Something that he drives or in connection to this, the one live on the screen right now, and we will continue to get some more information as to what he is charged with. We should be hopefully getting that in the next hour or so. All right. Our justice correspondent pete William S Williams is also reporting that dna evidence played a role in his arrest. I am going to step aside and Andrea Mitchell reports starts now. Thank you, craig. Im Andrea Mitchell in washington, and breaking news with the 12 packages containing explosive devices. And we are told that florida resident Cesar Sayoc Jr. Has been arrested in a string of mailed bombs. We will have a Press Conference at 2 30 with more details. And to today, we are told that cory booker, and James Clapper, those men joining the growing list of public figures critical of President Trump, and that
list is two former president s, and democratic officials, and democratic Law Officials and a leading democratic donor. And now, joining me is Ke
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
they were coming out, and he described them as 50 to 100, and today the secretary esper made it sound like 20 or 30. a couple of dozen. so the more significant development is that all of the troops are pulled further down the south, and syria going to be following the euphrates valley back further to iraq where they expect the two armies to clash, the turkish army which is a nato ally, and the sdf joined. now, joining me is carol lee, and charlie savage, nbc contributor, and now, carol, you first here. how did things escalate to this point? is there any sense that the president anticipated these kinds of the repercussions of his decision to withdraw? well sh, alex, if you are backing up to when he came into
that nick mulvaney and jared kushner have been involved in trying to coordinate the response this week, and it is not where they need it to be at this point, and here we are two weeks later, and sunday talk shows and a number of the surrogates going out, and the messaging is all over the place. they need a clear and concise message, and that what the people understand, a clear message and clear storyline and a clear counter argument and it has not come forward yet. and what about the democrat, charlie, because they are focusing on the substance of the controversy, but in this political climate, is that enough? well sh, right now, the democrats seem to have a lot of momentum behind the push to take it to the next level which is impeachment inquiry matters and where that matters the most is with the moderate democrats, and democrats representing districts that flip to the d s in the
see in front of me that paul welan is that bargaining chip. you say that the united states government should intervene decisively in this ca case. and we have somebody who is also a retired marine. we don t have many details other than what we have heard from his brother, but how should the president respond here? is more at stake here than his safety? well sh, he has now become a bargaining chip in my opinion, a geopolitical bargaining chip. it must be made clear to vladimir putin that you cannot just grab americans, put them in jail and accuse them of spying in order to create bargaining chips, and we have leverage in the west to create that message to vladimir putin, and that need t needs to be communicated to him very clearly and decisively. because on the other side of what you just said, even if it is about specifically butina and they want to get to her before she has a chance to talk to u.s.