director of future of diplomacy project at harvard kennedy school and in brussels via skype is daniel grosse he's the director of the center for european policy studies a very warm welcome to all of you mr bennett let me start with you and learn and your foreign minister is op ed where he wrote making plans for a new world order i europe and the u.s. on a collision course here. not necessarily but in the course of readjustment we find ourselves in a fundamentally new situation with the us germany used to have the best deal of all us would take care of our security we can compete economically and to disagree politically now the trump administration has served us our vulnerability is on a silver platter the security guarantees are no longer secure and the u.s. is going against the very institutions it helped to create that are dear to germany and the atlantic alliance and they're also going against one of the biggest achievements of european diplomacy the iran deal and here europe is saying we need to invest in our own strategic autonomy financial autonomy that's what mr moss was talking about

i would disagree with my colleague daniel gross a little bit we have seen over the summer some very market debates particularly in the public on things like defense spending and the future of german defense policy there's been a very nuanced debate on whether germany might have to consider getting a nuclear weapon now that's the united states is retreating from the security architecture in europe now that came out to on the side of a clearly of no but what we're seeing in a lot of the. a lot of the questions that have been put to the german public that the german public is actually ahead of its political class they see that it could be important to invest more in german and in european defense spending they're very aware now after a prolonged debate within the german press and within the german media of of the need for an integrated european defense policy so i think there is some movement there but again i would point to the fact that that movement might not be quick enough to tackle all the challenges that the european union faces from the south and from the east particularly the migrati

i would disagree with my colleague daniel gross a little bit we have seen over the summer some very market debates particularly in the public on things like defense spending and the future of german defense policy there's been a very nuanced debate on whether germany might have to consider getting a nuclear weapon now that's the united states is retreating from the security architecture in europe now that came out to on the side of a clearly of no but what we're seeing in a lot of the. a lot of the questions that have been put to the german public that the german public is actually ahead of its political class they see that it could be important to invest more in german and in european defense spending they're very aware now after a prolonged debate within the german press and within the german media of of the need for an integrated european defense policy so i think there is some movement there but again i would point to the fact that that movement might not be quick enough to tackle all the challenges that the european union faces from the south and from the east particularly the migrati

daniel gross -- the modesto man who killed an east bay woman -- then left her on the side of the roadappear in court. lizette cuesta was killed back in feburary. before she died she led investigators to gross and melissa leonardo. gross pleaded guilty to charges of beating.. stabbing and killing cuesta. leonardo pleaded ánot guilty. today's hearing will set the location of future court dates. ( james ) in the south bay... a vietnam war memorial in san jose is vandalized. 142 veterans' names are inscribed on that memorial that was dedicated five years ago... all of those veterans were from san jose. over the weekend someone spray painted writing on the corn with white paint that has been washed off but is still etched in the granite. ( james ) the san jose vietnam war memori

i would disagree with my colleague daniel gross a little bit we have seen over the summer some very market debates particularly in the public on things like defense spending and the future of german defense policy there's been a very nuanced debate on whether germany might have to consider getting a nuclear weapon now that see united states is retreating from the security architecture in europe now that came out to on the side of a clearly of no but what we're seeing in a lot of the. a lot of the questions that have been put to the german public that the german public is actually ahead of its political class they see that it could be important to invest more in german and in european defense spending they're very aware now after a prolonged debate within the german press and within the german media of of the need for an integrated european defense policy so i think there is some movement there but again i would point to the fact that that movement might not be quick enough to tackle all the challenges that the european union faces from the south and from the east particularly the migration

director of future of diplomacy project at harvard kennedy school and in brussels via skype is daniel grosse he's the director of the center for european policy studies a very warm welcome to all of you mr bennett let me start with you and berlin and your foreign minister is all paid away here vote making plans for a new world order i europe and the u.s. on a collision course here. not necessarily but in the course of readjustment we find ourselves in a fundamentally new situation with the us germany used to have the best deal of all us would take care of our security we can compete economically and to disagree politically now the trump administration has served us our vulnerability is on a silver platter the security guarantees are no longer secure and the u.s. is going against the very institutions it helped to create that are dear to germany and the atlantic alliance and they're also going against one of the biggest achievements of european diplomacy the iran deal and here europe is saying we need to invest in our own strategic autonomy financial autonomy that's what mr moss was talking a

daniel gross -- the modesto man who killed an east bay woman -- then left her on the side of the road she died she led investigators to gross and melissa leonardo. gross pleaded guilty to charges of beating.. stabbing and killing cuesta. leonardo pleaded ánot guilty. today's hearing will set the location of future court dates. ( james ) in the south bay... a 15-year-old is recovering after being shot near a school in san jose. it happened on the 900 block of walnut woods drive... that is just two blocks from robert f. kennedy elementary school. the teen is expected to be okay but the shooter is still on the loose. ( darya ) new this morning... the man convicted of killing a san francisco woman 20 years ago... will stay in prison. lisa valdez -- pictured on the right with her mother -- was stabbed to death in her diamond heights apartment in anthony hughes for her murder after getting a d-n-a match... 13 years later. bloodstains on 2 pillows led police to hughes. hughes was also matched to a fingerprint in the victim's bathroom. hughes was convicted of second-degree murder 2 years ago.

daniels. >> beyond grossing up, meaning paying for the gross income, he then was paid extra for additional services, i think approximately $60,000, something of that nature. >> what additional services? >> well, he continued to be an adviser to donald trump on retainer. there are many clients that i represent that pay a monthly retainer for me to be available for advice. and mr. trump was willing to pay slightly more than the amount that would be the equivalent of $130,000, including the income taxes to be paid to hush up ms. daniels. >> there are a couple other questions and house cleaning notes here. any sense that the federal government is investigating or would use testimony for michael cohen to go after david pecker or ami, the national inquirer folks? >> i have no knowledge of that at all. >> would michael cohen seek a pardon from the president of the united states about any of this? >> the answer is definitively no. under no circumstances since he came to the judgment after mr. trump's election to the presidency of the united states that his suitability is a serious risk to our country. and

grossing up the payments to cover for his taxes. so it looks like a real scheme to try to get money to pay for stormy daniels, to pay her off and to dot hides it and keeps it away from the campaign. >> it looks like they have trouble. >> well, then, talk to me with that. in the court of public opinion, does it matter if it was campaign money or not? >> well, don, the president is trying to fudge that. but there is no running away from the devastating impact of michael cohen standing up in court yesterday. not only the court of justice but the court of opinion, the words ringing out that he committed campaign finance crimes at the direction and control of a candidate. we all who know that is. the president of the united states. and i think you've seen this reverberation across the country. there are some things that get confined to the connoisseurs of law. not this one. so yes. i think this will be devastating. the smell. you can only ignore the smell for so long. the smell is bad and it will get worse. every day a new crime. today president went on fox news. as larry said, he seemed to concede that he was aware of these payments and

daniel. i wanted to ask you. do you think that they're going to have to try to counter this sort of corrupt ostrich-coat-spending grossnessdirectly to the law in the case here? >> well, i think they will do that in closing arguments, walter, that they will argue that as the judge has been saying the entire trial, which is helpful to the defense, that it is not a crime to be rich. and they will try to deal with it in that way, but you raise an interesting point that came out yesterday, which is that there was a lot of testimony over the last two days really about this bank loan, three loans of $16 million that paul manafort got from a small bank in chicago, and what ultimately came out is that the bank officials and even all the way up to the president wanted to reject the loan application, but the ceo and chairman of the bank, steven caulk, came in over their heads to approve it. what came out is that what he really was after, and there are e-mails to this effect, is he wanted a position in the trump administration. but, interestingly, and i know you guys were talking about the swampiness of the trump administration earli