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can t arrest me. he could tell the bureau of prisons, you can t hold me, because he runs the executive branch. these are all things that the president could do. naturally, the question isn t can the president be indicted, the question is more seriously, can the president be impeached for interfering with the indictment in the first place or interfering once it happens? technically and mechanically, yes, i think a president can clearly be indicted. a grand jury can clearly return an indictment on a sitting president. having been through this 20 years ago and watching what s unfolding before our eyes now, impeachment wasn t your decision. you did the report and the house went ahead and impeached the president. what lessons did you learn then and what advice would you give? it s important to remember the different scenarios. we were under the special counsel act, which required that when the special counsel had
dagen: president trump meeting with democrats nancy pelosi and chuck schumer this tuesday as a threat of a shutdown looms. a short-term fix keeping things running until december 21, just right before christmas. let s go to house ways and means committee chairman kevin brady. congressman great to see you as always. good morning dagen thanks for having me. dagen: can you make sure a shutdown doesn t happen? it shouldn t happen there s no reason for it at all and the congress has done so much of the work already for the year for the funding this really is that final work that has to be donald i think at the end of the day, the question isn t about the wall. it s not about border security. no one believes our border is truly secure. it s really about who controls nancy pelosi. is it the more moderate part of her party or the more extreme party and its been clear in the last few days, more extreme
no collusion. even the president s press secretary who usually stays mum on matters chimed in yesterday writing, the government s filing in mr. cohen s case tell us nothing of value that was in already known and mr. cohen is no hero. now the memo itself sets fourth recommendations that go all in on maximum penalties for cohen. it reads in part, for the reasons set fourth above the office respectfully requests that this court imposes substantial term of imprisonment , one that reflects a modest variance from the applicable guidelines range. the office also requests that the court impose for feature in the amount of $500,000 and a fine. cohen has twice plead guilty during the course of the investigation so far once in august for lying about his role in facilitating payments to porn stars on be half of president trump and then again last week for lying to congress about his work for the president in russia now, the president s legal team
you know. to go to bob mueller and say, he knew. i was in the meeting. he heard his son he puts his son in the mix also. the son told him he supported it. he says according to our reporting, there were other people in the room. so this is something that bob mueller should be able to figure out, right? well, the question isn t what happened in the room. the question is what did the president know, as you said, and bernstein said, what did he know, and when did he know it? it would have to be people in the room with the president that can corroborate cohen, which there won t be because it didn t happen. and then it becomes a credibility contest between two or three witnesses who say one thing and cohen who says another. assuming they say different things. i m pretty comfortable about that. not having a chance to go back and look at all of it, but i remember it pretty well. there s no doubt in my mind that he s just not credible. i would not accept him as a witness as a prosecutor