his name is richard cohen, vice president's office tells us the vice president looks forward to a swiftclusion of this matter. cecelia vega, the white house. >> from the white house, the president head to miami to announce plans to reverse course on cuba. the president is rolling back some of the changes president obama made when he restored diplomatic ties with the island. the current administration's revised policy will make it harder for americans to travel to cuba. and restrict businesses, business between u.s. and cuban companies, many of them owned by the military. the u.s. embassy will remain and americans will be allowed to bring back cigars and rum. so, the important part there as far as cigars and rum. >> really? >> you're right. >> rum is still going to be okay. >> okay. >> sorry correction. >> thank you for the breaking news headline. >> you bet. >> unity the theme of the night at annual congressional baseball game. >> democrats and republicans gathered at second base to pray for the victims of course of wednesday's attack during a republican practice. representative steve s

pence's new private attorney is richard cohen. >>> the two escaped georgia inmates are back in custody captured in tennessee. tennessee police say they found ricky dubose and donnie russell rowe after they allegedly tied up a couple and stole their car. the pair led police on a highway chase firing around 20 shots at them after wrecking the car they ran into the woods and tried to steal another car from a private home. >> the homeowner stepped out. and held the people there by gunpoint until another neighbor came to assist him and at that point in time the sheriff's department was alerted and arrived on scene and aprespend two suspects without incident. >> authorities released these fots. they are being held in tennessee until they can be extra indicted georgia. they are accused of killing two correction officers. >>> today is day five of jury deliberation in the bill cosby sexual assault trial. on thursday the jurors told the judge they were dead locked. cosby's legal team made a motion for a mistrial which the judge denied. he then extent jurors back to deliberate further. constand a

the vice president has lined up richard cohen and jared kushner andhired a lawyer along, jeff sessions, his private lawyer, charles cooper, the chart in usa today walking through all of the latest private lawyers that have been lined up. the phones are yours and it is in middleborough, massachusetts, line for independents. go-ahead. i have two comments. why thei was curious people that represent us in washington don't have the same health care as we do. why do we not negotiate nationally with pharmaceuticals to reduce the cost as countries like canada do. i think we can do that without having socialized medicine. thank you. john: as julie rovner pointed out, members of congress did have to go on from the afford with kerouac with members of their staff after that. we focused on that about a month or two ago. health-care plans for members of congress. all of our segments are available online at c-span.org. is in silverdale, washington, line for democrats. go ahead. caller: it is time we all face the truth. we are dying out here. republicans and democrats alike. all the pollution you put

has spent the last several weeks interviewing lawyers before making his final decision to hire richard cohen, former federal prosecutor. richard cullen can be paid with whatever money mike pence raises nor that fundraising pac that he created on may 17th. we now know that establishing that fundraising pac was a clue that mike pence was shopping for a private and very expensive criminal defense lawyer. we don't know the vice president's full schedule for tomorrow. but we do know that at 5:00 p.m., he is scheduled to have a fundraiser for his pac in indianapolis. a 5,000 contribution to mike pence tomorrow will allow you to attend the so-called leadership committee round table. as many seats at that table as people who hand over $5,000. a $2,500 contribution to tomorrow's fundraiser will give you access to a host reception, exclusive reception. and just a little thousand dollars contribution allows you to attend the much bigger reception that everyone gets to go to. and the thousand dollars contribution will pay for maybe an hour of mike pence's criminal defense lawyer's time. joining us now b

. >> yes, mike pence hiring richard cohen to be his outside counsel.he process took several weeks. this will not involve the use of taxpayer money. he >> john: safe travels tonight. you're headed to florida for the cuba announcement tomorrow. president trump and the first lady on hand for a special event at the supreme court. the investiture ceremony for neil gorsuch, the president's nominee for the high court. there was said to be no mention of the president's travel ban which is under consideration by the justices. >> the jury in the bill cosby trial is deliberating after telling the judge earlier they cannot come to a unanimous consensus on the counts. cosby is charged with drugging and violating a woman in 2004. dozens of women have come forward to accuse cosby of similar actions, but this is the only case to result in criminal charges. stocks were down. dow lost 15, s&p 500 dropped 5 and the nasdaq was off 29. british prime minister theresa may is ordering the full public inquiry into yesterday's deadly fire in west london. at least seven people d

he hired richard cohen, the same guy mike pence just hired to represent him in our current republican presidential scandal. it's very interesting. richard cullen had a similar role in watergate. very interesting. he was also a lawyer for a republican congressman during watergate named caldwell butler, a republican from virginia. he was a republican member of congress who found himself in the middle of a republican presidential scandal. he was in his first term in the house of representatives. he got up as a brand new republican member of congress and caldwell butler questioned how president nixon did what he could have done. congressman butler voted to impeach nixon though he had previously supported nixon. he's famous for standing up and saying watergate is our shame as a republican member of congress. previously an ally of president nixon. congressman butler, too, had a lawyer who was representing his interests when he took this stand over and above his party's interests during watergate. his lawyer was -- richard cullen. who mike pence just hired to represent him in the investigati

he's hired richard cohen, a former u.s. attorney for the eastern district of virginia in the george h.w. bush era. we got a statement from the vice president's communication director. the vice president is focused entirely on his duties in promoting the president's agenda and looks forward to a swift conclusion of this matter. unlikely that this will be swift at all, because the vice president of course also has many links to this russian investigation particularly if you'll remember because of michael flynn, the fired national security advisor who misled the vice president about his contacts with the russian ambassador here so the vice president hiring his own lawyer here, his office saying that he's not using taxpayer funds for this. he'll pay for it himself or potentially out of a political action committee. he's going to indianapolis tomorrow to raise money for that. but, wolf, a sign here that the vice president hiring his own lawyer, another sign this investigation widening and has no end in sight. >> the president, t

richard cohen is a respected lawyer around town. he's now, the vice president office confirm, will be served as mr. pence's personal lawyer. the other investigations we've had is this idea of the washington post looking into the finances of jared kushner, what sort of financial arrangements he's had with a bunch of other countries. and then the other really significant moment, this piece of news this morning, the fact there's been a request of preservation from documents from the trump transition official, from the general counsel of the trump transition to anyone who was working on russia or ukraine related matter, mentions carter pink, mentions paul manafort. that's lawyer speak. let me put it in basic terms for you. don't shred any documents. that's what that edict is coming from trump's own transition officials. that's an indication they could be expecting some subpoenas quite soon. >> all of it highlighting the fact that the probe continues to expand. tremendous reporting. thank you so much for that from the white house. >>> i

richard cohen is an attorney and president of the southern law center. mr. cohen is a graduate of the university from virginia school of law. the senior counsel from the new york law firm and is leading first amendment litigator from cornell university and jd from yale. before you start to speak, i never dabble people down at five minutes but i hope when the light turns on you will sum up pretty quickly. we have two votes at 11 and it is going to be necessary to keep the committee meeting going so i hope people will take turns so we can keep the testimony and questions coming. by the way, your entire statement will be put in the record. >> thank you mr. chairman, ranking member and distinguished members of the committee. i am honored and privileged to have the opportunity to appear before you. i am a senior and president at the college. over the last two years i've advocated for the importance of engaging controversial offensive views on college campuses. when i arrived at williams college to begin my freshman year i had high hopes that my intellectual exper

counsel as well to deal with the ongoing probe, picking up an attorney for mcguire woods, i name of richard cohen who comes with a very, very -- i should say well earned reputation. >> kelly: kevin corke reporting live from miami, thank you, captain. >> shannon: joining us now, matthew compton eddie, editor in chief of them washington free beacon. great to have you with us this morning. president obama had to say, that's what he made this historic change cuba. >> the best ways to help the cuban people succeed and improve their lives would be for the u.s. congress to lift the embargo once and for all. >> shannon: now we have this from a former obama administration saying this. i am sorry for the cubans who we hurt by a mean-spirited policy who is about keeping a political promise at their suspense. what do you make it this? >> i suppose ben rhodes is happy that a lot of money that is going to the cuban military because that's exactly what the policy is trying to dressed. i think a lot of the purports of this trump policy will overstate the impact. when you get to the nitty-gritty, it seems that th

richard cohen is an attorney and president of the southern poverty law center. mr. cohen is a graduate of the columbia university. and university of virginia. school of law. floyd abrams, senior counsel new york law firm of cahill gordon, wrangle and is leading first amendment litigator, he received his b.a. from cornell university. and his jd from yale law school. before you start to speak, zachary wood, two things i never gavel people down at the end of five minutes, but i hope when the red light goes on that you can sum up very quickly. also for my colleagues, we have two votes at 11:00 and it's going to be very necessary for us to keep the committee meeting going while we cast those two votes, so i hope people will take turns chairing while so we can keep the testimony and questions going. mr. wood, would you start? by the way your entire statement will be put in the record. your longer statement. >> madam ranking member and distinguished members of the committee. i am honored and privileged to have the opportunity to appear before you. my name is zach wood. i'm

and richard williams came. paul cohen was my coach at this particular time. d these girls are going to be the number one and number two players in the world. charlie: richard williams did, the father. john: call me in 10 years. when venus started winning everything, winning the opens and wimbledon, the younger one is better than the older one. talk about putting some pressure on this poor little girl. and wow. charlie: he turned out to be right. john: yeah. charlie: you can't resist -- i hear you in this book. i read this book. there is no monitor on you. there is no -- john: i wouldn't totally agree with that. charlie: because you do have a sense of "i'm going too far if i say" -- john: i'd like to think at 58 have a sense of that at this point, but i didn't think i was going too far the other day. charlie: you talk about family things and in-laws. john: it's not -- it's been a bit of a roller coaster, but it's been a hell of a ride. hell of a ride. 40 years ago, in a couple weeks, i went over and got to the semis of wimbledon. that's a long time. 40 years ag

let's discuss with cnn legal analyst paul callan, richard painter, former white house ethics lawyer, and steven cohening director of the national whistle-blower center and the author of "the whistleblower's handbook." great to have you legal minds on this evening. so paul, we saw a defiant president today, he's calling comey a liar and saying he's 100% willing to go under oath. surprising that he would say that. where does this leave us legally? is it he said-he said? >> well, it is a he said-he said. however, comey would seem to have the edge because he took contemporaneous notes of his conversation with the president. >> are they a factor? >> i think they will be a factor, because when a jury is looking for who's telling the truth, they look for collateral corroboration, and if somebody recorded it moments after leaving the conversation, that gives him a little bit of an edge. who knows, maybe the president was tape recording or keeping notes, too, but he's not known to be much of a note-taker. >> if there is a legal case, does it make a difference that the president and his attorney seem to be che