Have their eyes set on him for whats now a debate that could have significant consequences in the battle for the democratic nomination. Joining me to talk about this, christopher catalog, National Political reporter, aaron blake, reporter for the Washington Post, and um better tow sanchez, correspondent for nevada independent. I dont know if we can overstate. Michael bloomberg started this Campaign Officially almost a year after some of the other candidates. He missed first eight debates, first four states, already spent somewhere in the neighborhood of 400 million. And he is second in the national poll. Theres never been a political story quite like this, has there . No. I think it reinforces that money does matter in politics, even after the last election, maybe it wasnt quite so important. Look, when he got in the race, there were a lot of people, myself included, who scratched our heads a bit at the strategy he was going to be running. First of all, he wasnt taking donations, meant
Coronavirus. Out how to mitigate that. The president confirmed today that some white house staff will in terms of how we protect now start wearing masks. People in nursing homes, meat packing plants, you know, what the u. S. Lost more than 20 we need is a really rigorous million jobs in the month of april as the country remained testing program. Anybody who is in a nursing under lockdown. Thats the biggest loss since home, any worker, any visitor, all the people who live there the Great Depression, since need to be tested on an ongoing weve been keeping these records. Basis thats how you protect the Unemployment Rate is now a those folks. We havent done that because we staggering 14. 7 . Dont have testing or not enough testing and thats why we jcpenney is the latest continue to see the massive outbreaks in these places that retail chain to announce that are killing unfortunately a lot of people. All right. They are preparing to file for very quickly, can this be bankruptcy protection a
Just the beginning. The Washington Post reports cohen reached out to multiple companies bragging about what he could offer, quote, he showed photos of himself with trump and mentioned how frequently they spoke, even asking people to share news articles describing him as the president s fixer. Im crushing it, he said. Cohens defense it wasnt me well, at least it wasnt all me. His Attorney Says some of the transactions listed in the original financial document posted online by Stormy Daniels attorney were wrongfully attributed to Michael Cohen, the president s fixer. Some of them were to other Michael Cohens. One is in israel, another is from canada. So cohen is off the hook, right . Not quite. The moneys that went to the other Michael Cohens amounted to about 20,000. The total monies listed were more than 4 million. Cohens attorney isnt disputing two of the biggest payments, the 1. 2 million from novartis and 600,000 from at t. Those two companies confirmed they had given information to
But first, new questions and changing explanations from companies now finding themselves smack in the middle of a controversy over big payments to Donald Trumps personal attorney Michael Cohen. Im crushing it, reads the headline in the Washington Post, quoting cohen, touting how he leveraged his access to President Trump. Those promised brought millions of dollars into cohens business essential consulting. Among the companies putting cash in cohens coffers, drug giant novartis and at t. Msn Msnbcs Ali Velshi taking a look at all this. Let me start with the basic. Some people might say this happens all the time. People were surprised. They got a president they werent expecting. They wanted to go and find out anything they could about him. So they paid 1. 2 million to a guy named Michael Cohen. Its weird on a lot of levels. Theres some part of this thats a bit swampy. Novartis ceo put out a statement saying we made a mistake entering into this agreement and were being criticized by a wor