control of the house and the continuing mueller investigation, was there anyplace that was fertile even before the stalemate on the wall? no. i mean, infrastructure is always the illusive dream where there is going to be some kind of bipartisan compromise in a new era of president trump but i don t think any room for common ground. i think the democrats are not willing to concede to many of the the president s demands but the president doesn t want to compromise. he has shown he runs a partisan strategy, he plays to a partisan base, and there is not many issues where that partisan base agrees with what the rest of the country wants. so maybe a small infrastructure plan can pop up between now and 2020, but given the atmosphere you re talking about, i don t think we should hope for much legislation. the government shutdown is day 16 and tying for the third longest will soon head toward
can t the daily beast. president trump s inaugural committee raised $107 million. i guess that was for the huge crowds that turned up at the inauguration, right? or does it raise some red flags? i think some interesting things will be coming out the next couple of weeks. we know mueller has been questioning individuals who have been in conversations with individuals from the uae and saudi and qatar about the possibility of those countries funneling money perhaps through intermediaries from the u.s. into the inaugural committee, which would be illegal under federal law. so as we reported in the daily beast last week, we know there s a lot of upcoming things that is expected to come out of the mueller investigation on this middle east side of the probe. you think there s more to come? there s definitely more to come, at least on the middle east side of things, yes. and can you safely, because you re a reporter and you have to always stay on the right side of the facts of cour
mulvaney will face a succession of challenges with the house now run by democrats and with the continuing mueller investigation? well, it s going to be very, very tough to work at the white house given the reality that the house is going to be overwhelmingly controlled by the democrats and they will be investigating kind of everything. but that s why it s important to have a chief of staff who will bring discipline, exercise i m going to say restraint and focus on doing the job at the same time that a campaign is building up to function. a chief of staff shouldn t be running the campaign, he should be knowledgeable of what s happening in the campaign and keep that line hard. james a. baker iii probably the greatest chief of staff during my lifetime serving ronald reagan and george h.w. bush understood that. mick mulvaney has a lot of people that he can look at to offer counsel and advice. i feel privileged that i ve met with him in the past and have great respect for him so i hope th
you put a witness like michael cohen on the stand, you better have some corroboration. they must have something, otherwise they wouldn t make these allegations, these prosecutors. but where are the tapes? where are the memos? where are the e-mails? look, i m not sitting here defending trump but as a prosecutor who s done this a long, long time, he is a problematic witness. kevin, something that really stunned me this morning, listening to another show and different commentators is one person said trump s best defense at this point is to stay as president. well, look, two things. first and foremost, i interviewed lanny davis, who is the lawyer/communications person for michael cohen earlier this week. he told me that michael cohen is ultimately going to wait until after the conclusion of bob mueller s investigation to release whatever additional information he has. but the second point that i would raise to guy is essentially bob mueller doesn t
care if you re lying or telling the truth. the mueller investigation is going to get to the facts, and that is what they ultimately got to, which is why michael cohen was sentenced in part in the southern district of new york to three years in prison. and quickly i would just note look at senator orrin hatch, a republican from utah, who earlier this week told cnn one thing and walked back comments later in a public statement, which was essentially that anyone everyone in the u.s. is subject to the same laws, whether you re a private citizen or you re the president of the united states. republicans in the senate have not backed away from this president nor have polls suggested that the base of the republican party is set to do that at all but the issue of impeachment with just two weeks out until democrats take control of the house of representatives is a real one. a tweet from secretary zinke just a moment ago. i love working for the president and i m incredibly proud of all the go