But first, new questions and changing explanations from companies now finding themselves smack in the middle of a controversy over big payments to Donald Trumps personal attorney Michael Cohen. Im crushing it, reads the headline in the Washington Post, quoting cohen, touting how he leveraged his access to President Trump. Those promised brought millions of dollars into cohens business essential consulting. Among the companies putting cash in cohens coffers, drug giant novartis and at t. Msn Msnbcs Ali Velshi taking a look at all this. Let me start with the basic. Some people might say this happens all the time. People were surprised. They got a president they werent expecting. They wanted to go and find out anything they could about him. So they paid 1. 2 million to a guy named Michael Cohen. Its weird on a lot of levels. Theres some part of this thats a bit swampy. Novartis ceo put out a statement saying we made a mistake entering into this agreement and were being criticized by a wor
Tonight by the Kennedy Family in hyannisport. As soon as we can bring you more information on that we will bring it during the hour. But go on now to the news of the week in the president ial campaign, beginning with a very simple fact. President s dont debate. But president ial candidates have to debate in order to win the presidency. A job where they then will not have to debate. Most american president s have been elected without ever debating. Debates do not actually test the skills necessary to be president. And most of the political news media does not seem to realize that. And i will have much more to say about that at the end of this hour. And about how we can improve debates and the work that you actually have to do as a viewer and voter when you are watching the debates. It shouldnt be a passive exercise. You should be listening and thinking and ignoring much of what happens in president ial debates, especially the games sometimes played by some of the moderators. And this we
Months out and theres a new poll shaking things up. We will have to see. There will be a few more polls between now and then. Robert are not a buyer of the poll. Dagen save it [laughter] shannon let me tell you more pay the Joe Biden Campaign electability argument now finding his support is shrinking with rivals Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warrens urging. They find bite and support dropping 13 points just since june as sanders and warren are now tied for first place at 20 . Biden at 19 to make this a virtual threeway tie. The Biden Campaign quickly pushing back, calling the poll an outlier. Writing, poll after poll also confirmed that because of the high stakes of this election, democratic primary voters are the most energized about a nominee who can take on and defeat donald trump. Joe biden is by all accounts the candidate best positioned to make that happen. The real clear politics average showing biden ahead of his nearest rival, Bernie Sanders, by 11 points. And former dnc interi
Who at this hour is just blocks away from where i am, getting ready to leave trump tower and getting ready to head to a meeting with World Leaders including the man at the center of this unfolding drama. The ukrainian president. It was a phone call between those two men, donald trump and Volodymyr Zelensky that pushed for nancy pelosi to call for an impeachment inquiry, one that promises to draw the country into a contentious battle by a somber pelosi. The actions to date taken by the president have seriously violated the constitution. The president must be held account aboutle. No one is above the law. The good news is the voters get it. This is why they say its good for the election, but, you know what . Its bad for the country. If its true. I cant even believe that its true. The stakes couldnt be higher. The fate of the president , the future of both parties, the direction of the country rest on a single question. Can democrats convince the American People that President Trump in th
I think spying on a Political Campaign is a big deal. It is a big deal. You are not suggesting that spying occurred . D . I dont well, i think that there was that spying did occur. Yes, i think that spying did occur. Im not suggesting that it wasd not adequately predicated, but i need to explore that. Tucker there is no disputing the points that he made. Spying on a president ial campaign is a big deal especially when it was rivaled by an administration. Imagine if a year from now the Trump Administration could lead surveillance of officials in the Kamala Harris campaign. Imagine if it caught, trump pointed to Opposition Research generated by the Republican National committee asju justification for that surveillance. How would we react . Like it was a major draw dropping scandal, andd this tht show would agree with that, we would not agree with that. Law enforcement should never be used as a partisan political tool, no matter who it benefits. But the media does not feel that way about