guys in the world, like really? michael cohen s is the president s other personal lawyer. you re hiring his lawyer? first of all you both had to get criminal defense lawyers. you both decided to get the same one? it s like literally there s ten of these guys and they re all in each other s indictments. maybe someday they ll open a wing for them in the federal prison system. the commissary will all be like trump themed. i ll trade you a baseball hat for an extra long tie. but as the president s personal lawyer, yet another one of them had to get his own criminal defense lawyer today. we also got big impeachment proceedings big developments in the impeachment proceedings on capitol hill. first of all a senior state department witness showed up to testify today. that s notable because the white house and state department have told everybody they can t testify, they re not allowed to testify in the impeachment
truth looked bad for donald trump. so this is a case about roger stone. but the prosecution made clear there in their opening statement that the reason stone lied in the prosecutor s telling, the reason he s on trial right now for these felony counts is because he couldn t tell the truth and i quote, the truth looked bad for donald trump. this is a case about the president. i mean, it s about roger stone but it s about the president. and it s in part, you know, while the house is already in the midst of impeachment proceedings against the president, this case that started today in criminal court in washington is about in part whether president trump s sworn written statements about roger stone were true. whether his sworn written statements about what he knew about what stone was doing, whether he was any part of that, this case in part is about whether the president s written answers might themselves have been illegal false statements.
proceedings against donald j. trump. that first public hearing is now on the calendar. it s going to be a week from today. ambassador bill taylor and another senior state department official named george kent, they re going to be the first public testimony in the impeachment proceedings a week from today. and then two days later, next friday, there will be a second public impeachment hearing, and that one will feature testimony from the u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch the one who was called from that post and sort of inexplicably fired essentially it seems to get her out of the way so rudy giuliani and president trump could pursue her scream in ukraine, the scheme in which the president is being impeached and presumably mr. giuliani has obtained his counsel. the closed door depositions are continuing for now. other people have been asked to testify, others have been subpoenaed to testify. most of those people who have been summoned to give more closed door depositions, we
powers on the other takes incredible deftness. aren t we through our sanctions pushing more migration and problems economically? there s probably 3 million refugees in the states around venezuela. these are problems from hell. wagging the dog. is the coming? you put together john baldwin. he s talking tough. he scribbled on his notebook, 5,000 troops to border with venezuela. are we going to war to save trump s problems at home? i kind of doubt it. he reminds me a little of netanyahu. bothing tough talkers but he s been cautious. not so sure trump is eager to troops down to latin america.
of this international political mystery continues. peter, thanks so much. and keep us posted if he happens to stop by those cameras and chat with you guys on his way out of town. peter alexander, and richard eng engel, thanks to both of you. president trump s response to jamal khashoggi s disappearance and reported death has raised new questions about the business relationship between the president and saudi arabia. the president tried to put the issue to rest earlier this week when he tweeted, quote, with for the record, i have no financial interests in saudi arabia or russia for that matter. his son, eric, repeated that point during an appearance on fox news this morning. there s zero investments in russia. there s zero investments in saudi. we have absolutely nothing to do with those countries. the president s latest financial disclosure form did not list any interests in saudi arabia. but he does have a history of doing business with the kidnapping come. the associated press re