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their relationship and all that attention that its getting. im probably going to get some hate online for making any comment about that. thank you so much for joining us this afternoon around. always a pleasure. the lever jake tapper starts right now 34 convictions. >> but what happens next? the leader starts right now donald trump takes to the mic, airing familiar grievances and railing against the historic guilty verdict in the hush money case. what the trump teams plan were going to...

Seized upon in the political sphere to go after particular people in part of this investigation. >> let me give you one angle here that nobodys talking about about that barr exchange, and that is when jeff sessions was there, the president could claim theres one guy mueller with a bunch of random democrats running an investigation. this is a comey moment. you fire comey, you get mueller. you dump sessions because sessions isnt involved in the investigation, you cant say my nominee is overseeing ...

His former deputy is going to testify, hes going to trash manafort. the jurors came out rick gates we didnt pay attention to him. it was the documentation that got manafort. thats part of the story here. its not cohen. cohen is not credible, its the stuff behind the story that says maybe hes right. >> and just to reiterate it, suborning perjury is a crime and it is also impeachable, david, and im saying that not just out of thin air, its impeachable because it has been used for impeachment befor...

Organization to confirm that donald trump suborned perjury by telling michael cohen to lie. here is what congressman chris murphy said when he read this news. listen, if mueller does not have mult am -- sorry, listen, if mueller does have multiple sources confirming trump directed cohen to lie to congress, then we need to know this asap. mueller should not end his inquiry but its about time for him to show congress his cards before its too late for us to act. phil, i know you disagree with this ...

The cover-up. its the two impeachment proceedings that you mentioned, the investigation by the special prosecutor which was not about an underlying crime but about obstruction, about lying to the fbi that gets you in trouble. and so this big backdrop of whether candidate trump in his business dealings was compromised because of his financial interest in russia. could fill in a lot of blanks if thats actually the case. and if thats whats provable. i think whats so damning about this is not just t...

You hear all the words. its not a definite yes. its a deal. >> right. >> you heard flake. you heard graham. >> there is no deal. a deal in principle among six senators is not a deal unless, ill underline the point phil made unless the president is on board. and the president is not going to be on board unless there is going to be a physical structure in some place on the border. bricks, concrete, something solid that he can go home, go to his voters and say thats a wall. this is where i think th...

Stop? and i think it can infect the entire body. we need that branch right now. >> jeff flake, right after, i guess hours after he was sitting next to the president say white house write $100 check and instagram it out to the doug jones campaign, saying country over party. does that help roy moore more than anything else. $100 is not going to help doug jones. that whole thing, does it just hurt? >> first of all, can we talk about what a wimp? write a $2,700 check. if youre writing a check, $100 ...

A child molester into your chambers. so whats -- where does the line stop? and i think it can infect the entire body. we need that branch right now. >> jeff flake, right after, i guess hours after he was sitting next to the president at the white house write a $100 check and instagram it out to the doug jones campaign saying country over party. does that help roy moore more than anything else. $100 is not going to help doug jones. that whole thing, does it just hurt? >> first of all, can we talk...

About senator mitch mcconnell. heres what bannon said about the senate. >> mitch mcconnell from day one, and this is what youve got to understand with flake and romney and mcconnell and the whole crowd, this is the scam. they dont mind giving up a seat to a democrat. you know why? they dont mind being the minority party. they dont mind being out of power. they dont. because heres the joke. they can make as much money on the way down as they made on the way up. right? they would just -- as long a...

Here. theres been a sense in puerto rico and come through on immediate coverage from the mainland this administration has not been forceful and strong enough in responding to help the people of puerto rico who now two weeks later are still struggling to get out from under this storm, still struggling to get drinking water, still struggling to get electricity. and i think the president by going down there wanted to show he had full command of the situation. but i was down there in houston right a...