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
spray for our lay audience, the press pool is the tight group of correspondents and camera crews who cover the white house every day and it s a spraying motion of the cameras so you can get a shot of all involved, lest someone come away with the wrong definition. jill, i want to play a piece of an interview with lesley stahl. this is lesley stahl talking about when she first went over to interview donald trump in trump tower. this is december 2016, after he won the election, something he told her then. we ll discuss it on the other side. at one point he started to attack the press. and i said, you know, that is getting tired. why are you doing this, you re doing it over and over and it s boring and it s time to end that, you know, you ve won the nomination. and why do you keep hammering at this? and he said, you know why i do it? i do it to discredit you all and
origin of this russia probe. you have rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who over sees the mueller investigation, trying to protect the process of a counterintelligence operation, all amid an ongoing investigation. it s an uneasy situation for all of these players. but they re dealing with a president who is combative as ever. bob, let s say on behalf of the press corps, the president tried to wave away questions about rod rosenstein, we would love to ask questions about visiting dignitaries but we get no other access to the president, no other news conferences. having said that, what did you make of his lack of an answer until the question do you have confidence in rosenstein? he didn t give an answer, and that s telling because he s not expressing confidence at a moment where he could express confidence. the lawmakers who are close to the president like mark meadows and congressman devin nunes, they re very unhappy with rosenstein. the president fumes at times about rose
the president fumes at times about rosenstein and sessions and how this probe continues to go on and on. but the president has not had a formal news conference in quite some time. many months. these open pool sprays, it s an insider term, but these pool sprays, that s what they re doing, that allows the president to control the question and answer more than he would in that kind of traditional news conference setting. derivation of the phrase pool spray for our lay audience, the press pool is the tight group of correspondents and camera crews who cover the white house every day and it s a spraying motion of the cameras so you can get a shot of all involved, lest someone come away with the wrong definition. jill, i want to play a piece of an interview with lesley stahl. this is lesley stahl talking about when she first went over to interview donald trump in trump tower. this is december 2016, after he won the election, something he told her then. we ll discuss it on the other side.