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Andrew johnson opposed the 14th and 15th amendments. we should not put -- when we have a president who is not commensurate with the responsibilities, as president bush said last night, quoting churchhill at harvard, the price of greatness is responsibility, right now we have a president who is not up to that job. but what are we supposed to do, foal our tents? no. what we do is talk about it, we protest, we resist. we try to insist on a better path forward. >> let me bring you in, evan, on the s...

Courts, we have the press and we have all of us. we have the people. and we need to make sure that two or three of those forces are pointing the right direction. >> is that all weve got, meacham? are you giving up on congress? i just heard you say two. which two? we have the press and the people and were screwed with the other two? >> the courts arent doing a bad job, honestly. wait, wait, wait. andrew johnson opposed the 14th and 15th amendments. we should not put -- when we have a president wh...

About how president trumps personal attorney, michael cohen, cashed in by selling his access to the president to secure very lucrative consulting deals from several companies. cnns evan perez is live in washington with the latest. whats the details, evan? >> we are talking about the way the d.c. swamp works. we are getting new insight into the way the embattled long-time personal attorney michael cohen assault to profit off his connection to the profit. this as cnn learns more about the efforts ...

Doubts about that claim. our evan perez joins us with what hes evan, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, columbus nova is one of the companies that paid money after the 2016 election to president trumps personal lawyer, michael cohen, but its now working hard to distance itself from a russian oligarch that it has long had ties to. and that oligarch is named viktor vekselberg. hes a close ally of vladimir putin, he was placed last month on a sanctions list by the treasury department. cnn rep...

Very much for going through this with us as it breaks. lets get back to gina haspel with ken delaney and evan, who we have. gina haspel arc lot of democrats will look at her and they are saying we dont need to have anybody in charge of the cia who has been involved in torture. but at the same time, the obama administration came in and they had their chance to punish those who were involved in torture during the bush administration. they did not do that n. fact, ned price was asked about this a l...

Especially now, you know, evan said before we moved on. we actually havent. we have a president who believes in torture, who believes in waterboarding. what does it say when we basically give them a message that these participants -- >> and there was no accountability given the senate report. even though the department of jurisdiction had their own internal investigation about it, no within -- >> this sends a message of impunity thats particularly dangerous when you have a president who will try...

Lesson from the iran deal, then go to north korea and demand more than just denuclearization, which youre not going to get. demand that they drop their missile program, demand that they stop this bellicose rhetoric all the time, demand they open their borders, demand that they allow more south koreans visitation. >> it seems like they are not learning the lessons from the failure. thank you very much. michelle goldberg, evan, noelle, great to have all of you with us. saving gina haspel. she wa...

One of the biggest reasons they should vote for me if theyre -- have family members or are involved in the coal industry. unlike any other person that i know of, i stood up against the establishment when they falsely claimed that the explosion was caused by the coal miners. >> he insisted he was set up by manchin and other politicians. manchins wife calls that laughable. >> don blankenship is not a victim. >> do you think he could be a tough opponent politically? >> absolutely. >> reporter: but ...

>> this is the other shoe that dropped. right. we could have speculated giving mr. cohen the full benefit of the doubt on the monday when the raid happened perhaps it was an aggressive move. perhaps they were grasping at something. the fact that, as evan confirms, it could be a target. not a surprise. it was an aggressive move. its not one that is utilized often raiding the records of an attorney. it seems par for the course it would move in this direction. >> can we turn the page and have the n...

Is with the russians. >> we have to leave it there, evan. guess what, this story, its not going away. thank you so much. you two stick around. coming up, even "saturday night live" is noticing president trump versus amazons jeff bezos. one former treasury secretary is comparing those attacks mussolini. and revealing whether your information was affected by the cambridge analytica data breach. as ceo mark zuckerberg prepares to face congress. heres a question, if your data was affected what are...