I truly hope this man ends up prison. Cohen says sounds right. Nicolle wallace will pick it up from here. Thank you as well. All of our guests that have joined us including duncan, we will see you back here on thursday afternoon when were going to do it all over again. Dont go anywhere. Deadline white house starts right now. Hi, everyone. We have a packed house. Its 4 00 in new york. After putting donald trump in the room where it happened, where that allegedly criminal scheme to hide hush money payments ahead of the 2016 president ial election was hatched, the expresident s former fixer Michael Cohen today closed the loop on the story that often sounds like it is straight out of a bad mafia movie. Cohen describing donald trump operating like a mob boss who became president of the United States using a back channel to keep cohen quiet and loyal and cohen describing going to prison and ultimately breaking with donald trump. The man he served for more than a decade. Happening right now,
first of all, let s be very clear. both the bush administration and the obama administration when they set up the siv program, the special immigrant visa program, demanded that these precrecipie go through an extreme vetting process, many who went through almost two years by the department of homeland security. so these are already vetted people who have served this nation and for them to be stopped and held up byhis broad brush policy is in many ways outrageous. we have to go. how would you change the executive order? sgri i think we need a carve out for the sivs at least. they have been vetted, they have earned the right to come to this country. some of their fellow translators have died side by side. they want to get a new life. if anybody deserves to come in here, it is those interpreters that have served us so well. always a pleasure to have you, brigadier general. i thank you for staying with us.
didn t to anythido anything to . and i ve thousanow gotten to kn president obama and i really like him. so was it your intention to say that he divided or exploited the divisions? sgri i think it s all of the before. it was as ugly and divisive and for many as scary an election as we ve seen in at least a generation. and there is significant concern. his approval rating has come up since the election, but it remains much lower than other president-elects in recent history at this point in the contest, the sort of rhetoric we saw, the violence at rallies. this was a different kind of election than elections in the past. but it s also true that when he started his campaign, this was p an incredibly polarized and angry country. so it s not all of his making either. did you do a fact check to
i think the timing is right. we could win this. we have strong support, we have the committees both the house intelligence committee and also the house judiciary committee have signed off on this. reporter: lee says he will continue to fight no matter who is in the white house. what do you say to people who criticize part of the conservative movement part of the tea party for seeming to care more about government abuse only when barack obama came into office? sgri i understand the concern. i can tell you regardless of who becomes president in 2016 even if it s a republican, this concern for me spts suddenly going to go away. reporter: with a career devoted to constitutional advocacy some have suggested lee would be a formidable tea party nominee to the supreme court. would you consider an appointment to the supreme court if asked? if one of my friends running for president got elected and
you just don t think, you snow. reporter: there are incredible stories of survival. chris lancaster kept filming while this tornado destroyed his house. packing winds as high as 190 miles an hour. i got hit by some debris or something and cut my eye in three places. reporter: this 78-year-old woman escaped the same tornado with a broken nose. sgri started flying. reporter: her home reduced to rubble. hot water heater. the copper pipes, they were all on me. reporter: yesterday we brought you the story of steve busher. he and his wife survived in their basement hallway. i was down and she was lord like here. reporter: when they surfaced their brick home was destroyed and his cars were thrown across the street. the only important thing i had in this house walked out of it with me. reporter: and what was that? my wife. reporter: thousands left combing through the piles of debris searching for whatever they can salvage.