based on the tea leaves are the final stages of this investigation, knowing it will end up in a report, and there will probably be a push by the white house not to let it see the light of day. hey, eric, back over to you. give us a preview tomorrow with rick gates. what could happen here? like you mentioned earlier, the central question is going to be whether he s ready for sentencing. we saw earlier this week michael flynn does not yet want to be sentenced because he says i still have additional corporation i want to offer. rick gates has been cooperating for a really, really long time, both with mueller an prosecutors in new york, so the central question really is, has he completed his cooperation to his own satisfaction and to the government s satisfaction? and, mimi, this goes back to your point. let s say this time tomorrow night we re reporting that gates has been continued, because his work continues. what you re saying is, you don t need the core office for that you need
if he s not given a sentencing date, that will likely mean he is still worthwhile and cooperating with mueller. amid the movement at the special counsel s office and the outstanding cases, congress is now suddenly taking an increased interest in the pending report on the investigation. today republicans joined democrats in the house to pass a nonbinding resolution to make mueller s full report public. this passed with a vote of 420-0. with that, let s bring in our leadoff panel on a thursday night. mimi roka, now a distinguished fellow in criminal justice at the pace university school of law. kimberly atkins, senior washington correspondent for wbur, and also with us tonight, eric tucker, justice department reporter with the associated press. mimi, to start with you, you and i have alternately doubted some of the reporting that s come out and been rather dire.
committees that we ve already been watching, i mean it s the oversite committee and the appearance of michael cohen that led to a flood of action out of new york state investigating donald trump and his businesses and his dealings with banks and insurance companies. i think this will continue to spin off in that way as house investigators continue to look really closely at every aspect of donald trump s white house and his businesses. terrific conversation tonight. to mimi, kimberly and eric, thank you, all of you, for joining our broadcast this evening. and coming up, a big defeat for the president today delivered by senators from his own party. and then later, after much speculation, a young man from texas is officially doing what he says he was born to do. we have another story to tell you about, breaking news coming in from new zealand. news of a mass shooting there. as we nail that story down, we ll bring it to you, all of it
questioning michael cohen tomorrow in a closed-door session. we have former federal prosecutor mimi roka. you heard a lot about the southern district of new york today. the legal filings on michael cohen by the prosecutors of the southern district of new york became a major component in all of the republicans questioning in that hearing today. we have tim o brien who wrote a book about donald trump and his businesses. a book that got tim o brien sued by donald trump. a lawsuit that tim o brien won. tim o brien was the first person to said the words allen weissleberg to me when he identified the chief financial officer of the trump organization as a key player in the investigation of the trump business. we heard michael cohen making repeated references today to allen weissleberg, who may now be called before that committee. and no one can take up inside the trump business no one can talk about the inside of the trump businesses better than tim
yeah, exactly. it s so much to get through. i m going to sit down and watch you do it. okay. thank you, rachel. thanks, lawrence. well, we have everyone we need tonight to cover this historic day. we have one of the members of the committee who questioned michael cohen today, who revealed information we would not have known without his particular line of questioning. we have a member of the house intelligence committee, eric swalwell, who will be questioning michael cohen tomorrow in a closed-door session. we have former federal prosecutor mimi roka. you heard a lot about the southern district of new york today. the legal filings on michael cohen by the prosecutors of the southern district of new york became a major component in all of the republicans questioning in that hearing today. we have tim o brien who wrote a book about donald trump and his businesses. a book that got tim o brien sued by donald trump. a lawsuit that tim o brien won. tim o brien was the first person