we've got other individuals like michael cohen and others that we still need to come back but i we've got more facts to gather. michael flynn was a very close advisor to trump his guilty plea raises the question how deep will the probe get into president trump's inner circle. and some of the other stories making news around the world. nuclear attack warning sirens have been blaring across the why for the first time since the end of the cold war emergency services have been testing warning systems in the event of a possible missile attack from north korea as one of the closest u.s. states to north korea. pope francis has visited a church in dhaka in bangladesh on the last day of his trip to asia the tour has been overshadowed by the crisis the pope did not name the muslim minority group one in my own mark but he did use the term in bringing bangladesh where more than half a million were hedges have taken refuge. germany's they're investigating a suspicious device that was found near a christmas market in the city of pottstown i played burn and officers evacuated the markets while they

trump's personal lawyer michael cohen traveled to prague to meet with russians trying to cover up thegations about trump and his dealings with russians. >> reporter: the reaction from the trump camp was immediate and furious. >> the buzzfeed memo is total complete garbage is what it is. >> reporter: the trump associates named in the dossier vehemently denied any wrongdoing. paul manafort said the allegations were a democrat party dirty trick and completely false. >> it's so crazy that it's laughable. >> reporter: carter page admitted he had been to russia, but insisted he had gone on personal business, not as trump's russian go-between. >> i had no dealings in russia that would directly -- that had anything to do with the trump campaign. >> reporter: as for michael cohen, trump's lawyer, he tweeted a picture of his passport and said he'd never even been to prague. and even though it is common to travel in europe without getting a passport stamped in every country visited, cohen's passport tweet was touted by the president elect as a definitive repudiation of the entire dossier. >> it'

we've got other individuals like michael cohen and others that we still need to come back but i we've got more facts to gather michael flynn was a very close advisor to trump his guilty plea raises the question how deep will the probe get into president trump's inner circle. and some of the other stories making news around the world. nuclear attack warning sirens have been there in across the wife for the first time since the end of the cold war is there was this have been test.

this is a project that was spearheaded by trump organization lawyer michael cohen and by felix sater. "the new york times" obtained felix sater's e-mails about the trump tower moscow project this past august and they showed that in addition to the exciting financial prospects for this trump tower in moscow, for some reason felix sater thought it would be a big political payoff too. he believed that that project, that real estate tower in moscow, if it got off the ground it would have great political consequences for donald trump. he wrote to trump organization lawyer michael cohen, quote, our boy can become president of the usa and we can engineer it. i will get all of putin's team to buy in on this. i will manage this process. i will get putin on this program and we will get donald elected. what's the connection between trump getting elected president and some big real estate deal in moscow? i don't know, hard to say. why on earth would the president of russia be involved either in a real estate deal or in making trump president or something that connects the two? no idea. the trump

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

joining us now to discuss from johannesburg is bloomberg south africa reporter michael cohen. nner? michael: not quite yet. indications are it should be. that does not guarantee a win. numbers no guarantee instructed by the party branches that some of the delegates have been bribed. what is the democratic alliance's response to this reckoning? have a been able to make any gains as a result of all of this? his role has been plagued by scandal. i think they've been having a and he lostf late, ground in the visible elections. determinesship race how they do the 2019 national election. kevin: to the results -- shery: to the results be disputed with a legal challenge? michael: you mentioned the three court cases today. i think it will be some wrangling about it the delegates will go to the conference are not. they expected to go ahead and proceed smoothly. even today they were not sure about who could vote in this competition. kevin: assuming things proceed smoothly after all of this happening, if you're an outside investor, what is the main thing in particular you should be watchin

we've got other individuals like michael cohen and others that we still need to come back but i think we've got more facts to gather. michael flynn was a very close advisor to trump his guilty plea raises the question how deep will the probe get into president trump's inner circle. now add some of the other stories making news around the world. nuclear attack a warning sirens have been blaring across the wife for the first time since the end of the cold war emergency services have been testing warning systems in the event of a possible missile attack from north korea. is one of the closest u.s. states to north korea. the government in honduras has given the military more powers in an effort to deal with violent protests and on rest the government said it was suspending constitutional rights and also imposing a curfew at least one president has died in the demonstrations over last week's presidential election and. pope francis has visited a church in dhaka in bangladesh on the last day of his trip to asia the tour has been overshadowed by the will hinge a crisis the pope did not name t

we've got other individuals like michael cohen and others that we still need to come back but i we've got more facts together. to further comment on i think would be guided her as for the president he has remained uncharacteristically silent about flynn but that may have to change michael flynn was a very close advisor to trump his guilty plea raises the question how deep will the probe get into president trump's inner circle is that. these agreements. news correspondent carson vaughn naaman joins me now from washington d.c. carson i know it's a bit late thing is there but can you tell us has there been any reaction so far from president trump or his administration on flynn's guilty plea yes. for president trump has basically tried to distance the white house from michael flynn he said that michael finton worked for this administration only for a very short while and also said that microphone didn't implicate anyone by name in his plea both is technically correct but of course michael flynn was national security advisor only for a few weeks but he still was one of the most important b

we've got other individuals like michael cohen and others that we still need to come back and i we've got more facts together. for everybody. as for the president he has remained uncharacteristically silent about flynn but that may have to change michael flynn was a very close advisor to trump his guilty plea raises the question how deep will the probe get into president trump's inner circle. that is of the other stories making news around the world's nuclear attack warning sirens have been blaring across hawaii for the first time since the end of the cold war emergency services have been testing warning systems in the event of a possible missile attack from north korea and why is one of the closest to us states to north korea. pope francis has visited a church in dhaka in bangladesh on the last day of his trip to asia the tour has been overshadowed by the will hinge a crisis the pope did not name the muslim minority group in landmark but he did use the term in neighboring bangladesh where more than half a million have taken refuge. german police are investigating a suspicious device

michael cohen joins us on the phone from johannesburg.t is next after such a tight end close race? gripping.t is indeed -- a number of key decisions. his rule has been marred by a succession of scandals. they're going to have to think very carefully about whether they want to retain him. very interesting result. much closer than a lot of people have predicted. vonnie: does this make it much more likely that the anc will hold onto power in that election? michael: i think so. -- has been very closely associated with her former husband. quite a mix of people at the top of the anc. 833 split on the various -- still having a tough time convincing voters. economy wise, what would be the first steps that this new leader will take, assuming he gets voted in and that he has some clout? michael: he is going to be hard-pressed to make economic changes. he has a pin point plan for what he wants to do with the economy, reviving growth and reassuring investors and getting corruption under control. those will be his top priorities but he will have to ta

. >> as for michael cohen, trump's lawyer, he tweeted a picture of his passport and said he had neverue, and though it is common to travel in europe without getting a passport stamped in every country visited, the passport tweet was touted by the president-elect as a repudiation of the dossier. >> it's a disgrace what took place. it's a disgrace and i think they ought to apologize and start with michael cohen. >> he accused the u.s. intelligence community of leaking it. >> i think it was disgraceful, disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out. i think it's a disgrace and i say that and i say that and that's something that nazi germany would have done and did do. >> trump also lashed out at buzz feed. >> buzz feed, which is a failing pile of garbage. >> on top of the criticism from the president elect, buzz feed took heat from other journalists for having published admittedly unverified allegations. >> are you knowingly spreading false information. >> with the obama birth certificate, this is an incredibly difficult ba

here's michael cohen with us from johannesburg.'s start with what happened because we just reported who want, but how sure are we of that? by some reports that there might be a call for a recount. michael: that call for recount has now been taken care of. the result is certain. he won by a very close margin, the closest ever since 1994, but the result is final. shery: what does this mean for 2019? we have seen some divisions within the anc. i think it's possibly the best outcome for the anc. clearly he got run pay support and he is backed by the labor unions and big business. he is generally seen as a less divisive character than his opponent. were strong fears that the anc would lose its majority in 2019 elections or possibly even split. i think that risk is abated somewhat now. david: what was reaction to the markets? how to the rams and stock market did? -- how did the rand and stock market did? michael: we saw the ramp up nearly 3% over the past two days. he was clearly the investors favorite and promised to reignite growth and

we've got other individuals like michael cohen and others that we still need to come back and i we've got more facts together. for everyone to come on i think would be good for us for the president he has remained uncharacteristically silent about flynn but that may have to change michael flynn was a very close advisor to trump his guilty plea raises the question how deep will the probe get into president trump's inner circle. now to some of the other stories making news around the world. the governments in honduras has given the military more powers in an effort to deal with violent protests and on arrest the government said it was suspending constitutional rights and also imposing a curfew at least one person has died in the demonstrations over last week's presidential election. german police are investigating a suspicious device that was found near a christmas market in the city of potsdam outside berlin officers evacuated the market while they examined the contents of the package security is in the area after last year's truck attack and burn it. and after a tour overshadowed by t

trump's personal lawyer michael cohen traveled to prague to meet with russians trying to cover up theabout trump and the russians. >> reporter: the reaction from the trump camp was immediate and furious. >> the buzzfeed memo is total complete garbage is what it is. >> reporter: the trump associates named in the dossier vehemently denied any wrongdoing. paul manafort said the allegations were a democrat party dirty trick and completely false. >> it's so crazy that it's laughable. >> reporter: carter page admitted he had been to russia, but insisted he had gone on personal business, not as trump's russian go-between. >> i had no dealings in russia that would directly -- that had anything to do with the trump campaign. >> reporter: as for michael cohen, trump's lawyer, he tweeted a picture of his passport and said he'd never even been to prague. and even though it is common to travel in europe without getting a passport stamped in every country visited, cohen's passport tweet was touted by the president elect as a definitive repudiation of the entire dossier. >> it's a disgrace what took

the scientist that michael cohen our reporter in south a great job s done reporting on this cites variables. climate change could be a factor and likely is a factor, on ell as increased demands the system. i mean, the increase demands explain the very very low rainfall. and they almost, they're quite baffled by it. it's sort of unheard of in cape town. the last time they might have like this a situation was well over 100 years ago. there's greater demand. tourist. it's summertime now. lot of locals are not there. tourists sort of come into the city at a time when local or other e away factor, things that close up in the summertime. michael ve heard from and others who reported on this is you're not really going to you'ree effects of it if traveling there as a tourist. it's really the people who live the city's ially poor. >> staying with the focus on isk management, recent allegation of sexual misconduct and assault are forcing hollywood to rethink how it does business. >> here's our report. contacts to some of my in the film industry, we wanted to ask what are filmmakers and protect or g t

michael cohen joins us now from johannesburg. reform?rity when the boat happened yesterday? how much power does he have to reform the south african economy later? michael: i think it is going to be difficult with that narrow margin of victory. he will have to strike hard bargains to get what he wants. it will not be an easy task. francine: he has the support of the markets, right? the rand moved significantly on the back of this. michael: he was clearly the investor's favorite. they're looking to his promised reforms to reviving the economy. the market is anticipating more gains. today.lat the markets do like in there and it is the news for the economy. tom: there is a brutal chart out of the following of south africa versus all of sub-saharan africa. south africa has fallen behind in growth amid all the turmoil. is there any desire by the public for a new regime, a new government that can jumpstart south africa after the excellence of once knew? anc is pretty much still be majority party banks from the gain from having led the fact agai

wants to bring back to the senate intelligence committee jared kushner, the president son-in-law, michael cohenesident attorney, and also donald trump junior who has yet to meet with his committee. so still some major witnesses and people who may be knowledgeable about what happened here with michael flynn as well. brooke. >> manu, great reporting. thank you so much. renaldo pivoting over to you and legal piece with flynn today. the fact is he lied to the fbi and admitted to it pled guilty in federal courthouse. he's gotten a pretty sweet deal. what does that infer? >> well, that tells me that mr. mueller got something very valuable in exchange. there is that old saying that nothing is in life is free. well, that's certainly the case when dealing with federal prosecutor. they don't giveaway deals that are very favorable to you unless they are getting something favorable back in exchange. and this deal is very good for michael flynn. he's pleading guilty to one count of making a false statement to a fbi agent. that carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison which in itself is upper limit

but it is very important, with jared kushner, michael cohen, who is one of president trump's senior lawyers. there's a number of other individuals. again, you can't ask senators to draw a final conclusion until we've had a chance to question these individuals directly. >> final question, throw caution to the wind and predict for me, will the tax bill tas by the end of calendar 2017? >> brian, i spent years trying to be involved in tax reform. i absolutely believe we need a fairer, more balanced tax code. the product that has been produced doesn't meet that criteria. and a lot of my republican colleagues privately acknowledge it. my hope is that they will not just disavow it privately, but step up and realize if we're going to do this tax reform, it needs to be done in public. and we need to do it in a way that's fiscally responsible, that doesn't add trillions to the debt. if this bill passes, it will take a decade for tax lawyers and accountants who in many cases will benefit from some of these hidden provisions to undo the damage. so i'm mildly hopeful that we may get enough folks to say

. >> my name is michael cohen. a couple of facts, the barbary coast is one of the most respected cannabis dispensaries in san francisco. that is a fact. fact number two, 58% of the people in district 4 voted for adult personal use in san francisco. a lot of candidates running for office wish she had won by that percentage. number 3, i'm a veteran, i have served my country, i'm a 71-year-old man with h.i.v. and cannabis has saved my life. i want to be able to go to the sunset and to be able to buy my medicine there without having fearing that i won't be able to access it. it's just not right to have such a large part of the city off limits to cannabis, medical cannabis users. thank you so much. >> thank you, next speaker. >> let's see, my name is ben. i think that the people should have access to medical marijuana and definitely being in the sun set, living in the sunset, traveling all the way downtown, along the bus, takes a lot longer than -- and is really inconvenient. it would be better if there was one in every

we didn't know that felix sater and michael cohen were talking about how they could engineer a victory for the president. we didn't know about all the outreach that wikileaks had done with don jr. or with alexander nix from cambridge analytica as reported by julian assange. we have learned so much and there are so many more witnesses we should hear from if my republican colleagues want to hear what happened. >> can you solve a mystery for me. what exactly is the role of devin nunes? i remain confused on this. at one level he is recused from the investigation and he maybe pops in to mess around with it a little bit. is he recuse order isn't he? >> he state head is recused, but he still signs the subpoena as they relate to this investigation, which i believe defies, you know, being recused. but this isn't -- this is an investigation bigger than one person. our -- at least on our side, we try and just focus on the witnesses. i think when the public transcripts are made available, you'll see the deep interest and the thoroughness that our side has put into this. and quite an objective way.

know nothing in there, nothing significant has been verified and some of the obvious things like michael cohen whose a lawyer for the trump organization supposedly was holding secret meetings. if the fbi couldn't figure that out then what are they doing so obviously there's no intent made to look into the basic allegations in that dossier which to me would have made the whole thing incredible and the fact that the fbi reports they want to continue they want to pay michael steel whose the person behind it and then you have all of the relationships between the organization putting the dossier together, people in the justice department, all of that. if there's any collusion issue here to me it's the fbi. it's the clinton campaign, it's the russians for that matter because it could be very likely that russians were feeding steel information to use against donald trump and it was fake information. trish: wow and the russians were playing the fbi in all this. anyway, lots of questions still. thank you so much representative king good to have you here merry christmas. >> okay, great and again merry c

donald trump jr., jared kushner, michael flynn, jeff sessions, paul manafort, michael cohen and formerpapadopoulos and carter page. two of those people, don junior and george papadopoulos, were told the russians wanted to share damaging information about hillary clinton to help trump's campaign. three people met with russians as a result of those conversations. don junior, jared kushner and paul manafort. as part of mueller's investigation, two former officials pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about their conversations with russians. michael flynn and george papadopoulos. two others were charged with crimes not linked to the campaign according to court documents. paul manafort and former campaign adviser rick gates, who both pleaded not guilty. >> joining us now is the former deputy assistant general from 2007 to 2009. he also served as a lawyer for george w. bush. tom, good to see you. what does the flynn guilty plea tell you about where mueller is in this investigation? >> well, it tells me a few things. the first is that it tells me that mueller is probably getting near the end, a

he said, i love it, can we hold it off to the fall, to michael cohen, engaging with felix sater about engineering the election with vladimir putin for donald trump. we saw a willingness and eagerness at all levels on the trump side to work with the russians. so, i think we have proved here they were willing and eager to work with the russians. and now we just need to i think look at all the evidence and understand what that relationship actually amounted to. >> what's the sense that you have now about a year into this administration of what that transition team's foreign policy apparatus was like? there's another piece in the "times" this morning, look at k.t. mcfarland's role. she's talking about rogue individuals. we think of george papadopoulos who was characterized as working as a coffee boy, somebody who was a voluntary on the foreign policy advisory board. what's your sense of how cohesive that team was, particularly on the transition team? >> it certainly appeared to be a rag tag, ad hoc foreign policy team that did not respect the norm of one government at a time. it does now

sessions are the ones i can think of first, but we could be talking about donald trump junior, michael cohenmore as we find out more about the conversations that were happening behind-the-scenes between the president's national security team, and those are some of those members. scarlet: what is the best defense the drum and ministrations get right now to what we know? -- trump >> to be honest with you, i don't know. i don't think there are any comments the white house can make given what has happened, given the direction the white house team's to be headed in that would be taken as credible or helpful to the president. i think the best defense at this point would be silence, but i'm somewhat doubtful given the past that is what we will see. scarlet: thank you so much. assistant professor at the university of new hampshire joining us by phone. get a check of the headlines on the bloomberg first word news this afternoon with mark crumpton. silencesterday, radio from the white house. as we have been reporting throughout the day, the president's former national security adviser michael flynn ha

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michael cohen began a meeting.his as a campaign surrogate. >> there is a better chance trump might meet with putin. people want to meet with donald trump. >> i had heard that he wanted to meet with me and certain i am open to it. >> he said he discussed the deal three times with the candidate and that trump who lead in nearly every poll signed a letterov letter of inat the present tite developer, the night of the gop's third presidential debate. >> i think my greatest weakness is that i trust people too much. i'm too trusting. >> in an e-mail trump business associate wrote to cohen about the project. he later asaid he got the e-mai but did not reply. trump began to rack up endorsements and primary victories. >> this is a campaign. this is a movement. >> february 29th, 2016 paul manafort, a career consultant, he offered to work for free. within nine days they would have access to at least 50,000 e-mails. in a meeting with the washington post on march 21st trump announced members of his foreign policy team. >> that v

michael balboni. thank you very much, happy new year in advance. >> andy cohen and cooper anderson ringing in the newagination, some of the older model of iphones from a couple years ago did get slower. apple is not only apologizing but they are facing a class action lawsuit because of it. >> apple is calling this a misunderstanding. that's the word they are using and even though they are not admitting any wrong doing, they are issuing a rare apology for how they communicated about this whole thing. now, they're trying to correct the real issue of the heart of all this. the battery, they're slashing the price from $79 to $29. if you have an iphone 6, or 6 s even if it is out of version, you have a cheaper option to get the battery. >> you can see how your battery is performing. think of it as a heart monitor but for the battery. many people are upset though that even marco rubio tweeting, the problem is not just the phone, it is the arrogance of apple remotely controlling how phones work and admitting it only after getting caught. having a u.s. senator tweeting about this shows how much it got under

cohen: thank you, mr. speaker. today in federal district court in washington, michael flynn pled guilty to lying to mr. cohen: thank the f.b.i., a felony. it's a strong indication that he's cooperating with the mueller investigation concerning russia and its involvement with president trump and his team and the election of the president of the united states. we're facing a crisis in our country with our constitution and our form of government and the rule of law. i have filed a bill to amend the constitution to not allow pardons of people from the president's or any president's campaign team or family. but there's also a bill i'm a sponsor of that says you can't fire a special counsel without cause. and that the special counsel would have the right to seek redress in court. we must be ready to protect bob mueller and the integrity of the rule of law in this country or i foresee this president firing him as nixon did, the saturday night massacre. we're repeating the horrors of -watergate and shredding of our constitution and common sense and decrency. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro

cohen: thank you, we are adjourned. . tion of the meeting. >> thank you.meeting. since we have a new commissioner michael papas, i would like a few comments about his background and tell us about himself. >> thank you, mr. chair. i am michael pappas and i have served as the executive director of the san francisco interfaith council. our interfaith council's constituency comprises of the 800 congregations in the city and county of san francisco. a lot of theed ed ed ed ed eee base within this region and we convene the c.e.o.s of the major faith-based social service agencies. each of these constituencies in some way touches our aging adults and people with disabilities, as well for the last six years and three months, i have served on the human rights commission, and in that capacity served for five of those