Right now the judge is reading the charges after mr. Cohen told the court, i am truly sorry and i promises to do better. He Apologize Nod country. And the defense team is asking for full consideration of mercy and telling the judge that the client came forward to offer evidence against the most p powerful man in the country not knowing the result. The prosecutors are responding forcefully and saying that powerful and privileged individuals cannot violate laws without impunity, and back with me, this tremendous panel, Danny Cevallos, Ken Delainian, and elliott and jill winebank. And jill, what do you make of what we have heard so far in this robust apology that we have heard from Michael Cohen saying that he was acting out of Blind Loyalty to donald trump. Of course, the phrase Blind Loyalty to donald trump reminds
me of the book by john dean Blind Ambition and there is some similarity between the two of them where they were basically blinded by the power of the president. But you can o
that. earlier in the process with nick mulvaney and kellyanne conway and lindsey graham trying to budge, the president wanted ono parts of it. so is one thing that i am going keep an eye on is at some point in this afternoon, if the president is open to expanding the scope of the deal and take this idea that lindsey graham floated of protection for the dreamer s dreamers is which juan to pushing the price tag up in the $5 billion range, and gives both sides something they want with, and ultimately reopen the government, and we will have to see. so far, it is mes sanling coming from messaging coming from the white house the pin it on nancy pelosi. and sarah sanders saying it is a test of her new leadership, and even though president trump preemptively claimed credit for the shutdown, andrea. and the facts are, garrett haake, that the senate, and the republican senate, and mitch
of course, the democrats are emboldened by president trump preemptively taking credit for the shutdown and also by the fact that democrats are retaking the house on january 3rd. perhaps, though, by losing, president trump does gain something. his base was really talking as though they were ready to rebel at him seemingly capitulating on the wall. so by digging in here, he has firmed up his base and done a little bit there. jon: republican congressman math gaits say that is the matt gaetz says he has learned from being in office. he said he would not sign a bad deal. he deeply regrets having signed a bad spending cap deal, and i think he s informed by that regret as he s making these
significant moment here in manhattan. and peter alexander in washington, any mood or tweeting or what anybody is saying is about michael cohen? good question, and i will speak right now, because i can see the marine guard is still outside of the west wing which means that the president has moved from the residence to the west wing. he arrived here at about noon, and so about 35 minutes a ago and even before we knew that the sentence that michael cohen would face. and the president obviously, he has been fierce in the criticism of cohen, and describing him on twitter as very weak, and something that cohen addressed in the courtroom today and saying that the president was right in calling him weak, but not for the reason that the president was implying and cohen saying that i was weak because time and time again, i felt that it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds. we did hear from president trump preemptively addressing this sentencing, this entire topic yesterday in a conversati
what more to you think can be done to encourage president xi to do more to stop north korea s nuclear proliferation if anything? the chinese don t do big earth shattering surprising trips hardly ever. it s all planned, they know what they are going to say and read from talking pointsz. i m sure trump wants more than that. what it has not changed and will make it harder for him, the chinese have different objectives as relates to north korea. they don t want the same thing united states wants. trump keeps pretending they do. while mattis said we want a diplomatic approach, trump has not indicated that. it needs to come from president trump if there s going to be a real diplomatic process here. we saw that with iran with obama and there s a short window. the importance of this trip is trump indicating to chinese that he wants a diplomatic path forward here and wants their help in making that happen. abe in japan going in the direction that we ve earthed the japanese to go, taking m