to sign and nda. staff is paid asked to sign and nda. is that a fair reading? it is a reading of it. tonight, for the first time, he explains why he left hisjob. first time, he explains why he left his job. from time to time you would hear yourself mimic and you thought is, is that really how he sees me? it removes the dignity and we all know that any job it removes the dignity and we all know that anyjob in the land has to have some dignity. we will talk through the implications of this new latest claim, which the speaker denies. also tonight: the customs conundrum. newsnight understands theresa may is working on a plan she hopes will win over both sides of the debate. i think members of parliament are all ears to make sure that there isn't a hard border on the island of ireland, but free and frictionless trade. we are less hung up frictionless trade. we are less hung up about what it is called, it is a question of what it does. and we recall may 1968, the paris revolution that never was. molotov cocktails, petrol filled bottles, being showered on the police.

carol: or how to break and nda. >> people know nda's.uitous in silicon valley, wall street, a bunch of fine print that says you're not going to talk about the details of a settlement or workplace. historically, they were drafted to have trade secrets protected. if you are working on the next iphone, obviously apple doesn't want you running around talking about it. over the years, the language has become more broad. we are seeing them in cases of sexual harassment, people who follow the big tobacco cases in the 90's, this was a big issue then. the general idea was that people weren't supposed to talk about the inner workings of their workplace, even to include sexual harassment, a complaint about management, anything like that. jason: has the law started to evolve? what did you find as you talked to lawyers? >> we are at an interesting breaking point. in practice, women that sign them are terrified. i have experienced this as a reporter. the company could retaliate, or a powerful person accused of something could talk publicly about it. n

did chris's explanation of a nda that was not a nda make any sense to you?sed, or illegal in any way? no, in the last few months we have seen that whatever you want to call this, it's about closing down discussion and stop people from coming forward saying that they are concerned about not only what has happened but the culture going on. i hope the house reconsiders that. thank you to both of you for coming in. crunch time — on brexit — has ended in a soggy mess. a decision on britain's customs relationship has been put off after senior minister failed to reach any agreement. theresa may has asked officials to refine the proposals after her brexit war cabinet was unable to unite behind one of the two options on the table. it's worth noting that both options have already been dismissed as unworkable by eu officials. 0ur political editor nick watt is here. nick what happened tonight ultimately? it was all a question rule of the maths in the end? it was a difficult day for the prime minister, she couldn't get the support of her brexit cabinet subcommittee for h

he says this is a private matter, had nothing to do with campaign funds that there is an nda in full force and effect, he believes that ms. daniels and her lawyer have violated. that may go to arbitration. also repeats that this is a false claim. and he also says that michael cohen had basically discretion to use funds that had nothing do do with the campaign how he saw fit as his attorney at that time. >> brennan: in an interview last night on fox news, rudy deguiliani says the payment was a campaign expenditure. is that what you would characterize as? >> i don't know why anyone would say i would not characterize. the president characterized as not campaign expenditure. as the campaign manager for the winning part of the campaign, this never crossed my desk. i was never made aware of this. i found this out many, long time afterwards, long after i got into the white house. so i think the president is reemphasizing that himself as someone who would know this, margaret, in his tweets when he says it wasn't campaign money, these are private agreements. his personal attorney had discreti

when i was brought in for the campaign, he then gave me an nda. >> who generally signs ndas?> i would guess all full-time employees and contractors who are devoting 100% of their time to him. again, i don't know that for a fact, all i know is in my experience. >> did you ever hear about ndas being used for people who are not standard employees for the trump administration? >> i'll tell you why, because i didn't ask for things like that, if i didn't need to know, i would have asked. they could have been. i just don't know one way or the other. >> how many people do you think have signed nondisclosure agreements in the trump administration? >> i would certainly think that everybody that works on the 26th and 23rd floor signed ndas. i'm sure that people who worked on the apprentice, people who worked on miss universe did. that's conjecture. >> so that would number in the hundreds of people if not more? >> it could, sure. >> what about the doormen of the building? >> i have no idea? >> anybody entering into a contract with donald trump, would they be signing a nondisclosure agree

daniels and her attorney have violated the nda. the president says it is a very typical course of action for famous people. the president has said he did this to save his family the embarrassment. i will tell you as the campaign manager for the winning part of the campaign i was not made aware of this. i would pushback on the notion that if this had come back the president -- >> the stormy daniels story wasn't out. >> there were all of these false accusers. they had plenty of air time. they were lining up and he would address them at his rallies. he was doing six to seven different stops a day. i will tell you at the white house when i show up to my job every day this is not in my policy -- >> you have more than a dozen women accusing the president of sexual assault or sexual harassment. that is different from a porn star who claims she had a consenseual affair with the president just months after the president's son was born. >> he is denying all of that. >> do you believe him? >> i believe him. i have no reason to believe otherwi

michael cohen and keith davidson keep hammering out these ndas.also looks weird to me. >> there's a current estimate there are about 1.4 million lawyers in the united states. it is odd that somehow all that business goes to two guys. >> it's beyond odd. it's not a coincidence all these women have fired keith davidson because they've all come to the conclusion he was actually in cahoots with michael cohen. >> is that true that all three, that stormy daniels obviously michael avenatti represents her here. karen mcdougal and shara bashard fired him? >> that's right. they concluded keith davidson wasn't on the up and up. to elaborate on lisa's point about using michael cohen, who's obviously one of the worst lawyers in the united states, why would elliott broidy, a man who in all his other legal affairs uses only the top tier representation, go to this barely lawyer, basically thug to work an an nda on this incredibly sensitive matter? it's completely preposterous on its face. it's amazing that the media continues to essentially transcribe the story t

a private contract between two parties known as a nondisclosure agreement or nda. these agreements are common among celebrities and people of wealth. in this case it is in full force and effect and will be used in arbitration for damages against miss clifrd danielles. it was used to stop the false accusations made by her about an affair despite already signed a detail letter admitting there was no affair. >> if anybody thinks that donald trump wrote those tweets, then they haven't been paying attention over the last couple of years. whoever the lawyer is that wrote this, he's also a moron. because now he or she has subjected the president to yet another potential lawsuit for defamation. >> rudy giuliani also lashed out at the russia investigation. offering this new explanation why president trump fired fbi director james comey. >> he fired comey because comey would not, among other things, say he -- >> he wouldn't tell the others the president was not a target of the russia investigation? >> again, guys, i don't know how many times i can answer this same question.

perennially pushed this issue, there are several amendments within the hundreds of amendments to the nda, there are several dealing with this issue. >> does the authorization, the house version of the authorization bill tackle the issues of the trump administration policy on transgender troops, or the daca issue? >> no, but there are some amendments that would take that on, congresswoman jackie spear wants to roll back the administrations ban on transgender troops to the obama -- obama era which was more tolerant permitting transgender troops, and on the flipside, you have steve king of iowa who has an amendment that would bar enforcement of the obama era transgender training. >> a quick one, how soon, if it is coming between the rules committee early in the week, how soon might we see a florida begin on the authorization bill? >> i don't know that i can predict that, but we do know that on monday, max thornberry, the chairman of the committee, and the ranking member are going to be before rules and on tuesday evening, they will start discussion and debate. the last time i checked, it is

signing an nda with stormy daniels that's not nefarious so we don't know what beyond the $130,000 fornda we don't know what the rest of this money was actually for. >> no, but i think we could characterize given what we know about the nda with stormy daniels that this would fall into the nefarious category, certainly until shown otherwise. all i'm suggesting here is the presence of what the "wall street journal" story would seem to have identified as what really looks -- has the appearance of a slush fund. >> and, you know, by the way, anderson, when michael cohen said that he paid for the $130,000 out of his own -- out of his own pocket, this "wall street journal" story may actually prove that. that, in fact, he did and that, in fact, he may have taken care of other business with this. i mean, we don't know the reasons he took all this money out, but it may prove his point. >> the assumption all along was that he took out a home equity line of credit in order to raise the $130,000 to pay stormy daniels, but again, this seems to indicate this was done before and raised a lot more mone

or the nda gets tossed out, as we have alleged. there's no question it's tightly connected to the allegations in our case, especially as it relates to the nda. i saw the comments last night on your show. and with all due respect, i know he's a very learned lawyer, at least was at one time, but most recently, he was disclosing attorney/client communications on national television, communications he had with the president a couple weeks ago -- >> i will say, it's a fair criticism, although it happens more than you might think when it comes to donald trump's advisers. >> it's highly questionable. he should not be communicating to the american people about what he communicated with mr. trump about, ever, because that should be in a lockbox. it's called the attorney/client privilege. so, look, have we taken a traditional approach in this case? no. have we taken an aggressive approach? yes. have we taken a media-centric approach? yes. has it worked? i think there's no question that it's worked. people may have criticisms of it, but you c

that member of staff is paid asked to sign and nda. is that a fair reading? it is a reading of it. hisjob. first time, he explains why he left his job. from time to time you would hear yourself mimic and you thought is, is that really how he sees me? it removes the dignity and we all know that any job it removes the dignity and we all know that anyjob in the land has to have some dignity. we will talk through the implications of this new latest claim, which the speaker denies. also tonight: the customs conundrum. newsnight understands theresa may is working on a plan she hopes will win over both sides of the debate. i think members of parliament are all ears to make sure that there isn't a hard border on the island of ireland, but free and frictionless trade. we are

but we need to have the nda invalidated.y we are seeking as it relates to the nda. we have the defamation against michael cohen. we have the defamation claim against mr. trump. there is a lot of claims left to litigate in connection with this. we are going to continue to litigate those says cases and we are going to continue to serve as a repository of information. as it comes to us we are going to disclose it. if people don't like that, they can turn the channel or not follow us on twitter and the like. >> what happens to your legal objective if and when it seems highly likely that michael cohen becomes a cooperative witness for the government? >> well, i think what may -- that's a very good question. i think what may follow is he may become a cooperative witness as relates to our case. he may say you are right, she was telling the truth, i knew she was telling the truth at the time. you are right about the nda it should be invalidated. and mr. trump could be left on an island in connection with our case just like he could

the case in los angeles, results from the nda and our attempts to invalidate the nda and the defamationaim that there was no affair by michael cohen. this issue is separate in part it relates to the tweet relating to this sketch in which he claims is nonexistent man. how does the president knows the man is nonexistent. if he knew nothing about this, knew nothing about the alleged threat. >> in something like a defamation case, if there is a judgment in stormy daniels' favor, is that monetary judgment? >> it is a monetary judgment that could be collected against the individual, in this case, mr. trump. >> why not include -- has michael cohen said anything that you think is defamation against stormy daniels. could you see a day where you see michael cohen in this sense. >> he hasn't commented on the sketch or the alleged assault. >> on the issue of damages, she, your client has made anywhere from 200 to 500 pornographic movies from where i have read. >> from what i have read or seen? >> from what i have read. some of the titles are great, but children may be watching so i will avoid that.

because we don't believe the nda was in existence because it was never signed.rd from michael cohen and for the people defending michael cohen for months was that the president never knew anything about the agreement, never knew anything about the payment, that michael cohen went off and did this on his own. we know that to be a sack of lies. >> you said you've seen evidence that shows the president directed this payment. rudy giuliani seems to confirm that last night by saying yes, not only did he know about it, he reimbursed for the payment. what does this mean to your case, the revelation from giuliani last night? >> i think our case just got exponentially better in the last 24 hours. we knew we were going to be able to prove this but we didn't know we would have rudy giuliani appear on sean hannity and do it for us on a wednesday night this early on in the case. the importance of this cannot be overstated. this is not about sex. this isn't about what happened between stormy daniels and donald trump in the bedroom. it's not about what happened in 2006 or 2007

now our nda with her seems to be relevant because she wants to break it up because she wants to make a lot more than 130,000. i know this sounds funny to people there at home. i never thought 130,000 was a real payment, it's a nuisance payment. when i settle this when it's a real possibility, it's a couple million dollars, not 130,000. >> you did call it a settlement payment, the president did make these payments to michael cohen over the course of 2017, according to you. then why did the president deny any knowledge of the payment when, in fact, he made the payments? >> i don't know when the president learned about it. he could have learned about it after or not connected the whole thing at that time. the reality is those are not facts that worry me as a lawyer. those don't amount to anything, what is said to the press. that's political. >> are you confident that michael cohen never told president trump that "i made this payment in order to keep you out of trouble with stormy danie daniels"? >> why would i be when it wasn't for campaign purposes. it was in addition to campaign purpo

invalid yates of the nda, including that it violated campaign policy. number two, holding mr. cohen responsible for his defamatory statements regarding my client. number three, holding mr. trump responsible for his defamatory comments, and fourth as overjaw general believe that his thuggish tactics and his business practices that are illegal shoot borne out and laid bare for the american people. i don't understand why people would criticize my client or me for bringing that information to light. there's nothing wrong with it. in fact people appear to appreciate it, including many journalists. >> michael, stay with me. matt miller, speak to that larger point, which does relate to the criminal culpability, and you can think of jurisdictioning that the president trump could interfere and pardon and those where he can't. michael cohen is now facing an individual that will cooperate again him. matt miller, also speak to if there is a fusion here, if there is a stormy danielsification of that's ha product to commingle these funds. and now to have a lot of folks digging into all of t

we want the nda invalidated. we want michael cohen held responsible for his defamatory statements about my client. we want donald trump held responsible for his defamatory statements against my client. and we want the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth laid bare for the american people so they can know what happened in connection with this and they can make their own determination as to whether this is acceptable conduct, period. >> so is that an adjudication or an admission from those individuals? >> it's a full disclosure. a disclosure of all the information, documents, all the payment receipts. it is laid out for the american people. we'll let them decide. and to the extent that the other side has a different narrative that they want to try to apply to that evidence and facts, so be it. >> thank you, michael. i appreciate it. >>> when we come back, rudy giuliani's media bombshell tour left even white house insiders reeling. so is the new strategy rudy and the president against the world? is that

but really the funding of that nda has really become the issue. how did michael cohen finance the nondisclosure agreement, and what was his source of income more generally speaking at the time of the nondisclosure agreement. because that -- he is so close to president trump that reporters are hoping and perhaps lawyers to illuminate more about what we don't understand about how michael cohen's financial dealings worked and whether that ever had an impact or an effect on the president. >> terrific, thanks to our two returning veterans, robert costa and joyce vance. and another welcome to the broadcast to guy lewis. thank you for joining us tonight. a . >>> and coming up for us, how this all plays politically for this president, this white house, this administration. two of the very best covering this west wing standing by with their reporting. >>> and later, we've called in the man living rent free in donald trump's mind. how the firing of james comey a year ago today is affecting this white house every moment of every day since. "the 11th hour" ju

you get lost in forgetting the fact that all this is about her attempts to get out of a nda?'re getting too far afield. it seems like she's welcoming this and they seem as though they become quite a powerful team and as long as he keeps her interest in focus which i think he has, i don't see much reason for complaint and i do think it's very possible, if not likely that this litigation will end up being the most powerful weapon that's used against the trump administration. it certainly seems trending in that investigation. >> thank you for not coming after me because i said dna and not nda. >> i let it go. i know we're strapped for time and i let it go. >> thank you. ahead on "a.m. joy," how the bishops message during the royal wedding should hit home for all americans? we know the value of trust. we were built on it. back when the country went west for gold, we were the ones who carried it back east. by steam. by horse. by iron horse. over the years, we built on that trust. we always found the way. until... we lost it. but that isn't where the story ends... it's where it sta

a private contract known as a nondisclosure agreement or nda. these agreements are, trump says, very common amongst celebrities and people of wealth. in this case, it is in full force and effect and will be used in arbitration for damages against ms. clifford. that's stormy daniels. the agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations made by her about an affair despite already having signed a detailed letter knitting that there was no affair. prior to its violation by miss clifford and her attorney, this was a private agreement. money from the campaign, or campaign contributions played no roll in this transaction. there is a reaction from donald trump because of what rudy giuliani said last night. we weren't expecting these headlines. we weren't expecting him to talk about the payment issue. suddenly, as you said, contradicting what trump and people close to him have said, saying that the payment was made by trump to cohen directly in a personal way, $130,000 hush payment that we have been talking about for so many weeks. >> le

through reimbursement a private contract between two parties known as a nondisclosure agreement or nda. these agreements are very common among celebrities and people of wealth. in this case, it is in full force and effect and will be used in arbitration for damages against ms. clifford. the agreement was used to stop the false accusations made by her about an affair despite having signed a detailed letter saying there was no affair. this was a private agreement, money from the campaign or campaign contributions played no roll in this transactions. that's an awfully lawyerly way to speak. >> absolutely, other than one word being misused in a way that would echo of how trump often tweets, roll r-o-l-e-. this is prove that the president is lawyered up. rudy giuliani isn't on impressing you politically. it's about limiting legal exposure. you may not believe what you're hearing and you may not believe it with good reason, however, credibility, that's about politics. they're worried about legal exposure and just moments ago on fox news, rudy giuliani again said that the president isn't chan

she violated the nda, the nondisclosure, said everything she wanted to say. so i don't legally understand what other issues she has that he represents her for. he just seems to have a vendetta for president trump, and he comes across much more as a political operative it's always invited onto tv, as you said, just like he was a contributor on the other networks. >> laura: drawl come i want to play. something going back a little bit. to march 25, when he was on 62 minutes. let's watch. >> in college, and law school, he did opposition research for rahm emanuel. some people looking at that we'll say you are politically motivated. >> i haven't done anything in politics in over 20 years. >> but this is not the usual case you take on. you are a former democratic operative and you are talking about deposing the president. that sounds political. >> no, it sounds righteous. >> how so? >> because my client is credible. she is telling the truth. >> laura: okay, well, she first said she didn't have a affair, signed a statement, brokered an agreement and asked for around

as a nondisclosure agreement or nda.very common among celebrities and people of wealth. that sounds like it might have been him. the rudy trump statements were described to me by two sources familiar with the president and giuliani's thinking as a quote strategic play carried out last night and this morning, not a gaff or a stumble. the goal according to one of these sources, make clear to cohen that trump still has his back ask try to prevent him from flipping and cooperating with federal prosecutors. the sources adding, rudy and the president believe they, quote, know some of what was taken out of cohen's office and if you know what they have, you start putting it out there yourself to control the narrative. end quote. >>> joining me at the table jim mussina, former white house deputy chief of staffer for president obama, also his former campaign manager in 2012, eugene robinson, washington post columnist, jennifer rubin also an opinion writer with the post, and rick&! >> i mean, it was remarkable to see it in the word

daniels and her attorney violated the nda, and the president says it's a typical course of action for people who are wealthy. the president said that he did this to save his family the embarrassment. i will tell you, as the campaign manager for the winning part of the campaign, i was not made aware of this whatsoever. and i would push back on this whole notion that well, what if this had come out before the final debate? all of it was out there. the president -- >> the stormy daniels wasn't out there. >> but there were all these what the president referred to as false accusers. they were lining up, and he would address them at his rallies. he was doing six, seven different stops a day, and i will tell you at the white house, when i show up to my job every day, this is not my -- >> first of all, you have more than a dozen women accusing the president of sexual assault and sexual haharassment. that's different than a president claiming he had a sexual relationship with a important star. >> he's denied that. >> do you believe him? >> yes, he's denied him, so i have no reason to believe o

he also told me he was talking about the nda.too, would have to go back and look at the transcript, but there is a realm where not knowing what was said there that is what he could be talking about. he has not been, you know, precise in a lot of these television hits what was interesting he said to me that he laid low, which we'd known, but i hadn't heard him say it on the record. he had laid low for the last 18 months or so, basically at the request of his law firm. they were unhappy with the surrogate work he did for president trump toward the end of 2016 during the campaign. they did not want him out there. it was upsetting some of their lawyers. i think it was not just that the lawyers aren't fans of the president, although i think that's part it. clients were getting upset. he told me he had two offers to host radio shows he turned down. he said he was happy to be back on television, quote, unquote, frankly, i'd missed it. so i think he's having for. for all of the reports about how the president's angry and the president's

david dennison in the visage of donald trump didn't want to sign the nda that you're litigating, so areference that you make. you put michael cohen's legal career under scrutiny. i want to ask you about your law firm. you're familiar with these reports that says law firm of stormy daniels' attorney hit with $10 million judgment. are there problems in payments or the financial history of your law firm that are relevant to all this? >> no, ari. this is a complete sideshow and it's absolutely irrelevant. it's not even the same firm that is representing my client in the case. it's absurd. it's a bunch of nonsense, ari. i'm confident that the american people are going to see through this smoke screen that's being created. there's additional personal attacks coming against me and my client. i'm aware of those. they're doing everything in their power to distract away from the case and the facts and the circumstances surrounding this nda, the $130,000 payment, what the president knew and his subsequent lies about it. >> when you say "they" and you do have political detractors, we've covered t

two cases you represent stormy daniels in the defamation case and the effort to get her out of the nda concerning the nda, this is the same bank account the $130,000 to my client emanated from. the $130,000 was wired out of that account at first republic bank to my client. these subsequent financial transactions that we detailed in the report flowed through that account, that same account that was established about two weeks or actually less than that, only a few days before the $130,000 payment to our client. >> so, it is of interest to you where the money originated from because it was one of your original questions tying this back to the president? >> not only where it originated from, but also who reimbursed it, whether the president knew about it, what he knew about it, when he knew about it. >> so, you had some harsh words for the media. i want to put them up on the screen, let you air it. we have ten minutes. why is no media outlet doing a story on the refusal the refusa treasury department to release to the public the three suspicious activity reports, called sars that are file

one does wonder why the palace didn't make her family perhaps sign ndas, for instance, make sure me were okay financially, so forth. no one can prepare you for royal life. >> reporter: the spectacle of this past week is just a taste of the scrutiny the 36-year-old will experience once she joins the royal family on saturday. >> it's a goldfish bowl, at the end of the day. the queen mother described monarchy as an intolerable privilege. and it is that. >> reporter: becoming part of the british royal family was a jarring transformation for princess diana, too. the shy 19-year-old nursery schoolteacher became the most-photographed woman in the world. she spoke about it during her famous bbc news panorama interview. >> i couldn't understand the level of interest. the media were everywhere. here was a fairy story that everybody wanted to work. and so it was isolating. but it was also a situation where you couldn't indulge in feeling sorry for yourself, you had to either sink or swim. and you had to learn that very fast. >> there are very few people who ever become members of the royal family.

there's a 90 day hold on the lawsuit over that nda deal. can you explain that to us?> the case in california was stayed temporarily for 90 days. subsequent for that mr. giuliani and mr. trump were on national television and also by way of fwit twitter and shot themselves in the foot and started talking about the details relating to the $130,000 payment, et cetera. we now made a motion to lift that stay, and what we're arguing, joy, is that there's no reason to stay the case in light of mr. cohen's fifth amendment privilege because obviously mr. giuliani and mr. trump believe that they can defend themselves or attempt to as it relates to the charges in our case. we need to get on with our case. i want a deposition of this president under oath. i'm not interested in any further lies on air force one or lies to the media, or lies to the white house spokesperson. i want -- that's very serious questions about what he knew and when he knew it and the $130,000 payment, what he knows about the consultants, what you knew about what michael cohen was doing, and we're going to g

she is trying to get out of an nda. michael cohen, up until recently, filed an arbitration case in qaa ska to keep her quiet, and has been essentially threatening her and putting pressure on her to keep her quiet. she wants to tell her story without the threat of having to pay donald trump millions of dollars. that's what's happening. >> all right, guys. what's happening also you will come back in a little bit and we will talk about that wildly inappropriate comment from the would you say aide about senator john mccain. come on. >>> boiler point. what ignited a new tirade from the president aimed at one of his cabinet members. it's easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same. but while some push high commission investment products, fisher investments avoids them. some advisers have hidden and layered fees. fisher investments never does. and while some advisers are happy to earn commissions from you whether you do well or not, fisher investments fees are structured so we do better when you do better. m

he was talking about signing a nda, a nondisclosure agreement. that's what he said. but more importantly, he's now in a public spat with the law firm that he was officially with until this week. he told me that the law firm has a lot of good people and a lot of people who hate my client, meaning the president of the united states, and i don't particularly appreciate this. so, this is a fleeting story, but it also sort of feeds into the larger issue of giuliani being the story, and being very much a principal in an area where he is the law to the principal, the president. >> i think this is the cleanup of the cleanup of the cleanup. i sort of lost count here. i don't think it's at all true what the mayor is now saying, that he wasn't talking about payments being made by a law firm. we'll go and check that transcript, but it was crystal clear when he said it. maggie, you've covered mayor giuliani for a long, long time. >> forever, yes. drag that out. >> this is not exactly surgical legal precision i feel like we're seeing here. >> look, so, i had a similar conversation

we did so well in the nda we finished it last night. so i still appreciate the consideration. i want to talk a little bit this morning -- first i want to say for the record this is a crisis in our country, the cost of health care in rural communities. and we are doing nothing in the united states congress to address it at this moment. we know the premiums on the exchanges are going up because of various things that have occurred. and i think i can get everybody to agree that when we have more uninsured and underinsured, we have more rural hospitals in stress and insurance premiums go up for those of us who buy it. correct? correct? all five witnesses agree. so every time the uninsured number goes up, it costs everybody who's paying, including taxpayers and including everyone who buys insurance. so the idea of keeping the uninsured number down is all about saving money in the health care system and making everyone responsible for their own health care bills. so it's just ironic to me we'll go back to the battle days where uninsured numbers are climbing and we're doing nothing r

every member of the community -- committee voted for nearly identical language in last year's nda and i urged the committee to provide simpler and overwhelming judgment this year as well and i yield the balance of my time. >> ranking member. >> just briefly on this, my thing mr. gallagher makes a very good point in terms of russia, not being compliant and in terms of what our interest might be in terms of dealing with china. but, the problem is, i am not sure congressionally we can simply pull out of the treaty, first of all. second of all, i think we should take some steps towards russia first to punish them for violating the treaty. we certainly within the treaty have the right to sanction the and do other things. i'm not in favor at this point of pulling completely out of the treaty, which this amendment would have us do. and again, i'm not sure legislatively how we would go about doing that. so i think rather than that, we should at least first try to push russia into compliance, then renegotiate if necessary. i don't think this is the right approach although there is clearly a pr

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it's believed to be that payment to be reimbursement for the 2016 nda, the non-disclosure agreement paid to stormy daniels. >>> the senate passed a resolution to keep current internet protections by a slim 52-47 vote, led by democratic senators, the move is an attempt to overrule the fcc decision to repeal net neutrality. without it, internet service providers, including comcast, would be able to block websites or create fast lanes for companies willing to pay more. >> our access to a fair and open internet is under siege. >> it is not the job of the government to be in the business of picking winners and losers in the internet economy. >> the resolution is expected to fail in the house where republicans hold a much larger majority. political experts say democrats may have called for the vote to create another issue for the midterm elections. >>> is this a political power play by north korea? president trump responding to north korea's threat to cancel next month's historic peace summit. >>> some are convinced the secret to cleaning up san francisco lies in canada. he's been called a roc

again, i know ndas aren't illegal.stand the fact, the obsession with this. >> here's the problem with the media, none of them are very schooled in the law. and i don't fault them for that, but i fault them for never looking up the law. it's easy to look up statutes in case law, and they're pretty understandable. but they don't bother -- for example, on the subject of collusion, they found the president guilty of it without ever defining it. and they never bothered to look it up. if they had, they would have found it's a non-crime. charles: let me talk about your upcoming book, "the russian hoax," now available for presale on amazon and barnes & noble. president trump tweeting out about your book, it's a must-read, the illicit scheme to clear hillary clinton and frame donald trump. of course, by gregg jarrett, a sad chapter for law enforcement, a rigged system. is that the conclusion that we're going to be able to come to with the book? >> i lay out the facts, i lay out the law and identify who in government at the fbi,

and now our nda with her, seems to be irrelevant because she wa wants to break it up and get more than $130,000. i know it's going to sound funny for people at home, a $130,000 is just a nuisance payment. >> the president did make these payments into 3450imichael cohe through the course of 2017, why did the president deny any knowledge of the facts? >> i don't know when the president learned about it. he could have learned about it after or connected it after that time. what is said to the press never amount stos anything. >> are you confident that michael cohen never told president trump he made this payment? >> number one, why would i be concerned if it was not a campaign contribution. it was done with nothing to do with campaign contributions. >> listen to what stormy daniels attorney told cnn. >> i want to ask you about the latest this morning from rudy giuliani on abc newsing. take a listen. >> you said this was a regular,ment regular payment. >> what's your reaction to that? do you have any indication that there might be other women that we don't know about? >> jake, i think when

the case in los angeles results from our attempts to invalidate the nda and defamation associated withen. that's one issue. this is separate and apart in that it relates to this sketch and what he claims to be the nonexistent. how does the president know that the man is nonexistent? if he had no involvement, knew nothing of the alleged threat how does he know there was no nonexistent man? >> if there was a judgment in favor is that a monetary judgment? >> it is a monetary judgment that could be collected against the individual. in this case it would be against mr. trump. >> and why not include has michael cohen said anything you think is defamation? could you see a day you could see michael cohen? >> not in this particular case. he hasn't commented on the alleged assault. >> and that's a great issue. i was curious. on the issue of damages she -- your client has made from 200 to 500 pornographic movies including -- >> from what you read or what you have seen? >> from what i have read. >> some of the titles are great but children may be watching. the question is she is suing for the dama

. >> our cause is having the nda invalidated for stormy daniels. michael cohen responsible for his defamatory statements and holding mr. trump responsible for his defamatory. laid out for the american people to they can decide what to do. >> thanks very much. more reaction on that payment this time from u.s. attorney preet bharara. we will have the latest ahead. ♪ ♪ ♪ raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens ♪ ♪ bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens ♪ ♪ brown paper packages tied up with strings ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ these are a few of my favorite things ♪ let someone else do the heavy lifting. tripadvisor compares prices from over 200 booking sites to find the right hotel for you at the lowest price. so you barely have to lift a finger. or a wing. tripadvisor. with dell small businessout your technology advisors you get the one-on-one partnership you need to grow your business. the dell vostro 15 laptop. contact a dell advisor today. >>> we heard from avenatti about a payment. joining me now for his take is pre

through reimbursement, a private contract between two parties known as a nondisclosure agreement or nda. these agreements are very common among celebrities and people of wealth. in this case, it is in full force and effect and will be used in capital "a" arbitration for damages against ms. clifford/daniels. the agreement was used to stop the false and extortionist accusations by her about an affair despite already having signed a detailed letter admitting that there was no affair. prior to its violation by ms. clifford and her attorney, this was a private agreement. money from the campaign or campaign contributions played no role in the transaction. shortly after, rudy giuliani was back on television offering more information including how much the president knew about the matter. >> he didn't know thezá details this until we knew the details of it, which is a couple weeks ago, maybe not even. maybe between days ago. if we had to defend this as not being a campaign contribution, i think we can do this. this was for personal reasons. this was the president had been hurt personally, not p