perry, the lawyer for michael cohen had. i don't believe so, but she is more than willing to. >> and the judge, and she will be taking care of shopping and everything else? mr. cohen will be confined to his home except subjects stated in the agreement? >> yes, your honor. >> the judge, i think we have it. i make the finding that the purpose of transferring mr. cohen from furlough and home confinement to jail was retaliatory. and it's retaliatory because of his desire to exercise his first amendment rights to publish a book and discuss anything about the book or anything else that he wants on social media and with others. that is my essential finding and the injunction is against continuing retaliation against mr. cohen by keeping him in jail, when he should be confined as he was before the retaliation, at home. the judge said quote, i will issue a written decision further explaining my reasoning and this decision is a final decision. so the judge ruling orally in the hearing today for which we have the transcript. we are not

thank you, michael cohen. michael cohen not only bolstered the record of those crimes, the crimes for which he was the only one who federal prosecutors wanted to put in jail, cohen also dragged up a whole bunch of other stuff. he testified publicly and provided documentation from his time at the trump organization that alleged and appeared to depict sustained and systematic fraud by the president in his business dealings, falsifying the valuations of different assets and properties to avoid paying the full share of taxes that he owed on those assets and properties and also to get bank loans under false financial pretenses and also to get insurance policies under false financial pretenses, otherwise known as criminal bank fraud and criminal insurance fraud, crimes for which new york prosecutors happen to be pretty good and pretty experienced at getting convictions in state court. and as far as we know, state prosecutors did pick up criminal investigations involving those alleged actions by the president and his

with nutrients to support immune health. >>> the judge in the michael cohen case issued this ruling todayt. quote, the court finds that respondent purpose in transferring cohen from release on furlough and home confinement back to custody was retaliatory in response to cohen exercising his first amendment rights to publish a book critical of the president. accordingly, respond ends are hereby enjoined. the judge in the cohen case today basically is putting the justice department on notice, right? do not try that again. you are enjoined from doing any more of this. for all of the multiple crises afflicting the country right now, the rule of law stuff is churning alongside everything else. from the effort to literally lock up michael cohen for the crime of writing a book criticizing the president to the ongoing deployment of federal officers in, you know, portland, oregon, and apparently soon to albuquerque, new mexico, over the objections of local officials, using tear gas and brute violence against american civilians in the streets and seeing what they can get away with. i mean we're deal

pay the hush money signed by the president, and another signed by the president's son, thank you michael cohen. he not only bolstered the record of those crimes, the crimes for which he was the only one who federal prosecutors wanted to put in jail. cohen also dragged up a bunch of other stuff. he testified publically and provided documentation from his time at the trump organization that alleged and appeared to depict sustained and systemic fraud by the president in his business dealings. falsifying the value of properties and to false identify the taxes on those properties. and to get insurance policies under false financial pretenses. otherwise known as criminal bank fraud and criminal insurance fraud. crimes for which new york prosecutors happen to be very good and experienced in getting convictions in state court. and as far as we know, state prosecutors did pick up criminal investigations involving those alleged actions by the president and his business. starting as early as late last summer. not to mention the trailing issue of those hush money payments and who else was involved besides

tonight michael cohen is back in prison amid a dispute over publishing a book about his former boss, ld trump. "the new york times" reports that cohen went to court for what he thought was paperwork for his home confinement. instead officials made him sign a document promising no engagement of any kind with the media, including print, tv, film or books. he agreed to sign it but not before u.s. marshals were called to haul him back to prison where he is serving time related to trump's hush money payments to stormy daniels. just last week he revealed that he was close to completion of his own book trump. this new book comes after trump's attempts to quash two other tell-all books by john bolt only, his former national security adviser, and his relative, mary trump. joining me now, the legal adviser to michael cohen. great to have you with us. thank you for joining us. first, let me get your thoughts about why you think or understand michael is going back to prison. do you believe it is related to his book in. >> i don't know what to believe but i have some instincts about too many quing

at the moment, but that being said, michael cohen did raise a lot of these financial issues in his house testimony last year, when he was talking about how the president deflated or inflated the value of his assets or his property, depending on whether or not he was applying for a loan or filing his taxes so that's very important and he brought that up. also on the hush money payments he was the one who brought that up, and that could be very important to this investigation as well. we do know that the d.a.'s office visited michael cohen in otisville when he was in prison in otisville, now on home confinement twice to interview him about what he knew about the president's financial records and now i say he was in otisville because he's been released to home confinement and because of that, eamon, he's now in federal court at 500 pearl street here in new york right now. he's visiting to fill out paperwork having to do with his home confinement, and we're told that when he leaves that courthouse, he is going to stop and talk to reporters, who are standing by outside, to comment o

ordered the release of the president's former attorney michael cohen back to home confinement. a telephone hearing this morning, cohen's lawyers argued their client's forced return to prison was an act of retaliation for a tell-all book he plans to write about president trump. the judge agreed and cohen is expected to be out of prison again and back home tomorrow afternoon. joining me now is nbc news investigative correspondent tom wi winter. michael cohen went back to prison just the other day, thinking he was going to sign home confinement papers. when he was there, he was presented with a bunch of paperwork saying he couldn't talk to anybody. why did the judge rule this was retaliation? >> so, essentially, that key clause, the clause he had eight conditions presented to him, as you said, when he went back to the courthouse the other day. it's first clause he couldn't post on social media, he couldn't talk to reporters, he couldn't write a book. it was the first clause that caught the judge's attention and the reason why we're here today, because michael cohen filed his lawsu

and michael cohen, to the extent he contested them was just looking for more details. it was the first clause of that term sheet that really upset michael cohen because it said he could not be on social media, couldn't talk to reporters. could not publish a book or make public statements. if he was in prison, he'd not be able to do some of those things but the bop's own policies specifically say you can write a book and they encourage it. so you'd still have first amendment rights, even as a prisoner. i want to show something that -- show something to our viewers and the folks listening, show something that the judge said today in court. he said, i've never seen such a clause in 21 years of being a judge and sentencing people. how can i take any other inference but that it was retaliatory? so the judge deciding that first clause definitely blocked michael cohen's first amendment rights and privileges. and on much to that, said he believed it was retaliatory. as a result he said, look, the federal government, the justice department can work with michael cohen's attorney

so michael cohen could testify to x, but prosecutors, particularly because michael cohen has already pleaded guilty to lying before and lying in the congressional inquiry into russia. the prosecutors here really need to back up anything he would say or any other witness would say with the documents. >> yeah. >> tom winter, nbc news investigative correspondent who has been all over this story for years at this point. tom, thank you. i think the bottom line is, we've got a little bit more of a court fight to go, but 2021 will be a very active year when this investigation gets going, katy. >> no doubt about that. >>> coming up -- new details in the deaths of breonna taylor and george floyd. body cam transcripts show floyd told police officers more than 20 times that he could not breathe. one officer yelling back at him to, quote, stop talking. >>> and emotional footage of what taylor's boyfriend said in the minutes after the shooting. breonna taylor's boyfriend. you're watching msnbc. 49... 50! i found you! good job. now i'm gonna stay here and you go hide. watch your favorites from any

michael cohen is still a prisoner.ously he can't meet with reporters when he wants to, he would have to go through certain procedures, that would be regulated by the prison. it sounds like what's going to happen here is that the attorneys are going to get together and say, okay, what are the ground rules for him exercising his first amendment rights. i think it's a safe bet, chris, that that book he's been talking about is going to see the light of day, and obviously michael cohen will see the light of day of his manhattan apartment sometime by 3:00 p.m. tomorrow after he's released from prison. >> tom winter, thank you for that breaking news, appreciate it. >>> right now on capitol hill, time is running out for americans relying on unemployment benefits. while senate republicans and the white house appear to have reached a deal on the next covid relief package, there is still the matter of democrats and whether they will support it. joining me now, democratic senator chris van hollen of maryland. good to see you, sena

sentence for tax fraud and lying to congress, but here is what quickly became concerning about michael cohendenly being locked up again. cohen's lawyers say he was sent back to prison because he did not want to sign paperwork that would have blocked him from talking to the media or publishing the book he's been working on. in other words, keep silent or go back behind bars. how unusual is an ultimatum like that? cnn spoke to several defensive attorneys and legal experts, none of whom had ever seen anything like cohen's media and book publishing ban. ryan goodman reached out to several leading first amendment scholars. they looked at the prohibition and described it with phrases like, quote, patently unconstitutional, a profound affront to the first amendment, indefensible. and so, again, whether you view michael cohen as a sympathetic character or not, what it looks like is happening here is pretty chilling. the trump administration gave michael cohen a choice, sign this paper saying you won't write a book, or go back to prison. silence or prison. your choice. then there's the book by donald

lawyer, michael cohen is in a federal court building once again. a word a short time ago that we may hear from mr. cohen about what we're talking about here, the supreme court's decision related to the president's tax returns and other documents. michael cohen, remind folks, tom, how he fits into all of this. >> i think you're referring to our colleague katy tur's reporting saying he'll likely speak. he's meeting with his probation officer, is our understanding. i think a couple important things to remember with respect to michael cohen. first off, he's one of the few people that was inside the trump organization's kind of close ranks that has broken ranks. obviously he has pleaded guilty to federal charges involving campaign finance violations involving hush money payments to two women for affairs that the president has strenuously denied. he's pleaded guilty in that case, for lying to congress with respect to the russia investigation and the case they were conducting in the case brought by the special counsel's office. he's spoken with prosecutors

it was commuted by fthe president, late on friday, and michael cohen going back to prison.moment we're told he's in solitary confinement because of having to quarantine. so roger, you know, stone is free to say whatever he wants, it appears. and not only that, while roger stone was out on bail, he threatened the judge. he put out a social media post that had like a bullet target by judge amy berman jackson. he almost had his bail revoked. it wasn't like he was a model citizen when he was out on bail. and doing so publicly. so the contrast between the two -- i mean, there's no allegation that michael cohen behaved inappropriately in prison. all he did, apparently, was write a book. but, you know, it's the whole story with how the president and the justice department have treated the president's enemies and how they've treated their friends. you know, michael flynn gets his conviction overturned. roger stone gets a commutation. the whole russia investigation is now under investigation itself by the justice department, but michael cohen, who's an enemy of the president gets lo

factor, the #1 fastest-growing men's health brand at walmart. >>> federal judge ruled today that michael cohen'surn to prison earlier this month was retaliation. the department of justice tried to silence him by ordering conditions on his home confinement. cohen who was trump's former personal attorney began serving a three-year prison sentence last year for financial crimes and lying to congress. in may due to health concerns related to coronavirus, cohen was released and allowed to serve out his term at home. then he was sent back to prison on july #th after he did not agree to complete ban on speaking in public that included for him, writing a book. something he is already working on. cohen then sued attorney general bill barr arguing that his first amendment rights were being violated. the judge agreed and expressed shock at the order for cohen's silence saying i've never seen such a clause in 21 years of being a judge and sentencing people. how can i take any other inference but that it was retaliatory. joiningous conversation, former u.s. attorney joyce vance and kribts contributor for the

but they both do the birth dirt for the president and he has power that michael cohen would have dreamed to have. he tried to use a restraining order to keep stormy daniels from going forward. he's gone to court to keep john bolton from publishing his book. bill barr has tried to keep the president's tax returns from being made public. so the only difference between the two of them today is that michael cohen sent his bills to donald trump and bill bar send his bills to the taxpayer. >> wow. but you know the tone he's coming in with. you know exactly what he's done. or you believe. what is the number one thing you want to focus on when it comes to your questioning, because there's a lot of ground to cover? >> that there is a lot of ground to cover. i really think it's assessing his credibility and willingness to stand up to the president. at his job interview, his confirmation hearing he said if i saw wrongdoing, i would call it out. so it's, please, tell us, when have you called out wrongdoing because we're going to have a long list of wrongdoing we've seen. but also yesterday in his op

think what you will about michael cohen.on't need to even find him a sympathetic character here to care about what is happening to him right now. the first amendment is there to protect speech that people don't like, speech that in particular the powers that be don't like. that's exactly what this is, right? listen to how the aclu explains it to the court. basically why we should all care regardless of our personal feelings about michael cohen quote, this is not a motion about politics or personalities. this is a request to prevent a plain violation of the constitution the first amendment forbids respondents from imprisoning mr. cohen -- and for preparing to publish it shortly before the upcoming election. mr. cohen's manuscript sits at the zenith of first amendment protection the first amendment reflects our profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide open, and that it may well kwlu vehement and unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public official

let's begin with michael cohen. unusual is it for a sitting federal judge to declare that the justice department retaliated against someone and punished him in effect by sending him back to prison because of a book. explain, you worked for the justice department. you worked as prosecutor. how unusual and how notable that is? >> it's not just unusual, but something i had never seen before. i'm going to attack the justice department here. i dealt with -- in my career, hundreds of people on supervision, whether because they were on parole, probation or on bail. it's normal for the justice department and the bureau of prisons to put conditions on a person. but i have never once seen a condition saying you may not speak publicly. you may not exercise your first amendment rights and not only is not unusual but it's a big deal. the federal government threw someone in prison for several weeks because he would not give up his first amendment right. that's dictatorship type stuff. not what we do here in the united states. >>

the prosecuting documents in the michael cohen case say that michael cohen committed those crimes with and at the direction of donald trump who they identify as individual one, and we know all of this thanks entirely to the bravery of stormy daniels coming forward after donald trump became the most powerful man in the world. stormy daniels came forward and told the story that she was paid not to tell about a night in a hotel room with donald trump four months after his fifth child was born to his third wife. stormy daniels salacious details of that encounter, all of which are grotesquely humiliating to donald trump will one day become the lyrics of the character's show stopping number in the musical about the trump presidency. the supreme court focussing narrowly on the legal issues of the manhattan district attorney subpoena could ignore stormy daniels in today's opinion, but history will not ignore her contribution to what has become the latest iteration of american jurisprudence first principal, no man is above the law. the supreme court stated today that no man is above the law, bu

he made that public statement about what he's doing with all the time he has on his hands now, michael cohen and one of his lawyers turned up for a visit with probation services. and to his and his lawyer's surprise, they asked mr. cohen to sign a form that said he's not allowed to write a book anymore. he's also not allowed to communicate with the media or to use social media of any kind, and they told him if he didn't sign off on that, back to prison he would go. mr. cohen and his lawyer admit that they questioned that provision, but then they say before mr. cohen even had a chance to sign it or not, a chance to decide whether those concerns about those provisions were big enough that he might

michael cohen, michael flynn, roger stone. the idea that there hasn't been at least some discussion of what happens to trump associates as they go through the justice system, again, that strains credulity. he started to answer. he held back and he corrected himself. and then he went forward saying there had been no direct contact from the president. but he didn't say there had been no contact or no pressure at all. >> right. both really important pieces we wanted to show. we have more from the hearing, so our guests, our experts stay. but let me show you a little bit about these questions on use of force because in the wake of all the clashes between protesters in portland, the feds that have been deployed around the country, here was the attorney general evading some important issues in that line of questioning. >> do you think the response at lafayette square to tear gas, pepper spray and beat protesters and injure american citizens who were just simply exercising their first amendment rights was appropriate? >> well, first,

michael cohen has beenjailed.michael cohen has been jailed. so you sense that there is somejeopardy been jailed. so you sense that there is some jeopardy for the president. it would be in a situation if he was elected, where he could face criminal prosecution while in the white house? prosecution of him itself is a trickier problem. that is something that the lawyers argue about over and over again. but what this case... that was not asking this case... that was not asking this question. this was about the production of documents and things like that, criminal prosecution itself would be a tricky one. more investigation rather than the prosecution? yeah. the investigation will continue enough with the da has said in manhattan. and he will have to go back to court to argue the scope of what he will be able to get a hold of. so it's going to take a long time, and of course in his case, because of the american system, those documents... are in secret. they are incredibly secret. very little comes out of them. it is n

on the others of it, michael cohen, who decided to tell the truth about donald trump and therefore has been demonized and castigated by the white house and by the trump family, the actually put him back into prison. they put him behind bars because he would not say that he would not publish a book. they wanted him to say that he would not write a book about trump and about everything. he wanted to talk about donald trump's free use of racist and anti-semitic language. he refused to say that he would suppress that, therefore they sent him back to jail. the federal judge for that case was so angry that he ordered that michael cohen be released immediately for this and had never seen anything like this in the history of his career on the bench, that the government was actually trying to manipulate the freedom of speech of a prisoner. this is where it has come to with the attorney general of the united states who defended that action by the bureau of prisons and other parts of the government, essentially censoring michael cohen. host: charleston, south carolina, democratic caller. caller:

new york attorney becomes the latest target of bob marley michael cohen donald trump's personal lawyer michael cohen is donald trump's longtime personal lawyer and fixer is the city president's lawyer and he has the ball as the keys to the kingdom he knows all the secrets about donald trump. cards with. the f.b.i. searched cohen's office at the request of a local prosecutor on charges of financial fraud. the move initiated by paul miller as a direct challenge to the president himself. so i just heard that they broke into the office 'd of one of my personal attorneys a good man i said that it's really valid a whole. new level of unfair that. cohen is someone who might know about trump's alleged real estate dealings in russia there was fairly common knowledge in the real estate community and the international finance community in the political community the russians were funding in various ways many major trunk real estate projects cohen my also know the president why months earlier he denied having anything to do with russia i know nothing in russia i have no loans in russia i don't hav

michael cohen was expecting to exit there and go back home.>> that's right. he was going into apparently to sign documents according to his attorneys and also perhaps something tied to his gps monitorsing. he ended up on his way back to jail. essentially what happened here is according to his attorneys and law enforcement sources to nbc news, he refused to sign a document that laid out eight specific terms of his release. now it's important to note when i say release, i don't really mean release from jail. this is video we took yesterday. the reason michael cohen was able to be out of jail was because of covid-19 concerns. it's not because he was released. it's not because he is on probation. so essentially it would be like being sentenced to your own apartment which i think a lot of us probably feel these days but, obviously, there is some restrictions because michael cohen pleaded guilty to serious crimes and was sentenced to jail. so the idea that he could be out and about surprised some people. the idea that he would be eating outside surp

the rule of law itself, a central question in the coming campaign in what america will accept michael cohen'suit is just one piece of the picture a judge will hear the spectacle of the president's former lawyer suing the president from prison this coming thursday but that case turned on what cohen is allowed to say and do i tell you tonight, the much larger question is whether americans will accept or challenge what bill barr is trying to do as he executes his notions of trump justice that does it for us. thank you as always for watching "the beat," we will be back at 6:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow, and "the reid out" is up next with joy reid over, and over again, donald trump has made it clear that he will not take responsibility for the escalating coronavirus crisis in this country blame china, he told us on sunday it is what it is >> the death chart is a thousand cases a day. >> excuse me it's all too much, it should not be one case. it came from china, they should never have let it escape, they

that would be michael cohen. what makes him different?t against trump and now after a furlough is back in prison. why? some thing it was this photo of him eating outdoors violating the house arrest but that's not it. according to his lawyers it's to stop him from publishing a tell-all book about trump before the election. he was suddenly sent back to prison after refusing to sign a document about no contact with the media. you might think this is normal procedure but it's not. not by a long shot. in fact, a long list of constitutional scholars were interviewed by the website just security and they described it as patently unconstitutional. cohen said he'd sign it, but it was apparently too late. he was put in solitary confinement, apparently over co individual concerns. but this was a violation of the right of the public to learn what he has to say, much like the trump family trying to stop his niece mary trump's book and john bolton's book. this is what authoritarian regimes do. stop the free speech of disaccidents, where the ruler deems

michael cohen is noble's here over. they literally tried to make a political prisoner out of it. when they put someone in jail for writing a book. >> just for twitter purposes, is it accurate to say, you're calling cohen nelson mandela? is that the takeaway you want twitter to have? >> that's what i'm saying. and i look forward to that quote going viral. >> well, we had a soviet dissident once who told us in the darkest times he learned to laugh through the tears. so getting one laugh with you while there is a lot of serious stuff, we appreciate it. we look forward to having you back. i know you'll stay on this story. >> thank you. >>> up ahead, what the widespread protests are calling for. why the support is still growing amidst the criticism. and we have an speaker view with a legend who has been ahead of this for decades. ice cube. coming up. es ice cube coming up. when the murray's started using gain ultra flings... they fell head over heels in love with its irresistible scent. looks like their dog michelangelo did

he's the former attorney for michael cohen. he was sent back to prison -- barred the book or speaking to the media. they suspect somebody on high is involved here. will that come up in your questioning of william barr, whether he might be the somebody. >> absolutely. i think it will be very interesting to probe on that. i do have to say, joy, that it was outrageous to me he was let out to begin with. he's a young, healthy man. i think about all the hundreds of thousandsing of people incarcerated, we have been fighting for, we know are exposed to covid and getting sick and dying and he was let out. i'm glad it was violated in that sense. yes, we will be trying to see if that was from barr, for sure. >> we are out of time. i have to ask you, this has to be a brief answer. we saw george will with a sendup to you saying you should be chosen as vice presidential nominee. can you give us updates on the vetting process for you. >> no, i can't p. you know you'll have to refer to the campaign. but what i want to say to you is congratula

a reporter asked him did michael cohen make the payment? if there was no truth, tell us -- why did michael cohen make the payments if there was no truth to her allegations? referring to stormy daniels and trump said you have to ask michael cohen. he is my attorney. you have to ask michael. the reporter said, you know where he got the money to make that payment? and trump said, no, don't know. and essentially what we wrote about that every answer is fault. true. new but to the payment. new cow hen made the payment. he enough it was an effort to kill a damaging story. and he knew that cohen was reimbursed hard paying out the hush money. each piece was demonstrably false and a clear example of all of the evidencing in and trump saying, i didn't know. hough did i know that? so, i'm just going to good ahead and turn to the second chapter, which i also wrote, because i feel like it's a good transition. it's all about trump on trump and essentially the thing that sort of unique about trump is that he exaggerated or makes false claims about almost

lester >> all right, erin, thanks. >>> a federal judge today ordered michael cohen, president trump's former personal lawyer, released from prison the judge ruled that in sending cohen back to prison earlier this month, federal officials had retaliated against him for his plan to write a tell-all book about the president. he'll serve the rest of his sentence for campaign finance violations at home >>> now to a dramatic moment on capitol hill congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez contheming a republican colleague after she says he confronted her in profanity laced insults. cay -- kasie hunt has details. >> reporter: in a fiery speech on house floor, congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez standing her ground. >> in front of reporters representative yoho called me, and i quote, a [ bleep ] these are the words that representative yoho levied against a congresswoman. >> reporter: the confrontation happened monday but ocasio-cortez didn't confirm the hill newspaper's reporting until after ted yoho said this. >> the offensive name calling words attributed to me by the press were never spoke

michael cohen had been sentenced, and now released, as they are saying his son, jake cohen, has beenup. federal judge ruled the move to revoke his home confinement was retaliatory in an election year. just your reaction to that, and what you think this all means in the big picture? >> again, i think there were a lot of things that went on that were all about undermining president trump. the specifics on michael cohen, as you said, this is just happening. i would have to look at the further justification of his release, but i think in the bigger scheme of everything that has taken place there were a lot of people that were targeted in an effort to take down donald trump. we are seeing -- this report we just talked about further confirms that there was a mass conspiracy to undermine the 2016 election. there was so much focus, talking about russia collusion, with all the real collusion was going on, unfortunately, in our own buildings, in the fbi. and it was going to try and hurt donald trump. i think we need to continue, again, looking at every aspect of this. all the people that were

manafort is out of jail and michael cohen is in jail. so in some level trump is getting away with it right now. come november, are the voters going to show up, and are we going to really have this landslide that many people expect? then how will we come together as a country and rebuild the department of justice? right now it is a disaster, and i would expect in the next couple of days when this stone commutation comes, we will begin to start to see people quitting. >> yeah. that was going to be my next question. there have been so many moments of too much. and we saw that with the stone case itself. i mean, the stone case when they withdrew the sentencing recommendation, they overroad it and you had career prosecutors taking their names off the brief. one of them actually testifying before congress about the political pressure put on them. i mean, you know, this is yet another moment where the lines crossed. >> right. some people are going to leave. but they recognize that the trump people go after people who don't play ball and who qui

frances. >> all right thank you. >>> a federal judge has ordered michael cohen, president trump's formeron. the judge ruled that in sending cohen back to prison earlier this month federal officials have retaliated against him for his plan to right a tell all book about the president he will serve the rest of his sentence at home >>> still to come, dozens of hand sanitizers recalled over a toxic health hazard. >>> and hollywood reeling. the pandemic pushing back summer block busters again. ts best? taking metamucil every day can help. metamucil supports your daily digestive health using a special plant-based fiber called psyllium. psyllium works by forming a gel in your digestive system to trap and remove the waste that weighs you down. metamucil's gelling action also helps to lower cholesterol and slows sugar absorption to promote healthy blood sugar levels. so, start feeling lighter and more energetic... by taking metamucil every day. honey, did you hear about these new geico savings? mom? you'll get an extra 15% on top of what geico could already save you. can i call you back? your fat

not good news for the president of the united states. >> reporter: h form pernal torn and fixer, michael cohens taken back into custody for refusing to agree to the terms of his home confinement. cohen is serving a three year sentence for lying to congress and campaign financeom like stoo alleged affairs with president trump. he has recently been trump. photographed enjoying long dinners at new york city restaurants. >> i'm worried about it, i am. that's why i'm here! >> reporter: and outside trump tower today in manhattan the words "black lives matter" were painted on fifth avenue, something president trump has called a symbol of hate. a frequent critic of his, mayor bill de blasio also took part. bill de blasio also took pa today the president's opponent joe biden unveiled a $700 billion economic plan that he says will revitalize american manufacturing and create millions of new jobs. it will be partially paiid for by rolling back president trump's 2017 tax cuts. margaret? >> brennan: ben tracy at the white house. thank you. tonight tropical storm fay has formed off the north carolina coast.

the president's former fixer michael cohen will be released back into home confinement after a federalge agreed a return to prison was retaliation for writing a book about the president. the u.s. district judge ordered cohen released by 2:00 p.m. this afternoon. doj lawyers argued cohen and his attorney, they were combative about his house arrest agreement. they also claimed not to know he was writing a book when they included that restriction in the document that he resisted signing. the judge ruling cohen's return to prison was, quote, retall tair over his exercise to write a book. he said in 20 years of sentencing people and looking at terms and conditions of supervised release, i have never seen such a clause. in a statement after the ruling an unnamed borough of prisons officials called it, quote, patently false. and the departments of justice official announced he's launching an investigation. he said the case was referred to him by a u.s. attorney in oregon, requested by members of congress and fueled by public complaints. he will coordinate the review with the homeland security

. >> a federal judge ordered president trump's former personal attorney, michael cohen, to be released back into home confinement, after he found that federal officials returned him to prison earlier this month in retaliation for cohen's plans to write a book about his work with donald trump. the judge ordered him freed by 2:00 p.m. eastern time tomorrow. at long last, joined by friend and colleague nicolle wallace, host of "deadline white house." nicolle, i note 14 minutes ago the president tweeted to suburban housewives of america, the tweet had to do with, quote, joe biden will destroy your neighborhood. maggie haberman who doesn't miss much tweeted back suburban women probably would have worked better. again, this is the law and order campaign of stoking fear. with most people scared enough of the pandemic, thank you very much. >> reporter: you know, just listening to the recitation of headlines, and those are likely to change by 11:00 when your show comes on the air, it strikes me how much donald trump has benefitted from the volume of disruption. and it always helps to have a cou

michael cohen is getting out of prison -- again. this morning a judge ordered the president's former lawyer to be released to home consignment. he was sent back to prison after violating terms of his release. convicted of tax evasion and other charges but today the government sent him back in over his refusal to rule out writing a book on his dealings with president trump. k our report sir live with developments here. out tomorrow afternoon. what more are you hearing? >> reporter: right, brooke. a brief hearing over the telephone. the federal judge saying flatly that the government retaliated against michael cohen by sending him back to prison over this tell-all book cohen a working on about his time with the president. on 21 years being on the bench he never saw the terms the government wanted cohen to agree to. the one he objected with most, mentioned books and talking to the media. he couldn't be on social media. the judge didn't believe there was not another interference in play and no other inference than retaliation. as part o

they're the ones who seized all the records that michael cohen had and had his cooperation. we don't even know all the threads that those documents led them to. you started at the top of the hour, nicolle, reminding us about michael cohen's testimony and how much he knew and understood of the financial dealings and also wes l berg. we don't know how many investigations they may have or where the investigations we know about may have led and we don't know all the other associates who may have come before them for other reasons that donald trump was concerned about. the bottom line here that we have to remember is that since donald trump has taken office, not just what he did before he got there, this is a man who has demonstrated his willingness to abuse it for his own gain. just remember when he was trying to get heads of state to his -- without going through an appropriate process, to get to one of his properties which he would benefit financially from before it blew up in his face. we know he has had business dealings in other countries. it's not clear whether his foreign

michael cohen. controversial. i'm not arguing to like michael cohen. he is out of prison.as released to home confinement and he refused to sign a document. what did the document say? that he could not work on a tell-all book. he didn't understand that. why did he have to give up his first amendment right? what did the doj did? they tossed him back in lockup. a federal judge said that is retaliation and it violates his first amendment right. it is unlike anything the judge had seen in 2 2 1 years as judge. it's not about cohen. it's about the law, and the department of homeland security came clean about false claims made to defend another power play by the president. dhs admitted in a court filing it was not straight in defending why the agency prevented morkers to get through airport security faster w options like global entry. remember this? the trump administration blocked new york. okay, over a state law meant to protect immigrants. and they had the power to do it. and just because they had the right didn't make the way they used it right. it was wrong. and abusive and

a statement from the bureau of prisons and they say, any assertion that the decision to remand michael cohen to prison was a retaliatory action is false. mr. cohen refused to acknowledge and sign the conditions of his transfer of home confinement and was remanded into custody. while it's not uncommon for bop to place certain restrictions on inmate, contact with the media, his refusal played no decision whatsoever in h decision to remand him to custody nor did his intent to publish a book. barbara, do you buy that? >> well, the judge didn't buy it and that's the opinion that matters here and i really don't only because the circumstances here are so different from what we would expect ordinarily. he came in to sign an agreement and found a paragraph there that said he couldn't erp write a book. i've never seen anything like it in my 20 years as a prosecutor and the judge said he'd never seen any condition like that in his 21 years oen the bench. certainly when an inmate is in prison, a prison may limit visits of camera crews and visits by reporters as a matter of administering the prison and f

it sure is good to see you. ♪ >>> michael cohen is set to be released from prison today, again.ederal judge ruled that president trump's former personal lawyer was sent back to prison as retaliation for his plans to write a tell-all book about the president. joining us now is his new attorney, thanks for being with on with us. what time will he get out, what is he going to do? >> he's due to be released at 2:00 this afternoon from his cell. he'll be picked up by his son, jake. and he'll be returned to his apartment in manhattan and there he will remain until november of 2021 when his sentence will be over. >> you called the ruling yesterday a victory for free speech. why? >> i mean, on one level it's a pure, clean victory for everyone in this country's right to speak publicly, particularly on matters of great public concern. on another level, i think it was a great victory the rule of law and for all of us who i hope includes all of us who are deeply concerned about this department of justice being used as both a shield to protect this administration's friends and family and als

and, you know, a lot of people dislike michael cohen on the left, on the right. point is the law has to apply to everyone equally. and if you're going to release someone from prison, you have to allow them to have the same rights as everyone else and everyone else has >> so what we'll be seeing that cohen book? >> we will be seeing that cone book and people can buy it if they want. >> thank you very much, jeffrey toobin. >> all righty, erin. >>> next, trump touting his performance on a cognitive test, that he keeps positioning as an iq test. so who gets this test? what you'll find out about the people who will get this test is important. because the map behind the test is my guest, next. ♪ but bristol myers squibb is working to change things. by researching new kinds of medicines that could help you live longer. including options that are chemo-free. because we're committed to bringing new hope into lung cancer care. you get way more than free shipping. becawhen you shop fored your home at wayfair, you get thousands items you need to your door fast the way it wor

let's begin here. >> good morning. >> with michael cohen. what happened? >> yeah.leave prison the way many prisoners have, due to coronavirus. he was given a leave. he was seen out in public having dinner. and then one day he had to report back to the authorities. he was asked to sign a paper and according to his lawyers, this paperwork would have required him to give up any ability to write a book. that is interesting. because cohen had been publicly saying he was finishing a book. he was finishing a memoir about his experience with now president trump. of course, cohen was a fixer for trump for many years in new york. so cohen's lawyers are connecting those two dots and saying that the government is trying to stop cohen from writing a book. here's a headline from this weekend talking about this being a possible infringement on cohen's first amendment rights. this is murky. we've not heard the entire story. but i'm curious about this. if it is true that cohen is finishing writing a book and if the authorities are trying to throw him back in prison to stop him, tha