michael cohen told chris hayes earlier tonight about what pressure from prosecutors must feel like for his old friend, michael allen weisselberg. they come with so much pressure. they come with so much force that no matter who you are, it makes no difference. you can t oppose it. that s exactly the pressure they are going to put on weisselberg. when people say, oh, allen will not flip. this isn t about flipping, folks. this is about telling the truth. joining a discussion now andrew weizmann who served as a general counsel and chief of the criminal mission in the eastern district of new york. he s an msnbc legal analyst. andrew, as i was watching allen weisselberg today in that video, saying, no comment, as instructed by his criminal
before thanksgiving, christmas? stop depends upon the president s next tweet or the next crime. you how effect 2ive we are. but we won t be the one that slows the process down. do you think it needs to happen before the prime aerts begin or are you worried about it getting in the way of the 2020 democrats being able to focus solely on poll about city? look, we won the house back on policy. we won the house back on health care. but i think that the american people has seen us do more than one thing at a time. we re passing legislation every week dealing from pharmaceutical pricing to climate change to gun violence. the fact that the senate is killing that legislation isn t our problem right now. we re going to go forward and do both things. what about the whistleblower? chairman schiff says that the whistleblower has agreed to testify very soon.
support of other people on the other side and i think the democrats and republicans have a chance to really come together. arthel: president trump striking optimistic note he sees bipartisan support for taking action, push for gun reform also gaining momentum on capitol hill as both parties move the issue higher up on the agenda, mark meredith is in washington now with more, hi, mark. hi, arthel, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has no plans to call session over gun control, president trump says he s supporting legislation to expand background checks, president has spoken with gop lawmakers, democratic congressional leaders and nra, he believes following last week s shooting is time to act. nra does not appear backing any proposals, they put out statement this week, this is
arthel: very good and also exactly. arthel: yeah, people are tired of this left and right. this is not a political issue, this is america s issue, look at new zealand, when they have their incident, they acted affirmatively, led and you know what, we don t know whether the ban or the wait period will fix it or not, but we do know historically when we had a ban on on weapons of mass destruction, in the 80 s and we left that legislation run out, we know that we reduced the carnage and that legislation isn t going to stop people from killing people but it s going to reduce the carnage and the scar on america and the number of victims and that s really the first step at eliminating this pain and the massacres that are happening over and over again. arthel: amir, i will get you in a second, but i want to read a statement from senator rick scott of florida, he wrote an op-ed on red flag laws. he says that he would pass it, he says, i m a gun owner, member of the national rifle associ
well, i think that they should do it sooner, i think that they should call a special session in august, bring the legislators back from the recess, have august session that deals with security and safety, but it shouldn t just be based on gun control, there s a whole host of measures and i do think that some of it does rest with the current congress and the president but much of it, and this is what i will take issue with mayor pete buttigieg with democrat runners and democrat legislators that haven t taken measure but, in fact, have taken enactive legislation that rolls back some of the legislation that would have protected communities. they should bring people to washington to talk about such things as enacting legislation, making domestic terrorism a federal crime which is not now, i think they should make stricter penalties for gun offenses, i think they should put the death penalty back on the table, i think we have to talk about taking action against