are gratuitous, but based on what he said, you can t say which way he s going to rule. even if he does dismiss the case, and i think this is what representative schiff was talking about, the u.s. attorney of virginia can bring the case. the department of justice can bring the case. this is a case about manafort dealing with ukraine earlier. it s not the core case dealing with russia and the, quote, collusion. so it doesn t undermine what is going on with mueller, but it is it does feed the trump narrative about this being some sort of grand conspiracy. larry noble, rick wilson, we ll leave it there for now because there s more. thank you. always. next, the top republican on the house intelligence committee says he wants to hold attorney general jeff sessions in contempt. what congressman devin nunes said on that and why. teria, yet it s very gentle on the denture itself. polident s 4 in 1 cleaning system consists
arrangement he had with michael cohen. so did michael cohen make payments to other women for the president? i have no knowledge of that, but i would think if it was necessary, yes. what s your reaction to that? do you have any indication there might be other women that we don t know about? well, jake, i think that when all the facts and the evidence come out, there is going to be evidence of payments to other women. i think that s going to be laid bare for the american people. but i have to tell you, this interview that rudy giuliani gave this morning is just a latest in a series of train wrecks for rudy giuliani and the president. they can t get their facts straight. they keep changing every interview they give. the facts take on a new life of their own, and this is what happens when you lie and try to cover up, and this is exactly what happens. giuliani also said this morning that he expects that trump fixer michael cohen will cooperate in the investigations, but investigator
i don t understand what s so kpli complicated about this unless you re trying to hide things. giuliani this morning said it s very clear that president trump hasn t violated any campaign finance laws over this payment. he said the payment would have been made regardless of the presidential campaign, and even if it had been campaign related it wasn t a loan or expenditure because the president reimbursed it. is that right? no, that s not right. rudy giuliani evidently doesn t he claims to not know the facts, but he most assuredly does not know campaign finance law. that s not campaign finance law. rudy giuliani seems to believe that if the payment was not made with campaign dollars that somehow there is no campaign finance violation. that s not the law. i think it s clear that, look, if this $130,000 reimbursement was all aboveboard and they weren t trying to hide anything or trying to skirt campaign finance law, then why didn t the president just write a check or send a wire for
joining us now is barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of michigan. barbara, it s great to see you. thank you for being here. thanks for having me on such a news-filled day. yeah, man. everything all at once, all the time. i watched the president s remarks in this remarkable cable news interview that he did today, and obviously the president s emotional state was one of the takeaways that you couldn t avoid. but the president made really specific remarks about what seems to me to be the central case that he and michael cohen have been making to try to fend off this federal investigation in new york. he seemed to claim that he seemed to undercut that claim by saying mr. cohen doesn t do much legal work for him and he doesn t believe anything cohen is being investigated for touches on his legal practice as an attorney. is it your sense looking at that that that does actually sort of undercut what cohen and trump have been doing to try to defend themselves
news interview that he did today, and obviously the president s emotional state was one of the takeaways that you couldn t avoid. but the president made really specific remarks about what seems to me to be the central case that he and michael cohen have been making to try to fend off this federal investigation in new york. he seemed to undercut that claim by saying mr. cohen doesn t do much legal work for him and he doesn t believe anything cohen is being investigated for touches on his legal practice as an attorney. is it your sense looking at that that that does actually sort of undercut what cohen and trump have been doing to try to defend themselves in that case? absolutely. 100%. this is the precise reason that lawyers advise their clients not to talk when they re under investigation. this is the kind of clip that law professors will use to train law students about why you advise clients not to talk about their own case because they might inadvertently undermine something their