jay sekulow for one. there were several changes that were made, including how we were going to handle that message which was -- >> were you finished? >> the message, of course, being the length of time that the trump tower moscow project stayed and remained alive. >> sekulow denied that allegation last week, and he told nbc news today he stands by that denial. but news about the edits to cohen's testimony isn't the only bombshell in today's news cycle. the "new york times" out with some blockbuster reporting of their own today on six new checks that show donald trump carrying out a secret double life, one in which he played president by day and wrote checks to michael cohen to fund his hush money scheme in his free time. all you need to know about 2019 is that that story comes second today. we start with that breaking news from capitol hill with some of our favorite reporters and friends. phil rucker, white house bureau chief for the "washington post" is back, former u.s. attorney joyce vance joins us, da

mayor and jay sekulow, it's dana bash. i want to drill down on what you just said about the fact that the letter, the part about the obstruction, is, to use your word, the analysis of the attorney general. we're already hearing from democrats as high as the house judiciary chairman that it's only that, that this is not the determination of the robert mueller but simply the analysis of the president's hand-picked attorney general. >> let me just say one thing. no one should be complaining an independent counsel statute, which is what ken starr operated under, and a special counsel on the regulations. he's part of the department of justice and is bound by the department of justice policies and guidelines and policies in this particular case on obstruction are very clear. that's what they followed. so what robert mueller apparently did was lay out, here are all the facts. we're not saying he committed a crime. we're not making an exoneration. what we're doing is saying basically the department of justice, you evaluate it. the

"washington post" reports that cohen says he personally discussed the subject of a pardon with jay sekulow and rudy giuliani. that doesn't mean that he asked for one, but did discuss one. sekulow denies that. giuliani tells cnn he has been asked about pardons by attorneys but would not comment specifically. but now lanny davis seeming to contradict the "washington post" and his own cliptewn client. michael cohen said this last week. >> i have never asked for nor would i accept a pardon from president trump. >> lanny davis now tells the "wall street journal" after cohen was raided by the fbi last year, he directed his attorney at the time to explore the possibilities of a pardon at one point with rudy giuliani as well as other lawyers advising president trump. cnn asked davis to square that with cohen's testimony he claims cohen was referring to the time after his joint defense agreement with president trump's attorneys collapsed. so what is next for cohen? the president's former lawyer begins a three year prison term on may 6. >>> former trump campaign chairman paul manafort will be senten

. >> joining us now one is of the president's attorney, jay sekulow. good morning, mr. sekulow. >> great to see you. >> great have you. have you had a chance to talk to attorney general barr in the past 24 hours? >> i have not. >> so he spoke to one of your colleagues but not to you directly? >> so emit represents the white house. i'm the president's private lawyer. emmitt is within the white house counsel's office. so the protocol was for the attorney general's office to notify the white house counsel when the information was being transmitted. >> did mr. flood share with you or do you know how long the actual mueller report is? how many pages? >> i do not. i don't have that information. i will see that information when you see it. again, as a private counsel we don't have the right -- it's a confidential report so it goes between the -- under the regulations the report goes between the special counsel directly to the attorney general. >> and do ju a sense of -- >> and as private lawyers we don't get it. >> thank you. do you have a sense of when you and i and the rest

jay sekulow, for one. there were several changes that were made, including how we were going to handle that message. which was -- >> will you finish? >> yes, the message, of course, being the length of time that the trump tower moscow project stayed and remained alive. >> all right. i wanted everybody to hear that, because let me show you jay sekulow's very specific denial last week after the allegation was made public. here's what he said. "today's testimony by michael cohen that attorneys for the president edited or changed his statement to congress to alter the duration of the trump tower moscow negotiations is completely false." greg braeuer, i, there was a -- i throw this up there because it was very specific, and to me, it's always a yellow flag when a denial has a specific in it. they want to deny -- it's like, okay, what are they denying here? they're not denying they edited -- they are not denying they edited the testimony. they're denying a very specific thing that they edited in the testimony. >

there were changes made, additions, jay sekulow, for one. >> jay sekulow says he stands by his statementast week that cohen's testimony about those edits is completely false. the chair of the intel committee adam schiff says lawmakers may request more documents from cohen who in turn said he'll continue to cooperate. trump's former campaign manager paul manafort is to be sentenced this afternoon in alexandria, virginia. manafort was found guilty on two counts of bank fraud, five counts of tax fraud and one count of failing to declare a foreign bank account. the 69-year-old faces up to 24 years in prison and may be forced to pay millions of dollars in financial penalties. manafort also pled guilty to two conspiracy charges in a separate but related case in washington, d.c. he's scheduled to be sentenced in that case next week. >>> a new polling shows support for the impeachment of president trump has actually risen. a new monmouth university poll shows 42% of americans feel that the president should be impeached. 54% disagree. back in november support for impeachment of at 36%. while 59%

. >> there were changes made, additions, jay sekulow for one -- >> were there changes about the timing? >> the gentleman's time is expired, you may answer that question. >> there were several changes that were made including how we were going to handle that message. >> mr. -- were you finished? >> the message, of course, being the length of time that the trump tower/moscow project stayed and remained alive. >> jay sekulow called cohen's allegations that trump's lawyers edited or changed his statement to congress completely false. cnn senior congressional correspondent manu raju is on capitol hill. what more do we know about these documents and edits? >> reporter: yeah. we were told that michael cohen did provide those documents to the committee after his public testimony from last week in which he made that allegation saying that the president's attorneys, jay sekulow as well as abby lowell were involved in the preparation of that false testimony in 2017 in which he initially downplayed the role of the trump organization and candidate trump's effort to get that trump tower/moscow proje

let me read you what jay sekulow said last week.s testimony of michael cohen, edited or changing his statement to congress to alter the duration of the trump tower moscow negotiations is completely false. we are back to the fundamental question of cohen testimony is that, is he credible? others have basically said you need kocorroboration. this is a little bit of corroboration. >> we have not seen this letter and we don't know what the edits look like or whether it is done digitally or whose writing it was. there is still a lot of open questions and what was specifically edited, we'll find out on that. >> hans nichols at the white house, thank you very much. >>> is congress setting a new bar for what's acceptable from a president. joining me is former republican carlos c carlos curbelo and chris liu of the house and oversight committee. >> this is the question i have been trying to have with people for a few days. could the president being set here with what a congress rule tolerate in terms of presidential behavior, has the bar now

jay sekulow for one. there were several changes made, including how we were going to handle that message. the message, of course, being the length of time that the trump tower/moscow project stayed and remained alive. >> reporter: nbc news has not d viewed the alleged documents. cohen has pleadeguilty to tax and financial crimes and lying to congress, and republicans have attacked cohen's credibility. tonight the president's attorney, jay sekulow, firing back, saying testimony by michael cohen that attorneys for the president edited or changed atement to congress to alter the duration of the trump tower/mosc negotiations is completely false. and tonight the white house is pointing us back to its previous comment on cohen's testimony saying iis quote laughable that anyone would take a convicted liar like .hen at his wo lester? >> all right, kristen welker at the white house, thank you. >>> as that plays out, back at the white house president trump is reacting tonight to t alarming images broken by nbc news

later his colleague jay sekulow is going to join us, very interesting. the legal tandem is tag teaming my show and sean hannity's show tonight, preaching to the converted over there, appealing to open minds here, but it shows you where we are. the big issue, will the president really push for you to see the report? how about his answers to mueller? should you get to see that? that's just one of the issues that democrat hakeem jeffreys has to consider. how big of a blow is this early assessment of the mueller report to democrats and their cause? what is their path forward? is impeachment still an option? big questions, big night, big players. let's get after it. >>> the president of the united states is okay with the idea of releasing the full muller report. here he is in his own words. >> up to the attorney general. wouldn't bother me. >> wouldn't bother him. has he said that to the a.g.? maybe we'll get an answer tonight. democratic house chairs issued an ultimatum to bill barr demanding congress see the full report by a week from tomorrow. rudy giulian

i don't know if you'll get like jay sekulow on me, i don't know. we'll see what happens. for a guy on a good news day, he had his feelings. >> yes. >> but i want to press you on this, sir. here is how you described it as recently as 2017. take a look. >> please. >> look, we're at a point in american history where we're seeing a lot of dots that seem to be directing us toward a real problem and potential collusion because there continues to seem to be smoke that might result in an actual fire. in other words, real collusion going on between us and the soviet union. >> real collusion going on. >> besides the fact that i did a flashback there and called it the soviet union and not russia. we're going gloss over that and give me pass. >> real collusion going on you said. do you have to revise that to say not chargeable collusion? >> again, when have i an attorney general who in my opinion is suspect filtering a report that i have not seen, i'm not willing to conclude anything yet based upon a letter that he wrote. >> so you -- let me -- well, let's ask. >> yeah, press me on t

we are now finally hearing from the president's attorneys jay sekulow and rudy giuliani.udy giuliani flew down just the other day from new york to be here because there was an indication that this report was going to get transmitted to william barr. and now a joint statement from jay sekulow and rudy giuliani saying, "we are pleased that the office of special counsel has delivered its report to the attorney general pursuant to the regulations. attorney general barr will determine the appropriate next steps." giuliani was going to go down to margo mar-a-lago, but it's more likely he'll appear on sunday morning television shows to talk about their side of the story. the president, the president's attorneys have maintained all along that there is no collusion, no culpability that the president has in anything that happened in 2016 election, and they believe that this report will exonerate the president. now, what catherine herridge said about the letter transmitted from rod rosenstein to be then stated judiciary committee jock chuck grassley in june of last year, if it does

jay sekulow, counsel to the president, thanks for weighing in as we have this breaking news this afternoonat to talk to you, jay. >> you too.san let's bring in robert by yankee and james trusty. great to have both of you with us. >> hi, shannon. shannon: i'm going to read a little something from politico. the headline is mueller's done, now what? they reference this, dozens of sealed indictments remain filed in d.c. courts, but there's an important caveat to that. all those could be unrelated to the russia investigation. for now, though, the possibility remains that a wide range of people that have been ensnared in the probe still have no final legal resolution on their fate. how does that part of the equation play out, jim? >> i think that's a small asterisk at this point because most likely these are people that might be swept up in conduct on other, in other countries, they may be other russians where there's some hope of actually getting jurisdictional hooks into them unlike the people indictedded in st. petersburg. they're not going to be looked at as good sources of information to fl

now after cohen's testimony jay sekulow put out a statement saying that there were changes.ed back and said the testimony for michael cohen, and he edited or changed a statement to congress to alter the duration of the trump tower moscow negotiations is completely false. we were later told that those attorneys were relying on what cohen said in his public testimony to push back, but we'll see how they respond now that there are documents that apparently show some changes that were made by the trump attorneys to the statement that was later a false statement to congress and it's with one major focus on today's session which is still happening behind closed doors and we're learning what that focus was at least in the morning session here, brianna. >> that was a key point he made in his testimony last week. manu raju, thank you. it seems jared kushner was not the only top white house adviser to get a security clearance only after personal intervention from the president. cnn has learned the president overwrote the objects of the office and his chief of taf and white house couns

jay sekulow for one. there were several changes that were made, including how we were going to handle that message. the message, of course, being the length of time that the trump tower moscow project stayed and remained alive. >> okay. so now cohen's attorney, jill, is saying something a little bit different. he says the changes were made by cohen under the guidance and in accordance with the white house. what is going on with the counsel that cohen is receiving here and this -- what seems to be hair splitting? >> it isn't hair splitting. in a case like this, one wrong move can really be used against cohen in dramatic ways. so it's really important that he be well prepared and that he speak as carefully and in as much detail as possible. i mean, we can argue about whether the issue in the first one was the word never or the word i because he said i never asked. and did he mean, well, my lawyers asked, i didn't ask. there are a lot of different ways to interpret this. but it's really incumbent upon the wi

jay sekulow for one. >> were there changes about the timing? >> there were several changes that were made including how we were going to handle that message. the message of course being the length of time that the trump tower moscow project stayed and remained alive. >> "the new york times" has more on the documents that cohen revealed today in that hearing room, writing "it was not immediately clear how many changes were made by mr. trump's lawyers including jay sekulow or how drastic those changes were. the paper as a source said that at least some of the changes appear to play down the knowledge of the president's eldest daughter ivanka trump about the project. trump attorney jay sekulow denies the president's legal team made any edits. as cohen himself left capitol hill this evening, he offered a brief assessment of today's proceedings. >> the hearings went very, very well. i believe that all of the members were satisfied with the statements and the responses that i gave to them. i told them that any additional information that they would w

jay sekulow. oh, yeah.en and jay has done legal work for me. we actually had dinner together once and we're friends. >> there we go. >> sean: i know this because i know you. i know this because i've watched all along and i ask a lot of questions. i don't think you or your entire legal team has slept more than three hours as all of this has gone forward as you have steadfastly fought and defended the president. now you have literally gotten to the point where it is so important for the country. let's walk through how we got here. >> first after all, i appreciate you saying that. we have a great legal team and a great client. one of my granddaughters said how proud they were of me in a text yesterday. that's what i think about when we are handling these cases. i think about my kids, my grandkids, and the country we're going to leave them. let me say this, sean. this was a tremendous,s, tremendous victory for the president. a tremendous victory for the united states of america. it was a tremendous victory, frankly, for our system of justice. that

you made the argument, rudy giuliani and jay sekulow, made the argument that mueller had been given so many documents over a million that there was no need for an in-person interview, is that the argument that you are making? >> it is not just the documents, but every single white house person who has to be interviewed was encouraged by the president to do so voluntarily. >> despite that though, ty, were you surprised by the fact that there was never a sit-down interruinte interview? i know you were discussing one. >> i was not that surprised. >> a little surprised? >> i was pleased for both institutions. none of them prov degree of cooperation that this white house did. i think it was a good compromise to be able to be proceed by written questions. >> it prevented a 9-15 months court battle that would not generate much information. >> let me read you what the washington post writes today. negotiations between around thanksgiving 2017 and an interview was scheduled for january 2018, but john doud, the lead attorney cancelled the session. he argued against it because he feared that trum

jay sekulow at least for a couple of years now and rudy giuliani since john dodd left a year ago. saying, we are pleased the office of special counsel has delivered its report to the attorney general pursuant to the regulations. attorney general barr will determine the appropriate next steps. i spoke with rudy giuliani on the phone after announced by senior doj official that robert mueller was not recommending anymore indictments. he said, this marks the end of the investigation, talking about the russia investigation they are. we await disclosure of the facts. we are confident there are no findings of collusion by the president and this underscores what the president has been saying from the beginning that he did nothing wrong. it's unlikely we'll hear anything more from giuliani unless some of the facts start to get out, in which case if they do come up before sunday morning, he will likely, i'm told, appear on the at least one if not more sunday morning shows. the white house weighing in on this, sarah sanders the press secretary saying, the next riefed on the special counsel's

one of the smartest legal minds in the world deasht and jay sekulow on president's team. we have mike huckabee and kellyanne and ken starr. we have congressman mark meadow, jim jordan and jason chaffetz and many more. brian: we are going to try to cover a lot of news today. the biggest story around the globe and certainly in this country william barr came up with and that is along with rod rosenstein, which is brilliant by the way to have rod rosenstein still there to say like. steve: to validate it. brian: this the is guy that more than likely offered to wear a wire to wiretap the president. they looked at it and said here is your conclusion. ainsley: rod rosenstein said he was so alarmed by the bias between strzok and page and that's exactly what we are finding, we are going over all the media reports last two years and looking at the costs of the investigation and how big this scope really was. 675 days. total cost 25.2 million. 2800 subpoenas. 500 search warrants. obtained more than 230 orders for communication records. 50 orders to tap phones. 13 foreclosure governme

during that he discussed the subject of a pardon with jay sekulow and rudy giuliani. important to note that we do not know according to the reporting who first raised the topic of a presidential pardon, whether it came from michael cohen, the attorneys. that is an important point as we are trying to suss out the details here. rudy giuliani told dana bash he had been asked about pardons by attorneys but he would not comment. rudy giuliani saying they were privileged discussions. as you noted, the current lawyer trying to do some cleanup about all the contradictory conversations. all of the contradictory elements. he released an official statement on the issue. he said cohen was referring to a specific period of time. a point where cohen, after the point they couldn't accept an offer. lanny davis saying during the time period he directed his attorney to explore possibilities of a pardon. at one point with rudy giuliani as well as other lawyers advising president trump. very clear that we have a lot more to learn about this and certainly this will come up again. >> not v

look, i think jay sekulow is doing a very good job and his legal team have done an amazing job. they essentially threw themselves in front of the bus to save this president, sometimes from his own behavior, from his own actions that we all saw in public. and so i think you can bet that members of congress have a lot of questions that will have to be answered. >> will they be answered? evan perez, thank you. we now have barr's summary. will we see robert mueller's full report? kara skinell joins me from washington with more. and that's an important distinction. this is bill barr, the president's appointee as attorney general, distillation of a many hundred pages long special counsel's report on what timeline and what are the chances that the congress and we the public see a fuller report? >> jim, that's right. congress -- we've heard a lot of calls over the past 24 hours for the full and complete release of this report. especially it goes to the questions of obstruction that evan was just laying out. now bill barr said that he would consult robert mueller, the special counsel on

. >> there were changes made, additions, jay sekulow for one -- >> were there changes about the timing -- >> the gentleman's time is expired. you may answer. >> there were several changes that were made including how we were going to handle that message, which was -- >> were you finished? >> the message, of course, being the length of time that the trump tower/moscow project stayed and remained alive. >> jay sekulow called cohen's allegation that's trump's lawyers edited or changed his statement to congress completely false. cohen's repeat appearance today on the hill is just one of a number of oversight efforts by house democrats, the house judiciary committee, of course, kicking off the week with an explosive list of 81 people and entities in president trump's orbit that they want answers from as part of broad investigations including they're asking for answers from his son-in-law jared kushner, who's on that list, but not his daughter ivanka, a senior adviser. this too as there is new reporting from cnn about the president's hand in security clearances for both jared and ivanka. the

jay sekulow for one. >> were there changes with the timing? >> the gentleman's time has expired.ou may answer that. >> there were several changes that were made, including how we were going to handle that message. which was -- the message, of course, being the lengths of ti time that the trump tower moscow project stayed and remained alive. >> you can't listen to that and think that he's dropping trump's lawyers, jay sekulow, that it was a big lie. lanny davis, again, this corrects the record. he said cohen himself said in his 2016 testimony about the trump tower moscow timeline. >> as rachel is saying, he is helping republicans. their strategy was shoot the mess messenger. he has no credibility, you shouldn't believe anything. but democrats are saying look at the documents, but they're so scared because nobody is going to believe him. >> democrats, too, want to talk about the partisan issue becai issue because they think it's a huge obstruction of justice. they thought it would be the president out there floating this idea, or his attorneys. it's coming back and being the exact

but jay sekulow doesn't necessarily have the most credible role either because he may have coerced cohento lying before congress about the trump tower moscow deal that's still up in the air. we need more reporting on that, but he was involved apparently in altering that statement that he gave to congress. these are people surrounding the president who may not be giving him the best advice. >> are they concierge lawyers, telling him what he wants to hear? >> potentially but anyway, he just tweets what he wants to tweet and i think we're losing sight of the big picture here which is the president admitted today that he was discussing pardons with michael cohen and that was just after the raid on michael cohen's home and office by the fbi. so if he was discussing pardons at that moment with someone who was potentially about to flip on him, who else was he discussing pardons with at this time and was he dangling them? >> that's a hell of an analysis there. cohen asked his lawyer to explore a potential pardon last year. with trump's legal team. davis said he had a joint defense agreement with

and jay sekulow will not do that. but i think he would take it to the legitimate courts -- judicial court, move to quash the subpoena, move to narrow it, move to do something before he would produce documents that he believes are covered by the attorney/client privilege or joint defense privilege. same thing with the fbi. as interesting as it is -- a defense lawyer, 50id love to have the fbi have documents to be subpoenaed. if you're in a defense case, you have to comply with the touey regulations. you have to make a showing to a court before you apply for the documents. in this case they'll have a law enforcement privilege. they'll say it's protected, we're protecting a criminal investigation. we shouldn't be required to turn these documents over. there's another one some people make claim, there is an active production privilege. even if you have documents, you have a 5th amendment privilege not to testify and in limited circumstances you can say my documents -- my tax returns, that should be privileged. one of the

traditional prosecutor's answer about if there's obstruction. >> joining us now by phone trump's lawyer, jay sekulow. mr. sekulow, thank you for joining us. give us your initial reactions. >> very pleased. both on, from the outset of this entire inquiry we had said that there was no collusion between the trump campaign and the russians and that determination proved to be correct. we also said there was no obstruction, and that also became correct. so we're very, very pleased. we think this is a complete victory for the president, and i -- i also would say that the process upon which this moved this weekend was very, very good for the american people, that this amount of information so far has been released this quickly. >> what about the portion of the report that says although the president did not commit a crime is does not exonerate him? >> that goes to the statements from the special counsel's report. where they said, you have to point out the fact that you did, not evidence of any committable prime and didn't, the special counsel did not. theft to the department of the justice to determine ther

coming up on morn joe jay sekulow will be a guest. sarah huckabee sanders echoed what the president had to say yesterday writing in a statement the special counsel did not find any collusion and did not find any obstruction. attorney general barr and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein further determined there was no obstruction. the findings of the department of justice is a total and complete exoneration of the president. george conway tweeted quote, you misspelled while this report does not conclude that the president committed a crime it also does not exonerate him. please fix. thanks. >> five days ago president trump called for the full report to be released. >> it's interesting that a man gets appointed by a deputy, he writes a report. you know, never figured that one out. my voters don't get it. i don't get it. at the same time let it come out. let people see it. that's up to the attorney general. i look forward to seeing the report. >> the president said the decision would be left in the hands of attorney general william ba

jay sekulow for one. >> were there changes about the timing? >> several changes including how were they going to handle that message, and the message, ob, being the length of time the trump tower moscow project stayed alive. >> trump attorney jay sekulow denied the press's legal team made those edits. however, nbc news is now reporting cohen today backed up his allegation with new documents that show edits to the false written statements he made to congress. not only that but "the new york times" has now acquired eight of the 11 checks the president used to reimburse cohen for his illegal hush payments to stormy daniels. there they are. in other words, cohen left a paper trail that could be a treasure trove to investigators. this comes as a new quinnipiac poll shows that 64% of americans, almost two-thirds, said they believe the president committed crimes before he became president. the same poll shows that americans view michael cohen, who pleaded guilty to lying, as being more honest than president trump. catch these numbers, 50% of americans

here's what the president's attorney jay sekulow just said to chris about that. >> does a prosecutor. i don't

now, we have heard from jay sekulow, who last week commented on michael cohen's testimony, and he said that any suggestion that the president's attorneys were part of making changes to lie to congress is categorically false. so the question is now, what are democrats going to do about this, is this something that the committee is going to investigate further. and perhaps even prosecutors in the southern district of new york who have been looking at this, according to michael cohen. >> all right. thank you very much, evan. obviously significant developments, as all of this information keeps coming in. and i want to go now to david gergen, juliet kayam, and harry s s sandek former assistant attorney for the southern district of new york. harry, there is a question of who is telling the truth and what the documents show and the information. however, is michael cohen is right, briefed ivanka trump ten times and she knew full well of what would have been a crucial project for this family, this company, were going on well. she knew that date was a lie. her lawyer signed off on it. what could

the prospect of a pardon came up was when steven ryan had met with and discussed with jay sekulow after cohen's properties were raided. one source said it was more of a run of the mill conversation between attorneys but the prospect of a pardon did come up. sekulow is very clear in that he denied that he has had discussions directly or indirectly with co-n's team about a pardon. and a third time that michael cohen told congress that he had conversations with lawyers who said they were close to rudy giuliani and could work with him in potentially securing a pardon. i've reached one of those attorneys. he has called this account inaccurate. he says if michael cohen would waive privilege, he would describe why this is inaccurate but he also said that his conversations with cohen occurred before rudy juligiulia joined the legal team. there's a lot of dispute and discrepancy over the content of the conversations, how seriously a pardon was being discussed. but it seems that everyone agrees that during these conversations how the case may play out and be resolved, at various times the prospec

. >> jay sekulow for one. >> who else knows that the president did this?linerman and matthew calamari. >> who is the campaign official? >> corey lewandowski. don trump jr., eric trump, david pecker, dylan howard, barry levine of ami as well. allen weisselberg. alan garden. >> the panel is still here. joyce, it's like a gallery of names. what was that list? what do they do with that list? i'm guessing robert mueller's already got that list. >> that's a list investigators need to talk to, whether they're on the legal side of the house or congressional oversight side of the house, we will hear from all of these people before it's over. >> matt miller, you want to jump in and sort of lump any of those groups together? it seems like the last group, those are people involved in the illegal or partially charged conspiracy, the campaign finance violations charged by the southern district of new york. some of those names felt like they were perhaps at the intersection of donald trump and his business efforts and endeavors and lies about russia. but pretty big list

and just moments ago "new day," president trump's lawyer jay sekulow told fuus if it were upo him, the public would not get to see the president's written answers to questions. >> as a lawyer, you don't waive privileges and you don't waive investigative detail absent either a court order or an agreement between the parties and you'd have to weigh a lot of factors there in how that affects other presidencies. so it's not a simple just wave your hand and we release the document. i think that would be very inappropriate. >> all right. coming up, we'll speak live with the white house press secretary sarah sanders about what's happening in the house today. joining us now is democratic congresswoman katie hill. good morning, congresswoman. >> good morning. thanks for having me. >> let's talk about what democrats' next move is. now that the president has been exonerated on collusion, but has not been on obstruction, what do democrats do? >> i think everyone needs to kind of slow their roll on this whole thing because right now we have evidence from mueller, a direct quote from mueller that th

. >> democrats are demanding to see the report and we'll get reaction from jay sekulow. democratic candidate amy klobuchar and john podesta. >>> plus americans and other passengers on a cruise ship stranded by brutal weather say it was the worst trip of their lives. we'll show you the dramatic rescues as helicopters pulled people off the ship pummelled by giant waves. >>> and apple is expected to reveal a new streaming service featuring original content. can they catch up to rival netflix and amazon. >> but we look at today's "eye opener." you're world in 90 seconds. >> there was no collusion with russia. the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard. there was no collusion with russia. >> the president declares complete and total exoneration. >> special counsel mueller was clear his report, quote, does not exonerate, closed quote, the president. we'll ask the attorney general to testify before the house judiciary committee. >> a second student from majory stoneman douglas took her life. >> it is on the back burner how this will affect survivor >> could a cruise liner return

the president's attorney jay sekulow firing back saying testimony that attorneys edited ment to ed his sta congress to alter the trump tower moscow negotiations is mpletely false. >> reporter: the white house is pointing us back to its previous comment on cohen's testimony saying it is, quote, laughable that anyone would take a l convicter like cohen at his word. >> kristin, thanks. >>> a devastating diagnosis revealed late wednesday by jeopardy host alex trebek. he is battling stage four pancreatic cancer. we get the latest from nbc's anne thompson. ♪ ♪ >> this is pa"jy." >> reporter: on "jeopardy" he is the man with all answers, but 78-year-old alex trebek sharing devastating news with his millions of fans. >> now just like 50,000 other people in the united states each year, this week i was diagnosed with stage 4 pannceatic er. >> reporter: this means the canceras spread t other parts of trebek's body. only 3% of people with thisdi nosis live more than five years. >> i'm going to fight this and i'm going to keep working. i plan too beat the low survival statistic rates. >>> pat sajak

mueller's russia report, and we'll get reaction from one of president trump's personal attorneys, jay sekulow>>> all the passengers and crew on a viking cruise ship are safe this morning after docking in western norway. the "viking sky" reached port with the remaining passengers last night. 25-foot waves tossed the ship and its passengers over the weekend. the ship send a mayday when engines failed. almost 500 of the more than 1,300 on board were airlifted. >> very frightening. very frightening. we left on a helicopter with a sling. the two of us together. and it was quite scary. >> police in norway say 17 people were hospitalized with injuries. the pagers were mainly from the u.s. and britain. the ship's next cruise, which was scheduled to depart on wednesday, has been canceled. >>> marjorie stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida, is closed today. a second student who survived last year's school shooting died in an apparent suicide. the news comes about a week after another survivor took her own life. manuel bojorquez reports. >> reporter: the marjorie stoneman douglas high school

. >>> we're joined now by the president's attorney, jay sekulow.hank you for joining us this morning. you have been on this case for a long time and welcomed the news yesterday. but it's pretty clear that congress is going to continue to pursue these obstruction questions. is the president prepared to cooperate with congress on those questions? >> i think you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and i quote from the letter from bill barr, the special counsel, george, issued 2800 subpoenas, executed 500 search warrants, obtained more than 230 orders for communication records, issued registers, made 13 requests of foreign governments for evidence and interviewed approximately 500 witnesses and found no collusion, no obstruction. congress is wasting the taxpayers' money and they should be going about legislating and governing rather than continuing this. that is a prerogative they'll have. but look at the scope and nature of what has been disclosed in this investigation just with this letter that attorney general barr sent and the scope, natur

. >> reporter: joined in the oval office today by his outside attorneys, rudy giuliani and jay sekulow, the president expressed vindication and vindictiveness against those who investigated him. >> there are a lot of people out there that have done some very, very evil things, very bad things. i would say treasonous things against our country. i'm saying why haven't they been looked at? >> reporter: on robert mueller himself, a shift. after two years of this -- >> sadly, mr. mueller's conflicted. >> reporter: a different tone today. asked if he thinks mueller acted honorably, the president said yes. >> yes, he did. yes, he did. >> reporter: fallout from the mueller report is far from over. nbc news has learned top democrats are now demanding the attorney general release the special counsel's full report to congress no later than next tuesday, april 2nd. >> we cannot simply rely on what may be a hasty partisan interpretation of the facts. >> reporter: on the republican side, senator lindsey graham calling for another special counsel, to investigate how the fbi and justice department han

about a pardon, although jay sekulow denies this. so the crux of the matter is was michael cohen lying to the committee or was he not? and his attorney qullanny davis saying you have to look at the timeline here. when he was cooperating with the trump team and they had a joint defense agreement, they had -- his lawyers had these lawyer to lawyer discussions. and that ended when michael cohen declared his independence last july and those conversations stopped and michael didn't mention that in the committee. now, is that perjury? is that just an oversight? as the chairman of the committee said today, we're just going to have to look into it. >> everyone stay with me. i want to talk to you all about this. but joining us right now to talk about both stories, democratic congressman jared connelly of va have who sits on the oversight committee. congressman connelly, based on everything you've heard about cohen seeking a pardon from the president, do you believe he lied in front of your committee last week? >> i believe it's possible that

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president trump's attorney, jay sekulow will join "gma" live. >>> a rocket fired from the palestinian controlled gaza strip struck a house in central iz yale. seven people are injured, including an infant and two children. benjamin netanyahu is cutting short his visit to washington. he'll return today. this attack could set off another round of violence with iz railly elections just two weeks away. >>> the u.s. pill tear is sending aid to mozambique, malawi, and zimbabwe. the death toll has surpassed 750. that's expected to rise quickly. >>> back in the u.s., people in parkland, florida, the scene of last year's deadly school shooting are once again mourning. for the second time in a week, a shooting survivor has died from apparent suicide. diane macedo has more. >> reporter: a second student from marjory stoneman douglas high school has died in an apparent suicide. >> this is heartbreaking. it's hard enough to lose the 17. it adds to the heart break this community has already suffered. >> reporter: police say the student was found dead less than a week after sidney a ix ello exited s

. >> there were changes, jay sekulow for one. >> jay sekulow said he stands by his statement that michael cohen's statement is completely false. and he came out yesterday saying it went well and he plans to do everything he can, joe. >> emily, obviously you've been following the cohen saga as closely as anybody. donald trump spent the campaign saying he didn't know anybody in russia, he had no building kas russia, and his lawyers may have edited cohen's remarks and may have perjured themselves. >> cohen entered capitol hill yesterday with three suitcases and a big file folder. that to me was a moment that must have struck fear in president trump and his family and anyone po works in the trump organization. i know before his public testimony he spent time digging through boxes in a storage unit to find documents that backed up some of his claims and he spent this past weekend before he went back to capitol hill yesterdaydoiyesterdayd yesterday doing some more document diving about communications he's had with various members of the administration and the kinds of changes they wanted to see