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Wook with all the testimony. >> the white house realizes theres going to be an interesting split screen this week, meeting with kim jong un and come up with a deal for denuclearization. about here there as m, himself cam pan, himself family, and a lot of those investigations are areas where michael cohen has intimate knowledge and thes would is wondering what kinds of questions might get asked by democrats that might potentially embarrass the president and open him up to a digs tall. what is him...

Put president trump on trial. >> its going to be while hes in vietnam trying to negotiate peace with the north koreans. it will be quite a split screen. and, look, i think that that kind of a hearing will be a major event in washington, and i think a lot of democrats nationally will watch it and feel that much more fired up. but i think the lesson of the trump scandals to date is they typically have a real impact for a day, a couple of days and theyre washed over by whatever the next thing is. t...

The fact that so much discretion is in the hands of the attorney general gives the administration in this case, quite a bit of decision-making power. but democrats have an interest in getting out as much information as possible. as i said earlier i think republicans probably do too and if it ends up requiring some of legal action, i think democrats have shown it is something they do want to take as well. arthel: a lot of jockeying over to release or not to release the report. just in time for th...

The presidents mood. the mood of the white house. all of those behind you there, behind you on the lawn there, ahead of the cohen testimony. whats your read? >> i think its hard to answer that question without mentioning the fact the president is about to leave for vietnam. he goes tomorrow morning to vietnam to have a summit with north korean leader kim jong-un. i think hes very focused on that as well as white house officials focused on that. in that same split screen on their minds and ours t...

D.c. where trumps former lawyer is scheduled to testify before the congressional oversight committee, allowing democrats the chance to grill him about what he knows about a range of topics, including fundraising for the inauguration and donald trumps business practices. on the other side of the screen the focus will be on 286 milevi where trump has meetings scheduled with kim jong-un. split screen implies a screen cut in half, but were going to see it fractured further this week. jared kushner i...

Wednesday. >> and, elinia, you are traveling to vietnam to follow the big summit with president trump. now michael cohen is going to capital hill, one of the committees will be public. >> thats right. this will produce disconcerting split screen for the president who pays very close attention to what the media headlines are, as we know. and its not the first time for the president that the russia investigation or russia headlines have interrupted his travel abroad. recall when he was in helsinki...

Pages are redacted. and think of the time line and frame here and you think what? this investigation is nowhere near an end. >> right. i think the old rule applies here. only the special counsel knows what the special counsel knows. and if this report were to drop sometime next week, of course that would create the split screen. you have the president overseas in vietnam with his second summit with kim jung-un while this report would be on the desk of bill barr. and of course democrats have alre...

This report for a long time. remember, rudy giuliani and other of trumps lawyers, would say, well, mueller is about to wrap up, you knows, hes going to be done by thanksgiving and hes going to be done by x date and mueller continued to work, because he has so much to look at. and you know, as my colleagues said, there is just a lot of outstanding threads that they were investigating, and theres hundreds of thousands of documents and pages that they were going through, and so mueller wants to be ...

So its going to be a lot of split screen watching on tv wednesday. >> let me go back to you quickly, elliott. if this witness, michael cohen, says at a public hearing televised on thursday things like insurance fraud. "the new york times" i believe broke that yesterday. and things like getting $17 million on mar-a-lago when there wasnt that much damage, these kinds of things, do they also expose the president to some kind of legal problem? maybe not with mueller, but at other levels because we k...

Screen of a lifetime, michael cohen on capitol hill preparing to testify while the president has his second meeting with kim jung-un. another trump cabinet member in hot water, why a decade old plea deal could be trouble for the labor secretary alex acosta. i believe the election should be called. >> a remarkable about-face in north carolina, a congress allege candidate who thought he won is calling for a new election. why and will he even run again? welcome back to "early start." im boris s...