how involved you think michael coen was?lutely. in my book, you will see that michael cohen has been at the nexus of trump and the russian mafia for a long time. his family owned restau ra nt long time. his family owned restaurant and social club in brooklyn that has been the headquarters of the russian mafia. you will see that he travelled with another colleague on behalf of trump, trying to put up trump towers in moscow, right up through the election. ok, thank you very much indeed for your thoughts. sorry to cut you shop, but we're close to the end of the programme. there we are, we're getting an idea about the white house strategy: paint michael coen is alive. it is a strategy they have followed before. donald trump is going to come out fighting. you heard it last night when he was speaking in west virginia, one of the states they gave him one of his biggest victories in the country, and you have heard it during the course of this programme from supporters of donald trump who say that they believe the president is innoce

it comes as michael coen, trump's former fixer and keeper of secrets is out on a half million dollars bond after his charges, over breaking campaign finance laws. keep that in mine. it's important. the president is desperately trying to spin that. what he says is absolute nonsense. i want you to listen to how he answered when he was asked today if he knew about the payments spent to silence karen mcgoogleal and stormy damages. >> later on i knew. later on. but you have to understand, what he did and they weren't taken out of campaign finance. that's a much bigger thing. did they come out of the campaign? they didn't come out of the campaign. they came from me. it's not even a campaign violation. >> what pre is completely untrue, which would mean it was false and a lie. you can't duck campaign finance laws simple by paying out of your own pocket. that's a crime. a crime that michael cohen pleaded guilty to yesterday. a crime cohen says he committed at the direction of donald trump. here's what he said in court yesterday. i quote. on or about the summer of 2016, in coordination with and

coen elite eleven. eleven eleven. eleven. eleven. all because of. legal. this next one has a very similar course we would like to mostly with you first that was a play to the other the song this one is clearly going to. combine. love. love. love love. love love. love. love love love and married him. to. play. play. play play. play. play. play. play. play. play. play. play. play. play play. play. play play. play. ah ah ah. ah. ah ah. ah ah ah ah. ah. ah ah ah good. luck. to. what i love john. i want something to float never so good to love love love love love love love love love love life. play. clock. clock. play. play. play. play. play. play and. play. and i would like to ask you if it's ok to take off to take a picture with you if that's ok. yes so. i. thank you very much. iran ones and insulated democracy now a major power in the middle east. to runs conflicts continues to grow politically economically and above all militarily. does iran truly one of the country's opponents have their doubts iran from ffion procedure regional superpower fifteen minutes

>> he agrees with you about michael coen.believes he's a good man, an honorable man. >> michael cohen was facing decades in prison. he had committed serious violationsful the prosecutors were able to squeeze him and put him in a corner. >> i'm not saying that they're going after the president for it. i don't think they can. not just in substance but in style. i don't think they can do it with him in office. i think that's why they didn't even use his name in the information. it goes to lying. i give it to jay goldberg for being honest about that. the president's not telling the truth. now i have the argument. jennifer, i keep having this argument. i don't understand using it as leverage onned the kavanagh nomination. during the clinton situation you had stephen breyer come up and he went right through. he wasn't used as a bargaining chip. why use it as one now? >> this particular nominee has an unusually expansive view of executive power. he was selected by donald trump because donald trump picks people who are going to help

the coen brothers are here to premiere their darkly comic western, the ballad of buster scruggs, and damien chazelle — the multi—award—winning director of la la land — is back with his new film, first man. the film tells the story of neil armstrong and his journey to become the first man to walk on the moon. ryan gosling takes on the role as the emotionally guarded astronaut, with claire foy... be an adventure. ..who made her name playing the queen in the crown, as his wife. what scope did you think there was for you as an actress, playing the housewife of the heroic husband? i think for me it was that opportunity to not be the cliche. i didn't want her to be, you know, the conventional version that you see on a film of the woman at home, who is perfect in absolutely every single way. this isn'tjust another trip, neil. you're notjust going to work. do you think you're coming back? were you surprised to get the role, given there is not a huge shortage of american actresses? yeah, hey, there's a canadian playing neil armstrong and this sort of random british woman playing an american h

economics and this is been sorely lacking in the space for example this idea of well what does big coen what problem does it solve it solves a problem called money and money is requires the problem of paul krugman. yeah thank. the owner of the new york stock exchange rates they said that bitcoin to be the first global currency i mean i think is an admirable sentiment but it wouldn't be the first would be the second the gold was the first global currency the gold standard was effectively or operational across the world bitcoin we didn't need all of this economic all this technological innovation in order to develop a global money because gold emerged as a global currency on its own without any of this technological stuff however what we need bitcoin we needed all this technological innovation for what we needed all this in lab it an extremely complicated bitcoin structure for enormous mining and proof work is to get around government control that's really what bitcoin does it allows you to have money that is much much much much harder for governments to control than all the other previou

marino is making his debut in the third eleven at the coen vice i'm spittal. this news and it is. nice to see it sent him out by a team down. you've got to sort out. every chance climb out of some visit with your . mom no it's not you know you just do this you know. like it's not me because of these lies it means that my son say so much of it and if there was. religion. out of that i felt. i could run faster speed run after the movie. if. those moves were. not enough. he says to. say i was there to put off getting to the ok fine annoying bit on the news fun game just a lifetime achievement award coming up in plots or if you all feel as upsets your child is going to go to very softly like i said at the finish. line. it's a new beginning for mary now. he recently separated from his girlfriend jamie and today the big question is can you match the other men physically. i'm staying no definitive as well next you know jack shit about. that as a. definitive thirty seven is our. profession not the same as i was the side can never. have missed the night. had only saddam and so to see. the

marino is making his debut in the third eleven at the coen vice i'm spittal. business. it's. nice to see it's an. every ounce kind of sympathy with. the market over you know you just. you know. like nothing ok in the movies and it's everything and mice and say some of the fish and it's because. i share religion. that's really proud of what i'm. writing on passersby. to be. good for. nothing to. do. these. as a form of getting to be ok i find annoying i really don't want. just the last week material coming up from plots or going to often even as upsets me when i was going to restart like i said i finished. life. it's a new beginning for mary now. keep recently separated from his girlfriend jamie and today the big question is can you match the other men physically. i'm staying no definitive as well next time you know about. that as a. definitive thirty seven is our. professional percent at all and i was the sidespin never have missing tonight. had on the society and so they're seeing. and that's this is i mean we're going to flustered on fund front to hold up the most of the of

to the main story, president trump has attacked his former lawyer, michael coen, and claimed that byor not been broken. that story likely to runfora not been broken. that story likely to run for a while yet. more on the news any time on the bbc website. and you can get in touch with me and most of the team on twitter, i'm @bbcmikeembley. thank you for watching. good morning. the bank holiday weekend fast approaching and there is a change to come with the feel of our weather over the next few days. but just look at what we had yesterday. beautiful blue sky and sunshine in lincolnshire. highs of 27 degrees, 81 fahrenheit. we are not going to see temperatures like that certainly over the bank holiday weekend. a cooler and fresher feel. the reason being is these weather fronts pushing in from the atlantic. they are cold fronts, behind it introducing slightly fresher air with it. that said, first thing this morning in the south—east it will still be quite a humid start to the day, with overnight lows still sitting at around 16 or 17 degrees, and there will be some rain. but further north

the coen brothers are here to premiere their darkly comic western, the ballad of buster scruggs, and journey to become the first man to walk on the moon. ryan gosling takes on the role as the emotionally guarded astronaut, with claire foy... be an adventure. ..who made her name playing the queen in the crown, as his wife. what scope did you think there was for you as an actress, playing the housewife of the heroic husband? i think for me it was that opportunity to not be the cliche. i didn't want her to be, you know, the conventional version that you see on a film of the woman at home, who is perfect in absolutely every single way. this isn'tjust another trip, neil. you're notjust going to work. do you think you're coming back? were you surprised to get the role, given there is not a huge shortage of american actresses?

the coen brothers are here to premier their darkly comic western, the ballad of buster scruggs, and damien. the film tells a story of neil armstrong and his journey to become the first man to walk on the moon. ryan gosling takes on the role of the emotionally guarded astronaut, with claire foy... be an adventure. ..who made her name playing the queen in the crown as his wife. were you surprised to get the role, given there is not a huge shortage of american actresses? yeah, hey, there's a canadian playing neil armstrong and this sort of random british woman playing an american housewife. you just sort of think... but i do think in those circumstances, distance is good. if you own a story too much, i think sometimes it can be difficult to get in there and have a cynical view of it or kind of delve deeper and understand that these people were, you know, wrong sometimes and difficult sometimes. we've got this under control. you're a bunch of boys, you don't have anything under control. it's nearly a year since weinstein. have things changed ? i think people are definitely more aware. what i w

the coen brothers are here to premiere their darkly comic western, the ballad of buster scruggs, andan gosling takes on the role as the emotionally guarded astronaut, with claire foy... be an adventure. ..who made her name playing the queen in the crown, as his wife. what scope did you think there was for you as an actress, playing the housewife of the heroic husband? i think for me it was that opportunity to not be the cliche. i didn‘t want her to be, you know, the conventional version that you see on a film of the woman at home, who is perfect in absolutely every single way. this isn‘tjust another trip, neil. you‘re notjust going to work. do you think you‘re coming back? were you surprised to get the role, given there is not a huge shortage of american actresses? yeah, hey, there‘s a canadian playing neil armstrong and this sort of random british woman playing an american housewife. you just sort of think... but i do think in those circumstances, distance is good. if you own a story too much, i think sometimes it can be difficult to get in there and have a cynical view of it or kin

and economics and this is been sorely lacking in the space for example this idea of a what is big coen what problem does it solve it solves the problem called money and money is requires the problem of paul krugman. yeah thank. the owner of the new york stock exchange rates they said that bitcoin could be the first global currency i mean i think that admirable sentiment but it wouldn't be the first would be the second the gold was the first global currency the gold standard was effectively operational across the world bitcoin we didn't need all of this economic all this technological innovation in order to develop a global money because gold emerged as a global currency on its own without any of this technological stuff however what we need bitcoin we needed all this technological innovation for what we needed all this in lab but it's an extremely complicated bitcoin structure for enormous mining and proof work is to get around government control that's really what bitcoin does it allows you to have money that is much much much much harder for governments to control than all the other

and economics and this is been sorely lacking in the space for example this idea of a what is big coen what problem does it solve it solves the problem called money and money is requires the problem of paul krugman. yeah thank. the owner of the new york stock exchange recently said that bitcoin could be the first global currency i think is an admirable sentiment but it wouldn't be the first it would be the second the gold was the first global currency the gold standard was effectively operational across the world bitcoin we didn't need all of this economic all this technological innovation in order to develop a global money because gold emerged as a global currency on its own without any of this technological stuff however what we need bitcoin we needed all this technological innovation for what we need to do all this in the lab but it's an extremely complicated bitcoin structure for enormous mining and proof work is to get around government control that's really what bitcoin does it allows you to have money that is much much much much harder for governments to control than all the oth

they don't feel like the manafort and coen guilty verdic verdicts helped them and they don't want todefend a presidential pardon when manafort -- a jury found him guilty on eight counts. so republicans are really hoping this doesn't happen, but the tact that the white house is now kind of leaking this out means the president very well might do it. >> testing the waters. and barbara, is a pardon -- would a pardon of manafort be considered potentially as obstruction of justice? >> well, it could be. standing alone, no. but in the context of this investigation, it could be. you would need evidence that the president is acting with a corrupt intent and that could be very difficult to prove. but the timing of it, when manafort's cooperation would be valuable to robert mueller does seem suspect. but the president's power to grant a pardon is very broad. we saw it with joe arpaio and others who have been pardoned in a very unconventional way. this is sort of the difference between the law and the norms. the law is that the pardon power is unlimited for federal cases and the norm is the pres

he's hoping to fund raise and get donations to faye legal expenses for michael coen.zpah on michael cohen's part to now be asking taxpayers to fund him so that he can then actual the truth. >> it's outrageous, anderson, you're absolutely right. i am confident that if they wanted to have a press conference or come on your show or any other show they wouldn't have to be paid to do it. you don't have to be paid money to figure out how to tell the truth. >> you say it's affected your ability to depose the president. how so? >> we have an actual predicate set forth in the amended complaint. he said our case was frivolous, had no basis. mr. trump and his lawyers have said the same thing. we know all of those were lies. they were complete fabrications. we know that the allegations are on solid footing. we're going to lay that out for the court in los angeles. i'm going to depose michael cohen and then i'll move on to the deposition of the president of the united states. he may want to lie to the american people but with we want to see if he's prepared to lie under oath. >> n

would strongly suggest that you don't retain the services of michael cohen and then there was this coen pleaded guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime president obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily settled well the top democrats in the u.s. senate says that kearns a guilty plea is further evidence that special counsel robert millett investigation should continue. president trump's personal attorney pled guilty to federal crimes president trump's first national security advisor pled guilty to federal crimes a foreign policy adviser to his campaign pled guilty to federal crimes and more trials are coming so let's wait now to i've got a guy who's the white house for us and because lloyd says it could and has more to say what are the implications with donald trump. i mean nick huge implications what his lawyers pacifically said is that he's more than happy to talk to special counsel robert muller in his investigation into alleged collusion between the truck campaign and russia he said basically that michael cohen is now liberated to

the coen brothers are here to premier their darkly comic western, the ballad of buster scruggs, and damienaut, with claire foy... be an adventure. ..who made her name playing the queen in the crown as his wife. were you surprised to get the role, given there is not a huge shortage of american actresses? yeah, hey, there's a canadian playing neil armstrong and this sort of random british woman playing an american housewife. you just sort of think... but i do think in those circumstances, distance is good. if you own a story too much, i think sometimes it can be difficult to get in there and have a cynical view of it or kind of delve deeper and understand that these people were, you know, wrong sometimes and difficult sometimes. we've got this under control. you're a bunch of boys, you don't have anything under control. it's nearly a year since weinstein. have things changed ? i think people are definitely more aware. what i worry about, ever so slightly, that i would... i hope it hasn'tjust been absorbed into the culture and been allowed to have happened. that women have been able to speak

this is your last chance off this train and it looks like mafort and coen - only michael cohen only have more to say. ryan is retiring and do the party a favor and start the procedure in the house judicia committee you get someplace for republicans getting nervous to say let's start an investigati and we'll g from there. >> we'll check out the legal side of this. we have pete williams.no we that a sitting president cannot be charged oric id. so what legally can happen to the president? >> wellen that is theal thought. remember that for anybody but the president, the answer is almost certainly that he could crime.ged with a if you commit a crime and i told to you do it, i could be charged with c tspiracy. bure is a long-standing view at the justice department in written formal opinions under both democratic and republican administrations that a sitting president can't be charged with a crime. why? well theasiest way isust think about this. you can't have a president running the country while he's in court o in prison. robert mueller is the special counsel bute's still bound by those justi

coen made this payment to make the daniels situation go away.ad to at least let his client know that the claim existed and that cohen was going to take care of it. under campaign finance law, that level of consultation is enough to make the subsequent payment a contribution to the current campaign. it appears that mr giuliani has recognised the mistake that he made in admitting that part of the purpose of the payment was to keep the daniels story out of the campaign and has attempted to walk that back. but i don't think he can ring that bell. imagine if that came out on the 15th of october 2016 in the middle of the last debate... when you stated on national tv that the reason that mr cohen made the payment was to do his, who is make the story go away, it will almost certainly be used to rudy giuliani's client's detriment. the amount of the contribution vastly exceeded the legal limit. the second piece is that the trump campaign was required to disclose that payment as a campaign contribution, and it did not. the voters have a right to know who i

the time president trump was railing against the trustworthiness of his ex-lawyer and fixer michael coensterday the president pointed to cohen as a validator in an effort to dispute and allegation by another former associate omarosa. retweeted michael cohen, wrote to the many dozens of journalists who called me questioning the new book that president trump took a note from me put it in his mouth and ate it, i saw no such thing and am shocked anyone would take this seriously, what is happening. just three weeks ago trump slammed cohen for releasing a tape of him sdegss an affair. what kind of lawyer would tape a client? so sad. joe, almost like there are situational ethics here. >> almost like that. again, look at the clown show that donald trump has brought to washington. isn't it interesting, willie, that the day before he got inaugurated he said he wanted every day to be like a reality tv show where he vanquishes all comers end of the day. of course, he doesn't do that. he hasn't done that and finds himself, i guess, in the latest gallup poll add 39% approval rating, but my gosh, all t