statement about this testimony has said we don t want to interfere in any way with the mueller investigation. so that means they will prefer to be dealing with stuff that s already in some ways public information. so that brings us to the michael cohen guilty plea in the southern district of new york, which is a completed case. and that s his guilty plea to campaign crimes involving the payoffs to stormy daniels and another woman to buy their silence weeks before the presidential election. and in that case that was presented as a conspiracy in effect to defraud the american voter to not allow the american voter to know this kind of information about the president and illegally financing that in effect campaign contribution. that s where donald trump was identified as individual 1. when michael cohen talks about this on february 7th in the committee, he won t be calling him individual 1. i think that s a really important point, is that no one has to guess anymore who individual 1 is.
that is lindsey graham. i ve got to think the people of south carolina, who are going to have a chance to vote on him in 2020, are smarter and more conservative than that. that they have more respect for the constitution than lindsey graham does. my own suspicion about that, could be wrong, is that lindsey graham knows that if the president does that he ll be stopped in court in a matter of days as quickly as the muslim ban was stopped in the first week of the trump administration. stuart stevens, you know a bunch of these republican senators including the junior senator from utah now, where there is a big irs processing center, where 5,000 people can t go to work, can t get a paycheck tomorrow. are going to struggle now, have been struggling, taking care of their families, trying to figure out how long they re going to go with this. how long can the mitt romneys of the senate and others hold on to the president s position here? well, you know, i look at donald trump as sort of lik
and nobody builds walls better than me. believe me. and i build them very inexpensively. i will build a great, great wall on our southern border. and i will have mexico pay for that wall. mark my words. yes! yes! that was the paid audience that donald trump hired for his campaign announcement. so they weren t as enthusiastic. they didn t know that the wall was supposed to be a big cheer line. but you saw what happened to it during the campaign. it got cheers every time donald trump said it. and mexico will pay for the wall became a campaign chant, led by donald trump. that big lie, mexico will pay for the wall, was carried into the trump presidency, and it immediately became a problem for president trump in his first conversation as president with the president of mexico on the telephone. donald trump begged the president of mexico to stop saying mexico would not pay for the wall. and now donald trump himself is
the trump political career. president barack obama was born in the united states, period. couldn t you just see how that felt for donald trump? that was one of those days for donald trump, when he had to do that. today was one of those days. so now the chants of mexico will pay for the wall will never be heard again. when during the campaign i would say mexico s going to pay for it, obviously i never said this and i never meant they re going to write out a check. and it only got worse from there. when your when i say mexico excuse me. when i say mexico s going to pay for the wall, do you think they re going to write a check
president, i mean, it is really remarkable that he s asserting this emergency power because i think if he asserts it i don t think there s any choice but for the democrats to begin impeachment proceedings, and i think indeed joined by a lot of republicans too at the end of the day. i m beginning to think maybe trump wants to be impeached. i mean, that s the only way to really make sense of what this is about because you re dealing with a president who has effectively no agenda left. his agenda is, as best i can tell, twitter and the wall. and the wall isn t working out for him. and this is a president who frankly acts like a snowflake. i mean, he s a guy who claims to be the victim all the time and an impeachment proceeding of course would allow him to make that cry even more. but as a matter of law, as a matter of policy this is a very, very damaging thing for the country and indeed i think to donald trump. what would invoing the national emergency add to momentum for impeachment an