we have emily cohen. >> good morning, supervisors. i am here to report back on the additional $450,000 that our department received in the budget process this year for the family -- the new base family subsidy program. the department of homelessness and supportive housing had a contract to administer the similar program, the same program with the homeless prenatal program. so this additional funding went to complement the existing funding for that and to extend the needs-based subsidies for the families enrolled in the program. with the additional funding, we expect to serve up to 35 families who are unsheltered, and homeless and of particularly high needs. this is a very unique subsidy program in our community. is designed to target highly vulnerable families with children who have documented reasons to need to stay within the city of san francisco. and two are not necessarily eligible for other programs. the average rental subsidy for this program is approximately $33,000 annually per family. we measure success for this program thro

howie: emily jashinsky, susan ferrechio, and capri cafaro, former democratic senate leader in ohio. is the media embracing michael cohens a truth teller? emily: obviously he has valuable information. but i don't understand why everyone is take what this man said with a massive grain of salt when he previously said he would take a bullet for trump. howie: it's called flipping. how did michael cohen come off in the interview? >> i thought it was full of leading questions to implicate president trump. howie: he asked, why should we believe you now. >> he did, but most of of it was leading questions. it felt like a slam dunk for cohen to trash the president. howie: how does the press deal with it? hogan gidley said to give credence to an admitted liar is laughable. capri: for someone who admitted they are liars. there is a lot of love for other folks that have pled guilty in the white house like paul manafort, for example. so i think there is -- for hogan to say that, there are some questions there. howie: the president tweeting michael cohen became a rat after the fbi broke into his office. by the way the fbi had a legal

emily? >> are we going to move from cohen and all that happened today? >> i'm not hijacking. 's only 5:02! >> i'm just thinking it's what about-ism running rampant. >> go ahead, emily. >> there is a bill being pushed through by latterly that will take out from the salary expenditures that taxpayers pay towards playing that harassment thing. i do think that's a little bit of a shell game. i want to point out, that everybody is talking about the specific intent and that viewers understand that yes, that's what separates a civil and criminal campaign finance violation charge. most important to me is the flynn situation. i think it's a hideous abuse of power to treat any of those kinds of conversations casually and that we can never overestimate the amount of weight the government brings with it every time they just sit down and ask, hey, how are you? for then come up for a comey, to blame it on the disorganized administration, i send a couple of guys over, is a horrible abuse of power regardless what happens with the judge reviewing the flynn documents and regardless of what he s

emily: while he's calling michael cohen a liar he's saying this deal was widely known at the time. if we have the president on tv saying i have no deals in russia. i think both those things can be true. howie: the media consensus is he would have a motive to cooperate with russia. but the president says, look, i was a businessman, there was a good chance i wouldn't win. so what's wrong with my pursuing such a project. jessica: there are two issues. we have pictures of the whole trump family out there in moscow. we know this deal was happening. there was a $50 million apartment. it was a violation of our laws. this email talking about an architect. everyone was involved when they weren't supposed to. nothing in russia gets done without vladimir putin on that level. it's not like doing a deal in the america and the president of the united states note being involved. vladimir putin controls everything that happens in russia. emily: we don't have evidence that the trump campaign was colluding with the russians. howie: it comes down to the question of do you believe michael cohen now. n

emily jane fox, feature reporter for vanity fair. bureau chief for the "washington post," and jill cohen, white house reporter for the associated press. welcome to you all, and emily, i would like to begin with you. what was it like there today? i have a triple question for you. what was it like there today? do you think we'll hear from him in a congressional hearing as early as january? and do you have any idea in what area he was less than willing to be cooperative which resulted in three years today? >> i'll go one by one. your first question, what was it like there today. it was somber. it was very clear this was something that was weighing on him heavily. he spoke in his allocution that this felt like the most meaningful day in his life, that this was his day of freedom. it's hard to say that someone getting sentenced to three years in federal prison feels anything like freedom, but this is what he sees as this part of his life is over. the next part, which is not going to be fun, is about to start, and then whatever is on the other side of it will happen. >> will we hear from him before congress? >> it could be. if congress cal

emily, you've known michael cohen for a long time. you've spent a lot of time with him.t wondering as you've watched the arc of this, how is he doing, just on a human level, just on a personal level? >> i think this is obviously a tough day, but it's one that he has prepared for. i think that people who knows him, people who have been waiting for this day, who have spent time with him recently are sort of hoping for the best but preparing for the worst is the way this was put to me. this was obviously an emotional day for someone who is close with his family, who for years was blindly loyal to president trump and today he's seeing that loyalty come back to haunt him. there two things i'm looking forward to today. the first is what he is going to say in court. now, i don't know what he is going to say, but he does have the opportunity to address the court. and the last two times that he was in court and did have that opportunity, he took it. and we learned substantial things about the president. the first time he -- that was the time where he stood up and said that the pr

is someone who was not just in the courtroom today as michael cohen was being sentenced, but who has been covering him closely all along. emily senior reporter at "vanity fair." our michael cohen whisperer. thank you very much for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> i understand that you have spoken with mr. cohen since the sentencing? >> i was in court today. i saw him and his family actually enter the court as they happen to be entering at the same time. it was a -- it was interesting, because half the room was reporters, right? so half the people have notebooks in their lap and were writing everything down, and half the room it felt like were people who were cohen's family and very close friends. and so, you had a group of, let's call them looky lous trying to absorb all the information we were getting and it was a lot of information. and a group of people that were emotional about the decision. this was something not just a piece in the puzzle of mueller's investigation or a plot line in this insane thing we're living through every day, this is a very personal, human thing to half of that room, and so to have that

and again for perspective, here's what cohen told our next guest, emily jane fox, in september of last year, and we quote, i'm the guy who stops the leaks. i'm the guy who protects the president and the family. i'm the guy who would take a bullet for the president. so with us tonight, the aforementioned emily jane fox, senior reporter for "vanity fair" who was in the courtroom today. she also happens to be the author of "born trump, inside america's first family." phillip rucker is back with us, and jill colvin returns to our broadcast, white house reporter for the "associated press." welcome to you all, and emily, i would like to begin with you. what was it like there today? i have a triple question for you. what was it like there today? do you think we'll hear from him in a congressional hearing as early as january? and do you have any idea in what area he was less than willing to be cooperative which resulted in three years today? >> i'll go one by one. your first question, what was it like there today. it was somber. it was very clear this was something that was weighing on him hea

investigations that she will move forward with or plans to, the investigation that cohen is cooperating with, vanity fair's emilyt me play it for you. >> i know that he has spent time with investigators in the southern district of new york and also the attorney general's office in new york who are looking into particularly the trump foundation. his attorneys have said that he will continue to cooperate even after sentencing. >> so cohen could be a valuable witness even after his sentencing? >> right, and this suggests that president trump's biggest challenge is maybe right there in his backyard in new york. the democrats who are coming in to take control of the house are also planning a lot of investigations. i asked the incoming chairman of that committee yesterday what his top targets are, and what he mentioned are prescription drug prices, pre-existing conditions, voting rights and then he mentioned the white house and the things president trump is looking at. i think democrats are going to be dealing with that dichotomy. as far as senate republicans go, they are not breaking with the president as a result of

emily on this. several hours of inquisition, you want to be careful with michael cohen.peter said a few minutes ago, was right in there, he was snuggled in with trump with everything he was doing. he was his fixer. he was the guy that dealt with the smelly, dirty stuff. he had to clean up things. was the guy going around and cleaning up afterwards, if he could paying off the people if he could. it seems like trump knows all this, like in a bad guy in columbo, he knows everything he's done and he knows he has to pay or it because cohen knows everything he's done. your thoughts about why this is getting under his skin, the cohen testimony the last few days. >> i think there are two reasons. the first reason is just as you said. cohen has worked for him for a dozen years. he was in there, not only with him cleaning up his messes, but cohen was in there with his children cleaning up his children's messes. i think that gets under his skin. the other thing is the president doesn't like anyone who he perceives as disloyal to him. the way that he has perceived what cohen has don

table, john heilemann, co-host of showtime's "the circus" and emily jane fox, vanity fair's senior reporter. she was inside the courtroom for cohen's hearing today. tim o'brien, executive editor for bloomberg opinion and donny deutsch is in the house. frank figliuzzi, the significance of the nonprosecution agreement for ami. and i know you have a history there. take us through what you think this means. >> so now we have michael cohen agreeing that a crime was committed in paying these women and the way it was structured. we have ami, as a company, saying, yeah, don't prosecute us. we admit it. we got it. we're going to cooperate. we have the southern district of new york saying this was a crime directed by the president, the only person not saying, yeah, you got me, it was a crime is the president. and if he continues to take that stance, he's going to be found to be very wrong. the sentence today handed down to cohen sent a message to everyone. and to people like weisselberg and to jerome corsi and to roger stone. partial cooperation only helps you partially. and full cooperation is your best bet. and i am sure that sentence is r

nation" and president of the national action network and emily jane fox, senior reporter with "vanity fair" and the person to whom michael cohen once said he'd take a bullet for donald trump. phil rucker, you say along with your colleague that trump's falsehoods on the hush money payments are coming home to roost. and that people around the president are basically freaking out over what might come next. please tell us more. >> yeah, john, so there's a lot of concern within the president's orbit, but also among republican allies on capitol hill that all of these investigations are intensifying and reaching a very uncomfortable phase for the president. that this is more serious than they thought. you know, the allegations that came forward out of this southern district of new york in the last week are really troubling for the president in part because it exposes his past statements as well as the past denials by white house spokespeople as outright lies. as falsehoods. the president has not been telling the truth about this, and that is catching up to him. and i interviewed a number of people close to this white house and in the

emily jane fox, a senior reporter at vanity fair. thank you for being with us. you for having me. >> what's mr. cohen's to these court filings today? >> i think there was a sense when he pleaded guilty to the count with the special counsel's office two weeks ago that things were going in a little bit of a different direction and the people who were close to cohen and around him at the time, i think that the memo filed today was a real pin in that balloon. and i don't think that everyone in that orbit saw this coming. this was not the memo that they expected today, and it is certainly a very, very blistering filing that was made in court and something that i don't think anybody who read that would feel good going into sentencing. >> so he was surprised that the southern district prosecutors say he needs a substantial jail term? >> i don't think there was a surprise that there was a suggestion that there is substantial jail time on the line. but i think that the sense around him was we cooperated, we spent 70 hours with investigators as it was laid out by robert mueller in his filing today. he provided s

cohen because he said i'll work for the country now. no longer worker for trump. >> he's been saying that for a few weeks if you read emily jane fox and vanityels so betrayed by the president after going -- saying to her i would take a bullet for donald trump and then when everything fell apart, and he is sending smoke signals and flares, where is my pardon, say something to -- to hang me in the -- to keep me in your corner and didn't happen and so michael cohen goes out there and he cooperates with sdny, with mueller, he does interviews where he makes it clear we are done here. and that interview with george stephanopoulos today is like the final nail in the coffin. i will -- i am no longer loyal to you. you were not loyal to me. and so we're going to have it out. >> john and then jennifer, who has he stuck his neck out for yet? the president. >> very few. he's defended ivanka, his daughter and jared kushner. but that is it. with this president, loyalty extends within his own family and not much further. that is always the case. >> the romanov. >> and doesn't get much in return. >> why should somebody stick the neck out for them and if he d

>>> still ahead on "morning joe," more on the fall of michael cohen with someone inside the courtroom yesterday. vanity fair reporter emilyerans has a look at the forecast. >> hey, willie. two big storms, mostly rain events. the first one, it poured overnight in houston. now it's pouring in noerps and houston, a little snow -- pouring in new orleans and houston. a little snow. i was looking at the long-term forecast. there is a chance of rain every single day for the ten days. it's living up to the reputation the storm in texas the back side is very windy, could even have winds gusting to 70 miles per hour. maybe minor damage possible. we made late today here to the west of shreveport and northeast texas. tomorrow, jacksonville to orlando and tampa, strong storms, maybe even an isolated tornado, for everyone else, a big old rain event. we may set our rainfall recovered for washington, d.c. as we go throughout the weekend, especially friday into saturday. it's only going to take a half inch. this will be the westest year on record in the nation's capitol. it's been very soggy on the eastern seaboard. i don't have to tell y

emily compagno, juan williams, jesse watters and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city. we we are already laughing. this is "the five" ." president trump saying he never directed his former personal attorney michael coheno break the law. the exclusive fox news interview and just a moment. first, in the wake of all the miller probe development, democrats continue to beat the impeachment drum and predict the president's demise. >> i believe that this president is dangerous. i think he has undermined our democracy. i think he's aligned himself with the enemy, with putin. he loves dictators. i believe he certainly qualifies for impeachment. we may never get it done, and maybe democrats fear that somehow if we move to impeach him, maybe his base will grow larger. i don't think so. >> i'm prepared to say something i've never said. the writing is on the wall. the walls are closing in, and this is the beginning of the end for the trump administration. >> dana: this comes as trump defends himself against accusations of any wrongdoing with michael cohen. >> i never directed him to do anything wrong. he understands that. he did some bad things unrelated to me. may be related to his other clients. it wasn't his on

emily compagno, juan williams, jesse watters and greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new york city. we we are already laughing. this is "the five" ." president trump saying he never directed his former personal attorney michael cohenview and just a moment. first, in the wake of all the miller probe development, democrats continue to beat the impeachment drum and predict the president's demise. >>