Deadline white house starts right now. Hi, everyone, welcome to wednesday, a critical chapter in the trial of the expresident is coming to a close. Questions now swirl about what happens next n trump election interference trial. Todd blanche failed to land any significant blows to Michael Cohens credibility, something theyre desperate to do after he was put in the center of the scheme to catch and kill negative stories that could have hurt Donald Trumps campaign. He told the jury that the president himself signed off on the plan to hide the expenses. Todd blanche started this way, these are literally the first words out of the his mouth. You and i have never spoken or met, have we . To which cohen replied, we have not. Todd blanche, but you know who i am . Cohen answers, i do blanche asking, on april 23rd, so after the trial started in this case, you went on tiktok and called me a, quote, Crying Little cohen supplies that might be something i would say. Blanche went on to defend mr. Co
Evening. Im erin burnett. Out front, pelosi has new evidence. Just hours before the formal vote to hand over articles of impeachment to the senate. Now nancy pelosi has never before seen documents and they point to trumps abuse of pow e evidence that may put the fingerprints of another one of jays lawyers, jay sekulow, on a quid pro quo with ukraine, evidence that includes this letter from Rudy Giuliani to the president of ukraine. Hes congratulating him on winning the office of president of ukraine. He says hes acting with the, quote, knowledge and consent of president donald j. Trump. He says while he wants to help zelenski succeed as a new president , hes writing about something more specific. Let me read this to you. Giuliani writes, however, i have a more specific request. In my capacity as personal counsel to President Trump and with his knowledge and consent, i request a meeting with you on this upcoming monday, mae 13th or tuesday may 14th. Think about this. This is what he say
Celebratory occasion for everybody who has served our nation in uniform. I wish that we didnt have to work on veterans day. I wish more people including us got the day off, honestly, but even though that part of veterans day has eroded and more and more of us are either going to school or working on this day, seems like year after year, fewer people get this day off, but it is still a big freaking deal and a happy occasion to congratulate and thank and honor and, again, celebrate our veterans, so happy veterans day. Even though today is a federal holiday and a big one, the news cycle did not skip a beat, either. We are steaming, of course, toward the start of the first public impeachment hearings on the ukraine scandal the day after tomorrow, wednesday morning. And theres a lot to catch up on in terms of that scandal and the developments around impeachment as we head toward that public hearing. It feels like its kind of piling up with each passing hour, so lets just lets just jump righ
said he was doing in ukraine of may of this year? i don t know. by the end of this administration, are any of us ever going to be able to believe anyone ever again especially if they re associated with the highest levels of the u.s. government? will we ever regain our capacity to belief someone when they speak? i don t know. everybody else associated with this story says that we shouldn t believe lev on this. mr. giuliani says he didn t tell lev to say anything like that in ukraine. the guy from the ukrainian government who they met with in kiev says, yes, i did meet with lev and igor at that time in ukraine, but they didn t bring up military aid. the ukrainian government guy pointedly not bringing up the issue of whether they threatened to withhold the mike pence as well. it just doesn t address that part of it. igor, himself, or at least igor s lawyers who are quite a dream team now, his lawyers are one of paul manafort s lawyers and one of trump s russia lawyers, john daoud, igor ad