it seemed to west the person who had reason to kill david was not jeffrey, but joan. >> from jeffrey's, he describes how she was in love with him, that she was not in love with her husband, that she didn't want to be with her husband, that she financially could not afford to leave her husband. >> wilson said he kept telling her he was only in it for the sex, didn't want to run off with her. but if secret sex was all he wanted, joan, he said, kept pushing for more. >> and the situation actually continued to escalate. i think it was around july 18th. again, that would have been five days before the murder. jeffrey describes how he talks to joan and joan says, i can't take this anymore, i want to be with you, can't we just run off together? >> david shannon knew, of course, that joan was seeing jeffrey wilson. after all, he invited jeffrey to join them in the first place. but maybe he wasn't so happy about the cozy friendship joan seemed to be developing. that broke the rules. >> david told joan that she could no longer see jeffrey because he could see that joan and jeffrey had become rom

laura: jeffrey rosen, thank you so much for joining us. jeffrey: thank you very much. wlaura: as e just saying, president trump's pick for the supreme court could have a huge bopact on american law, at least when it comes toion. for years pro-life campaigners have wanted the court to overturn roe v wade, the ruling that legalized termination of a pregnancy. pro-oice advocates want them to leave that well alon katty kay has more. >> abortion is a human right. >> we are pro-life. we are pro-life. katty: abortion was legalized in america 45 years ago. today it is one of the most divisive issues in the country. president trump now has a chance to put a serious dent in a woman's right terminate the pregnancy with the second supreme court nomination. it will define his legacy d fect the social direction of the country for a generation. and abortion rights are central. >> do you want to see the court overturn roe v wade? pres. trump: we put another two or three justices on, that is, what will happd that will happen automatically in my opinion because i'm putting pro-life just

there's more than one branch. >> so who is, jeffrey, jeffrey, to you, who is putin and also our allies, who are they supposed to listen to? the president of the united states or leader mcconnell? >> i think that the russian leadership perspective there is this recognition that this is a large body in washington, d.c., that is set against russian meddling and is very serious. there have been some additional sanctions that have been thrown in place. there was an initial period of excitement where they thought president trump had come in and certainly fixed the relationship. i think they've settled in on the best that they can do is get some kind of favorable view from president trump at this point. >> jim sciutto -- >> reporter: brooke, let's not under estimate the importance. he got his propaganda. the leader of the free world stand next to him, doubt his security establishment and that really is a large part of what russia wants to accomplish in the u.s. if you look at much of the way they interfered in the election and since then stoking division, black lives matter, take a knee, nra,

jeffrey: so-called colorblindness. amy: what i like about the supergroup identity is i think it says we don't need to make that false choice. has obviouslyo always been an outsider, i think it is ridiculous to tell summative to get rid of their ethnic identity. it is like telling somebody to team.iking your sports it is not going to work. it is human nature, we are all tribal. the point of the team. it is not going to work. supergroup idea is you can maintain your subgroup identities. i mentor the asian american association, black students but the key is you have to have some kind of connective tissue that joins those groups together, the same is true for fellow americans. that we need to have a conversation and that is where the current hardening of group lines is preventing us from having conversations when we most need to have it. at this point, everybody in this room will know what i mean, many of us see people on the other side of the political divide, not just as people we really disagree with, but as immoral, ev

jeffrey toobin first.this mean, jeffrey, they're squeezing more information out of michael flynn? >> well, it means they still need him and it means he might be testifying in the grand jury or trial an they want the leverage of his sentencing hanging over him. that's why prosecutors always delay sentencing when they have a cooperating witness because once the person is sentenced, they don't have the leverage of telling the judge whether they have provided valuable service or not so this suggests that in some -- for some reason the prosecutors still want flynn to help out the mueller team. >> and, chris, let's turn to michael cohen. that interview this morning was a big bombshell. what does it say to you when michael cohen saying my loyalty's to my family, my country and not president trump? not exactly what you hear from people in trump world saying all the time. >> yeah. i mean, let's remember by way of context, michael cohen said this is not figurative. literal. i would take a bullet for donald trump and

deeper into this whole thing on go live to economics writer on libertarian jeffrey albert jeffrey is the executive editor of the law say for books on is looking splendid tonight i have to say and jeffrey what are your predictions for the outcome of this meeting are we likely to see the trade war worse than both sides are talking tough. yes i should mention that i'm speaking to you from the tree where workers the american institute for economic research is your founded in one thousand nine hundred three we've been fighting for a true free trade ever since then and i've been warning for two years that donald trump is a convinced economic nationalist he does not want free trade he's tweeting out now tariffs are the greatest tariffs of the greatest so i think this phrase is going to go down in history as being a catastrophic ideological opinion what he's doing right now is extremely dangerous he is not interested in any kind of compromise and all this rhetoric is is just bluster about how you want so you're up to end subsidies he said this on the same day that he's subsidizing u.s. farme

discussion to do so we are once again joined by crypto experts kristie are the tech trader phone and jeffrey talk of the editorial director of the american institute for economic research welcome to you both chrystia want to start with you about two weeks ago we spoke about the resistance level on bit coin trading in the mid six thousand dollar range but that level has been surpassed wiped out we see the price of bitcoin up sixteen percent in the past seven days a lot of that last forty eight hours today it was trading at just north of seventy four hundred dollars what do you think's going on yes this is a really exciting time for the client right now last time we spoke because just trading under say sixty eight hundred and we said we needed a small little catalyst to push it over this mid-term hurdle so we've certainly got that catalyst out this past few weeks we had a flux influx of really good news from decline first we have coined this claim they said they were adding an additional five new securities on to their platform these five securities could potentially include a.t.a.i. style or

jim sciutto, jeffrey toobin, and cnn law enforcement analyst josh campbell., let me start with you. we have the statement from the president. remind us what cohen now is willing to say? >> so in effect it's the president's word against his former long time personal attorney's word. to summarize what michael cohen says he's prepared to tell the special counsel robert mueller is a number of things. one, that the president did know in advance of that 2016 trump tower meeting of russians offering dirt on hillary clinton. michael cohen says he knows this because he was present montana room when don junior, the president's son, let the president know or then candidate trump know about this meeting. we're told michael cohen is also prepared to testify the that the president when told of this upcoming meeting approved of the meeting coming forward. the final detail, and this is an important one, is that we're told michael cohen says there were other people in the room besides then candida

joining us is chris cillizza and jeffrey toobin. they've gone from no collusion which we saw written in big, black magic marker to collusion is not a crime. is that significant to you? >> well, you know, i was in the studio with you, alisyn, yesterday when you were doing that interview with giuliani. and it seemed to me that was more sort of stream of consciousness of his part than some sort of concerted strategy to move the goal posts. maybe i'm being naive. but he really seemed to be riffing on what was off the top of his head. it is true that there is no such crime called technically collusion. there are criminal conspiracies that could include assisting the russians interfering in our elections. so to a certain extent, we're talking semantics here, but you tell me, you were talking to him. did you think this was a concerted strategy of what he was doing? >> i did not. no, i did not. it's interesting to see all the post-game wrapup and people who think that he's sewing confusion. that was not my impression. that wasn't even my im

quickly, jeffrey. >> i wish i had the smart answer my brother chalian expected. beyond why he hasn't pled guilty. this looks like a lay down easy conviction in a courthouse where almost everybody gets convicted. >> isn't the answer -- very quickly -- what the trump folks would say is because there is no information to share. he doesn't have any information on the president, he can't offer anything up so he can't make a deal. >> but you can still plead guilty and save yourself some di time in prison if you plead guilty rather than going to trial. going to trial guarantees you a longer sentence if you get convicted you don't get a sentence if you're not convicted? >> thank you for clarifying that. thank you both very much. >>> president trump is again threatening to shut down the government over the border wall funding. do republicans support this idea? what do they think? we ask one next. so you have, your headphones, chair, new laptop with 24/7 tech support. yep, thanks guys. i think he might need some support. yes start them off right. with the school supplies t

hey, jeffrey, i have a short montage of recent hearings i want to show and ask a question.cedent as to roe? >> i think i should stay away from discussion of particular issues likely to come before the court again. >> it is a precedent that has now been on the books for several decades. it has been challengeed.n it has been reaffirmed. but it is an issue that is involved in litigation now. >> would it be illegal to terminate that child's life? in there i can't look at it as a hypothetical and can't look at it as an abstract without knowing what supreme court issues are there or not. >> advice me for a moment if i was a u.s. senator, what is the most probing question i can ask about roe versus wade? >> i think you begin by asking the injuries prudential question and say in 1992, justice kennedy affirmed roe for three reasons, it is embedded in society and second the test was unworkable. third, there were no social changes that you would called it into question. judge kavanaugh, do you agree with justice kennedy or are any of those three other factors different? if he demurrer

jeffrey toobin is right. this is about self-preservation.political and i guess legal ease. this is a street game. president trump came out a few weeks ago and said, you know, he did very little work for me, he's not my attorney anymore. basically throwing him under the bus. michael cohen understanding who this president is said, okay, i've got to protect myself, i've got to survive. according to one of my republican sources who is very close to this administration says michael cohen has sex, lives and videotape. this administration really needs to be concerned about this. i think about michael cohen's relationship with the president. he goes way back with the president. michael cohen even introduced pastor daryl scott to donald trump and who is now in the white house and everybody loves him, to include jared kushner. they go way back. michael cohen had a role and the white house needs to be very concerned. >> are yeaharry, we learned pros investigators cohen today got 1 million documents. cohen's got this new attorney and once this person ta

. >>> joining us now in the meantime, david gregory, jeffrey toobin. brett kavanaugh is an insiders insider. he grew up inside the belt way, went to high school inside the belt way and then went to that anti-establishment venue of yale university and yale law school. insiders insider, jeffrey, but that doesn't mean that this will cement a fundamental shift in the court possibly for decades. >> i think it will mean a fundamental shift on the court inside for decades. the whole idea behind the search process here, which was led by the federalist society, was to find justices who would not be anthony kennedy, who would not have elements of moderation in their record, who would not support abortion rights, who would not support gay rights. that's -- who the federalist society was looking for. that's who the 25 judges that the president picked from all agreed on, as far as i can tell and that will change the court dramatically. anthony kennedy was no liberal, but there were very important aspects of his record that were moderate and that's what this preside

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joining me now jeffrey toobin and david gregory.frey, you were watching anthony scaramucci who says he supports abortion rights say that he doesn't think that the president's selection will overturn roe. >> well, this is a problem that the republicans have because the country doesn't want to see roe v. wade overturned, but the president in the most explicit way, the most explicit way said if i have two appointments to the supreme court, i will see that roe v. wade is overturned. the base of the republican party, which is most of the party at this point, wants roe v. wade overturned. if you look at those four names who are the finalists, all of them will overturn roe v. wade. but now it's in their interest to sort of muddy the waters and say, well, they respect precedent, blah blah blah. no, they don't respect that precedent. roe v. wade is going to be overturned by one of those four people along with four other justices on the court. and, you know that may be a good thing or that may be a bad thing, but we ought to be honest with pe

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i want to read a tweet from jeffrey toobin. "the new u.s. supreme court, abortion, illegal, doctors, prosecuted, african-americans out of elite schools, gun-control band in 50 states the end of regulatory stakes." if that is what coming, i don't think that is what anyone is looking forward to, governor .

jeffrey toobin and elle are still with me.strong economic numbers, that's what's coming out, and he's also going to take reporter questions and you know they're going to ask him about michael cohen, about invited by putin to moskow. what's your read? >> on which topic? >> on the invitation to moskow from putin. >> it just won't end, right? they can't quit each other. on the one hand with vladimir putin anticipating a visit to washington, many have been following him, many are wondering how that benefits him at all? unlike helsinki where he's on level ground, he really would be shunned here. you had paul ryan saying they would not welcome him to speak with congress. there's not many upsides with bad headlines for the president with vladimir putin coming here other than the optics. i can't imagine president trump going to russia, but never say never. huge win for vladimir putin if that would be the case. under normal circumstances they would be meeting in argentina at the g-20 in november. >> we have the two minute warning the p

so i don't think it's a witch-hunt. >> with me now again cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin.le would look at it on the surface and say wow, the president wants to sit down for this interview but rudy giuliani says he can't should anyone have any illusions that these two men don't know what they're doing here? >> this is like groundhog day. the president has been saying the same thing for months, i want to do it but my lawyers won't let me. there is a political problem that he faces because if he says ultimately i'm not doing it, there's a good chance mueller will subpoena him and that's an unresolved legal question and that could go all the way to the supreme court. so it's not entirely up to the president about whether he gives an interview. in part it's up to the courts but this endless discussion and without resolution of whether he's giving an interview, i don't see what the point is. they ought to just decide. >> it's up to him if he ever answers the question, right? >> right. and in the spirit of, like, good journalism -- and i have to say jeff glor seemed asleep at the

let's welcome jeffrey kozak. [ applause ] >> all right. before i get started this afternoon, i would like to thank dr. chris kolikowsky and the rest of the macarthur memorial staff for running the symposium today. in a letter to then brigadier general mcnair dated march 4th, 1939, regarding the limited effectiveness of instruction at ft. leaven worth, george c. marshall wrote, with relation to the last-named force, in this instance the national guard, i think our instruction is most effective and for these reasons. we must be prepared the next time we are involved in a war to fight immediately, that is, within a few weeks, somewhere and somehow. now, that means we will have to depl employ the national guard for that instance. marshall continued the letter by saying the army should be preparing its officers to lead partially trained, understrength units with limited supplies rather than completion organizations of trained troops that would take six months to one year to perform. he stressed the key to mobilizing the national guard units was

jeffrey, you followed the court for a long time. suffice it to say this process is different from what we have seen before right down to the self-imposed deadline of monday night. how is this process different? what are the consequences of that? >> well, it is different because the list is so firm and the deadlines are so strict. it is like -- almost like journalism where it is all about the deadline. the president has said he will pick from these 25. as you said, there seem to be three or more front-runners, but what is so significant -- and this is what we have to focus on now -- there are strong differences among the three candidates. so the "politico" story talked about judge kethledge who has support because of his midwestern credentials and the fact people like to drink beer for him and senators might have trouble voting against him because he is a regular guy. but his view about executive power is as different as judge kavanaugh who was on the star commission and is now being criticized because people think that "the star" im

let's welcome jeffrey kozak. >> all right. before i get started this afternoon i would like to thank dr. chris kolakowski and jim zoebl for the invitation to speak and running the symposium today.bel for the invitation to speak and running the symposium today. >> in a letter to then brigadier general lesscy mcnair dated 1939, george c. marshall wrote with relation to the last named force, and in this instancing the national guard, i think our instruction is most effective and for these reasons. we must be prepared the next time we are involved in a war to fight immediately. that is within a few weeks. somewhere and somehow. now that means we will to employ the national guard for that purpose. because it will constitute the large majority of the war army for the first six months. marshall continued the letter by saying the army should be preparing its officers to lead partially strained, understrength units with limited supplies, rather than complete organizations of trained troops that would take six months tore a year to form

let's go back to jeffrey toobin on that. in the court of public opinion matters not to michael cohen in any criminal proceedings and matters not to the southern district on how it proceeds, right? >> that's what's peculiar about the whole back and forth. the prosecutors in the southern district of new york, federal prosecutors who ordered the search of his office and the mueller office here in washington, they are not affected by these sorts of things. the evidence is going to be the evidence. and the back and forth between the lawyers, i don't think matters much. what it does suggest though is that michael cohen is staking out an independent position and suggesting that his truth, his testimony may be incriminating to donald trump and that is potentially significant. that's what i interpret from davis' tweet but i think the facts matter here more than the spin. >> well, for sure. do you -- obviously the president and michael cohen who used to talk probably daily are no longer speaking to one another. that's sort of a given.

and it really goes to what jeffrey just said. doesn't think he can be prosecuted at all, that he is above the law. as jeffrey said, it's an open question about the constitution. but he's absolutely right. there's no way robert mueller is going to go out and file charges against donald trump. 24s what congress is supposed to do. this is what congress is supposed to make that decision. and having said that, if they were to find something i highly doubt that donald trump would be convicted of impeachment. he could be impeached in the house of representatives much like william jefferson clinton was, president clinton, but i don't think we're ever going to see him do jail time. >> president clinton was impeached in the house and acquitted and not convicted in the u.s. senate. the pressure clearly, david swerdlick, is mounting on the president. the "wall street journal" report that the chief financial officer of the trump organization has now been subpoenaed to appear as a witness before this federal grand jury in new york investigatin

thank you, jeffrey. shifting a little bit to marshall's preparation for world war ii, could you talk a little bit about the so-called plan dog and the memo late 1940 drafted by the navy and marshall's thought on shifting the fleet from the pacific to the atlantic , and his thoughts on preparation for world war two? so marshall is, again, very early on thinking about preparedness, as some of the other speakers have already referenced, he comes into the war planning division in 1938 and brings individuals such as eisenhower to start developing these color plans for different scenarios of where the u.s. might find themselves involved in a war. early on isvery are you thinking about these ideas, who the potential adversaries might be and how can the u.s. be in the best position to deal with that. addressing specifically plan dog , marshall, as these plans are being developed very early on is of the opinion, and it is the opinion that he continues to push throughout the war, that if the u.s. is brought into w

nbc national correspondent peter alexander at the white house, nbc's garrett haake on capitol hill, jeffrey smith, former general counsel at the cia, and msnbc political analyst peter baker, chief white house correspondent at "the new york times." good to see all of you. peter alexander, the mood of the senior staff at the white house today, are they in a bunker mentality? are they trying to brush this off as just another controversy? something you pointed out this morning, peter, the white house updating the president's schedule, they removed the daily intelligence briefing he normally starts his workday with. >> reporter: chris, the latter was interesting. the public schedule originally put out by the white house said that he would have an intelligence briefing today. this would have been significant because it would have been the first opportunity for leaders of the u.s. intelligence agencies to, if they chose, confront the president personally about his comments, effectively putting equal weight on their word versus vladimir putin's on russia's interference in the election. but yesterda

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let's get to jeffrey jeffrey to. what stands out in your mind?rtainly the extent and duration and intensity of the russian effort, the russian government's effort to make sure donald trump and not hillary clinton became president of the united states. i mean, this effort was really extraordinary and it answers a lot of questions, but it raises one and doesn't resolve it, which is whether there was any come poli complicity or collusion with the trump campaign. it doesn't accuse them, but doesn't exonerate them, either. that is still open. >> the 12 officers that clearly worked for the russian government, everybody believes they would not have done this unless putin, himself, authorized them to do it. how significant is the detail we learned? >> this really isn't new information. the obama administration said the highest levels of the russian government directed this. the intelligence community assessment is really clear on the point. they say with high confidence, they were involved. i don't think there's good faith reason to doubt. to the extent

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this was a man named jeffrey rosen, a democrat who worked in senator biden's office during this episode. and here's what a lawyer who helped lead the anti-bork effort wrote just last year. i regret, he said, i regret my part in what i now regard as a terrible political mistake. seized with guilt after all these years of having participated in this borking. because of that episode he goes on, quote, we have undermined public confidence in the judiciary. so there's widespread and bipartisan treatment that trying to -- agreement that trying to bork judicial nominees is harmful to our democratic process and to our judiciary. judge kavanaugh's impressive record, impeccable credentials and his enormous bipartisan fan club of judicial peers and legal scholars all attest to the outstanding service he would render on the supreme court. i'm glad outside fact checkers are already swatting down democrats' desperate attacks on his nomination. in a breaking news bombshell report just last night, we learned that judge kavanaugh enjoys america's pastime. investigative reporters scoured his financial di

jeffrey toobin, what's your reaction?us your reaction to this latest maneuvering by paul manafort and his lawyers, and what does it say to you about the nature of this case? >> well, his lawyers are doing what good lawyers do. they are challenging the evidence in their case, and so far they have been unsuccessful, but that doesn't mean it isn't the right thing to do. it is a very unusual situation to have the same defendant awaiting trial in two separate jurisdictions. one trial stacked up right behind the other. it is also true that it does seem that paul manafort is getting a hell of a lot better treatment in jail than most people awaiting trial do. so i expect this controversy to subside. i think it makes sense to put him in alexandria, which is where the trial is going to be. and the focus in a couple of weeks when the trials start will turn to the evidence, and that's when the case is really about. >> you know, gloria borger, special counsel to robert mueller, he went after what the prosecutors call manafort's vip li

do you think that there is a lot that we don't know, jeffrey? >> i mean, i assume that there is. i know individuals that were targeted by her, and that just found is kind of amateurish, actually. that's what bothers me wrrks again, fail cheap. she wasn't -- >> they said it was amateurish? >> she would just kind of promote herself in a way that she had inroads and a senior political people and it wasn't clear that she did. kind of a lot of bragging. just really pushing the envelope of where she could get influence in the government and it was just really kind of a scatter shot. well, again, let's see what sticks. let's see who actually answers and believes me and let's go forward there. >> harry -- >> some campaign officials do show up in the story, though. she has a party right after the inauguration with campaign officials there. there's some suggestion that trump jr. has some very incriminating and wiretapped conversations with their handler. there's some possible big hits here. >> let's talk a little bit more about that because she directly interacted with trump and his family

joining me now the perfect guest, jeffrey rosen.e's a professor at george washington law school and a contributing editor at the atlantic and author of "the saturday essay today's wall street journal what we can learn from supreme court confirmation hearings requests. jeffrey, i have a short montage of recent hearings i want to show and then ask a question. roll it. >> do you see any erosion of precedent has to roe? >> again, i think i should stay away from discussions of particular issues that are likely to come before the court again. >> it is a precedent that has now been on the books for several decades. it has been challenged. it has been reaffirmed. but it is an issue that is involved in litigation now. >> would it be legal in this country to terminate that child's life? >> i can't answer that hypothetical because i can't look at it as an abstract without knowing what state laws exist on this issue or not. >> i think you get it. so advise me as if i were at least for a moment a u.s. senator. what is the most probing question i

you know they're not >> that's hugely -- that's important. >> jeffrey yeah to correct us o that, last year, he's saying the stock's overvalued why is musk not saying it this year he's got 2.5 billion in cash he we going to pab r pay for these things where's this money going to come from it's a r very good point that's a distinction here. >> yeah. guys, thanks jeffrey, thank you so much bethany, thanks for joining us and lynnette lopez of business insider. we did reach out to tesla for a response we've yet to hear back we'll bring it to you. much more on this story and full coverage of tesla at cnbc.com. es> coming up, we're taking your qutions. answering them, too. cnbc.com/halftime. imagine traveling hassle-free with your golf clubs. now you can, with shipsticks.com! no more lugging your clubs through the airport or risk having your clubs lost or damaged by the airlines. sending your own clubs ahead with shipsticks.com makes it fast & easy to get to your golf destination. with just a few clicks or a phone call we'll pick up and deliver your clubs on-time, guaranteed, for as low as $3

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jeffrey toobin, an expert on the supreme court. look at the four individuals. apparent finalists. what do you think? mo w.h.o. will win it? >> most important thing to observe i think is that they're much more similar than different. and we can find subtle differences. you know, barrett is just become a federal appeals court judge. kavanaugh has been a judge for 13 years. so i mean, there's a vast difference in terms of experience but in terms of politics, i think the most important thing is to remember what donald trump said in the campaign, which is he will appoint pro life judges to vote to overturn roe v. wade. what i think he meant is he will appoint pro life justices to overturn roe v. wade and what he will do with neil gorsuch and elections have consequences. >> can the president count on all the republicans, all 51 republicans right now, to vote to confirm if roe v. wade is a sensitive issue, like lisa murkowski and skew can collins in support of keeping roe v. wade? >> right. we have senator john mccain who is ill and back home and we have to take him off the board, as wel

i think -- jeffrey talked about another thing i think when he spoke that's very important. cohen is being investigated by the southern district of new york for local charges. they probably, i think, have to do with his taxi medallions. there's been a huge controversy with taxi medallions and their fight with uber er with uber i. cohen was involved in that industry. i'm betting the southern district investigation is focused on that. i wonder how much information he really has to give about trump as president. most of his information is probably trump as businessman before he became president. that might be trump's achilles heel, things that went on in the trump organization before the president was running. >> so many questions about that. just want to get your take on this. he was asked about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels. he replied, i want to answer. one day i will answer. for now, i can't comment further on advice of my counsel. he was asked whether the president had directed him to make that payment or promised to reimburse him. we know that question is not goi

jeffrey gossett showing me images of andrea's heart<"so this is picture of her new heart..." medical director of the ucsf heart clinic dr. jeffrey gossett says andrea was diagnosed with one of the most common indications for pediactric heart transplants patientssotdr. jeffrey gossett/ucsf benioff children's hospitals: "what we call restrictive cardiomyopathy. all that means is that her heart muscle was still, thick and it wouldn't accept blood very well. advised that heart transplant is really the cure or the treatment for this problem">sot the pediactric heart transplant represents a milestone for ucsf benioff children's hospitals because it is the hospital's first says surgical director dr. peter kouretassotdr. peter kouretas/ucsf heart center clinic: "in the past we had to transfer these patients out of the hospital, now that we have the ability to provide that service here, it is a big advantage for our patients in this community">this heart transplant patient will be going home soon and she is excited

better than all of us do what that means so they'll come and they'll try to negotiate a deal. >>> jeffreyciti private bank is city with us we heard the president talking about what he likes to refer to as fair trade. the imf released some numbers, potential impact of tariffs across the board do you think europe faces a greater impact from this than potentially the u.s. would >> they face a greater impact than we previously anticipated possibly not greater than the eventual impact on the u.s just brief context, we thought the first round of tariffs on steel and aluminum would have minimal impact on europe equating to 0.1% of gdp. but we're more concerned now about the potential for auto tariffs. that's bigger sector more important for europe, and we also increasingly are concerned about the ratcheting up of the trade rhetoric and with that we think there could be secondary impacts on business and consumer confidence and global supply chains so, as a consequence, we are slightly more cautious on the outlook for european growth. but not to the point where we think it more than offsets the ch

is that a lawyer you can trust, jeffrey toobin? >> well -- it's kind of a problem, isn't it? think, you know, i think i am stammering as much as rudy giuliani probably should have last night rather than contradict himself so completely. they are resmoponding to day by day events and the default mode of everyone associated with donald trump to attack and whenever someone turns on him they attack. the fact that they didn't attack him two months ago, well, that was then and now they are in battle. and now michael cohen is apparently outside the tent for good. and he's going to be a target as we saw last night. >> david axelrod, how damaging is this for national security? because this is happening in a context where russia, we learned yesterday, there were suspicions and warnings that russia would continue to -- forget about 2016 for a moment but would continue to interfere in u.s. collections and clair mccaskill confirmed that. a russian attack on her in a key race. this is relevant to actual national security threats to this country today. >> yeah. i mean, this is really not ta

. >> not so fantastic anymore jeffr jeffr jeffrey toobin. >> i love chick-fil-a. >> all right. now the thing when donald trump talks about his presidency, he generally talks about two big achievements. one is sort of freeing the economy from bad regulations. and he talks about the supreme court. both of which are major achievements in his mind. and so, you know, scott pruitt was doing what he wanted. that is the override. he used the word overriding. now, finally, it got too ridiculous. the corruption became too obvious and too embarrassing and too much of a distraction. but let's not kid ourselves. the fact that there are fewer regulations about clean air, clean water, emissions from factories, from automobiles, lowering the mileage requirements. this is what donald trump prides himself on. so not entirely surprising he was reluctant to get rid of him. >> and some of this is the responsibility of the president. he left scott pruitt in this position throughout all of this. >> yes. and ethics rules begin at the top. one thing we haven't seen donald trump say is whether or not he

branwen jeffreys, bbc news.ricketer imran khan is likely to be pakistan's new leader. his party fought a campaign against corruption, after the disgraced former prime minister nawaz sharif was jailed for fraudulent dealings. khan's supporters have been celebrating across the country but his opponents have rejected the predictions, saying the electoral process was rigged. from islamabad, here's our correspondent secunder kermani. celebrations by imran khan's supporters as results roll in. it looks increasingly likely that the former cricketing star will be pakistan's next prime minister and his party, the largest in the next parliament. i think the hard work of pti, the members of pti, which is definitely, in my opinion, the biggest political force in the history of this country has paid off, and people are not only who support pti but also the people of pakistan can look forward to a golden era. votes are still being counted, with final results likely tomorrow. earlier today, imran khan cast his vote. he's promi