we first met michael cohen and will goodman in 2015. april of 2015 at supervisor kim's neighborhood meeting at the red cross building. and since then, they have, as mentioned, met with us over 10 times as a group and that is not counting all the individual meetings that they've had both with renters like myself as well as business owners. it's really been a pleasure and i wrote a lot more than that, but i just wanted to stand up and, for the record, thank everyone involved and we really look forward to seeing the project move forward. thank you. >> thank you. seeing no other members of the public for public comment, we'll close public comment. one piece of housekeeping s. there a motion to excuse supervisor farrell? >> so moved. >> made by supervisor tang. can we take that without action? supervisor kim. this spronl in your district and you hefped steward it along t. floor is yours. >> thank you, chair. i wanted to thank members of our community for coming out in the middle of the afternoon to speak on this project. both mr. assesser an

>> there are still a number of individuals, michael cohen, mr. trump's lawyer, we want to bring him back, we want to bring donald trump jr. in. he's not testified yet. >> in a public way? >> i think some of these individuals who is not part of the government, we ought to get a chance to have folks hear his side of the story. i still believe we need to have mr. kushner back before the whole committee. >> tune in to kasie d.c. here at 7:00 p.m. for the rest of that interview. joining me now is former federal prosecutor john lauro. currently a white collar criminal defense attorney. senator warner names a few people who were previously interviewed, michael cohen, jared kushner. do you think they would agree to be interviewed again? >> that's a question they're going to have to deal with. because there's a parallel criminal investigation going on right now that mr. mueller is conducting. so whatever they say before congress will go directly to mr. mueller's investigation, as well. they're not getting immunity to testify before congress, so the questi

. >> i mean, michael cohen was president trump's body guy for years and years. >> lawyer, very close, yes. >> lawyer, close enough. and then you've got jeff sessions. we know that now carter page told jeff sessions by the way, well, it might not be related to the campaign, i got to head over to moscow to give a speech. >> can i -- >> holden, jonathan. yes. >> i just want to say one thing about carter page. i think it's relevant he spent seven hours with the house intelligence committee yesterday without a lawyer. >> i agree! >> he was representing himself. this is insane. this is insane. >> every time i see him on chris hayes, i wonder, does he have a lawyer off set? having a heart attack? quitting? >> is there a connection between the fishing hat and his lack of a lawyer? that's my question. >> the one guy without a lawyer. >> yes, basically. >> but my question is why would carter page mention that to a sitting united states senator? why would you say that proactively in a meet and greet? >> hey, by the way, i'm heading -- >> because it's nice this time of the year. here's the thing,

we have michael cohen. we have donald trump jr., carter page. have jared kushner, michael flynn, george papadopoulos, jd gordon, who is in that infamous meeting we've all seen pictures of, and jeff sessions. that is the nine people who had some kind of connections that they did not disclose or they denied that later came to light. and now you have wilbur ross as well. senator richard blumenthal has called for ross' resignation or an ig investigation. do you agree with either of those calls? >> yes. absolutely i do. i also think he should be a part of our investigation. as a side note, chris, this week incidentally, you can't make this up, we're debating tax legislation that would make it even easier for businesses as the tax policy center says to offshore their profits and use shell companies like this, making it harder for us to expose these types of relationships. >> there is also some -- we got -- some of the transcript back from carter page's marathon session with your investigators. i don't know if it was in front of actual members or commi

was trying to do deals with them, with selling apartments to wealthy russians and if people like michael cohene doing a lot of business with people with money in eastern you're of europe, it's easy to understand mueller will have access to all of that money flow. he probably will be able to see it and track and it. and if there's anything that suggests a running financial relationship between trump and his world and some of these interests, it's going to show up. >> how wide a berth does miller have? >> technically, it's not that wide. but he is allowed to investigate crimes he discovers in the course of investigation. soy he was not appointed to inquire whether paul manafort was working for the ukraine and hadn't registered. but he did find that out about # and now there is a prosecution and a file set for next year. >> some of the social media ads bought and paid for by russia during the last election were on dispay on capitol hill this week and they were shocking. representativees of tech giants facebook, twitter, and google, all testified before house and senate committees about russia's a

we have doug block, kina middleton, david goldman, aaron ashe, michael cohen, jesse stout, brandon brown, david hooper, harold smith, jen garcia. >> thank you. doug block teamsters joint council 7. i'm going to echo the comments that i made in the rules committee earlier this morning, first by starting to thank you all for going above and beyond the state standards on the employee threshhold for the labor piece agreement and to reiterate that our goal as a union has been that as this industry comes out of shadows that workers have the right to freely choose union representation. to that end, we've worked very hard to shape the delivery model for this industry. including an independent distributor between wholesale and retail. and also the requirements that deliveries be done by employees, not independent contractors, of a dispensary with a manifest for delivery. i'm encouraged to hear that there may be a solution in the works so that we will have recreational cannabis on january 1 in the city and county of san francisco. i want to thank you for your hard work in pushing for that. and i w

don't forget about the november michael cohen e-mail where he says the russians are looking out for us by the time this got donald trump jr. -- i think he's going to be turn out to be the nexus of all dirty tricks. he has shown up in three separate data points that he was his father's exec tiff officer and flynn was the intelligence and operations officer to get these dirty tricks done. >> to end on this note -- the idea that no one ever told donald trump senior about that trump tower meeting is wildly implausible to me. malcolm nance, thanks so much tonight. what will robert mueller find as he follows donald trump's money? >>> next, did the president try to impede the investigation? we'll look toat the firing of james comey after this. >> it's my judgment i was fired because of russia investigation. i was fire in the some way to change the ray the russian investigation was being conducted. that is a very big deal. a tiny sword? bread...breadstick? a matchstick! a lamppost! coin slot! no? uhhh... 10 seconds. a stick! a walking stick! eiffel tower, mount kilimanjaro! (ding) time! sorry,

michael cohen, then there's the former trump campaign chair, paul manafort.t week paul manafort was indicted and is under house arrest for laundering the money he made working for the pro-russian oligarch. those were the connections now we have the newest one with commerce sek retear wilbur ross. how is it possible that so many people with such deep ties to russia have found their way to the most inner circles of our president? that's a disturbing score card. this, to be clear, isn't about politics. it's about the influence of a foreign policy, the story we started with about the ties between wilbur ross and russian business should worry us not as liberals or conservatives, but all oufs as americans. which is why we wanted to hear what richard painter had to say about it. wilbur ross's possible conflicts of interest are familiar territory for richard painter. he has grave concerns about america's reputation in the trump era. >> the message is that we're a banana republic, we can easily be bought by foreign governments, by rich oligarchs around the world. this

insenate intel community looking to look at michael cohen.ould all these distractions and scandales play a role in why the trump organization has been struggling lately? >> oh, i think it could be a big problem. because if you do deals with the trump organization, you could get brought into these investigations. and people around the world know that. now, there are some people that would be more than happy to do deals with the trump organization, but they appear to be the shadier characters around the world. and one of the reasons he's been expanding his business globally is that he has faced limited opportunities in the united states and the people that don't want to deal with him here, borrowing money for the trump organization has been very hard in the united states since the 1990s when he failed to pay back a lot of loans. so he's been buying out overseas. there are people who simply don't want to deal with the trumps whether for political reasons or they don't want to get caught up in all these investigations. and that includes the banks

the treasury is moving lower this morning as well we have the president michael cohen. the hole debate over tax reform driving the market? >> that's a great question i'm not sure the anticipation of tax reform has been driving the market for over a year as has been the anticipation of other things, of other forms of stimulus that would come from the tax code that hasn't made much progress on capitol hill. i think we'll probably get some bills from the congress and the senate that have to go into conference but really we haven't seen a lot of change but the expectations for it have had markets i think feeling the positive animal spirit >> michael, i guess the other side of that is if you look at the kind of stocks that have propelled the s&p 500 to 15, 16%, it doesn't seem like they're going to benefit from a corporate tax cut. it seems like the potential for a tax cut is one of the many reasons in a bull market this is tied in to use as excuses to buy here how does that set us up? >> that's a great point. fundamentals have been driving us we've seen double digit earning

former trump organization vice president michael cohen told "the washington post" earlier this year that signed a letter of intent for the project on october 28, 2015. months into his presidential campaign. interview in july, president trump said that mueller would be going beyond his mandate if he looked into the president's businesses. >> mueller was looking at your finances and your family's finances unrelated to russia. is that a red line. >> that would be a breach of what his actual charge is. >> i would say yes. >> president trump's approval rating has fallen to new low. according to latest cnn poll, trump's approval rating fallen to 36% among americans. down 8 points since february. trump's approval is down amongst all voters disince inauguration day. 86%. down nine points among independents. five points among democrats. approval polling at 5%. >> one year after the 2016 election, a new nbc wall street journal poll examines the feelings in the places that help propel donald trump to the white house. looking at 438 counties and 50 states across the nation that either flipped from o

michael cohen told "the washington post" earlier this year that president trump signed a letter of intenthe project on october 28th, 2015, months into his presidential campaign. in an interview in july president trump said that mueller would be going beyond his mandate if he looked into the president's businesses. >>> president trump's approval rating has fallen to a new low. it's fallen to 36% among americans. his approval is down among all voters since inauguration. four points among republicans at 86%. down nine points along independents at 32%. and five points among democrats with his approval polling at 5%. >>> one year after the election, a new wall street journal poll examines the feeling in the places that helped propel donald trump to the white house looking at 438 counties in 15 states across the nation that either flipped from obama to trump or saw a surge for trump compared to mitt romney's performance back in 2012. plurality, 41% say the country is worse off than it was when trump initially became president while only 32% say the nation is better. 26% say it's about the same.

my name is michael cohen and i'm one of the officers in the democratic club. i would that you not increase the footage from 600 feet to 1,000 feet. for -- for dispensaries from schools and daycare centers. this is -- this is really going to basically, in a city our size, and in a place and city where many areas of the city are just not allowing cannabis to be had, it is going to increase clustering. in the areas, in the neighborhoods where we already have dispensaries. so i plead with you. please do not increase the limit. also if you increase the limit from 600 feet to 1,000 feet, what's to prevent somebody who doesn't want a cannabis dispensary in their neighborhood from saying i'm going to start a daycare center in my neighborhood. i think [inaudible] and get preliminary approval and that would be it for the neighborhood. i think that would be a very dishonest way that people would be able to keep cannabis from their neighborhood. my other point is concerning consumption areas. presently we have eight consumption locations in san francisco. for a population

in the business, michael cohen. the campaign, papadopoulos, manafort, carter page, michael flynn and jeff sessions. and we'd have to add michael flynn jr. and now add a fourth category called business and the ties aren't to venezuela, not to canada. not to mexico. they are to russia. >> and it's the one thing that every cabinet member was grilled about at their confirmation hearings. you ka constantly have the white house saying there's no connection here and dismissing, you know, any connection. oh, paul manafort was a minor bit player in the campaign, even though he was the chairman. now a cabinet member who it's discovered he has close russian financial ties due to leaked documents from his cayman island tax shelters he was trying to conceal. it could not be a worse look for this white house. a constant drip, drip, drip of tentacles of russian connections to the campaign. does this prove that russia had some influence over him? no. but it certainly proves that at the very least, the russian government and russian

this examines the contacts from don jr., jared kushner, trump attorney michael cohen, george papadopoulos, jeff sessions, michael flynn and the campaign foreign policy adviser j.d. gordon. here are just some of the ways trump allies have defended those individuals, and those contacts. >> paul manafort, who is a good man, by the way, was replaced long before the election took place. he was only there for a short period of time. >> even general flynn was a volunteer of the campaign. and then obviously there's been discussion of paul manafort who played a very limited role for a very limited amount of time. >> carter page is an individual whom the president-elect does not know and put on notice months ago. >> i'm disappointed in jeff sessions. look, we'll see what happens. but i was -- i appointed a man to a position, and then shortly after he gets the position, he recused himself. i said, what's that all about? why didn't you tell me that you were going to do that and i wouldn't have appointed you. as far as my son is concerned, my son is a wonderful young man. he took a meeting with a russ

. >> and we have michael cohen. my point is that donald trump is never going to say, yes, people on my campaign worked with the russians. he didn't say it at the outset, even after the don jr. meeting was revealed from the trump towers, he even said i love being given dirt on hillary clinton from russian officials. i don't think donald trump is every going to cop to it. >> why not? >> that's asking me to read the mind of president trump which is a difficult task. but i think it's up to the american people to determine to the extent of what donald trump -- >> one of the people that may not be able to read donald trump's mind, but make it as close to the truth as anybody. is bob mueller who's going to want to know why he told a lie from aboard air force one to describe his son's meeting at trump tower with the russians. where do you think that intersects with all of the mi malarkey and bloologna that kee coming out of the white house? >> it gets at both the potential for collusion, certainly there was some intent on t

we still need to bring back michael cohen. i believe we need to bring back mr. kushner.e've still got one additional person in terms of the famous june meeting where the russian lawyer came over and offered some information about hillary clinton. we want to talk to all of those individuals first before we talk to mr. trump jr. but suffice it to say i want this to be done as quickly as possibility, but at the same time the most important thing is we get the truth ouchlt and my hope is that we continue to do this in a bipartisan fashion. >> appreciate your time. thanks. >> thank you. >> well, when we come back, new cnn polling shows that president trump's approval numbers down almost across every category. we'll get into that next. and talk with somebody who almost ended up rning against him, senator bernie sanders ahead on 360. patrick woke up with a sore back. but he's got work to do. so he took aleve this morning. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. tyleno

to tell stories about donald >> and what happened >> nothing look, i'm somebody -- i met with michael cohens lawyer, this morning to talk to him about his book i met with 15 -- no, it ended up being eight democratic senators yesterday in d.c. to talk about health care to try to get a better understanding i talk to others about artificial intelligence and the impact on the workforce. i met with republicans i met with jeff flake yesterday. so i'll talk to everybody. to me you can't absorb enough knowledge and you can't connect with people enough and so i don't want to just limit myself to one silo i don't want to be in a bubble i want to get feedback from everybody. >> so you say you're considering it what would put you in the ring or out of the ring >> the reason why i'm considering and haven't committed is because i've got three kids what caring, loving parent would put an 8, 11 and 14-year-old child through this >> what does your wife say >> she asked me if i want to stay married >> do you think that you'd be able to persuade her >> i don't know. but i think i have a year to find out i thi

don't forget about the michael cohen november e-mail in which he said that the russians were lookingor us and we were going to elect donald trump president. by the time this got to donald trump jr., and let me tell you something, i think donald trump jr.'s going to turn out to be the nexus of all dirty tricks. >> yeah. >> he has now shown up in three separate data points that show he was his father's executive order -- office and flynn was most likely the intelligence and operations officer to get the multiple dirty contacts done. >> to end on this note, the idea that no one ever sr. about that trump tower meeting is just wildly -- >> ludicrous. >> thanks for your time. the rest of you are going to stay here. >>> ahead, what will robert mueller find as he follows donald trump's money and why the manafort indictment related to money laundering. >>> next, did the president try to impede the russia investigation? we'll look at the firing of james comey in the case of obstruction after this. >> it's my judgement that i was fired because of the russia investigation. i was fired in some wa

and that all of them may have had some stake in future financial holdings whether it's michael cohen's e-mails about the future trump towers, whether it was just about getting hillary clinton. but all of them seem to understand that raising the sanctions and getting rid of the magnitsky act would make these oligarchs in russia very rich. and that's an inducement for them to be rewarded. and if that's the case, then it clearly spells out why everybody took on all of these meetings, from sessions to these low level guys. there was going to be something financial in their future for it. and it wasn't just for good relations with the united states and russia. but it's all very, very suspicious, you know. especially when you consider the amount of effort they did. >> that's when i begin to think rico. a rico charge. running a criminal operation, that they're all doing it together. despite being portrayed as a low level volunteer, nbc news is reporting now that george papadopoulos, who has pleaded guilty in connection with the russian probe had a more public role on behalf of the campaign. t

we know from revelations in the "new york times" that michael cohen, trump's lawyer, was sending an e-mail as early 2016 to vladimir putin's press guy saying help us build this tower. meanwhile, trump is on the campaign saying, wouldn't it be good if we had better relations with russia and with vladimir. the flow is from moscow to trump than from trump to moscow. >> thank you so much. up next, senator elizabeth warren plays hardball. get her thoughts on how democrats should fight the republican tax plan this week and whether she thinks donald trump is setting her up by attacking her as pocahontas and that nonsense to run for president in 2020. this is hard bag where the action is. (avo) if you're burdened by belly pain and constipation, and you've tried any number of laxatives, probiotics, and fiber, it could be wearing on you. tell your doctor what you've tried and how long you've been at it. linzess works differently from laxatives. linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation or chronic constipation. it can help relieve your belly pain and lets you have more frequent and complete bo

michael cohen, mr. trump's lawyer, we want to bring him back, we want to bring donald trump jr.n, he's not testified yet. >> in a public way? >> i think it -- some of these individuals, particularly mr. trump jr., who's not part of the government, we ought to get a chance to have folks hear his side of the story. i still believe we need to have mr. kushner back before the whole committee, but these are things that the chairman and i will work through. >> you can watch the full interview on "kasie d.c." tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern right here on msnbc. we'll be right back. why should your teeth be? invisalign clear aligners can shape your smile up to 50% faster. don't let anything slow you down. visit invisalign.com there's nothing more important than your health. so if you're on medicare or will be soon, you may want more than parts a and b here's why. medicare only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. you might want to consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like any medicare supplem

i would ask unanimous consent to enter a letter from michael cohen, the director of the california department of finance , outlining 10 different provisions and especially the salt, the salt reduction. that would be extremely harmful to california families. higgins.you, mr. i understand you are the final speaker. accepted?irman, was >> yes. the very beginning, this was nothing more than an attempt to cut taxes for corporate america. and for the highest earners among us. if you make over $750,000 a year, your raise next year will be 8% just because of this tax cut. everything else has been a money chase to find a way to pay for this massive tax cut for corporate america and high-end earners. unfortunately, middle america got hit hard. my friend, mr. reid, talked about the $1100 savings that western new york families will realize. it got obliterated because there is no longer a deduction for state and local taxes. said thatry secretary these tax cuts would pay for themselves, that there revenue neutral and there would be an additional $2 trillion of economic activity beyond that. that is a bold

defeated, if the gop doesn't pass tax reform next month.nat: "they really need to get this done"michael cohenis a political science professor with george washington university.he says unlike healthcare, tax reform is popular with most republican voters."this is literally the only thing on the agenda right now, and they understand very clearly, it's a threat if they don't get done, it not only hurts them electorally, it hurts them with their base"stillwisconsi n republican senator ron johnson says he's against the current bill.white house legislative affairs director marc short says he believes there's still time to turn johnson's no votes into a yes. "we have to deliver tax relief to middle income families, we have to simplify the tax code, those are all things we have been pushing for, we think we'll earn his support before this is done"senate are expected to vote on tax reform after thanksgiving.in washington, i'm mark meredith. (vicki) a new lawsuit has been filed over the las vegas shooting massacre. attorneys aziz and pinkerton say they represent more than 450-victims, including people w

ever talked to russians i would have fired him and we find out that michael cohen is trying toow. mike pence time and time again saying we didn't talk to russians. we talked to the american people. no, we never talked to wikileaks. you go back -- >> i'll tell you what, why don't we go back through the way way back machine and listen to mike pence earlier talking about wikileaks. >> all right. >> someone suggested on left that all of this bad stuff about hillary, nothing bad about trump that your campaign is in ka hoots with wikileaks. >> nothing could be further from the truth. i think all of us have had concerns about wikileaks over the years. >> nothing could be further from the truth. >> except the truth. >> except the truth. same thing again about contacts with russians, you go back to the time they were making those denials in the middle of the campaign, we would address campaign staffers privately. what's going on with russia. >> we don't get it. we don't get it. what's going -- oh, nothing, absolutely, come on now, joe, mika, i mean, it just it keeps the web continues to

michael cohen, mr. trump's lawyer. we want to bring him back.bring donald trump jr. >> in a public way? >> some of these individuals, particularly mr. trump, if he's not part of the government, we've got to give them a chance to have folks hear his side of the story. i still believe we need to have mr. kushner back before the whole committee, but these are things the chairman and i will work through. >> do you still have full confidence in chairman burr or there's some more down? >> i think it's important that we find out who paid for the sealed dossier. we have found out democrats and republicans have paid. no, richard burr and i are working well together. we have a lot of pressure on us. i have pressure from republicans and pressure from the zoom that goes very well. i think for the last close to 11 months we've done well. >> let's switch gears a little bit and talk about tax reform which of course is the next big thing on the agenda here. it seems as though chuck schumer is rallying democrats to vote en masse against this plan. you were a bus

cohen about the moscow project. quote,ly get putin on this program and we will get donald elected. in early december soon to be trump national security adviser michaelh his speaker's bureau to attend a gala with putin. putin later said they hardly spoke. >> translator: i didn't really even talk to him. that's the extent of my acquaintance with mr. flynn. >> flynn later denied being paid by russians. january 2016 in an attempt to revive the moscow project, there was an e-mail to a personal spokesperson to ask for help according to documents later submitted to congress reported on by "the washington post." he later said he got the e-mail but did not reply. trump again to rack up primary victories and endorsements. >> i told donald trump this is a campaign, this is a movement. >> february 29th, 2016,, paul manafort, a career consultant for international strongman wrote a memo offering his services according to new york times in which manafort offered to work for free. recent court filings accused manafort and rick gates of being tied up in a multimillion dollar money laundering scheme with prorussian interests. they have pleaded not. on march 10th, rus