The latest Political Developments of the day and interviews with top newsmakers are featured. Ears is that trump was not at au walled off from the seedier aspects of being donald trump. In fact, he was very much hands on. If cohens account proves true, Donald Trumps Daily Collusion Denial may undergo an extreme make over and his supporters may soon be conditioned to accept that collusion isnt a crime instead of there was no collusion at all, and that is just the p. R. Battle front. The legal problems for the president may be twofold. One, the Trump Tower Meeting is under scrutiny in the Obstruction Of Justice track of the Mueller Probe, and on the Collusion Track Bob Mueller has charged russian officials for Election Meddling and he may be building a conspiracy case and working to Connect The Dots to any unwitting or witting accomplices inside the trump orbit. Cohens bombshell contradicts many months of denials from donald trump about his knowledge of the Trump Tower Meeting, like this
and michael cohen had run into people who worked with steve bannon so michael cohen fired off a text. he said hey, i ve seen all your people. are you still at the gee gent regency. steve bannon responded nice to hear from you, brother, i think we should only communicate lawyer to lawyer from now on. but once this all blows over, we should catch up. let s be clear about one thing about this. i think steve bannon s testimony is valuable in the sense he understands how the trump organization operates. he was not present in june of 2016. he was not in the room. he was not working on the campaign yet. it was two months before he would join. he s speculating. or someone told him. he could never be a direct evidentiary witness in this case because he was not present at that time. however, like i said, he knew how the operation worked. he knows what the relationship is between donald trump, jr. is and his father. he knows what kinds of things the son would tell the father, what kinds of
it will be interesting it will add a flavor of bipartisan spiciness to this when tad devine is called to talk about whatever he s going to talk about in this case. i had the same thought for that you did. been talking about it a long time, this is fascinating. barbara mcquade, you always make us smarter. reining in the president from russia. a meeting this afternoon may be the president s last chance to change his tune on putin before losing his support in republican circles. we ll bring you that story next. an energy company helping cars emit less. making cars lighter, it s a good place to start, advanced oils for those hard-working parts. fuels that go further so drivers pump less. improving efficiency is what we do best. energy lives here.
so, heilman has joined the table. i saw that last night. i missed the beginning. i thought he was talking about donald trump. the great thing about it is, first of all he s saying i was flabbergasted. did he get fired? we can t take the testimony of a proven liar who is the personal lawyer to the proven liar because, well, how would you possibly know what do? i will say somebody made the point this morning, i believe it was joyce vance who said when you re prosecuting a case, you you don t get to pick your witnesses. your witnesses are chosen by the defendant. the defendant chooses who to commit crimes with. often they choose liars to commit crimes with so you get witnesses who are liars. the question what you do in a court is demonstrate why certain people who are proven liars are believable in this instance because of the accumulation of evidence and others who are proven liars or should not be believed because of another accumulation of evidence. the fact that anyone, the
trump talking about buying the rights to a former playboy play mate story about an alleged affair. then a federal judge rejected the president s effort to stop a lawsuit alleging he violated laws regarding conflicts of interest with foreign governments. we also learned the trump organization cfo who has deep ties to the trump family was subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in the cohen criminal case. and last night, michael cohen claimed his former boss knew about in advance the june 2016 meeting in trump tower where russians were expected to offer dirt on hillary clinton. also last night, stormy daniels attorney michael avenatti announced he s representing three more women who claim they were paid hush money prior to the 2016 election. joining us at the table, journalist alicia menendez, contributing editor for bustle, and my friday date, reverend al sharpton. president of the national action network and host of politics nation here on msnbc. you couldn t make that up if you