David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Wideranging conversation the two of them had. Let me play a tape here from senator Lindsey Graham, senior senator from south carolina, responding to all of this. When it comes to Michael Cohen, you should be very suspicious of anything he says. Hes on the hot seat. Mr. Cohen, if youve got something new to say, you need to come to congress and say it under oath. Everyone is a lawyer. I should say, Lindsey Graham is actually a lawyer. So he has some justification there weighing in, i guess, on what happens on the hot seat. Sara, give me your perspective on this. We have seen teases here from Michael Cohen, lanny davis releasing that tape, memobly on tuesday night. We listened to it in realtime as it was played out on cable news. Weve heard it subsequently. Whats your sense here of what Michael Cohens thinking, his frame of mind here as we approach a new week . Well, its true that cohen is in the hot
the holidays. on friday he accepted the house s invitation to deliver a state of the union address. that is set for the first week of february. whether that speech will happen before, after or during a presidential impeachment trial in the senate. let s get to west palm beach florida not far from the president s resort. littin home is there. the president s twitter feed today is strangely quiet. what is on the president s agenda this weekend? well, ana, the rest of the weekend looks anything like today he spent the die at the golf course. just about two hours he s going to be speaking to the turning point usa action summit, students that will be a friendly audience, just to give you an idea of other people who have spoken. rudy giuliani, sean hannity, don jr., a supportive crowd. as for the rest of the weekend and the two weeks, i spoke to
the scif and damaged the integrity of the scif, many believe. right. but if they were like a low-level, you know, member of the military, you know, without a high rank or even any rank and they did that gone. their career would be destroyed. destroyed. and instead there were people in there recording. yeah, and tweeting it out. exactly. so this is a serious issue, and of course when they concocted this with the blessing of the president, many of them might have had no idea or, even worse, maybe some of them did. remember i m sorry. just the president s twitter feed today, he was threatening republicans, you know, calling them human scum who don t follow his lead. so he wants to keep them in line, and that s what we saw today. human scum. he has the best words. it s a high brow appeal. we ve got to take a quick break. when we come back, new cnn reporting on the time line. more evidence the ukrainians knew and knew early on what president trump really wanted from
maybe tilting the election towards president trump, she s actually emboldening russian propaganda and giving russia a win and every single time that someone at cnn reports a story incorrectly, and puts a cia source at risk, and the russians think it s a huge problem. you are setting up a situation where americans are debating about the russia issue and tearing each other apart politically which the one thing in the mueller report that we know is true, that was one of the goals when the russians to the facebook ads, twitter troll farms, to sow dissent in america. every time the media acts like they are concerned about information and worried about protecting sources, they have exposed the source and they have emboldened the russian propaganda by continuing to give russia credit to one of the theories, dana, floating around right now, the person who
in a minute but let s make fun of her for a little while first. jesse: why would you go to me for that? i think debra messing should stay off twitter. take the l from last week, cool off, listen to your group. your entourage knows what s best. go on a hiatus, colored winter vacation and come back refreshed and you can dip your toes back in. tom: does she have an entourage? jesse: all of these hollywood people have people. you know that. she s got publicists, managers, lawyers. katie: and they all agree with her. [laughter] tom: e member the boy in the plastic bubble, the john travolta film. he didn t know what the world outside was like and that is what she is like. she s going to continue doing this because she doesn t know the world outside her bubble. dana: attention is a hell