Cooperate with Justice Department committee and new cooperation but if history is a guide here we have to wait and see what happens because theres history of not cooperating. Yeah, i would bet on not cooperation not only refusal to make documents available but serious redactions have been sent over, dojs refusal to make witnesses available for different members an committees in the house and in the senate. They dont want a lot of this information to come out so i think we can expect that its all going to have to be pride out bit by bit. Paul okay, now we do the name of this contractor has been widely reported, but we know a fair number of things about it, hes an american who is resident in the uk, he met with three Trump Campaign officials, all of this from stories that clearly seemed leaked by the Justice Department and fbi, is that how you read it, they are responsible for leaking details . Absolutely, according to government sources and that usually means department of justice, fbi,
Paul senator flake echoing familiar refrain from democrats in capitol hill with kavanaugh and accuser Christine Blasey ford. Each of these allegations should be investigated by the fbi. You want to reach the truth, the easy way to do that is ask the fbi to investigate. Judge kavanaugh if he truly believes theres no evidence, no witnesses that can prove your case should be joining us and demanding author refbi investigation. Paul judge, michael served as 81st attorney general of the United States, judge welcome, good to have you back again. Good to be here. Paul the focus on the fbi and theres a lot of misunderstanding and just what the fbi does in circumstances of involving nominees, its not a criminal probe, is it . No, it is not, it is the fbi conducting interviews with people who know or know about person being considered for office and they ask questions along various axis, having to do with the persons background, having to do with their character, reputation, having to do with fi
Note . Not really in terms of the rush shoo probe as yorussia pro. There are two filings, one from the Southern District that dealt with the main crimes that cohen agreed that he had done, tax evasion, misrepresentation to financial institutions, Campaign Finance violations. Recommending a pretty harsh sentence for him. Then there was a shorter memo from the pecial counsel that goes to russia and we didnt learn anything. It sought to detail the ways in which he cooperated with the special counsels office. The only thing new there was that there had been some contact between cohen and an unnamed russian individual in 2015. But even the special counsel document has to acknowledge that that meeting never went anywhere. This is the meeting where russia approached cohen and suggested synergy on a government level between russia and the Trump Campaign. Correct. But again the memo admits that cohen didnt take the meeting. Suggested a meeting between trump and putin and that never took place.
A better choice, someone in the middle who can speak to their values, they would vote for someone like me. Paul lets bring in wall street journal columnist and deputy editor, Dan Henninger, Mary Anastasia ogrady and James Freeman. James, Howard Schultz is a lifetime democrat. Yes. Paul are you surprised that he is suggesting he might run as an independent . Why do that . I think hes seeing an opportunity here where poyou ha a democratic nomination process that seems currently built to anoint a progressive extreme left as he is wondering if maybe, there is still a place for liberals in the american political system. We dont want to go all the way to venezuela type paul you mean kennedy liberals and even bill clinton . Right. Not long ago there was ideological diversity within the party. And maybe it is an independent run but who knows maybe he does well as an independent. He ultimately gets democrats to start thinking maybe they ought to move to the center too. Paul interesting. Dan, in
Congress, the government will either shut down on february 15th again, or i will use the powers afforded to me under the laws and the constitution of the United States to address this emergency. Paul lets bring in Deputy Editor Dan Henninger and columnist kim straussing. Kim, the president within 24 hours moving from no opening of the government unless you fully fund the wall to, well, okay, a down payment on the wall. Now no money for the wall and a temporary government opening. What caused him to finally give in . Yeah. The pressure just simply hit breaking point. Look, paul, you looked out there, voters blamed republicans, blamed him for the shutdown. It was hurting their Approval Ratings out there in the polls. You had it doing damage, according to the white houses own economists, to the economy. You saw the consequences of the shutdown really start to ratchet up, people not showing up for work, airlines being delayed, things not happening. And also you had members of the Republica