David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Change the narrative around this meeting. I want to step back and give us an understanding of how Michael Cohen was his confidant, his fixer, this relationship has turned dramatically here. Yes. Im most interested in how this plies with voters. Im seeing a parallel to what Rudy Giuliani said this summer. Michael cohen was honest with the utmost of credibility. I would hear the same thing from house sources in particular, today talking to people, what is kind of the read on your members after this week, ahead of midterms. They say, you know what, Michael Cohen has always had credibility issues, at this point swrees visavis the don junior
meeting until the Senate Committee subpoenas him to come back and testify once more, to say under oath that liz father did not know about this meeting. I dont see the political implications of this at this moment. We have seen this play out with flair and flourish
News, analysis and interviews with politicians and observers. Cnns Abbie Phillip is live at the white house. The president just had an event where he met at the white house with republican lawmakers. Did he clarify anything today . Reporter well, nia, the president just let reporters into the room for that meeting. It was originally scheduled to have been closed, but he said nothing. He didnt respond to questions about any of these issues floating around him. He didnt expand on any of his comments or explain, you know, his view of the situation. But what he has been doing over the last day or so, specifically in a lengthy interview with fox news that aired last night and today, is really take the lead in the administrations response to all of these problems. Theres no question the white house staffers were caught by surprise by a confluence of bad news stories. Paul manaforts verdict and also Michael Cohens guilty plea, but President Trump has been the one left to test out various stra
democrats are wholly expected to challenge this national emergency declaration in the courts. in this joint senate tatement, this is plainly a power grab from a disappointed president who has gone outside the bounds of the law to try to get what he failed to achieve in the constitutional legislative process. another challenge can come directly from california, the state which sees the biggest imprint of illegal immigration in their state. governor gavin newsom, a democrat, yesterday calling the border wall a monument to stupidity, but back to the lawsuit filed by texas landowners, eminent domain is absolutely going to be an issue in this whole deal, and the white house via sarah huckabee sanders yesterday, said they expected these challenges and they are preparing to defend them. back to you. charles: thank you very much. national border patrol council president brandon judd has long supported whatever action the president wants to take to secure our southern border. so what does he th
a lot to discuss today. abby mentioned there basically the strategy of this white house. katherine, do you sense there s a strategy that they ve settled on, or is it as abby said, they re just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks? i think what abby says is right. what we ve been hearing from people inside and outside this white house is it s not really clear how they re trying to frame a counternarrative, a response, a way forward. folks who go on cable news to talk about this presidency, to defend this presidency, haven t heard much in how they should be sort of explaining this, what they should be talking about. it s an issue. so right now the main person who s talking is the president. as you saw just now, he s saying a variety of different things. and it s not really clear how they re going to move this forward. i think it is clear, though, that to the extent they do have a strategy, it s sort of the old playbook, right. it s deny any wrongdoing. we heard that from sa
it was rescinded by the white house claiming they didn t want to do it while the mueller probe was on going. the white house knew the probe would be on going when they initially extended this invitation to putin. their explanation doesn t make sense. what does make sense, however, is putin s perspective on all this. and from his perspective, this sure looks like a naked power play on his part. an effort to say, i don t need to go to the white house, but president trump, why don t you come here to moscow, in a sense vladimir putin, it looks like, is trying to summon president trump to moscow, to bring him to his turf. he said, i ll go to washington, but only if the conditions are right. president trump is certainly well here. we heard from sarah huckabee sanders yesterday, that president trump would indeed ener if taken a visit to moscow if the invitation was forthcoming. this could be something in the offing, in the coming months. there was so much back and