summary judgment of a massive ought yen of viewers, a past logical fear of a ratings defeat and witches ease brew against in a network s own working journalists and fact checkers. we should tell you at any moment we re expecting breaking news in the form of fresh filens from dominion and fox, to lay out any arguments in the case. while we wait, for years we have turned to phrases lie inside the bubble and the echo chamber to describe that relationship between fox news and its viewers. never before has it been so plain to see from the outside. the discovery filings show that fox hosts were telling their viewers what they knew they wanted to here even when the very same fox news host communicated the truth to one another in private, which was different from what they were broadcasting. dominion s case may very well wrest on their ability to get a jury to understand that distinction. today, though, the story goes even further in the form of something rare. a highly visible i
Shock waves through the president s already shell shocked west wing. The New York Times reports, quote, the agreement adds another unusual aspect to a case never seen before in the alans of president ial Campaign Finance history. It means that a company that operates as a News Organization is cooperating with federal authorities on an investigation that involves its work with the campaign. Todays development was likely put in motion by tuesdays guilty pleas from Michael Cohen, the president s former fixer who existed at the intersection of hush money and tabloid brush fires. The times explains the role of david peckers Media Company in what could turnout to be an investigation into something that looks a lot more like a conspiracy. Quote, the Court Documents filed tuesday in connection with mr. Cohens guilty plea provided a far more detailed account than previously known about the payments made to suppress womens stories about mr. Trump that could have threatened his election prospects
providing information to jack smith and the team. yeah, i want to peck up on that with you, harry. judge luttig as well as judge carter in california saw clear evidence of felonies. now you have judge this judge saying that we have beryl howell. yeah, beryl howell, saying we re at risk of creating super citizens. you have mark pomerance in a parallel track arguing the decision not to proceed with those kalss was creating a separate standard of justice. it is an echo, it is not a refrain but it s an echo in everyone who has been up close and personal with the evidence against trump and his closest allies. what do you make of that terminology and the argument she s making? all fair. look, the speech or debate clause is becoming the last refuge of scoundrels here. this is a funny issue where we know how it must come out and yet the courts are going to take their time articulating the actual standard. what s in those 22,000 e-mails?
ongoing kalss against the president, you re absolutely right. also the mueller team can use anything mr. pecker says if they decide one day only to write a report to the deputy attorney general that could be used in an impeachment proceeding so there could be lots and lots of stuff that comes from mr. pecker that s valuable to prosecutors down the road. i just don t i would just like to know the timing of the immunity that he received so i could help assess who it was really for the limited purpose of mr. cohen or something broader than that. could be both. and, jill, at the heart of this news is the fact that cohen and pecker both dealt with the things that most embarrass the president. he s known to be a little frugal, but he threw money at people who could make the most embarrassing episodes of his life go away and it may have been to help his campaign. it certainly seems to be the sense this week. may have been to keep him out of trouble with melania. that is a known unknown. i
authoritarian leader. let me ask you, susan, before we go, kelly ayotte suggesting that the u.s. should shame the eu in to tougher sanctions if they don t take necessary sanctions in her mind. how likely is it republicans in washington make any effort to shame the eu countries? well, i m not sure what kind of effort they can make. all hey along it s been clear the obama administration has been meeting the sanctions that have been done as multiple administration officials said to me. we have had to drag europe kicking and screaming every step of the way. i think that s likely the case going forward as a well. that s my sense. thank you both for your time and thoughts. thank you. coming up, speaker john boehner kalss new doubt on the prospects for addressing the humanitarian crisis at the border. will congress do the right thing, something or anything?