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campaign. all as part of an effort to undermine that investigation. he s pardononing people, perhaps sending a message to witnesses who might testify against him that they, too, could be pardoned. so stay strong. if an effort to prop up the dying coal industry his administration is reportedly weighing an unprecedented intervention in the u.s. energy grid which would basically order some folks to get their lick trits from coal plants. he tipped off wall street this morning about confidential employment numbers more than an hour before they were officially released. possibly to give himself some cover from last night s decision to slap steep tariffs on our closest allies in europe, canada, and mexico, renewing fears that he is leading us into a trade war. when given a chance to denounce a racist comment he instead attacks the press. he suggested one of his criminalityics should be fired for using offensive language rod will not go any further and something is going to happen. i ....
thinks the media is cherry-picking these images and the president s aides are actually bringing him pictures showing these detained children smiling and plays games. more on that in a bit. the president has falsely blamed democrats for the situation on the border. he did so again today. i say it s very strongly the democrats fault. they re obstruction. they re obstructionist, and they are obstructing. the united states will not be a migrant camp, and it will not be a refugee-holding facility. it won t be. you look at what s happening in europe. you look at what s happening in other places. we can t allow that to happen to the united states, not on my watch. secretary of homeland security kirstjen nielsen has been the point person to enforce the latest policy, and she has insisted the white house is enforcing the law, a point she made repeatedly in the white i am considering exactly that. if you are smuggling a child, then we will prosecute you, and that child may be s ....
potentially it could be big. i mean, looking at michael cohen, what this means is the same tactic that we have seen happening in this investigation out of the southern district of new york, is happening, that we see happen in the mueller investigation. they go after other witnesses, encourage them to cooperate, and in this case you have this business partner who is cooperating, being offered significant being offered a potential sentence that is much smaller than what he could be facing. he could be facing 25 years for each count, owing millions of dollars in back taxes. all of that is being reduced, which says to me that he has some information that prosecutors would be interested in regarding michael cohen. that subsequently puts more pressure on michael cohen to cooperate to reduce his potential legal exposure and talk about whatever he knows that could aid the mueller investigation. it also, since this is outside of the jurisdiction of the mueller investigation, it really ....
these are potential criminal felonies. that is why the mueller investigation needs to proceed. there is always a striking thing that happened on the house side in these investigations in these matters, which is they never got their hands on the phone records. never subpoenaed the phone records placed to an unknown meeting. is that something you would like to see as a member of congress. i am a former prosecutor and if there was an allegation and i did not subpoena those records, i would have been fired. it was clear that they were not interested in trying to find evidence of collusion. trying to do a whitewash of what happened. and i think history will not judge them kindly. reporting yesterday about senator claire mc mccaskill. we are told it lasted 30 minutes. so very concerned about what is going to happen. you started off this interview by nodding to possible crimes committed if it is in fact true, the president knew about the meeting. and there are people on t ....
Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. they will appear before lawmakers just, at that point, less than two months before the election again, i understand they re going to ask some more questions, some more hearings. what is congress prepared to do to stop this, to say we re do everything you possibly can to make sure there is not outside influence in our elections? well, lindsey graham told me this shows we need an olive government approach. introducing this legislation in part. trying to get the president to joinest. he wants to see more pressure being put on russia. we re also hearing that some of these pages have been identified, and russia is an equal opportunity offender here. that our political leadership not to necessarily follow the rabl trail that the russians are from the white house on this issue. donald trump had his first ever national security meeting the other day devoted to this subject. didn t make any statements, d ....