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These filings? what are the things we learned today we didn't know yesterday? >> i think you've already articulated them, lawrence. but just to emphasize the fact that federal prosecutors, not just michael cohen, but federal prosecutors are now endorsing the idea that donald trump ordered michael cohen to make illegal payments to women that were a violation of dam pain financial law. now, the issue with that law unlike many laws, to convict somebody of it you have to prove criminal intent. sometimes ignorance of a law is no defense. in this case it actually is. it's not so simple of linking tr...

>> we would have to investigate incredible any credible allegation and things that hadn't been looked into properly before. >> these calls for impeachment are common, and those efforts all went nowhere. >> in a twist, if kavanaugh is impeached in the center holds a trial it would be presided over by the chief justice of the united states. >> bret: john roberts is asking federal judges outside of the beltway to investigate complaints over statements made by now justice brett kavanaugh during his contentious confirmation. a letter from roberts was posted on the website of the d.c. appellate cour...

Contact potential witnesses in his case and according to him, he tried to sub born them to commit perjury. now apparently he's secretly sending e-mails from jail on his laptop, the second laptop. not the personal laptop he uses in his vip living unit and work space with private telephone where he doesn't have to wear a prison uniform. you can see why when the judge ordered him transferred to a place that would be more conducive to preparing for his trial it, he might say thanks, actually, where i am it just fine. i have an extension cord and everything. here's the thing though, the judge in th...

Tell. he is not a cooperator right now. but almost all defendants become convicted. and almost all convicted defendants become cooperators. >> do you believe michael cohen's cases debt resolved before mueller. >> you mean in time? >> yes. >> again, hard the say, if the he is inclined to bleed guilty and cooperate it could happen pretty quickly. if like mr. manafort he wants a trial it could take a long time. >> chuck rosenberg i'm going to leave it there. >> thank you for having me. let's bring in michael mcfaul former ambassador to russia and msnbc international affairs analyst ander thou o...

>> shannon: as the daca deal versus government shutdown debate rages, the real-life toll illegal immigration can take with front and center in the sacramento courtroom today. in a trial it's getting off to a chaotic start, trace gallagher joins us. >> much like the man who shot and killed kate steinle, this man was part of the revolving door of illegal immigration, arrested for drugs multiple times, deported multiple times and yet in october of 2014, he and his wife were sitting in a suspicious vehicle in the parking lot of a sacramento motel 6 when deputies came to check out the car. he alleg...