people in richard cohen countries people generally behave better. what does that mean? does that mean being richard makes you a better country? traveled the world and i can tell you they're wonderful people everywhere. what makes people better is when they know that there's food on their table that there's fundamental security nobody's coming after them in the dark of night. children have a future. there's consistent reactions to that. using automation that's what -- many years ago had argued for. he said technology has already arrived or we can take care of our population. now it's her choice we don't do it. we used to go into grain in the ocean because we wanted to keep the prices of grain high. as opposed to saying if i give this to free to some part of the world who needed it could that reduce anxieties and negative behaviors plant the seed of a new society that could one day become a an economy a customer. my way of thinking is that our best bet is not the politicians. it is not self started messiahs, it's in science and technology. a lot of people working on scienc

people in richard cohen countries people generally behave better. what does that mean? does that mean being richard makes you a better country? traveled the world and i can tell you they're wonderful people everywhere. what makes people better is when they know that there's food on their table that there's fundamental security nobody's coming after them in the dark of night. children have a future. there's consistent reactions to that. using automation that's what -- many years ago had argued for. he said technology has already arrived or we can take care of our population. now it's her choice we don't do it. we used to go into grain in the ocean because we wanted to keep the prices of grain high. as opposed to saying if i give this to free to some part of the world who needed it could that reduce anxieties and negative behaviors plant the seed of a new society that could one day become a an economy a customer. my way of thinking is that our best bet is not the politicians. it is not self started messiahs, it's in science and technology. a lot of people working on scienc

then you have a richard cohen writing, trump will exit the summit a failure because he says north korea arsenal is like saudi arabia without oil. why do we think kim jong-un is ever going to give up nukes? >> that's a good question. thank you for reminding us in your interview with the senator that this is a tyrant. he murdered his own people. there's no freedom in north korea. his father, as you said, starved to death tens of thousands of his own people. this is not a good person. we shouldn't normalize him. i do worry a little bit that moon -- i don't want him to be -- >> moon, meaning the president of south korea, he's too anxious. >> or any american politicians. this is a bad guy. the only reason -- this is one of the poorest countries in the world. the only reason they matter is because they have a nuclear weapon. if trump, with leaders of south korea, can disarm north korea, that will be a huge bonus for trump. i think it's a huge advance for freedom and security. >> as president trump himself will tell you. it was something else last night. me! >> the crowd was screaming nobel, c

. >> commissioner richards: building permitted, etcetera. mr. cohen said, we can't control everything. some stuff has to be sorted out by the private sector. the sb 35, your understanding it's based on entitled and building permits issued. >> permits, yeah. >> commissioner richards: and i think that's a key distinction. so if it's a seven year period, and you're halfway through it, we would expect it should be at 50%, right? >> yeah, almost. >> commissioner richards: so as i look down here, we're at 18% on not at moderate, but if you look at very moderate and low income, we're at 50%. we don't see projects that come that are totally moderate income. that's just the weird thing about it is -- skbl yeah. it's mostly inclusionary richard richar. >> commissioner richards: so those were inclusionary units on low income projects. >> and also, we consider adu's that are affordable by design, and they're not income restricted, so we put those under moderate because we believe that that's where, you know, those are the -- the population's -- >> commissioner ri

michael cohen, let's look at the vote totals in 1968. richardixon getting 301 compared to 191 for then vice president humphrey. governor george wallace obtaining 46. the popular vote was closer. why did richard nixon win? mr. cohen: why did nixon win? that is a good question. george wallace obtaining 46. the i would say a couple of factors. i think primarily the sense of dysfunction in the country. i think a desire for americans to, to quote a phrase, return to normalcy. 68 is hard to understand it now. but how just dysfunctional the country was and how divided it was, the sense the country was coming apart at the seems, not only had the riots after the king assassinations, and kennedy but fighting a war in vietnam in a a good portion of the country that po opposed. so i think that's a big factor for nixon. i think also another important factor was humphrey's inability, for johnson. you just read the numbers, but i have the numbers in my book but a couple, 10,000 votes and humphrey wins. i think another week and humphrey could have pulled the el

. >> commissioner richards: building permitted, etcetera. mr. cohen said, we can't control everything. some stuff has to be sorted out by the private sector. the sb 35, your understanding it's based on entitled and building permits issued. >> permits, yeah. >> commissioner richards: and i think that's a key distinction. so if it's a seven year period, and you're halfway through it, we would expect it should be at 50%, right? >> yeah, almost. >> commissioner richards: so as i look down here, we're at 18% on not at moderate, but if you look at very moderate and low income, we're at 50%. we don't see projects that come that are totally moderate income. that's just therd

circle on and off record the seems to believe there's some kind of criminal conduct for cohen to spill about. richard blumenthal is a member of the senate judiciary committee. have you noticed that too? there's this question of will he flip? there's very little of, well, there's nothing to flip on. >> well, i can tell you as a former prosecutor, i've seen a lot of potential witnesses say they are going to be completely loyal, that they know nothing, and michael cohen may be saying that now, and the president's allies may be hoping or counting on him standing firm. but there is nobody who knows more about donald trump than michael cohen. and he has the means and motive and opportunity to cooperate. >> there are a lot of people -- one thing the white house has done quite effectively is they've basically kind of put out this idea that there's a russia investigation, and if there's, quote, no collusion, which obviously the white house insists there isn't, that anything else that happens that gets investigated outside of this sort of narrow question of did the president and vladimir putin, you know, talk

. >> all right, so there now is more imagery of michael cohen on the highway and all that. richards only kind of make it worse and for trump but then simply make it better for stormy daniels team? >> the president is so unprepared and so unprofessional, when they hit him with that question, he was caught off guard. he didn't mean to answer that question. but he couldn't help himself. >> that's right. >> so he flex, he said no, speak to my attorney. he didn't want to answer that. they told him, never answer this question. like don't think of the color red. he just can't help himself. so he did it. >> so it should have been a "no comment" but perhaps the president is thinking by saying i didn't know is not giving any information. but you say just the opposite, he just did. >> right, he said he didn't know about the payment to her, which means avenatti's right if he didn't know about the payment, he didn't know about the agreement, he didn't know about the provisions in the agreement, the representations in the agreement, the purpose of the agreement. if he didn't know about any of th

richard, you first. the judge here is deciding if cohen's team will win its fight to keep materials the fbi seized out ofo you expect that he might win that battle? >> i think michael cohen's in a heap of trouble here, fred. i mean, really serious trouble. to get warrants to break into his house and his hotel and his office and to retrieve -- they have stuff on him, fred. this is not a fly by night operation. this is the southern district of new york. the judge they're before, i've had experienced with her. she basically broke a gavel when i kept making an issue on the record, she told me to shut up basically and i wouldn't. she's a no nonsense judge. harvard law student. and very, very tough and no nonsense, fred. and monday, if michael cohen comes in there and, you know, tries to play cute with answers or this and that, she'll hold him in concept. she'll incarcerate him on monday. she's no nonsense. >> we'll see. >> the issue is attorney/client privilege covering these records and was michael cohen really an attorney? that's the issue, fred. it looks like he was not an attorney through the past few yea

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cohen is now under criminal investigation. or i want to take this story now to washington our correspondent claire richards is standing by good evening to you clear well what a day why has the d.n.c. decided to do this now. high brand that's why this is happening as an aside to the investigation being carried out by robert muller into whether there was collusion between the trunk campaign and russia and slaying the twenty sixteen election the democrats now are hoping that this lawsuit could give them the opportunity to see more facts come forward through a separate legal channel aside from the miller probe that this could open a new avenue for information to come out so it's a new a legal assault on trump's team of course has called the miller investigation a witch hunt and they're hoping to see some new facts come forward in this process this is a wall super you sued basically the u.s. president and you allege a conspiracy i mean has this been done before is there any precedent. i think it's fair to say that we have not seen the d.n.c. do anything like this we of course saw the chair tom per say in a statement that this cons

. >> thank you, supervisor cohen, f for calling this hearing. i'm father richard smith, and i want to speak on behalf of no justice, no deal campaign. this campaign is in response to the recent killing that you heard in jesus rodolfo delgado, for which not a single officer has not yet held accountable. his story is not extraneous to these contract negotiations. his death came in a reckless out of control barrage of 99 ballo ballots by ten officers. instead of deescalating an already tense situation the officers simply made it worse by hurling threats at odolfo when he was no doubt out of his mind. all of this killing has left us traumatized at the killing of yet another latino, but where are the reforms? where are the reforms that we've been repeatedly promised? we keep getting reassurances that these nightmares will stop happening. where are the reforms? 99 bullets they fired at that young man. if you go to the site where you killed him, you can see the nearby homes with shattered window do windows, bullets through the walls of those homes. there was a young woma

personal attorney, richard nixon, ended up going to jail, parallels here with michael cohen? >> him and also the tax attorney for president nixon, who helped him fudge up some tax claims that were not justified also went to jail. so yes, these are people who were advising in a personal capaci capacity. mr. comback's crime was related to hush money and not legal representation, so that's a slight difference. although again cohen is involved in hush money. in terms of the search warrant, a judge approved it. it wasn't just a decision by the top of the department of justice, by the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, it was approved by a judge, a showing of probable cause had to be made, and as danny said, in a case involving the president or the president's lawyer, a prosecutor is going to take extra precautions before returning an indictment in watergate, we believed we had to have much more evidence than just probable cause. in order to ever get a conviction. and we wouldn't have returned an indictment if we weren't assured we thought we had a very high proba

david nelson, adriana cohen, syndicated columnist for the boston herald and also fox news contributor richardler. adriana, let me go to you on this. we should also make sure folks know this inspector general was appointed by president obama. this is not a partisan issue, and it's a damning report. >> yeah, it certainly is. and, you know, i trust the inspector general. for one, if he wasn't politically neutral, he would never have released the peter strzok and lisa page damning text, so i trust him. he's absolutely bipartisan. and let's look where we are today. andrew mccabe lied not once, but four timed. i mean, this guy should be facing a grand jury. and also james comey. james comey, under oath, told congress that he didn't make the decision to not prosecute hillary clinton until after the fbi interviewed her? but then senator chuck grassley and lindsey graham found that he wrote, james comey wrote an exoneration letter in the fbi clearing hillary clinton months before. so it looks very strong like he should be facing perjury charges as well. charles: right. >> this inspector general report

richard bend, prosecutor. what was your reaction when you heard about the raids on michael cohen's apartment, his home, his officeoom, and then you just heard the president's blistering response. >> it's a response that seems more appropriate to the king of france who said the state is me. this is not an attack on the united states, this is the legal process. yes, it was an aggressive act, and i suspect that when the dust settles, the justification for the search warrant will become more clear. but this is nothing like how the president has described it. this is our legal system working. >> he says it's a witch hunt, it's a disgrace, it's an attack on the united states. why do you think mueller would refer at least part of the investigation to michael cohen, the president's lawyer, to the office of the u.s. attorney in new york? >> you know, all this stormy stuff started with a suspicious transaction report by the bank. after all, this was a shell company that cohen used to make this payment. >> the $130,000. >> very suspicious looking. so he would have had to give some explanation for it, and if that explanation

. >>> up next, michael cohen has got his own client rattled and if trump says he's done nothing wrong, why are they talking about flipping? the one and only richard painter is here next. jessica drake just broke her silence for the very first time on the beat. >>> and my sit down with congressman joe kennedy, from nepotism in the white house to working with paul ryan, that's up next on the beat. ♪ gas, bloating, constipation and diarrhea can start in the colon and may be signs of an imbalance of good bacteria. only phillips' colon health has this unique combination of probiotics. it helps replenish good bacteria. get four-in-one symptom defense. they feel that they have to drink patients that i see that complain about dry mouth a lot of water. medications seem to be the number one cause for dry mouth. dry mouth can cause increased cavities, bad breath, oral irritation. i like to recommend biotene. biotene has a full array of products that replenishes the moisture in your mouth. biotene definitely works. it makes patients so much happier. [heartbeat] >>> the president's made it clear that he has nothing to add. >> donald trump and his allies keep

were also seeking any communications between trump and cohen involving the "access hollywood" tape, an nbcuniversal program. joining me now is richard blumenthal of connecticut, peter baker from "the new york times" and ashley parker, a white house reporter with the "washington post." senator, i want to ask you about the president and your concerns about his state of mind. he has a lawyer's office now with -- who can imagine what's coming out of that gates of hell. everything involved, the women have made complaints against him. he's had legal actioning with, everything to do with "access hollywood." apparently the connection cohen had with his russian dealings and paying back the russians it looks like cohen's getting squeezed and once again, trump is the target. >> let's understand first the magnitude of this in effect nuclear strike on michael cohen. it's the equivalent of a nuclear strike with multiple warheads against him. and now it the link possibly to the president in those conversations that may have occurred. there had to be evidence of a crime. and the danger of destruction of that evidence by michael cohen. in other word

richard engel. he at the same time is distracted by what's happening in new york with michael cohen, distracted by what's happening in his justice department. how does that play into what's going to unfold here today? you've got to imagine the president staying closely connected to the drama unfolding back home? >> yeah. he's at mar-a-lago, which is sort of his playground. he likes to hang out and mingle with his friends and paying club members. he's going to be distracted, i'm sure. i know the japanese want his undivided attention but president trump is so fixated on what's going on in new york with michael cohen, on the comey book. remember, on friday when he was making that final decision last week to authorize the military strike in syria, he was focused on comey and he was helping sarah sanders figure out how to attack comey in the press briefing and tweeting about comey. he's really focused on these kind of shiny objects in the media. the question later today is whether he can focus entirely on foreign policy and some of the challenges facing the country. >> ambassador hill, that might actually be

cohen has been fiercely loyal to president trump. at what point does legal jeopardy outweigh loyalty. cnn analyst, former water special prosecutor. richard good to see you. the president doesn't think he will flip to save himself. what factors might determine that? >> it is odd to hear the president of the united states sounding like tony soprano talking about his lawyer flipping. whether it asked to give testimony, whether mr. cohen will assert a 5th amendment privilege. which is his right to do or give testimony truthfully. not a question if he will make up anything to harm president trump. that's just one more bizarre thing added to the mix. >> president trump's former divorce lawyer said the president called him for advise. jay goldberg warned the president that michael cohen can end up cooperating. his fear is that he might lie to prosecutors, listen. >> i didn't accept the notion of flip, flip means to me, that when faced with the potential of spending time in jail, he will tell the truth. i don't think that's what the president was concerned about. and that's not what i'm concerned about. >> so richard, you sort of say this idea o

fbi raid saw communications between michael cohen and donald trump about the access hollywood tape with its lewd comments about women. house speaker richard bloomingthal of the the judiciary committee. our kor spon decorrespondents a specialists are standing by. evan, first to you. why is it significant that agents were looking for information involving that access hollywood tape. >> this is very significant. this is the first time that we're hearing the specific reference to donald trump in any search warrant and what is in investigation. one being carried out by the u.s. attorney. sources who talk to cnn the agents were specifically looking for communications between donald trump and his personal attorney michael cohen regarding this access hollywood tape which came out just before the 2016 election. this is subject of investigat n investigation. in addition to the access hollywood tape it dez it involves wire fraud and bank fraud. the campaign and the candidate were trying to suppress, trying to keep out of the public eye right before the election again. all of this significant because this is now basically the communications we have o

through -- we were talking earlier and i think richard painter who was the ethics officer in the bush white house. had a tweet out, described her as a michael cohen-like figure in vladimir putin's orbit, which is a good parallel to draw for american audiences. she was a person who solved potential political problems or engaged in some of the dark arts of their -- russia's domestic politics on behalf of putin. talk about the significance of this revelation that she has now, i think after testifying before the senate judiciary committee, that she was neither of these things, she was not tied to the kremlin and she was not working on behalf of the russian government. she now when confronted with e-mails that proved just that, she has now recanted from sworn testimony to the senate judiciary committee. >> right. and i think that the e-mails she was confronted with corroborate what we've known all along, which is that she was very, very close to the russian prosecutor, the russian prosecutor general. if anyone is going to be the direct link to putin, it's going to be chaika and he kind of made reversing the magnitsky act which of course has to do with

richard blumenthal, of course, from connecticut. just a short time ago calling today's news seismic. anyway, the raid of michael cohen's the mueller investigation just turned up the heat on donald trump, don't you think? we already know that cohen has been in mueller's crosshairs just last week mcclatchy reported mueller's investigators have been tracking down partners particularly interested in interactions with michael koby. trump had a warning for mueller, stay away from family and business. >> mueller was looking at your finances, your family's finances unrelated to russia. that a red line? >> wouldn't that be a breach of what his actual charge is? >> i would say yes. >> earlier this evening, president trump was asked again if he would fire mueller. let's watch. >> why don't i just fire mueller? well, i think it's a disgrace what's going on. we'll see what happens. but i think it's really a sad situation when you look at what happened. and many people have said you should fire him. again, they found nothing. and in finding nothing, that's a big statement. if you know the person whose in charge of the investigation,

neither richard nixon's attorney or bill clinton's legal counsel in the starr investigation faced similar treatment from investigators. what does it tell you that monday's fbi raid on michael cohen's office, home and hotel room is the first search of a president's personal lawyer in modern history? >> tells you about the kind of person that robert mueller is. when eric holder in an interview said no, he knows mueller well and he's sure he will get something on trump, he does know mueller. in fact, though he was appointed by bush, mueller not only finished serving his term as fbi director under obama and eric holder, but they extended him two years. i don't know of anybody else that was as crushed as i was. i knew how much damage this man did to the fbi. i submit he did more damage to the fbi than all the other fbi directors put together since j. edgar hoover. he's been a disaster. while he was fbi director, william jefferson was being investigated. i read the affidavit in support of the search warrant that they got into bust into a congressional office. unprecedented in over 200 years the way you handle a conflict of interest with a congressional privilege being even higher than a

richard blumenthal, thank you for joining me. i turn to "vanity fair's" emily jane fox, an analyst. she just got off the phone with michael cohenwhat can you tell us? >> i got off the phone with michael cohen and he was just describing a little bit more about the raid yesterday at his hotel. he said there was no knocking down of the doors, that about 12 agents did come to the door to his hotel at about 7:30 in the morning so he wasn't woken up very early in the morning, he said the agents were incredibly respectful of his property and his family that they were polite and courteous and respect. did he say anything about russia or stormy daniels? . he did not comment. i asked him if he had spoken to the president since yesterday and he said he did not speak to him but he was not expecting to hear from him since yesterday he did however watch the president's comments and he thought that he was ashamed that the first question the media asked was about michael cohen. >> it's interesting to get his perspective. we wanted to get that on air. emily jane fox, thank you for calling in. i'll fit in a break then something very special. com

richard blumenthal called the raids a seismic event. probably one of the most significant moments in the investigation. how big is this potentially? >> it's extraordinary because michael cohen as we all know was donald trump's personal attorney and confidant. we also know michael cohen acted in many ways as more than an attorney for donald trump. he also acted as what many will call a fixer. he went around and became sort of a strong arm and spoke to people and told them, you know, don't write that article, don't do this on behalf of donald trump. this is extraordinary because as you know, an attorney and their client have privileged communications. now -- >> so let's go to what the president said. attorney/client privilege is dead. under what circumstances could that not apply? >> this is the something when it comes to privileges. privileges are not absolute. an attorney/client privilege cannot be waved. there are many instances when it does not apply. for example, if an attorney is not acting within the scope or purview for the client at that time, then arguably documents or anything obtained with respect to that are not attorney/client prive. with the stormy daniels case

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cohen. caller: i was interested, in what way were your father's views similar to his brother john toward richardon, and it always with a different? guest: that is a good question. when richard nixon and my uncle john kennedy work in the senate together, they got along. republican andas democrat. there is not the same animosity that we had between parties in the 1950's as we do now. that is in large part because they both fought in world war ii. there was a respect for people who work in the trenches together, who put their lives on the line. you may disagree on policy, but when you shared was the threat of death. that always created a kind of bond. my father ran the campaign against nixon. i don't think they respected him during the campaign as much, clearly. when you run against someone, it can be rather talk and difficult -- tough and difficult. president kennedy changed his relation toward the exit during nexen during -- tow during the 1960 campaign. caller: the reason i called was came out with a collection of speeches by your father. i always found the scots bluff be important. he thought i

cohen. virginia is where our next caller is coming from. caller: my name is susan. i am calling with a comment. i wanted to say hi to kathleen. i am richard mackey's niece. guest: thank you. caller: so good to see you, kathleen. you and your family have been much on my heart. my husband was a high school senior in oakland, maryland, in 1968. last night, he was showing the picture, the so long bobby picture to my daughter elizabeth last night and telling her about the history of that time. so i wanted to say hello and tell you that i miss you and am glad to hear that you celebrated your mother's 90th birthday. hope to see you back in this area sometime soon. my brother, andy, sends his love as well. guest: thank you very much. that's very nice, susan. host: the u.s. information agency put together this documentary looking at the 1968 democratic primary. here's the next are. >> and now, mccarthy was facing competition from senator robert kennedy. >> the decisions that are made by this convention today. >> there were other unexpected events. >> with our hope and the world's hope for peace in the balance every day. >> he was about to tell a n

crime cohen is being investigated for but in order for the search warrants to be issued, a federal judge would have had to -- the searches would provide evidence of it. tonight, democratic senator richard blumenthal called this a game changer in the russia investigation. >> it's probably one of the most significant, most seismic events in the trump-russia investigation. this is now an investigation that has a life of its own. it raises the stakes for the president. >> in a number of legal experts including alan dershowitz tonight on fox news says that they believe this is an effort by robert mueller to try to get michael cohen to turn on president trump, that we should note, michael cohen has mentioned repeatedly he would take a bullet for the president. shannon? >> shannon: garrett tenney, thank you very much. president trump has said he wants u.s. troops to withdraw from syria soon. but he's now faced with how to respond to a vicious chemical weapons attack that has left dozens of syrian civilians dead and hundreds more injured. kristin fisher is tracking all the new details and what we are being told is keeping all options on the table at the white house. >> that's right, shannon. p

cohen knows or may have records of. and you know, what we saw tonight, rachel, that was something we have not seen from a president. to go back to richardon during watergate, he was angry at archibald cox but he didn't in public say this is a bad man, he is surrounded by democrats. in private nixon was irritated by the fax that cox had worked for john f. kennedy and had democrats on his staff. but he didn't try to do the thing that the president did today. it didn't really sound like a president. it sounded to me as i was listening as if a martian came and heard donald trump speaking it sounded like an angry political boss in some city machine going against the prosecutor. >> we just heard from barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney from michigan, she's an even keeled speaker. i asked her for her reaction to the process that the president might take action against rod rosenstein, jeff sessions, robert mueller, some other thing he might try to do in order to shut this down, she described that as potentially disastrous for the rule of law and also something that would have politically disastrous consequences. i don't know how to assess wha

likely it is that cohen will flip, you look at -- this white house is not one that has loyalty in great reserves. >> let me put that up. michael flynn, george papadopoulos, rick gates, richard panetta, alex van der swan, they have all flipped. they are now cooperating witnesses in the mueller probe. >> in particular, mike flynn, donald trump seemed to really feel he had a special friendship and affinity, and they really had become tight on the campaign trail. and flynn flipped. so, if mike flynn will flip, i think -- >> let me give robert costa the last word on this. he's going to leave us after this. what is your sense, sort of the volume or the frequency of pardon conversations in jenna round the libby pardon, around the prospect of potentially pardoning anyone else who may be a subject in this investigation? >> you have to be careful from reading too much into these things because my reporting shows that the conversations, at least that i know of, that my sources have told me about, have been limited to the scooter libby part and send a signal to some people. that was certainly the hope from some allies of president trump who have spoken with the post. at the same time,

richard herman today, joey jackson. >> glad to be pinch hitting. >> excellent. >> yeah. >> good to see you both. >> and you, fredricka. >> so, avery, you first. i mean, what are the potential implications for michael cohenes have gotten rather complicated. >> well, they have gotten complicated, fredricka, and actually, the showdown 24 hours ago in a federal courtroom in los angeles was really dramatic for the wrong reasons. we heard this sort of overcaffeinated statement by the lawyer for stormy daniels, but at the end of the day, and thank goodness for federal judges, judge james, the federal judge said you know what, you want a continuance for 90 days but how do you know, he asked michael cohen lawyer that there's going to be an indictment in 90 days and the response was, well, stormy daniels' lawyer said so. that didn't work with the federal judge. the judge says, give me a statement, give me an affidavit, and then we will consider whether or not we continue it and you know what, fredricka? it will be continued. >> okay. so joey, what is the strategy behind michael avenatti doing, saying something like that? is that just simply to rattle the other side? >> fighting power with power. now, let me just

richard, i'm sorry, but that did strike me as quite a stunner. >> if i can, congress made reference to sheryl mills, hillary clinton's lawyer. donald trump who said on air force one, call my lawyer, michael cohen. famously said during the campaign, if you take the fifth, it's because your guilty. that's what mob people do. mills never took the fifth nobody in the clintons took the fifth other than the one guy -- >> laura: you shouldn't have to take the fifth. they gave her immunity. >> they could have given anybody they wanted -- >> laura: why did they give her immunity? >> the fact of the matter is, the suggestion there's a comparison between the two. carter page is one of five foreign policy advisers that donald trump named and the fbi -- he was a foreign agent. excuse me. that is nothing like what we're talking about. donald trump went into the oval office and gave russians secrets about the israelis being embedded and ways in which the islamic terrorists -- >> laura: we're talking about the former fbi director that is on this network tonight that made comments that were -- a run of the middle pundit on any cable network would know the answers to, which i found unbelievable. i want to play

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attorney's raid of michael cohen's home office, and hotel room where he's been living has stirred more fear and loathing inside white house offices than in any time since president richardtled watergate prosecutors in the summer of 1973. now even trump's most steadfast allies are quietly admitting that the southern district of new york's investigation poses an existential threat to his future both politically and legally. trump allies are telling the president his fixer could flip for the feds just like michael flynn, rick gates, and george papadopoulos. in washington and across the country, republicans are sensing the president is a wounded political figure leading them to withhold their future support.g ivana trump said. it reflects what i've heard from people close to donald trump and have been very close to donald trump for quite some time. that is first of all he's turning 72 i think soon. he's not having a good time in the white house. yes, he loves the trappings but he loves money more. he wasn't expecting to win this thing. he and the family were just as shocked as the rest of the country when he defeated hillary clinton. he's -- it's -- he muses openly in the p