a little overwhelming. we re going to have tennessee congressman steve cohen on the show tonight. he s saying it s time to move forward, enough waiting for nancy pelosi, we re going to test his position, why he thinks it matters and what he believes the chance is that anything gets done in this already abbreviated session of congress that started today. then get who we have on? valerie plane. want to talk about spy game with her, what s happening in russia, what s happening with her, her run for congress. we ll take all that tonight. look forward to it. that spy story is so fascinating. still to come, a live report from the bahamas on the humanitarian crisis there as well as president trump s thoughts on allowing evacuees from the bahamas into the u.s. should always be working harder. that s why, your cash automatically goes into a money market fund when you open a new account.
phone call, why did i later ask my staff to go find if i d ever have a contact with matt cooper of time magazine, because my lawyer had heard a rumor from a time magazine reporter that i had had such conversation and i asked my staff to see anything in record to show that i had such conversation. first he called to me they figured it all out, taken our statements and now called me and told me they re not going take any action, there was relief but there was also i had to then sit on that for the better part of a year because they said, in essence, you can t say anything about it because we are continuing to investigate the matter further with regard to other individuals and so you re not allowed to say anything about it. as literally sitting on an airplane when i got the final word and it was i was on my way to new hampshire and it was june and my lawyer called me and said they are making the announcement that decline to
democrats who despite this may still go ahead and try to impeach the president? i would just say to them, please think about the country no matter how much you like or dislike the president, agree or disagree with policies, he has been unfairly treated with regard to collusion, certainly they have to see that and all what they are trying to do now is completely political and i hope some of them, i put out a tweet saying i hope that schiff and a couple of others apologize, i don t imagine that s going to happen, but, look, defense to impeachment is 50% of the american people think the investigation was a witch hunt. i have to imagine if nadler and the others will think it s worst than witch hunt. at least these people were department of justice prosecutors, now we will have a
evidence, that s why they reached determination that no action need be taken and i think that s right. you have to have underlying action that is causing people to act with criminal intent in order to obstruct progress in investigating the matter. karl, it s dana, kind of interesting a little bit just going back in history, of course, i was at the white house with you. i served as spokesperson specifically for you in the valerie plane matter and i wonder if you can walk us through that there was nothing more to it, it was over and that relief, were you relieved or were you also, you know, were you angry about having to go through all of it? well, look, there were actually two moments, there was the moment when my lawyer called me and said they have, this all boiled down to a question of if i couldn t remember a particular
regard president trump commuted the senate of grandmother alice johnson, who served almost 22 years for drug offenses. president obama said no to her request for clemency. alice johnson was the seventh granted by president trump including the postummous pardon of first black heavyweight boxer jack johnson. susa, and former bush administration official scooter libby convicted in the leak that revialed the identity of valerie plane. around the alice johnson pardon he made an astonishing offer to protesting nfl players. pass along folks they consider victims of the criminal justice system, and he will give them a chance. the eagles malcolm jenkins. antoine bolden and benjamin watson responded and the new york times op ed asking for a blanket pardon for drug offenders who already served very long sentences. we re happy to have benjamin