The latest news from around the world with host Brooke Baldwin. Against Michael Cohen. But give us your testimony and well sort out who needs to get charged. It can depend. It may not be with regard to state crimes. I know there was some talk today that the state the District Attorney locally looking in to trumps issues as well. It is just not general immunity for all things everywhere, but specifically as it relates to this. And this is the u. S. Attorney who granted immunity to weisselberg in the cohen case, but as you point out, we learned the manhattan d. A. Is also considering pursuing criminal case involving the Trump Organization and two of its executives. Do you think that those two jurisdictions are talking to each other . I would guess they are. One of the hall marks of effective Law Enforcement and prosecution is cooperating with other offices. If you look back at the cohen case, it seems to be the case that that sprung out of the states investigation of this guy friedman. S
mark, what are the politics for the members sitting there asking these questions? significant. mueller is the one person in this whole scenario who s seen as an honest broker. he s the last boy scout in washington. so of any of the witnesses who could testify, he s going to be most important. i think it s going to be difficult for republicans to indict him in his testimony. they re going to try. they re going trying to because they were saying earlier he s been exonerated. so if they start attacking mueller, he was the guy the president said exonerated him, so which is it? i think that s difficult politics for republicans. democrats as well. these hearings are just theater and performance, everybody knows what everyone s going to say, they ve got they re little sound bites. you don t know what mueller is going to say. i think it is tough for
democrats as well. it s complicated on both sides because the one thing mueller will make clear is there really was no conclusion, which is what trump was saying all along. and i think that s why nancy pelosi has been holding back. because the underlying claim mueller does not back that up. now you re in a situation it s the cover-up of a noncrime you want to go after. at the same time you can t just let the president of the united states do whatever he wants to do and have no accountability? can i just jump in here with a point about the no collusion argument. what mueller said was that there was no proof of a criminal conspiracy on the part of trump or his campaign to work with the russians on the to elect him president. that is a different thing from saying there is no evidence. what he found was there was insufficient evidence to build a case. and i think that distinction, if he outlines it directly i think
hand delivered to him from the special counsel s office, sometime early afternoon before 4:00, and then at 4:30 his chief of staff called over actually, his the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein called mueller, thanked him for his service, and then barr s chief of staff called him at flood at the white house to go ahead and give the white house a heads up. that was something we were wondering about, they had a half hour notice before the public to know what was in this letter. the letter was read to the white house, they knew what to expect. then we all start to get into our positions, and at 5:00, the justice department and their congressional liaison s office went out and dispersed a team on the hill, so the appropriate committees all got this letter handed to them at the exact same time. at that point we ran out, we had this letter, we reported it, and as of 7:00 p.m. tonight, the attorney general was just finishing up his day and
i know, i heard on tv. i heard on tv tonight that you were actually in a river fishing when you got the word got to get to work. i woke up in a boat thousands of miles southeast of miami, a couple airplanes get me to miami tonight just in time for this. and this is the night that we really have to be here. this i find the attorney general s letter is so fascinating, because you really can analyze it paragraph by paragraph almost word by word. it s filled with possibility. yes, and this is the reason that it is worth it for us to both stopped doing what we were doing. and there s a reason why god doesn t want us to go on vacation, i m hearing those words. i get it. this is not, something s over and let s reflect on what just happened. we still don t know what mueller found. and now starts a whom new chapter of the trump era in the american life.