death row for something they didn't do. welcome to "kasie dc." i'm kasie hunt.

we have tammy leitner on the scene. we have confirmed 14 dead? >> reporter: yeah. that's right, kasie. 14 dead in lee county from two tornadoes that touch dodd un. one was an 8-year-old girl. tragic. many more injured and getting the first look at the damage. this is a gas station we're standing in front of. just one of the many businesses and residences damaged. i'm told that one of the employees was actually inside of this gas station when it happened. he actually came outside and took cover by a brick wall here and we are with one of the owners. al, this is al patel. how are you guys doing? you're starting to piece things back together here. >> when they call me and told me i did not believe what happened. i rushed here.

got here. found the store destroyed. my employee came rushing. he hugged me, crying. if he didn't come out within ten seconds of this incident he would have been gone. >> you said he had some injuries, though. >> yeah. he had some injuries on his arm and not major but he does have some injuries. like i think he hit a wall or door or something. and so that's how he have injured his little arm. >> it is unbelievable, though. not more extensive just looking at the building. >> it looks bad. you cannot go inside because of the fire department said structural damage is really bad inside. but i took some pictures and it looks pretty bad. super destroyed. from the back of the building you would see a lot more damage than this. it took the canopy on top and

the tornado went inside and it just knocked out the side wall. my employee managed to get outside in a timely manner or we would lose him. i'm glad he's okay. i'm super glad he's okay. >> thank you so much for talking to us and good luck building there. >> thank you. >> appreciate it very much. and as you can imagine it's a very long night. we know that rescue crews are on the ground. we have seen them out here. they're still going door to door. you know? i'm just looking around me and we drove by and there was a cell phone tower in the first 100 yards. it was crumpled, down completely destroyed. we drove by a bar about 100 yards from where i'm standing. i don't know if you can see over there but the roof is completely ripped off of it. there are no walls. there's nothing left of the bar. and this is just where i'm standing what i'm seeing. there is not a whole lot left of

this town of 4,900 people in eastern alabama. kasie? >> tammy, thank you very muchl for that report. we'll be staying in touch with you throughout the hour. our hearts and prayers, of course, are with the people there that you are talking to. joining us now over the phone is the coroner for lee county, alabama, bill harris. bill, thank you for taking some time out of your night to talk with us. i realize you are probably in the process of finding the families of the victims. what can you tell us about the devastation in the home county? >> i have not been able to see any of the damage yet. but i have set up my command center in the school parking lot down here to receive the descendants. we have 14 confirmed dead that the time. i expect that number to go higher. probably be here through the night. they're just having trouble getting into these roads and driveways because of the

devastation. so we're -- it is just going to be a long night and families can't find anybody and showing up. call everybody they can and see if you can find who you're looking and if you can't, let us know who that is so we can find somebody we don't know who it is we can match up the identity. >> sir, we have seen reports of children among the dead as well as adults. can you give us information? >> i don't know how many but, yes, there are some children involved. >> and has your community ever experienced anything like this before in the time that you have been the coroner? >> not in my lifetime. nothing of this magnitude. i'm part of the state mortuary operations response team which is a volunteer agency that is stationed dimptd apets around the state and one of the assets is here in lee county. this asset is deployed and i have volunteers on the way here

now to assist me as well as surrounding county coroners that have jumped in to assist us with the retrieving of the bodies and find the family members. >> what should families who are looking for loved ones, who should they be calling? >> coroner's office. there's a 24-hour number listed in the book. 334-737-6370. sheriff's office might take some calls. the hospital called me. they have folks showing up there. they want a list of the fatalities we have now but we haven't even begin to identify those yet. positively identify them. it is a long process. i have actually seen ambulances still coming, emergency where they found some people in the late hours that are actually still alive and being taken to hospitals for treatment. >> lee county coroner bill

harris. we are thinking of your in lee county, alabama. thank you for your time tonight, sir. >> thank you. >> our thoughts are with you on what's a very, very long night. but now here we want to move to the flurry of investigative activity in washington. chairman jerry nadler said today it is, quote, very clear president trump has obstructed justice. and now his committee is requesting documents of more than 60 people connected to the president and his administration. as he looks into obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power. elijah cummings said if michael cohen mentioned your name on wednesday's testimony you might be hearing from his commit tee. among the names, ivanka trump, donald trump jr., eric trump, alan wes elberg, corely lewandowski and david pecker. at the same time, the house ways and means committee is preparing

a request for years of the president's tax returns and interceding to give jared kushner a top secret security clearance, house investigators demand the white house to turn over documents related to the clearances of top officials by tomorrow. well, to break this down, i want to bring in my panel for this hour, jake sherman, reporter for the associated press, wanda evans and brendan buck and former spokesman for house speaker john boehner, michael steel. welcome to the show. it's great to have you guys here. brendan, welcome to the dark side. i'm going to start with you, actually, because one of the things we saw on the oversight committee with michael cohen was a lack of defense of the president's actions.

and rather a series of attacks on michael cohen's credibility. which fair enough. but is what the president has done here defensible? house republicans' actions in the hearing seem to suggest they don't think it is. >> if they had something to defend they would have done this. i mean, i know this conference very well and they're not shy about defending the president. so i think jim jordan did it to the extent he could. and probably more pugnacious than most and the embodiment of this conference. they are all about fight. they are very much in the president's corner and will defend him to great lengths but this was a strategy decision clearly on their part. >> let's just remember, michael cohen is the worst possible witness for a congressional hearing. he is someone as congressional republicans mentioned time and time again, actually been convicted of among other things lying to congress. >> yep. >> every hearing from here on out gets harder for house republicans because they won't be able to attack the witness for exactly that reason.

>> yeah. what's your sense of what the next steps here are going to be among these house commit tees and how do they walk that fine line? we have seen democrats be careful as not be seen as overstretching. >> the gulf is of representation and the rank and file particularly talking about the rank and file really wanting to see it push towards impeachment and something house democrats are careful of talking about and heard those remarks that chairman nadler made of documents requesting from the folks. he's talked about we don't know if the evidence bears that out yet and seeing how they mix that up with the overlapping investigations will be interesting. >> what's the next move? >> the president tweeted he thought the hearing contributed to his decision to walk away from the north korea talks so that's a new wrinkle l. >> interesting.

>> what it highlights is how ridiculous of a claim it was for the president to say governing might be easier in divided government. people said and wrote with a straight face in the weeks leading up to the election. listen. nadler is going to the heart of the trump administration. to the president's family. to his accountant. his father's accountant. this is only as mike said going to get much, much worse for the president. and forget impeachment. that is a process that might or might not happen. oversight is bad for the president. endless testimony. live tv. with the president in the country it is just going to be -- this is brutal. i don't think republicans have wrapped their minds around just how bad -- at least at the white house. i think capitol hill there is a recognition of that. >> do you agree? >> yeah. obviously there's a lot. there's a downside to that, obviously. so look this past week. democrats passed two -- two of the biggest gun control measures passed in a long time and nobody

was talking about it. entirely overshadowed by the entire spectacle and i will question oversight is important but i question the degree to which the investigations are going to learn anything that bob mueller doesn't already know. he's had all access to the people for all of this time. he could do everything that these folks can do in the committees an he is far better equipped to find the answers with the tools, resources or experience he has. the committee is not a substitute for law enforcement. >> to the extent that governing and politics is a television show now and i don't say that in a glib manner. >> to an extent. >> this is fascinating because bob mueller has this behind the scenes and cummings and nadler and the commit tee chairs doing it on television in realtime. >> other thing is bob mueller won't release the president's tax returns and it was interesting that in a way ocasio-cortez actually possibly made the strongest argument for getting hold of those saying

take the financial disclosures of michael cohen and only way to prove committing insurance fraud is the tax returns. >> impeachment is political exercise and what i think house democrats are doing is oversight is popular. impeachment is not. they'll call it oversight as long as possible while laying out a factual basis to lead to articles passing the house. >> they are buying insurance on the mueller report. if it doesn't provide the smoking gun that they need they need to play a predicate for the next step. the train is on the tracks now. this is happening whether they call it impeachment or not. >> do the republicans accept that the president is in big trouble or not? >> i think they know he's in trouble but their fortunes are tied to his -- how much trouble he is in ultimately and i don't think you'll see them break from him any time soon.

>> fair enough. we're just getting started here tonight. we'll talk about a new reality for bernie sanders. front-runner? >> heidi heitkamp. our producers watched the sunday shows so you don't have to. >> president trump facing stiff, new challenges after a failed summit in vietnam. >> why was the president unable to negotiate a break through? >> the president did give up a great deal. >> the president's view is he gave nothing away. >> they were not willing to walk through the door that he opened for them. >> they didn't walk through it. >> he can hold it open again. >> the president seemed to ab solve kim jong-un in the torture and death of otto warmbier. >> do you take kim jong-un at his word? >> the president takes him at his word. >> but what about you? >> my opinion doesn't matter. >> former lawyer and fixer michael cohen testified before

congress about alleged illegal tiftd as president. >> this is a guy with zero credit bltd. >> mr. cohen doesn't have a great record of voracity. >> it's an impeachable offense. >> nothing that the president did wrong. >> nothing? >> show me where the president did anything to be impeached. >> do you think he obstructed justice? >> yes, i do. it is clear. >> they're trying to find a case for a problem that doesn't exist. >> there's no one that can factually say there's not plenty of evidence of collaboration or communications between trump organization and russians. >> do you believe they did it to try to help donald trump win? >> who knows why they did it? there's not one bit of evidence to show coordination, collusion, conspiracy whatsoever. okay, paint a picture for me.

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michael cohen spent three days on capitol hill last week but he is not done yet on. wednesday he'll testify yet again with the house intelligence committee. democratic congressman sean patrick maloney is a member of that committee. he joins me now. thanks for being here. >> good to be with you. >> let's start with why cohen needs to come back for another round here. what are some of the topics you feel you need still to need address? >> i don't want to get into specifics of what's being testified to and inquired about

in closed session but i can tell you that there are significant areas of inquiry that we need to pursue that mr. cohen has been extremely productive and cooperative, very credible in my view and we're happy he is doing so and we'll get to the bottom of the central questions. he is a big piece of this puzzle. not the whole puzzle but a big piece of it. >> he, of course, did lie to the committee previously. is there residual anger about that fact or not? >> he has credibility problems and we are right to demand corroboration and credible because he's shown up with corroborating documents in the case of the stormy daniels payments. that's the kind of thing i'm looking for, i'm looking for key facts that can be corroborated but in terms of somebody who knows what was going on in the trump organization he's hard to beat. >> there were names named in the oversight committee and we know that chairman cummings wants to

talk to some of those witnesses perhaps, alan weisselberg, for example. who would you like to hear about? you know, who do you think would be most valuable for the public to hear from going forward? >> well, look. chairman cummings did an amazing job in that hearing. the focus of that committee is going to be on the subjects that involve stormy daniels, some of the issues in open session. our focus is really more on russia and the national security threats to the united states. our focus is on the influence of foreign actors like the russians but others and so what i'm really interested in is what is the connective material? what do we know about who was coordinating with whom in the early summer of 2016? that's the heart of this inquiry. i think you will see us do that

with felix sater on the 14th. michael cohen has important information on that but when you think about it not the central issue of whether there was a conspiracy to break the law between the trump campaign and the russians. >> i'm glad you brought up felix sater. the chairman thinks it's important for the public to hear from him in public. what is your sense of the first couple of questionings that you would like to put to him? >> look at. you have a project of trump tower moscow, might be the most lucrative in the trump organization. don't they think that's a weird thing to do, running for president and then you have the russians engaging in this presumably also untroubled by the fact. think about this. supposed to be legitimate russian business men engaged in a transaction and also unconcern ds that their counter party might be president of the united

states. you think that screws up the transaction. point is, why was this financial entanglement occurring in early 2016 and why did the trump people feel so worried about it that they lied about? this is why michael cohen is going to jail is that he said it ended in january and we know now that those discussions with the russians about trump tower went on at least through the middle part of that year. and so what was so important to lie about this? and anybody involved in changing that testimony who knew it was false is in real trouble. >> all right. congressman sean patrick maloney, thank you, sir. really appreciate it. >> my pleasure. all right. just ahead, the 2020 presidential candidates in selma, alabama. where in 1965 peaceful demonstrators were beaten by alabama state troopers. among those there today, bernie sanders who had some work to do to make up ground with black

voters.

senator bernie sanders is about to speak at his second 2020 presidential campaign rally in chicago after his big

announcement yesterday in brooklyn. according to his campaign about 13,000 supporters braved the cold weather to hear him talk about his family's middle class background. >> coming from a lower middle class family, i will never forget about how money or really lack of money was always a point of stress in our family. my experience as a child living in a family that struggled economically powerfully influenced my life and my values. i know where i came from! >> earlier today sanders along with other high-profile democrats december ended on alabama for the 54th annual commemoration of bloody sunday. here you can see them marching. check out this video. from hours before.

when presidential hopeful senator booker left the stage in selma and there you see hillary clinton when's getting an awards embraces him with a hug. now watch what happens when sanders leaves the stage. clinton stood up to greet him. quick hand shake. and on to the next thing. all right. let's bring back our panel to talk a little bit more about this. so you guys probably know i covered bernie sanders in 2016 and mildly fascinated with the change of heart but, jake, i mean, he never used to talk about himself. right? frankly, if you talk to him or those close to him about how he feels about this he thinks a presidential race is strictly a contest of ideas and not personalities at all and asking him a question of a personality based question he would go off on you and make him irritated and interesting the message out of the gate is his story.

>> he could talk ad nauseam of the senate. i don't think voters care about this. >> i would beg to differ on that. supporters liked him last time because of the policy issues and i would agree he had trouble connecting in the primary for that reason. >> right. you can't broaden appeal if you talk about the votes taken and policy -- everybody seems to have a different opinion about me. >> who wants to take it? >> i was in brooklyn this weekend. >> perfect. >> i think what's interesting is not just talking about himself more, something that the supporters and aides have been telling him to. he spends 20 minutes talking about policies like $15 minimum wage and then there's a pivot moment talking about himself and not about himself as a tool necessarily to connect and share openly.

it is not something he's careful to do. he's showing that he's not like trump and a fellow new yorker who's a billionaire. who gets multimillion dollar and talking about the 25 cent allowance. there's a big democratic field full of people with large personalities and connect with voters personally and i think the aides pushed him strongly to do something he's uncomfortable doing and in chicago he's expected to talk about the activism he doesn't often talk about. >> right. >> a thing to see in a candidate that fell short is growth as a candidate, adding something to the toolkit and i think it's less about just talking about his personality and his backstory for the sake of that and more about connecting that with the policy lugss he always supported for a narrative that makes sense to voters. >> the point of the contrast with trump is a good one.

he does, of course, though have remaining issues with african-american voters. i spoke to congressman meeks about this a couple of weeks ago. take a look at what he had to say about it. do you think bernie sanders understands the fundamental concerns of african-american voters? >> last time he clearly did not and did not get the vote he thought he would get. we have another set of candidates running now and so maybe that's what we need to look at and see and look at individuals' records and the reason why african-americans did not support him because for his whole history in congress he didn't do anything with the african-americans. you know? >> juana, you mentioned chicago and the site of his protests of segregation of housing while he was in college and critics say, what have you done for me lately? >> i talked to the former ohio representative, state representative when's a co-chair of his campaign of this and she believes that the long history of activism is relevant. she and the writer and activist

sean king introducing bernie sanders and king said don't tell me that what bernie sanders didn't do in 1960s doesn't matter but this is a lich that's been built lighting for people. they talk about the image of senator sanders arrested as a young activist chain linking arms and arms with african-american women protesting so they think that this shows that he's not a johnny come lately to the issues and had the interest of african-americans, at the front of his mind for a long time. whether or not that works with this electorate this time around isn't clear and things he didn't talk about in his 2016 bid whether that resonates with young activists who were critical of him is really interesting to see. >> he's often equated and said class is why there's problems and offended african-americans that believe class isn't the only reason why there are issues.

but brendan, i'm interested in your take. we hear from the president in the cpac speech socialism and trying to lump the democratic candidates under this label. bernie sanders embraces it. do you think that's a winning strategy for the president? >> yeah, well, we'll see. one of the things you talk about him becoming a better candidate this time adrianza, remember bernie sanders largely won the debate. the agenda of people like michael and i used to laugh at crazy bernie sanders, crazy socialist agenda, at this point the democratic party moved a long way, you can use the term however you want. things we laughed at and now that's where the party is and he has things going for him and think of him i think as the clear front-runner given that and the ability to raise money. >> $6 million in a day. all right. is it a state of emergency at the border? depends on which republicans you ask. as we go to break, what was for some the biggest news of the weekend.

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it, it's all the same. >> you could call ate steel fence. >> the wall, the barrier, whatever you want to call it, it's okay with me. they can name it whatever they can name it peaches. >> we're going to be building over 200 miles of wall. i'm going to call it a wall opposed to barriers or slats. >> or peaches. no matter what the president calls his signature border project he remains intent on building it. the house passed a resolution to block his national emergency dick la ration which 13 republicans joining the democrats. now heading to the senate. three republican senators said they would oppose the president and today in a surprise, rand paul became the fourth. >> there are so many republicans in the senate who have said that this national emergency is probably illegal, possibly

unconstitutional. why are you on the different page from them? >> i'm wondering why they're on a different page. the president has the authority to do it. i wish some of those if they think this is the case maybe they should spend a little time with adam and go to the border and understand it. what we see happening -- >> and here's what mitch mcconnell said when i asked whether he thought the president's actions were lawful. >> do you personally believe that the president's emergency declaration is legal? >> that's part of what we were discussing today. >> what do you think? >> well, we're in the process of weighing that. the lawyer was there to make his arguments. there were counter arguments. it is a crisis at the border and seems to me the colleagues on the other side are in denial about that. and you can't blame the president for trying to use whatever tool he thinks he has to address it. >> so that was a definitive answer.

michael, from mitch mcconnell, not so much. >> no, look. that is tough issue for a lot of republicans. there is no doubt in my mind that additional resources would be helpful at the border. there is a changing and dangerous situation down there. the president clearly exceeded the intended purpose of this act in making this declaration and so you're putting republicans in a position where they're forced to choose between adherence and acting on greater border security. >> we have two former spokesmen for two former speakers of the house. listening to kevin mccarthy there, it struck me. brendan, your former boss trying to strike a balance with the president arguing you don't know what i'm doing in private to try to help what's going on here but kevin mccarthy has taken this a step further in that he is -- he was trying to convince his members that there was nothing wrong with the president declaring a national emergency. when you and i both know if barack obama tried to do this

they would have been screaming in the hallways. >> we have had this conversation before s. there hypocrisy? otherwise. when president obama did a bunch of things outside of bounds democrats were happy to do it. in fact, criticizing the president here they're talking about how excited they are to take steps on day one of the next democratic president. ultimately this is going to be determined in the courts. when president obama spent money he didn't have an appropriation for, when john boehner was speaker, he took him to court and sued and won. >> do you think that sets a precedent for if the president is sued this time around? >> yeah. i would think so. and i think ultimately this issue is not going away, unfortunately. this is a long tail whether it's from the court case or spending fights to come. if the president does continue to go forward with it, expect democrats to try to defund it in the next spending bills and this fight is going to be with us for

quite a while. >> very cheerful. jake, this obviously the president said he'll veto this. the reality is it's largely irrelevant and not decided in congress and putting republicans in the senate in a tough spot. >> it does. you could tell my mcconnell to read the tea leaves -- >> one of my favorite parlor games. >> that is to me mcconnell saying on this one we have to unfortunately let the chips fall where they may and people vote how they need to vote and i won't strong arm anybody. that's how i read that. i think senate republicans, the sense i got and the body language, maybe you got a different one, it was the white house can't really do anything on this issue to say, on this one follow us because they followed the senate republicans followed the white house on nearly every other issue and this is a precedent setting issue where congress feels like i think a lot of republicans feel like, okay, we need to put

our foot down and put a stake in the ground and say you can't just because you don't get your way on capitol hill like under obama we have to take action here so i think that's the vibe that i got this week. >> largely a free vote at this point. 13 republicans that voted for it in the house. far short of what you need to override a veto. there's no override level and that frees up members to vote for it or against it, the consequences are lower. >> for people not in this every day like we are and they look at the difference of the senate and the house on the issue, how would you explain the difference between house and senate republicans on this? >> house republicans are up every two years, more concerned of a primary challenge than every general loss. they're in districts of president trump is popular. senate republicans up every six years. a handful in states where there's a real potential of losing to a democrat. and they are able to communicate

with a statewide media and build a statewide profile in a way that a house republican can't. if they have a principled position against this like rand paul, they can tell the constituents about that in a compelling way. >> we'll see if it extends to other difficult questions for the republicans in coming weeks. thank you so much. just ahead, the green new deem with 2020 on the horizon, it's a focal point for members on both sides of the aisle. former senator heitkamp tells us if it's a viable plan for her party to run on. ♪ did you know you can save money by using dish soap to clean grease on more than dishes? using multiple cleaners on grease can be expensive, and sometimes ineffective. for better value, tackle grease with dawn ultra.

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as they have? >> i think we have to say what does this mean? democrats embracing a movement towards stopping carbon emissions in the future and addressing climate change? that's a winning strategy. it's a lossing traenlg to say all one way. we'll move too quickly from fossils, disrupt the economy and they're going to lose in the argument that you will be able to do this in the time period that's been laid out. so, if we -- if you want to look at it the president ignoring climate, that's bad on his side. the democrats basically saying there's only one way to address it. as a huge problem needs to be address but they want realistic solutions, solutions that don't

disrupt the economy. >> it is interesting. i hear the lessons learned a little bit in how you talk about this. i'm interested what you took away from your loss in 20 -- in this -- in 2018 in this past election. you were somewhat of an unlikely democrat in the first place. some people were surprised to see a democrat winning in north dakota. but obviously something changed from the time when you were able to pull that off and this more recent election. what lessons did you take away from your loss and what has changed? >> it is interesting because if you looked, looked at two of the most important initiatives that passed in the last six years for the fossil fuel industry was the exportation of crude oil, which i led in the senate and got across the finish line in a year and the passage of a tax credit for carbon sequestration and utilization to we could advance

new technologies to attack climate but also look how the fossil industry could be part of the solution. neither of those really made a whole lot of difference because i was branded as a democrat. i was branded as somebody who didn't care about those jobs. you know, it goes back to secretary clinton saying we're going put a lot of coal miners out of work. that is frightening to anyone. and i think we have to start understanding that if we're going represent working people there are a lot of working people who work on oil rigs and who work in coal mines and the fossil fuel industry, they need to hear where this role is going to be moving forward in this economy. and that is a mistake i think the democratic party makes is they want to address climate which is important. but you absolutely have to address jobs.

>> it is very -- no, please. hillary clinton and that quote, i'm fascinated you bring that up. right now in the primary process you have bernie sanders running at the democratic socialist coined of unapologetically. and --. or do you think amy klobuchar's strategy is the way to go? >> i don't think we should look at this as strategy. the most important thing we need to do is lay out a public policy plan for the american people. could we do better in both categories of making healthcare

more affordable, attacking climate change? you bet. and we need all ideas to the forefront. and i think it is going to be the ideas that the american public see as realistic and as rational and responsible that are going win. it is up to these candidates to make their case. and i think that there is a lot of room for more candidates to get in and for more discussion on these issues. we've let this whole green new deal medicare for all kind of dominate the political discussion that. political discussion needs to be a lot broader. and i think a broader discussion about solutions is where the democratic party ought to head if they plan on being successful in 2020. >>, very interesting message. former senator heidi heitkamp. thank you for coming on tonight. >> thank you so much. >> when we return an update on alabama where a pair of tornados

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among them an 8-year-old girl. also numerous injuries. we're getting a look inside of this town. and if you can come over here. take a look. this is a gas station, which was once a gas station. extensive damage. walls are no longer here. the roof was ripped off. the owner of this gas station tells us that the propane tanks, they were collecting them from across the interstate here. one of employees was actually inside of the gas station when the tornado came through. he came outside and he took cover over here but this cement wall and that actually may have saved his life. he suffered some cuts and bruises. but is okay otherwise. we're told that emergency workers are going house to house, door to door right now assessing the damage. and seeing if people still need help. kasie?

>> tammy leitner in smith station alabama. that's it for us tonight here on "kasie dc." back with you next week from 7:00 to 9:00 eastern. presids base at cpac in a speech that went on for more than two hours. he lashed out at his political opponents and dismissed the mueller probe. new reporting that congress is looking into whether anyone linked to the white house to keep michael cohen from flipping on the president. >> senator rand paul comes out against the president's declaration for a border wall. good morning, everyone. it's monday, march 4th. i'm ayman mohyeldin