plagued the president in lots of different ways. we re going to see what happens next here. there was a delegation of diplomats set to meet with the national security adviser today, this afternoon, to talk about the hostages that are from their countries. we also know that there was a delegation slated to go to the middle east next week as well to engage in some more talks and conversations around a deal coming together, and so the administration still has this very robust presence in trying to make this happen, and we ll be looking to see whether there s a response to any degree from hamas in the days to come. aaron gilchrist, thank you for that. claire mccaskill, i want to go to you. i want to talk about the president s statements, they were forceful but brief on donald trump s trial and conviction. you spent many years in the senate. if i m remembering correctly, you were on the armed services committee, homeland security committee. this is an area of the world that yo
jump in. and i agree with everything joyce and barbara are hahave sa. the reason that i was making that comparison is because what nadler has the power do in the house you area committee is saying i m going to cut your questioning off. i m going to not allow this 34r5ur witness. they have reserved powers to try to control the circus like aspect. and that is new and different. but many of this is new and different. so the point i wanted to underscore, when republicans come back and complain, which they will, when they don t get to do everything that they demarnd to do, we will hear this is not due process, this is unfair, this is unprecedented, not like anything allowed in nixon or clinton and it won t be true. and i want to put up on the screen for the audience so they know the rights that the president and his lawyers have
and main justice before the u.s. attorney can reach out to a federal judge to authorize the wiretap. and federal judges maintain pretty rigorous scrutiny on wiretaps. for one thing, the original order is typically only good for 30 days or less, and prosecutors have to go back to the judge every 30 days or so and prove that the wiretap is being productive, that there is continuing evidence of criminality coming off of the wiretap. so, it s a pretty stringent set of conditions before the government can do this. joyce, let me ask you to dumb it down a little bit. a former prosecutor said to me that when i asked him about the bar that had to be reached around the original raid of cohen s offices, i said, how suspicious did they have to be of the severity of the crimes? and he said they basically had to prove that there was evidence of either destruction of evidence or ongoing criminality. is there a parallel between the standard that has to be met for a raid like the one of
reported. and secondly, that donald trump in paying him back made a disbursement on behalf of the campaign, also didn t report that, and signed under penalty of perjury that the campaign finance records were correct. so, they need to get a better lawyer they made it worse. joyce, i listened to the part where rudy said, can you imagine if it came out right around the time of the debate? unbelievable. yeah. what are they doing? you know, cohen s problems are already baked in, for better, for worse, whatever conduct they found in the wire search and the tap, the government already has that. what we are watching is a cover up in progress. everyone knows that old saw prosecutors say it s the always the cover up. you find lots of criminality when people try to hid conduct. i fear that s what we re seeing now. jennifer is absolutely right.
significant revelation on its own. joyce, how much concern do prosecutors and investigators need to have about someone to get a wiretap authorized of their phone line, particularly if that person is an attorney? getting a wiretap is very difficult. to get the authorization, you actually have to have very credible evidence that links the phone that you re getting the wiretap authorization for to ongoing current criminal activity. so, sometimes you ll have a consensually monitored phone call that will prove that that phone is being used. other times it will be an under cover or an informant who can say, in this case michael cohen is using this specific phone line to conduct criminal activity. that permission to even ask a court for the warrant is vetted through the criminal division