over to frankfurt and the stock exchange there with our correspondent daniel cope standing by daniel thoseare some worrying figures from japan there. yes actually the numbers are not very promising at all and it really seems that all of this is again once really into the trade dispute it's really clear that the trade dispute between washington and beijing has really overshadowed not just trading at equity market but has also really slowed down the worldwide economy we have seen this happening here in europe and certainly in asia as well today once again with these not very promising numbers from japan investors feel that it is crucial to get things sorted out as soon as possible and when we talk about the trade discussions between beijing and washington it seems that's the good news that investors are optimistic that in fact a solution hopefully in the agreement might be reached very soon and so news out of south korea police read human days quality check to port been following vehicle recalls in south korea and the united states what more can you tell us about yeah exactly we're taking a

recall again the president said he didn't know about these payments to stormy daniels. thoseges otherwise. >> there is all pages of color we haven't gotten to, there are so many blockbuster headlines. because you know this so well, i do want to get to some of these things i guess are of lesser import legally, still really interesting. here is what he plans to, what michael cohen plans to tell lawmakers about the president's son. mr. trump had frequently told me his son, don jr. had the worst judgment of anyone in the world and also that don jr. would never set up a meeting of significance alone, and certainly not without checking with his father. he says he was in office when don jr. came in behind the desk, which is unusual and whispered audibly the meeting is set up, this was about the trump tower meeting with russians and apparently upgrade to michael cohen, donald trump said, good, good, let me know. >> i think it's an important asterisk. michael cohen going to say and i heard it was about the russia meeting. he is going to say that in retrospect he thinks a scene he obse

protesting against the policies of the new far right president it's a narrow we've got daniel with us in one of those events daniel. yes i'm here in sao paolo the biggest city in the americas so full of concrete and tall buildings about as far away as you can get in many ways from the indigenous population of the zille they're scattered all over this country many different languages many different cultures but they do now find themselves united having heard these comments by president johnson also nado who only came to power on the first of january this year promising the first executive order he issued a list of five to put an end to the land being demarcated for further indigenous reservations he said throughout his campaign that they would not ascend to be needs more quickly than land will go towards indigenous communities he asked why it was less than one percent of the brazilian population should have twelve percent of the land he also talked about the land just big right for development sitting on those sorts of mineral resources and questioning why these indigenous people should have better ac

. >> and i've been tracking him for about a month and a half. >> reporter: danielle also admitted to helping michael take those>> who took the pictures? >> michael did. >> okay. whose camera? >> mine. >> reporter: but danielle denied that all this elaborate spying escalated into a murder plot. instead, she said it was simply preparation for her pending divorce. >> and i told the attorney about it. and the attorney said, whoa, you're good because, he said, that's good evidence. >> she wanted to be able to just have leverage and be able to embarrass him. >> reporter: danielle told the detectives another reason was plain old curiosity. >> i had to see for myself that it was a girl. it broke my heart. >> how did you -- >> i don't know why because i was cheating on my husband. >> and that's the big question, right? you were doing it for four years and why -- why did it break your heart? >> i think i still loved my husband, still had feelings for him. >> reporter: what's more, danielle said she and michael had stopped their spying weeks before the shooting. detectives also asked about those text messages which they

those friends of daniels who received a voter's card on time voted for a car the challenger to incumbent president bihari not because they believe things will change overnight but because they see a different administration is key for the youth to claim power one day you're no longer waiting for the government young people i read and young people who are frustrated and deer are determined right now to do to get themselves what they want to get. people under thirty are already in the majority in nigeria they know that our population grows young people will have more power if they actually use it to hold politicians accountable that process has just started as people like daniel and need to and their friends are getting older. ok and i'll send a girl also how did election this weekend in the country is now awaiting the official results just like nigeria senegal is a young country seventy percent of the population is under the age of thirty and those young people yield considerable power when it comes to politics so failing to deliver for the young generation in senegal is a risky tax break

american people t at the presidmmitted a financial crime in office, all to do with those payments regardingtormy danielsush money and that is a federal election crime, for which michael cohen himself is going to jail. those are the two things which are concerned, and already, jane, you are hearing democratso talking abou this rise to the level of high crimes and misdemeanors, potentially impeachment. nancy pelosi, speaker of the otuse, whizzing up and down the corridor, she doesant to hear talk about impeachment, but you are hearing it on the left of the democratic party. jane: how credible to you think he wasre we have hearblicans say that he was convicted of lying to congress. laura: whi indeed is true, and he will go to jail for three years. ard toicans tried very pin that on him -- you are a liar, how can you be a star witness, convicted felon, you have a book deal and a movie deal, why should we believe a word you say. but in the end, cohen was quit composed and did not lose it. he tried to say i'm sorry. so it is the question of whethei you e democrats who say it is a tale of redemption or republi

russian connections and theory regarding payments hush money payments to adult actress stormy daniels we knew about those payments what we didn't know and the allegation from mr cowen is that the president then reimbursed him he paid him back with a check to the tune of thirty five thousand dollars when he was in office at the check that was presented today in congress appears to bear the signature of the president and is dated august twenty seventeen so talk us through some of the reaction to a list drama. i think it's fair to say that the most explosive reaction has been in congress today at the beginning of proceedings of the testimony we saw republican mark meadows try to actually delay the proceedings saying that we didn't receive the prepared statement in time when there was a vote on delaying it of course that didn't pass mark meadows then taking the line what proof do you have that's the chorus line we keep seeing what proof do you have for example that mr trump is a racist for example and the trump jim jordan also then saying you know are you aware mr cohen that essentially you are now a puppet

daniel's friends begin a heated debate about the future of the economy. handicapped we don't even want to move yet there is no. want to move to the other side and. those friends of daniels who received a voter's card on time voted for a car challenger to incumbent president bihari not because they believe things will change overnight but because they see a different administration is key for they used to claim power one day we're no longer waiting for the government's young people. and young people who are frustrated and they're determined right now to do things to get themselves what they want to give. people under thirty already in the majority nigeria they know that population growth young people will have more power if they actually use it to hold politicians accountable that process has just started as people like daniel and need to and their friends are getting older. u.s. president donald trump is due to fly to vietnam in the next few hours for his second historic meeting bringing north korean leader kim jong un is already on route two hundred board his official trying to trump hopes the choice of venue will inspire north korea to denuclearize

of the same manufacturer and consistency of that glove that walmart sold on the day that daniel purchased those real evidence linking daniel to the crime scene. >> when all these facts comes together, there's no other suspect. and the reason that shelley was killed is because she stood in the way of a romantic rendezvous that he so desperately wanted with nathan. >> reporter: on november 4, 2009, eight weeks after shelley's murder, they arrested daniel willyam. the arrest was, for shelley's family, a double-edged thing. they were relieved, of course. but until then, the police had not told them that shelley had been stabbed 42 times. >> oh, my god. i almost passed out. 42 exact. and i just thought, "oh my god"" >> reporter: prosecutor dewey mitchell got the case then, and right away could see the problem. this was a circumstantial case, in which the accused would likely say, the other guy did it. >> especially in a case like this. >> reporter: so he sent out his investigator, hoyt hoffman, to second guess the police. >> you have to make sure that no stone is left unturned. >> reporter: and then

. >> the one thing we know he's going to be testifying about is the stormy daniels payment scheme. let's watch those 20 seconds on air force one that will surely be quoted in tomorrow's hearing in which president trump lied about those payments and his knowledge about those payments to stormy daniels. >> mr. president, did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. >> then why did michael cohen -- >> you'd have to ask michael cohen. michael's my attorney and you'll have to ask michael. >> do you know where he got the money to make that payment? >> no, i don't. >> so joyce vance, that's the guy who congressman gaetz is trying to defend by calling michael cohen some who lies to his own family -- the trouble is his client there, in effect donald trump, is right there on video lying to everyone in america when he says, no, he didn't know about the payments to stormy daniels. and that's what we're going to be hearing about in the hearing tomorrow. >> donald trump has definitely flunked the matt gaetz test, right, for honesty and integrity. >> right there on air force one. >> the most i

he paid $130,000 to stormy daniels to silence those stories about the affair. may 8, 2018, when rudy giuliani, another trump attorney, went on fox news and disclosed that trump had a role in reimbursing michael cohen for these payments, according to cummin cummings' letter, the stories changed. dillon said cohen knew he would be reimbursed for the payment. the quote, neck nichlt fmechani reimbursement changed over time. the other attorney made similar statements to federal ethics officials and also saying that they suggested that according to the attorney, according to cummings, suggested there was a retainer with cohen for these payments. it was later revealed from the southern district of new york prosecutors that there was no retainer for this agreement. we did reach out to both dillon and the other attorney. there's no comment. we reached out to the white house who just said they have not commented either. we reached out to the trump organization. cummings sent a separate letter to the trump organization demanding document bs by next friday and threatening

daniels. and so those are after the president took an oath to faithfully execute the laws of the united statesre he is violating them. that is going to get some attention in congress, you're absolutely right. the problem is if you're going to aim at the king, the old saying has that you better aim straight and score a direct hit. that question, it can only be answered by the people of the united states. if they think that this crime, if proved, is sufficient to impeach, then it will move. if not, it's not going to happen and getting two-thirds of a senate to impeach this president seems a long, long way away. >> almost 90% approval among republicans. cecilia. >> this arms the president's allies. republicans are already saying that this is a charade setting up the democrats to begin impeachment proceedings. the democrats say that's not actually the case, but republicans are really armed with this. every time we talk about impeachment, every time the accusation gets hurled in the way of the democrats, they're saying that michael cohen shouldn't even have a platform like this, that he is, in fact

jr and russian connections at the trump tower in manhattan and thirdly of course those hush money payments to stormy daniels the adult film actress although we knew that they did did take place what we hadn't yet heard in terms of analysis allegation from mr cohen was that that check reimbursement to him to the tune of thirty five thousand dollars was written when mr trump was already in office in august twenty seventeen or less until the super reaction to all this. a range of reaction online as you would expect ranging from people saying that mr cohen essentially now is a puppet of the democrats other people saying that this is so explosive that this is the beginning of impeachment proceedings there's another social media sideshow going on as well regarding much gates the representative from florida for the republicans last night he tweeted that mr cohen saying is your family aware of your gulf friends where your wife remain faithful she while still behind bars earning him some stinging rebuke and accusations of witness intimidation a telling off from house speaker nancy pelosi we now understand the juice

it's not just trumpees who are in those jobs. >> daniel lippman, thanks so much. >> thank you. >>> we now know when and where president trump will meet north korean leader kim jong-un. the president tweeted they'll be meeting in hanoi, vietnam, february 27th and 28th. and a source claims north korea is no longer a nuclear threat an assessment the intel chiefs disagree with. >>> washington state is in the middle of a second snowstorm this week. and now there's a state of emergency. coming up, how long will this record-breaking snowfall last. >>> also, blackmail, extortions, photos, by jeff bezos and the more on the tell all and what's to come. >>> and more information on the drug kingpin joaquin "el chapo" guzman. jury deliberations may stretch into next week. we'll tell you why jurors may be taking their time here. ultimate sleep number event. it senses your movement, and automatically adjusts to keep you both comfortable. it even helps with this. so you wake up ready to hit the ground running. only at a sleep number store. save 50% on the sleep number 360 limited edition smart bed. p

he also said the president signed ches to reimburse him to stormy daniels and he exhibited those checks. and he went beyond that to say the president at one point had hiir get the lady on the phone and lie to her about the president's relationship with the adult film star stormy daniels. he seemed very remorseful, as he he went before congress today he knew he had a credibility issue. he anyhow the last time he was before them he lied about it. but he did not say that the president explicitly told him to lie. instea he said that the president's lawyer could review that testimony knowing that he would lie, and he said it was just understood it was in the president's code he would not tell the truth about how far into the 2016 campaign trump continued in his negotiations to build a trump tower in moskow. >> all right, so given that he isoing to prison and he said this isn't hoing top lessen his sentence, what motive would he have to reveal all of thie >> you know,id it was to clear his good name. he wants to restore faithen him. he says he now has to walk behind his family because he gets

we are also probably going to hear more about those payments to stormy daniels.hile many of us may think, ah, we have been talking about this for months and months, who even cares? this isn't a bomb shell. >> that doesn't matter, last summer, michael cohen stood up in a district courthouse and said i committed a crime when i paid off these women and donald trump knew about it. >> one, the individual one. >> individual one. right. donald trump knew about it. >> cohen is identified trump specifically in his testimony? >> that's right. not long after michael cohen said that in open court. the doj filed documents saying that's what we believe, too. since last year we know the doj believes essentially that donald trump directed a crime by michael cohen. while that seems like so 2018 and so long ago, it remains really the strongest evidence of a crime committed by donald trump. >> so let me get your thoughts quickly on what the strategy for republicans here has been. you got matt gaetz witness testing and apologizing, what does it say about the mindset of approaching m

service to a former "bachelor" contestant, danielle m., on the nick vialls season of "the bachelor,," then "bachelor in paradise." she found love on neither of thosegned danielle up with tinder to see who we could meet foreher and tonight we met caleb. >> previously my skills brought us to brian. >> hi. >> who appeared to measure up. >> i'm tall and he's tall. >> i made my move. >> good news action we're interested in you. >> brian seemed into us. >> this is absolutely the weirdest first date i've ever had for sure. >> now it's time for our final leg of this tinder triathlon. so what else do we have here? >> caleb. he's 26. >> he's young. >> yeah. >> he's 26. >> yeah. >> cinematographer. >> yes. >> there he is with a woman. i hope that's not his wife. >> yeah. because i'm definitely not into that. >> you're not into that. this is hopefully his sister, maybe? >> let's hope so. >> she kind of looks like him. >> okay. >> let's find out. >> okay. hi! oh, he's on the phone. >> he's calling his lawyer. >> cool, hi, let me call you back in a bit. hello, hi, everybody. >> hi, caleb. >> i'm caleb, 92 us to meet you. >> i'm jimmy. >> my friend jimmy. >> nic

involved in, particularly those hush money payments that occurred to silence those alleged trump affairs, including with stormy daniels, the role the president played, the president being implicated in those crimes. other issues such as those expected to be a dominant focus tomorrow. the question is will people view his testimony credibly? republicans already dismissing at the white house. cohen saying he just wanted to protect the president which is why he lied before. >> an interesting three days ahead. manu, i appreciate you become in the courthouse live. the question is to what end here? michael cohen is prepared to testify that yes, he, michael cohen, committed crimes but that the president was his partner in some of these crimes while he was residing at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. that would open up new potential windows. number one, would it feed democratic calls for impeachment? you can say it was a campaign thing, it was a long time ago, it was the business world. what is the significance of the next few days? >> i think it depends who you are, number one. number two, there is a lot we don't know what michael c

and one of those incidences we were discussing daniel and his three companions. and from that, i drew the conclusion that i had to make a choice, too, and i chose to no longer salute the flag because to me, it was like bowing down to an image or a representation of a government other than god's government. >>so this is part of exodus, thou shalt not worship a graven image? >>true, that's a part of it. >>and as you demonstrated that, at what point was there an aha moment when you had the class began every day with the salute, the pledge of allegiance. at one point you chose not to salute. >>yes. to tell the truth, that morning, i was a nervous wreck. i didn't know exactly how the class would react because i had always been careful of my conduct. my parents demanded it. but when i did stand that day and not put my hand over my heart, the teacher immediately stopped the program and told me that i had not gotten into the right position. so they started over again and i just stood there. and then she told me out. out of the class. so my brother and i, who were in the

cohen says the president committed a criminal act in office reimbursing cohen for those hush money payments to stormy daniels even supporting the claim with this $35,000 check cohen says was signed by the president. cohen says the president even asked him to lie to melania trump about the whole thing. >> and lying to the first lady is one of my biggest regrets. because she's a kind, good person. >> reporter: then candidate trump knew about the hacked democratic e-mails before they were dumped by wikileaks and adding that mr. trump indirectly encouraged him to mislead congress about negotiations around building a trump tower in moscow which cohen says lasted well into the campaign. cohen is headed to prison after pleading guilty to crimes as well as lying to congress. republican lawmakers pouncing on his credibility. >> you are a liar. you don't know -- >> sir, i'm sorry. are you referring to me or the president? rp grilling cohen over the motives. >> you wanted to work in the white house. >> no, sir. >> didn't get brought to the dance. >> reporter: at times tensions boiling over. >> that's not what i said an

president daniels, where would you invest those resources? >> catherine, you know the old joke about the economists on the desert island? finally found a can of corn. >> that's what we're here to discuss. what kinds of policies should we be investing in? >> i'll join you and assume the can opener. as long as we agree -- as rahm and i just did, if you don't get at this problem, this is genuinely, literally, an academic discussion we're having. no, i mean, please notice that the areas we are now learning with the greatest income inequality in the country are exactly the places that -- and not chicago, as far as i know. but the places that are implementing these policies you're talking about. you know, we capped property taxes in indiana at 1% of the value of your house, 2% of your farm farm, rental property, 3% of your business. they are now on average a third or less of -- the same house could be half a mile away across the illinois state line. and, you know, this has macro policies of that kind, i think, at least at the state level. or where

in chunked tower in manhattan again in twenty sixteen zero three regarding those payments to adult film actress stormy daniels which we already knew took place now at the accusation that in fact trump paid back mr cohen when he was in office as late as august twenty seventeen so lots of claims lots of i like asians did michael cohen back up those claims. well he's backed up his claims with something that he calls evidence whether of course that is proof is another matter though the beauty if you will of this congressional hearing is that mr cohen is able to lay out other pieces of of evidence documents text that he may not be able to in court so far he's presented a newspaper articles for example inflammatory twit tweets but one exhibit which is particularly noteworthy is a check that he held up in court that you know thirty five thousand dollars which again he said was from the president's personal account to his to pay him back for that payment to stormy daniels of course the immediate question was well did the president know that that was what the intended transfer was for but let's take a listen now to th

following year aboard air force one, president trump denied any knowledge whatsoever of those payments to stormy daniels, something else the president claims he has no knowledge of, that 2016 trump tower meeting where donald trump jr. and other campaign officials sought dirt on hillary clinton from someone they were told was a russian lawyer. here again is cohen. >> donald trump jr. came into the room and walked behind his father's desk, which in and of itself was unusual. people didn't just walk behind mr. trump's desk to talk to him. i recall don jr. leaning over to his father and speaking in a low voice, which i could clearly hear and saying, the meeting is all set and i remember mr. trump saying, okay, good. let me know. >> for many republicans at the hearing there's a clear line of attack. cohen's tenuous relationship with the truth, his financial troubles and perhaps, perhaps even a little sour grapes. >> mr. cohen, how long did you work in the white house? >> i never worked in the white house. >> and that's the point, isn't it, mr. cohen? >> no, sir. >> yes, it is. >> no, sir. >> you wanted to wo

daniel or if you can hear me how are the markets in asia digesting the latest developments that is the resumption of talks and what can we expect for today in those markets and in frankfurt. well it seems that investors in asia are a little bit more optimistic as well that this solution and can be found when we take a look at the shanghai stocks there they're trading day and they're flat so you can feel some office mison when you talk here about frank for investors here are awarded about possible car chairs that could be implemented by the administration of u.s. president donald trump already because of that yesterday how shares have been very much under fire. keeping us updated there from frankfurt thank you dana. european union has agreed to new limits for truck exhausts the call for carbon dioxide output to fall thirty percent by two thousand and thirty this after the european parliament and the european council met to hammer out an early morning compromise and the e.u. wants to reduce emissions from commercial trucks and private cars to achieve the climate targets from the paris agreement cars c o two emissions have been subject to ever stric

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what david mentions is the payments to stormy daniels and the reimbursements. some of those looked like they could have stretched into the time he was in the white house and therefore he might have been signing checks to violate the campaign laws. >> so i want to just play for you, because these moments, you never know when these moments comes, the moment upon which the presidency can turn. you were the creator for one of those moments for richard nixon. this is a moment when you were testifying and you were talking about when you told nixon to come clean. >> i began by telling the president that there was a cancer growing on the president sif and -- presidency and if the cancer was not removed, the presidency would be killed by it and i told him it was important it be removed immediately. >> do you think this could be a similar moment for donald trump tomorrow? >> it could be, particularly since lanny has told me he has testimony about criminal behavior since the man has become president. that could certainly make it a turning point. i agree he will be truthful. he has noth

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of criminal activity while in office, cohen said trump directed him to make those hush money payments to porn star stormy danielspresident initially denied those payments but cohen brought documentation, a check he says shows trump repaid him for the money. >> you don't have to take my word for it. i don't want you to. i want you to look at the documents. >> reporter: and he said trump told him to lie about the whole thing. >> what did the president ask or suggest that you say about the payments or reimbursements? >> he wasn't knowledgeable about the reimbursements and he wasn't knowledgeable of my actions. >> he asked you to say that? >> yes, ma'am. >> reporter: another allegation -- >> wikileaks, i love wikileaks. >> reporter: cohen claim trump knew ahead of time that wikileaks was going to release hacked dnc e-mails that were damaging to hillary clinton. and he said trump wanted him to lie to congress about a trump tower project in moscow, a deal cohen now admits was negotiated with russia well into the campaign. cohen says it was all typical in the world of donald trump. >> how many times did mr. trump ask y

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mem me he pled guilty and the payments he was making to stormy daniel, trump is basically referenced in there. the protect that directed thosements. and michael cohen is in a position to start it going down the road, crossing that red line that trump did not ever want crossed. that's where it could be a problem. he really can't do anything to stop it. >> in addition, michael cohen testifying publicly in something that will probably be broadcast on every cable news network while the president is in vietnam attempting to broker a deal in kim jong-un. next week promises to be very busy. thank you so much for being here. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> a federal judge rules that a top trump official went easy on an alleged billionaire sex abuser. so how is the president responding? we will tell you, next. ♪ t-mobile is always happy to see you. when you join t-mobile you get two lines of unlimited with two of the latest phones included for just one hundred bucks a month. make us better people.istening has the power to change us, with audible, you get more. two audible originals- exclusive titles you can't find anywhere else.

what did he say to donald trump about those payments to stormy daniels and the scheme to pay off karensed in the context of the election? you know, cohen had said he did this for the purpose of keeping these women quiet during the election. but the critical question as far as trump's culpability is what was in his head? had he made these sorts of payments before? if so, that could be exculpatory. if somebody makes allegations against you, you pay them off and keep them silent. >> and what if he can show the president thought this was connected to his campaign hoax? >> well, then that does directly implicate the president in a crime. >> you think that's enough for impeachment? >> no, not in and of itself. you know, first of all the -- these payments were -- you know, one thing that's interesting that nobody's picked up on here is the fact he's going to testify about them at all. presumably if the southern district had an ongoin investigation into this matter they would have put the brakes on cohen testifying. >> yes, so what does that tell you? >> it suggests me they don't have further

those things big question mark. you know up to date with the latest news my colleague daniel hawkins will be with you in just over thirty minutes time. hello and welcome the cross-talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle is america ready for a real anti-war candidate clearly the political establishment and media aren't criticism a presidential candidate and anyone else who questions foreign policy orthodoxies is swift and unrelenting fighting for peace has never been so difficult. crosstalk in the politics of anti-war i'm joined by my guest daniel for ahci in washington he's the c.e.o. of grassroots political consulting also in washington we have thomas polling he is a an independent economist and author and in percival we crossed to the he's a former cia counterterrorism specials who is now executive director of the counsel for the national interest all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate philip let me go to you first and personal. i guess it took the advent of the election of donald trump for the neo cons to invade both major political

president's answer to that first question which was did you know that michael cohen was making those payments to stormy daniels, all the evidence suggests that the president did know. michael cohen's alleging that it's $35,000 check is just one of several payments that the president gave him in order to reimburse him for that amount. but it seems clear that the basic question, did the president know? yes, did he know. and beyond that michael cohen was the president's personal attorney were retalk about him in that way. but one of the things that the prosecutors have been making clear in this case is that michael cohen did not to do that much legal work for president trump. he was not really sort of doing lawyerly stuff for the president. he was the president's fixer. he was resolving personal problems for the president. according to michael cohen he was sending threatening letters to the college board and to his high school and his college talking about not releasing the president's transcripts. so it's not like the president was paying him $35,000 to do actual legal work. the president was paying him to fix p

daniels. do you have any idea who those executives may be?utive number two is the person who had to get the okay for weisselberg to make those payments. >> weisselberg and michael cohen, are they the two people that you don't want testifying? >> yes. >> i mean there are questions. we know trump org. is controlled by a small circle. this is one of the big mysteries that we'll have a clear answer tomorrow. >> go on, did you want to say something? >> i mean, yes, but not about that. >> its got to be someone who's over the cfo or it is going to be one of the higher level executives or the one of the children, right? eric, don jr. or eventually ivanka. >> the committee, do you think they're going to ask about that? >> it is not clear to me how much cohen will know about this. he was not part of the campaign formally. he did not go in at the administration. i thisnk they'll try to ask abot it a little bit but it is not clear. >> that's more of an expedition. the inaugural is something that i would guess he would have some information about. he was

illegal campaign contributions in terms of the money that went to stormy daniels and karen macdougal. who benefitted from those expenditures? it wasn't michael cohen. it was donald trump. donald trump got these people out of the public eye at least temporarily by paying the money. the idea that it was done at the instigation of trump rather than cohen himself has plausibility. >> and that there were discussions ongoing after donald trump assumed office about payments to stormy daniels and karen macdougal. what was the process for not covering up but for handling the numbers and the finances. you know, jeffrey, you brought up the fact that documentation is one thing you are looking for here. there are reports that he'll have some kind of presentation. >> when you have problematic witnesses, the issue always is corroboration. what can they bring to the table that shows they are telling the truth. often that's some sort of documentation. is it e-mails, texts, tape recordings, contempt rain use notes. that obviously is something that's important. we'll see. we do know just that donald trump famously doesn't text.

business and accuse the president of committing a crime while in office related to those hush money payments to stormy daniels. cohen plans to bring records to back up his claims. the "wall street journal" reports cohen will bring documentation he claims proves he was reimbursed for his payment to stormy daniels in the form of checks, some signed by donald trump who was, by the way, president at the sime. none of the claims should come as a surprise. the president's racism has been evident since he headlined the birther movement. his shady business practices have been widely reported. he's already identified as individual one, who master minded the hush money payments. but there's a giant difference about reading about his conduct and getting a comprehensive account straight from a first-hand witness on camera. it could help crystallize those incremental news bits from all the investigations. and after tomorrow, he wrr be back for a third day thursday, testifying before closed session in the house intelligence committee. the allies are already trying discredit cohen, painting hymn as a liar, which he is. acco

connell: dangerous, after the arrest and all those things we have covered. danielle, what about the trade negotiations now? we keep hearing about quote unquote, progress. now the president seems to be hinting that, which we knew, he hinted at it a number of times, the march 1st date could float. is that what we are kind of betting on, some kind of extension at this point? >> well, i certainly think the markets are banking on that. i think they are hoping the president is very flexible. part of the underlying reason is that china won't even begin to admit that they have been engaged in cyber-espionage and if you can't really admit to doing tonight the first place, then you can't acquiesce to say we will stop doing something. that's part of the problem. if you start to bring germany and huawei into the situation and the escalating trade tensions between the united states and europe, mainly the german car making machine, things really start to get complicated, because of the china/german interrelationship on the trade front as well. things are getting very messy and i'm

opposition leader wondered why though billed as the first daniel global conference on the humanitarian crisis in venezuela and hosted by those washington advisors diplomats from sixty countries attended most of whom recognized as president the interest in the meeting was high the organizers announced they reached one hundred million dollars in pledges in aid money but it's unclear where that money will go but one of those top advisors rejected claims that the aid is being used for political means by all sides. we're now looking there because of a teacher. some areas emotional for some reason totally many issues are working today this was very much a day about competing diplomacy here it was about showing support for one but in new york at the united nations the scene was much different. flanked by ambassadors from several countries that support president nicolas maduro russia china and iran venezuela's foreign minister. struck a defiant tone in venezuela there's one. one government the government of president maduro so no one can give that lines or specially this man who was self-proclaimed who self proclaimed himself as pre

doing the opposite and by promoting those programs with those ideas they quickly fill and he has to take ownership of it good analysis or not daniel. i'd say this is a bit systemic problem since the carter administration and the green belt concept that he and bridget ski came up with but we have say on this topic a systemic problem as well as a generational divide so it's part positive and negative this ystem a problem is our system was never set up for members of congress to be able to promote legislation in favor of neocon ideology and the defense apparatus in order to get not just contributions but a future lobbying job or a defense contractor that is the heart and soul of the problem of why this is promulgated to the eight hundred bases in seventy countries and allowing every president to have their war and over the last twenty years completely disregarding the war powers act and allowing even the current conflict from afghanistan to syria to wherever else to be based upon a seventeen year old war on terror declaration declaration of war against the country so that's the systemic issue now i'd say for the electorate and for at

two weeks later daniel was skilled at columbine high school with a gun purchased through one of those loopholes. daniel's father, tom, remains haunted by that question today and by the hole in our gun laws that allowed his son to be killed. he has commit dollated his life championing this issue. when he first began sharing his store story, he wore his son's shoes telling people that he had taken his son's place in the great debate about gun violence. months after the columbine tragic dip, colorado voters voted to close the background check loophole and many other states have since followed suit. the american people understood that we need to keep firearms out of the wrong hands. and yet it is 20 years later and we at the federal level have shamefully done nothing about this issue. that is why i'm so excited to support hr-8 and so grateful to the sponsors, to representative thompson, the folks in the gun violence intervention task force for leading on this issue. with that, i want to ask a question around extreme risk protection orders and red flag orders. i know it's been discussed at

build is a first daniel global conference on the humanitarian crisis in venezuela and hosted by those washington advisors diplomats from sixty countries attended most of whom recognized as president the interest in the meeting was high the organizers announced they reached one hundred million dollars in pledges in aid money but it's unclear where that money will go but one of those top advisors rejected claims that the aid is being used for political means by all sides. we're now looking in the corner all of a teacher. so many see washington for some reason totally the many issues we are working today this was very much a day about competing diplomacy here it was about showing support for one but in new york at the united nations the scene was much different. flanked by ambassadors from several countries that support president nicolas maduro in russia china and iran but as well as foreign minister jorge adi has a struck a defiant tone in venezuela there's only one government the government of press in the dodo so no one can gave that line sort specially this man who was self-proclaime

daniels. the problem at hand the that we know those among other things are matters which the mueller invegs gators are getting answers to. it will raise concerns about whether or not he will lie there a context in which there are pretty high stakes. the president has had over a year to prepare for these questions. they knew what was coming. his lawyers have been looking at all kinds of documentary evidence. if after all of that time you can't remember the answer he can say so. i do think it is doubt expressing fear that the president is going to perjuurge himself. >> and he is treating him like he has some kind of disability. he is saying that the president is incapable of telling the truth even in the seriousness of a criminal case where there's the threat of perjury. we would generally expect him to care about that process and do his best to tell the truth. here is his lawyer. >> right. he answered, no direct q and a from the president and the mueller team. he also said something very interesting that mueller he suspects in the end won't issue a report at all. >> it is interesting. you can look

personal bank account to reimburse michael cohen for those hush money payments some one hundred thirty thousand dollars to adult film star stormy daniels the two in the president's alleged have had an affair he's also a point apparently going to be talking about contrary to donald trump's denials that donald trump did know in fact in advance about that wiki leaks dump of e-mails that were hacked by into by the democratic national committee and many people say change the outcome of the two thousand and sixteen presidential election donald trump clearly has this on his mind we know that he's going to be back at his hotel after this meeting with kim jong un in time to watch this testimony he's also been tweeting about it trying to discredit his once long time friend saying and pointing out that he's been disbarred for lying and being a fraud and donald trump arguing that michael cohen is simply speaking to the house oversight committee lying in order to reduce his prison sentence so clearly as the president goes into a very difficult meeting negotiations on denuclearization it is those domestic distractions that are on his mind all right

were you involved in any other hush money payments beyond those for karen mcdougal and stormy daniels? has trump ever been the target of extortion or blackmail from individuals or foreign entities? can you explain donald trump's long record of making positive statements about vladimir putin? have you ever been to prague? michael cohen is testifying in public tomorrow in front of the house oversight committee, and those are just a handful of questions that our friend david corn from mother jones suggested lawmakers ask michael cohen. so joining me now, the co-authors of the book "russian roulette." you know it well. and for the legal angle, u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york, former, mimi roca. gentlemen, thank you for being here. david, that was a good list of questions. and that was just the tip of the iceberg. >> it took us about 15 minutes. we just sort of sat around and said, what should we ask? it's not comprehensive, and it's probably enough to do three days' worth of hearings. there's so much about trump's finances we don't know, even putting aside russia quest

those they have treated. this morning with us is dr. daniel chang who heads the queen care coalition. members of his coalition team, and the president and ceo of queen's health systems, i would like to ask them to stand and be recognized. [applause] thank you for reminding us that we all can take a role in helping others. i should also note that lieutenant governor josh green will be the state's new point person on leveraging private sector partnerships to address the chronically homeless in our community. which includes some of the most difficult situations to resolve. he will be working closely with the state's homeless coordinate who will continue to lead the state's overall homeless efforts. [applause] i strongly believe that our response to homelessness must address both immediate concerns and its underlying cause. the last adequate affordable housing. that's why this year's budget includes $315 million for housing over the next two years. in the past four years, we've produced a total of 6600 units, with over 7100 in the pipeline, 90% of which will be rentals. we have also strug

so even those jobs are calling fodmoreucation. >> yang: danielle paquette of "the washieiton post," nin of the "new york times,"u thanks to th. >> thank you. >> woodruff: stay withons. coming up he newshour: mark shields and david brooks on the week's news. and, a look at the early work of famed photographer gordon parks. but first, let's turn now to a different but crucial pocketbook issue: the cost ofrescription drugs. the trump administration has taken a number of steps to tackle the issue. the latest: a big move that essentially bans drug-makers from giving money in the form of rebates to middlemen known a pharmacy benefit managers and insurers. the rebates, which add up to tens of billions every year, are widely seen as improving the chance that a drug will be used and covered. the new proposal would essentially make those rebates into illegal kickbacks. it applies to medicare and medicaid managed care plans, but the administration would like congress to change the law so that it applies to private insurance, too. alex azar is the secretary ofhe th and human services, and he join