their relationship and all that attention that it s getting. i m 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 team s plan we re going to talk tell you moving forward. potential trump vice presidential pick senator tim scott will be here and i ll also talk with republican senator rick scott of florida, who s running a replace mitch mcconnell plus senate republican leader plus one of trump s targets today as former fixer, michael cohen. how does he feel now that his former boss is a convicted felon, michael cohen s lawyer joins me, lie and president biden announces a new proposal for a ceasefire in gaza. it will bring hostages
seized upon in the political sphere to go after particular people in part of this investigation. let me give you one angle here that nobody s talking about about that barr exchange, and that is when jeff sessions was there, the president could claim there s 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 isn t involved in the investigation, you can t say my nominee is overseeing the investigation. you get barr who just basically said when i see this stuff, i m going to bring a hammer down. i m going to tell you, barr will be one of the most significant appointees the president has ever made, because barr, i suspect, is going to crush the administration. the president s going to say, i never saw that one coming. but, phil, one of the reasons that i think we need to pump the brakes on the buzz feed reporting just for a moment is because all the corroborating evidence
his former deputy is going to testify, he s going to trash manafort. the jurors came out rick gates we didn t pay attention to him. it was the documentation that got manafort. that s part of the story here. it s not cohen. cohen is not credible, it s the stuff behind the story that says maybe he s right. and just to reiterate it, suborning perjury is a crime and it is also impeachable, david, and i m saying that not just out of thin air, it s impeachable because it has been used for impeachment before. it was one of the articles of impeachment for nixon. it was one of the articles of impeachment for bill clinton. this is serious for the president and rudy giuliani s statement overnight, if you believe cohen i can get you a great deal on the brooklyn bridge, it s pippy but it s not a denial of the facts in the story. it goes to the point phil was just talking about, they d be happy to attack michael cohen as a guy you can t believe and you re going to hear that when he testifies on
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 it s about time for him to show congress his cards before it s too late for us to act. phil, i know you disagree with this but what s wrong with the piecemeal approach? there s a couple things wrong with it. the first is pretty practical. what was the charge of robert mule center was it to infer an obstruction case? a suborning perjury case to congress if he found it? or was it it to say the american people deserve a full answer, almost like a novel, a story about what happened during the campaign? which was it? he is not tasked with telling the american people. there s one person who is going to get this repor
the cover-up. it s 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 that s actually the case. and if that s what s provable. i think what s so damning about this is not just the wow factor and that s a high bar, right, when we re talking about this investigation and this president. it s the fact that we re only seeing the part that we can see right now. the potential impact of mueller s findings are what he has in total. and think what phil refers to, you know, don t forget that his long time cfo i believe of the company has been cooperating with mueller. so, you know, michael cohen is