a number of questions that still remain in terms of potential criminal offenses that michael cohen may have committed that i believe will come out tomorrow. cohen is scheduled to begin a three-year prison sentence in may. as we mentioned while the russia investigation will be off-limits officially at tomorrow s public hearing, democrats on the house intelligence committee say russia will be front and center when cohen talks to them in another closed hearing on thursday. it s a lot to keep track of. let s bring in our lead off panel on a tuesday night. maya wily now with the new school in new york. robert costa, national reporter for the washington post, and moderator of washington week on pbs. and emily jane fox seen, reporter for the vanity fair and is the author of born trump, inside america s first family. good evening and welcome to you all. mr. costa, in our television age
started. you have kim jong-un stopping for a cigarette break and his sister as one does following around him with a crystal ashtray. you would do that for your sister. i would, but then getting off the train after a 68-hour first of all if you want to spend 68 hours on a train take amtrak from seattle to san francisco. but i kid. 68 hours on a train in part because of the threat of assassination and in part because of the shortage of dependable aviation equipment in that country. that gives you the setting for these two guys to sit down. it s a perfect metaphor. the economic need. the sanctions have hurt. but there s also cheating from china and russia, playing on both sides against the middle. and there is sort of a metaphor there, and it may be more than
vietnam the same week trump and kim are in vietnam, told russian news agencies the u.s. wanted and sought insight on dealing with north korea. among the reported recommendations offers security guarantees to kim jong-un in order to move forward with nuclear disarmament. helpful. still with us jeremy bash and andrea mitchell. jeremy, i don t know which to start with. the advice from the russians as to how to proceed with the north koreans or the threat of believing putin over your own home team, and more than that saying it out loud. i know. and i think it s important for us to be clear-eyed as we think about what s going to unfold in hanoi over the next 48 hours. the russian federation has an interest in diminishing u.s. influence in asia. they have a strong interest in removing u.s. troops from the peninsula because they see it as a sort of strategic counterweight to russia s effort on their eastern seacoast.
that country. that gives you the setting for these two guys to sit down. it s a perfect metaphor. the economic need. the sanctions have hurt. but there s also cheating from china and russia, playing both sides against the middle. and there is sort of a metaphor there, and it may be more than symbolic of him going through china, through chinese territory, paying respect to china on the way to this critical showdown with the leverage that china uniquely holds over whether any deal will ever be consummated or obeyed. and yet at the same time the cult of personality cultivated of course by kim jong-un and his entire dynasty going back three generations. it s a state and a cult really. what do we have here? we have a president of the united states who believes he is uniquely capable through his own personality of somehow breaking through as no other president has with that shiny nobel prize as the allure over the horizon.
not consistent with any of the intelligence our government possesses. to which the president replied, i don t care, i believe putin. maybe the most bracing moment from that recent administer view with 60 minutes, andrew mccabe revealing the moment president trump in his book as depicted in his book, revealed his trust in russian intel over his own team. which makes this headline all the more interesting, quote, u.s. asked for advice on north korea talks. the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov, who, again was in vietnam the same week trump and kim are in vietnam, told russian news agencies the u.s. wanted and sought insight on dealing with north korea. among the reported recommendations offers security guarantees to kim jong-un in order to move forward with nuclear disarmament. helpful. still with us jeremy bash and andrea mitchell. jeremy, i don t know which to