National emergency. President trump forging ahead with his threat to declare a National Emergency to save the border wall. Tonight, were learning that the white House Counsel is scrambling to try to make a case that there is a National Emergency. Emergency means urgent, sudden threat, right . It does not appear that this is the slam dunk that the president led us to believe. I havent done it. I may do it. I may do it. But we can call a National Emergency and build it very quickly. Hmm. Well, even members of trumps own party are not sure. Senator john cornyn, the second highest republican ranking senator says the president declaring a National Emergency would only complicate efforts to end the shutdown, which is now on day 17 and that is the second largest shutdown in American History already. Im confident that he could declare a National Emergency, but what that means in terms of adding new elements to this, in terms of Court Hearings and litigation that may carry this on for weeks and
Well get to it all with Corey Lewandowski and we will compare the first Speaker Pelosi to the latest iteration. Will he or wont he . Comedian kevin hart may take his Academy Award winning hosting gig back and Ellen Degeneres is taking heat for giving him a pass. The internet is exploding with people griping about netflix new interactive film black mirror band or band or snatch, a choose your own adventure series i wont describe what happens to the lead character but suffice it to say, no matter what options you choose as you watch the film, you basically get the same endings. The more novel choices i made the more frustrated i became with the preordained finales that continued to pop up and it got me thinking. This is what the American Voter has been going through for decades. Every couple of years we go to the polls thinking we are going to control the new narrative. We are going to change things, now we are going to get the ending we want. In 2016, donald trump ran on a couple of key
He lied in that testimony. In it, cohen claimed that talks about a trump tower deal in moscow ended in january of 2016, months before trump won the republican nomination, when in fact, were learning the talks lasted well into the campaign, perhaps even right up until trump won office. More on that in a moment. First, heres giuliani on those possible conversations between President Trump and cohen. Did President Trump or anyone on the trump team talk to Michael Cohen about his congressional testimony before he gave congressional testimony or after he gave congressional testimony . I can tell you first of all, i wasnt the lawyer at the time. Mike l coh Michael Cohens lawyers reviewed his testimony with him. If he had any discussions with him, theyd be about the version of the events that Michael Cohen gave then, which they all believe was true. I believed it was true. You just acknowledged that its possible that President Trump talked to Michael Cohen about his testimony. Which would be
Meanwhile the New York Times report sparking reaction on fox news sunday. It tells me a lot about the people running the fbi. Mccabe and that crowd. If this did happen Congress Needs to know about it. That was a concerning and alarming report. It suggests the Mueller Investigation needs to continue to its logical conclusion. Ellisson has the latest. Reporter yeah, two major reports in about as many days. President trump and Vladimir Putin met in the past. They met in finland and according to the new report in the Washington Post mr. Trump has gone through extraordinary links to conceal his conversations and once took possession of his interrupters notes telling him not to discuss the meeting with other officials. There is no detailed record even in classified files of facetoface interactions with the russian leader in the past two years. Sarah sanders called the story outrageously inaccurate. She said the liberal media waisted two years to manufacture a fake collusion scandal. Unlike p
Investigation which later landed in the hands of special counsel robert mueller. Allison barber is live at the white house with more on this. Allison. Reporter the fbi reportedly opened an investigation days after President Trump fired then fbi director james comey. Investigators reportedly were so concerned by the president s behaviors that they had to investigate whether or not trumps actions constituted a possible threat to National Security and whether or not the president knowingly worked with russia or unwittingly fell under their influence. President trump, his allies are pushing back on this incredibly hard. His former attorney told fox news at no time did special counsel mueller make any request of the president or his counsel when it comes to allegations, that he calls bizarre. He went on to say this, the New York Times story is an unwitting disclosure and verification of the utter corruption of their oath by comey and his colleagues to undermine the free election of the pres