new york is done with the case. they charged and convicted cohen. a strange result. now the state prosecutor have picked up the ball and what seems to be increase cloer they are trying to make a case related to the payment. from a different angle. the state law crime of falsifying business records. fst a low level crime. a misdemeanor. if they can show that the business record were falsitied and there was a tax consequence to it, that becomes a felony. a higher level crime. if they get their hand on it. what s the likelihood they ll be public? according to the reporting in the times, minimal. everyone i spoke to today in the sort of trump world. in new york real estate, believes that the president would fear not so much any criminal implications of this. what he doesn t want is his tax
they have yet to embrace that term of mounting an impeachment inquiry. they agree they have to make the decision about whether or not to recommend arms of impeachment but a number of democrats i talked to today are not certain about impeaching the president. democrats who want republican seats and districts that the president carried. i don t think if you were to put articles of el impeachment you can get to 218 votes. i think the american people aren t there. i would vote no on impeachment. my vote is no. i don t think we have made the case to the american people that we need to yet. to the extent they think they can do that i ve been supporting them do that. right now dwroint feel fst necessary? right. the leadership has been reticent to move forward aggress
and my guess is what the rank and file is, it doesn t resonate is it s not just pelosi and not just there. four straight midterm election where is the chambers have flipped. what s really changed? schumer has been a leader. mcconnell has been a leader. pelosi. the faces don t change. the door plates change. for democrats it contributes to the broader narrative is there s no new ideas. fst the same peopl it s the s. they have an exciting new class. they have this messaging dissonance moving forward. one of the things is that pelosi presenting herself as a transitional leader.
i think, probably, china s getting a little nervous, and the nafta countries, canada and mexico, will get a little nervous, because the president has kind of had this, whatever s in front of me, that s the thing i m blasting on. so fst is if it s not going to europe, they re probably blasting on one another saying, it s going to be one of us. hopefully it s going to be you. thank you, gentlemen. thank you, poppy. thank you, usaustan, good seein you. by the way, i wore my yale tie for austan and me. there you go! appreciate it. thank you. thank you. overnight, facebook shares whacked, even as the company reminds its investors that it reaches 2.5 billion people around the world. what happened? christine romans back with me. what happened? you know, most companies would love revenue growth of 42% and that s what facebook had. but the problem here is the company is promising that it s going to fight election meddling, it s going to fight fake news dissemination, it s
i think they aren t likely to be under to come back to the negotiating table. the president has simply taken himself outs of that story. . but we certainly want to keep the two-state solution alive and viable for the next leadership. maybe for the next israelly leadership to do the negotiating. that s where the administration has an opportunity in front of it. they have been talking about a plan. they have been taking soundings all over the region. what s their plan? we ll find out. fst a one-sided plan in which palestinians would end up with isolated autonomous areas, but no real sovereignty. it s unlikely to produce the negotiations in the two-state solution we want. if it achieve describes a separation of two states, israel is secure and recognizes a jewish state and the palestinian said state next to it, that s something as a palestinian capital that might keep palestinians from taking this into places we don t want them to go. is the state.