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michael jr welcome to the show's always good to have you here we start off in kenya where a. group al-shabaab in retaliation to kenya's go in military involvement in somalia in may just security concern the group has been responsible for a series of deadly attacks on kenyan soil the latest just overall four weeks ago so twenty one people killed in an after market to tell complex in nairobi another major worry for kenyan authorities is a refugee camp on the kenyan somali border the world's largest refugee camp is home to about three hundred thousand somalis kenya considers the comp effed recruiting ground for al shabaab militants and tried to close last year in. gold challenge event at the shutdown. joining me now is kenya's cabinet secretary for foreign affairs money she also previously served in the ministry of defense many thanks for joining us let's get to the press question straight away what are the measures being put in place to prevent another such attack from happening well as you know this at our comp and almost four years since the last major attack and the reason f

michael jr welcome to did all the news africa great to have you with us gold medal winning south african run our cost us a man is in court this week trying to face down the lead to its governing body the . rules that would force athletes like cement not to reduce the outside still strong levels that south african governments are still in its weight behind the athlete. in a case and launching a social media campaign on the hostile naturally superior the landmark case has divided opinion. caster semenya name and athletic scale have polarized the world of sports in the aspect. kate she is hyper androgenic that means her body naturally produces high levels of testosterone but the i don't really have want athletes like her to take drugs to lower their testosterone levels in order to compete in middle distance track events testosterone they argue gifts to many an unfair advantage the core value for the empowerment of girls and women through the regulations that we are introducing to protect the sanctity. of fair and open competition nights really what we're here to defend symon your first game

i'm eddie michael jr welcome to news africa i'm glad you tuned in rape and sexual violence has been a continuing crisis in syria and for yes and it's getting worse in fact it has led presidents mother below to declare it's a national emergency he media announcements are made a public outcry over the issue after recorded cases of rape and sexual assaults doubled in the past year two thousand five hundred activists believe the actual figure to be much higher as many victims don't report sexual attacks and that's another shocking statistic seventy percent of the victims are under the age of fifteen one recent high profile case involved a three month old baby president he'll also announce that people convicted of sexual offenses against minors will be imprisoned for life. a move was welcomed by activists and victims of sexual violence well as vice president of an organization that advocates represents the rights of women and girls in society and we welcome it we welcome it because it is bringing the spotlight and attention to that attorney issue that we believe deserves priority place via

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police say michael crawford, jr. was clocked going 120 in a 55, but crawford refused to stop which turned into a high speed police chase. >> heard his engine rev up and that's when i pulled out my camera. he straight up told me you're going to charlotte with me. >> the passenger was able to get out and call troopers. they were able to arrest crawford who admitted to the entire incident. >>> fare evaders costing b.a.r.t. an estimated $25 million a year. no wonder there's so many easy ways. we set up cameras at five different spots. catching cheaters in the act was like shooting fish in a barrel. >> people are really bold in fare evading. i can be standing there in full uniform and they won't even try to lied it. >> taking b.a.r.t. for a ride, our original reporters tonight, the kpix5 news at 7:00. >>> i'm ken bastida at the live news desk. we'll take you right now to cape canaveral, florida. that is spacex launching a falcon 9 rocket with a couple of really cool payloads just a couple of seconds from now. there's igni

jr. based on michael cohen's testimony. it seems obvious at this point given the admission that he's executive to that donald trump jr. is under the investigation by the southern district of new york. and there are open questions of when that investigation is going to conclude. i think someone needs to ask the president if he's trying to pardon donald trump jr., if he is convicted of a crime. and some of those crimes he may get convicted of may be state crimes which you can't pardon. so we need to hear from donald trump jr. >> based on -- you see suspicion of varies crimes. three specific crimes committed by the president of the united states. is it time to begin impeachment proceedings in the house of representatives? >> i think this raises very serious questions. i still believe we need to finish the investigation. wait for mueller's report, and we need to see what the southern district of new york concludes. it seems there's a lot more in the southern district of new york than we knew before today. michael cohen said he's

pundit pushed false conspiracy theories about hillary clinton's campaign which flynn and his son michael flynn jrin their twitter feeds. >> pizzagate was a made up right wing scandal of a pizza parlor in northern washington, d.c. it was asserted the clinton family was running a child sex slavery ring in the basement. it culminated in a gunman entering that place, shooting it up and then finding the place not only did not have child sex slaves, it didn't even have a basement. >> he was just saying very fringe-like things. his friends were trying to warn him that he was going too far, he was disgracing himself, he was disgracing the uniform that he wore for so many years. >> donald trump is elected president november 8th. on election day, flynn makes a surprising move, publishing an op-ed in the political newspaper "the hill." it's not about donald trump or even american politics. instead, it urges support of turkey's hardline president erdogan who recently survived a coup attempt. >> it was extraordinary. one, because it ran on election day and it contradicted things flynn said in the past. it rea

i think this is a point you will see republicans drill down on, you know, michael cohen and donald trump jrnt pretty close. and i think that michael cohen and allies of michael cohen feel like he has been betrayed by the president and his family. i think you will see a fair amount of that in there. i think of everything that you see? what he says, that is the piece that is going to be i think the hardest for him to stand up. >> yeah. look. he does, though, go out of his way to elbow donald trump jr. there. which he didn't have to do. i don't think that necessarily lends anything to his legal argument there. it is interesting he close to do that. >> absolutely. the point about him feeling she thrown under the bus. >> yet again the president isn't being investigated for being an alleged racist. michael cohen goes out of his way to call the president is a racist. he tells varies stories, michael cohen claims he the president once asked me if i can mention a company run by a black person that whan a sh -- hole. this was when barack obama was president of the united states. >> i think you see mi

. >> also yesterday michael cohen brought to congress a check with donald trump jr.'signature that cohen says was part of his reimbursement for buying the silence of porn star stormy daniels, stopping her from speaking out about an alleged affair with the president in the final days of the campaign, but trump jr. seemed unconcerned by cohen's testimony tweeting this, this sounds like a breakup letter and i'm keeping your sweatshi sweatshirt. and later when cohen said all he wanted was to be the president's personal attorney, trump jr. tweeted laughter, michael cohen begged to work at the white house and everybody knows it. still thinking about that sweatshirt. >> yeah, i don't understand the analogy. >> trump organization chief financial officer allen weisselberger was mentioned several times. media outlets reported he received immunity to testify before a grand jury in new york during the course of the investigation into the hush money payments. three people with knowledge of that matter tell nbc news that weisselberg is not cooperating and has never been a cooperati

and this is just broken in the last forty five minutes so say is don't know is michael curry will implicate dole trump jr donald trump's son in the payment or least the reimbursement of what michael cohen claims was the hush money he paid to women in violation of campaign finance laws without something new the other thing that's raising eyebrows is we were told not to expect anything on radio in russia because the campaign the committee chairman had said he didn't want to get in the way of ongoing investigations either in other congressional committees or by prosecutors but michael cohen is going to talk quite a bit about russia in his in his opening statement at least first of all he's going to say that donald trump was informed ahead of time by the lobbyist roger stone to wiki leaks was going to release information damaging to hillary clinton now prosecutors allege that that that hacked information from the democratic national committee was supplied to wiki leaks by russia wiki leaks always denied that but that's getting people rather excited for those who are looking. for evidence of collusion it's a

jr.'s testimony stands in pretty stark contrast to the sentencing documents for michael cohen. donald trump jr. testified in front of the senate judiciary committee that he was peripherally aware of the trump tower moscow conversations. cohen has testified he briefed the family from three to a dozen times. these are admitted an established liar who all told the same lies about russia. >> yeah, and it's also one that sort of -- to put it charitably like misrepresentations or different representations of these events is also why it's tough to imagine a near-term end to either of the investigation or investigations around mueller. because not only are there the questions related to the actions and the issues at hand, but there are the cover-ups and the ways in which these people around donald trump have sort of stumbled into these misrepresentations that potentially yield more investigation. >> ken, i want you to get you on the record about your great reporting today about mueller's line of inquiry, vis-a-vis paul manafort and following the money as you do. >> yes, that's another g

michael there is no russia or collusion. that is how donald trump would speak. but why would he do that? why would donald trump jr. and ivanka trump have been briefed around ten times if what michael cohen is saying is true? and lie about it, if there is nothing to hide? >> that is a perfect question and every time you talk to somebody who is a witness or a defendant in a criminal case and lied about something, that is always the first question. why lie about this if there is nothing to hide. to your first point about cohen's testimony about how the president talked, that really tracks with my experience and i'm sure with harry's experience as well as a prosecutor. this is very common you see defendants in organizations very rarely does somebody come out and say, hey, why don't you and i go commit a crime or please don't tell anybody about the crime we committed together. >> so there is wink-wink, nod-nod code that he used. >> and there is a reason for that, because it makes it more challenges for prosecutors to prove a case. it is easy when you have somebody admitted to witness tampering and it is harder when it i

jr. went to that infamous meeting at the trump tower he called his father and said, hey, it's all good, i'm going to this. and michael saying he was in the room when don jr. made that comment. democrats i've been talking to and democratic aides will be asking michael cohen straight up, what is your biggest regret and trying to get him to say, this is why i'm coming forward now. i had somebody close to michael cohen say, and maybe jon meacham, he wants to come clean and put out all the misdeeds president trump put forward and all the misdeeds president trump committed. >> all right. as we get closer to going to break and covering both of these stories as they develop and developing right now, both on the michael cohen front and also in hanoi, vietnam, we're also covering the question whether or not a republican congress was intimidating or threatening a witness, that witness being michael cohen. that story coming up. jon meacham, thanks for being on this morning. i understand you met with someone who just might have 2020 aspirations. tell us about that before you go. >> i was at the university of delaware yesterday wi

. >> garret, michael mentioned donald trump, jr. he's likely to come up tomorrow.e know he's expected to that infamous trump tower meeting in july of 2016, plans for a trump tower he knows about that in moskow, and he was in touch with wikileaks. so how worried should he be about being indicted? >> well, he should be nervous for two reasons, actually, above and beyond that which you said. the first is that mueller has not interviewed him. he hasn't sought out an interview. he hasn't tried to sit down for questions with don june. and at this point in a prosecution, in a probe like mueller's that's actually a danger sign. that's not a good sign. that's more likely to mean that you are the target of the investigation rather than an innocent bystander to it. and second is as we were sort of talking about earlier tonight, the challenge for don junior it appears to be in some of his own congressional testimony. you know, robert mueller has already shown that he's willing to prosecute people for lying to congress. he did so with michael cohen. that's going to be one of th

>> yes. >> and with that possibility, let's now also listen to what was michael cohen's description of donald trump jrng that trump tower meeting before it happened with his father. let's listen to this. >> i recalled don jr. leaning over to his father and speaking in a low voice, which i could clearly hear, and saying, "the meeting is all set." and i remember mr. trump saying, "okay, good. let me know." so i concluded that don jr. was referring to that june 2016 trump tower meeting about dirt on hillary with the russian representatives when he walked behind his dad's desk that day. >> that's the point you're going to be looking for more detail on, i assume. >> yes. we believe there are more witnesses to what the candidate's interest was and what the candidate's family was doing or not doing as this information was offered to them. and, lawrence, also when you put into perspective what we heard today from michael cohen, this is not michael cohen's word versus donald trump's word. this is michael cohen's word without donald trump ever going under oath, not going under oath with mueller, not going under

jr. and ivanka. >> michael cohen implicated the president in the commission of a federal felony to whichded and sentenced for in federal court in the southern district with the approval of federal prosecutors who have talked to other people around said crime in which he is individual one who michael cohen said directed the crime. that in and of itself is an indictable crime if the man didn't happen to be sitting in the white house. >> and that's why i say he's not going to be sitting there forever. impeachment is a political issue. but at some point he's no longer going to be a president and they're going to be waiting for him. >> and there's a question of statute of limitations. it is possible that if -- you said -- the president runs for reelection to essentially stay out of criminal exposure. to say if he's elected, his force field extends for another four years and maybe he can get away with it. >> nobody needs to win this election more than donald trump. >> thank you so much for joining us. >>> dwm [ meowing ] mittens! make it rain. [ cheering ] [ singing opera ] change the music. ♪

now we have michael cohen testifying that he believes he heard donald trump jr.ing his father or talking to his father about that meeting. so there seems to be e a confli there that warrants a little bit of additional investigation. and as you mentioned on wikileaks, the possibility that roger stone had more communications with candidate trump about wikileaks than we previously knew about, sort of getting to the possibility that trump knew a little bit more about what was going on before those really damaging e-mail dumps came out during the democratic convention. >> and i think one thing we learned yesterday as well, very clearly from michael cohen, that there are other investigations on multiple fronts. we know that manhattan prosecutors are looking into this. what did you learn about these other investigations from this testimony yesterday? >> that jumped out at me. i think that is maybe the biggest takeaway if we're asking what is next. we'll clearly see many more hearings and i think some fairly obvious followup. but the fact that cohen said straight up the

michael: donald trump, jr. and ivanka trump. the family request the briefings? michael: this was the regular course of business. >> do you recall how me briefings their work? michael: i am sorry. >> do you recall how me briefings there might've been? michael: approximately 10. >> you also wrote there are at least a half-dozen times between the iowa caucus in january of 2016 and end of june when mr. trump would ask me, how is it going in russia? how did the president communicate those questions to you? was it verbally or over the phone? michael: verbally, virtually all the time. he would say to me, michael, walk with me. he would be heading to a car and we would be walking to the elevator and he would ask me questions quickly regarding. >> was there any doubt about what he was referring to? michael: no, this would be it. otherwise there would be no reason to ask it of me. >> you also wrote to be clear, mr. trump knew of and directed the trump moscow negotiations throughout the campaign and lied about it. how did the president direct negotiations? what details did

jr. was talking about when he said that's good, let me know. michael d'antonio. >> this is consistent with everything i saw in trump tower. it's consistent with what i witnessed, actually. no one went behind donald trump's desk. it actually is a difficult thing to do. there's a window right behind it. this would only have been done to communicate something sotto voce, you know, under the breath, and something that was delicate. and we also know that donald trump jr. really didn't make a move without consulting his father and it has always been preposterous for anyone to suggest that the then candidate, now president trump, didn't know that that trump tower meeting was happening. it was happening within feet of the candidate himself. so we've got here in michael cohen's testimony i think an accurate portrayal of how the trump organization operated. and i'll say one last thing. i do believe him when he says that he understood what was expected of him. this is classic operating style for donald trump. he didn't have to tell you explicitly that i'm going t

michael cohen? do you believe donald trump jr. there will be no evidence of that.ument to prove one way or the other. as to who do you believe with donald trump you have to talk about the context that he's said more than 8,000 fall statements during his presidency according to a count by "the washington post." that's 8,000 plus. >> and a tweet attacking michael cohen from every direction tweeting michael cohen was one of many lawyers who represented me unfortunately. he had other clients also. he was disbarred by the supreme court for lying and fraud. he did bad things unrelated to trump. he's lying in order to reduce his prison time. using crooked's lawyer, referring to hillary clinton's lawyer lanny davis he's used in the past. >> and who is america going to believe? that's why today it's public, you can sit there and judge his credibility. a lot of that will come down to the political, what democrats in the house do with this, in terms of do you believe michael cohen. now, the other element is the special skoucounsel and the sdn testimony. >> and he will be brin

jr. tweeting, "ha ha ha ha, michael cohen begged to work at the white house and everyone knows it." claims their father repeatedly said racist things. >> and he told me that black people would never vote for him because they were too stupid. >> i've talked to the president over 300 times. i've not heard one time a racist comment out of his mouth in private. so how do you reconcile it? do you have proof of those conversations? >> i would ask you -- >> do you have tape recordings of those conversations? >> no, sir. >> well, you taped everybody else. >> that's also not true, sir. >> reporter: one of his nonanswers was revealing too. >> is there any other wrongdoing or illegal act that you are aware of regarding donald trump that we haven't yet discussed today? >> yes, and again, those are part of the investigation that's currently being looked at by the southern district of new york. >> reporter: cohen said he worries now about retribution and regrets his former tactics. >> how many times did mr. trump ask you to threaten an individual or entity on his behalf? >> quite a few times. >>

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jr. tweeting out this morning that michael cohen very much wanted to be chief of staff. it's really their word against his at this point. kelly anne conway corroborating that he wanted a job in the white house. it's interesting what happened after that. that was the point at which he started to enter into contracts with a number of companies, basically selling access to the president. he was saying, i know the president very well. lobbying, potentially. entered into some very lucrative contracts with regard to that. that raises a lot of questions about whether or not he felt slighted. i also think it's interesting politically, when you look at the political reason for this. it's really a political hearing. there's a lot of evidence that we can trace back here which has been well documented by catherine and chris wallace, but this is a grandstanding political moment for democrats who want to make sure the oyster is open to continue to dig in for possible impeachment proceedings, so they're laying some seeds out there so they can continue to do these investigations. republ

jr. but we will keep going to emily. you were there, you talked to michael cohen.overed michael cohen. what is he talking about today? >> outside of the committee, i don't know what he's talking about inside the committee room, i think he felt really good last night. he came home and he was exhausted and felt like i went there and did what i had to do. was it grueling? yes. was it after a day of 9 1/2 hours behind closed doors? yes. did i get beaten up by republicans who asked me the same question over and over again? yes. but he felt like he stood his ground and did what he came down there to do and stayed on message as he possibly could, kept his composure. >> what did you learn? >> i thought the most poignant line that he said to me was, i did the dirty work for ten years. i'm feeling the consequences right now. if you guys keep doing the dirty work, you're going to learn what those consequences are. i thought that was just line in the room there felt like there was an exhale a little bit where people kind of connected to the story in a different way. and i hear

michael cohen on that. but when he starts talking about trump, jr. coming in to tell his dad about the tower meeting. >> greg: what are you talking about? who are you talking about? name names. >> juan: this is funny to me. you saw chairman cummings stop the hearings to protect a republican against the charge of racism. and behave and what i thought was the most ethical and clearly, a man of great decorum in that moment and you say no, they only interrupt the republicans. that's not true. >> jesse: juan, you have not said one thing that actually happened in the hearing. the down junior thing, michael cohen testified today "i have no direct evidence of any russian collusion." his only evidence was that don jr. came into the office one time and whispered something into his dad's ear. that's what he thinks? the evidence of anything? he has no documentation, no corroboration, no witnesses of any russian collusion, any trump tower advanced knowledge. he had nothing. >> juan: nothing about roger stone, nothing about his son coming in just before the meetin

jr. would never set up any meetings alone. >> don retweeted dozens of tweets disputing what michael cohensay. >> this is reporting back in the early days of the administration, suggests that cohen did want to work in the white house. but, donald trump jr.'s defense on everything else, so fierce that it had been offense. it would be believable had he not lie about the trump tower meeting. trump says it was about adopt n adoptio adoptions, but his e-mail revealed it was set up because russia wanted to deliver dirt on hillary clinton which brings it to the biggest liar of all is president trump. he made 8,000 false claims. one of those claims he knew nothing about the payment of stormy daniels and today though michael cohen brought a check to congress, a check signed by donald trump. cohen says that was reimbursement for the hush money payment to daniels. a payment that the two of them had discussed on tape. >> i need to open up a company for the transfer regarding our friend david so i am going to do that right away. >> i have spoken to alan weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up.

jr. or eric trump. so michael cohen is the key who unlocks all kinds of doors this into the trump world. that's why you see the president react so angrily every time he comes into public view. >> and this is from michael cohen's guilty plea. he said, i made these misstatements. i think what we can expect all week long on another network is accusations that he's a liar. and he was convicted of lying to congress. but at this point the only thing that shortens his prison sentence is telling the truth. but this is what he said about those lies -- i made these misstatements to be consistent with trump's political messaging and out of loyalty to the president. so people are going to see this week a man who has already confessed to the lies he told and offered an explanation, that he did so on behalf of the president out of, in his words, misguided loyalty to the president. but to jeremy's point, he is also packing all sorts of evidence that will -- i don't know how it plays in the court of law but in the court of public

jr. appears to be in some of his congressional testimony. robert mueller has terms that he's willing to prosecute people lying to congress. that's one of the things that'll be brought up with michaelbility tomorrow. we have reasons to believe that democrats on capitol hill believes that don jr. shares some of those same lies about the trump tower/moscow deal with the congressional committee with his own hearing and those transcripts were handed over to the house of intelligence committee to mueller's probe. >> let's talk about the national enquirer. will we learn of other women tomorrow? >> this is really an interesting question. no one is going to take michael cohen at his word tomorrow. prosecutors should seize 292,000 documents, texts or e-mails, or telephone calls or recordings from michael cohen of that april raid last year, and that michael cohen is going to be showing those documents. both michael cohen's attorney and the justice department has a vested interest in making sure that every single thing that michael cohen is saying can be backed up with evidence. they need to be preserving michael cohen credibility as a future witness in possible trials. so, you can be sure th

michael cohen? >> cohen certainly pointed his finger in donald jr.'s direction.ot to the surface of what my light underneath and what we might find out further in what we we do have access to the mule are findings. there's also that conversation that he relates of don jr. whispering in his father's ear. there's a lot of quiet around donltd jr.'s precise involvement but there's every reason to see him as an extension of his far so i think there is more to be learned there. >> hey, joe, i got a big peacekeeper in the wake of what happened in vietnam. we went into in week, we knew this was going to be an extraordinary week. sometimes literally there's been a split screen, sometimes it was metaphorical. you had the michael cohen screen, we knew it was going to be an ugly picture for donald trump. but vietnam was supposed to be a pretty screen, certainly good was going to happen on that screen. instead we have a screen from vietnam that says summit collapses. terrible headlines. so now you're donald trump. you know donald trump pretty well if i recall correctly, you'r

michael cohen is going to claim that the president and donald trump jr. were in fact part of a criminal scheme to violate campaign finance laws. if he does have checks that were signed by these two men, how far does that go into proving an illegal act and how big of an illegal act sk this considered to be? >> well, the illegal act has already been alleged. that's in the original court document against cohen and that is that these were illegal campaign contributions. nothing illegal about paying hush money. what the prosecutors in new york said when they charged cohen is in one payment directly to the woman, it violated -- it was an inkind campaign contribution and it violated the contribution limits and secondly the contributions weren't reported. so that's the nature of the violation. i think it's well to remember that everything we're going to hear today from michael cohen, the prosecutors have already heard. so all the charges that they brought against cohen both by the special counsel about the lying about trump tower and the new york prosecutors abou

jr. and alan weisselberg. >> what he's talking about is this check, a copy of which i'm holding in my hand right now, written to michaelaugust 1st, 2017, while donald trump was president of the united states. this was part of the hush money, according to michael cohen and frankly federal prosecutors, used to pay off stormy daniels. joining me now is larry noble. he previously served as general counsel for the election commission and is a cnn contributor. larry, i'm thrilled to have you with us to help understand the laws that prosecutors, federal prosecutors say were broken here. first, by get to michael cohen, just remind us in 20 seconds or less what laws did michael cohen plead guilty to breaking in terms of campaign finance? >> well, he pled guilty to i believe making excessive contribution and also conspiracy, i believe it was. and so it was -- it was all related to this making of the contribution, make of the payoff to stormy daniels. and so, yeah, it was -- i'm trying to think. and so it was -- it was a conspiracy to -- to make an illegal contribution and it was a conspiracy for failure to report the contributio

we just learned that michael cohen intends to produce a second check, this one to him for reimbursement for the stormy daniels payments, but this one signed by donald trump jrand also alan weisselberg who was the cfo of the trump organization. we have one check. this one we have a picture of signed by donald trump when he was president of the united states in august of 2017. and now we're length that cohen will also produce a second check signed by among others, donald trump jr., the president's son. the significance of that. >> let's just step back and talk about why this all matters at all. as you've been pointing out, one of the things that michael cohen pleaded guilty to was making an unlawful campaign contribution by paying off stormy daniels on the eve of the election. keeping her quiet to benefit donald trump's campaign. so the question is, did michael cohen have coconspirators in that enterprise, this criminal enterprise of the unlawful campaign contributions? that races the question of, well, where did he get the non pay off stormy daniels? and was he reimbursed for the money he paid off stormy daniels to? these two checks, the one check we've seen

about the meeting at trump tower between donald trump jr and various russian nationals ostensibly about getting dirt on hillary clinton but michael cohen is going to make it clear he has no direct evidence of any russia collusion which will be disappointing to those who are desperately still trying to find that remember robert mueller has yet to indict anyone for russia collusion in the trunk campaign ordered from him so he has but there's no there are no indictments about that but he will certainly say that there are there is circumstantial evidence that the trunk at least was aware of issues involving russia and that donald trump's lawyers certainly knew that michael cohen was going to lie to congress about the negotiations that are been underway in twenty six you know over developing a trump tower in moscow so those are causing a great stir here in washington because we didn't expect to hear anything about russia or tool in addition to. a first donald trump is concerned what is concerning is his his timing is being tied to those campaign finance violations but also tax fraud by going to allege tax fraud and food within the tru

come a number of people are saying here including the president's son, don jr., that everything that is playing out with michael and what we hear in the congress today, undermined the president's hand in these negotiations. do you think that is true and does the white house think that is true? >> bret: i don't think they think that. i think they think it distracts the attention. you know, the hearings happen today. the meetings really, now, it is today, tomorrow your time. and the summit goes all day this day here in hanoi. and so the coverage will come back to the summit after a day of being up on capitol hill. does it distract? yes. does it diminish? no, if they get the liberals out of the summit from anything is substantial. history has a long view. michael cohen will not be a big part of history if that happens. >> tucker: either way, i doubt it will be a chapter. bret baier light from hanoi, thank you very much for that. >> bret: thank you, tucker. >> tucker: so what can we realistically expect out of the summit we are watching in hanoi? the director of studies for the center of national interest joins us,

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the other issue is this famous june 2016 trump tower meeting where michael cohen says will testify, that he believes donald trump jr. told his father about that meeting in advance. he describes this encounter with don junior comes behind the desk, whispers in his ear the meeting is on and the president responding that he's happy that the meeting is on. and so that would be two incidents where the president was aware of communications with russians with wikileaks which, again, get to the central question of the special counsel's investigation. this raises the issue does the special counsel have more than michael cohen's testimony to corroborate those incidents? remember, special counsel has a lot of cooperating witnesses who are very close and deeply involved in this campaign, rick gaetz among them. he has a lot of tools to gather electronic evidence of those things. this is a significant moment in the russia investigation. >> garrett graff, you have a book called the threat matrix where you have been connecting these dots for us and everyone for months now. what do you see in michael cohen's testimony today? >>? >>

jr. walked behind trump's desk and said, block, block, the meeting, and trump -- amy: let's go to michaelohen is a donald trump knew about the wikileaks releasase of hillary clinton theme out before it happened. >> a lot of people have asked me about whether mr. trump knew about the release of the hacked documents, democratic national committee emails, at of time. anand the ananswer is yes. as i earlier stated, mr. trump knew from roger stone in advance about the wikileaks drop of emails. days before the democratic national convention, i was a mr. trump's office when his secretary announced the roger stone was on the phone. mr. stone on the speakerphone, mr. stone t told mr. trump p the had just gotten off the phone with julian assange and that he told mr. stone that within a couple of days, there would be a massive dump of females that would damage hillary clinton's campaign. mr. trump responded by stating to the effect, wouldn't that be great? hearing,r in the thomas massie of kentucky questioned michael cohen. >> you said -- and this is also in your testimony -- in the days before the

are you going to ask michael cohen about ivanka, eric or don jr. in any context? >> i think it is fair game. the fact of the matter is, i don't think don jr. was candid with us, as well. i think he is one that we would like to bring back and clarify some of his answers. i don't think anyone is offlimits in this circumstance. the fact of the matter is the members of the trump family were working on these projects and programs. if they are not involved, then they are not fair game, but if they are the president has put them in harm's way. >> is it the june 2016 meeting in trump tower? >> there are a number of things. the fact is we were ham strung by the fact that the chairman of the intel committee at the time was really acting as a second defense team for the president and the white house. and my republican colleagues were more worried about protecting the president politically and legally than getting to the heart of what took place. there were no subpoenas for witnesses and people didn't have to answer questions if they didn't want to. so we'll get the gavels no

jr., eric trump, ivanka trump. they want to interview them and see if their statements square up with what michael cohen said.stencies, we've seen it before, over and over again, robert mueller has charged people with lying to the fbi. that is certainly one of the possibilities here beyond just the underlying possible crimes that michael cohen is suggesting. >> we only have a short time left, but in all this name dropping, was there something that sort of said to you, oh, there you go, here's the roadmap for investigators? >> i think investigators have long known what the roadmap was. getting michael cohen saying this publicly certainly amplifies it, has us talking about it, has the public a little more aware of it. people watching the russia investigation unfold, the trump organization investigation unfold for the last couple of years, this is certainly an opportunity to see all that kind of spilled out there in public with lawmakers interested in it, with democrats now with subpoena power. this certainly amplifies it and takes it to another level. >> darren samuelson, the article is in politico, thank you s

at one point michael cohen was asked, so are you saying that donald trump orchestrated a criminal fraud with donald trump jr. and allen weissleberg? yes. at this moment, are there other frauds we don't know about or other crimes that were committed? yes. of course that's going to make donald trump jump out of his socks. he's in hanoi. he just got epically trolled by michael cohen thousands of miles away. he did to trump what trump has done to everyone else. he has damning testimony, he's insulted him personally and trump's in a box halfway around the world and can't do anything about it. the next leg of this, i think, is people inside the trump organization are going to start to have to decide do they take care of themselves, do they take care of trump or do they try to find a middle ground? i don't think they're going to ultimately be able to have a middle ground. >> mimi, how does that work? >> well, i mean, it sounds like allen weissleberg, for one, has already made a decision about that. he reportedly has an immunity agreement with the southern district. >> i want to be careful there because i don't kno

all manner of the trump businesses, we'll have michael cohen testifying tomorrow in the house oversight committee, that's something donald trump, donald jranka trump will be watching closely. >> darren samuelson, thank you. >>> we'll be right back. n, thanu >>> we'll be right back. because with expedia, i saved when i added a hotel to our flight. ♪ so even when she outgrows her costume, we'll never outgrow the memory of our adventure together. unlock savings when you add select hotels to your existing trip. only when you book with expedia. your but as you get older,hing. it naturally begins to change, causing a lack of sharpness, or even trouble with recall. thankfully, the breakthrough in prevagen helps your brain and actually improves memory. the secret is an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. healthier brain. better life. >>> that will do it, that's all. that wraps up this hour of "msnbc live." i'll see you tomorrow morning on "today." "andrea mitchell reports" starts right now. >> thank you. >>> and right now on "andrea mitchell reports

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checks and he says he will provide another check made out to michael cohen in the amount of $35,000, but this one is signed by donald trump jr. what is the significant of that? >> it is a suggestion that there are more people involved in the cover-up. >> this is signed by not only donald trump jr but the cfo of the trump organization, allen weisselberg cooperating with the special counsel. >> he has immunity, unlike donald trump jr, and that could open these two men up to possible exposure but what are they telling special counsel and federal prosecutors. it's not a crime to live publicly that they make sure it is straight or supported by the evidence when speaking with robert mueller investigators or new york investigators. >> you can see the 42 members of congress gathering and beginning some of the questioning with each one getting five minutes in order to question michael cohen. this could be an extraordinary hearing today with many questions, and is there anything out of bounds they cannot discuss? >> there is agreement that michael cohen is not supposed to talk about the ongoing special counsel investigation into the 2