in