politico s playbook. glenn, you build prosecution cases for a living. look at the democrats plan, specifically using vindman, taylor and yovanovitch as their key witnesses. what do you think. steph, they must have some pretty good prosecutors advising them on tactics, because here s why. when we investigate cases, we investigate expansively, and that results in us running down a lot of dead end alleys, talking with a lot of knucklehead witnesses. but then once you prove the case in court or in an impeachment hearing, you want to prove the case narrowly. so, i think what the house is doing is exactly right tactically, because think about it, if you put like a corey lewandowski on the stand, he s not going to persuade the people of anything. i mean, if he tells me his name is corey lewandowski, i want to see his driver s license as corroboration. we saw his clownish performance, but once the american people get to see career patriots who really are law-abiding, they
place. lisa monaco, really good to have you with us. thank you very much. i want to bring in reporter and co-father of politico s playbook, daniel litman and washington bureau chief for the chicago sun-times lynn sweet. i want to go back to the president s reaction to this reporting. he s calling it treason while also saying there s no operation. that this reporting is false. does the president s action reaffirm why, perhaps, these officials didn t want the president to know necessarily exactly what they were up to? well, of course it does because trump doesn t take into account in his tweet the story made very careful to make the point that they did go to trump administration national security advisers to run the information they had by them. so if president trump thought that there was something not true and it s fake, the reporting shows he may not be in a position to know if it s true or not, which is another
the right to do it. he s right, that there have been national emergencies declared in the past for matters both major and trivial, dating back to the civil war, the suspending of habeas corpus and even a postal strike in 1970 by president nixon. but again, a lot of republicans, particularly conservatives, do not favor the use of these powers to declare a national emergency, alex. okay, mike, stay with us because we re going to extend the conversation and we re joined right now by daniel lippman, reporter for politico and co-author of politico s playbook. good morning to you. good morning, alex. i want to discuss the new poll by abc news and the washington post. overall, as you see these numbers, most americans surveyed are blaming the president and republicans for the shutdown. let s remind everybody again, the president said he would take full ownership of this, but there is a pretty sharp partisan divide. 68% of republicans blaming democrats, 85% of democrats blaming repu
giuliani, characterized cohen weeks ago on cnn s state of the union . i don t think cohen will lie. he ll tell the truth. if he does that, we re home free. reporter: democrats say this opens a new front in the russia probe. it brings the issue of collusion or conspiracy to the president s feet. reporter: this claim wrapping up a week that saw a stunning public fallout between the president and one of his closest confidantes, starting with the recording revealed by cnn of trump and cohen. i was attracted to him, yeah. reporter: discussing paying off a model who alleged an affair with trump. and thursday s revelation in the wall street journal that the chief financial officer at the trump organization has been subpoenaed to testify in a criminal investigation involving cohen. now capping this very turbulent week for the president is this bit of remarkable news this afternoon, politico s playbook reported a photo of robert mueller waiting to board a
proposal today differ sharply from the one put forward by the house. the senate plan is expected to eliminate deductions for state and local taxes. stop short of repealing the estate tax. meanwhile house republicans have gutted part of their plan to crack down on corporate tax avoidance. pu putting the plan even more overbudget. the diverging house and senate plans further complicate goal oaf passing comprehensive tax reform by the end of the year. joining us from washington once again is politico daniel litman. c co-author of politicos playbook. called on mitch mcconnell to unify the party effectively by asking him to resign after he puts forth a tax reform bill. is bannon s strategy of targets mitch mcconnell working? he s been going at it for several months with the senate majority leader. last i checked.