directions we don t know about yet. and we always find about when the mueller investigation wants us to find out about them and that s usually when some action has been taken. so we don t know what part of the iceberg we re looking at. but let s bring the michael cohen part of this up, joyce. michael cohen hiring landy davis. i know people are concerned with the fact he has ties to the clintons. but he s a lawyer. lawyers represent all different kinds of clients, some whose views line up with theirs and others whose views don t. i think he ll do what good lawyers do, give his client the best defense he can, whether he ll be working on the legal end of things or more on pr, damage control, image resuscitation. he ll do the best he can for his client. and putting aside, nancy, the lanny davis connection to the clintons and the clinton orbit, the fact is michael cohen has either been shoring up his defense or signaling something to trump for the last week. what do you read into this
msnbc legal analyst, and nancy cooke, the white house reporter for politico. joyce, let s start with you. what does it mean robert mueller is expanding his team but he s going to the u.s. justice department for career lawyers. is that relevant? it s interesting. part of it may be resources. he s getting ready to launch the manafort trial, and he may feel the need to bring more bodies onboard to manage all the pieces of the investigation. it could also signal he s thinking about spinning off pieces of the case or there are matters that aren t so central to the trump-russia campaign relationship. and one of the details is that mueller is tapping investigators in pittsburgh. and that s interesting because pittsburgh is a venue where they ve gone in the past for the chinese hacking case, and this could signal prominence for
recognized cohen s sincerity after reading his interview with davis also said, quote, michael cohen deserves to tell his side of the story subject, of course, to the advice of counsel. with me for more is former u.s. attorney joyce vance, now an msnbc legal analyst, and nancy cooke, the white house reporter for politico. welcome to both of you. joyce, let s start with you. what does it mean robert mueller is expanding his team but he s going to the u.s. justice department for career lawyers. is that relevant? it s interesting. part of it may be resources. he s getting ready to launch the manafort trial, and he may feel the need to bring more bodies onboard to manage all the pieces of the investigation. it could also signal he s thinking about spinning off pieces of the case or there are matters that aren t so central to the trump-russia campaign
michael cohen hiring landy davis. i know people are concerned with the fact he has ties to the clintons. but he s a lawyer. lawyers represent all different kinds of clients, some whose views line up with theirs and others whose views don t. i think he ll do what good lawyers do, give his client the best defense he can, whether he ll be working on the legal end of things or more on pr, damage control, image resuscitation. he ll do the best he can for his client. and putting aside, nancy, the lanny davis connection to the clintons and the clinton orbit, the fact is michael cohen has either been shoring up his defense or signaling something to trump for the last week. what do you read into this? i think initially my impression he was signaling to trump and trump s kitchen cabinets and all the surrogates, almost a plea for help he definitely wanted to be in the
cohen s new attorneys. in a statement david says he recognized cohen s sincerity after reading his interview with abc news. davis also said, quote, michael cohen deserves to tell his side of the story subject, of course, to the advice of counsel. with me for more is former u.s. attorney joyce vance, now an msnbc legal analyst, and nancy cooke, the white house reporter for politico. joyce, let s start with you. what does it mean robert mueller is expanding his team but he s going to the u.s. justice department for career lawyers. is that relevant? it s interesting. part of it may be resources. he s getting ready to launch the manafort trial, and he may feel the need to bring more bodies onboard to manage all the pieces of the investigation. it could also signal he s