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Been disparaging competitors of boeing and so it's raised some ethical issues whether or not shanahan somehow was pushing the pentagon to purchase boeing products and now the inspector general feels there's enough information here, they received enough complaints where they have decided they're going to launch an investigation. shanahan has said that he's cooperating and he welcomes the investigation. there are certain measures in place at the pentagon to make sure there is no conflict, but nonetheless, the inspector general says there's enough here, so swoowe're going to investigate now. >> s...

Donald trump presidency because, oh, by the way, there's also a crisis in venezuela that he has to deal with? >> often you don't know if something is a turning point until it's happened but the president's challenge is that he wants whatever happens in hanoi to distract from what mr. cohen will say. one of the things that happened in the watergate period was that the american people heard testimony for months about the misconduct of the nixon administration well before the impeachment process began. i'm not suggesting that an impeachment process will begin in this case but what the public has ...

Has to be careful not to rush some kind of symbolic agreement with the north koreans in order just to distract from his political problems at home. in 1998, bill clinton was attacked, i believe wrongly, for wagging the dog. for trying to distract from the monica lewinsky case by going after bin laden. he was absolutely right to, people just didn't understand what a threat he was. they felt he was using it fo distract. they were wrong in '98 but they could be right in 2019. >> maybe not this week, but the week after, the mueller report is supposed to be out. >> we will subpoena the report. we w...

>> as long as it takes. to get to the truth. >> and in terms of any possible prosecution, for the president or mueller to find malfeasance. he believes a sitting president can be indicted. is he right? >> so even if he were indicted i always hesitate to disagree with my friend neil. i don't think he a sitting president can be forced to stand trial. against his will. there might be a thing called a tolling. of the statute of limitations. so an indictment is filed. it would typically be a state case. federal cases raise other issues what who fwh the justice department can make that call. suppose...

Fbi or mueller's team are embarrassed about the way they conducted themselves. they're putting all of this out there and basically saying, here you go. you can see how it was done. you can see how this guy should have known better than lying to investigators. >> and these documents are fascinating. friday night, you have a little time, you might want to kick back and read them. because it's really an interesting look. sara murray, shimon, thank you so much. president trump's former fixer and personal attorney, michael cohen, is speaking out one day after being sentenced to three years in pri...