united states refused to accept the results of the 2020 election. he refuses to accept the will of the people. he refuses to accept the fact that he lost. he has abused his power and put the loyalty to himself before loyalty to the constitution. a typical year, we re often not faced with questions of whether the vote we cast will preserve democracy or put us at risk. but this year, we are. and the last standard bearer of the democratic party, president barack obama campaigning in arizona, the state that perhaps any other battleground state has been roiled by the big lay with election deniers on the republican side picked up on the same themes, laying out for his audience, the stakes in this election this way. i lost my first congressional race in the primary by 30 points. i got whooped. i was frustrated. that didn t feel good. you know what i didn t do? i didn t claim the election was rigged. i didn t spin conspiracy theories. i didn t instigate a mob to go up on and stor
I truly hope this man ends up prison. Cohen says sounds right. Nicolle wallace will pick it up from here. Thank you as well. All of our guests that have joined us including duncan, we will see you back here on thursday afternoon when were going to do it all over again. Dont go anywhere. Deadline white house starts right now. Hi, everyone. We have a packed house. Its 4 00 in new york. After putting donald trump in the room where it happened, where that allegedly criminal scheme to hide hush money payments ahead of the 2016 president ial election was hatched, the expresident s former fixer Michael Cohen today closed the loop on the story that often sounds like it is straight out of a bad mafia movie. Cohen describing donald trump operating like a mob boss who became president of the United States using a back channel to keep cohen quiet and loyal and cohen describing going to prison and ultimately breaking with donald trump. The man he served for more than a decade. Happening right now,
russia and dependent on that aid and that aid was taken away while that request is made, is that not illegal? there is nothing about the president making a request to the president of the country. i m not interested to what the rest of ukrainian officials said. the president of ukraine said no pressure. it s a oddic torsion case in the absence of but the focus sheer not on the intent of the president of ukraine. the focus is on donald trump and what his intent was. and it s clear from that whole conversation, just like all of these mob transcripts i used to read and i used to overhear when i was a prosecutor, they always ask, do me a favor. they don t come out and say this is the quid, this is the pro quo. they don t talk in latin. they talk in street talk like donald trump does, to me that was like all of the conversations i used to overhear in terms of the mob prosecutions that i used to to do. i think it s significant the
elliott. if they wanted to go after corruption, even a u.s. citizen in ukraine, we have an agreement between the two countries with the whole protocol in place and it goes to the d.o.j. he would have known that if he wanted to do it the right way if he cared about corruption. he had his guy doing this. rudy is the key. in mob prosecutions, that s called a bag man. when you have someone being the fall guy for the underlying offense that you ve committed, let s look at what starts with the whistle-blower report, is corroborated in that call memorandum and is corroborated in the testimony of pretty much everybody we ve seen thus far, rudy yelling at you, blowing your hairline back. what this was this is at the
between the two countries with the whole protocol in place and it goes to the d.o.j. he would have known that if he wanted to do it the right way if he cared about corruption. he had his guy doing this. rudy is the key. in mob prosecutions, that s called a bag man. when you have someone being the fall guy for the underlying offense that you ve committed, let s look at what starts with the whistle-blower report, is corroborated in that call memorandum and is corroborated in the testimony of pretty much everybody we ve seen thus far, rudy yelling at you, blowing your hairline back. what this was this is at the president of the united states s direction, the president of the united states sought to seek favors from a foreign country. the president of the united states sought to carry out investigations of a political rival. the fact that he had someone carrying out the offense for him, again, that s, look, we can all use another term, legal