And people are exhausted. Trump did respond to Michael Cohens plea today. This morning he wrote if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, i would strongly suggest that you dont retain the services of Michael Cohen and Michael Cohen plead guilty to two counts of Campaign Finance violations that are not a crime. President obama had a big Campaign Finance violation and it was easily settled. Trump also spoke to fox news about his relationship with Michael Cohen. He was a lawyer for me for one of many, you know, there was a lawyer and the fixer. I dont know if he was a fixer. I dont know where that term came from, but hes didnt do big deals. Did small deals. Not somebody that was with me that much. You know, they make it sound like i didnt live without him. I understood Michael Cohen very well. Turned out he wasnt a very good lawyer, frankly. He was somebody that was probably with me for about ten take this all together this being the president of the United States after all. The Washington
Seemed to dial things back a bit. Particularly with regard to previous reporting about what cohen was prepared to tell the Special Counsel about President Trump and that meeting at trump tower. So Michael Cohen does not have information that President Trump knew about the trump tower meeting with the russians beforehand . No. Does not. At some point, mr. Cohen might be able to be useful to the Special Counsel about whether President Trump knew ahead of time about the hacking of the Hillary Clinton emails, and its not a certainty the way he recalls it. May or may not be useful to mr. Mueller. You can tell, perhaps, the hour is late. Its been a long week already. And people are exhausted. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Brian Williams examines the days top political stories and current politicalcampaign news. Jonathan lamere, peter baker, and Carol Lenning is back with us. Good evening to the three of you and welcome. Jonathan, y
Least for now, at flooes for a day, trump Resoutheasted Lashing Out in a dramatic and public way. Instead, wednesday was a moment for calculation and conversation, a pause for a rattled administration. According to white house officials and outside advisors familiar with the discussions. Michael cohens lawyer is making it clear his client is ready, willing, and able to share what he knows with robert mueller. Jonathan lamere is standing by captures the State Of Affairs in his latest title more dirt on President Trump . Lanny davis made a series of Television Appearances today. Here is what he said this morning. Is he hoping for a pardon from President Trump . Not only is not hoping for it, he would not accept a pardon. He considers a pardon from somebody who acted so corruptly as president to be something he would never accept. Earlier this evening, davis
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yes. lots. more than give? probably. more than ten? i can t say. but that strikes you as indistinstinctinstinctive. trump would draw out the check. probably trump would sign it, himself. in the order of priorities, how sit for democrats to dig into stuff like that versus things post-november 2016 that relate to the way he s running the government. yeah. i think there is a debate about whether you go after a president for alleged crimes committed before he became president. i think what he s didn t since he became president should be of a greater priority. also, you can put under a heading of does the public really care about hush money? okay. there are illegalities there, but we know what trump s character is. we know he s been with other women. we heard michael cohen i think say very convincingly, apologizing to the first lady,
with campaign money as their own bank accounts went dry. records show the hunt esers is overdrew bear balance. they re alleged to have used campaign funds as their bank despite warnings not to do so. this has to hurt. his hometown paper the san diego union tribune writes representative duncan hunter, do the honorable thing. we sign. they say he s become corrupt to the point of caricature. he s disgraced himself and doesn t deserve the privilege of representing californians in congress. hunter says he ll stay and fight. it s a deep red district. he s on the ballot now for the midte midterms. the local u.s. attorney bringing these charges, by the way, is a donald trump appointee. hunter was the second sitting member of congress to endorse donald trump for president. the first member of congress to do so, that would be chris collins of upstate new york