Cooperating witnesses yet, former Trump Campaign chair Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen, trumps longtime lawyer and fixer. So it is at this very Pivotal Moment, this is the context for a stunning set of leaks that would appear to give President Trump at least the excuse that he has been hunting for to oust the man overseeing the mueller probe. If you havent heard it by now, this is a bombshell. The New York Times reporters Michael Schmidt and adam goldman reported that Rod Rosenstein suggested that he could secretly record the president inside the white house and he discussed recruiting trumps own cabinet members to see whether he might convince them to remove the president from office under the 25th amendment. If that sounds explosive, it is. There is more to it. The New York Times noting that those pieces of the story themselves are contested. And while the paper cites sources who were briefed either on the conversations or the memos about them, it also quotes rosenstein himself denyi
Niels nielsen. Reporter this white house has been in continual, if you will, upheaval over staff almost from day one. The Kirstjen Nielsen unknown. The president has been known to change his mind. Now, there is also certainly some question right now about the situation with the white house chief of staff john kelly. Up teenth time perhaps that we have heard about the possibility of john kelly departing the white house. There has been some suggestion that the president has been eyeing the chief of staff for the Vice President strimike pen. It has been said that he was planning on keeping john kelly around here at the white house until at least 2020, the end of the president s first term. So a lot of balls in the air. And were waiting to find out what the president says next. Yeah. I suppose one lesson of the Trump White House is that folks can be on the plank for months and months. Jeff sessions was until he did finally go. What about the Deputy National security adviser . This one part
Law firm jones day. When the Trump Administration started, greg katsas moved into the white house, the White House Counsels Office to work as a deputy in that office under don mcgahn, who also worked in the george w. Bush administration who also worked at that Republican Law Firm jones day. Gregory katsas was not particularly more controversial than any other trump nominated judge. If you squint he looks like all of them. But with his kind of resume, the kind of connections that he had and his 100 hard line conservative record, he really was the kind of guy that republicans in the Trump Administration have been living to put on the courts. And in this case, the reason katsas nomination was more high profile than most, they wanted to put him on the federal Appeals Court that sits in washington, d. C. There are federal Appeals Courts around the country in all the geographic circuits. But the one that sits in d. C. Is sometimes called the Second Highest Court in the land because that Appe
Back and negotiate. Both sides digging in. Why would she want to go overseas with the Government Shutdown . There are people missing their paychecks. I think the actions of the present were patty, meanspirited, and beneath any president of the United States to take. It has been a back and forth feel that dumb accents speaker policy began. To tell the enemy of the United States that the speaker of the house of representatives, on her way, pretty outrageous. Telling congress that they can fulfill their oversight responsibilities. She should be staying to negotiate to get this place back open. It is the democrats who are keeping everything close. That is a perfectly good reason for him to want her here. Sandra kicking things off for us at the white house. A snowy white house this morning. Kevin, good morning. Good morning. Let me just say it this way. There are more than a few people here, as you can imagine, that are thrilled by the president s actions, even though the official line is t
Personally directed his then lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to congress about efforts to build a trump tower in moscow, the key offense at issue is what is known as encouraging perjury, witness tampering, obstruction of justice. It is important for us to know that neither cnn nor any other major news outlet has so far confirmed buzz feeds reporting and President Trumps current lawyer says if you believe cohen i can get you a great deal on the brooklyn bridge. Thats not an outright denial. It is important to know that buzz feeds report isnt just based on Michael Cohen. Michael cohen didnt talk to buzz feed for this. It says the special counsel is not taking cohens words for anything. Reportedly cohen only confirmed what the mueller team already knew from other witnesses and documents. Thats key. Tell us what you have learned as you look at this. I think the point that poppy makes is an important one. The fact that sthis is based not only on what could conceively blee Michael Cohens words t