trump it appears likely that trump s personal lawyer will be indicted in a separate criminal investigation. does the delay hurt the president by dragging this out longer? i think it does. i think it s more bad news for the president. i think the michael avenatti is a very skillful lawyer. he s kept this front and center in the american public eye. and i think that he, the president s talk on with fox & friends host this week further complicated the matter because he admitted that cohen represented him on the stormy daniels deal. i think this delay hurts. and avenatti is going to challenge it, anyway. in terms of vulnerability overall, zirlena when you look at everything the president is facing, is it with the russia probe? the stormy daniels lawsuit? is it with the michael cohen investigation? where do you see him having the most vulnerability? there was a certain point where when michael avenatti came on the scene in the stormy daniels case haand the story
election. so if it indicates that he perhaps knew about this deal, if cohen was representing him at the time that he struck this deal with stormy daniels to pay her off essentially to keep quiet about this affair, then it indicates that perhaps he facilitated that payment. perhaps he urged michael cohen to do it, if he was in fact, representing him during that time as the president said, it adds an extra layer of perhaps intent. so since that time when one of trumps lawyers him could flip, the president has praised him on twitter and elsewhere. a wall street journal article suggesting that mr. trump treated cohen poorly. in 2012, he was late for his son s barmitzvah and gave a speech saying he had not planned to come but relented after cohen repeat lid called mr. trump, his secretary, his children, begging for him to appear. with this kind of track record, what is is he going to expect
telling that trump found it okay to say that michael cohen had essentially begged him to attend. that is demonstrative of their overall relationship. michael cohen has given a lot to the president and received very little in return. at the inaugural festivities, he wasn t even given a vip place. again, he was at the edges. this is really going to test the limits of michael cohen s loyalty especially when he is faced with an indictment. we saw in the documents filed yesterday in the stormy daniels lawsuit, the judge in that said flat out that the court thinks an indictment is likely coming for michael cohen. faced with years and years of jail time, it is unclear whether he will take that bullet for trump. again, even if he does not flip and he remains loyal, prosecutors likely have all the evidence they need. they went to michael coe hence office and residence and raided them and took years and years
but trump has shown a willingness to cross that line and whether or not he goes any further in that is something we ll have to watch and see. of course he has publicly well, not publicly but he has resume nated about perhaps firing rosenstein and he has already been laying the groundwork for saying special counsel is not legitimate, that he was hired on ill he illegitimate grounds. natasha bebertrand, thank yo for that. in the next hour, coming to america perhaps. another surge of migrants is expected to enter the country this weekend.
friends, talking alone in the woods, toasting the future. aware always of the symbolism. kim, who has threatened the region with weapons, well protected from any threats here. kim and his wife s next date will be with president trump, who said their meeting should be quite something. well, this summit has set a broad outline of that deal. it s now up to president trump. he says he won t be played by kim jong-un. meanwhile, he s due right about now to be speaking on the phone with south korea s president moon with a man he will he meet in a few weeks s time. thank you, bill for that update. joining me now, senior fellow and director at the federation of american scientists, adam. with a welcome to you. you wrote a piece in the atlantic. it is titled north korea is not