with the house intelligence committee? that is a question that has a lot of, a lot of implications. i wouldn t cooperate with adam schiff. i think adam schiff should be removed. you re not going to cooperate. i didn t say that. i said i will consider it. you said you will not cooperate with adam schiff. i said i will consider it. jeff mason and then jeff bennett, the two jeffs, let s talk about this. rudy giuliani and his extraordinary role in all of this, jeff mason? it certainly is an extraordinary role. i think it s worth underscoring over and over that he is a private attorney for president trump, so everything that he s done in this role has been with that sort of framework. i mean, that interview was fascinating in that it doesn t sound like he s had direction yet from the president on whether or not he should cooperate. i think he said later to george that he does have a client and if his client directs him to cooperate, then he would.
this is one of the reasons military experts say that the united states had to get out of there. but the study of australia said that within a couple of hours, they could do so much damage that we would spend the first part of a war licking our wounds, as opposed to mounting any sort of counter offense. the president says that we have the strongest military in the world that we are continuing to build on. he did say that he doesn t think china would do that, because they would pay a price that they don t want to pay. there were some very strong words there. we talked to the president on whether or not that is a looming problem. there are a lot of experts who do believe that that is one of the critical issues and threats that the united states will face in the years to come. shepard: you have been a correspondent for decades. i wonder if you ve ever heard a sitting member president call a sitting member of congress
will probably end up eventually dropping out. you have to really think about who has momentum and buttigieg and warren in particular have a lot of momentum. and as the field narrows a little bit more, they might be able to close in on biden s lead. i don t really see sanders being able to close in much because he s just dropping so much. he s gone down 9 percentage points. so i think it s really going to be end up being a three-way race between biden, warren and buttigieg. and at this point, the u.s. president focussing in on that key issue of immigration. that seems to be helping him with his base. again, we re getting close to 2020. not there but getting close. democrats in the meantime. i want to transition to this issue of impeachment because candidates running for president are talking about it. certainly they re talking about it in the house, but they seem divided in the house, natasha, on whether to pursue impeachment inquiries against the president
what we ve seen in the letters so far a timetable for a public release. this will process they ll make this whole process will be governed by something called 2600 cfr, it s very explicit that the notifications to congress of the findings, it s a little more vague, on whether that s a summary from the attorney general or he can include some of the raw data, if you will come up from the mueller report. the other thing that s often neglected in this discussion which is stipulated in the regulations is that there is a requirement by the justice department to notify congress of any actions that special counsel robert mueller wanted to take but was blocked from taking by the attorney general or in the acting attorney general. that s the other thing to really watch. again, to recap, things have moved very quickly in the last hour. my contact said they were notified of a short notice
even met with prosecutors. we don t know the answers to the questions, nor do we know quite frankly what, if anything, michael cohen would have to tell the prosecutors because our sources are not telling us so there s a lot of unanswered questions here. there s a lot of signals going back and forth but we don t know what the attorneys know and what they are saying to prosecutors , if anything. got it. moving to another piece of giuliani on the sunday shows. he also contradicted the president on whether or not the president months ago asked james comey to stop the investigation into michael flynn. so let me play for you what rudy giuliani said and jogging back what the president said. he didn t direct me to do that. he said can you he says he took it as