David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Wideranging conversation the two of them had. Let me play a tape here from senator Lindsey Graham, senior senator from south carolina, responding to all of this. When it comes to Michael Cohen, you should be very suspicious of anything he says. Hes on the hot seat. Mr. Cohen, if youve got something new to say, you need to come to congress and say it under oath. Everyone is a lawyer. I should say, Lindsey Graham is actually a lawyer. So he has some justification there weighing in, i guess, on what happens on the hot seat. Sara, give me your perspective on this. We have seen teases here from Michael Cohen, lanny davis releasing that tape, memobly on tuesday night. We listened to it in realtime as it was played out on cable news. Weve heard it subsequently. Whats your sense here of what Michael Cohens thinking, his frame of mind here as we approach a new week . Well, its true that cohen is in the hot
mateo salvini, extreme right wing interior minister there, who wants essentially to carry out ethnic cleansing and all kinds of abhorrent policies in italy. and to the extent that conte is talking for him, they will find they have something in common. sara, there is a new mpr/pbs poll to the degree americans think there will be interference in the election. 57% of those surveyed think so. give us the major take-aways from that mpr poll as we look to the mid terms 100 days away from today. i think that just shows that the public, to a large extent, is believing the conclusions of the u.s. intelligence community, right? that russia interfered in 2016 and continues to want to do so. and as we talked about earlier, vladimir putin said himself, he wanted trump to win the election. and you don t have to just take putin s word for it. that is the conclusion of the u.s. intelligence community, as well.