there is something wrong with him. so he made up my phone call. he made it up. he made up a phone call and then when i released it everybody was embarrassed. now there is this thing when adam schiff did kind of a dramatic re-enactment, a paraphrase of the president s phone call. i don t think he was lie being it but it is probably not politically the smartest thing. but the president has a timeline issue here. he does. so i ve heard that schiff s rendition was exaggerated and trump is reasonable to be miffed about it but trump is saying that schiff spoke and then he outsmarted schiff by releasing the transcript the next day or sometime after. not what happened. trump released the transcript first. his complaint about schiff was that he had the transcript released. and it is a lie that makes him look better and adam schiff look worse. that is one hypothesis. and he released one issue he
you know, was most involved in this timeline issue, and it is not surprising, you know, that he was the one sort of responsible for putting this in the statement. it s also not surprising that the lawyers were involved in a joint defense agreement. those things are very common in these kinds of cases. it s very common for lawyers to cooperate and share information. and there s been no suggestion at all that the lawyers in this case knew that that timeline was bogus. you know, one other quick point on this, chris. it s that i am going to blame cohen a little bit. you know, he was the lawyer here. he s the guy who is responsible for getting it right. you know, and imagine if he did what any lawyer, you know, you d expect would have done is say, hey, look, this timeline isn t right, or these other things aren t right. we ve got to make sure it s right. that s what you rely on lawyers to do. it seems clear he didn t do that in this case. berit? i think we can establish that
what the voters sent us to do, to offer that counter balance to what elijah cummings said earlier in the week in which he said for two years no republicans did any investigation into the trump administration. so the democrats definitely feel that this is what they were sent to washington to do, and that feeling is sort of knocking at the door constantly from a lot of those younger members who are much more aggressive i think. it s corrective. yes. i think a lot of democrats this is where the rub is. a lot of democrats felt they were sent to washington to reverse a tax cut that went exclusively to the wealthy, to come up with job creation, to fix the affordable care act and finally get health care for all. i do think that s the rub. i think you re exactly right to look at this as a timeline issue which is if 2020 is really a referendum on whether this country is going to support donald trump as president, maybe
that was to reimburse him for things he took care of. it leaves open the possibility of up to another couple hundred thousand dollars that he might have been reimbursed and some of that could have been for fees and his own expenses. but i don t think rudy would have said that if there were no other issues that he settled for the president. and, you know, i think that s something that will come out during the investigation. i could also like to address the timeline issue you were just talking about as far as what the president knew and when did he know it. we reported this payment to stormy daniels the second week in january. before we reported that story, i went to the white house and i went to michael cohen. the white house told me can you give us a little more time before you post the story because the president is at events and we want to brief the president. and michael cohen said i need to talk to my client, who is the president. both of them subsequently gave us comments. this is
suggests that something like this happened, they share that intelligence with the united states and with the u.s. intelligence community. so what we see is we see today that the administration is acknowledging that this happened through looking at the intelligence. the way this 2typically would have worked they would have known this happened and validated that intelligence a couple of days ago when sarah sanders stood at the podium and refused to acknowledge it. so there s a timeline issue here. the statement says the u.s. shares the uk s assessment, russia is responsible for the nerve agent attack. everyone stand by. there s more news we re following. the porn star stormy daniels turns to the public to help finance her lawsuit against president trump as the first hearing date is set in her case. plus, in a cnn exclusive, cnn is there as the u.s. and its allies patrol the arctic where russia seeks to rule. we re going inside a u.s. nuclear submarine.