freidman last year from continuing to manage medallions. mr. freidman was disbarred as a lawyer earlier this month, accused of failing to pay more than $5 million in taxes. mr. freidman faced four counts of criminal tax fraud and one of grand larcenlarceny, all feloni. each carries a maximum prison sentence of up to 25 years in prison. he's disbarred. he is banned from the business. he was facing potentially 125 years in prison. now, though, now that he's taken this deal to cooperate, he has pled guilty to, quote, a single count of evading only $50,000 worth of taxes. and if he fulfills the terms of his agreement, he's looking at no jail time at all. just probation. as long as he tells them everything he knows. and that kind of bargain makes it clear why mr. freidman might have taken this deal, why he's cooperating now. but mr. freidman is apparently in all that legal trouble, at least indirectly, stemming from the years that he was in business with michael cohen. and there's a live federal investigation already against michael cohen. if michae

freidman.idman and cohen were partners in a taxicab business, and freidman is known around new york city as "the taxi king." and according to the "new york times," cohen managed cabs for friedman even after new york city regulators barred mr. freidman last year. take it from me, you've got to do something pretty bad to get barred from cabs in new york. i'm talking at least two of the top three bodily fluids. friedman's charges stem from accusations that for each fare in his cab kingdom, he pocketed a 50-cent surcharge used to pay for mass transit improvements. wait, he took money meant to improve the subway? there's only two possible punishments: either he has to go to jail for life, or he has to ride the subway. ( laughter ) ( applause ) yep. ( piano riff ) and prosecutors are coming hard at the king, charging him with four counts of criminal tax fraud and one count of grand larceny, each carrying a maximum prison sentence of up to 25 years. that's 125 years in jail. by the time he gets out, t

freidman is a russian immigrant, he's known as the taxi king. so, let's get back to cecilia tonight. what could this mean for michael cohen? >> reporter: well, it could potentially mean more trouble, david. it remains to be seen. freidman cut a deal and will serve no jail time in exchange for cooperating. investigators could certainly use this to pressure michael cohen. privately, some close to the president have said, if an investigation leads to cohen's businesses, it could push him to flip and cooperate with federal investigators. >> cecilia vega with us from the white house tonight. cecilia, thanks, as always. >>> we have new details tonight about the school bus driver involved in that fatal crash we reported on, on a new jersey highway. dmv records show that 77-year-old hudy muldrow had a valid license with no points, but that his license had been suspended 14 times since 1975. most for parking violations. law enforcement sources say muldrow may have been trying to make an illegal u-turn on i-80 when he collided with a dump truck. one stude

. >> that's an awesome picture of freidman with his glasses on.ion by freidman may relate to. it may rerate to just some kind of business deals. >> that's right. i mean the raid does conducted by the u.s. attorney's office in manhattan. they have said they are looking into michael cohen's personal financial deals. sources have told cnn relates to -- looking for items that have to do with any payments that cohen made as well as this business. that's the limitation of what we know. we no he has owned medallions for about two decades. one of his business partners was freidman. cohen has since thought to distance himself. he said he was never a partner. he told me last month before this deal came about that michael cohen is a great friend and wonderful client. >> all right. we'll see what happens. >>> just ahead, roseanne barr's show cancelled after a twitter rant. we came with big appetites. with expedia, you could book a flight, hotel, car, and activity all in one place. ♪ -i think it'll look really: good without the stripes. whatever your home may

evgeny freidman has been managing taxis for cohen and is known here in new york as the king of -- the taxi king. his plea deal requires him to cooperate with prosecutors from any ongoing investigation. that includes the investigation into cohen's businesses and the special counsel's russia investigation. information from freidman could be used to force cohen into a plea deal of his own. >>> the midterm elections are taking shape after some historic new rounds of primaries. stacey abrams is one step closer to becoming the first black female governor in the country. she won the democratic primary in georgia last night, and in texas former sheriff lupe valdez also made history winning the democratic primary runoff for governor. she's the first openly gay and latina nominee for governor in texas history. >>> meanwhile, back on capitol hill, senate republicans are expected to scale back or even skip their august vacation this year because of pressure to get more things done. >>> some incredible images from a plane crash that five americans and a pilot were able to survive. the plane from a

my colleague and friend milton freidman lectured that government spending is taxation, it is, low rate, broad based and now sound money, nothing can put the economy to its knees than unsunday monetary or low interest rates, markets need to be clear, not too high so they destroy demand, not too low so they destroy supply, supply and demand should match. number four, you need minimal regulations. all of us understand that we need regulation. you cannot wake up in the morning and decide, i will drive on the right side of the road and the next day the left. you need regulation but you want to make sure that they do not go beyond a purpose at hand and create damage to the economy. you need regulatory reform that rationalizes regulatory policy so it's not antieconomic growth. lastly, what is really important and its one i am not too worried about, but a lot of people are, is free trade. there are some things that we do better than foreigners and there are some things that foreigners do better than we do. we and they would be foolish in the extreme if we did not sell foreigners the products w

evgeny freidman is a attorney as well as a taxi medallion.ed prann to manage his taxis for him at some point, and that is what mr. friedman means by a passive client. the "new york times" is reporting that mr. friedman is now cooperating with investigators who will no doubt be questioning just how passive michael cohen was in their taxi business. "the new york times" reports the charges against mr. friedman stem from accusations that he pocketed a 50 cent surcharge known as the metropolitan transportation authority tax which is used to pay for mass transit improvements. when he was charged last year, noni mannian, then the acting commissioner of the state department of taxation says this indictment exposes a blatant scheme to shortchange the metropolitan transportation authority, the transportation infrastructure relied on by millions of new yorkers. new york attorney general barbara underwood said friedman pocketed money that should have provided much needed investment in our system and he'll now have to pay back every cent. and here is the

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that said, freidman told the new york daily news it had nothing to do with its part. sand telling nbc that may be involved in the taxis. the president's lawyers already resigned into the strong possibility that the inquiry into mr. cohen's business could lead him to cooperate with peril prosecutors. that likelihood would now be greater with mr. friedman. >> i want to bring in an msnbc legal analyst, editor-at-large for the libertarian magazine. and a professor at princeton university. >> ned, let's go to you first. can we actually say because that because cohen's business partner was dirty corner was too? >> in isolation, stephanie that would be an unfair statement. fortunately for us, or unfortunately for us we know ate great more deal about cohen's business dealings. and that allows to us come to that conclusion pretty solid. leave it to michael cohen to be in business with someone known as the taxi king. and leave it to donald trump to have a personal attorney like michael cohen who seems to have his hands in a lot of shady business deals. >> so michael cohen's bus

cohen denied that he was partners with freidman. so, lisa, my question for you is, this is turns into a strategy with the white house in terms of the public relations appearance of this. it's pretty smart that they want audio recordings of the president's interview should he choose to give them to the special counsel. >> lisa: sure, look at the flynn case as evidence why president trump would be cautious and wanting to talk to mueller. i think that president trump should do everything can he to not with speak with mueller in any capacity whatsoever. look, mullen's intentions have already been questioned and they are further going to be questioned as we get additional information. michael mukasey who was the attorney general under george w. bush recently penned an op-ed for "u.s.a. today" saying that rosenstein had no evidence and no basis for the special counsel investigation to begin with. you had a federal judge in the manafort case basically saying that some of the charges against man ford were purely designed to go after preside

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so i called my head, migrate diplomat, my representative david freidman, right? to israel from >> welcome to hannity. you can see the president is on a roll there. >> mentally, i can't do it. it's like a one story building they want to overpay for land like they did in london before i got there. i said, david, i can't do it. david was a great businessman. he says let me look into it. he calls me back two days later. sir? what? we can build the embassy for $150,000. [applause] i said what you are talking about 150? he said we can build for 150. we have the best piece of land we owe. we have a building on that piece of land. it's set back. it's a big piece. it's many acres in the best location. here's the deal, land we don't own, we'll take forever to get it open. in addition to the people that will try to stop you, that's a billion dollars as opposed to a better location for 400,000. i said, spend more, please. sometimes it's ridiculous, i thought. it's totally beautiful. the finest stones, the finest marbles, the best location. it's open. it opened in four months

according to "the times," michael cohen's business partner is evgeny freidman. you see him there.arently, is the taxi king. >> seth: that's right. michael cohen's business partner was a guy called the taxi king. [ laughter ] of course he also answers to russian guy fieri, or [ bleep ] bono. [ laughter ] [ applause ] so, every day, every day we get new bombshells about the criminal investigation of trump's campaign, but we can't lose sight of the fact that while all of this is happening trump is still supposed to be doing the job of president. it's like if you found out in the middle of your flight that your pilot was wasted, sure, you'd want him arrested, but right now someone needs to tell him that the plane is upside down. [ light laughter ] and for trump, the big thing he's supposed to be focused on right now is his upcoming summit with north korea. trump has been hyping this summit every way he can. his crowds have been chanting nobel at his rallies, and his government even made a commemorative coin to celebrate the meeting. look at that thing. [ light laughter ] that looks li

that means two of the world's most well known exchanges are now led by women adena freidman became ceonasdaq early last year. stocks were mixed. the dow lost 59. the s&p 500 was off 6. nasdaq gained 9. for the week the dow was up .02. the s&p 500 grew. 3. and the nasdaq was up over 1.1%. the abortion ban is being characterized by some as a fight for the very soul of the traditionally conservative roman catholic nation. correspondent benjamin hall has the latest tonight from london. >> people have traveled from across the world to have their say in referendum ha has divided a nation. the vote today will decide whether to repeal a part of the a irish constitution known as the eighth amendment which effectively bans abortions in the country. it's a controversial subject in this very catholic country. >> i think life is sacred and for that reason i have to vote no. >> prime minister center right government backs lifting the ban and allowing abortion on request up to 12 weeks of pregnancy. >> quietly confident been good turn out so far across the country and -- >> more than 100,000 extra pe

manager jaime seet says freidman was so angry when she was leaving his company that he contacted theew restaurant where she had just been hired. >> seet: the director of operations of that restaurant called me and he said, "i'm so sorry, we're rescinding your job offer." and i said, "does this have anything to do with ken friedman?" and he was like, "yes." >> cooper: trish nelson finally quit in october of 2012, the day after she says ken friedman sexually assaulted her in his car. >> nelson: we got into the car and he lunged to kiss me. he's a six-four man, and so you're pretty overpowered, and i just felt panic. i felt panic, because i never thought that was going to happen to me. i thought that i was respected. >> cooper: ken friedman and mario batali also declined our requests for interviews. in a statement, friedman says, in part, "over the past several months, i have focused on my own personal decisions and my mistakes, for which i have apologized." mario batali says in a statement, "my past behavior has been deeply inappropriate and i am sincerely remorseful for my actions." i

so i called my head, migrate diplomat, my representative david freidman, right?an see the president is on a roll there. >> mentally, i can't do it. it's like a one story building they want to overpay for land like they did in london before i got there. i said, david, i can't do it. david was a great businessman. he says let me look into it. he calls me back two days later.

michael cohen's business partner, his name is evgeny freidman. he is known as the taxi king, taking a plea so he doesn't go to jail. so he is going to help prosecutors. how much pressure does this put on cohen? >> my understanding of his cooperation deal is it's for both state and federal investigations, right? federal investigation involves a man named robert mueller. this guy was facing $5 million in legal penalties, four on counts crimes that have sentences up to 25 years. i mean, he wouldn't get 100 years, but still, he was facing a number of years in prison and a lot of money. bumped down to $50,000 and much less prison. when you have that, that's not good for the guy on the other end. jack knows this better than me. and just another point i would make. so the president's lawyer, michael cohen, long-time lawyer is now facing the possibility of severe charges. the president's lawyers' partner was already charged multiple times. he didn't pay $5 million in taxes. there is just a lot of messiness so to speak around the president. >> laura, this

his former lawyer, michael cohen's business partner, a man named evgeny freidman has now said he's goingcooperate with prosecutors in a case here in new york. that could put more pressure on mr. cohen and eventually president trump. >> reporter: exactly. freidman cut a deal and will serve no jail time in exchange for cooperating with state and federal investigators. that includes those prosecutors in new york involved in the cohen case. this is a close business associate of michael cohen. cohen, as we know, is already under a ton of pressure after that raid on his home and his offices. you know this, george, president trump had boasted that cohen wasn't the type of guy who would flip. we will see now. >> more pressure coming. okay, cecilia, thanks very much. robin? >>> and george, now the results from those primary elections in four states overnight. women winning big. fighter pilot amy mcgrath getting a surprise victory in kentucky beating lexington mayor jim gray in the democratic primary for a house seat there. and history being made in georgia. stacey abrams won the democratic primar

but i did it in a very subtle way as the great writer vanessa freidman said -- >> all i'm getting fromual. if i were going somewhere, this would be more ceremonial than this. >> this is the most met gala the beat has ever looked. >> this is not met gala. this is casual. this is everyday drag. brocade, ceremonial brocade. >> look, i'm a thompson. we don't do casual. >> i do know that you had one other idea for a fall back i wanted to ask you. >> i think the nfl, the rule that's going to be great push back on it, and the athletes are heroes and those men have every right to stand up or to stand down, to go down with dignity on one knee. they are representing cause, pain that is inflicted on people in this country without people knowing this pain. it is simply a symbolic gesture and i think the man in the white house has single handedly influenced the nfl, the money people, the -- >> they're kneeling to him. >> they're kneeling to money, to the money. and i think it will be a big backlash and history will be made with complete and unapologetic protests in the locker room and on the field.

partners cut a surprise deal on tuesday, sources say, with direct knowledge, say taxi tycoon, evgeny freidmancohen. the fbi raided cohen's office and apartment last month. >>> now, to a woman making history on wall street and all of its 226 years the new york stock exchange never had a female president, until now. consider wall street's glass ceiling shattered. >> thank you. >> reporter: this week, 43-year-old stacey cunningham will take the helm as the big board's 67th president. >> i think it's important to me that we continue to maintain the same goal and mission that we've had for the past 226 years. >> reporter: times have changed. back then, the lady's room was a converted phone booth. cunningham is the current chief operating officer. cunningham started as an intern nearly 25 years ago. but her career hasn't been all-business. in 2005 she left wall street to become a chef. >> it never would have occurred to me that i would leave to take a break to go to culinary school. >> reporter: still, nothing in the kitchen could satisfy her appetite quite like finance. >> congratulations. her ris