potentially it could be big. i mean, looking at michael cohen, what this means is the same tactic that we have seen happening in this investigation out of the southern district of new york, is happening, that we see happen in the mueller investigation. they go after other witnesses, encourage them to cooperate, and in this case you have this business partner who is cooperating, being offered significant being offered a potential sentence that is much smaller than what he could be facing. he could be facing 25 years for each count, owing millions of dollars in back taxes. all of that is being reduced, which says to me that he has some information that prosecutors would be interested in regarding michael cohen. that subsequently puts more pressure on michael cohen to cooperate to reduce his potential legal exposure and talk about whatever he knows that could aid the mueller investigation. it also, since this is outside of the jurisdiction of the mueller investigation, it really cou
to homes than anyone else in the country, we never forget. that your business is our business the united states postal service. priority: you welcome to kasie d.c. i m kasie hunt. we are live every sunday from washington from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. eastern. tonight, trump/putin, the sequel, the leadrs meet in helsinki. things get tricky ahead of the summit. later republican congressman ryan costello joins me live. he says his colleagues conclusions on the russia investigation should be taken with a grain of salt. but just hours from now, president trump and president putin are set to meet.
things were always going to be a little awkward to begin with. and then came the indictments of a dozen russians laid out in forensic detail. it leaves a lot of questions, like whether holding those accountable will come up in their conversation. the russians who were indicted, would you ask putin to send them here? well, i might. i hadn t thought of that, but certainly i ll be asking
there was no surveillance done for political purposes against our campaign. sarah sanders also said, quote, it was also agreed that white house chief of staff kelly will immediately set up a meeting with the fbi, doj and dni together with congressional leaders to review highly classified and other information they have requested. the claim of a spy within the trump campaign comes with as of yet little or nothing to back it up and plenty to raise suspic n suspicions about its validity, including someone the president went out of his way to praise today. and a very courageous man, he s courageous, congressman devin nunes. thank you very much, devin, for being here, appreciate it. he is the chairman of the house intelligence committee. for weeks he s been seeking information on a top secret intelligence source who reportedly contacted two trump campaign advisers and one official, including carter page, who was already under suspicion for contacts with russia and
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while working full time. he has an unparalleled worth he cannic and passed down the passion for playing and watching sports. the lead republican mitch judiciary and meanwhile, these four red states. they were invited to attend the event at the white house tonight but declined. we know that susan collins and lisa mur you could ski declined invitations. all six of the folks considered critical votes that republicans in their case need to protect and the democrats need to keep on their side. importantly, they both voted the two republican women did for kavanaugh s confirmation to the d.c. circuit court in 06. now earlier tonight, senator collins of maine released a statement that highlighted judge kavanaugh s extensive experience and read, i will conduct a careful, thorough vetting of the president s nominee to the
supreme court, as i have done with the five previous supreme court justices whom i have considered. i look forward to judge kavanaugh s public hearing and to questioning
these are potential criminal felonies. that is why the mueller investigation needs to proceed. there is always a striking thing that happened on the house side in these investigations in these matters, which is they never got their hands on the phone records. never subpoenaed the phone records placed to an unknown meeting. is that something you would like to see as a member of congress. i am a former prosecutor and if there was an allegation and i did not subpoena those records, i would have been fired. it was clear that they were not interested in trying to find evidence of collusion. trying to do a whitewash of what happened.
and i think history will not judge them kindly. reporting yesterday about senator claire mc mccaskill. we are told it lasted 30 minutes. so very concerned about what is going to happen. you started off this interview by nodding to possible crimes committed if it is in
fact true, the president knew about the meeting. and there are people on the right