barbara, given the bar that you would have to cross to search michael cohen the way they did, are you confident that they have enough to indict him probably now? no, i don t know that. interesting. all we know is there was probable cause to believe that evidence of a crime was in his office. it may not even be that he was the one who committed the crime. so i don t think so. i think that that is something that the prosecutors in the southern district of new york are looking at. but i do think that one of the things that michael cohen is doing could be damaging himself as a cooperator. the more public he is, the more he aligns himself with people like tom arnold who are determined to take down president trump, it sort of harms his credibility as a potential witness. so i think most lawyers would advise michael cohen right now despite the temptation to be out there, that you should just be quiet right now because anything you say could be seen by people as creating a bias against
as creating a bias against president trump if he ultimately does cooperate against him. julia, matt, barbara, thanks ahead, the ugliness that came out of the republican party this week and the resistance that met it. plus, just some trump loving folks trying to find love in a trump world. that s tonight s thing 1, thing 2, next. your brain changes as you get older. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered. in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember.
the same side. arnold telling nbc news, this dude has all the tapes. this dude has everything. i say to michael, guess what, we re taking donald trump down together. he s so tired, he s like okay. and his wife is like okay, f trump. cohen has been sending clear smoke signals his loyalty to trump has reached his limit claiming he s been frozen out boy the president, expressing frustration trump isn t paying his legal bills. on wednesday cohen resigned from the rnc finance committee and in his resignation letter he pointed a random criticism of trump s decision to separate migrant children from their parents. as the son of a polish holocaust survivor, the images and sounds is heart wrenching. children should never be used as bargaining chips. with me now, i m joined by julia yoffe, msnbc justice and
will be okay and you ll pardon me or give me a pardon now and maybe i ll think differently. that might be a strategic move they would be making. but the other explanation for all this is these are just irrational people who do irrational things and say things publicly and to things like talk to tom arnold who appears on tv saying a bunch of crazy things. this is not the first time we ve seen people in the trump orbit show up on television or intermediaries of theirs show up on television, sam nunberg is a great example, doing things that make no sense at all. julia, you just wrote a great profile about don junior. one of the things that comes through in this and other literature in this sort of genre is like loyalty to donald trump sr. is a one-way street, even when it s family members. i mean there is an insane story in this profile about the president basically when he s going through a divorce with ivana bluffing that he s going to steal his son, essentially, and calling her and h
doing was essentially saying, hold on. don t retaliate. we ll take care of this once we come into office. now, the question is, why would he lie about this? and why would you actually make promises to a foreign government before you are in office? the right answer would have been, we hear your concerns, mr. ambassador, and we re happy to take it up with you at 12:30 p.m. on january 20th, but we can t until that time. and so now the question is, who else knows, and as we reported in the times today, my colleagues reported that, in fact, there were many others who were consulted about these interactions with ambassador kislyak. and as you said, you know, why does everybody keep lying about this if it s all very harmless. julia, again, big picture. remind us, why is it that the trump administration seems to have been trying to be nice to the russians? isn t that sort of the question is, all these moves