cynthia. her thought on that. you can spin it that way because the question for corey lewandowski and hope hicks was when they were involved in covering up the june meeting, hope hicks, not corey. she was involved with the fake statement on the june meeting, that is due with obstruction. it looked like it stayed within robert mueller s purview. they can breathe a sigh of relief. juana, sorry i interrupted you. go ahead. it is not clear yet by washington standards. it is important to point on the this investigation is remarkably leak free. there are people who get off scot free. we don t know yet until william barr makes the reports to congress and we hear details or something publicly released, we are not able to fill in the blanks.
with the republican national committee to hit the president s policy of separating immigrant families. but it was his august guilty plea to felony campaign violations including the payment to stormy daniels to keep quiet about her alleged affair with trump that was seen as the ultimate turn of the screw. that s because he chose to stand up in court and say he arranged the payments at trump s direction. trump has said he has done nothing wrong and denied the affairs. since his court appearance cohen sat for hours talking to investigators from the u.s. attorney s office and robert mueller s team. there are clearly things michael cohen knows no one else knows. reporter: tonight cohen is showing no signs of letting up from a dramatic split that is dramatic even by washington standards, between two men analysts say now have it in for each other. michael cohen is a guy bringing a knife to a fight. it doesn t often with donald trump. most people cave in and say to
down. the left is at a desperation point. they are not going to be able to stop trump s next nominee from being on the court. so they take glancing blows about her faith and now saying she is a member of a cult. howie: most of of the media cheer the firing of ask the pruitt over a series of scandals and a question how he hung on for so long. mr. pruitt is accused of egregious things by washington standards. pruitt s extraordinary list of ethical scandals prompted a debate by historians whether he s the most of corrupt cabinet member in u.s. history.
for a year, michael s company was paid $100,000 a month and they one meeting with him and they determined he would be unable to provide the services that he thought he was going to provide but they couldn t fire him because they could only fire him for cause so they continued to pay him for no work through february 2018. it seems like cause would be if you can t deliver. if you can t deliver what you expected, all they maybe maybe that s a little different point to make. so you see it as legitimate. we should also point out it not just legitimate meaning this is within the bounds of normalcy, washington standards. sorry, but that s the truth, right? you have novartis, there s also at&t, korea aerospace. so it s allowed but this isn t the kind of thing that a lot of americans say that s so gross, that s so washington and president trump said he was
he s got the booth, the maxwell smart booth. he gets $50 a night rent in washington, d.c. then we find out that actually the people, the lobbyists that gave it to him actually did have business before him. it goes on and on. i don t understand why they re suggesting that this guy is the only person that can cut regulations at the epa. i mean, you can find other people who are just as ideologically conservative as this man. i just wonder, is there, does he have a sponsor? does he have is there a big-money is he a sheldon adai adelson guy. is there somebody who gives trump and the republican party hundreds of millions of dollars that is protecting scott pruitt? that s the only thing that makes sense here. there s always be a appalling angle.