the court records, so my question is what can we do about the secrecy, why don't we -- i think adam cohen try -- tried to address that with imbeciles. something had to be done post civil war that replaced slavery that ran the big estates and i think this is the way it was done and i think that the attitudes we have in this country towards people in appalachia is very much the same attitudes we have now towards single mothers, those children were not born in virginal circumstances but we don't give credit to the grandmothers and the mothers who are raising children and trying to do the right thing so what can we do about the secrecy in bringing these things more current for everyone? >> okay. i think i like to think modestly that i've started something. i'd like to think that the interest in appalachia and the specifics of writing about foster care for the first time will launch more people writing about it more. i'm going to deviate from what you asked because it'll relate on what they have been talking about. what i actually fear most and this is where people look at you and say, you're

i think adam cohen tried to address this with in the cell and i applaud that book. but this was all part of a greater economic system, because something had begun post civil war to replace the slavery that ran these big estates. and i think this is the way it was done. and i think that the attitudes we have in this country for people and appalachia is very much the same attitudes we have now toward single mothers. those children were not born in virginal circumstances, but we don't give credit to the grandmothers and mothers who are raising children and trying to do the right thing so what can we do about the secrecy in bringing these things more current for everyone? >> okay, i like to think modestly that i started something. >> .. what i actually fear most and this is one of the thing for people look at you and say you're crazy, that's never going to happen. what i fear most is that the future of foster care is going backward and is going toward a place where we are going to see a return to work houses and the not going to be called that. there's no way america is

. >> michael cohen adamant on twitter saying he was at usc with his son, he was this los angeles, not in prague. >> you can only be in los angeles with your son for what? a week, two weeks? the time period was a month, at least. something like that. somewhere between august and september. that only may account for a very short period of time. michael cohen's statements don't really hold a lot of water for me and giving somebody a passport to show that you weren't in prague when you don't need a passport stamp to show that you were in prague if you were in another country like germany. he's trying to be very cute and that's not impressive to me. >> could be undone. let's return to the attorney-client privilege issue. this is something that's quite upsetting to the president of the united states. his tweet this morning, attorney-client privilege is now a thing of the past. i have too many lawyers and they are probably wondering when their offices or even homes are going to be raided with everything, even their computers and phones taken. all lawyers are deflated and concerned! >> oh, no

late tonight, saying mueller has evidence confirming a portion of the steele dossier that involves cohen. adam davidson and reporter michael rothfeld, one of the two reporter who's broke the story of the payout. what did you report today? >> we reported that he will yoit broady who was until today an rnc fund raising official had agreed to pay $1.6 million to a woman with whom he was having a sexual relationship for more than a year. in fact, she was a former playmate and he had been paying her to have an exclusive sexual relationship outside his marriage. she told him that she became pregnant and he was the father. and so michael cohen stepped in and told elliott broidy, i can fix this for you. they negotiated a felon disclosure agreement in which he would pay her and she would not disclose details of the affair. >> there are many excellent details in your reporting. in the contract of the nda, what relationship to those aliases bear to the alias in the infamous stormy daniels contract. >> michael cohen also negotiated the porn star nda and dot trump was known as david dennison. in this agree

and says every time -- which is what cincinnatus down and jerome that's why john adams called in the cincinnatus andy cohen cicerone, he called him social because sister was the great statesman and order. it was a legislative leader that provided cincinnatus with all the necessary forces to win that war. >> what was the code they use between the brothers? >> it's too complicated to get into here. you can see a little bit in the book. thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen,. [applause] >> you are watching booktv on c-span2 with top nonfiction books and authors every weekend. .. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> ladies and gentlemen. >> i care

cohen raid and what happened on monday. the president's reaction to it, the federal court filing, and it's an significant investigation. adam yorker" believes it's more important, cohen knows everything. he recorded much of it and now prosecutors will know it, too. there will be resistance and denial and counterattacks, but it seems likely that when we look back on this week we will see it as a turning point and we are in the end stages of the trump presidency, carol lee and michael cohen, always been important. do you think the mueller investigators see this, too? >> absolutely. there were few people who know as much as mike alley coen does, and even what we know publicly which i always presume it's less than actually known. it shows how he was the president's fixer and he was the guy who went and took care of things and so the fact that he had all of his information, all of his contacts potentially recordings of his conversations is you can see how its become an exist earn threat for the president and you can see it just in the way he's reacting about it. >> i want to play something, the allegation about him being in prag

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. >> barbara mcquaid and adam davidson, thank you for joining us. coming up, why michael cohen's raid is a big scandal for the entire republican party that goes beyond his connection to just the president. i'll explain that ahead. we use our phones and computers the same way these days. so why do we pay to have a phone connected when we're already paying for internet? shouldn't it all just be one thing? that's why xfinity mobile comes with your internet. you can get up to 5 lines of talk and text included at no extra cost. so all you pay for is data. see how you could save $400 or more a year. and get $200 back when you sign up for xfinity mobile and add a new line of unlimited. xfinity mobile. it's a new kind of network designed to save you money. click, call or visit an xfinity store today. the office and residence and hotel room of the rnc's national deputy finance chairman. because remember, michael cohen isn't just donald trump's fixer he's currently a major republican fund-raiser and hardly the only republican official mired in scandal. another is accused of dangling access

cohen. i want to play for you what house and ranking member adam schiff said in the president's call to fox & friends. and the stormy daniels matter. >> i have no doubt that the president was given one marching order for his interview this morning and that was, you need to say michael cohen was your lawyer on stormy daniels. you need that, because you contradicted that. michael cohen contradicted that by saying neither one of you discussed it. we need you to do this. so, he did that. >> what do you make of that? >> the preseident's story keeps changing. and michael cohen's story keeps changing. and if they were true, you wouldn't voluntary these conflicting stories. i think for the president to say michael cohen represented him with stormy danielses i think that makes it even worse. that was a massive campaign finance violation and that makes this fodder even more to be true. >> and you said he has to get out there and validate michael cohen. obviously there's some speculation that michael cohen could flip when he gives any sort of testimony. do you think this is a play helping him to do th

is looking into the president's communications with michael cohen over that old "access hollywood" tape. let's discuss this and more with adamiff, the ranking democrat on the house intelligence committee. good morning, congressman. >> good morning. >> in your eyes, how does the fact that the president is named for the first time in this search warrant of michael cohen's belongings a lot his home and office, how does that change the investigation? >> well, i think it changes the investigation in this way. he would be of interest in that kind of search warrant if there was an effort to buy off these stories to pay hush money to make the story about "access hollywood" story to go away, or stormy daniels story to go away. there's another possibility that the timing of the release of the "access hollywood" tape and the timing of the wikileaks disclosure of the john podesta e-mails. that is less likely to be the case. that is more in the wheel house of bob mueller. he referred to the southern district of new york indicates he thought this was more about the payment of hush money than it was about the timing or whether there was an

cohen an attack on our country. in a tweet moments ago, the president says attorney/client privilege is dead. let's discuss this and so much more with republican congressman adam of illinois. good morning, congressman. >> good morning. how are you? >> i am well. >> do you think that the fbi looking into michael cohen's office is an attack our country? >> i don't like getting involved. i get that you need to in the day to day of what's going on. all i know is the fbi determined that they were going to raid. they probably have a reason for saying that. i'll find out what that reason is ultimately. i don't like getting in and kind of micro managing this investigation. what i said from the beginning is americans want to know the truth and i think we'll know the truth on everything when it's over. >> but there in lies the rub, which is if the president ends it sooner than when it is over, when robert mueller determines it's over, do you think we'll be able to get the truth on this? >> i think that will be a concern if the president somehow ends the investigation without it coming to fruition. i don't have any indication that he's going to do that. right now it's an

adam schiff, thank you for joining us. >>> up next, more on the breaking news of the fbi raid on michael cohen and why the feds are interested in that notorious "access hollywood" video tape. will this enrage the president even more as his anger toward the special counsel robert mueller reaches a new boiling point. >> "the situation room" with wolf blitzer brought to you by dell technologies. changing the game of digital transformation. a family of seven technology leaders working behind the scenes to make the impossible... reality. we're helping to give cars the power to read your mind from anywhere... and we're helping up to 40% of the nation's donated blood supply to be redirected to the people that need it most. magic can't make digital transformation happen... but we can. so let's promote our spring travel deal on choicehotels.com like this. earn one free night when you stay just twice this spring. allergies. or, badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com we're on the move. hey rick, all good? oh yeah, we're good. we're good. terminix. defenders of home. you wouldn't accept from any one else. why accept it fro

cohen and from there wired to an attorney in beverly hills. president trump denies any knowledge of the transaction. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy adams>> no. >> president trump is also weighing options to respond to suspected chemical attack in syria. huddling last night with his national security team. talking with french president emmanuel macron and british prime minister theresa may. the president today cancelled his weekend trip to peru in colombia, indicating a response could come toward the end of the week. >> we're going to continue to work with a number of our partners and allies as we determine what the next best steps are. >> defense secretary james mattis also canceled weekend plans to travel to nevada and san francisco in order to be ready at a moment's notice to respond to the president's call. we also have heard that while the united states and its allies are still working to confirm whether, in fact, chemical weapons were used in the attack, the white house remains confident that they were. the press secretary sarah huckabee sanders again saying today that the white house is fully confident with what it has said so fa

cohen has contradicted that by saying that neither one of you discussed it. he wasn't in communication with you about it. we need you to do this. so he did that. >> congressman adamchiff on why he thinks the president called in to "fox & friends" to drop this bombshell about the stormy daniels case. let's bring in republican tom reed from new york. i want to start right there. might stormy daniels ultimately be this president's achilles heel? and do you think he needed it to do that, to identify michael cohen as his attorney publicly like that? >> i don't know the internal issues related to the litigation and we'll let that process take care of itself. i think this is not an achilles heel for the president as many are trying to describe it. this is kind of one of those issues that from my perspective, needs to be dealt with, about i'm focused on being part of the team to address the american people's needs, the more we do that the better off i think we're going to be as a country. >> i want to go to what my colleague joe scarbrough wrote in an op-ed. he says there's no one who can save trump from himself. he's afflicted instead by self-imo lags. >> were you conce

adam lashinsky from "forbes." i want to cover the breaking news. dan, start with you, "new york times," report, sorry, the competition, the fbi raided the offices of president trump's long-time personal attorney michael cohen on information and basically a referral for robert mueller and the mueller probe but the "times" does say this is not directly tied to the mueller probe. something uncovered in the mueller probe ended up leading to the fbi raiding offices of michael cohen. admitted to paying off a porn actress. what do you make of this breaking news? >> connected to markets today, we know markets are on a hair trigger these days. donald trump says tariffs are going in the right direction. market goes up 400 points. even he can only control markets for three or four hours. as to cohen, surely markets discounted all of this information related to stormy daniels. internalized most of this by now. surely they expected he would be, his offices would be investigated by mueller. i'm pretty skeptical of the idea that a selloff of this magnitude had to do with one lawyer. cheryl: adam, it is a bit of surprise. markets, investors learned to ride out, whether the trade war or syria. whether the latest tweet. we

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