with me now is former defense secretary william cohen.cretary, thank you so much for being with us. i want to start with what we are seeing or sign brazil over the weekend. my colleague asked the question, is election denialism now a she u.s. export? what do you think about that? >> i think it has been exploited. i think bolsonaro was looking at president trump as an example to follow. it may be that he sees him as an alter ego. the fact is that what he and trump both have done is to undercut the legitimacy of our institutions. and especially the right to vote. i think when you delegitimized the vote, saying unless i win, it is fraudulent, then what you are doing is undercutting the very promise and the basics of having a democracy. yeah. i think president trump, he is not the originator of this tactic. it's a tactic of totalitarians, authoritarian's, those who are seeking to destroy institutions and come in on a whitehorse and say i am here to rescue you. >> does it undercut u.s. diplomacy worldwide when the u.s. pushes the virtues of de

and with us now is william cohen, who served as defense secretary in the clinton administration.cretary, always a pleasure to see you. you see these missile strikes by russia in the last 24 hours, do you believe those are what do you think that russia would've done this anyway. >> clearly there's a national response, here i think they are looking for a excuse, -- to try to annihilate the ukrainian people. and ukraine is a sovereign country. so whether there's a direct connection, i believe there, is i don't think it makes much of a difference. because when they talk about escalating, though, we might provoke them an escalation, what's going on for the past year? they have escalating an escalating, and savaging ukrainian people. and then saying, don't try to defend, don't contribute to where their defense. -- so we have to take that into account, and then do what we can to defend the kind of people. >> look, remember, there's only one country that invaded another, it's russia than invaded ukraine here. we heard sam kiley reports that ukraine is obviously delighted, that the u.s. a

let's talk about this with william cohen, former republican senator from maine and defense secretaryn the clinton administration. thanks so much for joining us. let's start with the tank standoff. germany's defense minister said there's both good and bad reasons for giving the leopard two tanks that they are desperately asking for. why do you think germany is so hesitant here? >> well, i think part of it is political, around certainly emotional on the part of the germans. we don't give germany enough credit for what they have been doing and the amount they are contributing, both in materiel and equipment and now money. so i think anyone who is trying to divide germany and separate them out as being not a good ally, they are wrong. germany is a great ally. the problem is that they have got a history, and they have another issue, not only their history, but i don't think they want to be seen as being the country that's triggering any kind of escalation, and if there's going to be an escalation, they want all of us to be involved, and so i don't think it's unreasonable for them to say w

joining me now, former defense secretary, william cohen.ank you for joining me tonight. i read that you had an interesting opinion piece with your times, where, frankly, you remind the nation or maybe inform for the first time for some that the constitution does not actually require that a speaker of the house has to be a sitting member of the house of representatives. there does provide for an election in the constitution, but not that the member is a -- is a current member. who do you think should be looked at, and why look outside of the ranks of congress? >> i think we look outside under very extraordinary circumstances, where you have a party that is so split. we have a minority of the majority in the republicans dominating and dictating the terms of which speaker. i think the founders of this country, they had a very strong apprehensions but so-called political factions, or political parties. they thought that these parties would be the end and undoing of our democratic system, and that seems to be what is playing out in full view of

. >>> with us now is william cohen, who served as defense secretary in the clinton administration.te mr. secretary, always a pleasure to see you. you see these missile strikes by russia in the last 24 hours. do you believe those are response to the u.s. and nato decision to send tanks to ukraine? or do you think russia would have done this anyway? >> i think they would have done it anyway. but clearly there is an action and a response here. i think they were looking for excuse what they're going to do in any event. that is try and annihilate the ukrainian people and ukraine as a sovereign country. whether there's a direct connection or not, i suspect and believe there is, but i don't think it makes much of a difference because when they talk about escalating, we may provoke them in escalation. what's been going on for the past year? they have been escalating and escalating and savaging the ukrainian people and saying, don't try to defend them. don't contribute to their defense because it might make us mad, we'll do worse things. i think we have to take that into account and do what

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so, michael cohen whose trump's lawyer for a long time, persona non grata. william who is the most entire agenda for this term, now that they finally settled bravely anyway the chaos on the floor, he's just to go after biden, hunter biden or attack people, that set. there is no agenda for the american people. that's the shame of it, but that's why they'll go down in disgrace in this congress and will be able to recapture the house and get things moving again. >> one of your colleagues today suggested that he was skeptical that perhaps something had been planted here. do you think it's a plausible idea? >> gee, i don't know i have no idea. i have not heard any suggestion of that. i would not want to opine on something that someone maybe just thought up. that's basically how this new committee that they're forming is going to proceed this new weaponization committee, which we call the insurrection protection team. because what they set out to do is to obstruct, block any prosecutions for further investigation into what happened on january six. >> from my perspective,

goes on to describe, how trump appointed attorney william barr, personally intervened in the hush money investigation, later as well. quote, while cohen had pleaded guilty, our office continues to pursue investigations related campaign financing. and barr took over as attorney general in february 2019, six months after cohen had pleaded guilty bar not only tried to kill the ongoing investigations, but incredibly, suggested that michael cohen's conviction on campaign finance charges, could be retroactively reversed, far as some in the prosecutors leaving the hush money case, and late february. so this is one of the first in the party does when he becomes attorney general, he only becomes attorney general in february, before the end of that month, he's someone's lead prosecutor on the hush money case to quote challenge the basis of cohen's guilty plea as well as the reasoning behind pursuing some campaign finance charges against other individuals. the prosecutor was told to cease all investigative work on the campaign finance allegations until the office of legal counsel, a part of maine, justice determined whether there was legal basis

so, michael cohen whose trump's lawyer for a long time, persona non grata. william who is the most in vertebrae -- in trump. wow finally, couldn't take any. marney said, all of this is bs. they've turned on him. so, they're in a. called they demand absolute conformity and uniformity. i assume they're already trying to set herr up. further inevitable disappointment when he doesn't come back with a series of criminal charges that they want. of some grand felony or that. nature >> congressman jamie raskin, thank you for your time. >> thanks for having, me. chris >> coming, up what is a special counsel investigating misplace classified documents mean to the other -- trump coup. what does today's news mean specifically for one jacques math. next. math next and ask your doctor about biktarvy. biktarvy is a complete, one-pill, once-a-day treatment used for h-i-v in certain adults. it's not a cure, but with one small pill, biktarvy fights h-i-v to help you get to and stay undetectable. that's when the amount of virus is so low it cannot be measured by a lab test. research s

william burns connelly's arise, bob gate, berry posen, posting in foreign affairs, henry kissinger, john mearsheimer, the great, jonathan paul, noam chomsky. mister ritter, whom i respect the late stephen cohen, colonel douglas mcgregor and, and the grandaddy of them all. george kennan the expert, the author of containment, everybody since day one said, what are you doing? you know, i know you, i know, i'm sorry you could have put me on the list because i, but i will, i was saying it months before it happened that this is what we were going to get that in. and, you know, in, with the wisdom of youtube just took it all down, so there is no historical record that actually sent it. ok, keep it on without go to that scene. but, but, but here's what i'm saying. i'm looking at this just as a, almost as a doctor looks at a patient i'm looking at the pathology report to the laboratory. what are we talking about? and by the way, i've got to tell you this in here in my country. more people know about the various iterations of star wars galactic unions than they do nato. and fact when i, i have this with me. i know it sounds corny, but when any of my friends talked about this, is it here point to ukrai

william burns connelly's or right? bob gate, barry posen, posting in foreign affairs, henry kissinger, john mearsheimer, the great jonathan paul, noam chomsky. mister ritter, whom i respect the late stephen cohen, colonel douglas mcgregor and, and the grandaddy of them all. george kennan the, the expert, the author of containment, everybody since day one said, what are you doing? you know, i know you, i know, i'm sorry you could put me on the list because i was saying it months before it happened that this is what we were going to get in. and, you know, in, with the wisdom of youtube just took it all down. so there is historical record that actually senate, okay, keep it on without. go ahead, go to that, see? but, but here's what i'm saying. i'm looking at this just as a, almost as a doctor looks at a patient. i'm looking at the pathology report to the laboratory. what are we talking about? and by the way, i've had to tell you this in here in my country, more people know about the various iterations of star wars galactic unions than they do nato. and fact when i, i have this with me. i know it sounds corny, but when any of my friends talked about this, is it here point to ukraine roughly and y

cohen $130,000 for legal fees. >> yeah. >> happened to be the same number. >> exactly. >> caroline, always good to see you. senior writer, william k. rashbaum, thank you for your reporting. >>> two more officers relieved of duties. two additional officers were initially placed on leave the day after the traffic stop. one is confirmed to be officer preston hemphill. he was also part of the now defunct scorpion unit and used a taser on nichols. the police department would not answer questions yesterday about the senate officer. hemphill's lawyer confirmed video was on his body camera, and he was the third to arrive at the initial stop. but says the officer never went to the second scene where the beating took place. hemphill is cooperating with the investigation. the memphis fire department also fired more personnel as a result of the nichols case. two emts and a lieutenant, quote, violated numerous mfd policies and protocols. the fire department statement said the investigation concluded that nichols was only treated for the initial reason the emts were called, having been pepper sprayed, and not the numerous other injuries he su