To hear are central players in this case. Talking Stormy Daniels, Karen Mcdougal and Michael Cohen. Karen mcdougal who had some instagram posts last night. The witness list has been kept under wraps because prosecutors fear donald trump might attack the witnesses and and pick their testimony. Donald trump has been held in contempt for violating his gag order. And the judge has four other potential violations to rule on. Joining to discuss it all is our msnbc legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Kristi Greenberg and is also the former deputy cheap at the Southern District of new york but also with us is the former january 6 investigator Marcus Childress. Greetings everyone. How to be look at it this week . We have three potential witnesses that could kick off the conversation this week. How are you assessing this . And those the order really matter at this point . I assume Michael Cohen will be the cherry on top. I think Karen Mcdougal and certainly stormy could land the plane as
Hear the words. because people don t trust the institution. they say this is what they do. they don t like the outcome from the investigation. now they hold their own. they want to look into russia, they look, they find nothing. the truth is, this will give if you watched or consumed conservative media, all they talked about is uranium one. they see their base constituents getting up in arms something they move to address it. this will do that and it will provide a narrative out of capitol hill that is not the house and senate intelligence committee investigating russia s attempt at meddling in the election. it will be the clintons and barack obama, they did some stuff, right? i mean, it s obvious they did vague. they did some stuff. we re going to look into it. it s better story line than talking about donald trump and
Weigh in on separations of powers fights between the other two branches of governments. even if this challenge would succeed, it would likely take years before we find out what the courts believe. in other words, it would be more likely to set the parameters for a president hillary clinton or speaker steve scalise than for president obama and speaker boehner. what boehner will tell you is all his members when they go home and talk to their constituents, their base constituents, they hear this, that the president is running rough shade ovod over house republicans. so this is their answer. the other thing republicans can get out of this potentially, it gives them something to run or or at least defend in an election year they have gotten very little done. boehner said it is not intended for the republican base during the midterms but the only folks happier of what boehner has done, democrats. house republicans are so against
Skeptical of these members, you say we should be skeptical of politicians, this is an ingredient that should be a prerequisite. thus if it s not at least a discussion. i mean, to those people. speaking to your point, we don t have that discussion in this country that you cannot have a 100% secure border unless you become a police state. no one wants to say that out loud. jamal, do you buy that? first of all, let s realize that senator cornyn is like lucy with the football here. he is not going to vote for this bill. he didn t point out last time. the border has basically gone to a trickle. we ve got kind of like net zero of illegal immigration. so i think republicans are hold holding this up as really it is pol tigz ticks they re playing with their base constituents. maybe they need something politically so they can say they did something but don t let it get in the way of the good policy and ruin them. ultimately the republican party has to make a decision, are they