Hours of testimony. Not only are the president s attorneys still in the dark about it, the president himself is rattled. Remember it was don mcgann who threatened to quit when President Trump attempted to fire Robert Mueller last june. Sources confirming that federal authorities are preparing charges against michael cohen. The u. S. Attorneys office is investigating cohen for possible bank and tax fraud as well as Campaign Finance violations for Hush Money Payments to stormy daniels. Those charges could come next week. And today, Paul Manafort served the Trump Campaign for 18 months. Hes facing 18 separate counts
of bank and tax fraud. He also faces charges on Money Laundering and fraudulent lobbying. Good evening, everyone, welcome to the program. Heres what the sources are telling cnn, mcgann didnt provide incriminating information about the president. He doesnt believe he implicated trump in any wrongdoing. Give me your assessment of this . I dont understand how they can say that so confidently. The key piece of evidence that remains is trumps state of mind. We know the acts he did. They would constitute obstruction if done with corrupt motive. Mcgann is in the white house, he calls the president king kong. Hes the guy who trump directs
foe Tell Sessions to recuse before he mcgann knew he couldnt do it. Hes the guy that argues against the comey firing, he was there shoulder to shoulder, he Doesnt Know What Mueller knows. It seems implausible to me that in 30 hours he doesnt provide factual material thats illuminating about the president s state of mind. I think its overconfident to be saying that at this point. The real question is, why would trumps lawyers not debrief mcgann because hes given 30 hours of interviews. Much of which the Trump Legal Team is in the dark about. 30 hours is like a book on tape, isnt it . Thats a lot of testimony, the white house got nothing out of this in return for letting all
A recap of the days news. With the Russian Ambassador shortly after the comey firing. I mean, there are ways that evening if he doesnt say ex, ex can be inferred when you put what hes saying next to what other people are saying, and then you really do have to add to that, the failure to debrief is interesting. It suggests they did not understand what was going on here. And that suggests there may have been admissions that were made, but we really dont know. Nancy, let me ask you, i asked this question in the last hour, do you think its finally starting to settle in, that this president is realizing don mcgann is not his personal attorney. He represents the office of the presidency. I think now that were talking about why it is that mcgann had no defense to talking to mueller. I mean, he could have raised issues, he could have raised
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who signed a letter rebuking President Trump denying brennens security clearance. Denying President Obama, it would be unprecedented, right . It would be strange for this presidency. I mean, come on, this happens on every front on every day, the fact that he would look back at obama and say, lets cult him out of something. It doesnt surprise me. I hadnt hurt it before, but it doesnt surprise me. It does help undermine one of the arguments we heard about the letters that have been coming out from former Security Officials about the john brennan revocation of the clearance. Which is all about the fact that he violated some aspect of the security agreement. Theres been no evidence about that for john brennan, and theres no evidence that i saw in this story or had heard otherwise that barack obama had somehow violateded norms of
president ial behavior or violated what it would take to remove expresident s with standard intelligence brieflyings, would have to be ended. I dont know where that came from other than spite. Lets talk about this new yorker report. That his team wanted to revoke the clearances of obama officials. But then h. R. Mcmaster stopped it. Whats the reason, what is the reason former administration staffers usually get to keep their clearances . In one case, and i think in the report it made clear that these were National Security council staffers who were held over, staying in some of their jobs as directors, possibly even senior directors at the nsc. In that case, thats for continuity of government. You have some people who know whats going on on these various issues internationally. Keeping those people on board with Security Clearances makes sense. Its also possible that some of the people were senior
officials, like weve been talking about with former cia directors that you might bring people back in for consultations, can you always give them classified information on a spot basis, but its much easier and much more efficient if they retain those Security Clearances so they can have those conversations more easily. President trump told reuters tonight that he hasnt given a lot of thought to revoking the idea of Robert Muellers security clearance. He didnt rule it out, though. How bad would it look that the president is under investigation by muellers office . I mean, i i cant fathom that that would be something that we would actually see happen. It seems like there would be no clearer way to obstruct justice than to obstruct in an Obstruction Of Justice investigation. Which is exactly what you would be doing if you were trying to pull Robert Muellers ability to
view classified intelligence as part of a classified Counter Intelligence investigation that he how many times have you said, i could never imagine that anything i Couldnt Fathom this would happen, and then it happens. And as david said, thats been almost the daily story of this presidency, i think we spend so much time focused on donald trump breaking norms, that part of this part of what were losing in this is why other people are breaking those norms, why john brennan, why jim clapper, why mike hayden are speaking out in the way that they are. I mean, Admiral William Mccraven when he came out last week, asking the president to revoke his security clearance, so that he could be on record as against the administration, i mean, that was a phrase and a public action i never thought i would see from someone like him. Ive covered john brennen. Ive covered jim clapper, these are not men who scare easily,
these are not men who cry wolf. The fact that they are out there shouting at the top of their lungs day after day at this point, that this man is a threat to our nations rule of law, and our Democratic Institutions is something that we should be focused on. Well, david, lets talk a little bit more about that, because former cia National SecurityAgency DirectorMichael Hayden told cnn today that the relationship between trump and the Intelligence Community is dangerously close to being permanently broken. How dangerous is it the state of relations between the president and the Intelligence Community, that its so bad that its at risk of being permanently broken . One of the dangers here is that there is the fear and i havent heard this directly from many people, because thankfully most of the people still doing National Security currently are putting their heads down and doing their job, trying to protect National Security. But the fear that has to be there is, if we start down a
road of revoking Security Clearances, based on political speech, which lets be honest, thats what this is, does that also pertain to the truth to power that intelligence analysts are trained to deliver to policy makers. If you have to go to the president of the United States and give him a message that you know he doesnt want to hear because its inconvenient for his policy. Are they going to hold back because of fear that they will be punished for giving an uncomfortable truth to the president of the United States . That is the biggest danger, which is it that the very function of a very expensive Intelligence Community will be undermined completely if this goes down that Slippery Slope any further. Trumps lawyer, Rudy Giuliani is daring john brennan to take President Trump to court. To john brennan, President Trump granted our request, jay seculo and me, to handle your case. If you dont, it would just be
like obamas red lines p. M. Come on, john, youre not a blow hard. I cant believe that anybody i mean im actually reading that from the president s lawyers is beyond but if brennen follows this isnt some random Ambulance Chaser hes found off the back of a park bench, this is something who is one of the nations most revered federal prosecutors whos entire career is based on the hard work of Men And Women in the fbi and men an women just like Robert Mueller. The fact that im reading that is beyond, who would really have the upper hand here if that indeed happened . I think john brennan certainly has the upper hand going into any battle in this situation. I mean, as steven said, it seems very clear that the president is taking this action based on john
brennans public First Amendment protected speech. And that there is no hint of official misconduct that would lead to the revocation of a security clearance. One thing thats laughable here, i heard earlier today, that they were saying, well, this would be great for discovery. Maybe that was trump in one of his tweets saying, sure, if john brennan wants to sue us, then were going to find out all kinds of secrets about him. Do you think that somebody who has been under frequent reinvestigation as part of his career for 30 years, with a polygraph and everything that comes with it, how many secrets is john brennan going to have come up in discovery that are embarrassing, versus how many he will be able to get out of the president in the same process . Its laughable . Maybe some tax returns, who knows. Thank you. I appreciate it, when we come back, did President Trump use the n word on The Apprentice. Omarosa claims he used the slur
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