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mr. michael richard farris, sr., and the late richard newsom. >> president yee: okay. that brings us to the end of the agenda. madam clerk, are there any further business before us? but before you say anything, i want to say thank you to my colleagues for making this meeting easy to chair. i know it won't be like this every week, but thank you for today. madam chair? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> president yee: okay. meeting adjourned. shop and dine in the 49 promotes local businesses and challenges residents to do their shopping and dining within the 49 square miles of san francisco. by supporting local services within our neighborhoods, we help san francisco remain unique, successful, and vibrant. so where will you shop and dine in the 49? >> my name is ray behr. i am the owner of chief plus. it's a destination specialty foods store, and it's also a corner grocery store, as well. we call it cheese plus because there's a lot of additions in addition to cheese here. from fresh flowers, to wine, past a, chocolate, our dining area and

mr. michael cohen's claims about the president.eral criminal offense and more importantly it's a constitutional offense against the rule of law and against constitutional democracy. we simply can't have public officials ordering their underlings to lie to congress. so i think this would very quickly become the primary focus of what the committees want to look at in terms of mr. cohen's testimony. we don't know if it is true, of course. already, people, of course, are saying that this is a matter of the gravest legal urgency. >> michael cohen as far as we know is still planning to testify, but sources telling cnn he is concerned for the safety of his family. do you have any indication that he may not appear? >> i have no reason to think he won't appear. we would clearly do whatever we can within our power to make sure that he is secure and safe when he comes to capitol hill. i don't know what other provisions can be made to guarantee his safety. i have never seen a situation like that before at least since i have been in congress. o

mr. michael richard farris, sr., and the late richard newsom. >> president yee: okay. that brings us to the end of the agenda. madam clerk, are there any further business before us? but before you say anything, i want to say thank you to my colleagues for making this meeting easy to chair. i know it won't be like this every week, but thank you for today. madam chair? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> president yee: okay. meeting adjourned. >> clerk: the meeting is being called to order at 5:30 p.m. this is a regular meeting of the small business commission held on monday, january 14, 2019. the small business commission thanks media services and sfgovtv for televising the meeting which can be viewed on sfgovtv 2 or channel 7 # or live streamed at sfgov.org. members of the public, please take this time to silence your phones or ellectronic devices. speakers are requested but not required to state their names. completion of a speaker card, while optional, will help ensure proper spellings of speaker's names in the written record of the mee

mr. michael richard farris, sr., and the late richard newsom. >> president yee: okay. that brings us to the end of the agenda. madam clerk, are there any further business before us? but before you say anything, i want to say thank you to my colleagues for making this meeting easy to chair. i know it won't be like this every week, but thank you for today. madam chair? >> clerk: that concludes our business for today, mr. president. >> president yee: okay. meeting adjourned. of discussion here with yourself included. >> sure. >> i do have a couple of questions. i remembered that girl last, but these are key. i think commissioner lee might be the best person to answer these, i'm very familiar with conducting sound tests where the hiring consultants. i've had to do that many times. i am less with decibel leader -- meter logs and installing limiters and what it actually entails. you might have some experience in this and how onerous is this? is it buying something on the internet and plugging it in? >> not necessarily. inspector berg maybe able to speak more to this, but our

mr. michael douglas. did you win an oscar for "cuckoo's nest?"ckoo's nest," what year was that? >> 1975. thank you very much, thank you. >> stephen: 1975, you weren't a famous actor at this point, were you? you were on-- >> no. i was on the television show "streets of san francisco." >> stephen: a quinn-martin production. >> a quinn-martin production, exactly. >> stephen: right, yeah. >> and i left the show in the final year. people thought i was nuts, to produce "cuckoo's net." it was a hit show for the fifth year, i left the show. got permission from karl malden to get out of my contract, quinn-martin. >> stephen: sure. >> don't see them doing that these days. >> stephen: sure, yeah. >> and produced "cuckoo's nest," got the oscar. now i'm an academy award-winning movie producer. >> stephen: yeah. >> and as an actor, i can't get arrested in movies. because at that time, television acting and movie acting was completely separate. there were only two television actors, steve mcqueen and clint eastwood, earlier than me, sort of made that transition

reinforcing the entire european project now that is a view of course held by both on the machall and mr michael manual mccaul of course. experiencing a lot of. counter currents at home in france we were talking to our correspondents earlier and heard the shouts of the demonstrators of the yellow vest movement which of of followed him to the signing in aachen which is on the belgian dutch border city. thanks to the strength of the so-called franco german motor has traditionally been seen as the driving force in europe. both speeches their treatments france and germany to pull from military ties. possible joint deployments. terrorism there is also an. africa by council on its importance in the future of course migration in germany playing a major role we're expecting other speeches as well. for this signing we see there . john paul younger the president of the european commission there is donald tusk the president of. european council. now we have the play of the national post beginning with the french national. of course german. speaker. of the council. fine you can slash from the viewpoint of t

mr. trump instructed michael cohen to lie about lance to build a trump tower in moscow.l spokesman dismissed the claims as ludicrous. democrats say the legations ne to be investigated and if true, could constitute obstruction of justice and rjury. the subject us -- that just won't go away. the president and russia and the most serious allegations today to hide the efforts the organization was makinto build a trump tower in moscow just before the election. becameonald trump saesident, michael cohen went before congress anid that the plan was scrapped in january e.16. that was not tru it is a lie that turd him time in jail. according a detailed buzz feed report, the light was not his idea. -- the lie was not his idea. internal company emails, text messages, and a cash of other documents. the report goes on. the president personally instructed him to lie by claiming that negotiations ended months earlier than ey actually did in order to obscure personaldent's current attorney, rudy giuliani, has categorically denied this. the white house has been most circumspect. >> this i

mr michael gove will talk about the world of opportunity after brexit, is that how you see it?e huge opportunities and huge challenges, and it is about understanding the long—term goals and planning to businesses for the long—term. and planning to businesses for the long-term. thank you both very much. as you can hear there is a lot to discuss in agriculture at the moment. to call it a time of change is really to undersell it. we have two days in oxford to discuss everything. we could go on all day. for now, back to you. thank you very much. if you want to hear more about what's happening at both 0xford farming conferences, you can tune in to farming today on radio 4 tomorrow morning at 5:45am. just before breakfast, so you can listen to that, and then watch us. of course. you're watching breakfast. still to come this morning: we'll take you behind the scenes of the bbc‘s new talent show the greatest dancer withjudges cheryl, 0ti mabuse and matthew morrison. time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. good morning from bbc london news, i'm sonja jessup. a builde

mr. bercow: michael fabricant. >> question 11, mr. speaker. prime minster may: i was pleased to meet the mayor when we visited the norton headquarters of the adi group. that is why we are seeing annual investment in apprenticeships doubling by 2020. it was an excellent opportunity to see a successful company doing its best to give young people a career. the latest statistics show employment in the west midlands has risen by 276,000 since 2010. >>, that is fantastic news but i think the prime minister will agree with me transport is also the key to employment. i want to risk the question of the rail line, which is currently only used for freight. memorial arboretum gets around half a million visitors a year, but they will have to come at the moment by road along the busy and congested a-38. so, can i asked the prime minister that this rail line be upgraded to a passenger service providing a valuable east-west connection from birmingham? which she also allow me to take her personally around the memorial arboretum? mr. bercow: prime minister. pri

the story alleges "trump received 10 personal updates from michael cohen and encouraged a planned meeting with vladimir putin." mrded on twitter quoting the fox news correspondent kevin corke, "don't forget, michael cohen has already been convicted of perjury and fraud. lying to reduce his jail time!" michael cohen was president trump's longtime personal lawyer and fixer. he is cooperating with prosecutors — and was sentenced in december to three years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of tax fraud and lying to congress. the intelligence committee will investigate the claims, says its chairman adam schiff — who wrote on twitter: "the allegation that the president of the united states may have suborned perjury before our committee in an effort to curtail the investigation and cover up his business dealings with russia is among the most serious to date." let's speak to anthony zurcher in washington: anthony, how serious are these allegations it twists and turns the story. absolutely and i think one of the most interesting thing about the bus speed article wasn'tjust that michael cullen making these allegat

border and doing that trip, phillip rucker and he said are you worried about what michael ko pen is going to say? >> mr. president, michael cohen has just agreed to testify before the house democrats next month, what do you think about that are you worried? >> no, i'm not worried about it at all, no. >> a typical response there, very quickly before i let you go, lindsey graham just tweeted, time for the president to use the emergency powers, he just tweeted that he has given up, is that what the white house is working on right now? is this a question of when they attempt to issue this emergency order, not if? >> i don't know if i would go quite that far, chuck, but i had a conversation today talking about how there is preparation happying in the white house council's office to play the ground work. it seems like one of the very few ways out of this for president trump. as we are talking about this we're learning many from our colleges about how he plans to do this. california and puerto rico, and it will not sit well with people. >> go ahead and finish your thought. >> it is not something that the pres

the only time that michael has admitted to lying was lying on mr. s behalf, not for michael cohen's benefit but at the time even consulting with the white house on the lie about the moscow tower and that trump was involved in those discussions all the way through even mr. giuliani says through november of 2016. >> you're saying michael cohen consulted with white house staff about that misleading testimony to congress? >> it's a matter of public record that he did talk to white house officials. but the point is -- which officials? >> well, i don't know now and i won't say now what specific officials there are matters that mr. mueller is looking into that we are going to be careful about. but i did want to -- >> i'll let you make your point. do you that i mr. cohen will be in a position to name names in that testimony? >> i don't know. we're still going to be looking for guidance from mr. mueller as i know mr. cummings is. and i want to clarify -- >> how does that work? do you, you know, lawyer to lawyer, lanny, i got to do it, do you and the other fol

the story alleges "trump received 10 personal updates from michael cohen and encouraged a planned meeting with vladimir putin." mried ever directing his former lawyer to break the law. he responded on twitter ,, j e? '; i correspondent kevin corke, "don't forget, michael cohen has already been. cent-listed ~ ~ to reduce his jail time!" michael cohen was president trump's longtime personal lawyer and fixer. to three years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of tax fraud and lying to congress. the intelligence committee will investigate the claims, says its chairman adam schiff, who wrote on twitter: "the allegation that the president of the united states may have suborned perjury before our committee is among the most serious to date." the bbc‘s senior north america reporter, anthony zurcher, says this is potentially very damaging for the president. i think the key detail in the buzzfeed report that is causing a lot of people to say this is very serious allegations as the fact that according to the buzzfeed article, robert mueller does notjust have michael cohen's word that donald trump directed them to liv

mr. trump that's fuelling new talk of impeachment. buzzfeed reporting that the person told michael cohen to lie to congress about the trump tower moscow project. the white house issued a firm denial. mr. trump has been slamming cohen's credibility. cnn and other news organizations have not confirmed the story. if true, it certainly could give mueller and democrats a powerful argument that the president obstructed justice. mr. trump's reaction to all this apparently is making michael cohen nervous. his adviser says cohen fears trump supporters in this country and maybe abroad could harm him or his family. i will get reaction from a democratic congressman. our correspondents and analysts are standing by. first, our justice correspondent jessica is schneider. you have been going over court documents. what are you learning? >> reporter: if you read between the lines of the court filings, buzzfeed's reporting fits. mueller's team said that michael cohen clued them in about how he prepared for what turned out to be false congressional testimony. now buzzfeed is saying, it's the president

they are basing it on reams of documenty evidence and witness interviews that preceded michael cohen sitting down with mr. mueller. when michael walked in and spoke to mueller's team, he then sort of put that investigation over the top. he put the cherry on top. i think said, yes, this is true, this is how it went down. >> it's incredible reporting. we haven't obviously been able to confirm this, ourselves, at nbc. we're relying on your reporting, but it is truly some incredible things in here. including the detail and frequency, anthony, with which it appears that donald trump and/or ivanka trump and donald trump junior were, in fact, briefed and the degree to which donald trump was involved in this, despite simultaneously denying during the campaign and subsequently that he had meaningful dealings with russia. >> right. he said, again, on the campaign trail that he has no business with russia, nothing to see here, when, in fact, behind the scenes, he was encouraging mr. cohen to set up a meeting overseas in russia with vladimir putin. he was encouraging him to pursue the deal and he was made aware of s

mr. cohen, period. joining me now, michael cohen's legal adviser, lanny davis. good to see you, lanny. obviously mr. cohen, your client, under tremendous pressure here, he says that he is afraid to testify because of the president's threats, because of rudy giuliani and what he said on tv. first of all, will he appear before the senate? he has been subpoenaed by the intelligence committee, we've been told. >> well, he has to comply with subpoenas and we have to have some reasonable conversations. mr. cummings we greatly respect and are grateful for his invitation for mr. cohen to appear voluntarily. but the language used by mr. schiff and mr. cummings about classic mob tactics is the answer directly to president trump. it's not about the truth, because you've hidden from the truth, you won't even discuss direct questions and answers with mr. mueller. it's about your attacking his father-in-law, mr. trump. mr. giuliani, you attack his father-in-law and allude to him being a criminal because he's from the ukraine. this is classic mob technique, to send a signal to the individual who mr. trump has call

these new revelations comes days after michael confirmed reports that mr. trump directed him to pay thousands of dollars to a technology expert ahead of the 2016 presidential campaign to rig online polls in hiatite house, lenghi, kpix 5. >> and this just coming in, the white house says that president will hold a second mm with north korea leader kim jong un. >>> amtrak bus has crashed first responders say that seven passengers were trans pored to local hospital with minor injuries. there were 25 people on board this bus. when it crashed just before 6:00 a.m. in loss allah mohs on highway 101. riders say they were asleep when somehow the bus ended up on its side. officers haven't determined yet what caused that accident, but heavy fog raspberry reported in the area at the time of that crash. >>> a man convicted of murder has been resentenced and released from martinez jail later today, friends of kahn. ended with an acquaintance fatally stabbing hair would-be drug dealer. because it resulted in a homicide, allowed kahn to be equally responsible as the man wh

michael cohen, too. >> i've made it clear to mr. cohen and his counsel that he'll come back before the intelligence committee. he came before our committee before, he did not tell the truth. we want to hear what the truth is, so he's coming back before our committee. voluntarily, we hope, but we are prepared to subpoena him to come back if that's necessary, and we're going to be doing that fairly soon. >> three committees. some people would say, is that excessive? is there that much new material to be gleaned from michael cohen, or do the democrats have authority now and they have a guy who turned on trump who will say things critical of trump and they think this is just a political opening? is this substance for michael cohen or politics? >> it depends on the committee. if you're looking at the house committees now run by democrats, you can bet it's going to be a little bit more politics. the fact they wanted him to com working for donald trump tells you they're not going to get to the heart of the matter with the russian investiga

mr. michael cohen declined it to speak, and said why." that brings us to now.your thoughts on this report? >> let me say that newt gingrich and i have something in common. neither of us have the slightest clue whether this report is accurate or not. do i have my doubts about buzzfeed? absolutely. and the reporter who broke the story apparently now says he didn't see the actual documents that substantiated. it's a big red flag. so i don't know whether the story is true or not. i would take it with a giant grain of salt. i guess you can't have a giant grain. a giant walk. if true, very persuasive. trying to get someone to commit perjury. it can get you impeached. but we don't know whether that is the case. it is interesting that michael cohen, as john roberts mentioned for the special counsel, so impressed by his testimony, that they said he should get no prison sentence at all. in the specific charge, i don't know whether it's true. the fact that buzzfeed is reporting doesn't mean that it is true. with a giant i-f, if it is not true, it is a big deal, . >> sandr

mr. trump scare michael cohen into silence? >>> delaying trump's speech.'t by a state of the union address in the house chamber until the shutdown ends, after the president essentially dared her to dis-invite him. mr. trump is considering a plan to go around pelosi to fund his wall. >>> a new response tonight from the former trump campaign chairman to the claim he lied to prosecutors. why is a federal judge forcing paul manafort to appear in court? >>> fearing for her life. a sex coach who claims she has evidence of election meddling is worried the russians are out to get her, after she was suddenly released from custody. what might the kremlin do to guarantee her silence? we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you are in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>

after his arrest go in was discharged from both mr and mitsubishi he remains c.e.o. . michael paine is president of the ship gets a news agency in tokyo what goans chances of getting bail his legal team has filed for bail at least. oh well yes they have filed for bail historically speaking his chances are very very slim. the generally speaking in the japanese system if prosecutors ask a judge for something a judge almost automatically gives it and in this case the prosecutors are making it clear they want to hold him as long as possible and so he can apply for bail but he probably won't get it but there might be a surprise this is a not unusual case doesn't say to new charges but is it any clearer of what he's supposed to have done wrong. the charges of what he's supposed to have done wrong are very strange in a sense that they don't seem so serious that would merit this very heavy handed treatment of him so for example in the case of his not reporting his pay or fraudulent on that on that issue basically that all revolves around money which go and had been planning to get pai

michael cohen to lie to congress. >> in just the last few minutes, house democrats promised a full investigation. this is all happening in response to a buzz feed news report which claims mr. trump told michael cohen to lie about negotiations to build a trump tower in moscow. they said president trump supported a plan to visit russia during the presidential campaign and personally meet with president vladimir putin to kick-start tower negotiations. this morning on gma chief legal analyst dan abrams explains what it means. >> weave talked about the line for obstruction of justice. it's not enough, for example to fire james comey. what would be witness cam terg? this is easy. if he told michael coe hone to lie to congress, no one would say that's not obstruction of justice or witness tampering. that would be a crime. >> gma will have much more on the story at 7:00 a.m. after abc 7 mornings. >>> oakland teachers planning a sickout this morning. >> amy hollyfield joins us live with more. amy? >> reporter: hi, reggie. teachers will rally here in front of oakland tech high school this morning. they will do that an hour and then march to the administration building. the last tim

mr. mueller said about michael cohen as well as the second district of new york prosecutors and the judge that seaso sentenced him. >> what made him credible, what he said or other physical evidence. >> i can only surprise that nobody in the general justice system takes something alone that is subject to credibility challenges. mr. mueller has a reputation that corroboration, documentation, and other evidence is always needed in order for something this serious to be taking place. in this case it is my assumption that mr. mueller is operating on the same rule that it has to have corroboration. >> so far they're saying he was directed to make hush money payments. he says he was directed to rig the poles, and now he supposedly said the president directed him to lie. are there other lies that the president directed him to do. >> no, but one witness on the payment on this hush money at the end of an lex campaign with no doubt undisputed reimbursement of michael cohen, his name is rudy giuliani. the very man that challenges michael cohen's credibility one day said we never said collusion, and

committee has issued a subpoena to michael cohen, president trump's one time personal attorney and fixer to testify in mid february. mid february we're being told is when mrn would be compelled to testify. michael steele, you've been around those halls of congress for a long time. when witnesses refuse the subpoena, what happens? >> well, if they ultimately -- ultimately they can be held in contempt of congress. i realize mr. cohen is headed to prison already. he could face incarceration if he defies the subpoena. most people don't defy the subpoena. particularly if they allow him to testify privately, i would think that would address many if not all the concerns he's cited thus far. >> we are right now reaching out to mr. cohen, to attorneys who either represent him or in the past have represented him as well to get their reaction. will he comply with the subpoena? we are efforting a response right now. >>> kristen welker is standing by for us as well at the white house. have we heard from the administration with regards to this latest news? >> reporter: we haven't yet, craig. but, of course, president trump was asked about this yesterday and about those

and someone else who won't be appearing before congress anytime soon is mr trump's former lawyer, michaeloned his testimony because, according to his legal advisor, of threats to his family from the president. more from chris buckler in washington. on occasions when of the state of the union is written in a letter and given to congress in that way, it has become something of a tradition for presidents to stand up and give a speech to congress. it is a speech whether president has a chance to set up the goals or agenda for the year ahead and speak to the legislative body which is all important in terms of fulfilling exactly what he wants for the year ahead. but there has been an exchange of letters, initially an invitation from nancy pelosi and that invitation takeaway and president trump said, i'm going to deliver it anyway, there are no security concerns. nancy pelosi is not backing down and the latest in this exchange of letters has seen her say well, frankly, you not welcome while the government remains in partial shut down here in washington dc. as a result, she has basically said you

michael cohen consider this to be a threat? >> shepard: what the are the threats? when he said his family? >> comments that the president made in a tweet about mrsther. michael's father-in-law. whether he should be viewed by the doj as if he were in organized crime. i'm trying to be charitable in characteringizing what the president said. >> neil: i wouldn't characterize it the way you did. >> he's accused the president's lawyers, off the rails lately. and we also know major guliani of threatening him. i don't know of what he says those threats consist. >> neil: why would that affect your testimony before a congressional committee? >> i guess he wants to convey the impression, whether real or not, that he's fearful for his own safety or the safety of members of his family. >> neil: would this change any potential sentencing for him? >> it won't think it would. >> maybe ignite sympathy for him? >> you just ran a clip from elijah cummings who is very determined and has the votes to do this but what he doesn't have is time. the bureau of prisons going to delay his reporting date to give congress time to subpoena him? absolutely not. i don't know wh

. >> the only time michael has admitted to lying was lying on mr. trump's behalf and not for michael cohen's benefit but at the time even consulting at the white house on the lie of the moscow tower and that trump was involved in those discussions. >> presumably, kim, he's not going to be lying or benefit the president, there is no reason for him to be lying any longer? >> yes, the argument is he lied at the president. he did pay off behalf of the president. if he does lie, he knows he can get prosecuted again like mr. mueller did. in addition there is a possibility that if he helicoptcontinues to cooperate as a whole, he can seek a reduction. at the made clear publicly that he really cares at this point about doing what's best for his family and he suffers tremendously. what's interesting about this is it is going to be one of the most critical moment in the entire process, february 7th because not only are we seeing one of a branch of the government roaring back to life in terms of doing the over sight functions, we'll see this person actually play

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michael. [applause] mr. brown: thank you. well, thank you for coming out. as you gather, i am not scottish, but i will speak on behalf of the university of aberdeen today. as a staff member, if not directly an alum. i want to thank the people who brought us here together and for the honor you have given me in speaking on this occasion. it is a privilege to come to washington to speak about willing thornton. a remarkable one. crossing oceans, crossing , stillctual disciplines acting as a republican virtue and in gaining the commission to design the capitol, thornton provided the city with an urban landmark, a signature edifice, for a country and a monument to democratic politics which is recognized throughout the globe. it can be hard to understand how strange it was the capitol came to be built at all. even if we set aside the pragmatic concerns of the , and the financial cost that was to be borne by taxpayers who had only recently rebelled when they deemed such a burden illegitimate, it is worth conceiving. it was envisioned to be a siege of government. th

but anyway, michael, mr. chairman, it has been said that the reason this isn't coming up in the senate, this connell is covering this with his body because he may not have the votes to protect this president's flank. what's the level of discomfort among members of your party? >> it's high. it's very high. i think that's a perfect analysis. he doesn't have the votes to protect this president's flank. in fact, you've got republicans now up to three, and while folks will say, that's not a lot, it's a big shift to have three of those senators, the latest being lisa murkowski coming and moving away from the president on this issue. you know, in one of these rare moments, i'm in agreement with my buddy, james carville. this was a nothing burger. this was the quintessential definition of a nothing-burger speech tonight. it was in one sense interesting in that it lowered expectations. i mean it just kind of -- it kind of took the air out of the argument because the president, you know, maybe it's the teleprompter thi

trump directed his former full interview by the congress the report by buzz feed news claims mr trump ordered michael cullen to lie about plans to build a trump tower in moscow. raise latest allegations come the president marks the for the midpoint of his four year term doubly as a washington bureau chief alexandra has this look back at the first two years of this tumultuous trump presidency. he has remained true to himself bragging about his accomplishments lashing out at his critics. to fake viewing the presidency through the lens of a television show president's trump has been dominating the national conversation as no other of modern president has done before at the midpoint of his term he has grown more confident of his own judgment but he also seems to be more isolated no then at any point since he took office his administration has seen a record breaking turnover with top level officials and advisers leaving or being fired as the president continues to push through his america first policy the paris climate accord is simply the latest example of washington entering into an agreement that disad

panel has issued a formal request for testimony from president trump's former lawyer, michael cohen. yesterday, mrappearance before the house oversight committee, claiming that mr trump had threatened his family. it's not yet clear how mr cohen will respond to the new subpoena from the senate intelligence committee. mr cohen is due to begin a prison sentence in march after being convicted of campaign finance violations. the doomsday clock is to remain at two minutes to midnight for the second consecutive year. its creators, the us—based bulletin of the atomic scientists, say that the major existential threats of nuclear weapons and climate change leave the world dangerously close to an apocalypse. climate change is redrawing the map of the arctic, according to scientists meeting in norway. in what researchers claim is the first sign of a major modern climatic shift, they say the barents sea, which has been part of the arctic ocean for 12,000 years, is being swallowed by the atlantic. from the norwegian arctic, our environment analyst roger harrabin reports. sea ice, formed in the high arctic. it h

mr cohen's testimony. more from our correspondent, rajini vaidyanathan. michaelg campaign finance violations, and lying as well. now, those campaign finance violations related to payments that he made to two women who claimed that they had had affairs with donald trump. one of them was the porn star stormy daniels. now, donald trump denied those affairs, but in prosecuting documents, michael cohen was said to have actually said he was directed by donald trump to make those payments. so they could, of course, ask about that. they could also ask about plans to build a trump tower in moscow, which michael cohen said he was working on through the election campaign. they could ask about a range of things, and that's why this makes this such an important congressional hearing. the former world number one tennis player andy murray has said he'll retire from the sport after wimbledon this year and he may even quit before that. at an emotional press conference ahead of next week's australian open the two—time olympic champion admitted the hip problems which have plagued h

mr. rosenberg with michael mckee today.ow comes in and he uses the our word of a recession. we synthesize this and i want to take a global view. with alberto gallo, i do not think enough has been said about the ecb and the lack of degrees of freedom. how constrained is mr. draghi in the first six months of this year? alberto: the ecb has boxed itself. in 2017 with hindsight, they missed the train. they should have started reducing qe earlier. they spent when you're announcing a reduction of qe and started doing it at the end of last year, just at the weakest moment. german data has come out week for the last few months. they started reducing qa at the weakest -- qe at the weakest point. they are trying to get more liquidity to banks by extending the p ltro so the long-term loans to help banks fund. they realized persistently negative interest rates have a bad collateral effect for the economy because there is less lending it inc.'s lose money. they make money by having negative rates on loans. they need to normalize the rat

michael cohen. so the special counsel's investigators had an inkling or an awareness of this directive from the president to mrl went in and testified recently. and when he did, he did go in, he did tell them that yes indeed, i was directed to do this. it put them over the top. it gave them all of the evidence that they needed to at least establish this. >> and do we know in that session, did michael cohen have to raise his right hand and take an oath to testify? >> i don't know. that's a question i think -- i can try to ask him. sxl sometimes in these situations they do, sometimes they don't. but in any event, lying to congress is in many instances a crime, a federal crime. and so there's the president of the united states directing his personal attorney to lie to congress. do we expect this to be part of michael cohen's testimony when he testifies just i think 22 days from now in a hearing in the house of representatives? >> that's a really good question. my understanding is the folks on that panel that are setting this up have made an agreement not to ask questions that may overlap with the office of specia

mr. trump's former long-time lawyer, michael cohen, to congress. >> now to this new bombshellrt re >> after a buzzfeed story claimed the special counsel hast evidence t mr. trump directed phen to lie to congress last summer aboutns for a trump tower in moscow, special counsel robert mueller issued a rare statement on friday night refuting thestory. quote, buzzfeed's description of specific statements to the special counsel's offic and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office regarding michael cohen's congressional testimony are not accurate. the statement appeared to put ak the bres on the growing number of democrats in congress who said that the allegations, if true, would be grounds for beginning impeachment proceedings immediately. >> ifhe president directed michael cohen to lie to en congress, that's a clear case of participating in perjury and obstruction of justice. >> it's a total phony story, and i appreciate the special counsel coming out with a statementlast night. >> and joining me now is president trump's personal attorney, rudy giuliani. mr. giuliani,

. >> now to join me further to talk about what we just heard, former prosecutors michael marinati and mr. wu. willfully interfering with the process of justice and law especially by influencing, threatening, harming or impeding a witness is the definition of obstruction of justice. micha rudy giuliani says the president didn't tell michael cohen to lie. if it were to happen, would that be obstruction? >> that depends on what was said. what's particularly ridiculous about what giuliani is saying, and obviously this is not lawyering, this is pr strategy. for him to say that it's itnot happening is absolutely crazy. that would violate rules 1 through 20 of criminal defense because it's so obvious that the investigators would be looking at you. it really depends on what he said, but this spin that is perfectly fine, it's perfectly normal to be talking to him is nothing more than spin. >> to ronado, it's unusual to have such discussions because trump is individual a. he is involved in the investigation in which michael cohen would be asked about. that's what would make it inappropriate. >> th

michael, you have it? good. >> mr. president, what do you say to the federal workers, security guards, secret service agents, who are now going without pay? >> i think they have been terrific. these are terrific patriots. a lot of them agree with what i'm doing. i hope we will have the situation worked out but they want security in our country and so do i. that's all we want. we want security. we want common sense. we want security in our country. when you look at what's going on, immigration just went very high on your list. immigration's very high on the list. but we're not talking about just immigration. and i would like, i will say it in front of some of our democrat friends here, i would love to see a big immigration bill that would really take care of the situation. i think you want to. everybody wants to. who wouldn't want to? right now we have a problem. we have to take care of this and it's quicker and easier to do this individually but we would like to see real immigration reform in this country because we ne