we were finally successful in persuading clark clifford, prevailing upon him to move from the kitchenet to the east room. some people have compared this appointment to a wedding, after a very long and sometimes secret courtship, we're finally making an honest man out of him. the chief justice honors us by his willingness to be present this morning and administer the oat oath. >> i, clark m. clifford. >> do solemnly swear. >> do solemnly swear. >> that i will support and defend the constitution. >> my remarks are in the nature of expressions of gratitude and appreciation. first to the president for his exceedingly gracious remarks and for the trust and confidence that he evidences. and second, i thank him for giving me the opportunity to try to retire a debt that i have. a debt that i have had for many years and one that with passing time has grown, that is the debt that i owe to this country. for some 61 years i now have enjoyed the blessings of freedom and liberty, of security and safety and of unlimited opportunity and i thank -- >> replacing robert mcnamara as head of the nation's

kernan who's standing by for us in beijing clifford we just heard there from chancellor merkel what are germany's business interests in china well germany has many business interests. mostly focused on cars technology engineering german cars are all over the streets in china today books are going as one of the biggest companies here she will be looking just to deepen not relationship now especially to get better access for german firms she often complains about a lack of level playing fields where chinese firms in germany have different. and better circumstances than german firms working in china so should be pushing to deepen the relationship and to and to get these level playing fields for german firms operating in china ok thoroughly or chancellor met with premier li ke what was the focus of that meeting was trade dominating those talks or other aspects. trade is always it was always the top of the agenda between germany and china and the coach young is also the senior leader who's responsible for dealing with the economy so they would have been discussing and various trade issue

clifford, and neither reimbursed mfor the payment, ther directly or indirectly." at the time, white house press secretary sarah sanders echoed pat denial from the white house briefiium. >> there was no knowledge of ath payments fropresident, and he's denied all of these , legations. >> woodruff: todnders faced a new barrage of questions. s >> as giuliani stated, ts something that wasn't initially known but was later learned, we give the best information we have at thtime. >> woodruff: cohen is now the target of an f.b.i. investigation. agents raided his home and office last month,eportedly searching for documents on the clifford payment, among other things. clifford is now pursuing her own ntvil suit against preside trump, for defamation. we'll examine the implications of the giuliani disclosures, after the news summary. in the day's other news, the white house has a new reason for why president trump fired james co in his "fox news" interview last night, psidential lawyer rudy giuliani said it was "because comey would not say that he-- trump-- wasn't a target" in

opportunity, and i thank -- >> replacing robert mcnamara, clifford inherited the responsibilities, immediately

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mess with no kron 4 news.charles clifford in santa rosa, charles clifford kron 4 news.ken)those in the recycling industry describe it as a mess with no where to go. why officials say california is overwhelmed with recycling. (pam) plus: as their mom is put behind bars today... we learn more about what police found, when they originally entered a fairfield home. police say, the children described in detail what they went through. (pam) the fairfield mother accused of child abuse and torture appeared in court again today.(ken) the solano county district attorney's office filed a motion to add charges against 31-year-old ina rogers...(pam) and, as kron four's philippe djegal reports from fairfield... the judge granted that motion. (philippe) 31-year-old ina (eye-nuh) rogers arrived at solano county superior court with family by her side... she would later leave with sheriff's deputies after being taken into custody.sharon henry/da's office- "nobody, um, should live in those conditions." on march 31st -- rogers was arrested and posted bail on a misdemeanor charge of child e

clifford says it wasmoney, to buy her silence about an alleged sexual affair with mr. trump in 2006. the president has denied any hsrelationship, and for mohe denied knowing about a payment. eyen last night, newly hired attorudy giuliani, acknowledged president trump repaid cohen. >> that was money that was paid by his lawyer, t, way i would t of his law firm funds or whatever funds it doesn't matter edand the president reimbu that over the period of several months. >> woodruff: app"hring on fox's nity," giuliani maintained the president was unaware of details of the stormy s matter, until recently. >> he didn'tnow about the specifics of it, as far as i know. but he did know abt the general arrangement, that michael would take care of things like this. >> woodruff: giuliani told "the new york times" that mr. trump made a series of payments to cohen of $35,000 each, totaling as much as $460,000, for what he called "incidental expenses." he rejected any notion that the payments might have violated campaign funding lawha >>money was not campaign money, sorry. i'm giving y

how did he end up becoming miss clifford's lawyer? >> well, i mean, we learned a lot about keith davidson. we continue to learn a lot. i don't think there's any question that the relationship between keith and michael cohen was not arm's length. it's unclear as to exactly how close they were. but that was not a traditional relationship among two adversaries. it appears they have had a long history together. they have a history that post-dates and pre-dates the involvement of my client. we're still trying to get to the bottom of exactly what happened there. >> do you believe that miss clifford was pitched his services under false pretensions? >> i don't want to offer an opinion on that right now. i will say this. there's no question that i would have handled it quite a bit differently. >> how did you come to be representing miss clifford? it's my understanding you said it was a referral. who referred you? >> i'm not going to get into the details of that. i will say this. no political party or anybody that's politically active referred

kron 4 news. kron 4 news.charles clifford mateo county, charles clifford kron 4 news. (vicki) another big story we are following tonight... we are getting a look at newly released body cam footage from last year's deadly wildfires. it's chaotic video all caught on camera by santa rosa police officers. in the video -- you can hear the officers running door to door, urging people to evacuate ... and the sheer panic in their voices... take a listen... (mk)pkgánatsáit's a dog, come on! nooooo. you got to get out of here. ma'am we have to save other people we can't deal with this right now i'm sorry. please. please let me get my dog.ánatsáhello? hello?ánatsá should i grab shoes or? no just get in. we don't have time for shoes.ánatsáright here. i got you. here. here. ánatsápantingánatsáare you aware that we have a huge fire going on out here? a fire? yes ma'am.ánatsáthe thing is on fire up there, you can't do anything. i'm not going up there, i have to get my trailer so i can move my horses! everything is on fire up there!ánatsáknocks.ánatsá knocks down door.ánatsátime to go

new tonight at the story that's clifford has charles kron 4's charles clifford has the story that's new tonight at nine... natsthe san jose police department says kron4 news.charles clifford kron4 news. lawrence karnow: it was another nice day around the bay area today with hot temperatures inland. some highs soared into the 90s inland but it was much cooler at the coast. the sea breeze will continue to strengthen tonight and tomorrow to bring much cooler weather to the entire bay area by tomorrow. it's quiet on the doppler now but we could see some showers over the mountains the next few days. on the satellite image you can see a low pressure system off the coast. much cooler air will sweep in from the gulf of alaska and drop some temperatures more than 20 degrees (vicki) new tonight at nine. starbucks locations across the country were closed for four hours today as employees were trained against racial bias. it came as a response after two black men were arrested at a phildelphia shop last month. kron 4's ella sogomonian is live in san francisco where she met with a diversity and incl

kron 4 news. kron 4 news.charles clifford in san francisco, charles clifford kron 4 news.rant) new at nine... a surveillance camera intended to thwart would-be criminals captured something completely unexpected. across the street you see the exact moment a bolt of lightning strikes a daytona beach florida home, exploding on the roof.cindy holt: "it was huge, it shook the house i mean, cuz when he come in, i thought he had actually hit the garage door. it was scary... i just thank god nobody was in the house at the time." the roof was smoking the roof was smoking right after. the home's electrical the home's electrical system is fried. nobody was home...no injuries. (grant) now to our four zone forecast... as we take this live look outside at the embarcadero... joining us joining us now is chief meteorologist lawrence karnow... lawrence karnow: low clouds and fog were very slow to burn off leaving cool temperatures along the coast and bay with some 70s inland. the fog is already pushing onshore and will likely bring more drizzle near the coast. doppler radar is tracking mor

clifford was pitched his services under false pretenses? >> i don't want to offer an opinion on that right now. i think there's no question i would have handled it differently. >> how did you come to be representing miss clifford? you said it was a referral. who referred you? >> i'm not going to get into the details. no particular party referred me if that's what people are suggesting. that appears to be a recent conspiracy theory in an effort to did ebunk our effort. we are pursuing this for all the right reasons. >> do you believe your case is somehow connected to robert mueller? has robert mueller reached out to you or only the folks at the southern district of new york? >> i'm not at liberty to discuss who we have communicated with. we are cooperating. >> have you been asked to speak to robert mueller? you or your client been asked to speak to robert mueller's prosecutors? that's not something others have felt they could disclose. >> others may not. that's not my position. my position is we're going to respect the process and not provid

kron 4's charles clifford has more from sfo.you may have noticed that the terminals are a madhouse of traffic as people are dropped off and picked along the terminal curbs. natsto relieve the congestions, the airport is considering implementing a two tiered pricing system for ride share services like lyft and uber. users would pay a premium to be dropped off or picked up curbside at the terminals and a pay lower rate to be picked up or dropped off further away in the garage. the airport would convert the top level of the main parking garage into a ride share zone. friday afternoon, travellers at the airport seemed to like the idea of reducing congestion but some where skeptical of the new pricing plan.soti think it's ok. if it saves congestion that fine. if the people coming in get easier access to the airport that ok.sotif i'm already paying for uber they should drop me off where i want to be dropped off. i shouldn't have to pay twice or extra just to be dropped off closer.soti don't think it's a terrible idea if congestion is

(grant) kron-4's charles clifford joins us live --- with the latest charles?his all started back on march 3st when fairfield police found a missing 12-year-old and took the child home and discovered what they are calling squalor. the fairfield police department says that during a search of this home on fieldstone court,

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neither the trump organization nor the trump campaign was a party to the transaction with miss clifford and neither reimbursed me for the payment either directly or indirectly." play the clip. >> having something to do with paying some stormy daniels woman $130,000, i mean, which is going to turn out to be perfectly legal. that money was not campaign money. sorry, i'm giving you a fact now that you don't know, it's not campaign money. no campaign finance violation. so -- >> they funneled it through the law firm. >> funneled it through the law firm and the president repaid it. >> oh. i didn't know. he did? >> yeah. >> there's no campaign finance law. >> zero. just like every -- sean -- >> so this decision was made by -- >> everybody was nervous about this from the beginning i was not. i knew how much money donald trump put into that campaign. i said 130,000? he's going to do a couple of checks for 130,000. when i heard cohen's retainer of 35,000, when he was doing no work for the president. i said, well, that's how he's repaying -- that's how he's repaying it, with a little profit and a

. >> you're saying that stephanie clifford made these allegations, told donald trump's lawyer, look - denied them and then said it wasn't true. however, imagine if that came out on october 15, 2016, in the middle of the last debate with hillary clinton. >> right, so to make it go away, they made this -- >> cohen didn't even ask. cohen made it go away. >> trevor: rudy! rudy! ( laughter ) ( applause ) rudy! you just admitted that the payment was to make the story go away to help the campaign! america! ( laughter ) and you know what the worst part is? the worst part of this whole story is if trump had just paid stormy daniels and didn't try and hide it, the story would have just been donald trump had an affair. let's be honest, no one would have cared. even melania would have been like, better her than me. ( laughter ) now, because of the coverup, things are much worse. it's like if someone got pulled over for drunk driving but instead of admitting it they said, no, i wasn't drunk driving, my ten-year-old was driving, yeah, and he was drunk. honestly, i feel bad for team trump. i mean, y

they say there biggest fear is tsunami but so far there hasn't been one.at sfo, charles clifford kron 4 news. ((vicki)) the u-s geological survey in menlo park is paying close attention to the latest developments in hawaii. the most recent eruptions are happening in volcanic rift zones further south east of the center of kilauea in the puna district.a lot of volcanos are cones. but kilauea volcano is erupts much more fluid lava. so, it's a shield volcano. and, the shield builds up by these fluid lava flows that placed ontop of eachother. and, because of it's weight, the southside of the island is sliding towards the sea. very slowly. very slowly. emily montgomery-brown of the usgs says parts of the volcano have been erupting since 1983. ((vicki))new tonight at nine.. a man has been arrested in connection with two brutal assaults...including this one which was caught on camera. ((grant))you can see the cal student fighting her attacker off...in front of her dorm. police believe this same suspect is responsible for an armed rape eariler this month. ((vicki))((hermela in tele)) kron 4's

clifford. the question is when did that happen, i think that's really important. when did that happen, but ultimately common cause says all of it is a legal problem. >> i want to get to the news. i want everybody to standby because michael is here, and you're about to jump out of your seat. what do you think of this? when you heard this you were listening to rudy giuliani just moments ago when we played that sound bite and what was going through your mind? >> it's an absolute disgrace, don. and i'm disgusted by it. in every american regardless of their political persuasion, i don't care if you're on the left, i don't care if you're on the far right, i don't care where you line up, you should be disgusted in what has happened in connection with the lies you have been told over the last three months about this payment. you should be disgusted by the fact that the president of the united states stood on air force one on video and audio and stated lies to you relating to this $130,000 payment. and

we will speak to clifford abraham for the first interview of the day to talk about the return of the strength in the balance sheet. >> thank you. the u.s. is ready to allow investments when they have verifiable proof of denuclearization. john bolton said they were prepared to open trade and an investment as soon as they can and the secretary of state said that he thinks that the for risktakers and capital providers. the supporters of a shiite cleric have taken to the streets after the electoral commissioners said that he was the front runner in the national election or's. the victory was declared after the 2003 toppling of saddam hussein. the leader has forged ahead with a government agenda and marathon talks. leader of the anti-immigrant lead said they were close to finalizing a program after a day indicatedions and he that they didn't plan best the energy minister has said that he told bloomberg that there would be an adequate buffer for output to deal with similar situations in the past. aboutnister has talked the unity of brexit. theresa may says, i will not let you down. this co

faced with a specific duty of strengthening the allied position in vietnam, secretary clifford would also carry the traditional concern of carrying the. there would be a new piece of defense hardware the president unveiled the next day. as part of a weekend inspection trip the president traveled to the lockheed company to look at the roll out of the biggest carr go plane the u.s. now operates. >> but more important of all, for the first time, our fighting men will be able to travel with their equipment to any spot on the globe where we might be forced to stand and they will travel rapidly and efficiently. so it's much more than a roll out of a great aircraft you're seeing here today. we are observing a long leap forward in the effective military might of america. . >> that same weekend the president flew to texas where he viewed the preparation for the concrest of outer space. he made a further announcement of bringing the world closer together. >> i want to announce we will build facilities here in houston to help the world's scientists work closer together, more effectively on the

kron 4 news. news.clifford kron 4 at sfo, charles clifford kron 4 news. lawrence karnow: it was a beautiful day all the way to the coast but tonight the winds are going to howl. a high wind advisory has been posted over the north, east and south bay mountains. some gusts could be as high as 55 mph. it will be windy at times in the valleys too with some gusts over 30 mph. the offshore winds will keep skies mostly clear with mild temperatures. a few showers continue to pop up over the sierra and will continue to do so this weekend. on the satellite image you can see the area of low pressure now east of california and high pressure building toward the coast. the difference between the two will make for a gusty night tonight. saturday will be another warm day with highs in the 70s and 80s inland, 70s around the bay and 60s near the coast. it will be a little cooler on mother's day with patchy coastal fog. there's a slight chance of toward the middle of next week. ((vicki/tele vo))hawaii's kilauea volcano could soon send boulders and ash shooting out of its su

stephanie clifford. neither the trump organization or the trump campaign was a party to the transaction with ms. clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly. the payment to ms. clifford was lawful and was not a campaign contribution or a campaign expenditure by anyone. but donald trump did talk to reporters. here's what he said. >> do you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. no. what else? >> then why did michael cohen make those if there was no truth to it? >> you'll have to ask my attorney. >> lying to the press is not a crime. happens a lot, as much as it pains us to say. if he did pay him back, it would also be different. >> right. you can believe his lawyer will try to tell us anything, not to their advantage in that particular legal battle. it also generally speaking opens up the question about where else has the president and potentially michael cohen and other people in their dealings been spinning this truth to the public, just been fla

kron-4's charles clifford joins us live from the high school tonight... charles do we know how this happened? well, this is just a tragic situation. there are a lot of unaswered questions but tonight students here at san ramon valley high school are dealing with the loss of one of their own.around 145 tuesday afternoon, students and teachers preparing for a p- e class in san ramon valley high school's pool found a 15-year-old male student underwater in the deep end of the pool. riley bergstedt was in the class, he says several students and teachers jumped in to help.sothe was in the deep end and they pulled him out of the pool and started doing cpr on him.another teacher called 9-1-1 and paramedics arrived moments later.sotpossible student in the pool. coco county is onscene with cpr in progress. the student was tranpsorted to the kaiser hospital in walnut creek but tuesday afternoon the school said that he had passed away. police are now investigating but have not yet said how or why the young man was in the pool.as news of his death spread, many student

clifford, or stormy daniels.d letter admitting there was no affair. prior to its violation by mrs. clifford and her attorney, this was a private agreement. money from the campaign or campaign contributions, played to roll in this transaction. brian: that is key. what they wanted to disseminate. steve: that made up the president's defense. look, this stormy payment to storm any daniels was illegal because they used campaign funds. mr. giuliani and president made it clear that it was money out of donald trump's pocket. ultimately why did they make the payment to stephanie clifford? well rudy giuliani side this about that. >> i don't think there is any contradiction of that. president indicates he understood it. he didn't know the details of this until we knew the details of it, which is couple weeks ago. maybe not even couple, paying 10 days ago. remember when it came up. october 2016. i was with him day in, day out then. i can't remember the details of what happened. sounds like a lot of money. it is not when you'

he came out and offered it out there that he repaid stephany clifford, maybe because he knew all thising to break and he poorly, but tried to get to be the guy to break it. >> yeah. right. let's say this, i'm not going to give rudy giuliani all of the insanity umbrella for that, i'm just going to say it is some -- some of what has transpired is starting to make sense. the question is, and van is discuss singt with this. this is not normal. and van is right, who has an attorney that does that kind of thing? if they do have an attorney, that attorney is not ethical and there is a chance for that attorney to be disbarred. it looks like cohen can wind up being disbarred. there are some issues here on the table. the bottom line is you got to follow the trail of money, and that's the big question, where did all this money go? we've heard about people being paid off for various things. why pay these things off during the campaign time? this is be a major fcc violation. it is not just a slap on the wrist, this was something to change the course if this money was used to pay people off to shut

clifford berryman is one of the most famous political cartoonists in political history. is 1902 depiction of theodore roosevelt refusing to shoot a bear cub became so popular that the cartoon image ultimately spawned the teddy bear which was named in honor of our 26th president. berryman brings together the two central actors in today's speech. kentucky senator blackman and berkeley. over my shoulder as i just said is senator blackburn. he was quite a character in his day. berryman commissioned a portrait of blackman. barkley was brought in. this afternoon's speech will conclude a series of talks about past prominent senators from our state. we've been blessed with a rich heritage. the theme i would like to discuss today is the evolution of senate leadership and kentucky's role in that development particularly as it involves senators blackburn and berkeley. i would like to thank doctor gerald gam, stephen smith, walter hollis sick, james clutter, john leader and gary gray from the mcconnell center who of all contributed to this series of speeches that i've made over the

clifford and her attorney it was a private agreement. money from the campaign or campaign contributions played no role in this transaction. clearly a shift in strategy here at the core of all of this and the reason why it came out last night is the belief that the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york is going after michael cohen for illegal campaign contributions. giuliani told me last night the disclosure of the reimbursement takes off the table the notion that there was any fec federal election commission violation. one big thing hanging out there, though, back on february 13th michael cohen insisted he paid the money out of his own pocket and did not get reimbursed. in a statement he said neither the trump organization nor the trump campaign was a party to the transaction with ms. clifford and neither reimbursed me for the payment either directly or indirectly. well now we know that's not exactly true. with all of this going on negotiations for an interview of the president with the special counsel robert mueller contin

kron 4's charles clifford has more from sfo. have noticed that the terminals are a madhouse of traffic as people are dropped off and picked along the terminal curbs. natsto relieve the congestions, the airport is considering implementing a two tiered pricing system for ride share services like lyft and uber. users would pay a premium to be dropped off or picked up curbside at the terminals and a pay lower rate to be picked up or dropped off further away in the garage. the airport would convert the top level of the main parking garage into a ride share zone. friday afternoon, travellers at the airport seemed to like the idea of reducing congestion but some where skeptical of the new pricing plan.soti think it's ok. if it saves congestion that fine. if the people coming in get easier access to the airport that ok.sotif i'm already paying for uber they should drop me off where i want to be dropped off. i shouldn't have to pay twice or extra just to be dropped off closer.soti don't think it's a terrible idea if congestion is really

clifford. that's stormy daniels. the agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair despite already having signed a detailed letter knitting that there was no affair. prior to its violation by miss clifford and her attorney, this was a private agreement. money from the campaign, or campaign contributions played no roll in this transaction. there is a reaction from donald trump because of what rudy giuliani said last night. we weren't expecting these headlines. we weren't expecting him to talk about the payment issue. suddenly, as you said, contradicting what trump and people close to him have said, saying that the payment was made by trump to cohen directly in a personal way, $130,000 hush payment that we have been talking about for so many weeks. >> let's remind people about all the history of this, mj. you have great reporting on tape. watch this. >> rudy giuliani knitting president trump repaid michael cohen for the hush money given to porn star stormy daniels just da

because cohen has said he used a home equity line of credit to pay that hush money to stephanie clifford. cohen claiming he didn't need to use campaign money to make that payment. the "times" is reporting that president trump knew at the time told reporters aboard air force i that he didn't know about that payment. and the trump organization chief financial officer knew of this payment and retainer agreement that the president had set up with cohen and the payment was made that way. that could potentially draw the president's business further into investigation. the president didn't even mention this even obliquely during that speech that he gave here in cleveland to a friend live crowfriendly crowd. he tends to go back to his greatest hits. but the revelations this week have raised a host of questions about the president's credibility, the white house officials, his own press team as the president is set to have this high stakes, high-level summit with the north korean leader as he weighs getting out of the iran nuclear deal. while there are a host of questions about this seemingly sala

area could get hit by a 7.2 magnitude quake within the next 30 years. in san francisco, charles cliffordon 4 news. news.clifford kron 4 francisco, charles 30 years. in san within the next magnitude quake get hit by a 7.2 bay area could 76% chance the beleive there a researchers comfortable.feel more plans makes me through with are following through with plans makes me feel more comfortable. researchers beleive there a 76% chance the bay area could get hit by a 7.2 magnitude quake within the next 30 years. in san francisco, charles clifford kron 4 news. (pam) kron four has a special earthquake section on our website. you will find a live map showing the most current earthquakes in the bay area. also -- articles on what to do when an earthquake hits... as well as safety tips. it's all on kron-4 dot com. ((grant/landing vo))weak. pathetic.obsolete.that's what president trump thinks about the country's immigration laws. in a wide-ranging news conference -- president trump also focused on the iran nuclear deal and his anticipated meeting with north korean leader kim jong-un. natasha chen repo

the senator inquired as to its origin and the uncle replied it was drawn by his nephew, clifford.lackburn immediately replied, "that boy's got talent. i'm going to take him to washington and see what i can do for him ." blackburn did just that and barryman rose to national prominence. despite his generous and outgoing nature, blackburn could be quick to anger which led to some dangerous situations. never perhaps was blackburn's combustible side more on display than when he almost got into a duel with another lawmaker on who should receive credit for an earmark in kentucky. this colorful combination of traits helped elect blackburn to the u.s. house in 1874. during the administration of ulysses grant which was plagued by corruption, blackburn played a key role in uncovering financial wrongdoing in the department of war which led to the impeachment and ultimately resignation of the secretary of war william bell. blackburn served ten years in the house before moving to the senate in 1884 where he served until 1897 and again from 1901 to 1907. due to his success in the house and his l

clifford. the agreement was used to stop the false accusations made by her about an affair despite having signed a detailed letter saying there was no affair. this was a private agreement, money from the campaign or campaign contributions played no roll in this transactions. that's an awfully lawyerly way to speak. >> absolutely, other than one word being misused in a way that would echo of how trump often tweets, roll r-o-l-e-. this is prove that the president is lawyered up. rudy giuliani isn't on impressing you politically. it's about limiting legal exposure. you may not believe what you're hearing and you may not believe it with good reason, however, credibility, that's about politics. they're worried about legal exposure and just moments ago on fox news, rudy giuliani again said that the president isn't changing his story. >> didn't know the details of this until we knew the details which was a couple weeks ago, maybe not even a couple, maybe ten days ago. remember when this came up, octob

. >>> coming up, michael of a gnatty, attorney for stephanie clifford, better known as stormy daniels will weigh in on the changes to trump's legal team. who is going be the the first one to talk to president trump under a court under oath in an interview setting. you are watching msnbc. my mom washes the dishes... ...before she puts them in the dishwasher. so what does the dishwasher do? new cascade platinum lets your dishwasher be the dish washer. three cleaning agents dissolve, lift and rinse away food the first time. new cascade platinum. >> tech: don't wait for a chip like this to crack your whole windshield. with safelite's exclusive resin, you get a strong repair that you can trust. plus, with most insurance a safelite repair is no cost to you. >> customer: really?! >> singers: safelite repair, safelite replace. >>> it seems all of trump's various legal teams have their hands fuchl let's move on to the top lawyer for the trump organizatio organizati organization. he is weighing in on allegations from trump's law time doctor. dr. harold barn steen says last year the top lawyer f

kron 4's charles clifford is live for us tonight in santa clara with an update. charles. . . sottonight we are going to have an opportunity to hear from our publiceven though dominic caserta has resigned from the santa clara city council, the council moved forward with a public discussion on the allegations against him. mayor lisa gillmor had originally intended the meeting to be an opportunity for caserta to defend himself, be he did not attend. several women addressed the council, describing sexual harrassment and bullying by caserta. sotsot caserta, who has also dropped his bid for a seat on the santa clara county board of supervisors, declined our request for an interview but did release a statment saying that.at tuesdays meeting, caserta's alleged victims expressed little sympathy for this troubles.sotsotnow, the meeting is still on going and the council is also scheduled to discuss updating the council censure policy which would be used to discipline council members who violate the city's code of conduct.in santa clara, charles clifford kron 4 news. (grant)

president before we bring you the latest let's take a look at what we know so far porn actress stephanie clifford stage name stormy daniels alleges that she had sex with donald trump back in two thousand and six a year after he married his wife melania. and twenty sixteen daniels was paid one hundred and thirty thousand dollars by trump's lawyer michael cohen cohen she says it was hush money to keep her quiet about the alleged sexual encounter the payment was made just days before the twenty six thousand presidential election raising questions of campaign financing violations trump has denied ever having sex with daniels he also previously denied knowledge of the payment to her. but now one of trump's lawyers rudy giuliani says that the u.s. president in fact did repay his personal attorney of the one hundred thirty thousand dollars the lawyer used to silence stormy daniels something that president trump has now confirmed on twitter so we're getting a different story here this of course directly contradicting trump's earlier statements about the allegations concerning a payment during an appearan

that's where we find kron-4's charles clifford..he joins us live... charles do we know what the motive might be? (pam) we first told you about the active shooter situation, through a breaking news push alert... download the kron4 mobile app - and be the first to know about breaking news.. when it happens in your neighborhood. (vicki) accused serial killer joseph de-angelo was in court today. and his defense team was dealt a major blow. a judge ruled prosecutors can proceed in collecting d-n-a, fingerprints..and even naked photographs of the suspect. this is video from his first court appearance. no cameras were allowed today...but it was a similar scene to last week. the 72 year old former police officer said nothing during today's appearance. joseph james deangelo is suspected in as many as 12 murders and 50 rapes ...in the 1970's and 1980's. he is due back in court may 14th. ( vicki ) it was d-n-a and an ancestry website that sacramento law enforcement says helped them zero in on the golden state killer.( pam ) now, the vallejo police department is

kron 4's charles clifford is live for us tonight in santa rosa with this story that's new tonight at nine.. charles? (vicki) new information tonight about a case involving a south san francisco middle school teacher being charged of child molestation. joseph toy taught technology courses at westborough middle school in south san francisco for 13 years before he was arrested for allegedly molesting some of his students. toy is now being charged with 47 counts of child molestation involving four teenage boys. san mateo county district attorney steve wagstaffe says before one of the male victims told school officials about the alleged molestation, the school warned toy about his behaviour with students.steve wagstaffe/san mateo county district attorney: "the school had instructed mr.toy no more touching of the kids because he had a habit of being too familiar at times."times." wagstaffe says the school was not required to notify law enforcement or parents because toy's behavior was not illegal, or criminal in nature. toy was later put on administrative leave when the serious allegations