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meeting with labor leaders this afternoon in the roosevelt room outside of the oval office when this story was breaking. no statement of any kind from the white house. he s scheduled to leave here at about 4:00 to head to a rally in west virginia in support of patrick morsi. the president usually doesn t hold back in these rallies. he may speak to reporters as he leaves the white house. white house not reacting to plea deal from a top associate in michael cohen but the fact that paul manafort jury could come back at any moment. president connected to all of these but so far not commenting. let me turn to my four brilliant people sitting to my right. you have been out front in this cohen reporting. he s going to plead guilty to x, y, and z. what will you be listening for? i think this is really going to be something to listen to because the judge is going to say to cohen i want to hear in your own words what crime y
Cooperation. they ll need somebody to come and say what the deal was. these are crimes that go to intent. it s not a bank robbery. what a prosecutor has to prove is somebody had criminal intent, corrupt intent, and usually requires a cooperating witness saying we were on the same page and knew what was going on. it s clear as day, though, if you have a campaign finance violation, michael cohen wasn t running for office. donald trump was running for office. and if a contribution was engineered by michael cohen and was unreported it s a contribution probably to the trump campaign. so i would say it s very likely that the president s going to get pulled into this. paige, i have 25 seconds. could the president be deposed? deposed? while president he could be deposed. if he has real criminal exposure, i wouldn t think his
Far? well, i just always my test you know, everyone s got their own litmus test in life, and mine was, would i do it? if i were never running for office? and the answer is no. and when i asked myself but that can t be the test, would i do it if i wasn t running for office, because there s a million would i call up random rich people if i wasn t running for office, no. that would be a waste of all your time and there s a million things you d do. there s always this marginal little corner, like you re already doing all these things, will you just sell your sister out on national television? i guess where i drew the line was like a hobby. would i pretend to shoot a gun, you know, or would i pretend to play something that wasn t natural? and i think what probably drives mary cheney crazy about this is mary is a political operator, too. yes, absolutely, yes. and she understands the need a very close political adviser to dick cheney. it s not like she has nothing to d
well, i just always my test you know, everyone s got their own litmus test in life, and mine was, would i do it? if i were never running for office? and the answer is no. and when i asked myself but that can t be the test, would i do it if i wasn t running for office, because there s a million would i call up random rich people if i wasn t running for office, no. that would be a waste of all your time and there s a million things you d do. there s always this marginal little corner, like you re already doing all these things, will you just sell your sister out on national television? i guess where i drew the line was like a hobby. would i pretend to shoot a gun, you know, or would i pretend to play something that wasn t natural? and i think what probably drives mary cheney crazy about this is mary is a political operator, too. yes, absolutely, yes. and she understands the need
Far? well, i just always my test you know, everyone s got their own litmus test in life, and mine was, would i do it? if i were never running for office? and the answer is no. and when i asked myself but that can t be the test, would i do it if i wasn t running for office, because there s a million would i call up random rich people if i wasn t running for office, no. that would be a waste of all your time and there s a million things you d do. there s always this marginal little corner, like you re already doing all these things, will you just sell your sister out on national television? i guess where i drew the line was like a hobby. would i pretend to shoot a gun, you know, or would i pretend to play something that wasn t natural? and i think what probably drives mary cheney crazy about this is mary is a political operator, too. yes, absolutely, yes. and she understands the need a very close political adviser to dick cheney. it s not like she has nothing to d