charged by new york s southern district, will he provide useful information on the president to the special counsel s investigation? michael cohen within the last hour seems to be distancing himself from friedman, from this news of a plea deal. this morning he tweeted this. i am one of thousands of medallion owners who entrust management companies to operate medallion according to the rules of the new york taxi and limousine commission. jim friedman and i are not partners and have never been partners in this business or any other. we ll see how investigators view the relationship which might be the crucial question. brynn gingras, thanks so much. joining us, former u.s. attorney harry lipman and cnn political analyst mark preston. harry, i want to start with the news of the day which is the president of the united states again alleging this grand criminal conspiracy. he s not just giving it a funny nickname, spy gate, which they
in my life. i ve been hit by big waves and various things. that was just incredibly powerful and hot. it burned. jon: he is the first person to suffer a major injury related to the volcanic eruption which began earlier this month. julie: new information on the case against president trump s lawyer michael cohen with reports that gene friedman, a man known in new york city as a taxi king and long-time business partner of cohen just entered into a plea deal, agreed to cooperate with federal and state prosecutors. cohen is tweeting this today. i am one of thousands of medallion owners who entrust management companies to operate my medallions according to the rules of the new york city taxi and limousine commission. gene friedman and i are not
medallion owners who entrust management companies to operate medallions according to the rules of the tax and i limousine commission. gene friedman and i are not partners and have never been partners in this case or any other case. there are differing stories on what exactly will happen and i m sure investigators will get to the bottom of it. they at least know and maybe we ll find out along the way. joining me now to discuss is shan wu, he s a former federal prosecutor and was representing rick gates at one point and the campaign aide who has struck a deal in the trump russia investigation. and chris cillizza. let s talk about the meeting happening tomorrow. sarah sanders says the democrats aren t invited to the meeting because they didn t ask for it, they didn t ask for the information. does she have a point? you said you didn t want to