trying to constantly declare the game is over. this puzzle is coming together. pieces came into places yesterday. they re very significant. we re continuing to learn more and more about a campaign that was run, hiding very detailed and important information from the american people, including campaign finance violations, and this is not good news foss president. what they are probably pleased about is the government, mueller s folks are having trouble with their cooperating witnesses. they ve got manafort who is not usable, cohen is probably not usable as a trial, because he s not willing to fess up to his own wrongdoing and genuinely cooperate, but as everyone has been saying, we re not talking about a trial. we re ultimately talking about congressional hears, and i don t see why the democrats wouldn t
michael and it s hysterical, when michael cohen wanted to reach the kgb or russians he asked maggie haberman for an e-mail address. this is a guy who didn t know how to even get into contact with the russians. with that said, it is highly problematic and mueller, as your previous witnesses are saying, witnesses sorry, guests, mueller is going to build a narrative. that s mueller s job. with that said the president has to respond to it. there are two ways to look at these things. i still look at them as a bunch of coincidences. i look at them as if that there was never any direct conspiracy because donald trump and vladimir putin never directly coordinated, as i ve said before, on strategizing on what to release and when to release it. which michael cohen do you believe? the one that told the lies previously, that he got in trouble for telling and admitted that he told? or the michael cohen who is now
michael cohen to commit any violations of law? and he said no, no. of course the documents lay out clearly that in the area of campaign finance, individual-1, who is believed to be president trump, was directing and aiding cohen in the payments to those women who claimed to have sexual encounters with the president. which sets up my question perfectly, samuel, the president says no collusion whatsoever. you hearty him say that. do you agree that that is what is reflected in the court foolition by robert mueller yesterday? not really, alex. first of all we ve been using this wort all along. everybody knows this is not a legal term. this is the bar that the president has tried to set for what means either success or failure for the mueller investigation. the other thing he does, he s on his way to a football game,
in the meantime new details on the michael cohen sentencing memos filed by federal prosecutors in new york and the office of special counsel robert mueller. the u.s. attorney in new york is recommending, quote, a substantial prison term for michael cohen and joining me now as promised sam nunberg in the studio at msnbc. sam, look, you ve known michael cohen for some time and i know you worked together during the 2016 trump campaign. what we understand to be looking at potentially between 51 and 63 months in prison. a, are you surprised by this recommendation? and how do you think he is reacting to it based on the fact that he asked for a level of leniency understanding and zero prison time? once again, as i ve continually said, i know michael for a long time and met his family and feel bad for michael. i think possibly he should have got a job at the white house, he was loyal to the president. with that said, a criticism i ve had of michael internally and
and as you listen to all that s been said by these attorneys as well, does this is sync up with you and do you believe this is potentially the beginning of the end for the president? i couldn t great with professor buehl more that congress needs to step up to the plate here. it is really striking to me that here we are, you know, nearly two years into this and we have all they open-ended questioning about what went on during the 2016 campaign. congress has abdicated to robert mueller let s let mueller resolve all of this, and we ll wait indefinitely. but as i pointed out before, when you real closely these mueller filings, it s not clear