Potentially it could be big. I mean, looking at Michael Cohen, what this means is the same tactic that we have seen happening in this investigation out of the Southern District of new york, is happening, that we see happen in the Mueller Investigation. They go after other witnesses, encourage them to cooperate, and in this case you have this Business Partner who is cooperating, being offered significant being offered a potential sentence that is much smaller than what he could be facing. He could be facing 25 years for each count, owing millions of dollars in back taxes. All of that is being reduced, which says to me that he has some information that prosecutors would be interested in regarding Michael Cohen. That subsequently puts more pressure on Michael Cohen to cooperate to reduce his potential legal exposure and talk about whatever he knows that could aid the Mueller Investigation. It also, since this is outside of the jurisdiction of the Mueller Investigation, it really could tak
he s the author of the impossible state: north korea past and future. and jack jacobs, an msnbc military analyst. victor, pompeo wants an accounting of the nuclear arsenal, a plan to dismantle it, and procedures to verify it. is he going to get that? no, he s not going to go to the that. he s not going to get that. it would be nice if he could get all those things. but it s highly unlikely that the north koreans will be willing to do any of those things on this trip. i think it s more likely that he will be able to bring back a commitment by the north to return the 200 p.o.w./mia remains and maybe a decommissioning of a missile engine test site. the problem is these were things that president trump said were already done when he came back from singapore. so they won t look like very big
security council director for asian affairs. he s the authorize of the impossible state: north korea past and future. and jack jacobs, an msnbc military analyst. victor, pompeo wants an accounting of the nuclear arsenal, a plan to dismantle it, and procedures to verify it. is he going to get that? no, he s not going to go to the that. it would be nice if he could get all those things. but it s highly unlikely that the north koreans will be willing to do any of those things on this trip. i think it s more likely that he will be able to bring back a commitment by the north to return the 200 p.o.w./mia remains and maybe a decommissioning of a missile engine test site. the problem is these were things that president trump said were already done when he came back from singapore. so they won t look like very big
and we welcome to the broadcast tonight victor cha, korea chair for the center of strategic and international studies and former national and security council director for asian affairs. he happens to be the author of the impossible state: north korea past and future. welcome to you both. victor, by way of welcoming you, let me ask you, where do you put the odds that when we reach that day, this summit will happen? brian, i think right now the odds are pretty good that it will happen, in no small part because i think the president really wants this meeting. i think up until last week he
this region while on the white house national security council. and we welcome to the broadcast tonight victor cha, korea chair for the center of strategic and international studies and former national and security council director for asian affairs. he happens to be the author of the impossible state: north korea past and future. welcome to you both. victor, by way of welcoming you, let me ask you, where do you put the odds that when we reach that day, this summit will happen? brian, i think right now the odds are pretty good that it will happen, in no small part because i think the president really wants this meeting. i think up until last week he thought this would be a pretty easy meeting. you just put a little pressure on north korea, a little economic pressure, and that they would cave. but i think he s finding that it s not going to be that easy. for sue and i both who have worked on this issue, when we saw the north korean statements last week, we knew that this is