The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Its not like somebody former president got to report, somebody gave a little more than the minimum, some pac didnt follow a small regulation. This is a fundamental thing. The nominee at the closing days of the campaign, when he thought his campaign was on the line and a story or two stories potentially threatened his nomination went be and said, i have to make this story go away, according to Michael Cohen and said, go make this go away and pay for it. I think that goes not in a resistance way at all. A much more dramatic and more accurate way of stating what happened there. And, yes, it implicates the president in the commission of a felony, but it also implicates the president in what is now a growing sense that a lot of people have and not just resistance people, that this is one more way in which the 2016 election was facacta. Harry litman, were in dangerous territory here. Two nonlawyers
begun because you feared they would be made to go away. that s exactly right. earlier this morning 60 minutes anchor scott pelley described that mccabe will confirm for the first time on the record that there were, in fact, discussions about invoking the 25th amendment to recruit cabinet members to try to oust president trump from office. the discussions, as we reported in december with the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. at the time, rod rosenstein fiercely pushed back on it. i want to read what he said at the time about the reports including that he sought to wear a wire to record the president. he said, i never pursued or authorized recording the president. any suggestion that i have ever advocated for the removal of the president is absolutely false. more to come on this. the book isn t even out yet. on the other issue here because the man who may soon oversee the mueller probe is, of course, william barr, trump s pick for attorney general, you have new reporting th
of whatever the mueller probe is, if it is more damaging than this. i think of those two words, frankly, as synonyms. the work bank heist doesn t appear in the criminal code but bank robbery is a crime. whether you call it collusion or conspiracy, if two people agree to do something that the law forbids and one takes a step to further that goal, that s a crime. you can call it collusion, you can call it conspiracy. it s illegal either way. thanks to you, chuck rosenberg, matt miller, and of course ken dilanian, thanks for breaking that news on our program. for breaking news in washington, why wouldn t we, it s tuesday in washington. president trump moments ago addressing the bipartisan border deal for the first time, the deal to avert another government shutdown, saying during a cabinet meeting, quote, i can t say i m happy, i can t say i m thrilled. let s take you through the key points of the deal hammered out by the house and senate,
op-eds which seems like an addition for team trump. he refused to answer whether he currently believes as trump does that the mueller probe is, quote, a witch hunt. there have been guilty police from flynn, gates, papadopoulos and roger stone and three companies. would you say the special counsel s investigation is a witch hunt? are you interfere seeing a witch hunt? congressman, as i ve mentioned previously, the special counsel s investigation is ongoing. i think it would be inappropriate for me to you wouldn t oversee a witch hunt. you would stop a witch hunt, wouldn t you? congressman it would be inappropriate for me to talk about an ongoing investigation. maya and kurt are back with me. go anywhere you want, but the disrespect shown to the committee was one piece. people were saying unprecedented
first of all, said he thinks the whole thing is, quote, a soap opera and said he doubted saudi arabia was involved but could not definitively rule it out. how to into this, tom, do you think the mueller probe is, how tuned into this is bob mueller and southern district of new york on all of this? they two very distinct questions. with respect to bob mueller, there s nothing here that indicates there s anything associated with his core mission, which is to look into 2016 interference by the russian government into the election and whether or not that was coordinated in any way with the tr trump campaign. there s nothing on its face that is tied to the core mission. and one thing we know is he stayed close to the core mission, at least to the best of our knowledge, reviewed in court filings, he stayed close to that mission. sparse prosecutors in new york, it s a little bit of a different story. we know from a filing made by a judge, the media asked for