They will have the credibility issues, but they are going line by line and attack whatever they have with the particular facts. Crossexamination could start today. Any moment. Thank you all for being with us here in the studio. Thank you at home for joining us the last couple of hours. Thats our turn to turn it around to our colleagues. Thank you for the privilege of your time. Andrea mitchell, Chris Jansing and katy tur pick up special coverage next. He approved it. Thats the potentially damning testimony of Donald Trumps former fixer, Michael Cohen. Good day. Im Andrea Mitchell reporting from washington. Im joined by my colleagues katy tur and Chris Jansing in new york. Right now, Michael Cohen is stitching together the details which back up the states felony charges that trump falsified Business Records to cover up the 2016 hush money scheme, or at least thats what prosecutors hope. Cohen testified that Retainer Invoices were faked and legally should have been called reimbursements.
rosenstein succeeded, he got what he wanted, he got a crippling report to attack at the president. by the way, the support is sophomoric, adolescent, the legal analysis is a juvenile. laura: what legal analysis? it s pathetic but the cadaver is going to answer more questions than he should. another line of questions is you ve got to talk about the dossier and why he did look into that. this forms so much of taking one party s opposition to get a warrant and you didn t look into that? to me, those of the big three. when did you find out there was no collusion, and why didn t you tell us when you do? what happened to peter strzok and lisa page, who were on your team, particularly peter strzok, who was on one of the biggest cases in our time, and the third line of questioning you have to get into is the dossier. laura: i m just trying to imagine him sitting across the table from you first of all, he s very boring. i m sorry, his delivery is a deadly boring.
clinton investigation, the trump-russia investigation, get kicked off the mueller team, what actually happened when they found these text messages, i think that is an important line of questioning that we are all going to have when mr. muller comes. laura: mueller said that that was it. he said the report would stand on its own after 9 minutes of meaningless goofiness in that press statement he gave a few months ago but that was it, that was the testimony. when the cadaver starts to answer questions, he s going to answer questions he can t answer. laura: because he is out to get trump? because from the beginning, this has rosenstein and mueller put this together as an impeachment inquiry. it was never intended to be a criminal investigation. that is why when rosenstein appointed mueller, there was no crime mentioned in the original appointment. this was a get trump thing,
rosenstein to justify comey determination and portray are ad rosenstein two weeks into his job overseeing russia probe as badly shaken. with comey out andrew mccabe took over as acting fbi director. may 16th robert mueller who was fbi director after 9-1-1 interviewed with president trump and rosenstein to replace comey. the following day, rosenstein appointed mueller as special counsel writing his responsibility is, quote, to ensure a full and thorough investigation of the russian government efforts to interfere in the 2016 election. new documents, testimony, and text messages show that the ten days following comey firing are a pivotal period with senior fbi and doj officials apparently pushback against the white house. rosenstein mccabe and others discuss secretly recording the president. and removing him from office so they disagree over whether it was serious. from the president s former personal attorney michael cohen, to former campaign chairman paul
on or he may move on, he s pushed parts of this investigation to other prosecutors that can carry it on for a long time. i don t think we re near the end of this even if he shuts town his shop any time soon. shepard: alex little, current criminal defense attorney with us from nashville. thank you. thank you. shepard: rod rosenstein is, as it turns out, staying at the justice department a little while longer even though he planned to leave by about now. that s what a source tells fox news. president trump has slammed rod rosenstein for his role in launching the special counsel robert mueller s investigation. rosenstein appointed mueller after the president fired james comey. rosenstein is the main link between the special counsel and the department. but william barr has special oversight over the investigation. facebook will stop telling