Them for the last three months. Four months, five months. And theyre still here. Theyre still here. Meanwhile, bipartisan efforts to Shield Mueller and his investigation are moving forward in the senate, interestingly enough after much delay. Today republican Chuck Grassley, the chair of the powerful Senate Judiciary committee announced his panel will vote on a bill to protect mueller potentially as soon as tomorrow. That puts grassley on a direct Collision Course with the Senate Majority leader who says he will not advance the bill to a final vote. Theres no indication that mueller is going to be fired. I dont think the president is going to do that. Obviously a number of your colleagues fear it enough to say it should be in there. Im the one who decides what we take to the floor. Thats my responsibility as the majority leader. Well not be having this on the floor of the senate. Its possible mcconnell doesnt read the New York Times which reported on two separate occasions when the president has already tried to
order pluler fired. In one case backing down only after his own white House Counsel threatened to quit over it if he went through with it. Tonight concerns about mueller being fired are urgent enough apparently a Police Commander in pittsburgh just ordered detectives to bring riot gear to work in case people take to the streets. Thats happening in america. On capitol hill, a handful of republicans signed on to a House Version of the mueller protection bill. It is worth noting that of the six gop members we know, half have already announced theyre retiring from congress. Some of their colleagues are taking what could be considered the absolute opposite approach. Today in a letter to the Attorney General and other senior officials, 11 House Republicans called on the Justice Department to prosecute a long list of the president s political foes including james comey, Hillary Clinton and former Attorney General loretta lynch. Weve seen had kind of extraordinary breach of american political norms from the president himself but never before from members of u. S. Congress. Their move was hailed by the president s associates on trump tv. This is a Welcome Change here in washington. It looks like Members Of Congress are trying to finally bring to the American People the justice which they deserve. Hopefully the Justice Department will look into jim comey Lying Under Oath in front of congress. I dont understand why youve got a person gone for almost a year that has not been followed up with or prosecuted for that potential crime. Democratic senator Cory Booker A member of the Senate Judiciary committee and one of the sponsors of the bill to protect mueller good enough to join us live. Let me start on that. What do you make of Members Of Congress writing a Letter Calling for members of the fbi, the Justice Department and political foes of the president to be prosecuted . This is to me really a bad sign in our democracy. I think it starred in the last president ial election where you hear a whole Convention Center chanting lock her up, which to
me is things that dictators do that autocrats do is go after their little enemies not through the mechanisms of democracy but threat nick to throw them in jail and arrest them. This is a very dangerous sign. It is very antidemocratic that people want to try to be pushing to lock up their political opponents. So youre on the judiciary committee. Explain to me what the State Of Play is with this piece of legislation. Back in june, Lindsey Graham and started talking about hey, this is a problem not just in this moment in history, this moment in time. But for the longterm. If you have a president under investigation or has principal members of their team indicted, that that president should have a common sense check and balance on their ability to fire a Special Counsel. It just makes sense that you should not have that you should have checks and balances that you shouldnt have a president can be above the law or that could obstruct justice. So this is just a very common sense pragmatic idea. Lindsay and i started working on it, thom tillis and chris coons came up with their version. Weve married the versions. Im excited that Chuck Grassley understands that this is a bill of merit not only for now but in the ages and not only held hearings on it i mope will mark this bill up and vote it out of committee. What do you think has changed . It seemed there was a lot of interest last summer, we may have had you on to talk about it, that interest waned. It seemed stalled. If you had asked me to bet on whether it would get a vote on committee, i would have said no. Whats changed . A lot of folks of good conscience saying weve seen two separate occasions where were hearing reports the president was going to move to fire mueller. Weve seen consistent with his behavior that it can be impulsive, it can be unpredictable. I think we need this back stop for our democracy as opposed to
lurching us into a constitutional crisis. Sober minds see this as not at indictment of the president but as A Sign Of The Times and something were worried about and a responsible thing for us to do as stewards of the republic, as stewards of our democracy. And look, i would be i want to state it plain, clearly, there are republicans now that are worried that this eventuality might happen. I think thats why were getting good people, good heart, good nature stepping up to say lets do some things to create an Insurance Policy against a constitutional crisis. Isnt. Mitch mcconnell just going to put this bill where he stored the Merrick Garland flom nation in his office . I think that is a well earned skepticism. But this is something that i think is gaining momentum. I think that Mitch Mcconnell is right it, his rights to do what hes doing right now but hes
within his rights to change his mind. As we get more bipartisan support, as more activism happens around the country and if trump continues with the kind cuff bluster weve been seeing, heres a president that has been undermining the Special Counsel, attacking his integrity, undermining the investigation. I think at some point people have to choose from a tribalism Party Politics between that and sort of a faithfulness to their country and our institutions. Im hoping that Mitch Mcconnell will come around. But right now, were step by step. We wrote a bill. We got the bill hearings. We got the bill now ready to go into committee. Every step of the way as you said, people didnt think we could make it the next step. I have a feeling we might get this to the floor. Do you think the president s a criminal. Im one of those folks that says lets go where the evidence leads. And right now, we have a Special Counsel that is doing a thorough
investigation. Lets not get ahead of our skis. Lets make sure we support the Special Counsels investigation. If the president , like he says he has nothing to worry about, he should back off on the rhetoric and the things hes doing to undermine the investigation and let it take its course. Lets draw our conclusions from the evidence Gath Perpendicular i think its politically peril oust way we are throwing things around and getting ahead of this investigation. I think we need to let this prosecutor, let the Special Counsel rather do their job and draw conclusions after the evidence comes forward. Is that a reference to talk of impeachment when you say politically perilous. Yeah, i think that we undermine our position as democrats if we are reaching out now for impeachment which is just going to whip up more of the political divisions, the political debates. Ill take criticism for that but its okay. We need sober minds, factbasesed conclusioned drawn
from evidence presented. This, if we protect are the Special Counsel especially, this investigation is going to come to a conclusion. There are going to be facts and we can base our actions based upon those fantastics. Senator cory booker, you for making time tonight. For more on threats the jut departments independence, im joined by two former federal prosecutors, Jennifer Rogers who worked in the same Attorneys Office investigating Michael Cohen and harry lipman who worked at the doj. Let me start with you. The president very pointedly didnt say no, im not going to fire them. Theyre five and im innocent. He could have said that. He could have but he likes to keep us guessing, of course. If he flat out said im going to fire him, then maybe they hurry up and pass this bill and that puts impediments in his way. Or if he said im not going to do it. What he said was this coy like, you keep saying this and theyre still there. He said theyre going to do
their job. The white house said that before. Sarah sanders said that before and now shes backing off that which is getting some people nervous. Harry, i want to ask about some of the theres all these machinations happening as we watch this bear down. One of them is that adam schiff is introducing a pardon bill, legislation to prevent abuse of president ial pardons which understand the impulse particularly as there is some evidence that perhaps the president might be dangling them or some fear he might be dangling in front of people that could incriminate them. Is that even constitutional . Doa. The pardon power is plenary. Its a very interesting theory by the way that the dangling of a pardon might constitute obstruction because the sort of secret ill pardon you, just keep quiet now, wouldnt be subject to the one check we have on pardons which is the political collect that theyre in in plain air. But theres the pardon power,
more than even the Discharge Power which at issue in the booker bill, is completely within the president s Control Subject only to as has happened here arguably, improper purpose and it being the possibility of obstruction. Ditto, by the way, on the booker bill. There are going to be constitutional arguments on either side. Notwithstanding the precedent that the senators rely on. And i actually think if it passes, this will au kind of play out at the District Court level in the first instance and whether the District Court will enjoin the bill or not until it goes up because if the District Court says lets keep it as it is, that law is in place, that will be four, five, six months till the Supreme Court decides thats four, five, six months for mueller to make a lot of hay. Thats a very good point sort of concrete terms, is there even
a legislative it statutory solution to this. Some legal scholars argue Alan Dershowitz and a lot of them on right argue the president has a constitutional power under article two to fire anyone in the Executive Branch essentially so you cant undermine that power by statute or any other reason. That will be the battle if this gets passed. Theyll be duking it out in court. Another piece of legislation this legal gim protect. Eric schneiderman wrote a letter to new York Lawmakers urging State Lawmakers to close new yorks Double Jeopardy loophole to. To prevent the president from avoiding Double Jeopardy. It only applies as Double Jeopardy would once somebody has stood trial. Now, sneiderma knows better. Jennifer probably knows better being from from new york. My sense of it is, it comes into play only when somebody is first
put in jeopardy in the federal system. But if that happens, it would apply to many of the crimes the vet financial crimes that it looks as if cohen, manafort and others are going to have to stand try for. So it attach as soon as someone pleads guilty or a jury is sworn in a trial. So flynn. Youre saying is Double Jeopardy does. Correct. So flynn, hes already pled, gates has already pled. For them if theyre pardoned by the president , then the new york Double Jeopardy statute would the prohibit sneiderma or any other new york prosecutor from bringing charges against them. This would rectify that in view of sneiderma. It would. New york is along with about half the states with a stricter Double Jeopardy policy than is strictly necessary. Theres no constitutional reason they cant pass this and scale back that extra protection. Its interesting to watch everyone try to figure out how to sort of shore up all this. Then theres the civil suits
happening. One thing that happened today Karen Mcdougal was released from her settlement with ami, American Media inc. Basically saying you can tell your story. Do you see that as having effect on everything happening in the lane of Michael Cohen and robert mueller, harry. Totally. Its quite a story really. Everyone has been focused to date on mueller. Understandably. Hes got the big guns. He can really bring the biggest charges against trump. In the meantime, trump is fighting and losing on these different fronts in individual courts. Where he has to, in fact, stand in front of the law and the law buys back and says look, i dont care if youre the president. So far, judge wood, judge odoro and i think mcdougal, the National Enquirer read the writing on the wall. What we had seen as sort of
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the wake of the syrian governments chemical weapons attack on syrians as the u. S. Alleges they did. U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations nikki haley announced the sanctions on tv. He grew angry and yelled at the television. The white house insys there had were no new sanctions claiming she had just been confused. Tonight at a Press Conference Weapons Japanese frirpt shinzo abe, trump offered a cryptic response when asked about the sanctions. Sanctions as soon as they very much deserve it. We have that is a question. Theres been nobody tougher on russia than president donald trump. Joining me now someone all over the stoerks political analyst phillip rucker, White House Bureau chief for the washington post. Lots of press back and forth about the peschell dynamics. Nikki says there already
sanctions. Then they get withdrawn. Kudlow says she got ahead of her skis. Nikki haley says i dont get confused. There was a policy that got reversed, right . Thats right, chris. As with a lot of things in this administration, the reason for the reversal is the president himself. There was an agreed upon preliminary plan developed last week to impose these sanctions as an economic component of the Broader Campaign in retaliation for the syrian chemical gas attacks. There were the Military Strikes on friday. There were to be these economic sanctions against russia this monday. And sometime over the weekend, the president decided to hold back on the sanctions, not to impose and not to authorize them in part because he felt like russia had not retaliated against the United States for that Military Strike on friday. So he didnt want to antagonize russia too much. Something didnt happen in the translation there. Its unclear based on my reporting exactly when the
president changed his mind whether he did so before Ambassador Haley went on tv sunday or soon after. But the white house did not announce that change till monday and the agreed upon message was to blame her. This is very similar to another incident you reported in the west about his anger at the scope of russian diplomatic expulsions or Spy Expensions according to u. S. Government. There were i think 60 named and you said the president was furious his administration has being portrayed as taking by far the toughest stance on russia. He got angry whether he learned france and britain were kicking out four, the u. S. Was kicking out 60 and yelling at his staff about it. Thats right. President trump was willing to expel those Russian Diplomats a few weeks ago but did not want to be seen as taking the lead as having the United States be at the forefront of this. He felt like this was a problem for europe. He wanted the european allies to
be more aggressive with russia. He was willing to sort of go along. So his advisers said look, if the u. S. Expels 60 diplomats, europe will expel 60. For some reason, trump didnt realize they meant europe collectively. There was a global effort, all of these countries contributed a certain number of diplomats they would be expelling from their countries. Trump got furious when he saw the side by side comparisons between the u. S. At 60, france and germany at four each. That irritated him and he was cursing at his team. What is going on . The president is at war and at odds with his own administration over russia policy. He hates when theyre aggressive. He gets overruled or outplayed or they have to keep it hidden from him and spring it on him. The whole thing steams dysfunctional and unhealthy. Whats going on . Hes ratcheted up the aggression with russia a little bit. Certainly the donald trump of 2017 probably would not have
agreed to expel any Russian Diplomats, would not have agreed to close the consulate in the seattle. He says hes the toughest ever. That doesnt pan out. Its clear when you report inside this administration that is almost everyone to a t in the administration those in the cabinet, those on the National Security council are in agreement with a very aggressive and adversarial posture with russia. Its the president time and again they have to convince to come along and authorize these moves. Phil, thanks for being with me tonight. Thank you. President trump today crowed about the man he nominated to be Secretary Of State cia director mike pompeo we now know traveled to north korea over easter weekend to meet kim jongun directly even though hes not been confirmed by the senate. I think mike pompeo is extraordinary. Sfefs number one at west point, top the an harvard. Hes a great gentleman. I think hell go down as truly a great Secretary Of State. By the way, he just left north korea. Had a great meeting with kim jongun and got along with him really well, really great. Joining me now is the top democrat in the Senate Foreign reeses complete senator Robert Menendez df new jersey who said today he would vote no on the pompeo come nation. Let me start with your reasons for coming to that conclusion. I dont think Director Pompeo will be someone who be a strong advocate for diplomacy as the first line of defense. I think he rounds out what is becoming the president s war cabinet. Im concerned about his past statements about regime change. Both in north korea and iran just to mention a few. And im concerned about his record on what he has said about people of the muslim faith, about the lgbtq community, and others, and democracy and human
rights around the world which the United States promotes starts here at home. Those are many of the reasons why i dont believe that he will work to stop the president s worst instincts. Are you supportive of efforts to engage in direct talks with north korea like pompeo going there and possibly setting up a head to head summit with the president . Well, you know, ultimately, i worry about the president having a meeting without the deep preparation that has to take place. Primarily by our State Department and our defense people to maybe have a shot at having a good meeting. You know what kim yong u. N. Has done here is set the terms and the time that he decided that hell engage with us. He has received International Recognition by the president himself agreeing to meet with him and being legitimized in that way. He has ultimately said that hell talking about
denuclearization but hes done that previouset rations. Never has it been followed through on. Lastly it looks like he will get benefit from china in enhanced economic interaction for easing the tension. Hes in a good place. I worry that the president doesnt understand what is necessary and the underpinnings necessary toes achieve the possibility of the goals of a Denewark Clearrized korean peninsula. Theres a lot of back and forth in the last 24 hours about russia and russian sanctions particularly with nikkiy announcing is new chances. People in the administration saying she got ahead of the curve and her saying i did not. Do you understand Whats Going On with there administrations russia policy . No, i dont understand the administrations russia policy except this. That President Trump can declare the court order of a judge to
conduct a Search Warrant on his former or on his attorney an attack against our country but cannot say anything about Vladimir Putins attack against our country in the president ial elections and attacks that are still going on in our election process as we speak for the 2018 elections. Its Mind Boggling and this is why i could understand where ambassador heyy thought they were going in a different direction because the congress overwhelming passed and the president he had to sign sanctions against russia that are mandatory, not discretionary and no waivers for them. Mandatory that he has yet to pass. So ultimately, one has to wonder, what is it that the president has such a reluctance to do as it relates to russia when theyve attacked us in what would clearly be in any other iteration an attack on our country and when they not only have invaded ukraine, committed a Chemical Attack against an individual on foreign soil, are engaged in other democracies throughout europe and in mexico
as we speak and so many others. So its just Mind Boggling to try to understand that what the president is all about whether he it comes to russia. Finally, the president ordered strikes on three different facilities that allegedly were involved in the production of chemical weapons controlled by the regime in syria. Did you support those . Do you support them and are you clear what the legal rationale is for those strikes . I think any sustained engagement in Syria Outside of isil needs the authorization of congress, number one. Number two, wlags assad did is barbaric. But we saw a strike a year ago, we see a strike now. At the end of the day, i dont know if this was carefully choreographed because you have a strike against three facilities. The russians dont activate their Defense Missiles against us. The syrians shoot their missiles after our missiles land. You wonder, wait a minute, was this a choreographed kabuki
show . Ia really is missing here is a strategy to end the disaster that is syria. Let me make sure i understand that. Are you suggesting that the white house used some back channelton actively coordinate with russia or the assad regime ahead of time before the strikes . Well, i certainly have to wonder. The russians have a very sophisticated Defense System they did not activate. The syrians shot missiles after our missiles landed. And the russians were not hit at all in any of those chemical weapons sites. Its too many questions that raise the concerns as did weise act and show our indignation but was it choreographed or at least were the russians told stay out of these seconds and by the way, Dont Challenge us. And if you Dont Challenge us, then everything will go as planned. Look, the bottom line is, whats crying out here in syria is a strategy a strategy that
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no. Two things about Anthony Scaramuccis response there, first a little unclear he knows how the coin toss works. The answer there is probably should it be it doesnt matter whether he cooperates with investigators because President Trump did knot nothing wrong but its kind of funny no one seems to be even pretending thats the case anymore. Wnycs trump, inc. Aired an episode about Michael Cohens history with the president. Andrea bernstein joins me now. What did you learn. One of the things that was stunning to us and we went back to the beginning of Michael Cohens career as a lawyer, is that he kept associating with people who were investigated, disbarred, committed of crimes, he himself was not so far as we can hes never been investigated till now. But he has a remarkable track record going back to people that he worked with in the taxi
medallion industry, people that he worked with where he set up medical offices and people were later charged with insurance fraud. And normally one wouldnt judge people by their associates but there is a stunning and consistent history and, of course, he is the president s lawyer, and therefore, is deserving of even more scrutiny. This is a guy who has gone through a number of businesses that i think its fair to say like the taxi Medallion Business is like a sketchy business. The taxi Medallion Business, one of the things its a license to drive a cab. Until uber it was worth so much money. Gold mine. At its peak worth 1 million. Even way back in the early towels, he said had he 200 of them. Thats a lot of money. And thats what gave him the ability to so far as we know, to start Buying Properties in trump tower. He went from these very sort of poor places in new york city where the businesses are falling apart and shuttered and people
dont have locks on their doors to fifth avenue, park avenue in a very short length of time. This is the thing. You get a picture today on twitter of one of his law offices and a taxi garage basically, in queengs essentially. At a certain point the way he runs into trouble, he starts buying up a lot of trump port. Is that right . This is what happens. We dont know how they met. But the first time they were ever publicly linked was there was a story in the new york post. It was an unusual story. A weird story. About some guy Michael Cohen him and his family and his Business Partners buying up Trump Properties all over the place. Soon after that, he goes to work for trump as executive vice president. This is a guy who had an office in a garage not too many years before that. And hes buying he and his family are buying a lot of property in dollar value of condos in Trump Properties. This is the other thing about Michael Cohen. Hes worked in these industries, taxi medallions, medical insurance. Diamonds, real estate. I mean, well take real estate in particular. The federal government thinks that real estate is a way for people to lauder money. This is the stated policy of the u. S. Treasury is that some 30 of Real Estate Transactions merit skrutfully because of possible Money Laundering. He becomes the role he plays for donald trump is not lawyer. Thats key. What is his role . Its important to understand this. Donald trump had lawyers who did litigation and. Tons from them, armies of them. Legal briefs and did all these things for him. What Michael Cohen did is he made deals. One of the things in our podcast is we have tape of him announcing a very early deal or sort of a middle of his term in trump world with georgia. He is somebody whose office was in a taxi garage now standing
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bumping in the 40s. Not the worst. Not like post charlottesville. All the stuff on polling looks like, bad but not catastrophic for republicans. Maybe improving a little. If you look at fundraising, political reports, special elections, the behavior of people like paul ryan, it looks like a disaster. Candidate recruitment is something that would figure highly there. Seeing quality and number of candidates the democrats have been able to recruit. Something hard to gauge now. Based on sheer numbers. Some of the stories out there. Su something that will reap the benefits of come november. Which is accurate . I think democrats are in a good position heading into november. Not something, democrats should be taking for granted. Not a situation where democrats should repeat the mistakes of the past which is to say should not just be counting on getting by running antidonald trump campaign. At every democratic canned date candidate will have to make proactive argument what theyre
for and what theyre hopefully my hope its that voters and democrats will respond. So much energy we see, marches are motivated by the desire of protesting being against something. At some point we have, have to harn er harness the energy in the direction of being in favor of something. Not that i necessarily disagree with it. I think that is where the energy comes from. I dont worry about that as much. With each of the special elections you have seen, in many cases, the candidates have made an affirmative pitch to voters. They almost dont have to talk about donald trump, it is implicit. Like, Connor Lamb Didnt Talk much about donald trump. Heading on friday to arizona to write about the special election in Congressional District 8. Where again, you know you have all the people motivated by antitrump animus. Doesnt figure in. Let me bracket that. The district opened up if i am not mistaken by the member of Republican House leadership who
asked several female staff members. To be a surrogate, carry his children. Have to resign for that. Another thing. Here is also the problem. We have to get through primaries first. Always encouraging students. Must vote. Must vote. They turn around to me, for whom . Why . Take new york for instance. Our primary for, you know congress is in june. There are so many people who arent paying attention. The person who actually goes on the ballot, to go against a republican in november, may be some one that, you know in some cases isnt that attractive to a large percentage of voters. And thats also part of the frustrating piece that, that i find with Younger Voters that we keep saying, come in. Come in. And, all the action happened in june. They may miss it actually. Interesting too. Because, republicans say this all the time. Particularly about connor lamb. Good luck getting connor lamb out of the primary . The other part of this that matters is well, to go back
to what i was saying before. They have to be in position theyre voting for something. This its what i thought connor lamb did a good job of. Republicans tried to spin the situation. Connor lamb was playing republican light. Thats not what connor lamb did. He was very affirmative. He made a point of clarifying his position on gun control to suggest he was in support of background checks. Supportive of the labor movement. Took a big risk, talked about the need to confront climate change. He is somebody on affirmative platform. Aspiring candidate. He didnt spend all of his time running against donald trump. I think we also have to realize, district by district. Unfortunately, the democrats are sometimes using blanket strategy. We talked about this. When there are people of color, women of color especially in a particular district. We cant keep chasing this x percent of white men who left during the reagan era to get them back into the party. Love the people who actually turn out, who registered democrats who have a proven track record in the past, three, four elections that will come
out in a primary especially in a general, because theyre already mote va motivated. We are going to have a lot of women. I am not usually an optimistic woman. In a state of gloom and deep spare. If you look at the people running, right. You have so many, you have Record Numbers of women. Record numbers of women of color. Right. You do have, i think, to some extent, a slate of candidates that reflects the democratic base. The slate of candidates willing to step up and run in places where often Kramt Cardemocrats have a candidate at all. Theyre able to pour all their heart and some. Force republicans. Paul ryan, this district. Dont think it looks that good for democrats. Republicans are having to pour 1 million into it. Paul ryan is hosting a fund raiser. Yeah. In arizona. They didnt even used to run anybody in this district. Theyre draining resources. People are running in the districts. Im not confident the Democratic Party its putting resources
behind the candidates to help them in the particular districts. We saw what happened when independent expenditure put in 1 million in the doug jones roy moore. 98 of black women turning out. 23 million to chase down white men sort of on the fence. I think we need institutional structure to financially support of the people. Thats what is making it happ happen. Indivisible. Seeing transmitted in the different races. Bear down. Look at who is manning phone ban banks. Working Family Parties across the country. Two factors we should, cover here. You alluded to it. Money. Republicans are actually going to outspend democarts this time around. For all the advantages around the national narrative. We do not have the advantage when it comes to money. A republican advantage. Where there is a democratic advantage. Not enjoyed by the minority party, is we are going to be in a message vierenvironment
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