ultimately it was michael cohen essentially trying to get a deal done. he didn t bring too many deals to the table. nobody took it all that seriously. that s the reality of what went on. in september of 2017 trump jr. testified to the senate judiciary committee that he knew quote very little about the project except that his father had signed a letter of intent in 2015. and then another exchange from rudy giuliani s interview with the new yorker yesterday. he was asked same things for trump not always being truthful about it do you ever twhoer w, e your legacy. giuliani responded absolutely. rudy giuliani lied for trump. somehow i don t think it will be it. i don t care. i ll be dead. i can explain it to saint peter. he ll be on my side because i m so far, i don t think as a lawyer i ever said anything
retreat. rob? reporter: guys. you have to wonder what bob menendez thinks about that picture being up on tv all day long. 30 democrats, more than 30 democrats and their families are here. they have been posted up since friday, all weekend at this very nice hotel behind me here in san juan. their families are with them. more than 100 people were flown private down here on a private charter down here to do this. this is a winter retreat they re calling it, highlight some issues puerto rico is having. it was put on by a democrat political action committee. they re trying to basically lobby for more money and more support for the island territory. the problems with puerto rico from the debt they have had number of years, then the hurricanes, two of them, maria was the really bad one in september of 2017, decimated the island, caused billions of doll landing. today, more of the same. a latino political action committee will lobby members for a while. they have meetings with local
debt-ridden island for a lot of years and then they got slammed, decimated by that hurricane maria in september of 2017, that exacerbated so many problems in puerto rico this group of democrats lobbied more by a latino political action committee then meet with local leaders here, in puerto rico there is a lot of anger here, regarding a federal oversight program that was aimed directed at trying to get this island to live within its means wrackirac up a lot of debt trying to get them slash spending local politicians want more disaster relief more money after hurricane want more control of that money, but, as i said there has been a lot of leisure time what is making some headlines that got the president riled up a photo of senator bob menendez after victory 2018 got over a big
senator angus king joins us. thanks for being with us. do k you believe there s a national security crisis on the border? no, i think there s a problem, not a crisis. really interesting report. september of 2017 by dhs. president trump. analyzing exactly what the situation is on the border. all the indexes are down. right. recidivisms, arrests, people coming across, all of those the graphs just go like this, and to say that it s a crisis would imply that something special is happening that hadn t happened before. in reality, it s a lot better than it was. all the trending is in the right direction. yeah. but i started by saying there is a problem. and by the way, i ve got to say at the outset, nobody in congress is for open borders. i ve never heard anybody say that. i ve never heard anybody advocate it. everybody on both sides of the aisle is for border security. this question is really all about is the wall, a wall, which we don t even know what it is, we ll talk about th
republicans that close to the president are urging the president, hey, you know what, maybe don t do a national emergency on this, anderson, that is a sign that people are starting to back away from the president on all of this. anderson? jim acosta at the white house, thanks, jim. joining us now, a senator whose state as a border and all that goes with it, maine, independent senator angus king joins us. thanks for being with us. is there, do you believe there s a national security crisis on the border? no. i think there s a problem, not a crisis. really interesting report. september of 2017 by dhs. president trump. analyzing exactly what the situation is on the border. all the indexes are down. right. recidivisms, arrests, people coming across, all of those the graphs just go like this. and to say that it s a crisis would imply that something special is happening that hadn t happened before. in reality, it s a lot better than it was. all the trending is in the right direct