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to speak with nancy pelosi on this same topic right about now. we ll keep a close eye on these stories as they develop but as we wait for the president-elect, we start the show today with something that might be flying under the radar a bit. it could have serious and lasting consequences for american politics well beyond 2020. president trump is lashing out at republicans who aren t helping him overturn election results in states he narrowly but clearly lost. we should repeat, that he wants them to reverse the results. just think about that. an american president. right now trump is going after the republican governors of georgia, brian kemp, and arizona, doug ducey, after both states certified their election results as wins for joe biden. reporters actually heard governor ducey ignore what appeared to be a phone call from the white house yesterday as just as he was certifying, the state s results, the president says he s ashamed he endorsed kemp and is warning that, qu ....
with who they think that republican can be or those republicans. there may be three or four, maybe five who they think they can pull over into a cooperative approach to this. chuck schumer doing an unprecedented thing tonight, saying he wants all democratic senators on the floor at 9:30 a.m. when he speaks. when we ve seen all the senators on the floor in the past, brian, it s usually been both parties. it s usually been for something extremely grave, and they all gather for whatever that is. i can t think of a situation where one of the parties asked for all of its members to be on the floor at 9:30 a.m., in their seats. chuck schumer obviously has some very, very important announcement to make tomorrow morning that has to be much more than what he s already said tonight, and he said a lot tonight. now, here s a question i m going to end our broadcast with to michael beschloss, and i ll preview it to you because no gentle way to put this. you and i have some years on ....
this is cnn tonight. i m don lemon. it is 11:00 p.m. here on the east coast. we re live with big breaking news. rudy giuliani dropping an absolute bombshell tonight. saying that president trump paid his fixer michael cohen back for that $130,000 hush money payment back for stormy daniels. my question is are you concerned in the process of this we did discover that a foreign national christopher steele was paid through fusion gps, used russian sources that not only weren t verified were debunked, are you concerned that that was paid for to manipulate the american people to the lead up to the election? isn t that closer to the mandate on cohen, having something to do with paying some stormy daniels woman $130,000, which is going to turn out to be perfectly legal. that money was not campaign money. sorry, i m giving you a fact now you don t know. it s not campaign money. no campaign finance violation. so they funneled it through a law farm? funneled through a law ....
national christopher steele was paid through fusion gps, used russian sources that not only weren t verified were debunked, are you concerned that that was paid for to manipulate the american people to the lead up to the election? isn t that closer to the mandate on cohen, having something to do with paying some stormy daniels woman $130,000, which is going to turn out to be perfectly legal. that money was not campaign money. sorry, i m giving you a fact now you don t know. it s not campaign money. no campaign finance violation. so they funneled it through a law farm? funneled through a law firm and the president repaid it. so there s no campaign finance law? zero. just like so this decision was made by everybody was nervous about this from the very beginning. i wasn t. i knew how much money donald trump put into the that campaign. i said $130,000. you can do a couple of checks for $130,000. when i heard cohen s retainer of $135,000 when he was doing n ....
white house ceremony that looked more like a victory lap last night. on behalf of the nation, i want to apologize to brett and the entire kavanaugh family for the terrible pain and suffering you have been forced to endure. i must state that you, sir, under historic scrutiny were proven innocent. thank you. every american can be assured that i will be an independent and impartial justice, devoted to equal justice under law. and gaining strength, hurricane michael, picking up speed and taking direct aim at the florida panhandle. the time to evacuate and heed the local warnings is now. hurricane mike is going to be a devastatinging storm. and good day. i m andrea mitchell in washington with the big breaking news today. nikki haley, one of the first cabinet choices are resigning in a move that surprised the white house and state department official officials al alike. but when did the president first know? he is not saying. both he and haley are trying to smooth o ....