listen, you know michael cohen. i know michael cohen. he's a lot of things.ot an international man of mystery. he's no the a spy. if he said he never went on a trip, i'm sure we could prove otherwise if he in fact, did. >> or he would be offering it rather loudly. >> well, he would. the fbi looked into this and found no evidence that he actually went on this trip. he's not bond, right? >> or austin powers. >> or austin powers. >> this is a case of steele realizing, never give in. nephew admit to being wrong about anything. >> that may work for donald trump in donald trump's mind. it should not work for anyone who says they're in an intelligence business. own up to it. it adds to your credibility. >> do you think he is in worse territory? . >> ain't looking better, unfortunately. . >> i want to ask about senator bill cassidy who did an interview with "axios" published last night about being the front-runner for the 2024 nomination, donald trump. watch. >> if he runs, he wins the nomination. >> we don't know that. . >> president trump is the first president to

to actually set the record straight. >> correct. >> one of the other points, laura, looking at michael cohenue, he claims he went to prague in 2016 to meet with a russian official which cohen said didn't happen and he had admitted to other things that did happen, right, that perhaps were initially he wouldn't. steele rationized he might be lying saying it would be self-incriminating to a great degree for michael cohen to admit it. at this point, based on everything we've seen and everything michael cohen has said and done in the last few years, i'm not sure how you square that either. >> i don't think you really can. again, maybe it's the prosecutor in me, i'm naturally skeptical of other people. i don't trust my eyebrow rises up a lot more than it's believing people about things but i got to tell you, in the world of wanting to disclose everything that could make you look bad, michael cohen has done a tough job, also incarcerated and now released and written his book, he's been forth right and candid to a degree. i never know everything he may or may not know but the idea he's withholding s

something michael cohen has repeatedly denied.us tape that he says shows donald trump in 2013 in that hotel room at the ritz-carlton in moscow with prostitutes. this tape, of course, has never materialized. the former president denies it exists but steele stands by the fact he believes it might exist even though the department of justice inspector general said in their report in 2019 that one of the sources for saying that there was this tape actually came out to really be not truthful perhaps. and this is what steele said as to that. take a listen. >> one of your main directors spoke to the inspector general and said that especially it was word of mouth and hearsay. conversations with friends over beers. it was just talk. >> if you have a confidential source and that confidential source is blown or is uncovered, that confidential source would often take fright and try and downplay and underestimate what they've said and done. and i think that's probably what happened here. >> he's afraid? >> i think anybody that's named in this c

>> no, i don't. >> michael cohen was trump's personal lawyer and self-described fixer. >> cohen met withto the inspector general report. >> i have never been to prague or czech republic. cohen completely turned on donald trump. it defies logic, if he did this, he would not say so. >> i don't agree with that. it's a self-in criminating to a great degree. >> he told every single story, why won't we admit to this? >> i think it's so in criminating and demeaning and the other reason is he may be scared of the consequences. >> michael cohen said to abc news i eagerly await steele's next dossier which proves the existence of bigfoot and the lochness monster and that elvis is still alive. >> i am preparing to accept everything on the dossier is 100% accurate. i have yet to be convinced that's one of them. >> christopher steele is free to believe whatever he wants. if christopher steele wants her people to believe that he's believable, he needs to show us what evidence he has to support his belief. >> the inspector general pulls back on the curtain on how steele gather the information. it does n

>> no, i don't. >> michael cohen has completely turned on donald trump.cused him of all kinds of things. he's gone to jail. it defies logic that if he did this he wouldn't say so now. >> i don't agree with that. >> why? >> since he's gone to prison, since he told on president trump, he has told every single story. why not admit to this? >> it is demeaning and scary. and he might be afraid of the consequences. >> do you think it hurts your credibility that you won't accept the findings of the fbi in this particular case? >> i'm prepared to accept that not everything in the dossier is 100% accurate. i have yet to be convinced that that is one of them. >> cohen says overnight, i eagerly await his next secret dossier, which proves the existence of bigfoot, the loch ness monster and that elvis is still alive. >> he has had a change of heart and has admitted to wrongdoing on trump's behalf and has come to very publicly criticize trump. on this allegation of his direct involvement, he's stick to go his guns as well. notably i said doj inspector general i meant t

michael cohen he still legend was in cahoots with the russians, can totally be seen use that i eagerly await his next secret, darcy, which proves the existence of bigfoot, the loch ness monster. and that elvis is still alive for news views. hughes and alex mileage. i mean, i discuss his net, ryan, ceo of america majority. net, thanks for joining me. we had you to come up with with the still dossier and everything going on. why chris, for sales out there. but then you have this breaking news here. the f b, i actually rating their pos because place are actually a relative slice here in washington, d. c. nominee alex reporting it. but there is a connection between christopher still and thereupon hska as well as tall man afford i'm sure you're familiar with the case. do you think this all has something to do with each other as we're having chris? we're still coming out and speak for the 1st time in months. well, actually, scotty, i think really what's happening and all sudden we're talking about the debunk steel dos. yeah, that was put together by fabulous. again, it's because i think they

. >> and michael cohen, the steele dossier said he went to prague and michael cohen had a huge fallingts the next dossier which proves that big foot and the loch ness monster and elvis are still alive. >> i don't understand the benefit at this point, we're years from the 2016 election, all of us would say there's chunks of the election cycle that we closeted away so i don't think it benefits the sort of political communication between folks in this country at this point. there is so much distrust. i do not think that he is helping to add to any value. >> if the former president mounts a comeback i suspect we'll not have a steele dossier in 2024. thanks everybody for coming in on "inside politics." ana cabrera picks up our coverage right after a quick break. we'll see you tomorrow. visibly diminish wrinkled skin in... crepe corrector lotion... only from gold bond. alberto and i don't fit into those other family plans. that's why we love visible. they do things differently. yeah, it's wireless with unlimited data and if you join a group it's as low as $25/mo. all powered by verizon. 5g i

. >> what worries me about that, maya, you know, this sounds like what the michael cohen case. everyone knows who the person is for whom michael cohen was writing those checks to stormy daniels. it was donald trump. he's subject number one wherever he's listed and walks away and that's what worries people is that this man lived 73 or however many years with impunity and people wonder when that's going to end. >> well, there is one key difference, donald trump was president. he is no longer president right now so i think to glen's point, it does make a difference if he starts to get implicated in something that is an existing grand jury as is a regular ol' person walking up and down the street. now, i think the other critical point here is he is absolutely going to get scrutiny, if, if this committee continues to be aggressive. because frankly, there is no reason they cannot subpoena him. and remember that executive privilege is the weakest privilege there is. meaning, it is -- we don't know what the supreme court would do but i'd love to see the litigation party that would happ

. >> trump's former lawyer michael cohen traveled to prague to meet with officials, a claim the fbi says is not true. steele answers critics who says a former british spy should not have gotten involved in u.s. politics. >>> now time for a look at your monday morning weather. water spouts were seen over lake erie near cleveland this weekend. warnings issued in that area, and no jinjuries were reported. this double rainbow was spotted in the skies. onlookers enjoyed a near perfect shape. clear sky over much of the nation, and a system in the west will lead to a storm watch in wyoming. checking today's high temperatures, 70s in the middle of the country. approaching 90 in parts of the southeast and southwest. 60s for the northeast. >>> coming up, a coffee delivery gone wrong. >>> but first, the effect social media is having an teen girls. the condition doctors are now seeing more often. >>> and later, kobe bryant's widow faces a new obstacle >>> back, now, with the impact of an amtrak train slamming into a truck, carrying cars in oklahoma. you see an suv go flying off the truck, which had

the victims of christopher steals reporting have also reacted michael cohen, who the dossier accused of secret meetings with a russians in europe. he had the f. b, i get involved. of course, they found no evidence of any such meetings ever taking place, but regardless mister co indeed react. he said that he was pleased that christopher steele had crawled out of the pop just long enough to make up a few more stories. i'm not too sure that everyone is as please abs chris. the once was quite enough. there's nothing groundbreaking in of course he's being, he's being interviewed by a very sympathetic, quote unquote journalist 3rd stephanopoulos has been an operative for bill clinton in the democratic party for a long time. although looking at the mainstream coverage, this sort of rehabilitation of christopher steel seems to be seems to be coming around. you have to scratch our has even the f b. i stopped using him as a confidential human in form of because i found that he was too unreliable. i think one very important aspect is the collusion of the u. s. mainstream media in this they abso

michael cohen has a felony on his record spent time in prison for paying at the direction of presidentump hush money to stormy another woman. i believe it's pretty well-known that president trump was individual 1 as described in the indictment. he couldn't be indicted because of department of justice policy you don't indict a sitting president. he's no longer a sitting president. do you believe that not looking into indicting individuals 1 equally if not more guilty than michael cohen is not an abuse of equal protection under the law and an abrogation of the idea that the rule of law is -- >> so congressman, a very important element of the rule of law is the norm of the justice department that we don't comment on whether we're investigating what investigating, what the status of investigations are, unless or until there's a public charge. that's important to protect everyone whether it be a former president, an existing president, or a public official or a private individual. >> i will accept that but i hope that you will look at it because i believe that he is equally if not more guil

they can ask michael cohen, the moment that donald trump is done with someone, he is done with them. and they could be left out on their own with very serious charges, having to face a lot of legal expenses to fight them. that is one thing that they should consider, when they're making their next-level moves. >> i want to thank you all for taking our questions and starting of soft tonight, sam stein, daniel goldman, kimberly atkins store are great thanks. coming up for us, the big lie, turning to washington's longest running drama. it would be cute if it didn't mean real consequences for our democracy. more, over the top performances today in the house, shocking details in the senate about just how far someone wanted to go to simply stay in office. now wet, james carville and mark mckinnon join us with some suggestions. later, but it's really going to take before you can really declare the pandemic behind us. one of our leading doctors will take our questions tonight, all of it as the 11th hour is just getting underway on this thursday evening, just beneath the truman balcony. , just

that's why he should face charges in the stormy daniel case that landed michael cohen in jail for facilitatingyments allegedly ordered by trump. the fec shamefully decided not to pursue the case along partisan lines and the statute of limitations is close to running out. but freed from political constraints, the u.s. attorney's office for the southern district of new york can and should follow through on its investigation and indict the man they previously identified as individual one, who they say directed the payments just days before the election. but that is small ball compared to an attempt to overturn the election, from within the white house. and the now clear evidence that trump conspired to interfere in the election, which is illegal, from telling the doj, quote, just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me, to his caught on tape demand that the georgia secretary of state find 11,780 votes. wouldn't be surprising to see criminal charges on election interference ultimately brought by the fulton county d.a. but the problem is there has been a strange reluctance to enforce

they can ask michael cohen. the moment that donald trump is done with someone he is done with them and they could be left out on their own with very serious charges. having to face a lot of legal expenses to fight them so that's one thing they should consider making the next legal moves. >> i want to thank you all for starting us off tonight. sam, daniel, kimberly, our great thanks. >>> the big lie turning into washington's longest running drama. it would be cute if it didn't mean real consequences for our democracy. more over the top performances today in the house. shocking details in the senate how far somebody went to stay in office. now what? guests with some suggestions. >>> later, what it really takes to declare the pandemic is behind us. all of it as the 11th hour is just getting under way on this thursday evening just beneath the truman balcony. s event of t. the homeandautobundle xtravafestasaveathon! at this homeandautobundle xtravafestasaveathon, there's no telling what we might bundle! homeandautobu

>> sure, you might remember that michael cohen said that donald trump originally ran for president asblicity stunt. that he thought that this would benefit his companies, but he never imagined winning. so he wins, and he finds himself in office and during that period of time from 2016 to 2020 his fortunes decline precipitously. so this is a man who always said that he measured himself in dollars and cents and that his self-worth was really all tied up in how rich he was. and during that time period he went from claiming 10 to $12 billion net worth to terming he's at 2.5 million. so he's fallen off the forbes list of richest americans and he's now facing in westchester county another assault on his claims to his wealth. in that case, he's -- when he likes having a lot of money, he says the golf course is worth $50 million. when he doesn't want to pay his taxes, he says it is worth $1.4 million. wouldn't it be nice if we could all inflate our assets when we want to claim to be very rich, and deflate them when it comes to paying our taxes? >> yeah, it would be lovely. my house is worth $

people, to try to intervene in particular cases, to try to get particular people prosecuted like michael cohenthing. so he created some confusion out there. i'm sorry joe biden stepped over the line. he pulled himself back. he apologized. we're back to normal business in america here. at least we're trying to get back to normal business and i'm glad that biden had the maturity to apologize about that. >> and on a happier note, pence, you have introduced completely differently here, you introduced a bill that has to do with pet shelters. what is this about? >> well, the pet shelters are overrun because of covid-19 and the economic calamities we suffered over the last several years. and there are major shortages of food and this says that just like businesses can give surplus food to human food shelters, they can also give now surplus pet food to pet shelters without exposing themselves to liability. so we're sort of waving the liability rules to say we have got hundreds of millions of pounds of leftover pet food, give it to the pet shelters that are being run by not for profits and by local gov

they have taken a pass it seems on the obstruction laid out in the mueller report, on the michael coheny daniels campaign finance case that was brought in manhattan. so far as we know on the january 6 activity. so this kind of puts it in the justice department's lap and i'm not sure they're happy to have it. they have been historically reluctant to bring these kinds of pruosecutions on contempt of congress. the doj which is part of the executive branch has a long standing pursuant to its office of legal counsel opinions view that executive privilege is broad and it is relatively expansive. so i think for all of those reasons they're pretty reluctant to do this. >> and look, donald trump and steve bannon are using the word executive privilege when it comes to this, but what they're really seem to be seeking is obviously more than that. the way you described it as absolute immunity. why is that different and distinct here? >> well, the truth is we don't have a lot of information about the parameters of executive privilege because it hasn't been litigated very much. but one thing we do kno

robert mueller, the special counsel actually said the idea that michael cohen was provably untrue sos not just that things might be mistaken, he's sticking by something which the special counsel with an investigative team of 20 lawyers mostly democrats found was provably untrue. washington is filled with people who make a handsome living out of selling their supposed expertise. obviously is steel is one of them and he sticking by it because it's tedious to go back and retract and would rather keep on going. maria: i think it's more than that. let's not forget john durham is still working and john durham has already announced one indictment of michael sussman, so maybe christopher steel feels his best option is to just dig in as he waits the next move by the special counsel, john durham. hugo, we will continue to follow that story as we have for several years and it's great to see you this morning. thank you. >> thanks a lot. maria: quick break and then fired for being unvaccinated, a washington state patrol officers that he was asked to leave quote because i am dirty. hear his harsh

and we know reducing value is something donald trump does to avoid taxes because michael cohen testifiedoes this investigation come from. >> it came from the same place every other investigation surrounding donald trump, and it is whether or not he lies to one group for example lower his tax rate and said the value of the property is less than it actually is and turns around to the bank and getting a bigger loan and the issue is whether or not that amounts to illegal deception. i think mimi rocca's case is a very targeted case if the whole sweep of things. this is not as sweeping as the manhattan d a but it still involved potential illegal. trump is going after mimmy rocca and she was a critic on social media but elected by the voters of west chester to hold the office she's in now and she's exercising the powers an the duties of that office and it is yet another bon fire that trump's lawyers have to put out because he has decades financial shenanigans dancing around like skeletons had niz closet. >> let me look at what is being looked at. charlie, the times reports that the value of the

michael a. cohen is the publisher of the truth and consequences newsletter. a sports and culture writer for the "athletic." alonzo boden is a comedian. and curt is an adviser to the congressional campaign committee and contributor to both the "usa today" and "l.a. times." great to have all of you with us. i'm sorry to start with this, alonzo. golden showers, what do you make of trump bringing back a story that we all wish stayed buried for the sake of humanity? >> wow. is this one of those things where if you denied it, you admitted it? trump has a special kind of crazy that #knows what he might say or where he might go with it. so i would say in the trump world, this is on brand. this is on brand. and his supporters will be fine with it and, you know, there's nothing -- i think if there's one thing we've learned, there's nothing that trump can say or do that would be so outlandish or so ridiculous that his supporters won't say, you know, he's right. he's got a point. so why not. you denied golden showers but can we hear from the russian prostitutes? that's m

michael cohen has a felony on his record, spent time in prison for paying at the direction of president trump hush money to stormy daniels and another woman. i believe it's pretty well-known that president trump was individual 1 as described in the indictment. he couldn't be indicted because of department of justice policy, you don't indict a sitting president. he's no longer a sitting president. do you believe that not looking into indicting individuals 1 equally if not more guilty than michael cohen is not an abuse of equal protection under the law and an abrogation of the idea that the rule of law is -- >> so congressman, a very important element of the rule of law is the norm of the justice department, that we don't comment on whether we're investigating, what the status of investigations are, unless or until there's a public charge. that's important to protect everyone, whether it be a former president, an existing president, or a public official or a private individual. >> i will accept that, but i hope that you will look at it because i believe that he is equally if not more guil

michael baden, stand by. let's bring in mercedes cohen, a fox news legal analyst. mercedes, we've done these stories before. my question, do they have enough evidence to pin this on brian laundrie? you think if they did, they would give us more information about the exact cause of death, was it manual, was it done with a device. >> great insights by dr. baden. great questions by you, trace. the question is what the activity was after her death. there's so much suspicious activity done by brian laundrie. taking her credit card. if you're leaving someone in the middle of the woods, you're going to use their credit card? not saying anything, not saying when they would return to his family, calling the authorities saying my girlfriend is missing. i don't know where she went. all of this suspicious behavior after he left her side. that's going to be the circumstantial evidence that any district attorney is going to look at and say the cause of death, we now on the 27th that gabby petito was alive. we saw brian laundrie appears back in florida september 1. sometime between the 27th and the 1st, she's been murdere