The latest news from around the world with hosts John Berman and Poppy Harlow. To its the same thing as an indictment. The prosecutors just didnt have to go through getting a grand jury to sit. The information doesnt have this language about the president. Michael cohen, of course, in his allocution to his guilty plea stood up and stated he did these Campaign Finance law violations at the best of the president. But you think its notable its not included on paper . I do. Theres the buzzword unindicted coconspirator. The president is not technically an unindicted coconspirator. Hes not mentioned in the information so i think that was a real move on the part of the prosecutors not to go one step deeper. It would have been different if they named him in the information. What do you think they didnt, paul . Its an interesting set of charges against cohen. The charge essentially is that the payment to stormy daniels
and Karen Mcdougal were Campaign Contributions that were unreported and they
press conference today. phillip rucker, let me start with you. we just got into the numbers and how dramatically the situation on capitol hill have changed just this week in terms of an outright majority now saying they want some type of impeachment action. you re tracking this inside the white house. i m curious with the conversations you re having there with folks around the president, and is there a sense on their part that impeachment is now something that is inevitab inevitab inevitable? it s increasingly looking inever tai inevitab inevitable, and the comments around the white house is this could play to the president s political advantage, but when you talk in a more private conversation, they re much more candid and reveal there is some concern here, there is anxiety here, there is a feeling that president trump for months has been preparing for impeachment. he s almost in some ways been goading nancy pelosi to take this step.
remained standing so we don t know. all right, stick with me for this. we just heard from the president on both manafort and cohen so let me read it to you hear. i feel very badly for manafort and his wonderful family, the president writes. justice, in quotes, took a 12-year-old tax case among other things, applied tremendous pressure on him, unlike michael cohen he being paul manafort refused to break, make up stories in order to get a deal. such respect for a brave man. you just told me you think it is inevitab inevitable that manafort makes a deal with mueller s team and we hear the president calling him a brave man. what do you make of the president and the white house strategy? if i said that i don t think it s inevitable. i said some people think it s inevitable. i do not because we don t know what he would say and the lead into this piece, the reporter said he s facing 30 years in
returns during the campaign that he was not going to follow inevitab any of those rules. as howard said, we ll learn a lot more about the level of corruption in this administration and we need to keep an eye on that heading into the midterm elections. democrats need to be talking about implementing oversight because republicans aren t going to do it. governor dean, you have voters in florida who elected rick scott to be governor after it was found his company had the record largest medicare fraud in this country s history. he also defrauded tricare. he claimed to not know anything about the company he ran. that kind of alleged corruption went right over the heads of most voters in florida and they elected him anyway and reelected him. is there concern that the message of corruption doesn t necessarily work on voters?
over here to the battle going on in the senate, republicans took the first procedural step which sets the wheels in motion pushing toward using the nuclear option on thursday to get donald trump s supreme court nominee neil gorsuch through. in the time, democrats are using this time to rail against gorsuch. i want to show you live pictures of senator jeff merkley on the senate floor at this hour. he is entering in the 12th straight hour of the talk- talk-a-thon. they cannot prevent the inevitab inevitable. once the nuclear option is invoked, chris, on thursday, it is up for a final vote on friday. sunlen, thank you. north korea launches a missi missile. obvious play for attention. we often report what they do. we rarely understand why they do it. when we come back, we will look at what kim jong-un wants exactly. bria ust need to