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Michael cohen pleading, we know it was a rigged deal but by donald trump and his people. not just to get to russian collusion. in that way but just on this front, the president, turns out, if cohen is believed participated in the massive fraud in the last days of the 2016 campaign. >> what he was saying about drain the swamp. do we take him literally or seriously or neither? but at the time he was telling us that drain the watch was a slogan to him. he would tell the crowds at the rallies i didn...

I dont think they would think the washington theyre blowing is more swampy than they imagined under donald trump. and the way the blowing up was going to be done under ushim. you watch the clips and the sense of projection that trump is projecting his own problems. you go back a little bit. play the tape back a couple of weeks before that. what he was running on then was its a rigged deal. >> yeah. >> its a rigged deal. the system is rigged. trying to undermine the legitimacy of the election bec...

Michael cohen pleading, we know it was a rigged deal but by donald trump and his people. that doesnt get to russian collusion and the way in which the election may have been rigged that way. the president, turns out, if cohen is believed participated in the massive fraud in the last days of the 2016 campaign. it was rigged. >> what he was saying about drain the swamp. do we take him literally or seriously or neither? but at the time he was telling us that drain the swamp was a slogan to him. he ...

To join us today. so many of your republican colleagues are sort of run away from tv cameras right now. but thanks so much for joining us. i want to get your reaction clearly to michael cohen, the presidents longtime personal attorney and fixer. what he told this federal court yesterday about the presidents direct coordination, direction in these payoffs to these two women. >> well, wolf, its a mess. and, look, i honestly dont know what to believe at this point. mr. cohen has been very inconsist...

Though he is facing a ton of prison time potentially and in the next trial in d.c., there are leverage points for mueller with manafort, and the president sort of pleading with him to hang in there, but sarah sanders didnt want to touch it at all. >> does this move the needle at all in terms of the question of impeachment and what it means for the president politically? >> the question of impeachment is ultimately a political question. this is not a legal question for this president. hes now bee...

Watergate, former nixon white house counsel, john dean, and david gergen, at time a staffer in the nixon white house. john, in the span of an afternoon, you have two people in the presidents inner circle who have become felon. one who has implicated the president himself in a felony. does this sound familiar at all? >> it certainly does. to take issue with what jeff said in the first block of your show, it isnt unprecedented. i happened to plead guilty when nixon was still in office, after i got...

Watergate, former nixon white house counsel, john dean, and david gergen, at time a staffer in the nixon white house. john, in the span of an afternoon, you have two people in the presidents inner circle who have become felon. one who has implicated the president himself in a felony. does this sound familiar at all? >> it certainly does. to take issue with what jeff said in the first block of your show, it isnt unprecedented. i happened to plead guilty when nixon was still in office, after i got...

From the great state of new jersey. thanks for being here. michael cohen and federal prosecutors from the southern district of new york implicated the has himself pled guilty and for which he expects to do jail-time. whats the difference between implicating somebody in a crime and charging them with a crime, otherwise holding them accountable for a crime? >> look, before somebody gets charged you have to have proof beyond a reasonable doubt to make that charge if youre a federal prosecutor. that...

Anything. >> does the president feel betrayed by michael cohen? >> he did nothing wrong and there was no collusion. he did nothing wrong. there are no charges against him. just because michael cohen has made a deal doesnt mean anything with regards to the president. >> no controlling legal authority, referring to that famous al gore press conference when he kept trying to say shes technically trying to say the president wasnt named. yeah, hes unnamed in all of those things. i get what she was tr...

Beyond a reasonable doubt to make that charge if youre a federal prosecutor. thats the standard for convicting and federal prosecutors dont actually bring charges until they have enough evidence to convict. michael cohen was obviously in that circumstance. if you read what happened in court, if you look at the detail of the criminal information which is beak a document that instead of indictment when somebodys pleading, if you look at that document, they had an enormous amount of evidence. an am...