Know that individual s evangeliclevel of clearance, and they hold each other to that. but this is not just any ordinary briefing, not just any ordinary administration. you get the impression there is high level white house input into this. you remember this briefing was not going to happen, doj, fbi and the director of national intelligence they were dragging their feet until john kelly called all of them together and lo and behold within hours this meeting was announced. you get the impression this was coming from on high. and when you have principled and dedicated intelligence officials and law enforcement officials behind this, if it s coming from the president, the chief of staff, it s difficult for them, especially in this administration, to say no. ned price, i appreciate your insights on this breaking news.
yet now he appears to no longer believe he needs to recuse himself. he s obviously played a part as a as a defender, protector and, you know, conspirator, i don t mean that in a criminal sense, but conspirator with the president on this russia situation pretty much from day one. you know, and as far as these meetings go, can you imagine robert mueller meeting with chuck schumer, nancy pelosi, sharing information with them about the investigation and saying we ll have a bipartisan meeting later. like in the middle of the benghazi probe, no. kimberly atkins, take a look at take a look.
They don t want any vote even if it s bipartisan for dreamers. the infight may have contributed to a loss last week. when the house freedom caucus defied paul ryan on a farm bill which touches on these issues as well. paul ryan also in the news tonight as i reported because he said this hour he won t go to the big gang of eight meeting tomorrow. maybe we ll get to that as well. but starting on immigration as promised, maria, what does this mean to you. i think not only is paul ryan in over his head. i think he had the idea that he was going to assume the speakership and basically do something with it and he hasn t been able to. this is the legacy he was hoping to cement and he s far from it. i think what we see the freedom caucus has them hostage. they should let the gop sign hig contested seats and they may
Actionable investigative information that nunes or gowdy are gleaning could be relayed back to the suspects? yes. why wouldn t be obstruction. it could be. i bring it back to the parallel of an ordinary criminal case that americans face every day. it is. but ordinary people don t have the power that the president has to say you must have this meeting and turn over this information. a judge would ordinary people. laugh in their face. john i turn to you. and i m not going to make a john legend ordinary people reference. go ahead. let s remember devin nunes, recused himself from his own committee s organization because of the coordination he had with the white house in the early days. so it s not surprising that people would be concerned that
They had against michael flynn and paul manafort. cohen received secret payment to fix talks between the ukrainian president and president trump. the bbc reports the part that creates the jeopardy, cohen not registered as a representative of ukraine as required by law. that meeting took place last june, after the payment. a source also saying they gave him a gift. i ll tell you, msnbc news has not confirmed the bbc story. cohen denies it and giuliani saying maybe there was a discussion of doing this, adding on on neither end was it con sue mated. mimi rocah rejoins. what does this mean for michael cohen? i think there s three