Good morning, it is 11 00 a. M. Eastern, and 8 00 a. M. Pacific. Im jose diazbalart. Former president Donald Trumps new york Hush Money Trial is off today, as the former president attends his youngest sons High School Graduation in florida. The day off comes after former trump lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen spent another day on the stand being crossexamined by trump attorney todd blanche. Blanche may have been able to poke a hole in cohens credibility as a witness, during questioning about a phone call from october 2016. More now from nbc news senior Legal Correspondent laura jarrett. Laura . Good morning to you. Michael cohen has been nearly unflappable on the Witness Stand as the defense tries to show this jury that he has changed his story about things big and small. The word lie used more than 50 times in court just yesterday. The jury may not remember every single defense attack line, but they only need one person not to buy his story. This morning, Donald Trumps hush money coveru
we don t know. you mentioned october of 2016. october 7th, the access hollywood tape and everybody talking about trump dropping out. you have to be really careful. a month in politics in the fall is a lifetime. every week is the equivalent of a month, several months back. that is how quickly things can change. what i m looking for is charlie cook s numbers, toss-up states, versus leec leasuccess lean dem lean republican. you have 15 races that lean democrats. so sthey need eight are more an they don t have them. the democrats need to get those races moved from toss-up to lean democrat before they can feel secure about the house. and how important is this for
and all of this related of course to what happened allegedly in 2016 october, mccabe allegedly authorizing information to be leaked to a reporter at the wall street journal. mccabe is speaking out. he says here is the reality, i m being singled out and treated this way because of the role i played, the actions i took and the events i witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of james comey. but we see mccabe again speaking freely here. what difference will that make, peter first to you, what difference will it make with the overall investigation? it will make a difference in the public perception of the investigation, the fairness of it, of the politicization or lack thereof. this is what is important, because we do have elections coming up and this is a big political act unfortunately as many of the fbi agents don t want to be political but it has become political and the president is to blame here with
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is right in all of this but the democrats memo is ten pages long and rebuttal to the four-page memo the republican colleagues on the committee released a few weeks over it unlike the republican memo this has reductions on every page and the democrats claim their information shows that fbi and doj officials did not abuse their surveillance authority when they saw fisa warrant on this plan quarter page. carter page was of interest for his connection to the russians years for 2016. october the 16th he had all sorts of contacts and been with the russians and interviewed by the fbi. reporter: they claim that the so-called anti- trump dossier prepared by former british spy christopher steele was an essential part of the page by the application and that the initial application and renewal bill to mention that the dnc and heller campaign held on the dossier. democrats memo disputes that and