as the market edges towards setting the record for the longest—ever bull run. and now, let's go from bulls to cows, according to the swiss dairy association, switzerland's famous cows have become too fat for their own good and now they are pushing farmers to raise smaller cows, which consume less feed and don't take up as much space. cornelia is desperately trying not to burst into laughter here. cornelia meyer, who's ceo of mrl corporation, a business consultancy. and a swiss lady. and the uk lady. and a swiss lady. and the uk lady. and a swiss lady. and the uk lady. and a uk citizen. let's talk about the situation in the united states. president trump, there is as ever very strong opinions on both sides as to how damaging this is or not, as to how damaging this is or not, as the case may be. but if we have a

look at the washington post, its analysis of the news that broke overnight, minutes apart in different courtrooms in the us, michael cohen, if we talk about him to begin with, the long—term attorney of the us and what he had to admit to and pleaded guilty to in court. he pled guilty to fraud charges but also to violations of electoral law by paying off ms mcdougal and stormy daniels together about $280,000, and the interesting thing is... this is in the run-up to the us election. in the run-up to the us election. in the run-up to the us election. in the run-up to the us election, these were two ladies who had allegedly had an affair in the run—up to the election of us president, and he paid them off. the interesting thing here when you read his admission of guilt, it

said it was in consultation and at the direction of a federal candidate of donald trump. yes. which is... it is important to note that donald trump was not named in the courtroom. yes, the federal candidate. that is very powerful in the sense that it does implicate him, it does implicate him directly because he always said, there were lots of interviews with him on planes, in six towns where he said i did not know about having paid off those two ladies. so that sort of calls him out as not having told the truth or an alternative fact, i guess what we call in on truth these days. —— sitdowns. guess what we call in on truth these days. -- sitdowns. that is the critical issue here, the washington post talks about both of those as it unpacks the case of michael cohen, and also the case of paul manafort

as well. it looks at both cases but it looks at the fact that in the case of michael cohen, it directly implicates the president and president trump did not react or comment at all on the case of michael cohen, but when it came to paul manafort, he says it is very sad. one thing one has to say about michael cohen is that he always said i would take a bullet for the president, well, he is now not taking a bullet for the president. between now and december, it will be interesting to see what happens. deals can be done to durably, depending on what he might tell those who are investigating the actions of the team around president trump in the run—up to the election. and the washington post actually says that yes, it looks that 46 to 36 months injail, but before he was looking out 12 or more years in

jail, so he has already by pleading guilty reduced his sentence considerably. but the paul manafort case is very disconcerting as well. yes. because this is the campaign chairman, he was associated with many other presidents but he clearly also had, it was very close to viktor yanukovych, which is the former, pro— russian former president of the ukraine, and he had not declared apparently to trump or to anybody that he had worked with him and he had actually earned millions in the span of about four yea rs. millions in the span of about four years. now politico talks about this and talks in particular about paul ma nafort and talks in particular about paul manafort found guilty on a council, and this is as a consequence of the robert mueller investigation into whether there was any interference on the part of russia in the run—up to the us residential election. it

isa to the us residential election. it is a part of that investigation but this is actually quite separate in the sense that what he has been found guilty of his actions prior to the election. in his actions prior to the election, but there is that ukrainian, russian oligarch connection, and when you look at robert mueller‘s remix, his mandate is take it where it goes, bryce? so it isa is take it where it goes, bryce? so it is a nursing, but what i find particularly disconcerting is when you look at the company donald trump is keeping, there is manafort, there is keeping, there is manafort, there is gates, there is papadopoulos, all have some sort of legal issues. does quickly because i want to go into the other stories, how damaging do you think this is? there are strong opinions are there, some believe the president willjust rise after this as he has done again and again, others are saying this will lead to

impeachment. well, in this congress, it will not lead to impeachment because this is a republican congress. it all depends on how the midterms turnout. if the midterms turn upa midterms turnout. if the midterms turn up a majority for the democrats, then it may lead to impeachment, although you have to say one thing, trump is playing to his base. he really is. absolutely. he may still, he may still get a majority in congress, despite everything. now, let's look at dominic raab's visit to brussels yesterday, that is the brexit secretary meeting with michel barnier, the key negotiatorfor brexit from the european union. he has been very frank about the fact that he does not want brussels to be blamed in any way for what the outcome might be. and he absolutely has a point because if you look at it, we here in britain, we havejust

really not been progressing as fast as we should have been progressing because all we do is talk amongst the tories, amongst other parties, and we have not talked enough to the eu. so he is right and and we have not talked enough to the eu. so he is rightand i and we have not talked enough to the eu. so he is right and i havejust spent quite a bit of time on the continent, and it looks different. 0n the continent, they blame britain for if we have a hard brexit or no brexit, in britain, we blame, we put a lot of the blame on the eu. so obviously, this is, you're getting into the final phase of negotiations. some of it is grandstanding that some of it is justified. and both of them were at pains to say at the press conference that negotiations are now ongoing, they will not stop and they have to crack on. and i have to handed to dominic raab because he basically, yesterday he came out and said do not worry if you are an eu citizen living here, we are not going to the

few out. he is taking, is taking this seriously. —— turf you out. although he is a brexiteer and i am a remainer, he is taking this seriously. a natural times, the a remainer, he is taking this seriously. a naturaltimes, the us market is on the verge of an all—time high, the longest bull run in history. —— the financial times. yeah, and it is fuelled by expansionary tax cuts and expansionary tax cuts and expansionary policies. it is the longest bull run, it has returned less tha n longest bull run, it has returned less than other bull runs, only about 17.5% per annum, where as others have returned over 20%, but it is up 27% year—on—year, that is quite something. it is a bull run with foundation, it is not something thatis with foundation, it is not something that is going to run out of steam? what i am concerned about, along with many other economists, is we

have this stimulus. it is too much, so thank goodness the fed is going up so thank goodness the fed is going up with interest rates. we've only got 30 seconds to talk about that cows got 30 seconds to talk about that cows in switzerland, what is going on? this is making the front page of the gulf news. this is a good story, with the environment there is not enough feed. they had been given extraordinary powers to have enough feed for these cows, so in a small country with little space and little food stock, probably a good idea. let's shrink the cows. there you go. thank you, cornelia. that is the briefing. thanks for your company, have a really good day, see you soon. hello. well, in the last few days it's been pretty warm across the uk, with temperatures in the high

20s across the south. we've got another fine day on the way on wednesday across central and southern areas of the uk. we'll probably see scenes like this from tuesday, lovely weather there around the docklands in london. but there is change on the way. this weather front will cool things off over the next few days, but initially, the cooler air will be reaching scotland and northern ireland. but ahead of it, we still have warm air coming in all the way from the azores, from the almost subtropics here, so that's why it's so warm outside. in fact, temperatures overnight around the mid—teens across much of the country. now, the weather front will be moving across the uk through the early hours of wednesday morning. it's already been wet across scotland, parts of northern ireland too have seen quite a bit of rain, and that's just about moving into south—western scotland now. but, to the south of that, it's dry. where the sky's clear, there might be a little bit of a chill in the air, 13 degrees for norwich. but generally, where we have the cloud, it's around 15, 16,17 degrees.

so this is very warm, very humid air over us first thing this morning. here is the weather front. this is a cold front, or cool front, you can call it in the summer. behind it, coolerair comes in, much fresher air, so scotland and northern ireland in the afternoon will be quite a bit cooler. you can see those yellow colours here indicating those lower temperatures from the north atlantic, mostly around the teens — 17 in belfast, only 14 in stornoway, but to the south, we've got temperatures in the high teens. and then this central bit here, around northern england, wales, that's where the weather front is moving through, so a chance of catching, i think, some rain during the course of wednesday. now, wednesday into thursday, these weather fronts, in fact a succession of them, start moving through the uk. and then, behind it, and the forecast has been the same for the last few days, we have this much fresher air coming off the north atlantic, almost from iceland, so that cooler air starts invading the uk on thursday. but one weather front moves through the south—east earlier in the day, so possibly some rain. again, more weatherfronts or showers moving into scotland and northern ireland, and also a bit of a breeze. these are winds in miles an hour.

you can double these for gusts of wind, so perhaps gusting to 30 mph there off western scotland. but cool already on thursday. you can see temperatures in the low 20s in the south, and the mid—teens for belfast, glasgow and for edinburgh. how about the next few days? well, it looks like the temperatures might pick up a little bit, but not an awful lot, and cardiff may be up to 19 by monday, possibly 2i in london by monday, but it will be quite changeable. bye— bye. good morning. welcome to breakfast, with dan walker and louise minchin. 0ur headlines today: two former members of donald trump's inner circle are convicted in separate court cases overnight. but the president denies any corruption in his 2016 election campaign. this is a witch—hunt, and it's a disgrace. this has nothing to do with — they

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