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cohen: great potential for miscalculatoin, honest mistakes in that region. with so many different troops and interests and so many different planes flying and so many different militia groups and forces all in the same region, the chance for miscalculation, mistake, or simply tempers filling up, it's dangerous. katty: we know they are repositioning aircraft to avoid the type of miscalculation we are talking about or mistake being made. what would you like to hear from the administration on syria, the president himself? mr. cohen: i would like to have the president articulate what the strategy is. i'm not sure what it is to date. before you can talk about numbers and troops, what is it we are seeking to do in the region, both on iraq and syria, and then you shake the numbers to fit that strategy. it is still unclear, whether it is counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, not clear what is needed. how many troops we need, if more. laura: wiliam cohen speaking to katty kay earlier. you are watching "bbc world news america." still to come, remembering a tragedy and

and a subpoena for michael cohen's business. the republican and democratic leaders of the house intelligence committee said there was bipartisan support in the committee to vote to approve the issuance of those subpoenas. joining us now, ed mcmullan, former independent presidential candidate. he is the co-founder of stand up republic. also wit mieke eoyang, a lawyer and former house intelligence committee staff member. and the vice president of the national security program at the third way. and eugene robinson, pulitzer prize winning opinion writer for "the washington post" joins us tonight. he is also an msnbc political analyst. and gene, i want to go first of all to what could be the trump administration reward to russia, giving them back their playpens on long island and on chesapeake bay where president trump -- president obama said they actually used those facilities not just for recreation, but in those facilities part of the planning of the interference with our election took place. you would think that a trump administr

that is starting in about 15 minutes after we finish up with congressman cohen. you are bumping me once again? host: we have about another 15 minutes left. independent, go ahead. morning, good morning c-span. i amuld be great because independent, it would be great for you to be honest when it comes to this last election and be done with it. , most commonsense people and reasonable people know that what happened was, it your party spent a billion and you loss. in the middle of that your servers were hacked and expose the fact that there was collusion between the media, cnn specifically donna brazile, and many other people. that collusion led to a fracture which was the party with bernie sanders. you had a lot of disgruntled employers inside the dnc. that is where happened. this is all a distraction so you can stop the trump agenda. guest: first of all surya are not independent you are obvious the a republican. there were several reasons for losing the election. we did not get enough votes. we did not get folds in pennsylvania, michigan and wisconsin. it was a mist

cohen of tennessee, for his opening statement. mr. cohen. mr. cohen: thank you, mr. chair. like our hearing last week, today's hearing presents a new topic for us but it's old wine in a new bottle. it's another attack on trial lawyers, advocates that make our country differ from others as we have advocates to argue for us in court. and the beneficiaries of this attack on the plaintiff's bar are well-healed corporate interests that will benefit greatly and prefer probably not to be attorneys at all unless they were defense side. and this committee has unfortunately the constitution and subcommittee has dealt too much on enritching the rich and attacking -- enriching the rich and attacking the plaintiff's bar rather than what we should be doing, respecting and advocating for the constitution. just this week, nearly 200 members of congress filed a legal action, which we have to resort to do for this subcommittee and our full committee, have not taken up any attacks on the constitution such as the emoluments clause, article 1, section 9, and no foreign power, no king, no prince

guest: congressman steve cohen -- host: congressman steve cohen, with us for another 20 minutes. caller: good morning, representative. i have a major concern in that i truly believe that the russians were involved, that they did penetrate the voting system to cyber attacks. my concern is that for these recent elections, i hope that mr. mueller is actually going to send some people in. especially into the atlanta area to verify that the russians did not impact that election by cyber attack. i want to cyber people involved. make sure that we maintain the integrity of our voting system from this point moving forward. and that there are resources make sure that voting is fair and honorable route the nation. otherwise the russians and trump and his people always run this country. your job is in jeopardy. everybody's job is in jeopardy. our republic democracy is in true jeopardy. guest: very well said, sir. i couldn't agree with you more. the system in georgia, the voting system, i don't really have questions about it, but i have questions in general about voting systems. i know that t

flynn and cohen and their respective firms. what it didn't mention was the committee chairman, devin nunes, in april recused himself from leading the investigation, apparently on his own, without telling the democratic members of the committee, issued three other subpoenas, to the national security agency, the fbi and the cia. what they were asking for, according to sources we talked to, any information of requests for president obama's former national security advisor, susan rice and ambassador, samantha power and former cia director, john brennan, to unmask the names of trump campaign associates inadvertently picked up in foreign intelligence monitoring operations. he goes apparently -- devin nunes does this also he publicly recused himself from the investigation, nowhere in the committees official announcement of these three subpoenas are these three subpoenas mentioned. >> would they normally need to subpoena something like that? couldn't they get that through the normal oversight function? >> my understanding is they would

said to be going to michael flynn, and one of his companies, plus trump's attorney, mike cohen, and cohen's law firm. the other three are related to possible unmasking by former obama administration officials. a source on the hill says those three subpoenas are linked to possible unmasking by former national security adviser susan rice, former cia director john brennan, and former u.n. ambassador samantha power. sources on the left and right are at odds over whether democrats were con u.s.ed about these unmasking subpoenas. one democratic source within the committee says the unmasking subpoenas came from chairman devin nunes. who you may recall stepped aside from the russia investigation. all this today and then there's what happened last night. it happened just after we got off the air. six minutes past midnight eastern time. the president apparently grabbed his phone, fired up his twitter app and said something incoherent. he wrote a sentence ending with a brand-new word. we believe he was trying to type the word "coverage." in fact, it was how chris matthews opened his broadcast tonight.

cohen, for five minutes. mr. cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. personally i could not take this microphone on this occasion and not remember scalise's injuries and wish him and his family well and the other victims of the cowardly and horrific assault on our colleagues and on our government last week in virginia. but i came here specifically to honor seven americans who died on the u.s.s. fitzgerald. seven united states naval soldiers died when the fitzgerald collided with the japanese freighter. and there was a story this morning in the "new york times," another on the daily beast, i'm sure there are others, that caught my attention. "new york times" story showed the divergent backgrounds of these seven sailors. one came -- they are all americans, but one has roots in okinawa, another's roots were in the philippines, another vietnam, another guatemala. and there was an ohioan, and a named an, and a sailor martin from maryland. they are representative of our united states navy. from different backgrounds, given an opportunity to serve our country

our specialists are mike baker and aaron cohen.r of the senate intel committee is casting doubt on whether there is hard evidence and wrongdoing in the russia probe. >> there's a lot of smoke. we have no smoking gun but there is a lot of smoke. clearly it would be very, very troubling if the president of the united states is interfering in investigations that affect potentially the president and his associates. >> eboni: james comey is set to face the intel committee on thursday. white house announcing that president trump will not invoke executive privilege to try to block his testimony. we got from the senator, smoke, smoke, hypothetical, smoke. >> eric: we had someone a couple days ago who said there's a heck of a lot of smoke. doesn't necessarily mean there is fire. if you caught the megyn kelly interview with vladimir putin, he said you are making so much out of it, there is nothing there. and there is nothing there. if there isn't either, then i understand. this ended up being the best thing to happen to donald trump. special

people within the administration couldn't convince the president. >> that's right and gary cohen was still holding out hope, even on wednesday staying this isn't over privately. these are the people he's been working with for a long time and he was told that lloyd bank fien, the first time helped ever tweeted was about this and gary cohen said this took him by surprise. it doesn't. robert: president vladimir putin conceded his country couch had a connection in the election. his alternative theory is that private citizens, so-called patriotic hackers, may have acted on their own. >> they fight against those who say bad things about russia. robert: he was dismissive of this ymed that russia has had a prominent role. how is this going to affect the ongoing probes? kelly: he also said that a child couch hacked the american election and he referred specifically to her daughter. it's akin to donald trump saying he didn't even knew that she had an underage daughter but it's akin to donald trump saying it could be some 400-pound guy sitting on a bed in new jersey who would have hacked the el

cohen: yes, i do. this is called the protecting access to care act, but that's a misnomer because the purpose of these amendments and the bill, it takes as a given that there's going to be allegations that doctors, medical device companies, not exactly limited to financial resources or potential for harm, and nursing homes, are going to be alleged to have committed torts against individuals. , if at when that happens this becomes law, there will be less opportunity for individuals to get their day in court. most of those people, because most people are not wealthy, most of the people that get injured are going to bear the brunt of this when they don't get to court within the statute of limitations and don't collect because of the joint and semple liability changes in the law or get less because of the $250,000 cap. who is going to benefit from this? it's going to be the person who who found that was negligent, a nursing home, a medical device company or a physician. they are going to have less damages,

. >>> president trump's personal attorney michael cohen has hired his own attorney. cohen hire add washington, d.c.- based firm to represent him after being subpoenaed to testify before the house intelligence committee. in addition to being the personal lawyer, cohen served as special council at trump organization during the campaign. president trump is leaving in place the obama-era immigration program known as daca at least for now. but the protections for the 800,000 undocumented immigrant who is came to the u.s. as a clean children. but today they have not yet decided on a long term faith of the program to avoid work permits for the dreamers or to support them. >>> a woman accused of vandalizing a mosque in davis is sentenced today to 30 years probation. lauren qelo pleaded guilty to the charges last month; admitting she broke windows at the mosque and left bacon on the doorknobs knowing muslims are forbidden to eat pork. >>> she could have been given hate crimes. >>> well help is on the way in the south bay for san jose's depleted police department. as jesse gar

cohen: i thank mr. goodlatte for his honest testimony and submitting it and for that reason, among others, i will be voting no on this amendment and hope we will have a -- we found to be note by the chair because when the chairman of the judiciary committee, a fine republican lawyer, says that the amendment is beyond what they intended, it shouldn't really be part of the bill. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. all time for debate being ordered, the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from kentucky. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. mr. barr: request a recorded vote. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from kentucky will be postponed. pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, proceedings will now resume on those amendments printed in house report 115-179 on which further proceedings were postponed in the following order -- a

michael cohen denied that. there is a meeting in a new york hotel between michael cohen and a ukraine law makers he gave him a plan to ease sanctions. michael cohen has told the "new york times" that's not true. actually he threw it in the trash and recommended it should be gen to michael flynn. >> i'm not talking about that. the meeting with this ukraine figure did happen. >> it did happen yes. >> to renado's point that's not covered by privilege. that's presumably why they want to talk to him. >> one of the many reasons. the allegations in the dose yay are floating about. they want to find out where he's gone an who he's spoken to. they've shown his passport to reporters. i've seen it. there's no stamp for prag. you've would n necessarily get a stamp for prag if you're in italy. the other thing i want to know the trump campaign hasn't -- those that worked for the trump campaign have been sent a letter by michael glass inner saying preserve all the documents you have relating to this campaign. that includes te

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and michael cohen, longtime trump attorney. michael cohen has denied colluding with the kremlin. flint has sought immunity in exchange for congressional testimony. the issuance of the subpoenas was first reported by "the wall street journal" ." >> bret: james, thank you. more on this with the panel. now to the first track of the two track investigation. lawmakers tell fox we are finally going to hear from our hosted fbi chief james comey on a host of issues and we are told the testimony could come within days about what president trump said to comey about the michael flynn investigation. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge has the stor story. >> a source close to the investigations has fired a fair director james comey has spoken directly and in private to special counsel robert mueller to go over the spoke of his testimony that could happen as early as next week. to ensure it does not interfere with or jeopardize mueller's probe. former justice department official said the process is called deconfliction. >> if you are director mueller, you, you want to talk to c

president trump's private attorney, michael cohen. they were approved by both parties for their russia meddling probe. but the three others were issued yun lat rattly without democratic approval. the wall street journal says those were issued to the fbi, cia and nsa for information about alleged unmasking by former obama administration officials seeking details about what led to the unveiling of the names of trump aids who were in contact with russian officials and were caught up in surveillance of foreign officials. former national security advisor susan rice, samantha power and former cia director john brennan all named in the subpoenas. a senior aid claims nunes was acting separately and he only recused himself. >> can this investigation continue? >> why would it not? >> in april nunes announced he was temporarily putting mike conway in charge of the russian probe. he faced a firestorm of criticism about how he handled classified materials when he obtained documents in a secret white house meeting. >> i have seen intelligence repor

next, after meredith, we have cohen. vice the senior executive president at comcast and the chief diversity officer. he has a broad portfolio of responsibilities including government regulatory affairs, legal affairs, corporate administration, and community investment. i don't know what you do during the rest of your day. by the way, when david was in he wasool, actually, known as chief justice david cohen. he and my brother were in law school together. david: not at duke, for the record. randolph: not at duke, but everyone makes mistakes. my brother didn't actually tell me that, it is on wikipedia. it says david -- he was known as chief justice david cohen because of his intellect and the work ethic -- his responsibilities tell you something about his work ethic. i do know from my brother, because they were partners in a law firm together, david was the managing partner and it was not unusual at all to get emails at 3:00 in the morning. that probably still happens around caomcast, i suppose. we are glad to have you with

michael cohen ab, the president's long-term private attorney. precise have they both agreed through their attorneys that they will fully cooperate with the four subpoenas you issued involving them? >> i believe they have. i can't verify that specifically. but i believe that when they're compelled they would come forward to -- to be questioned. >> another issue, sources telling cnn wsh, the congressional investigators are looking into whether the attorney general jeff sessions had an additional private meeting with russia's ambassador to the u.s., sergey kizlyak, during the presidential campaign, a meeting not acknowledged, disclosed. if that meeting did take place at least two if snores al franken and patrick leahy they're calling on sessions to resign. would you agree? >> well if he perjured himself as the attorney general for the united states, i don't know how he could continue in that role. much like michael flynn by lying really was a situation where he could no longer be the national security adviser and was fired as well. so we'll have to

particularly from michael cohen. mr. flynn had already received like process from the senate so i expect we're likely to hear back from him in shorter order than we will from mr. cohen. >> you've got four subpoenas that you and your -- the republican congressmen who are in charge of this russia investigation, one for michael cohen, one for michael flynn. who are the other two for? >> we sent out subpoenas to the persons as well as their businesses, so that constituted the four subpoenas pertinent to the russia investigation. as your reporters have covered, the chairman acting on his own initiative and without consultation with the minority sent out subpoenas apparently to three of the intelligence agencies seeking documents. that is obviously a concern that that's being done without consultation with the minority. apparently the white house wishes to push away from the russia investigation and direct attention in other places and unmask suggest apparently where the white house wants that attention directed. but i think m

what aaron cohen was saying was absolutely correct. that is there have to be an aggressive police approach and there have to be intelligent sharing. >> there also has to be -- look at the manchester guy. suicide bombers blew himself up. his sister post a message on facebook congratulating him on entering paradise. she's not a terrorist but nor is she a functioning city of the western democracy. the question is that is the broader comfort zone in which the terrorism incubates. you actually have to wait for on the ideology that supports that. the idea that you can be a terrorist and all your family know what you're up to and your family supports you and you got friends who suspect you're up to something. that's the problem. there's a small number who self detonate but it's people like the sister to congratulate you on entering paradise were actually the broader problems five right, we've seen is in san bernardino and we've seen it with the wives of some of these individuals, omar and several of them. until we get to the point where we ch

the problem is gary cohen was a commodities trader. he has as much experience to be fed chairman as our own eric bowen. seriously, the same resume, the same college experience. i'm not criticizing eric. look at his academic background. he is not a phd in economics, he's never studied economics. he is a guy that was a commodities trader. so is eric. that is what were dealing with here. he is probably not going to be fed chairman. the closest thing he's got is leading a search to find one. here's one thing i would say about this, donald trump is playing with fire with this in this sense. i keep hearing administration officials say were gonna get tax cuts done this year and it's coming, but they haven't materialized and are not even close. if you put in somebody in there that is not a dove, someone who believes in a strong dollar, someone who does not believe in constant easing every time there's an economic downturn and that inflation needs to be the first thing the fed addresses, not the other part of their mandate which is employment,

the same day we called payless, the company contacted cohen to apologize. him this refund check and a gift card as a good will gesture. >> i want to thank nbc10 very much. >> reporter: harry harrison, nbc10 responds. >> we checked their website and no mention of electronic payment or returns but does mention a happiness guarantee. if you're using new technologies like samsung pay ask the store how they handle refunds and returns before you buy. if you have a problem the information is right there on the screen, let us know and we will respond to you. >>> another busy news day a few minutes before the start of the "today" show. >> matt lauer and savannah guthrie are in new york this morning with a preview of what's happening. the shooting in washington, d.c. will be among the stories they're covering. let's go to new york and find out what's happening. guys. >> good morning. >> sorry about that. didn't need to make you stall. we're with you now. >> good morning to both of you. president trump and the first lady made a late night visit to the hospital to see

gary cohen is here, wilbur ross is here and that's a very important thing.ilbur, perhaps you would like to say a few things about trade right now and we can probably leave the media. perhaps you would say a few words about trade and what we're looking to do. >> yes, sir. trade imbalance with south korea has doubled since the treat qy a put into infect. the largest single component of that is automotive trade a absolute majority of -- about a nontariff trade barriers to the u.s. exports only 25,000 cars per big three manufacturer are allowed in based on u.s. engines. anything above that needs to be encore even standards. so that kind of rulemaking effects quite a few industries and really restricts the 5:00 stha access that u.s. companies have to the korean market we have a separate problem with other steel products there is no domestic market for tubular goods in korea so everything they make is for export and we've had recent trade cases demonstrating that a lot of that is dumped chinese steel coming as hot rolled coil and then coming back to the u.s.'s oil

i know cohen better than i know kasowitz. >> kasowitz is pretty darn smart. totally different.website gofundme, which helps these nonprofits raise money, they raised about $2 billion last year. over half of it went for medical reasons. so the country still recognizes that hopefully this president picks up on the fact that science and research are important too. >> totally different. a little ray of good news for donald trump. tim cook, the head of apple this week, says despite all their disagreements, their falling out over climate, he's putting politics aside, and he's fighting for what's best for america. >> what's he going to fight for? >> he says he's going to work with the administration on other issues like jobs and manufacturing in america. >> great. thank you, katy, howard, and megan furmy. a peace maker. when he with return, let me finish tonight with trump watch. you're watching "hardball." ray's always been different. last year, he said he was going to dig a hole to china. at&t is working with farmers to improve irrigation techniques. remote moisture sensors use a re

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watch what happens life with andy cohen coming to w d.c.ay host himself later this hour. >>> all right. giving you a live look outside right now. this morning's news dominated by traffic troubles, though. so let's get a check up now with erin. >> that's right, allison. serious crash has all lanes of the inner loop completely shut down at van dorn street. traffic is being forced to detour at eisenhower avenue. crash happened before 5:00 o'clock this morning. traffic still at a standstill back to saint barnabas road. coming in from prince george's county detour at 210, 295, branch avenue or pennsylvania avenue to get around that. and look at the outer loop there is some activity blocking the left shoulder and a rubberneck delay let's forward our cameras. rubberneck delay all the way back to the springfield interchange. you are parked right now from that point to past that large crash scene on the inner loop and there's some traffic on the inner loop that has been stuck between the diversion point at eiser hour avenue and before van dorn stree

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cohen is being asked about.hether he was a person who allegedly may have had communications with russians or other people during the campaign. he is his personal lawyer but he is also a businessman and a person with significant contacts. pedro: our guest has studied and researched extensively on russia and related activities and issues regarding russia and also at the wilson center serves as their deputy director, william pomeranz. david is in los angeles, on the independent line. you are up first. good morning. caller: what is certainly fascinating about this russian propagandaw primarily used by autocrats and the tutorial regimes have completely co-opted and corrupted the american political sphere. and you have it where you have the democrat and the republican issues being manipulated for the purposes of deceit. issue, it with this is like people come on and they and theyreally docile are reporting this to the american people. but this is something that we are told is normal. we are living in times right now w

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. >> there is gary cohen and national security adviser h.r.cmaster and the treasury secretary steve mnuchin. we are waiting like to hear from ,resident trump on his decision reported decision to withdraw the u.s. from the paris climate change accord. democrats on twitter. garamendi of california saying i strongly oppose the president's decision to withdraw from the paris or agreement. this provides vital protection for our health and environment. we look for your comments on twitter as well. we will follow-up with your phone calls. live coverage from the rose garden here on c-span. >> the most brilliant and one b in washington after a long-range spell. we are live in the rose garden as we wait to hear from president trump. the cnbc white house correspondent tweets i just spotted grover norquist walking into the rose garden. he flashed me a thumbs up and seems pleased with what we are about to hear. politico reporting on some of what we are about to hear. some talking points. some bullet points on the president's comments this afternoon on the

cohen. >> thank you. grassley, ranking member feinstein, senator cruz, and other members -- i wanted to add another line from the supreme court's opinion yesterday. in which the court by an 8-0 vote said the following -- speech may not be banned on the ground that it expresses ideas that offend. that is the law. that is what the first amendment teaches us. that was the basis of yesterday's ruling. it has been the basis phrased differently through the years, but phrased consistently through the years. that has been the basis for the protection of first amendment rights. today isgs us here that time and again speech is being effectively banned on campuses because the speaker has ideas that offend. that is the problem. becausenot arise university administrations are seeking to suppress beach. -- speech. it arises more often than not because students find it intolerable to have certain speakers appear and certain ideas expressed, with which they disagree, and which they find offensive, or even outrageous. so

this is a bit odd, anderson, because that second sentence from michael cohen is false.he dossier has not been debunked by its author christopher steel. steel has said that not all of it is fully verified. we know from our reporting that some of it has been corroborated. so, a little bit of an odd defense there from that second trump lawyer, michael cohen. anderson? >> strange to put out a statement that has something that is not factually accurate. athena jones thank you for joining us. chief political reporter gloria borger. professor dershowitz, you say this is not obstruction of justice by the president and it actually strengthens his position against director comey. how so? >> well, first of all let's look at the big constitutional picture. the president could have told comey, you are commanded, directed to drop the prosecution against flynn. the president has the right to do that. comey acknowledges that. he says in the statement that historically, historically presidents have done that through the justice department. but in the last few years we've had a tradition