so asha, what do you make of that, that this is clearly their strategy? >> well, this is always the defense strategy. if the facts and the law aren't on your side, go after the prosecutors and the police and discredit the actual basis of the investigation. you know, they can try to discredit comey, but he's not the only witness here. we tend to think of this as he said/she said between the president and comey, but there are a lot of actions both before and after the conversations that they both had that could point the way to providing evidence of obstruction. >> on that point of obstruction, guys, let's roll that sound if we can pull it up, rudy giuliani talking about whether or not he believes the president can obstruct justice, if we can play that. >> you don't think a president can obstruct justice? >> he can, but in the case of firing a subordinate who's going to be replaced by somebody else on an acting basis immediately -- >> but it's why you fired them, corrupt intent, part of the legal analysis. >> it doesn't matter if in fact it can't result in

asha, mimi, shimon, appreciate it. a lot to dig through. >>> coming up, he says he didn't call the president an idiot, but reports indicate that chief of staff john kelly isn't on great terms with his boss either. we'll get the latest from the white house on the central relationship in the west wing. >>> plus, the one letter with massive implications. why a typo from the white house raised eyebrows around the world and could have dramatically changed the status of iran's nuclear program if even for just a few minutes. we'll be right back. patrick woke up with back pain. but he has work to do. so he took aleve. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. aleve. all day strong. ♪ with expedia you could book a flight, hotel, car and activity all in one place. ♪ searching for answers may feel overwhelming. so start your search with our teams of specialists at cancer treatment centers of america. the evolution of canc

asha, what -- getting to where we are, mj was laying out for us, what does it mean to you that these bank reports, these reports could be missing? >> well, kate, i trust this employee when he says that this is unusual, having worked in the fbi, i understand that there are certain protocols and if i had -- if i were to go into a case file, for example, and there were certain serials or documents missing, that would be alarming. but i want to point out that what the special counsel is investigating is extraordinary as well. this is an unprecedented election interference by a hostile foreign power that has counterintelligence elements, so i think that it could be possible that these may have been removed because they are relevant to a highly sensitive investigation. on the other side, if they were removed illegally, i would be surprised if that was not on the radar of mueller's team, he has the lead prosecutor for the enron case, so he has people who are very familiar with these processes and i'm not sure whether the leak was the right way to go forward with this person's concern. >> yo

. >> asha, there is a lot of debate on this, but isn't there the intent question?that other than donald trump? >> nobody else can answer it, and it may behoove him to give that information. because if all the circumstantial evidence is he knew about flynn, he wanted it to go away, he wanted sessions to not recuse, he tried to get the cia and nsa to stop the investigation. this doesn't look good for him. if he can be disciplined it, it might help him. >> to your point, there is a fine line between subject and target. there is also a fine line between when they told him, you're not a target today but you may be one tomorrow. the fact they delayed the sentencing for mike flynn, i think that says they're still gathering information and some of that information may be damaging to the president, so i think more than anything, we're going to find out more information that will bring him more into the loop than the other way around. >> here's a prediction, not my advice, but what is likely to happen, he'll answer all these questions in a rally in mobile, alabama. >> yep. >

is that a problem, asha? >> yes, that can be a problem. as you mentioned, quite apart from the campaign finance violations, the president had to file personal financial disclosures. these are federal forms which he signs and assures are accurate. if he lies on it, that is a separate violation, a false statements violation called 18 usc 1001. now, the admission or the mistake has to be knowing and material. so, you know, he might say it was inadvertent, i didn't realize it. but the continued pattern of trying to hide this in other ways, both in his public statements and what he's been saying kind of contradicts the idea that this would have been an inadvertent omission. so i think he has a separate issue going on right there. >> legal pickle after legal pickle after legal pickle. jeffrey toobin said, paul, that yesterday giuliani's comments in the morning about, well, we didn't want this coming out right before the election, so of course michael cohen took care of this, directly tying it to the campaign. toobin called that straight up a con

asha, thank you. >> are conservative media figures now turning on donald trump? that's next. ♪ (electronic dance music)♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> the white house is dealing with the fallout over the changing narrative about the hush money payout to porn star stormy daniels. and of course the growing questions of trust and credibility. it is not the first time but something is different here. in fact, take a listen to what happened on fox news. >> how can you drain the swamp if your the one who keeps muddying the waters? you didn't know about that $130,000 payment to a porn star until you did. said you knew nothing about how your former lawyer michael cohen handled this until acknowledging today you were the guy behind the retainer payment that took care of this. i guess you're -- too busy draining the swamp to ever stop and smell the stink you're creating. that is your doing. that is your stink. mr. president, that's your swamp. >> now cavuto speaking directly to the president. host of reliable sources brian stelter joins me now. that was a remarkable moment and we also heard

how unusual, asha, is a briefing like this?appening. we have an ongoing investigation right now. congress obviously has broad oversight authority. typically they're looking at something after an investigation has concluded. what we have right now is the department of justice pushing back and saying this is going to threaten national security and may get one of our sources killed if we give you this information. and it's also not really happening in the context of a full congressional investigation. that was ostensibly concluded with republicans issued the report. i think all of this makes this somewhat out of the ordinary. >> we know adam schiff, the ranking member of the house intelligence committee, he separately, we're told, is going to be briefed on this. >> i think they're going to be trying to come up with some negotiation compromise where they can satisfy congress's request while still preserving the national security concerns. you need to remember, wolf, it's not just about the danger to the source in this particular ca

supervisor katy tang and asha introduced the ordinance at the store that offers only reusable and compostable straws. that would become the standard under the new proposal. if it passes, it would take effect july of next year. >>> you're never more than seven minutes away from my accuweather forecast. we'll start with temperatures around san francisco. they look and feel just about the same as yesterday. we vt temperatures around 51 to about 54 degrees. places like the castro and the mission, about 53 degrees. let's take a look at the san mateo bridge. it's pretty dry right now. still a small threat of very light sprinkles to showers today, but we'll call it fair to good. everything is pretty much green because the chance is so small, whether you're driving, whether you're on the ferry today, if you're taking mass transit, once again, the heat is absent. it is cool this morning, it will be kind of cool this afternoon if not at least comfortable. east bay valleys, temperatures in the mid to upper 70s. you'll be in the mid to upper 60s with the thickest cloud cover through the morning hours. fo

it grew in their communities like a cancer partly asha reaction t dominance.at least 1.5 million sunni iraqis are living in camps. millions have lost their hes, their jobs, and stake in iraqi society, their lives destroyed by islamic state or the fight against them. countless sunnis won't be voting because they ltht documents or fled many miles from where they are registered to vote. this man and his wife are from mosul. humana trucking business there. as the fighting to liberate t city intensified, their entire extended family took shelter in their home. then it wasan hit bffect. -- airstrike. >> there were 20 people in the house. they all died. rothe house was ded and there was nothing left. my husband was paralyzed. we have no money, and it has been two months since he has had any medication. reporter: they don't know if it was an american or iraqi or raf jet that targeted them. perhaps it doesn't matter now. they worry that the plight of the sunnis uld prompt a return to violence. the last leg of our journey will take us through anbar province and up to th

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let me turn now to asha. we walk-through all these details of what trump -- investigating the investigators, i want you to walk me through what is a confidential source, one. and how often would the fbi deploy one in a presidential chain in a lead up to an electi election. >> we've been hearing the term informant a lot. it's been used in criminal investigations. in counter intelligence investigations, you'll use an asset or a source. in a counter intelligence investigation, you investigate contacts that foreign intelligence officers are having with people inside the united states. you want to find out what they are doing. you may use an asset or a source to get some of that information to sus out what is exactly going on there. it's partly to keep the investigation itself confidential. because you may not want to alert the foreign intelligence service of what's going on. >> it can generate more intelligence. if that interaction between the source and the target is then picked up on the other end, in this case

attorney mike moore and ash asha ringafa. good evening to all of you. evan, you first. what do we know? >> well, don, we know that these questions were put together, were brin by the president's legal team. they had a meeting last month. and during that meeting, they heard from the special counsel robert mueller's team, the four categories of what they had for the president. they put together the 50 or so. the fbi director as well as the national security adviser as well as the president's relationship, his treatment, his mistreatment who believes he did the wrong thing by recusing himself on the investigation. i tell you, the most important part, i think, the most interesting part of the questions deal with the question what we' come to call collusion. whether there was illegal coordination between the c campaign and the russians. despite what you hear from the president, he petedly, he said there was no collusion, no collusion, robert mueller is not done with that question. and very many -- 25% here have to do with that subject matter. and so i think what this tells u

station and on to our trains and we cannot ignore it underground, the salvation army tried to reach asha matthews. who tells me she's been down here for about a month, and declined any assistance.sot i am alright, i am alright she left the station, unclear on where she'd go next. (justine) handing out food, socks and hygiene kits, bart admits is just putting a band-aid on the problem. long term solutions are needed.. like affordable housing and rehab programs. in the newsroom justine waldman kron 4 news. (pam) turning now to our four zone forecast.(ken) chief meteorologist lawrence karnow joins us now with a look at the end of your work week. lawrence karnow: temperatures warmed for most of the bay area today. highs moved well into the 70s inland with cool fog and 50s at the coast. if you're going out tonight we can expect cool fog to begin to move back into the bay. it will become partly to mostly cloudy tonight with lows in the 50s. you can see a few more showers and thunderstorms on our doppler radar. it will likely remain active in the high country for the next few days. on the satel

today, i have an in memory for a powerful freedom fighter, kelou asha. i am proud to pay homage to her legacy today. today she would have been 79 years old, and she loved celebrating her birthday alongside malcolm x, yu yuri kochiyama. she was a long time resident of san francisco, living in by view, fillmore and chinatown high school. she was the daughter of larue purcha purchase -- purcell and sibling to seven brothers and sisters. she blue cross oped into a prolive -- blossomed into a prolific speaker, producing bay area video coalition comments until her death. she demanded rights and dignity for the poor and homeless, was recognized by her neighbors as a tenant leader while living with a disability for years. she fought to make her building disability accessible. she's art and culture together, inspired and express solidarity among others the people of haiti, south after ra, palestine, and the philippines, and supported black august, a month to embrace the principles of black resistance and to remain steadfast in the struggle to free political priso

shamvote is asha essentially. -- moving forward, i do not think anyone expected this outcome to be differentew level of sanctions on venezuela with concerns over its crude production. >> venezuela is producing 1.4 to 1.5 million barrels a day. given this new wave of sanctions from the trump administration, the situation is likely to get worse before it gets better. the floor could be somewhat even below one million barrels a day in the rate of 500,000 to 600,000 barrels a day. if we get to that point, you know, prices can go even higher than what we are forecasting, up to the $85 to $95 barrel range. >> we may then see a freefall in oil production from venezuela. both in terms of the amount of oil and quality of oil. that may mean it is one of the pager risks for the oil markets in the months to come. >> the italian president has asked the northern region to form a government. conte is backed by an anti-immigrant league, whose euro-skeptic policies are around the markets. what happens next? i am fascinated to know who will be the next finance minister? e will put together his list of cabinet

station and on to our trains and we cannot ignore it underground, the salvation army tried to reach asha matthews. who tells me she's been down here for about a month, and declined any assistance.sot i am alright, i am alright she left the station, unclear on where she'd go next. (grant) (grant) kron 4 is your local election headquarters... and with just 19 days to go until the june primary... santa clara county is facing a major problem... it badly needs more people to work the polls.. kron4's ali reid is live in san jose. how many more people are needed? there is an urgent need for an additional 1400 people to sign up within the next 2 and a half weeks.and for the primaries, that's tough.in santa clara county, about 4-thousand workers are needed to handle over 800 polling places.we do like to have 5 people there and with all the languages in silicon valley, we like to have people in each polling place in areas where people speak a different language other than english, for people to help in that languageelection officers normally check voters in, prove and collect ballots, and assist i

processors katie tang and asha safyi. they only offer reusable abstraws and that will be a requirement unthe proposal. backers say it represents reduce litter in san francisco and improvement the environment. i'm about to show you go disturbing video showing how plastic can harm marine life look away for a few seconds. the poor sea turtle discovered in costa ricka with a straw in its nose became a rallying cry for action. >> our planet is going to suffer if we don't reduce the amount of plastic waste that we consume every day and disard on streets. >> other bay area cities are taking steps. berkeley is considering a plastic straw ban as well a 25 cent surcharge and disposable cups and containers. oakland is considering making plastic straws available upon request. already adopted in alameda and santa cruz. the san francisco ordinance would require businesses to give ou befrpg lids and condiment packets and only on request. with the idea that it helps san francisco become a zero waste city by 2020. larry and ama. >> thank

joining me now is democratic strategist asha moody-middle and margaret breedo.his into two parts. i want to ask you why you regard what president trump as an outrage because it's factually untrue. he did not double in terms of the poll numbers for blacks. i think he went up a little with black men. black women he did not move at all. so it's a lie what he said. >> it's a straight-up lie. i would like to be generous and say that they like to deal in fuzzy math, but we know trump doesn't do math at all. so a poll came out that wasn't even a real poll that was statistically valid that said that some black men said that they like trump, maybe a few more black men. that didn't have any reflection on the entire african-american community at all. several other polls came out saying actually there's been no change. actually that was a lie. it's funny that he says this lie at the nra conference because you know that's the home of black people. >> but that's my point, marvette. you as one who has shaped and molded some of the music industry's great artists and superstars,

. >> he also said asha, that the president is going to be happy and i don't know how correct he is in alleging that. russia is the target and president trump is not the target. he clearly thinks that that's something that should give the president comfort and yet it doesn't. it seems that the president over and over cannot separate these things from himself and from challenging as he sees the legitimacy of his presidency. >> that's right, briana. it's quite unusual because acknowledging that it was a counterintelligence investigation would allow the president to say, look, i wasn't being investigated which is what he wants. the threshold to use a source that involves any kind of first amendment activity, journalist, clergy is so high, and i think what we're seeing from gowdy and others is that they have seen a very high threshold of evidence that the fbi had in its possession to believe that russia posed a national security threat against the campaign and they were working against it. it doesn't mean that since then that there has been more evidence that maybe the president wouldn't b

. >> asha, is there any way you think robert mueller would go for this idea, or is it nothing?> this is more spaghetti they're throwing on the wall and hoping it will stick. i think what they're playing is a game of constitutional chicken. i don't think mueller is going to blink. he wants an interview, and he wants to do it one-on-one and in person. and if he can't get that, i think he will issue a subpoena. and i think rudy giuliani's team needs to be real careful. because if this goes to court, the issue of whether the president can be subpoenaed is, in many ways, inextricably tied up with whether the president can be indicted. that is a legal question that's not been settled, ever. that could be something that's an unintended consequence of something that gets challenged in court that may not go in the president's favor. and if that happens, that opens up a whole new can of worms. >> ryan, do you ever see mueller not agreeing to not asking questions about possible obstruction of justice? >> if the subject of your investigation is the obstruction of justice, i would think mue

joining me now is asha rangappa, former fbi special agent. never want someone to review -- have a review of you and say they don't think you're all there. if the president is not happy now with rudy giuliani, after being so happy with his initial forum an performance, how long do you think he lasts? >> i think if the president is smart, he would not last much longer. i believe that the president has brought on emmet flood, a well well regarded attorney and i think what he needs is somebody who is going to basically keep a steady ship and not create more legal problems and contradict what the narrative is that the legal team is on. you want them to be speaking with one voice, that's what he's going to want. doesn't sound like giuliani is on the same page. >> giuliani is not speaking with one voice for himself from interview to interview. the wall street journal is reporting that the -- that trump's legal team has set something of a deadline for may 17th on whether or not the president is going to testify before the special counsel. what do you

so michael cohen ashas a histor of bringing people to the president. but when you are in the proximity to a president of the united states, it's not about lining your pockets or play for pay, it's about the people and not lining your pockets. >> sarah sanders dodging questions left and right. >> all day and twice on sunday. >> the payments received. so let's watch. >> do you know whether mr. cohen ever approached the white house as a representative of any of those companies, whether the president was aware of the payments or whether he was aware that mr. cohen was marketing something? >> i'm not aware, and again i would refer you to the outside council. >> has the president taken any action during his administration to benefit the at&t airspace? >> not that i know of am. >> are you aware michael cohen was able to buy insights into this? >> i'm not going to get into anyone's qualifications. >> again and again she can't get into it. do you feel the press is getting the run around? >> we always get the run around. the only answer that was missing out of t

cnn legal analyst asha joins us right now. at&t says it did nothing illegal here.tained documents that said why cohen was hired. to focus on long-term initiatives as well as corporate tax reform and the acquisition of time warner. this was three days after the inauguration. at&t hired this real estate lawyer who has taxi medallions to advise on telecommunications and corporate tax reform. does that seem at all fishy to you? >> well, i think that we can question the wisdom for sure of hiring michael cohen based on his expertise when it had nothing to do with telecommunications. but on its face, that is not yet legally problematic. he can legally provide strategy based on his own insights, you know, about how at&t should move forward. and if he wasn't actually lobbying, it may not cross that line either. i think that the question, john, is what was the nature of the agreement, what was promised, and did he actually deliver on certain things or promise certain outcomes. and here's where that search on his residence and his office come into play. it's worth noting that

. >> the first anchor team for me first directing on this show was mark mullen and asha blake.on "world news now" is really different than any other broadcast, because "world news now" is a very different show than any other broadcast. one of the first things i really liked about "world news now" is that you had an opportunity to do everything. it could be anything from balloons to a bubble machine, to a special report. some days you just can't even prepare for that, because someone brings in a rabbit. someone brings in a dog. we don't look past, it's really what are we doing tomorrow. ♪ "world news now" london '97. we had an anchor who lost his luggage. >> lost two pieces, you know, in a direct flight. how does that happen? >> on the air, he just was killing the airline for a week. >> a garment bag and another bag. my guess is that it never made it across the atlantic. >> and just is still waiting to get that luggage back. ♪ we're coming home we've done our time ♪ >> the city that we love and the budget that we can afford. we're going to do five days in new york city. go to po

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