Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. He was indicted for payments made to a mistress, how much stronger would an Election Fraud kbas in this instance if you throw in cohens testimony . They tell me it would be much stronger for the following reasons. They say these were not made to the campaign, they were made to keep them from john edwards wife. Michael cohen prepared to go into court and say yes, these payments were related to the campaign. Motherover the payments from john edwards were two years before he ran for president. These happened just a few months before the election, and there is a tape now where it is being made clear to him that this
Alex Witt hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Tower in 2016. This contradicts the president and juniors accounts, so if this is a true, how damaging could this be . Im not sure how big of a deal it would be when it comes legally i think there could
White house, ken dilanyan in the washington bureau. Epic news week and the president is talking about all of this in this interview . Hes making a nonmarvel argument that what he pled to is in fact not a crime. The president of the United States Isnt The Ar Bitter of that. Its judges and prosecutors that decide and a jury that decides whether or not something is a crime. Also in that interview, you had a frank admission from the president that he made the payments. Hes trying to clarify things and make sure this wasnt a Campaign Violation but listen to what he had to say and well come back on the back end. He made the deals. And by the way, he pled to two counts that arent a crime, which nobody understands. I watched a number of shows. Sometimes you get pretty good information by watching shows. Those two counts arent even a crime. They werent campaign finance. Did you know about the payments . Later on i knew. Later on. But you have to understand, what
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say, he may have some connections to organized crime. president trump said this about his testimony early today. he has only been threatened by the truth. he doesn t want to do that probably for me or any of his clients. he has other clients also, i assume. he doesn t want to tell the truth. he did say that michael cohen come before the committee at the appropriate time at some future date, with his schedule to go to prison on march 6th, time is running short. the committee chairman elijah cummings said, we will get the testimony and ensure as night becomes day, he will be willing to get michael cohen out of jail for a day. bret: john roberts, thank you. turmoil in the streets of venezuela today as protesters demand president nicolas maduro stepped down and president trump is taking the clearest step yet to show his support.
motivation. i heard from radio callers on sirius xm who wondered if the move was more about knocking mueller and michael cohen out of the headlines than it was a thought-out policy, especially where he caught his own military apparatus off guard. this past july john bolton said we would be there as long as the iranians are there. even if that cynicism about the president s timing is correct, was the president necessarily wrong? i hope he s right that we ve defeated isis in syria, although i have my doubts, but like the president, i d like to see us out of syria and afghanistan too. 17 years removed from 9/11, it seems to me that the fundamental question is whether we make america, america, not the world, more or less safe every time we expand our international footprint. for far too long our rote response has been to open a base every time there s a hot spot discovered somewhere in the
that both the house and the senate, republican-lead we should point out, want to bring michael cohen out. one of the questions that they would like to ask michael cohen is was he instructed to lie or to cover anything up. and the question out there is did the white house what did the white house know? could the white house have in any way been involved in that? those hearings questioning some of these folks are going to be fascinating, david. right. and politically charged as well, even after the justice department through the special prosecutor goes first in the investigation. what s, i think, critical about cohen and ami is here you have a very specific allegation of the president directing payments, the president directing activity. i think there is a lot of that at the core of the investigation into russia ties, too. was the president actually the one quarterbacking these contacts, approving people of