that gives an opening for the democratic committees to start investigating his tax. what sitting presidents normally do. that opens up an area of potential legal jeopardy for the white that opens up an area of potential legaljeopardy for the white house as well. these hearings are so contested. the democrats have been very supportive of michael cohen. they have turned him into almost a repressive folk hero. reminding people, reminding viewers, reminding voters he is off to prison in may and one of the reasons he is off to prison is because he was found guilty of lying to congress. ultimately a lot comes down to what robert mueller thinks of michael cohen. his team conducted hours of interviews and behind—the—scenes. the republicans have not been so effective today. they have trashed his reputation but what they have not been so successful at doing is undermining in challenging the allegations he made against the president. you talk about the republicans and some of their questioning. they were savaging his credibility. a pathological liar. i wa nt to credibility. a p

let's turn to, speaking of democratic committee chairman, adam schiff.t seem any longer to have any confidence in robert muller. suddenly he's talking about going off in his own investigations of russian collision. what is going on here? >> i will tell you this, lou, my main concern with chairmanship, two years ago i called for devin nunes to step down and step aside for a while as chairman. now we learned a few weeks ago that adam ischiff was meeting with simpson and colorado. and i do not hear, i don't hear anything from democrats more portly from the speaker of the house, only for him to step down. it seems a little hypocritical to me. and understand what took place here. adam schiff last summer met with simpson in colorado. glenn simpson. the very guy who is paid by the clintons to put together the dossier. and d here's another important point about that. at the time we discovered that the clintons were paying glenn simpson to put together this dirty dossier, adam schiff tried to block congress from getting that information. because member, devon use

declare that emergency mr president i wish you would but a democratic president can do that democratic committee president can declare emergencies as well and. now donald trump is invoking the national emergency act of one thousand nine hundred seventy six which is a law that has been frequently used by many different presidents to declare a national emergency is around many different issues for example bill clinton declared six national emergencies george w. bush declared ten and barack obama declared eleven most of the time these national emergencies were declared in order to impose sanctions on a country and at this point there are thirty national emergencies that are still in effect and there have been a total of fifty that have been declared since one nine hundred seventy six when this long. it was created now donald trump said in his remarks that he fully expects this to be challenged in court he expects this to be appealed all the way up to the u.s. supreme court however he says that he feels it is absolutely necessary to do in order to deal with the problem of violence and criminal activ

congress could have major implications for the future everyone a democratic president can do that democratic committee president can declare emergencies as well so the precedent that the president is setting here is something that should be met with great unease and dismay while lawmakers showed a willingness to cooperate on keeping the government running they remain deeply divided on a border wall and any executive order to fund it is almost certain to land trump in a lengthy court battle with lawmakers of a constitutional power as. british prime minister theresa may is still battling to get parliamentary approval for her brags a plan as she tries to negotiate or deal with the e.u. on thursday may suffered a humiliating defeat in the house of commons when lawmakers voted against a motion reaffirming support for her approach to brace that hardline budgeteers in may's own party abstaining from the post saying the prime minister is moving in the wrong direction the vote is by being in but it's likely to undermine your leaders confidence that may can when parliament support for any revised agreed right t

as a response to the nature and also to come a democrat led committee is questioning the nature of us after a new report reveals washington's poised to transfer sensitive nuclear technologies to riyadh that has the white house. nuclear ambitions as a global threat and a statute in florida based on the famous photograph of a sailor kissing a stranger in times square at the end of world war two was vandalized but then. we debate the issues rights whether he was swept up in the moment or not we do not. activity to celebrate we're looking at this from a lens of a perspective that we just don't understand it because we live now in such a divisive time. for the welcome just gone two pm here in moscow you watching r.t. international and our top story this hour the russian president vladimir putin has sent media outlets into a spin by saying moscow is ready to target perceived threats with its latest hypersonic missile despite also stressing though that the new weapon is meant for defensive purposes. by targeting western capitals with his own new weapons lattimer putin threatening to target t

committee. he finally turns to george smathers, a democratic senator from florida. a low ranking member of the judiciary committee. a close personal friend of jfk and lbj. he tries to get a sense from george smathers, why is this committee process taking so long? what george smathers tells him is that these senators are very interested in the pornographic films and indeed he suggests they frequently want extra time to view these films in person to determine their level of pornography. he is telling johnson that eastland is using procedures to delay things. if it is delayed after the election it looks as if fortas will have little chance that nomination. two contextual items, johnson references this film called the graduate. dustin hoffman is the star. it is seen as a very racy film in the context of 1968. hoffman is seduced by the mother of one of his friends. george smathers talks about his own views for pornography here. he had a reputation for a very active social life. that is not the portrayal george smathers gives of himself in this conversation. >> [indiscerni

a democratic controlled committees questioning the nature of u.s. saudi ties after a new report reveals washington is poised to transfer sensitive nuclear technology to riyadh as the white house grounds nuclear ambitions as a global threat. austria's leader publicly defies donald trump on russia's nord stream to pipeline after heated talks in the white house. this. international. move putin has warned that moscow is ready to target perceived threats with its latest hypersonic although the russian president stressed that the new weapon is meant for defensive purposes to threaten to retaliate by targeting western capitals with his own new weapons lattimer putin threatening to target the united states with its new generation of hypersonic missiles if the u.s. bases intermediate range missiles in europe for quite a confrontational step quite a confrontational speech by the russian president during his annual state of the nation address president putin announced that. new hypersonic cruise missile that can be deployed from both land and sea will undergo

is the president has no purview over the house democratic committees.he president has no purview over what the new york attorney general decides to do. and so this saga for the president doesn't appear to be anywhere close to being over. >> i'm fascinated what you just said about the attorney general and i want to go back at that as my last question to you. this ag has as i see it, three audiences, the american public, members of congress, and the man who just appointed him attorney general. do you think if we took a poll of guys of your age and ilk and similar resume, they would view him as a steady institutionalist, they could express the kind of hope in him that you just did. because the members of the opposition are going to be looking at this attorney general with hope in their eyes that he does when called upon by history and robert mueller the right thing? >> certainly barr's reputation in washington going back to the reagan years, going back to the bush 41 years is of a very serious sober mainstream lawyer. he then went onto serve as general cou

a democrat controlled committee questions u.s. ties with saudi arabia. washington's ready to transfer sensitive nuclear technology to riyadh. chancellor publicly defies donald trump on the. project with russia the talks in the white house. great to have you with us one of them here in the russian capital this is. the limit putin has warned that moscow is ready to target perceived threats with its latest hypersonic missile although the russian president stressed the new weapon would only be used in self-defense. threatened to retaliate by targeting western capitals with his own new weapons lattimer putin threatening to target the united states with its new generation of hypersonic missiles if the us bases intermediate range missiles in europe for quite a confrontational step quite a confrontational speech by the russian president during his annual state of the nation address president putin announced the new hypersonic cruise missile that can be deployed from both land and sea land to go testing later this year is done of explains. another day another exc

democratic committee questions u.s. ties with saudi arabia report reveals washington is ready to transfer sensitive nuclear technology to. publicly defies donald trump on the north stream to pipeline project with russia after he talks in the white house. at the international live from moscow thanks for joining us. i'm not as warm that moscow is ready to deploy its new hypersonic missile to counter potential threats with the russian president stressed and you weapon would only be used in self-defense threaten to retaliate by targeting western capitals with his own new weapons lattimer putin threatening to target the united states with its new generation of hypersonic missiles if the u.s. bases intermediate range missiles in europe for quite a confrontational step quite a confrontational speech by the russian president. during his annual state of the nation address president putin announced that zero on a new hypersonic cruise missile that can be deployed from both land and sea will undergo testing later this year r.t. as

the chair of the democratic national committee said: i spoke with governor northam this morning. past actions are antithetical to everything the democratic party stands for. it is clear that ralph northam has their trust in his ability to govern. northam is launching an investigation into the yearbook picture to determine who the two men wearing those costumes are and to prove that he is not one of those men. and he's asking the voters in virginia to give him time to do that, and he is standing by his decision not to step down. jon? jon: garrett tenney live in richmond, thanks, garrett. >>> so claims of racism rock another political career, but we've been here before. jackie heinrich has a look back at political scandals centered on charges of racism. >> reporter: well, jon, this scandal in virginia comes on the heels of yet another black face incident that cost the florida secretary of state his job. just last week mike ertel had a photo that came out, he'd been in his position for just under a month. governor desantis said i don't want to get mired into side controversies. i fel

about an email hack into the democratic national committee in 2016. our washington d.c.ureau reporter mark meredith has the latest from capitol hill. "he is a racist, he is a a con man and he is a cheat."michael cohen held nothing back...as lawmakers pressed him about his actions as the president's personal lawyer."i am ashamed that i chose to take part in concealing mr. trump's illicit acts"cohen told lawmakers the president knew all about hush money payments to adult film star stormy daniels."is there any doubt in your mind...that president trump knew what he was paying for...""there is no doubt in my mind..."cohen showed lawmakers a check written by the president that cohen claims is proof of a cover up...cohen also told lawmakers candidate trump, knew in advance about the email hack of the democratic national committee."mr. trump knew from roger stone in advance about the wikileak emails"cohen is scheduled to report to prison in may.the 52 year old pleaded guilty last year to tax evasion and... lying to congress...house republicans say that's proof cohen's testimony

, former attorney heading to the hill, kicking off days of congressional testimony and the democratic committee behind this promising other moments. >> the president's emergency declaration over our immigration crisis facing a wall of opposition in the house. >> we are not going to give any president, democrat or republican, a blank check. >> the new fight the president faces when he comes home. "fox and friends first" continues right now. ♪ heather: good morning. you are watching a special early addition of "fox and friends first" on wednesday morning. heather: thanks for starting the day with us. let's get to a fox news alert in a couple hours, donald trump and kim jong un will come face-to-face for a second time, the president gearing up for high-stakes denuclearization talks with a north korean leader in vietnam. >> summits 2.0 taking pl. in a country that has tremendous symbolic value and could provide a glimpse of hope for the future. at henry is live with what we can expect from these big talks on a big day. >> back in new york we are two hours away from the president of the united state

, former attorney heading to the hill, kicking off days of congressional testimony and the democratic committeeis promising other moments. >> the president's emergency declaration over our immigration crisis facing a wall of opposition in the house. >> we are not going to give

who knew that roger stone was talking with julian assange about who we kill each drop on democratic national committee e-mails and i will explain each in a few moments i am providing the committee today with several documents and these include a copy of a check mr trump wrote from his personal bank account after he became president to reimburse me for the hush money payments i made to cover up his affair with an adult film star and to prevent damage to his campaign copies of financial statements from two thousand and eleven two thousand and twelve and twenty thirteen that he gave to such institutions such as deutsche bank a copy of an article with mr trump's handwriting on it that reported on the auction of a portrait of himself that he arranged for the better ahead of time and then reimburse the better from the account of his nonprofit charitable foundation but the picture now hanging in one of his country clubs and copies of letters i wrote at mr trump's direction that threatened his high school colleges and the college board not to release his grades or s.a.t.s. course i hope my appearance here tod

now during the twenty sixteen election campaign e-mails from the democratic national committee revealed that the democratic national committee was working with the hillary clinton campaign for the purpose of trying to undermine bernie sanders and secure the nomination for hillary clinton and that caused a huge amount of outrage many people many young people who would work for bernie sanders campaign many rank and file democrats became very angry about these results there was quite quite a bit of controversy when these e-mails were revealed but ultimately hillary clinton did receive the nomination and despite many of his supporters saying that they would not vote for hillary clinton bernie sanders himself actually did endorser this is bernie sanders ultimately endorsing hillary clinton after the twenty sixteen campaign hillary clinton will make an outstanding president and i am proud to stand with her tonight. now as folks are well aware donald trump ultimately won the two thousand and sixteen election and became the u.s. president and sense then among democrats many of the ideas put for

this all started after the democrats on the committee voted to authorize but not issue a subpoena in case he refused to answer questions about his conversations with the president. it looked in plain english that the democrats may have overplayed their hand by issuing that threat. whitaker slammed the move as unprecedented. white house said they were playing political games. chairman nadler responded to whitaker saying if he answered questions, there would be no need for a subpoena and added his concerns over questions could be addressed on a case-by-case basis. earlier today the president was asked if he should testify. >> he's an outstanding person. i would say if he did testify, he'd do very well. he is an outstanding person, very, very fine man. >> betsy woodruff of the daily beast says whitaker has been preparing extensively for this testimony, she writes, a person familiar with whitaker's preparation told the daily beast, he's been gearing up for an intense few hours. they hate this guy so much, the source said, referring to the aggressive democrats on the committee, whitaker ha

tweeting the only collusion with the russian was hillary clinton and the democratic committee. >> if that truth indicates that president trump committed no crime impeachable or otherwise. so be it. if it indicates he did that is a much more complicated world. >> the mueller report will be sent to attorney general william barr but democrats are vowing to subpoena it and release it publicly. the white house focusing on t t chairman kim now is the time and now is the moment and i hope we'll will be the second summit between president trump and kim jong un. >> the two leader meet wednesday and thursday but on capitol hill all eyes will be on michael cohen and what he may say about president trump. jeffrey johnson nbc washington. >>> tomorrow a demand for change from students in san francisco. high school and middle school students will head to senator feinstein's office to urge her to support the green new deal. you may have seen the viral video on friday with the young activists. the video went rierl browse of the intense exchange. the students are filamented with the sunrise movement.

trump knew about the release of the hacked documents, democratic national committee e-mails ahead of time. and the answer is yes. as i earlier stated, mr. trump knew from roger stone in advance about the wikileaks drop of emails. in july of 10u6r, days before the democratic convention, i was in mr. trump's office when his secretary nounsed that roger stone was on the phone. mr. trump put mr. stone on the speaker phone. mr. stone told mr. trump that he had just gotten off the phone with mr. assange. and mr. assange told mr. stone that within a couple of days there would be a massive dump of email that is would damage hillary clinton's campaign. mr. trump responded by stating to the effect, wouldn't be that great. mr. trump is a racist. the country has seen mr. trump court white supremacists and bigots. you have heard him call poorer countries "shithole"s. s in private he is worse. he asked me if i could name a country run by a black person that went a "shithole." this was when barack obama was president of the united states. and while we were driving through a struggling neighborhood

he is set to appear tomorrow behind closed doors before the house intelligence committee, which now of course has a democraticy. joining me here tonight mike quigley and utah republican chris stewart, both members of that committee. we're going to have a busy day tomorrow. thank you so much for being with us. congressman quigley, you heard -- i assume you watched today's testimony. is it going to influence your approach tomorrow? >> i don't think so. i think what you'll see is a lot more detail, a lot more corroboration. >> unfortunately, we don't see it, you'll hear it. >> well, eventually you'll see it and a lot more discussion, i think about russia and trump tower moscow. >> that's going to be the focus, you think? russia, trump tower moscow? >> i think there will be a lot more focus on those things than what you saw today. there'll be other things. a lot of what you saw today, but the details of it following up with documentation. >> congressman, when -- first of all, what are you hoping to get out of tomorrow? >> well, i didn't watch it today and i chose not to watch it and turns out i had a busy day any

standards to prevent conflicts of interest the white house ignored these according to the democratic committee report the second one is nonproliferation safeguards so that nuclear technology doesn't go anywhere it wants where people want to buy it all around the world and fall into the hands of bad guys as they call them and the white house seems to have ignored that as well that's the accusation so when business interests works through the system that is operational in the united states which includes ethical and nonproliferation safeguards the business can often get its way which it does with arms sales and exports and now you see it with the trade deals and things like that but in this case the problem is the white house has been accused the white house and a bunch of senior former officials and military officials have been accused of ignoring these fundamental principles of american democratic practices which include checks and balances and safeguards and indeed as you point out here the sensitivity of the this possible transaction is rich when you consider the fact that donald trump pulle

. >> guest: would you consider running a national democratic committee -- >> stacey: i'll repeat the questions. >> guest: would you consider running the democratic national committee with the ideas that you have for getting everybody to vote? >> stacey: one more question and then i'll -- >> guest: i go to georgia college and university in villageival and helped campaign for you. so it's great to be here. my question is hr1, it's a bill in the house right now, it's the "for the people's act" on campaign and voter laws and everything with that what are your thoughts on hr1? >> jelani: so the three questions are should the voting age be lowered to 16? do you have any interest in running the dnc, and what is your thoughts on hr1. >> stacey: so on the age of 16 i can that that is a worthy question. i would start with local elections namely the school board because i think that's the most direct connection between young people and the necessity of hearing their voices. i believe that municipal elections because of the granularity of what they do. if we are going to experiment with age, and

congress could have major implications for the future everyone a democratic president can do that democratic committee president can declare emergencies as well so the precedent that the president is setting here is something that should be met with great unease and dismay while lawmakers showed a willingness to cooperate on keeping the government running they remain deeply divided on a border wall and any executive order to fund it is almost certain to land trump in a lengthy court battle with lawmakers of the constitutional powers. and we have boris foreman with us from bard college here in berlin he's an expert on american politics hi boris thank you for joining us so lawmakers have avoided a shutdown for now but president trump is that threatening to declare a state of emergency to get the money that he wants for his wall so does that mean that his wall is going to be built well it's going to take a long time either way if he's going to actually invoke the emergency powers probably is going to face court battles which will drag out the process there's in all likelihood going to be a resolution at

a democrat led committee is questioning the nature of us. new report washington is poised to transfer sensitive nuclear technologies to riyadh and the continued white house opposition to the iran nuclear program. a statue based on a photograph of a soldier kissing a stranger without commemorating the end of the second world war is vandalized with a spray painted me to debate the issues. whether she was in the moment or not and we do not. celebrate we're taking this looking at this from a land of a perspective that we just don't understand because we are now in such a divisive time. here in a very snowy moscow welcome to the program. the russian president vladimir putin has unveiled the capabilities of the country's latest missile system sending the western media. to hysteria over yet another russian threat putin insists though that the new weapon is purely defensive and would only be used in that capacity however that did little to ease concerns from some quarters. he threatened to retaliate by targeting western capitals with his own new wea

congress could have major implications for the future everyone a democratic president can do that democratic committee president can declare emergencies as well so the precedent that the president is setting here is something that should be met with great unease and dismay. while lawmakers showed a willingness to cooperate on keeping the government running they remain deeply divided on the border wall and any executive order to fund it is almost certain to land trump in a lengthy court battle with lawmakers of a constitutional power as. well for more of the latest developments in washington we have one call you're with us here from bard college in berlin good morning or when so another government shutdown has been averted it looks like president trump is going nuclear as it were by declaring a national emergency in order to get the funding to build his wall will he get away with it well you can't fault him for not trying he really wants to make an end run around the constitutional power of the congress to control the purse strings and this is what it's all about he is not getting the money directly th

congress could have major implications for the future everyone a democratic president can do that democratic committee president can declare emergencies as well so the president that the president is setting here is something that should be met with great unease and dismay while lawmakers showed a willingness to cooperate on keeping the government running they remain deeply divided on the border wall and any executive order to fund it is almost certain to land trump in a lengthy court battle with lawmakers over constitutional powers. are washington correspondent helen humphrey says democrats are planning a legal challenge to president trench threaten state of emergency. spending bill may have been passed by both the senate and the house are voting a fresh government shutdown but that was to be expected this was always meant to be a bipartisan deal now though there is a new fight here in washington although the president will sign off on the text the white house has also said that the president will declare a national emergency in order to obtain the funds that he's looking for to fund his border wall

also to come a democratic controlled committee is questioning the nature of u.s. saudi ties after a new report reveals washington is poised to transfer sensitive nuclear technology to riyadh that is the white house. nuclear ambitions as a global threat plus a statue in florida based on a famous photograph of a sailor kissing a stranger on times square at the end of world war two is vandalized. tag we debate the issues. whether she was swept up in the moment or not we do not feel this is getting activity to celebrate we're taking this we're looking at this from a land. perspective that we just don't understand it because we live now in such a divisive time. hello there welcome you watching r.t. international. has warned that moscow is ready to target perceived threats with its latest hypersonic missile though the russian president did stress to you that the new weapon is meant solely for defensive purposes. threatened to retaliate by targeting western capitals with his own new weapons lattimer putin threatening to target the united states with its new generation of

committee did. they tried it take away the phrase so help me god. >> laura: so help them god >>> republicans called them out, mike johnson in this case, but these are democratses. all the democrats who said they were pro-life, pro begun and they will rejected nancy pelosi, they elected nancy pelosi as speaker. they're trying to take away god, silence voices, take away your gun rights. this is only in their first month. everybody pay close attention. what donald trump did last night to lay the foundation to get our country back and reject social his and they wouldn't stand up to reject socialism. that's where they're going. if they want to own socialism, let them own it. >> laura: thank you for joining us. question, why is cnn providing cover for democrats providing late term abortion? an ob-gyn is here to tell us why the left is engaging in unspeak able cruelty. and it really shows. with all that usaa offers why go with anybody else? we know their rates are good, we know that they're always going to take care of us. it was an instant savings and i should have changed a long time ago. it was funny because when we would call another insurance company, hey woul

a democrat controlled committee questions u.s. ties with saudi arabia afternoon report reveals washington is ready to transfer sensitive nuclear technology to. publicly. project with russia after a heated in the white house. good evening and welcome in moscow. putin has warned that moscow is ready to target perceived threats with this latest hypersonic missile although the russian president stressed the new weapon would only be used in self-defense threaten to retaliate by targeting western capitals with his own new weapons lattimer putin threatening to target the united states with its new generation of hypersonic missiles if the u.s. bases intermediate range missiles in europe though quite a confrontational step quite a confrontational speech by the russian president. during his annual state of the nation address president putin announced the corner new hypersonic cruise missile a committee ploy from both land and sea learned to go testing later in the year. explaining its. another day another excuse to panic for the mainstream

committees. there was kind of a funny moment at one point, patrick leahy, top democrat on the appropriations committee from the senate stuck his head in the hall and said

practice committee hearings where justice department officials pepper him with questions, the committee democratsso important here, the committee better hurry, because whitaker has days left on the job. bill bar has passed through the senate judiciary committee vote. once mcconnell calls the vote, he'll likely breeze through full senate confirmation, then he'll get sworn in and become the permanent and actual attorney general for the second time in his career. while whitaker gets to spend more time with his family. with us to talk about it, peter baker, maya wylie, and we welcome to the broadcast ta tal kopan. washington correspondent for the san francisco chronicle. good evening, and welcome to you all. counselor here at the table you get to go first, what will you be watching for tomorrow? >> i'll be watching how mr. whittaker dodges the questions he doesn't want to answer. >> will he invoke privilege? >> i think they've already invoked it in the letter they sent in response to congressman ed that letter, where they said, they talked about confidential interests and the fact that the standing p

concerns about weaponizing stolen data after russians stole thousands of e-mails from the democratic national committee and hillary clinton's campaign chair during the 2016 election. this week we learned that a sustained and ongoing disinformation campaign on social media targeting democratic 2020 presidential candidates, some of it driven by foreign state actors, is already under way. politico reports there are clear signs of a coordinated effort of undetermined size that share similar characteristics with the computational propaganda attacks launched by online trolls at russia's internet research agency in the 2016 presidential campaign. which special counsel robert mueller accused of aiming to undermine the political process and elevate donald trump. the analysis by politico found that the same suspicious accounts engaged in this attack on 2020 democratic hopefuls were also linked to the wide scale influence campaign during the 2018 midterm elections. and after a break we'll discuss what all of this means for the 2020 presidential election with neera tanden, who had some of her correspondence reveal

that's why this morning the house judiciary committee is taking a rather unusual step. the democrats are going to issue a subpoena to allow jerry nadler, chairman of the committee to keep it in his back pocket and deliver it tomorrow in case he can't answer the questions they are going to have and the question is how much can he and will he reveal about his conversations with the president or will he exert executive privilege? we'll see in the coming days. >> that will be an interesting hearing. thank you very much. >>> now to the two big hearings democrats are holding on capitol hill today. jessica schneider is covering both of them. what should we expect? this is is beginning of what could be characteristic of the next couple of years. very aggressive house investigations of the president that were held back when republicans controlled the committees. >> right, jim. democrats are digging in. first focused on the family separations policy hearing. that will be happening this morning. of course, the policy created an uproar as it was happening. even in recent weeks, a lot more questi