donald cooper's life touched three centuries.tlived everybody on the otranto, reaching the age of 104. when private donald cooper was laid to rest in this georgia cemetery, the sinking of the 0tranto passed from living memory into history. the same is true for the tuscania. but in this centenary year, there are people here in the united states and in scotland determined to make sure that these twin disasters and all those touched by them are not forgotten. this is a year to honour the victims, and to honour what islay did for those in peril, a century ago. the actions of those people, a hundred years ago, rippled through time to affect me, a hundred years later. so it sort of tells me that we do make a difference. let's not forget the wonderful people of islay risked their own lives to save our young men. you know, i can imagine going out in a hurricane, freezing cold, and trying to save those young men's lives, taking the strangers into your home. and to me, it honours them, too. it was a huge contribution to the war effort at t

rose thomason's great uncle, donald cooper, survived the otranto. great uncle, donald cooper, survivedn to belfast and onto the wall. he never forgot his narrow escape off onto the wall. he never forgot his narrow escape off the coast of islay. he always told war stories to my grandfather, but it wasn't until i was my grandfather, but it wasn't until iwas an my grandfather, but it wasn't until i was an adult that i really started to ta ke i was an adult that i really started to take notice about what he was saying about world war i. he have to dojump saying about world war i. he have to do jump from saying about world war i. he have to dojumpfrom a saying about world war i. he have to dojump from a sinking ship, did he ever talk about that?” dojump from a sinking ship, did he ever talk about that? i remember him saying that. he just had to do what he had to do. so, you know. it was hard. he said it was very hard. it impacted him, because he still talked about it for years and years, if anybody would ask him about it, and his memory was still really very clear on it. even as he aged and

donald cooper's life touched three centuries. of 104. when private donald cooper was laid to rest in this georgia cemetery, the sinking of the 0tranto passed from living memory into history. the same is true for the tuscania. but in this centenary year, there are people here in the united states and in scotland determined to make sure that these twin disasters, and all those touched by them, are not forgotten. this tells me that what we did made a difference. let's not forget the people who saved the young men. i cannot imagine going out in a hurricane to save young men's lives and to take the strangers into their home and to meet honours them as well. it was a huge contribution to the war effort at the time but also to humanity as well, and i think our small and remarkable island played a big part in history, and it should be remembered. hello there. sunday started with rain in places, particularly towards the east and north of the uk. but foremost, we are ending the day with sunny skies. funny skies translate into clear skies o

donald cooper's life touched three centuries. the age of 104. when private donald cooper was laid to rest in this georgia cemetery, the sinking of the 0tranto passed from living memory into history. the same is true for the tuscania. but in this centenary year, there are people here in the united states and in scotland determined to make sure that these twin disasters, and all those touched by them, are not forgotten. the action of those people 100 years ago rippled through time to affect me 100 years later, and so, it sort of tells me what we knew makes a difference. lets not forget the wonderful people of islay, who risked their own lives to save our young man. i can't imagine going out ina hurricane, young man. i can't imagine going out in a hurricane, freezing cold and trying to save young men's lives and taking complete strangers into your home, and to me it honours them to. it was a huge contribution to the war effort at the time, but also to humanity as well, and i think our small and remarkable island played a big part in

now markets man donald cooper has more daniel way is sitting on the usual trend right now both the dollar and the oil price rising at the same time normally a stronger dollar makes it more expensive to buy oils the price drop so what's going on. yeah very unusual in fact and the scenario we are seeing right now i was looking at that has only happened eleven times in thirty five years the current uncertainty of the geopolitical issues is certainly weighing in what's going to happen now with the sanctions on iran we have to remember that iran is an extremely big oil producing countries saudi arabia or so that they want to produce more oil and you can feel the immediate results already have felt this certainly this morning at the gas station so prices are most likely going to go even more up another factor could be rather in the late one and this link to the fear we have seen lately happening about high interest rate hikes in the united states the cause is the dollar strengthens the euro weakens so european exporters a happy book plenty of countries and companies around the world will be pun

donald trump. sater has already cooperated. ld's knee jerk reaction is to push people away and treat them like garbage, he needs to be careful what he does. >> seems to me like you think people need to be worried. >> by the way, i think mueller is actually maybe doing a favor to the president by going outside and going after people like michael or manafort. >> great to have you here. thank you. >>> after president trump berated kirstjen nielsen, reportedly ready to quit. the details when we continue. >>> the homeland secretary what's critical thinking like? a basketball costs $14. what's team spirit worth? (cheers) what's it worth to talk to your mom? what's the value of a walk in the woods? the value of capital is to create, not just wealth, but things that matter. morgan stanley so allstate is giving us money back on our bill. well, that seems fair. we didn't use it. wish we got money back on gym memberships. get money back hilarious. with claim-free rewards. switching to allstate is worth it. pah! thano, no, no, nah.k. a bulb

donald trump. satter has already cooperated. jerk reaction is to push people away and treat them like garbage, he needs to be careful what he does. >> seems to me like you think people need to be worried. >> by the way, i think mueller is actually maybe doing a favor to the president by going outside and going after people like michael or manafort. >> great to have you here. thank you. >>> after president trump berated kirstjen nielsen, reportedly ready to quit. the details when we continue. i just got a sweet deal on this card for my parents. nice. i got a sweet deal on these iphones at verizon for my parents. i'm not done shopping. i just start with the card and then work up. (vo) this mother's day, get the latest iphone and get iphone 8, on us, no trade-in required. because unlimited is only as good as the network it's on. do ndo not misjudgenity quiet tranquility. with the power of 335 turbo-charged horses the lincoln mkx, more horsepower than the lexus rx350 and a quiet interior from which to admire them. the lincoln spring

that can involve both of you is the removal of a white house lawyer who has been the most cooperative for donald trump. that's ty cobb. you and i also spoke about and you said and i want to read it to you, you said i think trump needs to fire cobb. i think cobb said the mueller investigation will exonerate trump by the end of the year and you said it will not. cobb should be out. >> people say i'm crazy when i come on here. look at all these predictions i've had. >> i leave it up to everyone to make up their own minds. you felt that about cobb. he is out. does that tell you that donald trump, rudy giuliani, and this team are moving forward in one way or another to try to kneecap this probe rather than the cobb strategy which was to provide -- >> i think they've made the calculation finally which is something people like me have been saying, this is a street fight. this is not a legal fight. this is a political fight. and at the end of the day, if you put this out as these are a bunch of unelected bureaucrats, this is james comey's best friend and robert mueller not liking the fact that trump fir

removed from his family, decide he would go to jail to protect donald trump, somebody who was very close to for a very long time, or would he cooperate? knowing what you know and studying the way you have donald trump, do you think donald trump is confident that michael cohen wouldn't cooperate with the prosecutors? >> look, the flipping question is an important question about michael cohen and all the other potential witnesses in this case. look at the history of watergate. the people who have potentially the most damming testimony about the president and his dealings with those who are intimately familiar with it. there is a reason that john dean was the white house lawyer and became the key witness in watergate. i think the recent pardoning of scooter libby by donald trump who had no real investment in the case, a good example of how he is trying to signal to any potential witnesses against him, you know, stick with me, and i'll be loyal to you. that i think is an important factor. you're right to highlight it. i want to go back quickly to this question of how is michael cohen in this access scandal different than other washington

donald trump. that he hasn't. and he hasn't cooperated>> he would like him to continue doing that. >> to continue doing that. and if, indeed, paul manafort were to go up if flames, i don't think donald trump will have any problem changing his tune and not talking about what a great man he is. >> and sean, let me ask you, this the president appears to be increasingly willing to take on robert mueller and tweets and so on. he's called it a witch hunt and so on for a long time. but it just seems to be ratcheting up a notch and perhaps that has something to do with the departure of ty cobb and rudy giuliani sounding fiery on fox news. good or bad idea? what do you think. >> whether it is a good idea or bad idea, we know why the spr--e president is doing it. the president understands there is a lock of voters out there extremely reluctant to abandon him, scandal after scandal, after scandal, no matter what happens they will stick with the president. he's sitting at 40% approval rating and he was at 40% when he came into office and he understan

. >> tonight, why the new york taxi king's cooperation against michael cohen could be a massive problem for donald trump. >> plus, is this man about to be the next major trump scandal figure? >> i hope not. >> new scrutiny over an rnc mo you go's big payment to a playmate. then the backdoor attack on the mueller probe continues. >> do you have confidence in rod rosenstein. >> what's your next question, please. >> how the trump tax cuts for harley-davidson led to hundreds of people losing their jobs. >> thank you, harley davidson, for building things in america. >> when "all in" starts right now. >> good evening from new york. i'm chris hayes. breaking news tonight and it looks like potentially bad news for one michael cohen potentially even worse news for donald trump. "new york times" first breaking the story now confirmed by nbc news that cohen's long-time business partner gene freedman has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors after pleading guilty today to stealing around $5 million worth of taxi fees from new york state. in exchange, free man will be avoid jail time and been assist government

we don't know whether donald trump and his organization would actually cooperate with us. a fundamental difference how the clinton campaign would have been treated and how the trump campaign would have been treated. >> nina, is that fair? >> this is deflection, deflection, deflection. the bottom line here is that papadopoulos, drunk, having a conversation, talked about the information that he had received from russians, period. all the president's men are falling from general flynn to papadopoulos to bannon, all of them. so to blame and deflect this on the obama administration or to blame democrats, it is actually the people who surrounded president trump who got this wicked, deplorable party started in the first place. and they have to own up to it. further more, the president should just allow this organization to just run its course. if he is innocent, as he says he is, if all the people who surround him haven't done anything, then let nature take its course. no, that's not what he is doing. so it is not fair to say that. >> senator, is that not a fair point? if he did

they've got a hold on him and he's gotta cooperate. >> it's really fascinating and he's another one of these players, there are a lot of different moving pieces and donaldmp keeps shaking up his own legal team. but the idea that basically the predecessor to michael avenatti is now cooperating with the feds because he was helpful to michael cohen, i mean, it's night and day and happening before our eyes. nick, thank you for helping us untangle some of it. >>> up next, ralph nader is here. i'll ask him about the mueller probe and corruption. later, why donald trump was bragging about tv ratings. all of that when we're back in 60 seconds. farm-fresh and delic? only eggland's best. which egg has 6 times more vitamin d, 10 times more vitamin e, and 25% less saturated fat? only eggland's best. which egg is so special, i'd never serve my family anything else? for me, it's only eggland's best. better taste, better nutrition, better eggs. heartburn and gas? ♪ now fight both fast new tums chewy bites with gas relief all in one relief of heartburn and gas ♪ ♪ tum tum tum tums new tums chewy bites with gas relief >>> donald trump campaigned against corruption. >> h

of all the people in trump world, michael cohen flipping to cooperate with prosecutors in an investigation into donald trump and his campaign's ties to russia, that would likely be a very harrowing prospect for the white house, maybe even more harrowing than the prospect of paul manafort flipping. michael cohen has loudly proclaimed himself to be impenetratably loyal to donald trump. he hasn't even himself thus far been charged with any crimes. that's important because that's the leverage prosecutors have to get a reluctant witness to cooperate with the prosecution. the way they get you to flip is by getting the good s on you, upping the amount of legal jeopardy you yourself are in. then they hoist you up on a proverbial cliff, they dangle you over the edge, they show you the immense legal threat you are facing personally. then they tell you, but you know we can basically make that threat go away if you'll just agree to talk. tonight michael cohen started to dangle over the edge of that proverbial cliff. this is the headline in the times. michael cohen's business partner agrees to cooperate as part of

talk about this report that 364 states and municipalities refuse some level of cooperation authorities, or 200 and donaldmp took office, 40 sanctuary jurisdictions existed when pres. obama took office, 49% of americans live in sanctuary jurisdiction, what do you make of those numbers? >> it is almost coming to the deck it is more advantageous to be here illegally been to be an american. in montgomery county outside washington dc they are contemplating putting together illegal fund to help illegal aliens who are facing deportation because they dislike the pres. very liberal, very wealthy county. and cutting a 2% cut to their fire department's budget because they are running short on money. they are doing these things simultaneously, seemingly unaware of each of these events though they are done by the same people but democrats have their priorities and it is not american citizens, it is getting frustrating for a lot of people. shannon: the administration, the justice department has tried to enact policies that would cut down on funding for sanctuary cities, and federal judges through that out and you can'

donald trump jr. he's the brother of betsy devos and the former head of black water. also in the room, george nader he is now a cooperatingr investigation. donald trump jr.'s attorneys says don jr. wasn't interested in the pitch and that the whole thing ended there. but mueller seems pretty interested in not only this meeting but characters involved. president trump had this to say about the report, quote, the witch-hunt find no collusion with russia, so now they are looking at the rest of the world. oh, great. for more on the second trump tower meeting i'm joined by one of the writers of that "new york times" piece david kirk patrick. thank you for joining us today. what exactly were these operatives hoping to accomplish during this meeting? did they simply want to help the president get elected? >> well that seems to have been the overall purpose of the meeting. erik prince brought the meeting together. he said flatly in the meeting, we're doing what we can to help you get elected. and george nader, who was there as an emissary, certainly, from the united arab emirates and possibly representing the saudis as well, that'

. >> this is an important strategic reason because donald trump needs china and cooperation from ski jumping. obviouslyn now counseling kim jong-un on how to deal with that. there's a lot at stake for trump to have china on his side to have midterms come up. tensions as a victory. if he loses both of them, it could be negative. china to has a lot at stake. they call for these talks to avoid confrontations and war and regime change and also china doesn't want north korea drawing closer, so there is a lot at stake, so trade there is certainly a lot tied. >> thank you for that. >> the issue is also -- always completed. groundhead, china makes all limits on how many children and family can have. citigroup says there is a bearish new era of risk assets. this is bloomberg. >> with the u.s. treasury selling off nearly one from dollars, the new group is warning of a bearish breakout and a submit -- underestimated risk could be brewing. you can check it out on gtd go. resistance is futile. above, sittingld at about 3.07%. kerry craig joined us. is it fair to say we are seeing where youion and

i'm beginning to suspect that he is showing, willing to cooperate, with the great evil donald trump,that has undermined his leadership. and this rant that we heard kellyanne conway was talking about, might well have been for some small domestic assumption. on the other hand, the president has indicated great promise and a lot of people, from libertarians to pro depressives, saying this is so good, if he can due knee clee arize these people. >> without any military contact. >> they both really need it. i'm not going to second guess donald trump but when you negotiate in public, across the television airwaves, you sort of dig yourself in. >> and these are the dangers. so he has a lot of tools in his canvas bag. what does he reach for, does he reach for the hammer, go back to the twitter insults or reach for the massage oil to soften up kim jong-un? >> only? one from california would say massage oil. [laughing] >> i love a good spa day shlts don't we all. >> i think the really heated hittoric from john bolton, called out by name in the north ryan statement, and from mike pompeo and othe

if north korea doesn't cooperate it could be decimated. jillian: donaldffering strong protections if it denuclearize is. griff jenkins live with those development ahead of the high-stakes summit. >> in an oval office meeting, donald trump offered reassurance but set a stern warning to north korea that despite threats to pull out of the summit it is in rob: -- kim jong un's interests to follow the dealer meet the same fate as qaddafi. >> libya, we decimated that country. this would be with kim jong un, something where he would be in his country, running his country. his country would be very rich, his evil are tremendously industrious. that model will take place if we don't make a deal most likely. >> reporter: the secretary-general offering support of the push for denuclearization on the peninsula. >> we support the initiative, having a summit. we think it is important we still have pressure on north korea and north korea has to seize the opportunity. >> reporter: the pres. says we will see what happens but planning continues with a june 12th meeting in s

the identity has to become secret until they become a cooperating witness, which means they have testified in the open court. >> donaldtrump jr. is having meetings, these aren't with the russians, but with a big gop donor. and israeli specialists in social media. a golf adversary hoping to win the 2016 election. "the times" says this could be the first time that countries other than russia may have been involved in this. >> the federal campaign act is very broad in its prohibitions. it includes in-kind contributions. that means if canada won -- with that broad of prohibition, that extends to the foreign government. if any foreign national and any one to do with foreign involvement with an american campaign, given that broad definition, it is very easy to violate your campaign. that's something the trump team needs to be mindful of in the next week. >> staying on donald trump jr. here, word is that congressional testimony over 50 times. he's saying i do not recall. legitimate legal response, maneuver, is this uncommon 54 times? >> we have to note, there's a very big difference between i don't know and a time. by the wa

security contractor and former head of black water, the emissary george nader who is cooperating with mueller allegedly told donald trump jr. that the saudi and emirates princes were eager to help his father and social media specialist zamal said his firm had a multi-million dollar proposal to help the campaign. zamal's lawyer denied he had any involvement in the campaign. the "times" said trump jr. responded approvingly but the president's son told the senate judiciary committee i didn't collude with any foreign government and didn't know anyone who did. and his lawyer issued a statement acknowledging the meeting happened, but said trump jr. did not take them up on the marketing strategy. he was not interested and that is the end of it. the democratic lawmakers aren't satisfied. >> and why are so many foreign powers of the opinion during the campaign and perhaps thereafter that the trump family is willing to play ball. >> and when it comes to the emissary george nader, he traveled to moscow at least twice during the presidential campaign as an emissary to the crown prince of abu dhabi, according to the "times" an

north korea could be decimated if they do not cooperate with the us, strong warning from donald trumps strong protections for the rogue regime as long as they denuclearize. griff jenkins joins us with those developments ahead of a high-stakes summit. you know what is going on in london? >> reporter: no, i don't but looks lovely. look what is happening in the oval office? the pres. met with gen. stoltenberg offering reassurance but also sending a stern warning, despite threats to pull out of the summit it is in kim jong un's interest to make a deal or suffer the same fate as libya leader qaddafi. >> we decimated that country. this would be with kim jong un something where he would be in his country running his country, his country would be very rich, his people are tremendously industrious. that model would take place if we don't make a deal most likely. >> reporter: the secretary-general offering his support on denuclearization on the korean peninsula. >> we support the initiative, the work for having a summit. we think it is important that we still have pressure on north korea and no

. >> tonight as we noted he's taking more time with the co cooperation of mike flynn. if donaldrump does not know why mueller's asking the question then as the old legal saying goes, you better ask somebody. jessica levinson a loyola law school, and david, i'm going to go ahead and better ask you why all this attention on paul manafort actually requesting russian assistance. >> well, you know, he says including paul manafort. in the book that i wrote with mike we report that george papadopoulos said that he was encouraged by druonald trump at march 2016 meeting to continue to make contacts with russians and moskow. so this question could be keyed with something ability that. we assume that after the trump tower meeting there might have been further communications or speculation there might have been further communications in which perhaps donald trump, jr. caught up with the context would work with the trumps and said how come we didn't get better dirt than you promised? so there are a lot of particular pieces that could be applied to this question. of course people are focused

iran deal she met separately with the european commission president and donald tusk, and they talked about future security cooperation post brexit. she's in macedonia last night talking about the uk's relationship with macedonia. that was high on her list of priorities we also heard she said the commission's proposal on the backstop agreement to do with the border in northern ireland was not acceptable she said the uk will be putting forward an alternative proposal in the coming days that's something to watch closely for. she met talking about the continued agreement they seem to have right now, according to the european commission, none of the proposals are workable when it comes to a customs union that would really ask a lot of questions ahead of the late june summit in terms of solving that irish border issue an allowing those talks to continue on >> absolutely. it's never easy. thank you very much for the latest from sofia. joining me to discuss is richard portus picking up on the trade topic, how much leverage does europe have i was looking at the numbers eu overall has 120 billion surplus with the u.s 7% wider

cooperation by paul manafort or anyone else. he knows where the bodies are buried because he buried the bodies over the years for donald trump. what you see so far is the "national enquirer" is starting to go negative on michael cohen. if you see rudy guiliani will start to go negative on michael cohen. the president himself will go negative on michael cohen. they are panicked that michael cohen is cooperating with the southern district here in new york. >> you know, the mayor's logic, though, talking about this payment, going on on tv to do it publicly, he said it's a way of getting ahead of the story. julie, is there logic for that? do you see any reason for that? >> from a p.r. perspective, he contradicted the president and then the president went and contradicted him. so i'm not sure it's a great strategy. from a legal strategy, it's very puzzling strategy because he exposed did the to new questions from the mueller investigation as to what he knew and what he was doing with the money that he was funneling, using rudy guiliani's words. they have to deem with tal with aspect and the legal exposure giuliani expoed for the p

to pull together and to stand up to donald trump for the first time really in their history and this moralist signifies probably the end of illusions about cooperation was trump and nothing can be done we have to sort of for draw our own way that's the message the europeans are sending here what they can do in the practical side they are considering for instance a blocking law that would prohibit european companies to bend to american sanctions which and then on the other hand means that the e.u. would have to compensate those companies for any losses they would incur in that context it's a complicated situation but europeans are sort of considering a whole bundle of measures to counteract what might be coming from washington and they have decided to take a stand. and create is another area of tension between the e.u. and us barbara i just america has addressed one aspect of that issue craig challenged on aluminum and steam let's first take a listen to what she said. we made our position clear regarding trade to the united states of america we want permanent exemption from tariffs and only then would we prepared to negotiate on how we could reduce t

donald trump needs them working in cooperation to make sure this summit goes ahead. elections to worry about. if they have failure on the north korea side and the trade side, that is a double negative for midterm elections. betty: they certainly are playing a role in this. we have an interesting story coming out of china. scrapping the family planning? it is significant because in 2015 they removed the one child policy and allowed families to have a second child but birth continue to decline. 2017 and the state council has said by 2030, those over 60 years of age, a quarter of the population, they will be over 60 years old. that is not good math for the working population in china. beijingrnment in realizes that the one child policy was not worth it. there were a lot of social consequences and human rights abuses. while they may not acknowledge that, there were. so making a nationwide unlimited , independent fertility for independent families, to make their decision. it could come down by the fourth quarter of this year. after removing the one child policy, there wer

rick gates and paul manafort and potential bank fraud in 2005 to create cooperational leverage against this investigation into donaldmp. that's exactly the question that this judge raised on friday, and he's the first independent person, to raise this issue and he's said hey, it appears that you're attempting use what paul manafort did in 2005 to get to donald trump in 2018 and i want to see your authority for that. i want to see the jurisdictional basis that you have to even raise these charges interestingly, the special counsel's response was judge you're not entitled to that and the judge not so politely said i'll be the judge of what i'm entitled to and produce it in the next two weeks so we'll see where that goes. maria: well what about this mueller probe? you and i've spoken in the past, it's starting with collusion then it went to obstruction, now we're talking about payments made to stormy daniels this investigation has clearly gone much further afield than we thought with the initial mandate of russia collusion. >> yeah, i think that, you know , very clearly, there was a scope for the special counsel to be

cooperations. then out of the blue came a tweet on monday that could have been at salvation after engineering the company's demise donald trump pledged to help. sharing an unprecedented concern for chinese jobs. and surprisingly the chinese government was swift to approve saying it thought highly of the development. that left us commerce secretary well by ross to somehow explain the you time c t did do some inappropriate things they've admitted to that the question is are there alternative remedies to the one that we had originally put forward and that's the area we will be exploring very very promptly the inappropriate things he's referring to as that t. and legally shipping us parts to iran and north korea critics say a soft attitude towards china will hurt u.s. business and my worry after this thing is china will offer us some small term palea to they'll say ok we'll buy some of your products. and we won't be tough on them stealing intellectual property on them insisting that we make our goods in china to sell them there instead of allowing us to sell goods here as they are allowed to sell their goods here in america

trump. >> tonight, why the new york taxi king's cooperation against michael cohen could be a massive problem for donalds, is this man about to be the next major trump scandal figure? >> i hope not. >> new scrutiny over an rnc mo you go's big payment to a playmate. then the backdoor attack on the mueller probe continues. >> do you have confidence in rod rosenstein. >> what's your next question, please.

cooperating. the person that donald trump said was one of his two key foreign policy advisers.er. "saturday night live" skit. >> i'm going to go like this now. >> look at the list. nothing has been -- you've got four ex-trump advisers, a lawyer, a digital marketing strategist, 13 russian nationals, three russian companies, five guilty pleas, three trumpists cooperating now with this investigation. and he says nothing has been done in a year. this is one of the most successful prosecutions and guess what, here's the great news, willie. guess what, there's more. >> well, i was going to say you might be hearing from donald trump's personal attorney, michael cohen could join that list if he decides to join in on the fun. jeremy bash, obviously bob mule certificate not listening to the claims from rudy giuliani and others that this is a witch hunt, he's not going to stop his investigation under pressure from the trump white house. what this is about again is undermining the investigation so when its findings are made public president trump and rudy giuliani and people who support do

donald trump. his message to the president focused on how cooperation between the countries can boost the economy morenations acting alone. trade and theout importance of trade, how i felt -- two countries trading together makes the pie larger. true,true, undoubtedly ntaged frome has adva that in either country. we have to work on that. i felt the tariffs were not the right approach. juliette: you can watch the full version of that interview with tim cook in the new season of the david rubenstein show, coming next month only on bloomberg television. that is your bloomberg business flash. na: japan's economy shrank for the first time in two years, during the first quarter of 2018. the contraction was more than -- related tod fly private consumption and a surprise a slowing in business spending. james joins us from tokyo. talk to us about business and private consumption. james: two main factors are driving this contraction, much larger than we expected. private consumption was flat. it did not expand since december. there was a lot of bad weather in japan in the first quarter. led to private consumptio

donald trump jr. and aide stephen missiler to george nader, adviser to the saudi arabia. nader is now cooperating with investigators. wow. also in the meeting was an israeli social media specialist joel zimmel who proposed his services to help the trump campai campaign. this air legal conducted by the russians in the 2016 presidential election. as "the times" reports, the plan involved using thousands of fake social media accounts to promote mr. trump's candidacy on platforms like facebook. it's unclear what kind of help if any was ultimately provided. however, two people familiar with the meeting say the trump campaign official did not appear bothered by the idea of cooperation with foreigners. an attorney to mr. zamel denied his client was involved in the election. donald trump jr.'s lawyers released a statement saying they pitched mr. trump jr. on a marketing strategy. he was not interested and that was the end of it. i'm joined by betsy woodruff, report were the daily beast and msnbc analyst. jennifer rubin, msnbc contributor, and jill ainsley, a national report were nbc news. thank you, all.

investigations and effectively spiked the offer for their prosecutors to cooperate with mueller specifically to curry favor with donald trump and the u.s. government. because they wouldn't want to help mueller. that might make trump mad. we also know that when they made that decision to drop those prosecutions in ukraine, the president and the u.s. government changed their long-standing position on whether or not to sell that country anti-tank weapons. they decide oh, you know what? actually, despite our previous opposition, we're going to go ahead and sell you those weapons. so, did the u.s. government, did the trump white house ask for that particular favor from ukraine? did the trump white house, did president trump, did the trump administration say, hey, ukraine, stop helping mueller. maybe you'll get your missiles? i don't know. that seems nuts, right? but everything does seem nuts now. and so, it's probably at least time to ask so we can at least get an answer on the record now to compare with whatever the later answer will be down the road once we get further reporting that explicates the real situation. spikin

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donald trump's part? >> look, this is a rogue regime. they're in cooperation with syria and chemical weapons.ow that they've been parteri partnering with iran on all sort of international law and this is the situation right now where we need to move forward with the negotiations in the manner that we have right now. the talk about the peace prize and all of that, that's in the media. president trump just wants results -- >> president trump is talking about it, too, though, senator. he said he deserves the nobel peace prize. >> we'll see how that works out. right now we just want an arrangement with north korea to denuclearize and that's the biggest objective we have going. >> senator, chuck grassley released 2,000 pages of transcript into the investigation of the trump tower meeting with the lawyers promising dirt on hillary clinton. you say it's time for bob mueller to wrap up this investigation. are you glad that grassley put this out? >> of course, the american want the truth. i haven't seen all of those pages yet, but i can tell you this, after a fuel year of investigation there is no evi

the pressure from federal prosecutors and maybe deciding he was going to cooperate, and this was a signal. the idea that donald trump paid michael cohen back was meant to say michael cohen didn't do something of his own accord that was illegal so don't flip on us. does that make sense? >> it's hard to say. the decision to cooperate is personal to each person, it depends on your personal situation, your family situation, the time you're facing. it's a personal factor. i have no idea what's going on in his head. for him being willing to say that guy doesn't know what he's saying here shows frustration. the fact he's speaking out shows he's not happy with staying quiet. whether he flips will depend on a lot of things. we'll find out when we see the charges against him. >> the judge in california, in a separate case declined to act there because he said he expected at some point in the near future, michael cohen will be indicted. how do you see it playing? >> i don't think giuliani helped his client. when he came on board, he was going to have this case wrapped up in two weeks. >> he said that. >> not only has tha

cooperation thank you. now the british foreign secretary is making last minute efforts to persuade donald trump to stick to the iran nuclear deal orosz johnson is currently on a two day visit to washington where he'll meet with senior officials in the trumpet ministration and as he didn't get a chance to speak to the president himself he decided to deliver his thoughts via t.v. johnson gave an interview to fox and friends branded by the media as trump's favorite show the president has been right to call attention to it but you've got to do that without just throwing the baby out with the bathwater without scrapping the whole thing because if you do that you have to answer the question what next meanwhile the german and french foreign ministers have today stated there's no justifiable reason to pull out of the deal r.t. shackling booga takes a closer look now at europe's efforts to sway trumps thinking. terms apparent intention of dropping the iran nuclear deal later this week has sent the international community into overdrive there are now two competing influence campaigns playing out keep it and kill it

the chinese start relaxing border restrictions, donald trump has said maximum pressure on north korea relies heavily on the cooperation of the russians and particularly the chinese. vonnie: secretary of state mike pompeo says the trump letter has been transmitted to north korea. , it sounds like we are all getting to hear about this in real time, which is phenomenal. >> just here this is an usually the way foreign policy is one, it isut in this not only done in real time but via tweet. and it is done via leaks to the press. it gives the impression of being somewhat chaotic, which it is. are watching the pictures now. mike pompeo is actually reading the trump letter. reactiontting a little from congress as well with marco rubio at the moment the first person to make a statement. statementsiously get from multinational agencies. >> i think the world welcomed the idea of a deep -- denuclearize to korean peninsula, and certainly the south koreans were very much in favor of some sort of accommodation with north korea. so it is a setback. i don't think donald trump will be subject to criticism if there being criticism, it w

this untethered cooperate answering his phone during dinners. they don't really need two donaldconcerned about. i think giuliani is having a lot of fun. i think he is enjoying theis. >> he's having a lot of fun? >> i do think he is having fun. >> because he's back in front and center. >> yeah. i think this is -- he's a former prosecutor and i think he's got a long legal resume and i think there is an aspect of this that is enjoyable for him. >> maggie haberman, thanks very much. >>> much more ahead on today's breaking news on michael cohen and payments linked to a russian oligarch. >>> we'll also get on the updates going on in four states. west virginia, the controversial candidate says either way he's a winner because probation ends at midnight. he was in prison. that's not the strangest thing he's said during this campaign. details ahead. ♪ ♪ build your next big thing to run in more places, without recoding. the ibm cloud. the cloud for smarter business. the ibm cloud. feeclaritin and relief fromwsy symptoms caused by over 200 allergens. like those from buddy. because stuffed