Exploring issues that affect leaders in the U. S. And around the globe. Penalties are even higher, the evidence is even more volume nous, or will he cut his losses, cut a deal and tell what he knows if anything about potential collusion between donald trump and the Russian Election interference effort . Let me bring in the panel now. I want to get to my legal experts, more of my legal experts. By the way, a little more breaking news, the Cohen Hearing is officially over. Sentencing is scheduled for December 12th for his guilty plea at 11 00 a. M. Hes out on 500,000 bail which was cosigned by his wife and a second person. Were going to go there. But Donald Fryman is is on Air Force One on his way to West Virginia to prepare for a rally for the West Virginia senate race. How is he feeling . We think hes emotionally and politically in as much of a corner psychologically as hes been since hes become president of the United States. Hes worked very hard to get at
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the member questions. and i want to garrett, that s me hugging you through the microphone. thank god. well, i think we re all willing to take that here after a 13-hour or so day here yesterday. i just want to build on something that peter was saying. i think democratic members in particular were very satisfied that gordon sondland did link all of this back to the president. that the idea that orders from giuliani or conversations with giuliani were the same as orders from the president. they felt like that really got through. i want to play for you a brief bit of my conversation with jackie speier during the break. there is no question in my mind that donald trump has directed every act that any of these people have undertaken. and that s why some of them were going to turn out like michael cohen. the michael cohen reference is interesting. nicolle, i think i heard you say something about this earlier today. it harkens back to the cohen hearing where he said this president is
attempting to evade the truth, if you are attempting to somehow suggest that you are above the law in terms of how you wield your power, if you use it to intimidate and threaten, those, i think, are all abuses of power. that s a tricky definition for this president. of course you ve got to get buy-in from the other side. otherwise this is going to be a one-phase problem. as we saw in the cohen hearing, if that s what exists on the senate side, the chance of removing him is about zero. that doesn t mean you shouldn t do your job of looking. congressm congresswoman speier, thank you. be well. so president trump says it s too early to see if kim jong-un broke his promise on rebuilding a missile launch site. the pictures don t work? there are the pictures. they show that he s rebuilding a
suggest that you are above the law in terms of how you wield your power, if you use it to intimidate and threaten, those, i think, are all abuses of power. that s a tricky definition for this president. of course, you ve got to get buy-in from the other side. otherwise, this is going to be a one-phase process because if you don t, what we saw in the cohen hearing, if that s what exists on the senate side, you know the chance of removing him is about zero. but that doesn t mean you shouldn t do your job of looking, and i m not suggesting otherwise. congresswoman speier, thank you very much for talking to me about what you can. i look forward to having you again. be well. thank you. all right. so, president trump says it s too early to see if kim jong-un broke his promise on rebuilding a missile launch site. the pictures don t work? there are the pictures. they show that he s rebuilding a site. house intel veteran mike rogers is here next to help me understand what the strategy is
apparent promise is we will be lesko err sieve, that s not an appealing negotiating strategy. in your mind is the united states in a worse position vis-a-vis north korea than a week ago? no, to his credit and i was concerned about this, i thought you know, the president did walk away. you know, no deal is better than a bad deal and i was concerned that in an effort to do a generate a counter distraction to the cohen hearing that he might concede something like agreeing over time to take all u.s. forces off the peninsula, which i think would be a huge blunder. well, he didn t do that. do you think it s possible that the cohen hearing as the president suggested contributed to the failure this have summit? no, i don t think it had anything to do with it. and it took him two or three days to think that one up. the one thing that has disappeared presumably now or apparently for good at least