be able to put the lie to him, and but for lanny davis and rudy giuliani, he wouldn't have had this tape go out there that corroborated him enough that these deals were going on paying off women for favors. and that just killed him. and he had a significant choice, and i think lanny signed up because he was convinced this guy would now see the light and tell the truth. and he could be the most -- he could be the most explosive thing that's happened. it's out of washington. it's in new york. do what you want to mueller, this guy can take down the president. >> i'm not a lawyer, i know you are, i know you're out of time, but i watch an extraordinary amount of "law & order" with that, i will tell you when you give the right information, you should get something in return. it's not quid pro quo, but that's the way the das work. >> and "law & order" is just

lanny davis, core issue ises. suggests cohen may have helped answer questions about collusion itself. why didn't mueller do more to protect cohen from the wrath of the new york feds? >> so of all things what you just read is the most important and the biggest question. compare the statements what bob mueller gave to michael cohen. michael cohen, seven meetings and 70 hours he voluntarily cooperated. and yet the southern district of new york with a tax charge, a false statement this is app unintentional false statement when home equity loan that he was charged criminally about had 10 times the equity compared to the loan. which is the only thing the banks care about. and of course the campaign finance violation which was donald trump directing, this is the finding of the prosecutors, directing his lawyer to pay hush money to corrupt -- >>> now that was lanny davis's view in our conversation. the prosecutors would stress as they did with flinn, when anyone pleads guilty they own the charge. davis counters by suggest

and just to piggyback on lanny davis' comments. i agree with what mimi said earlier with you that i don't believe that lanny davis fully understands the cooperation process, but guy petrullo absolutely does. he made a comment in court today and he made several comments critical of the southern district process and at one point he said facetiously about the cooperation process that the southern district uses that it has been given to us by the minor gods and woe to those who fail to follow the scriptures and so he was quite harsh in what he said, and he later said that he thought that it was notable that a sibling office of the department of justice, and meaning the special counsel's office and he called it curious that they were vouching for his cooperation, and he said that it is fundamentally unfair to put forth hypothetical situations where michael cohen was not being forth coming without specifying what he wasn't forth coming about. and so it is not just lanny davis who is taking issue with the southern district, but it is also

joining us on the phone is michael cohen's attorney lanny davis. lanny, good to have you here. i want to read -- >> hello, ali. >> michael cohen, former attorney to donald trump, continues to tell the truth about donald trump's misconduct over the years. at the appropriate time after mr. mueller issues the final report i look forward to assisting michael to state publicly all he knows about mr. trump and that includes any appropriate congressional committees interested in the search for truth and the difference between facts and lies. mr. trump's repeated lies cannot contradict stubborn facts. tell me what else you can about what that means because that sounds ominous and another chapter coming here. >> for sure you can read mr. mueller's report, who took a much different view of the word cooperation than the southern district of new york. and mr. mueller credited mr. cohen with addressing after 70 hours in 7 meetings with the office of special counsel. two very important words that mr. mueller used. core issues involved in his investigation. when mr. mueller is done explaining

is one of them, with lanny davis to respond. and a former executive with the "national enquirer" also here. should be interesting. and later, the man trump just picked to run the white house, he called donald trump a "terrible human being." we have a report on why trump's hiring process looks to be getting desperate. let's get right into the top story tonight. these investigations bearing down on president trump, with new indictments today, as well as a new report on russian interference and some bizarre denials from donald trump's lawyers. now, everything depends on how you count, but let's start here. how many investigations does donald trump face right now? 17 into his links to russia, according to a account from wired magazine. and consider just how unusual this is tonight. my colleague, rachel maddow, put this situation quite well by noting it doesn't matter how old you are, you haven't seen anything like this. >> i mean, i don't know who you know or how old they are, but nobody else has ever lived through the american pres

and belittling him. >> while cohen sought redemption in the public eye, his lawyer, lanny davis, was ready for a fight, he turned to cnn to make a stunning revelation. >> welcome to primetime. we have one of the michael cohen tapes. >> and donald trump heard one of the most alarming sounds a president can ever hear -- his own voice in a secretly recorded conversation. >> and i've spoken to allen weiselberg about how to set the whole thing up. with -- >> so what are we going to pay for this? >> yes. >> that recording appears to confirm that donald trump was in the loop about that september 2016 plan to use ami to pay off karen mcdougal. >> so i'm all over that. and i've spoke to allen about it. when it comes time for the financing, which will be -- >> listen what financing? >> we'll have to pay him something. >> pay with cash. >> no, no, no. >> only michael cohen and donald trump know the entire substance of what they were talking about. but it's credible to believe that this was absolutely about hush money. >> lanny davis appeared on cnn soon after the tape's release to argue that do

let's see if lanny davis has answers for us. we're talking to him live. with friends like those who wouldn't be worried about impeachment? our new reporting on what the president is saying privately. spoiler alert, it's not the same as what he's saying publicly. >>> on capitol hill, nancy pelosi is saying she's the one who knows the real art of the deal. what she did to win over dissident democrats. her challenger last time, tim ryan, will join me to talk about his 180. >>> alleged foreign agent maria butina in court to plead guilty, but to what? we have a team out this morning. first our new msnbc reporting, donald trump telling those close to him that he is alarmed by the possibility of impeachment as the seriousness of what's been going down starts to sink in. an ally of the president is telling nbc news, quote, the entire question of whether he committed an impeachable offense hinges on david pecker and alan weisenberg, both cooperating witnesses. who are those guys? david pecker publishes the nation nationalenquirer. they have admitted to buying the

but lanny, i begin with you, because we used to talk about white house in crisis. you were in a hot one. i bet nights like tonight make that look like kindergarten. your thoughts and is the president handling this right? >> well, i don't want to insult eleanor, but she was there when i was there and this would be unknown. we wouldn't even call this a crisis. this is a meltdown. you lose your secretary of defense, your chief of staff, you shut down the government and i just have to say one word about when i decided to work for michael cohen when he said, he never imagined, this is a direct quote, that donald trump would ever become president. as soon as he became president, he started to fear for his children and his country. this is what i believe mr. cohen is referring to. as a reckless mentally unstable president of the united states who cozies up to putin and seems to be betraying the national interests. >> colonel jacobs, walk us through what it means when you lose two generals and chief of staff and now in defense secretary as i was reading and i have it here

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lanny davis who, until today, was a lawyer associated with michael cohen, has left the legal team but continues to speak with mr. cohen. i imagine will be involved as a spokesman role going forward, perhaps? >> you can see by my gray hair, i'm an adviser and a friend. >> lanny davis, thank you for coming in. much nor to come. stay with us. i'm snow. and just like you, the further into winter we go, the heavier i get. and while your pants struggle to support the heavier you, your roof struggles to support the heavier me. [laughter] whoo. [crash] and your cut-rate insurance might not pay for this. so get allstate, you could save money and be better protected from mayhem like me. mayhem is everywhere. so get an allstate agent. are you in good hands? our because of smoking.ital. but we still had to have a cigarette. had to. but then, we were like. what are we doing? the nicodermcq patch helps prevent your urge to smoke all day. nicodermcq. you know why, we know how. >>> joining us now is someone not just in the courtroom today as michael cohen was being sentenced, but who has been coverin

joining us now is his former attorney, lanny davis. who now because of the sentencing is no longer serving as attorney but as a friend of the spokesperson and counselor. the president tweeted this morning about your former clie client, remember michael cohen only became a rat after the fbi did something that was absolutely unthinkable and unheard of they broke into an attorney's office. what is your response to that? >> this is a tough law enforc enforcement officer in our system of government calling somebody who decides to tell the government the truth, a rat. that's language of a mobster not of a president but michael cohen took ownership and personal responsibility for lying and he's going to jail as consequence, he authorized me several times to say, he wouldn't take a pardon from donald trump if it was handed to him. so now -- >> brennan: never discussed? >> never. but he announced ahead of time, wouldn't take it even if it was handed to him. and let's remember that michael cohen has corroborating evidence for everything he said.

. >> lanny davis saying he's no longer the lawyer. he will be a kplcommunications adviser. putting out the likelihood that cohen will speak after the mueller investigation is complete. the possibility he would be willing to testify before congressional committees. in terms of russia investigation, the trump presidency, the role of michael cohen going forward, how do you see it? >> i think we will have to see what he says moving forward. aside from the fact that the developments today are really extraordinary. we have to take a moment to step back and say the personal attorney of the united states is going to prison for three years for doing in part for helping to direct a payment that was in violation of campaign finance laws at the direction of the president of the united states. you have to remember that there are several other investigations that are close to the president ongoing and those investigations michael cohen very likely has key information that can aid them. he's already aided robert mueller in part which helped knock off maybe about a year of prison sentence

lanny davis is communications adviser to michael cohen. he's one of cohen's attorneys. he's here for his first network television interview since cohen's sentencing. good morning. the prosecutors in this case said cohen elected not to pursue more fulsome cooperation. what else does he know about president trump he is not telling? >> i don't know the lawyer, mr. cohen never shared that information with me and neither did michael. i know he wanted to come in and talk to prosecutors in southern distri district. they waited until the guilty plea and i don't know why but i know he fully cooperated with mr. mueller who complimented him and gave him full credit for that. >> lanny, part of his sentence is two months for lying to congress, which we heard from the mueller team. when you were here in august, you were asked if he was telling before congress.e testified you said yes. so was your client not being forth right with you or were you not being forthright with us? >> i think the testimony that i was referring to was on another subject than the one about trump tower which i

lanny davis said "i don't know." if you saying that, that means he didn't tell him it was illegal. the other thing that undermines the case a lot, i bet president trump has done this before. long before he was running for office. to say it was a campaign contribution -- if he has done it before in the past, that undermines that case. all that said, obviously, it's very yucky. it's not a great thing. he lied about it, the president, it seems. but that doesn't become a felony or whatever it is that they are ramping up to. >> lisa: to your point, the former chairman or commissioner bradley smith has previously said that he didn't necessarily think this was criminal. to your point, president trump could have been doing this to protect his business, protect his marriage. for other reasons outside the campaign. as president trump tweeted, "michael cohen was my attorney. he supposed to know the law." fair. i think on the legal side of this it sort of murky how much liability president trump has, and how much exposure he has on the legal front to read my understanding is that there is a hi

i talked to lanny davis who was his attorney during the case. one of his attorneys during the case that was just adjudicated in the southern district of new york and now is serving as an adviser to michael cohen. he's saying the former fixer as you describe it, to the president, keep in mind, there aren't a whole lot of people on this planet who are closer to the president than michael cohen for several years now. that michael cohen may do something just, thought incredible a year ago, months ago, anderson, he may go testify publicly up on capitol hill when the democrats take control of the house. lanny davis is saying whichever committee decides it wants to hear from michael cohen, basically at this point michael cohen is open to the invitation. unlike we've seen throughout much of the investigation, anderson, you have a lot of hearings held behind closed doors and waiting on transcripts or leaks to come out of capitol hill to find out what exactly happened, it seems like cohen may be willing to do this in front of the cameras which will be a k

i talked to lanny davis who was his attorney during the case. one of his attorneys during the case that was just adjudicated in the southern district of new york and now is serving as an adviser to mike bchael cohen. he's saying the former fixer as you describe it to the president, keep in mind, there aren't a whole hot of people on this planet who are closer to the president than michael cohen for several years now. that michael cohen may do something just, thought incredible a year ago, months ago, anderson, he may go testify publicly up on capitol hill when the democrats take control of the house. lanny davis is saying whichever committee decides it wants to hear from mike b l cchael cohen basically at this point michael cohen is open to the invitation. unlike we've seen throughout much of the investigation, anderson, you have a lot of hearings held behind closed doors and waiting on transcripts or leaks to come out of capitol hill to find out what exactly happened, it seems like cohen may be willing to do this in front of the cameras which w

lanny davis who, until today, was a lawyer associated with michael cohen, has left the legal team but continues to speak with mr. cohen. i imagine will be involved as a spokesman role going forward, perhaps? >> you can see by my gray hair, i'm an adviser and a friend. >> lanny davis, thank you for coming in. much appreciated. much more to come. stay with us. (honking) when your craving strikes, you need your wing nut. ( ♪ ) no one can totally satisfy a craving, quite like your wing nut. no one can totally satisfy a craving, ito take care of anyct messy situations.. and put irritation in its place. and if i can get comfortable keeping this tookus safe and protected... you can get comfortable doing the same with yours. preparation h. get comfortable with it. whenshe was pregnant,ter failed, in-laws were coming, a little bit of water, it really- it rocked our world. i had no idea the amount of damage that water could do. we called usaa. and they greeted me as they always do. sergeant baker, how are you? they were on it. it was unbelievable. having insurance is something everyone needs,

lanny davis, as i already said, is a democratic operative. there is a reason why he took on cohen's case, and he said in a statement that they are going to provide the platform to in to talk about everything he can between now and march. >> harris: is that risky, though? you've got somebody that the president was actually paying and he couldn't trust them. >> tom: it is. >> melissa: good point! [laughs] >> tom: the democrats run the risk of bundling this whole thing treat if they use these months to give a forum to the michael cohen redemption two, i think that's going to backfired. >> harris: we will be back. stay close, everybody. by helping them use the valuable va home loan benefit they've earned with their service. thank you, admiral. it let's you borrow up to 100% of your home's value. thank you, admiral. with today's high home values, that could mean a lot more money to pay debts and get ahead. thank you, admiral. it's an honor to help you get the peace of mind every veteran and their family deserves. call 1-844-383-1571. but he has pl

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frankly, by this point, lanny davis own statements would be an admission by cohen. they're attributable to him. if mr. cohen testifies otherwise, lonnie davis will be a witness in the case and this is the stuff of the cross-examination. >> jason: dan, i still think it's suspicious that davis is involved. is it coincidence that cohen gets the attorney that has dealt with the clintons? you are a secret service agent. if you had a guy like cohen come before you, what do you do with a guy like that? now he's an admitted liar. >> he is. the way you investigate a case like this, you go and do an investigation. in an investigation of travel overseas, whether it's a drug deal, an alleged collusion conspiracy ring, jason, there's a very easy way to figure this out. you go and check hotel records. you can check, we had text back in the day. you can check passport records and travel records. what's my point? all of those things indicate michael cohen was not in prague. david brought up an excellent point. what motivation could michael cohen possibly have trying to get himself

and he had a significant choice, and i think lanny signed up because he was convinced this guy would now see the light and tell the truth. and he could be the most -- he could be the most explosive thing that's happened. it's out of washington. it's in new york. do what you want to mueller, this guy can take down the president. >> i'm not a lawyer, i know you are, i know you're out of time, but i watch an extraordinary amount of "law & order" with that, i will tell you when you give the right information, you should get something in return. it's not quid pro quo, but that's the way the das work. >> and "law & order" is just news nowadays. thank you all. >>> up next a lie with the trump tower deal. your brain changes as you get older. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. ♪ applebee's bigger bolder grill combos are back. now that's eatin good in the neighborhood. after bill's back needed a vacation from his vacation. so h

michael cohen's spokesman lanny davis joins me live on set as cohen's former boss calls him a rat. >>> later, senator bob corker on why this may not be his last chapter in politics. i talk to him exclusively about why there may be a 2020 challenger in the republican party. >>> and just a few minutes, we'll talk about a new report out about the lengths the russian-backed disinformation campaign went to tilt the election in favor of republicans. the draft report prepared for the senate intelligence committee found that russia used every major u.s. social media platform to try and elect president trump. we'll talk more about this new reporting that "the washington post" got their hands on in just a moment. first, the president himself is facing legal challenges on more fronts than ever before. "the washington post" writing today, quote, two years after donald trump won the presidency, nearly every organization he has led in the past decade is under investigation. among them -- >> the trump campaign. the transition. the inauguration. the trump foundation. the trump organization. great, gr

one former adviser to cohen, former attorney to michael cohen, lanny davis, says the president's former fixer is open to testifying in front of the cameras when democrats take control of the house early next year. wolf, as adam schiff was just telling you a few moments ago, that could certainly be in front of his committee but other committees, as well, according to lanny davis. sounds like michael cohen wants to continue to tell his side of the story. wolf? >> certainly does. jim acosta at the white house, thank you. we're going to talk about all of the breaking news. our experts are here, our correspondents and our analysts. we have lots to discuss right after this. ♪ there's no place like home ♪ argh! i'm trying... ♪ yippiekiyay. ♪ mom. ♪ >>> breaking news. president trump's former attorney, michael cohen, told a federal judge today he committed multiple crimes in order to, his words, cover up donald trump's dirty deeds. the judge sentenced cohen to three years in prison, but cohen says he's willing to continue cooperating with his special counsel, robert mueller's russia i

he's the attorney, lanny davis. lanny davis says trump's former attorney is open to testifying publicly before the house after democrats take over in a matter of weeks. talk about must-see tv. can you imagine that? i think it will probably happen. people have said that the biggest risk to exposure that this president has is michael cohen. i don't disagree with that. imagine him testifying in public in front of congress for the world to see. he's got to answer all the questions too. the president, a source says, was glued to the tv coverage of cohen's sentencing and repeatedly claimed that cohen was lying, claiming he lied about plans to silence women like karen mcdougal. lying? roll the tape, please. >> i need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend david, you know, so that i'm going to do that right away. i've actually spoken to allen weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with -- >> so what are we going to pay -- >> yes. and it's all the stuff. >> yep, yep, yep. lyin

on the flip side of that when i interviewed lanny davis earlier this week he made it quite clear ma michael cohen will be relicirelic relicirelic relicirelic relicing -- relying on information. at the end of the day, however, the political implications of this have not yet impacted the president's poll numbers. but the talk of impeachment with democrats to take over the house in a couple of weeks, that's definitely starting to bubble over. >> and it feels more like days and weeks here. any implications that may erode the support that he has from that base? >> i don't think so at this point because as to how kevin said he's very popular with the republican party, his approval ratings in his own base are probably in the high 80s, low 90s. i think all the president has do is go on twitter and say why should you believe michael cohen. he's pushed the scenario this is a personal mat e. i didn't direct him. many of you say why would i hire him in the first place. al he has to do is push up this matter. i didn't know musical cohen was going to do that. so his base will most likely believe him. his

but you even heard from lanny davis, i think he expects that there is going to mueller report prior to the time that michael cohen has to surrender to the bureau to begin serving his sentence. i think that's about right. i think you should expect a report in the first quarter of next year. >> harris: will you come back? >> of course. >> harris: i enjoyed talking with you. thank for being on the program. for more reaction, let's begin john dermody of california. great to see you, congressman. we often talk about a sundry of things. we will talk about michael cohen when the new reaction. amounted all surprised. he has nine different indictments, pled guilty to all of them. from tax evasion to perjury, all of those, and campaign finance paid all of them added up to very serious charges and some very serious time that he will be spending in jail. no doubt about it. where this goes from here, it remains to be seen. i suspect he has far more things to talk about. whether he will or not, and whether that's part of the investigation, we don't know. what they're doing in the seventh district of

. >>> well coming up on "cbs this morning," michael cohen's adviser lanny davis tells us about when cohen could come public with what he knows about the president. >>> plus, can changing the start time of school help students get better grades? dr. tara narula looks at a new study on teens and sleep. >>> and norah talks with country music legend reba mcentire about her kennedy center honor. that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. "cbs morning news" "cbs morning news" for this thurs -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> thank you for waking up with us i'm kenny choi. >> and i'm michelle griego. >> so if you're heading outside. definitely chilly to start off. it's nice to be able to see the golden gate after a few foggy mornings here. 41 in concord. oakland you're coming in at 46. 50 in san francisco. and 44 for san jose. so your weather headlines a fog-free start to the day. the warmest day out of theee

of a puzzle but he's a pretty substantial piece and if i was down trump i'd be pretty nervous john lanny davis cones former two need turned advisor release a statement saying that at the appropriate time if you missed a moment completions investigation and issues his final report he looks forward to assisting michael. says michael cohen to stay or only knows about mr trump and there's a lot more he knows what he feared full of that john. well look to be frank i mean the fact that the president's old lawyer and his former fixer as he's called is you know not a a friendly anymore is bad for the president it's bad for the white house it's bad for the republican party it's bad for the reelection twenty sixteen there are twenty twenty there's no question about that so it's not a good development it's one that i'm sure the white house wishes would go away and one that really is not going to be helpful to the political cause at least for the next to yours. jake. someone is saying that the scuttlebutt is that trump is vulnerable to criminal charges the only way he can delay it is by being reelec

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ainsley: then he hired hillary clinton's lanny davis. brian: the gofundme page was not giving enough money. now he is unpaid spokesperson. "national enquirer" publisher taken immunity talking how they worked with michael cohen, possibly the president to keep the susan, excuse me, karen mcdoing gal story, as well as the stormy daniels story, what they're alleging under wraps. people are looking at that saying along with the cfo trump organization, took limited immunity, saying the president is in trouble. richard blumenthal, congressman denny heck, maxine waters, saying the president is heading toward the impeachment. they have to corroborate the michael cohen stories because he has no credibility. butthey corroborate it -- ainsley: we can all make our own minds after we saw both of them talk. we saw what happened in the oval office two days ago. we got to make up our own minds. it was transparent. newt gingrich says we need transparency when it comes to this case as well. listen to this. >> they ought to release the 70 hours of tape of i

. >> reporter: cohen's adviser, lanny davis, tonight. >> the next chapter is for michael cohen, when mr. mueller is finished doing his work, to tell all the truth and all the facts about donald trump, probably in front of a congressional committee. >> reporter: including cohen's account of hush money payments to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. the president's explanations evolving. first pleading ignorance. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. >> reporter: then this last summer. >> did you know about the payments? >> later on, i knew. later on. >> reporter: this week describing the money as a simple private transaction. as for any political peril facing the president, overnight president trump said he wasn't concerned that he could be impeached because he says he hasn't done anything wrong, telling reuters, i think that the people would revolt if that happened. lester? >> peter alexander at the white house, thanks. >>> now to the growing terror manhunt overseas after a gunman opened fire in a crowd at a world-famous christmas market. the eiffel towe

. >> reporter: cohen's adviser, vi lanny das, tonight. >> the next chapter is for michael cohen, when mr. mueller is finished doing his work, to e all the truth and all the facts about donald trump, probably in front of a congressional committee. or >> rr: including cohen's account of hush money payments to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. the president's explanations evolving.t fieading ignorance. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. >> reporter: then this last summer. >> did you know about the payments? >> later on, i knew. later on. reporter: this week describing the money as a simple private transaction. as for any politicaleril facing the president, overnight president trump said he wasn't concerned that he coul impeached because he says he hasn't done anything wrong, telling reuters, i think that the people would revolt if that happened. lester? >> peter alexander at the white house, thanks. >>> now to the growing terror manhunt overseas aer a gunman opened fire in a crowd at a world-famous christmas market.ff the tower in paris going dark just

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. >> reporter: cohen's adviser, lanny davis -- >> the next chapter is for michael cohen, when mr. mueller is finished doing his work, to tell all the truth and all the facts about donald trump, probably in front of a congressional committee. >> reporter: including cohen e account of those hush money payments to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. the president's explanations evolving. first pleading ignorance. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. last summer. >> did you know about the payments? >> later on i knew. later on. >> reporter: this week, describing the money as a simple private transaction. as for any political peril facing the president, presiden that he could be impeached because he says he hasn't done anything wrong, telling reuters this week, i think that the people would revolt if that happened. phillip? >> peter, thank you. >>> now to the growing terror manhunt overseas where hundreds of police officers are searching for this man, 29-year-old cherif chekatt, who they say opened fire on shoppers at a christmas market in strasbourg. he

piece of a puzzle but he's a pretty substantial piece and if i was don trump i'd be pretty nervous john lanny davis cohn's former to knead turned advisor release a statement saying that at the appropriate time after mr mole incompletions investigation and the issues his fund were for he looks forward to assisting michael hill and says michael cohen to stay or only knows about mr trump and there's a lot more he knows what he feared full of that john. well it look to be frank i mean the fact that the president's own lawyer and his former fixer as he's called is you know not a a friendly anymore is bad for the president it's bad for the white house it's bad for the republican party it's bad for the reelection twenty sixteen or twenty twenty there's no question about that so it's not a good development it's one that i'm sure the white house wishes would go away and one that really is not going to be helpful to the political cause at least for the next two years jake and someone is saying that the scuttlebutt is that trump is vulnerable to criminal charges the only way he can delay it is by being

michael cohen's adviser lanny davis, white house senior adviser stephen miller, and minnesota democrat senator amy klobuchar will all be our guests this sunday on "face the nation." a federal investigation was launched today into the death of a little girl who was in the custody of u.s. border agents. she was part of a group from guatemala that surrendered at the border eight days ago. ayre's jeff pegues. go reporter: seven-year-old jakelin caal and her father were taken into border patrol custody in a remote area along the southern border in antelope wells, new mexico on the night of december 6. according to the department of homeland security, an initial screening of the young girl "revealed no evidence of health issues," but the next morning, as they prepared to board a bus to a border station, her father advised that the child was "sick and vomiting." that border station was 95 miles away, and that's the first time she received medical care. by then, she wasn't breathing. e.m.t.'s revived her twice, but her temperature soared to 105.9 osgrees before she was airlifted to the provinc

of a puzzle but he's a pretty substantial piece and if i was down trump i'd be pretty nervous john lanny davis cones former two need turned advisor release a statement saying that at the appropriate time if you missed a moment completions investigation and the issues his fund were for he looks forward to assisting michael hill who says michael cohen to stay or only knows about mr trump and there's a lot more he knows what you see in full of that john. well it look to be frank i mean the fact that the president's own lawyer and his former fixer as he's called is you know not a a friendly anymore is bad for the president it's bad for the white house it's bad for the republican party it's bad for the reelection twenty sixteen or twenty twenty there's no question about that so it's not a good development it's one that i'm sure the white house wishes would go away and one that really is not going to be helpful to the political cause at least for the next two years jake and someone is saying that the scuttlebutt is that trump is vulnerable to criminal charges the only way he can delay it is by

well it has implications for him both politically and legally the lawyer for michael cohen lanny davis who's just tweeted out that cohen is willing to talk about everything to muller what that means is this could be more damaging legally for donald trump the national choir the national enquirer which was involved in one of those payments also said that trump knew about those payments so what that means politically is that it's very clear that donald trump lied about what happened here that will certainly weaken his hand but it will also give congress the ability to investigate and members of the house from the democrats take over the house of representatives in january will likely eagerly take on that task and it means a lot of things that does not want out there things like his tax returns are now going to be out there in the public and that's going to hurt his favor ability ratings it's going to be a problem for him to get legislation through but that was already a foregone conclusion now legally the justice department's official position is that you can't indict a sitting president

. >> lanny davis who is a lawyer normally associated with the clintons is advising cohen and said that cohen shared his testimony plan, which we now know was false testimony under oath to congress. he shared that with the white house before he gave it to congress. let's listen to what he told bloomberg radio. >> no question that president trump knew what michael's testimony would be and since president trump was told about the tower conversations that michael cohen said he had with the senior official and that he conferred with his client about those conversations. the inevitable conclusion is that mr. trump and the white house knew that michael cohen would be testifying falsely to congress and did not tell him not to. >> what more do you as a member of the house judiciary committee want to know about this? >> we should remember the president also made false statements about the subject of that meeting, assisted in the preparation of a statement that put forth a false explanation about russian adoptions. there is a lot here to learn about. again, it's more evidence that this president

you michael cohen who ends up being represented by lanny davis who is also there. then you have cragg who was involved in the obama white house on the counsel's office and you start scratching your head saying, why haven't they pursued that more aggressively against something that came to light about more than a year ago? >> martha: if there is also painewebber and mercury which we should mention, they are also the same category with these relationships to form government. you are allowed to do that but you have to be upfront about it and transparent in regards to that. when i look at this, from the michael flynn memo, some of the benefits of his cooperation is not fully realized because what he provided assistance to is ongoing. it is a what you think question? to think that the criminal investigation and that memo could be leading in this direction? >> that seems to be the most substantial ongoing criminal case that he has provided to the government about. it is interesting because the language that a is used in that memo, the scariest criminal case he's provided

so i do -- i also think that his statements, the statements of his lawyer, lanny davis, make it sound like he is not only to help the special counsel but at some point to come be public about what he knows as well. >> so, lisa, talk of continued cooperation. he doesn't go to prison until march. we know he's still cooperating on the whole trump organization investigation. pam brown talked to rudy giuliani saying their response was that cohen had been blindly disloyal. the fact that he could still talk, how worried should this white house be? >> well, i think they're quite worried. if anything, maybe the silence speaks volumes. we've always been waiting for the presidential tweet. no matter the moment, there's always a tweet. >> and contributrickets so far. >> this is not a president who is known for holding back. and the white house and staff take their cues from the tone he sets. there's no question this will have a chilling effect on the white house. this isn't any person. this is president trump's closest adviser, his personal lawyer. he's now going to prison for three years, almost

>> jessica: lanny davis who was his lawyer did say that he didn't go to prague but he's not his lawyer anymore and he said he does not know what he said, which leaves an opening where it could be feasible. >> rachel: i don't think american people care about this until the actually report comes out. >> julie: i think people want michael cohen to go away. >> jessica: let's talk about the president some more. questions over how much of the president has changed the office of the presidency and the workings of washington. whether those changes are good, bad, and if they are lasting. we will debate it next. ♪ ♪ >> kat: he did vowed to change washington and drain the swamp, so how much has president trump changed the office and political culture in our capital two usin using? "trump has changed in ways both subtle and profound how washington works and how it is viewed by the rest of the nation and world." the next president will not model himself in the style of president trump. what do you think? has trump changed the game forever or no? >> tyrus: he's turned it into entertainment, the

shouldn't be doing that he already is, if that's what he wants, is he shouldn't be sending his lawyer lanny davis out to talk on the news. that's a mistake. it will just make people in the prosecutors' office more angry and yet he continues to do it. >> okay, frank figluizzi, to you, and i'm going to read you something from the "new york times." this is about david pecker and american media, inc. one associate speaking in anonymity said, one associate of mr. pecker felt betrayed when the president's legal team failed to push back against revelations in july that mr. co help had recorded a conversation with mr. trump discussing the mcdougal payment. the recording seemed to support the notion that ami was complicit in an illegal campaign finance scheme. it's true we heard everything in that recording, i'm going to get the papers, i'm going to get the papers. it sounded like a mob recording to me. tell me the story in your past about david pecker and ami and how that forms your opinion, and does this sound like kind of a vendetta from pecker about trump? >> i can tell you this. when you base y

michael cohen said listen to lanny davis who said he will be a communications adviser to michael cohen and say guess what, the white house knew michael cohen lied. >> they knew that the testimony was going to be what michael cohen knew could be false about the moscow tower. there is no question that president trump knew what michael's testimony would be. mr. trump and the white house knew that michael cohen would be testifying falsely to congress and did not tell him not to. >> if that's true, the jeopardy for the president is getting steeper and steeper. in the sense that implicate and now allegedly corroborating witnesses and felony campaign finance. if the white house knew, michael cohen said this is whey will tell the senate. they know it's false and they don't stop him? >> he said this is what i'm going to tell the senate. make sure you don't tell the senate this. there are several layers of trying to figure out the discussions that trump is fire and who was briefing who so o what should be said before he came to congress and said things they said were lies. at the end of the day,

out for how the mainstream media handled it, what cohen said, what his so-called spokesman lawyer, lanny davis, said. none of it gave me any confidence that this sourcing about a cell phone that may have taken a vacation on its own somewhere near the czech republic, which is about all that seems to be reported, is the case. i'm befuddled by the whole thing, just totally. >> there is not even really a legal aspect to this when it comes to what this is about. where are they going with this? more of this is about delegitimizing, attacking, going after trump. you and i have talked about this. others have talked. if they want to go after cohen for serious charges, they could have taken him to tax court and other things. this all angles around president trump. >> it is in the dossier, it is. i continue to read the dossier all the time. i never fail to laugh. i can always use a good laugh. it is preposterous on its face. this is another demonstrably false facet of the dossier. i want to switch to this crazy selfie that mueller, nude selfie that mueller has obtained through his investigation. ta

i mean, if you look at prior to that time, cohen's lawyer, lanny davis, lied on tv -- he didn't lie. he was told by his client that he hadn't been at prague. >> right. >> cohen told george stephanopoulous at abc he hadn't been to prague. >> right. >> all of this changed after mid september. that's why i think the president is in major trouble here. >> jill -- and by the way, i have to tell you the pen is amazing tonight. even i can make sense of that, the puzzle pieces. during watergate, the nixon articles of impeachment centered around obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of congress, which was about willfully disobeying subpoenas. i've now spoken to two members of congress in as many nights, both of whom have said while they didn't run on and didn't wish to be involved in discussions of impeachment, it becomes unavoidable to have that -- having that discussion becomes unavoidable given the papers that came out on friday night. >> it absolutely does. and there is a difference between indictment and impeachment. the team that i was on, which was the main obstruction o

jill, lanny davis is saying he's been associated with michael cohen's defense as a spokesperson. he's been saying today that michael cohen shared his congressional testimony, his false testimony, he shared it with the white house. what is that going to mean as this investigation goes forward? >> well, i thought he was a little vague in his conversation with rachel as to whether he told the white house exactly what he was going to say and that it was a lie or he just said this is what i'm going to say and assumed that they knew it was a lie. so that makes a difference, but sharing it is certainly one of those things like manafort's sharing information is getting him in trouble now with the special counsel. that certainly would get him in trouble. i also want to point out that i agree with everything that's been said in terms of it doesn't make sense what michael cohen is saying as to why he's not cooperating as a full cooperating witness because our witnesses in watergate went to jail while they were cooperating with us. they served their time and were finished by the time they we

b, lanny davis is saying michael cohen has more. >> we do know some of these congressional committees want him to come back to capitol hill. they were lied about the trump tower piece of this but depending when he has to report to jail, be top of the list, particularly for the house intelligence committee now going to be run by democrats and potentially other committees and oversight. >> this issue of his false testimony to congress, potentially is of greater liability for the president. if it's in fact provable, that cohen, as it was set out in the sentencing memorandum spoke about his testimony and there's evidence that the white house influenced his lying testimony, that is a much easier prosecution than the false statement, the campaign finance statements. >> i think it's not just that. we have been talking honestly about the campaign finance violations. this is where the president is most clearly implicated in this but when you look at the special counsel's interest in michael cohen, they were interested in the trump tower moscow project and how long that went on. investigating t