this is the other shoe that dropped. right. we could have speculated giving mr. cohen the full benefit of the doubt on the monday when the raid happened perhaps it was an aggressive move. perhaps they were grasping at something. the fact that, as evan confirms, it could be a target. not a surprise. it was an aggressive move. it s not one that is utilized often raiding the records of an attorney. it seems par for the course it would move in this direction. can we turn the page and have the next chapter of questions which is then could sdny, this is unrelated to the mueller investigation, but i don t know if you know where i m going. in the sense that they have this potential criminality. we don t know what it is. they say to cohen, i ve got this on you and this on you. if you don t start talking and telling me what you know about donald trump, the man, what you have been involved with, we re going to throw you away for a bunch of years unless you help mueller. the echoes of the mi
mislead the public about contacts with russians? there s a lot to choose from if that s what the special counsel is going to be running to ground. if there s potential criminality. for people who made these misstatements. there are a lot of misleading the public, creating a false pretex type statements that have been made about russia by members of the trump campaign and the trump administration. a lot of them. just take the people in the trump campaign and the trump administration who insisted publicly that there had been no contacts between the trump campaign and russians during the presidential contest. and we now know there were. i mean, paul manafort said that publicly. kellyanne conway said that publicly, hope hicks, donald trump junior said that publicly, attorney general jeff sessions said that publicly vice president mike pence said that publicly. i mean, you know what, just take pence alone here. mike pence did bluntly assert multiple times that there had
investigating, efforts to mislead the public about contacts with russians? there s a lot to choose from if that s what the special counsel is going to be running to ground. if there s potential criminality. there are a lot of misleading the public, creating a false pretex type statements that have been made about russia by members of the trump campaign and the trump administration. a lot of them. just take the people in the trump campaign and the trump administration who insisted publicly that there had been no contacts between the trump campaign and russians during the presidential contest. and we now know there were. i mean, paul manafort said that publicly. kellyanne conway said that publicly, hope hicks, donald trump jr. said that public we. vice president mike pence said that publicly. i mean, you know what, just take pence alone here. mike pence did bluntly assert multiple times that there had
they accepting or seeking support? working with the russians to get that support? were they working in different directions that, i would put the word collusion to one side and just to discuss the interactions that existed if they exited and there are some, and representatives of the russian government. in terms of jared kushner, he said he forgot to include the meetings with the russian nationals. if that is the case, is it a crime, and if you expect he intentionally left out those connections, how do you prove that? intentionally withholding information, oeshlly making a false filing. that s where it came up in his filing for a security clearance, that would raise a potential criminality, but it is very
between the president and jeff sessions and sessions being investigated in several places, sessions current status seems very preprecarious. am i being cynical to say that yes. other than i think you re the best that we ve had on. that s just pure honesty. bob mueller has his investigation, right? and whatever potential criminality he sees, that s one thing. but didn t we hear all we needed to in the gop response tomorrow? if anything political is going to be done about this inappropriateness that people refer to, it is going to come down to a vote. the gop has the numbers, assuming something violent doesn t happen in the midterm to change the balance of power. they clearly don t want to move against the president. they clearly stood behind him and dismissed this, pointing at loretta lynch as being more interesting than everything they