About drama. We also know that you can avoid drama by getting an annual checkup. So go, know, and take control of your health. It could save your life. Cigna. Together, all the way. States. Cant happen that way anymore. That was the president as he and the first lady walked into Easter Church services today. He had a tweet saying need wall. And this one concluding with no more daca deal. President spending the holiday at his club in palm beach. But according to the Washington Post the president s Chief Of Staff and supposed moderating force in the west wing john kelly did not travel with him and Senior Adviser Steven Miller did. Want to welcome in the panel. Here in new york, business and politics reporter for the Wall Street Journal shelby holiday. Editor at large for reason magazine, matt welch. In d. C. Writer for the Atlantic Molly and betsy woodruff. Thank you for being with us on this Easter Sunday night. Betsy, you and the news. I think the president were not clear what prompted
Obamas fight on the campaign. And Sarah Huckabee sanders only an hour ago briefing for the First Time Since monday. The president knows that there was no collusion in the campaign. And he has been quite clear about this. Its gone on for over a year. They have found no evidence of collusion, and still strongly believe that it is a witchhunt. So this you have trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani marking this anniversary with yet another round of media tours, this time the blitz is centering on this question. Can special Counsel Robert Mueller actually indict a sitting president . Well, according to giuliani, muellers own team told him the answer is no. Lets start this hour at white house with msnbc hans nichols. There is a lot of Foreign Policy The Middle East news we will get to in a little bit about what the president had to say today. But here we go again. You have those major events, a north korea summit, china, all the things the president talked
about today. And yet hes tweeting, his lawyer,
Nine months away. There is a lot to talk about. Lets begin at the white house. Kelly odonnell, we are learning that rob porter, the Staff Secretary, accused of Domestic Violence by his exwives that he could be out as early as today, is that correct . Reporter thats our reporting and the issue is that rob porter offered his resignation and Sarah Huckabee sanders said there would be an extended time of transition, where he would be able to help facilitate a successor. That has changed in the sense that there has been a lot of controversy around this, a lot of attention drawn to the two former wives of rob porter. The statements they have made publicly alleging verbal abuse, physical abuse and Emotional Abuse and porter has said that these are smears. He has said that these are baseless allegations and a coordinated campaign against him. We saw a shift, in fact, that at first, members of the white house senior Team Including chiefofstaff john kelly were very supportive of porter and he
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Potentially it could be big. I mean, looking at Michael Cohen, what this means is the same tactic that we have seen happening in this investigation out of the Southern District of new york, is happening, that we see happen in the Mueller Investigation. They go after other witnesses, encourage them to cooperate, and in this case you have this Business Partner who is cooperating, being offered significant being offered a potential sentence that is much smaller than what he could be facing. He could be facing 25 years for each count, owing millions of dollars in back taxes. All of that is being reduced, which says to me that he has some information that prosecutors would be interested in regarding Michael Cohen. That subsequently puts more pressure on Michael Cohen to cooperate to reduce his potential legal exposure and talk about whatever he knows that could aid the Mueller Investigation. It also, since this is outside of the jurisdiction of the Mueller Investigation, it really could tak
Share this video, got it out to a lot of people beyond we are, we appreciate your perspective and stay safe and wish you the best of luck as you recover from the flood. I want to move on to chris turner, cnn photo journalist, who lives in maryland not far from this area. I know that and this is video that chris actually shot not too long ago. Chris, give me an idea of what you are seeing right now. Right now, ryan, we are seeing a lot of the water has receded. A lot of the mud and Debris Leftover is laying over. We saw Governor Hogan walk down the steps through the mud to survey the damage. Some of the residents are moving back towards the area. There was one area parking lot that i did take pictures of where the floodwaters were up to the roofs of cars and now just mud. But people are making their way through the mud kind of trying to assess the damage of what just happened. I see in that one bit of video that you shot it looks as though the pavement is just ripped apart creating a hu