we start with the russia investigation. greg brower, a former u.s. attorney and former assistant director of congressional affairs at the fbi. let me go to you first greg. when you heard about this new york times bombshell report, how serious is it as one that worked in fbi? the fbi was so alarmed that this president, at that time presidential candidate and president-elect was possibly involved with russia in
i think with the comments that michael cohen is going to make, i think back to your point on whether or not it will sway any republican senators to do some sort of a turn their back on trump, i think it actually depends on what the smoking gun quotes are from michael cohen. i don t think there is any way we ll know until that comes out. greg, let me ask you on a legal point. i know you re not confirming or denying anything when you were at the bureau. on a legal point, if, in fact, michael cohen, hypothetically, because we do not know what he s going to say. has any direct link maybe when donald trump s came out of meeting with the russians it was his father that he dacalled and briefed and the president was directly involved in a lot of these conversations and involved in a lot of information that was
the democrats have said we are a nation of immigrants. we want people to come in. i think this will be a clever thing in 2020 to see how this message will be branded for the democratic party going forward and whoever gets the nomination for 2020 is going to set the tone of what the democrat party, what their message and their voice is continuing on. if you have someone like a k cast castro, that s more refreshing than an elizabeth warren. i ve heard a lot of favorable comments from castro s uplifting speech rather than how she announced going to get the beer and every day americans. greg, i know you don t go politics as a profession but looking at history, when we saw
help with his base voters. you ll see a lot of that going into the next election cycle where the president and you re seeing it with the budget fight, by focusing on this issue, he s able to help himself politically. that budget fight is the big looming cloud looming overhead. we have president trump talking about how he s going to shut down the government and take ownership of that. that is very unusual. they are also trotting out controversial adviser stephen miller to talk about this. heerp here is what he is saying. we ll do whatever is necessary to build the border call. this is a very if it comes to it, absolutely. greg, respond to stephen miller coming out and saying this. it s tough to follow the political logic of what miller is saying.
we have that in form of money payment, text message, timing. there s plenty of evidence, other than michael cohen s word to corroborate that donald trump is a co-conspirator and a campaign finance violation case. president trump has been tweeting up a storm this morning. earlier retweeted remember michael cohen only became a rat until after the fbi did something unheard of. they broke into an attorney s office. why didn t they break into the dnc to get the server or crooked s office. what do you think the president is trying to say with that tweet? i don t have the foggiest idea what this president is doing, yet alone saying. he s been caught in so many lies back and forth and the same with rudy giuliani. i think the key here is to understand that election law is specific. there s reasons that the american people have a right to