and michael cohen said no. said he would not cooperate with the house and senate committees investigating the trump-russia matter, would not testify, would not hand over documents. he was then subpoenaed, not just asked but issued with a subpoena to testify and after he got the subpoena, he said okay, he will. before michael cohen was a central figure in the trump-hush sha investigation, he was a long standing trump organization executive. he had been donald trump's sometimes personal lawyer. and when donald trump first considered running for president this time around, when he first started kicking that around in 2015, michael cohen was basically his top, his only political adviser for the early days of his campaign. and in some combination of all of those roles trump organization executive personal lawyer to donald trump political adviser to donald trump who might run for president, in some combination of all of those roles, in the summer of 2015, so not that past summer but the summer before, michael cohen d

communications director, it was the president's then personal lawyer and top political adviser michael cohen. i remember that, him threatening a reporter at the daily beast on the record. remember that, quote, i'm going to mess up your life for as long as you're on this freakin' planet. you eefl never know how to get out from underneath it. rest assured you'll suffer the consequences. you want to ruin your life at age 20, you do that. i'll be happy to serve it up to you. i will make sure you and i meet one day while we're in the white house andly take you for every pen new you don't have and i will come after your daily beast ooh and everybody you know. i'm warning you trade very f'g lightly because what i'm going to do to you is going to be f'g disgusting. you understand me? that was on the record from the president's then top political adviser and personal tlaur michamik lawyer michael cohen. very similar to what we heard from scaramucci tonight. it does feel a little different when it's coming from the white house rather than just from some dude associated with donald trump. but that's ou

that was on the record from the president's then top political adviser and personal lawyer michael cohen. very similar to what we heard from anthony scaramucci in terms of his threats toward his fellow white house staffers. it does feel a little different when it's coming from the white house rather than just from some dude associated with donald trump. but that's our life now. two weeks ago tonight the president's then lead lawyer on the russia case, who is apparently disappeared now, two weeks ago tonight it was trump lawyer marc kazowitz sending this stuff to random strangers over e-mail. remember this? f you. you are just such a piece of -- i'm on you now. you're f'g with me. let's see who you are. watch your back b --. that was two weeks ago tonight. that was the president's lead lawyer on the russian investigation. although it should be noted he promptly disappeared after those outbursts. and he was replaced by this guy. >> get the [ bleep ] out of here. okay? that's what i got to say to nbc. >> so we got some new evidence tonight. but this is what the presidency is like now. we ha

president trump's long-time attorney michael cohen is also scheduled to appear before the committee in september. both the house and the senate are still in the early stages of their investigations, which will eventually move up the ladder to the president's inner circle, anti-any. >> mason: thanks. adam schiff calls the latest lat revelations deeply disturbing but president's supporters are standing by him. here's dean reynolds. >> at the vigo county fair in indiana, amid familiar sights, smells and sounds, we found supporters of president trump eager to push back against the big story of the week in washington. >> are you troubled about the whole russia investigation? >> not at all. there is nothing to it. >> reporter: even with his son's admitted meeting with the russians? >> i think his son was trying his best to be as transparent as he possibly could. >> reporter: but isn't the meeting troubling to you? >> no, no. >> mason: brenda and fred wilson were on the same page. >> so far i've seen enough russian to say, until something else pops up that's pretty big, i'm not concerned abou

and even trump's long time personal attorney michael cohen hired a personal attorney of his own.ng revelations, we've been introduced to several new characters including this guy who is now wanting a lawyer for himself. one a history of defending monsters. that's thing two in 60 seconds. when itrust the brandtburn, doctors trust. nexium 24hr is the number one choice of doctors and pharmacists for their own frequent heartburn. and all day, all night protection. when it comes to heartburn, trust nexium 24hr. >>> today we learned three of the people allegedly kegtd to john jr.'s meeting last year have hired lawyers themselves. rob goldstone, the publicist and journalist with a pension for posting facebook videos like the one and who e-mailed john jr. to set up the meeting has confirmed he's hired an attorney. meanwhile the father/son duo, russian real estate developer and his son, the pop singer, the ones who are allegedly involved in setting up the meeting with john jr., also retained an attorney. but perhaps the most significant was there guy, criminal defense attorney who made a

were innocent and hadn't been involved in any extremist activities michael cohen said what with one of the psychologists had devised a program to help us servicemen. he says his work was used by one of the men to develop new romo brutal to watch it and. the resistance to interrogation program we don't actually use the word torture in the training however there are torture techniques that are used to certain levels during the training this is all part of a program that's called sere s e r e survival evasion resistance to interrogation and escape so what we were doing were protecting those operators those people on strategic reconnaissance flights doing operational work of around the world to collect intelligence and also those that were operational and working in counter terrorism how to resist enemy interrogations and those techniques were educated to fill a very precise and were not used to hurt or harm the students and every student had a stop code a code that they could use at any time to have all activity stopped so again torture in the mind of a student is different from being tor

at a closer look it's michael cohen. donald trump's personal attorney who now has a lawyer himself and says he will testify before investigators. wining and dining with this family, few of us have ever heard of until now but the president had. listen to what he said the night after this dinner. >> all of russia -- the richest man in russia. >> well, he said the most powerful, not quite the most powerful. case and point. but certainly the most connected we should say. that very night the future of the president of the united states announced he was bringing an even bigger event to moscow, the miss universe pageant. the president tweeting later that week, do you think pew ten will be going to the miss universe pageant in november in moscow? if so, will he become my new best friend. this is "cnn tonight" i'm don le mochb. let's get started. >> good evening to the panel. you can't make this stuff up. david, in living color what do you think of that video and everyone who was in it who the first family say they don't really k

and even trump's long time personal attorney michael cohen hired a personal attorney of his own. revelations, we've been introduced to several new characters including this guy who is now wanting a lawyer for himself. one a history of defending monsters. that's thing two in 60 seconds. >>> today we learned three of the people allegedly kegtd to john jr.'s meeting last year have hired lawyers themselves. rob goldstone, the publicist and journalist with a pension for posting facebook videos like the one and who e-mailed john jr. to set up the meeting has confirmed he's hired a new york city-based attorney to handle inquiries related to the russia probe. meanwhile, the father/son duo with ties to putin, the ones who were allegedly involved sunsetting up the meeting with don jr., they also retained an american attorney today, but perhaps the most significant legal hire made this week was this guy, that is criminal defense attorney alan futerfas, who made a name for himself by defending high-profile mobsters including the alleged head of the lucchese crime family and defendants accuse

he showed up earlier this year with trump's personal attorney, michael cohen, proposing a peace plan ine to michael flynn in the white house. >> ana marie cox, you were talking about the childish nature of donald trump, which seems to be an absolutely flawless analytical mode for looking at donald trump. and we now have reporting from politico that ty cobb, the new lawyer on the case for donald trump, one of the more experienced ones, convened a meeting of all of the trump defense counsel and the client, the president himself in which he tried to impose a new kind of discipline in dealing with this matter, including not talking about it publicly. and so 24 hours later, the president invites three reporters from "the new york times" into the oval office. he does not tell his press staff. he does not tell anyone that he's doing this, and it seems to be done in direct and childish defiance of ty cobb and the legal team and what they had just told him to do the day before. >> i don't know about defiance. i do think like almost any one of trump's actions has some element of arrogance, enti

or they maybe a pit bull as michael cohen was for then businessman donald trump. but there isn't very much room for that type of character. there may be one anthony scaramucci. i don't think there is going to be two. >> it makes it interesting, no doubt. tim, priebus now becomes the sixth person in a major role in the administration to be forced out, to resign. in terms of bigger perspective, looking back at history, is this normal and in times when there has been a shake up like this, if there has been in history, how has that ended? >> it is not unusual for a president to change his chief of staff in the first year. it is not unusual at all. it is the manner in which this was done. by the way, it is not unusual, sadly, for presidents to act like alpha dogs and to humiliate members of their staff. what makes this so different is it's done publically, that this is the reality show. lyndon johnson humiliated members of his staff, but he didn't do it publically. presidents generally speaking -- well social media didn't exist until recently. but they didn't play the

here's michael cohen, donald trump's personal attorney who now has a lawyer himself and says he will testify before investigators. wining and dining with this family few of us had ever heard of until now, but the president had. list ton what he said the night after this dinner. >> thigese are the most powerfu people in russia, the richest men in russia. >> not quite the most powerful. case in point. but perhaps the most connected, shall we say. that very night the future president of the united states announced he was bringing an even bigger event to moscow, the miss universe pageant. the algaravs paying nearly $20 million to license it. the president pretty stoked tweeting later that week, do you think putin will be going to the miss universe pageant in november in moscow? if so, will he become my new best friend. david rhoad is here, dana bash and malik henderson. good evening to all of you. you can't make this stiff uff u. what do you think of the algaravs who the trumps say they don't know that well but they obviously hang out with some, maybe a lot. >> i feel all of this is to d

he clearly -- >> i see michael cohen in the video here. >> this is, my understanding, before it actually his pageant, miss universe, was taken to moscow. so he was really working with these guys to help bring it to russia. the relationship, the sort of preexisting relationship with these very important russians, which brianna was just talking about, is there, and that is the context with which we will now see the e-mails that went back and forth between don jr. and the man next to the president, ron goldstone, about this alleged information that they had. >> jeffrey toobin, do you see anything legally here the president's team should be worried about when they see this video? >> it's part of the mosaic of the relationships that could be used to establish that people knew each other. certainly there's nothing criminal or inappropriate with what's going on in the video. just in terms of the atmosphere in the white house, all of these people are under criminal investigation. there is a prosecutor with some of the finest lawyers in the country, the entire research of the fbi at their disposa

the you see the president's personal attorney in one of the shots here, michael cohen who is apparentlyto be cooperating with congressional investigators. how is this our fault? rebecca? >> well, it's not quite plainly. the white house could try to explain away interactions like that certainly. i mean, these became business partners of donald trump's. this might have been absolutely nothing and just a dinner. but it might have been something more than a dinner. and at this point we don't know. and the e-mail conversations that have now come to light suggest that there was more there, that this preexisting relationship was a basis, an opening perhaps for russia to try to influence the trump campaign. and so to answer your question, jim, it's not the media's fault, but donald trump, when he gets outraged at the way something is being portrayed in the media, he doesn't like to take responsibility for that. he does president like his allies to have to take responsibility for that. it's our responsibility. >> and, jim, it looks like in this video the russians do play the long game. >> they d

the president's men, paul manafort, the campaign chairman, jeff sessions, the attorney general, michael cohen, his personal attorney, carter page, his foreign policy advisor, donald trump, his son, his son-in-law jared kushner, roger stone, his advisor -- why were all of the president's men meeting with russian spies during the same time they were attacking our democracy? >> i'm guessing your double use of that phrase, all of the president's men, was not accidental. so much more we could talk about. congressman jeffries, george wim. thank you both. >> thank you. >> all is leading to reports of white house chaos. according to the associated press, the president has been enraged in recent days, obsessed with the media coverage of his son's meeting with the russian lawyer. trump writing on twitter that the white house is functioning perfectly and i have little time for watching tv. joining me white house reporter for the associated press, jonathan la mere who wrote that story. what are you hearing? how bad is it? >> this has become a depressingly familiar ritual for senior west wing aides. they

turns we have become used to, sader emerged as a trio along with the president's personal attorney michael cohen flynn for the ukraine. >> and is felix sader tied in to vladimir putin, is there a connection to the russian government? >> you know, it is like everything in this, we have to be very careful. i think vladimir putin operates at a high level in this stuff, he plays chess and other characters that emerge in trump lan dia play checkers. there was money came into the bay rock group through iceland and other locales that was questionable, believed to be places that were money laundering centers. it is an open question, one of the things i imagine robert mueller will look at. >> lastly, excerpt from your bloomberg story, you talk about donald trump being a micro manager, had to agree to every term. nothing happened unless he said to do t even if don junior shook hands, he came downstairs to renegotiate if his father told him to. donald trump jr. was operating on his own, trump didn't know about it, does that ring true? >> that doesn't ring true at all. the trump children often did as their

chairman, michael flynn, former national security advisor, carter page, foreign policy advisor, michael cohen personal attorney, roger stone, longtime confident, jeff sessions, attorney general, jared kushner his son-in-law and senior advisor, donald trump junior, what were they talking about? we need to get to the bottom of the investigation and see the greatest coincidence on the democracy or something really wrong occurred. that's why we need to fully fund this investigation. >> the gentlemen's time has expired. is there a member who would like to claim time in opposition? >> mr. woodall is recognized. >> thank you, madam chairman. i want to be clear that i'm grateful for his service to this country. he's a great patriot and is performed a valuable service and i'm grateful for it. i would say to my friends here today that i believe this amendment is a disservice to what we could be about, the gentleman said in his statement that restoring faith in our electoral politics should transcend party lines. if he is 100% right when he says that and i know there is not one member on this committee

. >>> coming up this weekend starting at 3:00 michael keeton and andy cohen will be stopping by.his afternoon controversy over cutting down the nets, why allentown's major ordered the basketball rims be removed at a city park, what they have to say about the impact on their summer fun. >> we'll be tracking this rain that is still with us, glenn. >> yeah. we are going to get some showers. not going to be a steady rain. it's not widespread. i don't expect anymore flooding this afternoon. it's kind of an inconvenience. now, this the time of year it is hurricane season. there is something out in the atlantic to watch. it's a tropical depression. it's not very well organized. we do track these things and over the weekend it will get a little closer to the bahamas and maybe eventually the u.s. as you can see, it's very weak during that period. that's not weak. that's a line of showers and thunderstorms coming through south jersey headed towards the shore. we have been timing it out for you all morning long. and then tomorrow we could see an afternoon shower or thunderstorm. that should

one of the people that did that was ezra cohen was the nick, the other was michael ellis.ere any repercussion for him doing that? >> i would say part of why i did this piece was trying to sort of unwind the very murky complicated unmasking story. i still think it is not 100% crystal clear what cohen-watnick's role was. one said that basically he was asked to do routine review of procedures, uncovered this, passed it off to someone in the council's office and that was it. in terms of repercussions for what happened, clearly there haven't been any because he's still in his same job. >> young guy, 31 years old, senior director fof intelligence programs, used to be the defense intelligence agency with michael flynn. what are his qualifications from the job. you have a quote in your piece in which you spoke to someone who said i didn't know ezra from adam, also spoke with a white house colleague who has known him for years, described him as someone that seemed a natural choice for the job in five to ten years, but not now. what are his qualifications? >> basically cohen-watnick

cohen would do. it is a markets guy. alix: ok. michaelinternational economic policy correspondents. for more on the outlook on the fed, we will go to david and his colleague, the number one research team in the bond market every year between 2006-2017, quite a track record. economisto have chief stephen stanley. you guys are old buddies. take it away. i wanted to but you two together because of a modest hawk and dove debate. back, youared it think we could have a balance sheet unwind as soon as today -- so was it the data? >> it was the data. the reason for moving in july is keeping the rate hike option open for september and i think it was something in my mind was still at least worth keeping open, until the last set of inflation data, which took it off the table. alix: what is your forecast for next year? we're looking at one rate hike right now. >> i think inflation will get back on track. a good part of the slowdown has been transitory, labor market is strong, and i think we will eventually get back to a gradual turn of inflation. i t