danielle. but >> what detectives found most alarming or the text messages michael and danielle sent each other.minor writes, i want to blow his head off and put two on her just for good mothers. he goes on to say bang, bang, done. i won't though because it's, wrong. daniel later responded, you would not and could not, because that would be illegal. >> that was definitely disturbing. >> in another text, daniel referred to her handgun, she called daisy. she wrote, i am so close to introducing them both to daisy. michael responded. ha, ha, we can do it together as a date. smiley face. and yet another she wrote, i hate them with every inch of me. revenge will be mine and it will be very, very sweet. >> it was very ominous that got danielle had some kind of hatred towards sam. and she wanted to hurt him. >> at least on those text messages, it seemed clear to detectives that she had persuaded michael to feel the same week. >> i absolutely think she poisoned michael's mind as far as what sam was. >> everything he knew about sam was that he was a violent person. he was described to him as a drunk. as a

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the deal was set up so that michael cohen was paid back the money he paid to stormy daniels as legal fees, which is not true. generally people deduct their legal fees. that case continues. the fact that the federal elections commission is emasculated per usual, they never get anything done, that doesn't surprise anybody. i have not given up hope on that prosecution. i think it's fundamentally unfair went to jail and the person he went to jail for is walking around mar-a-lago. >> no kidding. devlin, there's a piece of your reporting that's interesting, that's that the department of justice in seeking the phone records of your colleagues sought but did not obtain non-content communication records for the reporter's work email accounts which would have indicated who emailed whom and when but did not include the content of the emails. this speaks to what you were explaining. they're trying to figure out who was giving these reporters information from the inside. how do you approach that as a journalist? how do you think about the fact that the government says that is classified informati

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money payments that is another component of this where the trump organization paid stormy daniels through michael cohen and how is that reimbursed? did that result in any criminal activity, whether it was on taxes or false business records. a person familiar with the investigation tells me that, what this means is practice is a couple of attorneys who worked in the ag's office who doug into this and know this information very well have joined forces with the d.a.'s office. they're leveraging their knowledge and the findings they've accumulated so far. trump has called this investigation politically motivated. when i reached one of his attorneys last night about the new developments, they had no comment. kate. >> i'm sure we'll hear from the former president at some point. we know he's reacted to all this. there's so much involved in this. kara, thank you. great reporting. >>> joining me for more perspective on this is cnn legal analyst jennifer rogers, a former federal prosecutors. first and foremost, i'm confused why they would combine efforts here. >> as kara was describing, the civil investiga

daniels. the payment which trump's then lawyer michael cohen called hush money came after daniels said she hadaffair with trump. because the payment came weeks before the election, the fec had been exploring whether that was a campaign expenditure. trump's current lawyer, mayor rudy giuliani blurted it out in an interview with george stephanopolous and trump's previous lawyer michael cohen testified before congress about that very same issue. >>> back to the present. president biden is going to speak later this morning about the terrible news we just got from the labor department, 266,000 jobs created in april, unemployment rate rises 6.1%. the president surprised as we are, makes the comments coming at 8:30 this morning so much more important. if you miss the speech check your twitter, i'll be tweeting about it. i'm @scottmcgrew. >>> millions of getting an extra boost from the state after filing taxes. the payments may take up to 45 days to reach your account by direct deposit. the checks have already been sent out to those who filed their taxes through april 23rd. >>> san francisco there is

daniels. the payment which trump's then lawyer michael cohen called hush money came after daniels said she had an affair with trump. trump denies that. because the payment came weeks before the election the sec had fec had been exploring whether that was a current payment. mayor rudy giuliani blurted it out in an interview with george stephanopolous and trump's appreciate lawyer michaeless ab that very same issue. >>> back to the present. president bide listen speak later this morning about that terrible news we just got from the labor department, 266,000 jobs created in april, that is a fraction of what we were expecting. unemployment rate actually goes up. the president doesn't know any sooner than we do what the number's going to be. i'm sure he's just as surprised as we are, makes that speech that much more important. we're certainly talking about all of this on twitter, find me there, i'm @scottmcgrew. >>> a northern california bar owner accused of selling fake covid-19 vaccination cards. the man now faces multiple charges including forging government documents. >>> taking a live look in

daniel: that is absently correct. if you heard michaelthe 1.5 booking figure, to be a good year you would need double that. the mayor of athens is expecting 50% of normal levels. that is the expectation we would have for this year, and then increasing it next year but not quite back at 100% in 2022. alix: what airline is not priced for that where you see the value? daniel: the biggest value -- they have a strong base of visiting friends and relatives. two thirds of their travel isn't via far travel which is much let's -- is in vfr travel which is much less sensitive. this is the ryanair of our day. they were like ryanair 15 years ago. they will double their size. alix: you seem to imply ryanair is accurately priced for where we are looking at the recovery. is there an airline that has too much optimism in it? daniel: i will say air france right now. those valuations do not make sense at this point. there are very few institutional investors invested in air france. i would say the biggest downside remains for the legacy on a broad-based. b

michael cohen he is talking about. it was very much related to donald trump. at least for one night, in a hotel room, at a gulf result. where stormy daniels spent some time with donald trump. michael cohen was sentenced to three years in prison because he committed a crime against the united states of america to influence the outcome of a presidential election by delivering a payoff from donald trump to stormy daniels of $130,000 in 2016. federal prosecution said that michael cohen committed that crime at the direction of donald trump, their phrase was in coordination, and at the direction of donald trump. after michael cohen pleaded guilty to those crimes, and a house hearing, alexandria ocasio-cortez asked him about issues that could interest prosecutors. >> to your knowledge of the president and provide inflated i sets to insurance companies? >> yes. >> who else knows that the president did this? >> allen weisselberg, ron liebermann and matthew calamari. >> where would the committee find more information on this? do you think we need to review his financial statements and his tax returns in order to compare them? >> yes and you would f

we saw the control that he exhibited during the whole stormy daniels payoff with michael cohen. think all those things taken together and surf is to releases tax returns. plus what michael cohen said to congress and and pretty much anyone else afterwards. it's a picture of someone who withdraw the change attention of law enforcement know the special grand juries this is pretty serious business. you only do it for one thing and that is we're going to take a look at you and your your organization. but it's going to be hurry up and wait for the next 6 months. it would what people be watching with court watchers will be watching is to see. who may go to the courtroom who may be offering testimony who may be getting immunity deals. what kind of other documents are going. they are they going to be looking at and then and toward the end when the prosecutors began to put together their case. now lining, these are the elements of the statute force. a racketeering or fraud. that's when we'll know whether or not they're moving toward >> yeah. we know this grand jury is going to be sitting

are these business records that they apparently falsified when they were reimbursing michael cohen for the stormy daniels patients not just because of what we have heard but for more reasons. they falsified records. they probably didn't just do it one time, right? what other payments have been made over the years and were not properly accounted for? the da wants to know that. they have quite a team assembled to look for it. >> and another question to you about your former office here, what about the rebuttal from people around trump who would say if this is about past conduct, where were the authorities in past years? if this was so important, why wasn't it investigated then? it would seem from the new york times report that the feds, through the irs and other agencies, slept on one of the greatest tax cheats ever. i say "cheat" rhetorically. i'm not saying crime. but people know that most americans pay more taxes than donald trump, who is worth a lot. so most people can think, gosh, you don't have to be an irs expert to really look at it. now, if they looked at it and it only kicked back up when he came

his former lawyer and right-hand man, michael cohen, the guy who mortgaged his own house to pay stormy daniels, only to be cast aside by mr. wonderful, michael cohen, who knows donald trump a& well as anyone, believes that in the end the snake will devour his own eggs. >> what's going to happen when all of a sudden they furnish around and they start asking him about his tax returns? or about the devaluation of the assets or the way that he took deductions? "i don't do my taxes, it's my c take me, take melania! take everyone except for himself. >> jimmy: almost like he's speaking from personal experience, huh? [ laughter ] the saddest part is going to be when trump forgets to pin a crime on tiffany. [ laughter and applause ] >> jimmy: thanks, guys. the new, new thing in washington now that's dividing congress is the mask mandate. house of representatives. democrats want it, so republicans naturally don't. democrats in the house yesterday blocked a republican-led resolution that would have allowed them to not wear masks to work. it took awhile, but we finally found the one thing house republican

michael cohen said under oath before congress. let me see if we have this. this is former congresswoman lacy clay. this was in 2019. people will remember this was around the pay off to stormi daniels and other women. here is michael cohen testifying. >> do your knowledge, did the president or his company ever inflate assets or revenue? >> yes. >> was that done with the president's knowledge or direction? >> everything was done with the knowledge and at the direction of mr. trump. >> that last bit seems to be the important part and this is where your reporting comes in. he said everything that was done was done with the knowledge of donald trump. that seems to be bad news for the former president. >> right. when paul mentioned about how complex corporate investigations can become, he's totally right. the thing is the trump organization is not really a complex organization. it's not even as complex as your local super market in term of its size. big corporations have controls in place and levels of deniable for the chief executive at the top of the organization. the trump organization is this mom and pop shop and donald trump ran everything in that place through two people and a han

michael cohen was sentenced to three years in prison because he committed a crime against the united states of america by delivering a pay-up from donald trump to stormy daniels of $130,000 in 2016. federal prosecutor says michael cohen committed that crime at the direction of donald trump. after michael cohen pleaded guilty to those crimes,. >> did the president provide inflated assets to insurance companies? >> yes. >> who else knows that the president did this? >> allen weisselberg and rob liebermann. >> where do the committee find more information about this? do you think we need to review his tax returns and compare them? >> yes. >> msnbc's joy reid asked michael cohen about his children. >> they would know on projects they were designated to. each of the children were designated to different properties. allen weisselberg knew every single dollar in and not even dollar, to the penny, every single penny and every penny out, went through weisselberg's desk and reported before and after to donald j. trump. "the new york times" is confirming the report that allen weisselberg is under criminal investigation. donald trump would blame any possible crimes on all

daniels. they wrote that they were pa michael cohen. that's not true. he is testifying about it.on how he got paid. there's plenty of documentation to support it. to me, that's the threat. the possible giuliani flip. >> amazing, the literal al capone scenario. thank you both. >>> ahead, we talked a lot about the absolutely urgent need to vaccinate the world. today, the biden administration took a surprising step toward making that happen. i can't believe we're going to bring this story, but we are. and it's next. story, but we are and it's next. combination of advil plus acetaminophen. advil targets pain. acetaminophen blocks it. advil dual action. fast pain relief that lasts 8 hours. >> tech: every customer has their own safelite story. this couple was on a camping trip... ...when their windshield got a chip. they drove to safelite for a same-day repair. and with their insurance, it was no cost to them. >> woman: really? >> tech: that's service you can trust. >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ for people living with h-i-v, keep being you. and ask your doctor abou

daniels. they wrote that they were paying michael cohen.that is not true. >> right. >> and michael cohen is testifying to that. he may not be a great guy, but he is pretty credible and how he got paid. >> yeah. >> and there is plenty of documentation to support it. so to me that's the threat and the possible giuliani flip. >> that's amazing, the literal out cone scenario there being laid out. katie benner and since the alksne, thank you both. ahead, we've talked a lot about the absolutely urgent need to vaccinate the world and today the biden administration took a huge surprising step towards making that happen. i can't believe we're going to be new this story and we are and it's next. my audible library is just like scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll scroll, it's a lot. i downloaded audible and really, really enjoyed it. and then it kind of just became a lifestyle after that. audible allows me to find a space for myself. you just get way more than you pay for, one of those rare things in life. oh, the audible plus catalog is awesome. it's

loans, falsified business records or broke the law when reimbursing michael cohen for facilitating hush money payments to stormy danielse woman who said she had an affair with trump, which he has decide. late tuesday trump said the investigation is purely political, adding, it is a continuation of the greatest witch-hunt in american history. kara scannell, cnn, new york. >>> no former u.s. president has ever faced criminal charges, while no one knows what's going to happen with the grand jury, of course, cnn's senior legal analyst says the magnitude and scrutiny on this case could be unlike anything we've seen before. >> this is not the kind of proceeding we've seen before. it's not a pure political proceeding. if there is a trial, if there is a charge and a trial, there are judges, there are defense lawyers, there's open press, rules of evidence. it's a strict kind of proceeding. and no former president has been in this position ever before. so when-- we like to think that every case is the same and you bring the same amount of deliberation to every case. i think that's generally true. this is is case different from a

loans, falsified business records or broke the law when reimbursing michael cohen for facilitating hush money payments to stormy daniels, the woman who said she had an affair with trump which he has denied. late tuesday trump said the investigation is purely political, adding, it is a continuation of the greatest witch-hunt in american history. christine, laura? >> kara scannell, thank you for that. >>> mounting questions this morning about the origins of coronavirus and who knew what and when. cnn has learned there was a secret effort at the state department to prove the virus originated in a lab in wuhan, china. the mission started under the watch of former secretary of state mike pompeo. so why did the biden administration shut the project down? our kylie atwood reports from the state department. >> reporter: this was a closely held inquiry at the state department which was launched in the final months of the trump administration to look at the likely possibility according to sources who were involved in the effort that the covid-19 pandemic could have come from a chinese lab and possibly had connections to the chin

daniels $130,000 to sign a non-disclosure agreement. she agreed. we learned about that payment in early 2018. michael york. ended up pleading guilty to the campaign finance violations, among other things, and sentenced to three years in prison. before reporting to prison cohen testified before congress telling the house oversight committee under oath that he paid stormy daniels at the direction of donald trump. >> mr. trump is a con-man. he asked me to pay off an adult film star with whom he had an affair, and to lie about it to his wife. which i did. >> cohen also turned evidence of that over committee. copies of two checks donald trump gave him that cohen said were part of the reimbursement of the hush money payment to daniels, that's famously his signature. that's the whole story. the federal election commission, the independent body that enforces federal election laws, and this seems like a pretty clear violation, they've been investigating whether donald trump violated those laws in this payment to stormy daniels, well today they finally, finally issued a ruling. we'll tell you what it is ahead.

well, the whole thing started with allegations about payoffs to stormy daniels, the porn star, and that were deducted improperly. michael allegations. in fact, he served prison time sk. and so that led to other issues of tax fraud and mortgage fraud, where allegedly, the trump organization would inflate the values of their properties to get a larger loan from financial institutions and then decrease the values of their properties for tax purposes. you can't do that. that's talking outside both sides of their mouths. so that could bring them charges of tax fraud, mortgage fraud, even rico. the state of new york has a rico act, racketeering, where you need at least three crimes. and it's not just for mafias anymore. rico charges are for businesses, too. and they could face that. >> i want to turn to another issue at play here, and that, of course, is the president's former personal attorney. there is some news in that investigation about rudy giuliani. a federal judge has now granted a request by prosecutors to appoint a special master to review materials seized from giuliani's home and office in april. tell us what that

michael cohen was talking about. it's -- they are obviously looking at the trump organization and its accounting. they're not looking at trump, as -- as president, really, except for the fact that the stormy daniels payment happened during that time. but they are really focusing on the trump organization. and who is the most important person in an accounting fraud investigation? allen weisselberg. will he flip? michael cohen knows him better than any of us. but i think that the pressure is being put on. and in my view, there is more pressure from the fact that his son might be in the dock. you know, might be a target, based on the cooperation of his ex-wife and other things, than there is about how much jail time allen weisselberg might do under new york law, which is not as tough as federal law. so i think that that's the pressure point that i, certainly, would focus on, in this case. it's perfectly legitimate, as long as it's done fairly and above board. most famously was done with michael milkin many years ago. he made a deal to not have his brother prosecuted in the southern district so i think that is where they are probably focusing right now. >> emily, what do you think about all of it? >>

michael: assange's most disruptive act of all was his intervention in u.s. politics in the 2016 u.s. election. danielheit-berg: what clearly happened there is that wikileaks was a useful tool, and somebody figured out how to use that. julian might've been the useful idiot to president trump or his advisers or whoever, you know, helping him to get more political momentum. ♪♪♪ jennifer robinson: for anyone to suggest that julian is owned by any particular government is simply wrong, and you need to know julian to know that that's simply not the case. ♪♪♪ michael: in the 2016 campaign, wikileaks sent shock waves through the u.s. political system. the publication of thousands of e-mails stolen from senior figures in the democratic national committee was enthusiastically embraced by candidate donald trump. now as president, trump has flipped. his administration is coming after assange, but is it just about national security, or is it also part of a broader attack on media freedom? ♪♪♪ pj crowley: it mostly likely changed the course of american politics and the american presidency, and here again, this is

involving stormy daniels, and the payment of $130,000 in hush money by michael cohen to keep her quiethappened was a criminal act, that implicated michael cohen, who later pled guilty and got three years in jail, but interestingly, the indictment also named the president of the united states as an unintended co-conspirator. now, his name was not revealed in the indictment, but subsequently prosecutors and others have said that that's who the grand juries were referring to. so for the commission now, to say nothing criminal happened, in the payment of $130,000, is rather strange, since the grand jury said it happened, michael cohen, who paid the money, also pled guilty, and said it happened, and that the president was the moving force behind it, so it is a very, very surprising outcome. but as you said, jim, it's a partisan vote. it was two republicans voted yes, two democrats voted no, and two members of the commission abstained for reasons that i'm not, i haven't been advised of. >> it just goes to show you how, i mean a lot of people think they're really just toothless because of sit

daniels and sirius underwood. they had been banded together to use before brandi was shot to death. the woman confirmed something that detective michael unable to prove, that the robbery of a local department store had been an inside job. josh daniels had been working at the store at the time, and handed over $7,000 to a masked gunmen. if we had been here on january 1st 2012, what might we have seen? >> you would've seen an individual come from the southwest side of the parking lot, he stuck the gun in joshua's face -- >> shows a pistol? >> yes. ends up being knocked out. >> the tipster claims that josh was a victim of a robbery but one of the participants, and that his pile sirius, had been the mastermind not only of the department store job but the prime mover in the crime, responsible for multiple armed robberies, most of them captured on surveillance video. the two bodybuilder secret sideline was a hit. >> sirius underwood would be robbing restaurants, or they're hitting gabriel brothers, but during the day he is the sweetest guy, loves the women, they love him, he'll train with you, poster boy, just an all around great american.

be looking at because it, that law is implicated in the stormy daniels payments where the allegation is that the reimbursement to michaelose records. and what is interesting and doesn't get reported a lot is that if you're a prosecutor in the da's office in the attorney generals office and you see one example of expense being mislabeled fraudulently falsified, you are than going to look for others, and you know in my experience it's relatively likely that there are others. i'm not saying that there are here but i know for sure that they would be looking for others in this case. >> yeah, so you're saying that you see a transaction like stormy daniels and use it feels very unlikely that a business like this that has been operating as long as it has is thinking of this particular scheme for the very first time. >> we used to say you know we're just not that good. we talk to you, with the only every thing you've ever, did it's not that believable. >> [laughs] so do you have a sense of a timetable here, of when we would expect something to emerge by way of criminal charges? or some indication that an investigation has been c

because it's implicated -- that law is implicated in the stormy daniels payments where the allegation is that the reimbursement to michaelf $130,000 was improperly accounted for in those records. and what's interesting, it doesn't get reported a lot, is if you're a prosecutor in the d.a.'s office or the attorney general's office, and you see one example of an expense being mislabeled fraudulently, falsified, you are then going to look for others. in my experience it's relatively likely that there are others. i'm not saying there are here, but i know for sure they would be looking for others in this case. >> you're saying you see a transaction like stormy daniels and you say, it feels very unlikely that a business like this that has been operating as long as it has is thinking up this particular scheme for the very first time. >> we used to say, you know, we're just not that good. we caught you at the only thing you ever did. it's just not that good. >> do you have a sense of a timetable here of when we would expect something to emerge by way of criminal charges or some indication that an investigation has been closed dow

daniel rodriguez of california, accused in the attack on officer michael fanone, the d.c.ice officer who was tasered, who was beaten, who was heckled outside the capitol. we'll watch what happens there. but by our count, nearly 140 officers were hurt that day, ranging from minor to graphic injuries. one officer temporarily blinded and scarred by a chemical spray attack outside the capitol. we also have an officer who was knocked unconscious in addition to having a concussion. we'll watch all of these cases and these injuries closely, chris. >> scott mcfarland, thank you for that. and while some republican lawmakers, you heard it this week, were downplaying the insurrection, one d.c. police officer is speak out. you just heard him mentioned, officer michael fanone seen in this infamous video being dragged down the steps of the capitol's lower west terrace where he pleaded to his life. reaction from house republicans who deny the seriousness of the attack, one saying that january 6th was like a tourist visit. >> but i will say this, you know, those are lies. and peddling tha

. >> daniel, i spoke a lot during the last administration with former cia director, general michael hayden civilization, which i thought was a term -- i thought it was a very accurate term. essentially, that the stability of our democratic institutions, that we think is sort of deeply rooted and established and actually -- it's covered by a thin veneer. just how thin is that veneer? >> well, look. which countries that are democratic tend to survive, a rich country. that's what the social science teaches us. but what i think is, also, clear is those two things are no guarantee. i mean, the reason those two things generally predict that democracies survive is because citizens mobilize. politicians abide by democratic rules and norms. so there's nothing automatic about it. i mean, there's -- we have a kind of self-conception of our society and our democracy that's a machine that runs of itself and i think it is not a machine that runs itself. it requires vigilant action by civilians and politicians to survive. >> i mentioned "the washington post" recently reported president biden has been obs

daniels. it wasn't donald trump who got the benefit of the relationship and the actions. it was michaelthe bad guy. why? because i didn't take the fall. what's going to happen when the d.a. or the attorney general -- listen, i give her a lot of credit, just as your previous guest did, a lot of credit. she didn't start this as criminal. she started it as civil. what's going to happen when all of a sudden they turn around and start asking him about his tax returns or about the devaluation of the assets or the way he took deductions? i don't do my taxes. it's my accountant. he's going to turn on his accountant and point the finger. he's going to say don jr. handled that, ivanka handled that. melania, he's going to tell them to take everyone other than himself. >> before i let you go, any thoughts on the fec throwing out the case as to whether or not drum violated election laws with regard to the payment to stormy daniels. >> not only did the fec drop this, but so did the sdny. they had about a dozen sealed indictments regarding this. all of a sudden, well, we don't have enough -- this is u

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into hush money payments made to stormy daniels, the adult firm star who alleged he had an affair with the president, something he denied, but something michael cohen went to jail for. cohen, of course, is cooperating with the district attorney's investigation. a wide range of topics they're investigating and any of those could be on the table for potential charges. >> let's get some more on the barackin breaking story. joining us is dave aaronberg, t what's your reaction to the breaking news that emerged just moments ago from the "washington post"? >> good evening, wolf. i think it tells you that cyrus vance, jr., my counterpart in manhattan, is determined to have this case charged before he leaves office at the end of this year. the grand jury is meeting for a reason. this is not a grand jury to investigate. they're way beyond that. this grand jury has been investigating since 2018. this grand jury would be to come up with charges. you don't need proof beyond a reasonable doubt, you just need a preponderance of the evidence, is it more likely than not, and probable cause. that's all. it's a much lower standard to get probable cause than bey

goes back to what daniel goldman was eluding to, donald trump will say my accountants gave me this advice or my insurance company gave me this advice, my kids gave me this advice. michael cohen gave me this advice. that's the kind of person donald trump is and will make it so very difficult to prosecute him for just about anything but make no mistake, if he's indicted, he'll start skquealing like a greased pig at the county fair. no question about it. >> dana, in terms of the politics, does own of this matter to the republican party despite it used to be call themselves the rule of law party? >> not when you have a former president who continues to use terms like witch hunt and, you know, he does well politically playing the victim card and i don't expect this to be any different. he'll probably raise money off of it and argue that this is exactly why, you know, it's more proof he has been wronged along the way from the beginning of his campaign to his presidency, and look, there are a lot of people who believe that. there are a lot of people who believe him and he'll get a lot of help from the me too caucus and conservative media and, you know, not until and unless he

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