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Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Attorney for the Southern District of new york elly honing. Julia, start with you. Did somebody tell the president he could take over this investigation . Where is it coming from . Seems to just be coming out of his adlib interview as he frequently does. Sort of spins from the cuff here. Seems that this is coming from a place of increased rhetoric from President Trump. He wants to show that he has control over the situation. In fact a lot of times likes bringing up the russia investigation. Perhaps that plays to his base ...

A look at the days top news and headlines. Because under the guidelines, the Department Of Justice believes you cannot charge a sitting president with a crime. But the talk around here these days is of impeachment. If democrats were to flip 24 seats in november, which is a possibility, they would then control the house and it is the house that would begin impeachment proceedings. Even if the president were impeached, a conviction in the senate is unlikely, that would take a twothirds vote. Nobody could see that many republicans defecting to try to take down the president. Dana also its never h...

Which means he really has to specifically be knowledgeable about the law and intending to break it. i think that could still be a pretty solid area of defense for president trump. not that the payments weren't taking place but that he wasn't trying to unilaterally affect the campaign and use campaign finances for it. >> dana: let me ask you about a cooperation agreement. is it typical in a situation like this, that the public would get to read the cooperation agreement between michael cohen and the prosecutors? >> most of the time the cooperation component of a plea letter is camouflaged, file...

Thinking is this isn't about stormy daniels' money, it's not about the $130,000, it's about something else. >> this case is about something else. but what's really newsworthy is that something else could all be coming to a head this afternoon. >> interesting timing, ellie honing, on this. what do you make of it, in particular the relationship between the southern district of new york and the mueller investigation. >> the question is is this a straight plea? we have two different forms in the forms library. one of them is your standard, we have a deal, you're going to plead to these charges and...