stormy daniels -- stormy daniels owes him millions of dollars for all of the self-promotion she did at her expense. cpl, back in news, next.

stormy daniels -- stormy daniels owes him millions of dollars for all of the self-promotion she did at expense. cpl, back in news, next. >> with a long list of felony charges against him, you might have imagined the creepy porn lawyer was gone for good. if so, you were wrong. there's television cameras to jump in front of, the porn lawyer will live on, there's oxygen. he's suing stormy daniels claiming she owes him $2 million in unpaid legal fees. a bold move considering he's facing charges of embezzling $300,000 owed to daniels. a fantastic magazine. he joins us tonight. so cpl is suing stormy daniels, who last time i checked, had no money and was dancing in strip bars in richmond, people throw beer bottles on her. he's trying to take money from her. >> that's right. he's just trying to express -- he's trying to litigate how hard he worked himself to the bone for this client. his relentless dedication to her well being. this guy had a grueling 19 months or however long it was that he was putting himself fully and completely out there for her. just look at what he had to go through. so

here it is. >> do you know about the $130,000 to stormy daniels? >> no.hen. michael is my attorney and you'd have to ask michael. >> david, you'll have to ask michael cohen. you'll have to ask rudy. it sure sounds like the same show. >> yeah. sounds like the sound of a branch being sawed off behind these guys, and i think that that, you know, the president uses these people to do his political chores and when it becomes inconvenient he separates himself from them. it's very tough given the exposure that rudy giuliani has had over the last two years and particularly through this episode to divorce himself from rudy. after all, rudy giuliani was the guy he wanted the president of ukraine to meet with, to discuss these matters of the bidens and ukraine's role in 2016 and so on. so it's pretty hard to jetson rudy now. >> it certainly sounds like that, john, and look, the two that were arrested today, associates of giuliani were helping him to dig up bidens in ukraine and pushing for the u.s. ambassador for ukraine to be kicked out. she eventually was and toda

in stormy daniels, but karen mcdougal, they would have had a huge impact on the election and what is>> i document in the book that ami did play a small role in the stormy daniels situation where it was brought to ami first by her attorney and ami connected the parties that were involved in that transaction, michael cohen and stormy daniels. look, this is, as you say, bigger than one organization. bigger than one set of individuals. this is about patterns of mutual protection in circles of power and the way in which powerful people are able to sub vert the press, whether it is nbc or ami to bury stories and that is why the title is "catch and kill", as term for acquiring stories to getting rid of them. >> it is a great book on sale now. little brown. we have the same publisher, reagan arthur is fantastic. >> they stood by the stories and it is subject to threats and attempts to ban it and people in our business rally around it. >> congratulations. it is an amazing bit of reporting and it is good that it is out there. thank you. appreciate for what you do. >> thank you for your coverag

now he is suing stormy daniels she claims h she owes him $2 million in. zzling $300,000 to daniels. hutzpah might be the name for it. spectator u.s.a. and he joins us tonight. jeff, great to see you. >> good to see you. >> tucker: cpl is suing stormy daniels who last time i checked had no money and was dancing in strip bars in richmond and have people throw beer bottles on her. he is trying to take money from her. >> that's exactly right. he is just trying to expres express. >> trying to litigate how hard he worked himself to the bottom for this client. this guy had a grueling 19 months or however long it was that he was putting himself fully and completely out there for her. just look at what he had to go through. so hundreds a time a day he would be showing up at cnn. you have been to cnn, you used to work there. i have been to cnn. just showing up there is an experiment in human misery. you have to dry clean your clothes when you leave to get the stench of decay out of it. he has to sit in makeup. he has to -- then he has to go into the studio, hundreds

and, remember, michael cohen paid stormy daniels $130,000 money.legal expense. it was in the a legal expense. how he declared that on his taxes clearly will be one of the things that the da's office wanted to see. it's the story of putting a magnifying glass with trained investigators on to something like the trump organization, like donald trump's tax returns. there's a reason he doesn't want them to get their hands on this. i think once they start, are able to look at it with a few already seemingly clear predicate crimes they're going to find a lot more. this is a real threat to trump. >> and the manhattan district attorney's crimes bureau has dealt with some pretty big economic crimes. there's all of the information we've already learned about from the new york attorney general about his misuse of the trump foundation charitable funds and how is that reported on taxes? how are those funds used? these are all things. they have so many tools at their disposal when you're talking about economic crimes. there's so many different state statutes that

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he was involved in the stormy daniels issue, the hush money payoff to stormy daniels, he was tangentallyith karen mcdougal, the president always maintained he did not have affairs with these women despite all the evidence that it looks like he had. he was in the middle of all this. on top of that, he got nailed on i think it was tax fraud, tax evasion. that's why he's in jail for three years. including with the campaign finance violations. so the initial book was going to be positive. now from what we understand it's going to be a tell-all. liz: there is definitely scorched earth between them. >> listen, there's two issues here. number one, you would think it would sell if it was a tell-all. during the congressional hearings it was pretty interesting. he talked about how there was still smoldering investigations out there into the president, maybe his business dealings. he talked about how trump manipulated his taxes. liz: the new york's d.a. office was doing an investigation. >> southern district of new york which is more than the new york d.a. that is the federal prosecutor in new york

you know, the stormy daniels stuff has faded into the background, but as far as i know, the new yorkill pursuing a criminal investigation into the trump organization and payments. so as this investigation plays out, donald trump for the first time in his presidency is going to be talking under oath about what happened in the stormy daniels affair, and all these other affairs because, you know, summer zervos's attorneys are going to want to get hypocrite on the record about his affairs and accuracy and his honesty and try to push him on all those subjects. >> as danny cevallos pointed out during the break, any discovery of the president will have implications for any other case that may be out there. i'm sorry i have to cut it short, gentlemen, because we have breaking news. >>> breaking news from "the new york times" on the impeachment inquiry into president trump. the "times" reports, quote, a key witness in the impeachment investigation filed a lawsuit friday asking a federal judge to rule on whether he can testify. a move that raises new doubts about whether president trump's clos

them as the investigates the trump organization's involvement in allegedly paying hush money to stormy daniels and karen mcdougall. the second us circuit court of appeals immediately ordered a stay of the ruling pending an appeal. the white house is arguing that the president is immune from such investigations. >> the supreme court may well step in on this especially if the second circuit agrees with this federal trial judge down the line that the president is not entitled to this broad immunity and this will bring us back to the united states versus nixon where pres. nixon claimed there was a broad immunity from investigation. >> prof. david levine says the whitlikel delay to a final ruling in the case for as long as possible. >>> the time is for 11 am and it is time to start closely watching your mailbox. still ahead the important voting information you should be getting this week. >>> and the 49ers are now the hottest team in the nsc after a big win on monday night football, what is next for them? a meeting with the cleveland browns. >>> good morning traffic is off to a nice start, if you a

had 85%-95% of republicans job approval who stuck with him through helsinki, charlottesville, stormy danielsccess hollywood," mueller, suddenly they say this is the breaking point. i don't believe it. quinnipiac poll says 94% oppose his removal. i think people are getting ahead of themselves thinking republicans are doing a big jail break on trump. i think the support there is stronger than this poll suggests. >> and, i mean, i think the other indicators for where the republicans are is they're a-wol. i don't know if you were back for the sunday shows. >> i've seen, the silence is notable. >> i think the polls can also be indicators. i take your point that republicans support trump and oppose impeachment. i think the idea that the white house is rattled by some of these swings in pub lk approval in a way they never were. he railed against the mueller problem before he took off his pajamas every day for 23 months. this has been going on for what, four weeks? >> i'm not saying it's not notable. >> i take your pioint on republicans. i can see it. the swing, especially among independents which i

and by the way, this investigation is related to the payments trump made during the campaign to stormy danielste. which how crazy ithis presidency that we forgot about that? [ laughter ] i was like oh, yeah, i forgot he did that. the second circuit court of appeals granted a last-minute stay of the ruling, which means this might not happen for a while, but i love the irony that we're going to release trump's tax returns without his consent. we're just going to grab them by the subpoena and see what happens. [ laughter ] [ cheers and applause ] his team now is trying to convince themselves and anyone dumb enough to believe it that all this impeachment stuff is good, not bad, for his re-election prospects. his acting chief of staff, mick mulvaney, has been telling staffers that if the president gets impeached he could win 45 states in 2020. which i don't think he could name 45 states in 2020. but i'm not sure the president agrees with that. he had a call with house republicans over the weekend where he said among other things impeachment would be bad for his resume. [ laughter ] which trump worr

old expression as long as they spell my name right well as long as they just let me do this but stormy daniels i've been not p.p. people who basically do nothing and kim carr dashon who dare i say is kind of like you know they always say the defendant or the seinfeld was a show about nothing but dick van dyke was really that 1st and she was as well. but all i'm saying is that we're learning more about us and you get to the point where you get scared when you say we're really not well we're mapping the genome we're traveling around the universe we've got particle physics is green theory but yet some of the. not only but 10 years later we bring it back to. analyze it and i love it and you rule my day because i've been training yes thank you because that is not about impeachment thank you thank you so much for coming online and that's the discussion about the news media and all of our foibles thank you so much sir thank you. state the real meat the fake me the freeze dried meat and spaceship the bio printed meat on the space station that's right the very 1st lab grown meat developed by a left far

wanted to take a look at the same contact that landed michael cohen in jail, namely the payoff to stormy danielsthe days of the 2016 campaign that was not treated as a campaign finance violation and landed michael cohen in jail. a legit -- and the president was deemed to be a participant. the da's office leaves they have ategitimate reason to look the books. they are taking advantage of a books and record law that maintains companies that are based in new york have to keep accurate books and records and not fudge numbers to hide illicit activity. now they have evidence of the illicit activity and now they can go after the term organization for hiding that. vonnie: we know the president has a reprieve for the moment until the next set of arguments is considered, but the fact that the president and his team lost the fight early this morning before the appeal -- was that a surprise? be a there was supposed to decision. we have been waiting for this day for a month. the complete loss of the president's argument at this federal court was not a total surprise. au always hope that you get favorable jud

collusion, then a cover-up of a crime that never occurred, then in between trump's taxes and stormy daniels, now they have this thing pretends they -- thin pretends saying trying to expand upon, i think that people see right through, that i believe it the backfire on the democrats, there is a legitimate reason that president asked for cooperation of ukrainian government, not just the fact that joe biden used a billion dollars of loan guarantees to threaten ukrainian government who did not fire the prosecutor who was looking into corruption charges again his son. elizabeth: that was on going, not about the son, the corruption prob president obamae hunter biden. >> actually, prosecutor told the hill a john salomon that is what he was looking into. elizabeth: but not just biden wanting him fired. he was fired for being problematic on the job. predating joe biden. moving to. historian goodwin noted the house would be judged on how it conducts itself. and william mcgurn saying in an op-ed. to ask for documents, stop the white house in its activities and it i is he said we're in new territory. sa

>> joe biden's son, john kerry's stepson, hillary clinton, george soros, stormy daniels and the thorntonroup, and that was owned by whitey bulger's nephew. >> thank you for being here, rudolph. and now my socks are gone! ( cheers and applause ) >> announcer: it's "the late show" with stephen colbert! tonight, spin-peachment, plus stephen welcomes hillary rodham clinton, chelsea clinton and wilco, featuring jon batiste and "stay human." and now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephenrt! ( cheers and applause ) ( theme song playing ) >> stephen: come on! hello there! how are you? whoo! whoo! that's just dumb! so stupid! have a seat, everybody! thank you so much. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to "the late show." i'm your host, stephen colbert. i hope you all had a nice weekend. my family got a new puppy. ( cheers and applause ) jon, i know you guys played the global citizen festival in central park. >> jon: yes, that's right. >> stephen: that looked fantastic! >> jon: rolling on! telling the truth! >> stephen: meanwhile, down in washington, d.c., the preside

. >> it is similar to the stormy daniels situation which was that what donald trump wanted in getting to stormy daniels was assistance for his campaign to tamp down what would have been a negative story. that's the thing that's of value. in this case, the thing that's of value is if they can find somewhere, a hat to hang their conspiracy theory on, and if they can dig up dirt on a potential opponent, that's the thing about it. is that what gets us -- the thing that frustrated us about the mueller investigation was they couldn't put a fine point on what the crime would be of the obstruction. >> one thing mueller did say was that soliciting oppo research from a foreign national is a violation of federal criminal law. he wasn't sure he could prove criminal intent in the russia investigation. now everyone is on notice that it's illegal. it looks like trump's defense is going to be, well, i was asking just that they take a look at corruption and investigate corruption and, by that, he doesn't mean he will say his own political concerns. he means corruption that was going on in the ukraine.

just like he denied russia's election interference, just like he denied paying stormy daniels hush moneydenied saying thinks he definitely said on camera. he said he didn't pressure ukraine to investigate the bidens, but that he could, but then the ukraine call transcript came out showing he did just that. so trump moved to the normalized phase. he said the call was perfect. he urged ukraine against to investigate the bidens, doing the very thing he's being accused of and possibly could be impeached over. he went even further material china, a communist dictatorship, to hop on board the corruption train, and then saying it in broad daylight. i have an absolute right, perhaps even a duty to investigate or have investigated corruption. that would including asking or suggesting other countries to help us on you. here's a little this ink to lynn for as well. trump is fond of saying he has the slight right to do whatever he wants, as if saying it makes it so. in january after congress refused to fund his border wall, i have the absolute right to do a national emergency if i want. last june --

happening early november 2016 the "wall street journal" called around about stormy daniels and karene first story about the hush money payments could keep the women silent because of allegations involving president trump. according to farrow's books, documents, unknown documents, what were trump-related were taken out of the "national enquirer" safe before the journal came out. they collected dirt on trump and kept it secret. called "catch and kill" as farrow's book is titled. to know it was shredded just before the election makes you think differently about what happened before election day. >> any other details we should look for in the book? >> american media denies the account, the parent company for the enquirer says it's full of information is unsubstantiated, it's dramatic but completely untrue. american media in the past has lied to reporter. put that out there and lawyers haven't commented. farrow has multiple sources for these details and very notable he says documents were shredded right before election day. >> a pretty good reporter. brian stelter, thank you so much. >> t

the case goes back to stormy daniels and another woman during the election.s could end up at the supreme court during an election year. 13. >>> president trump lifting all sanctions on turkey. the announcement came after russia and turkey agreed to hold joint patrols on the border. the kremlin weighing in as trump seemed to wash his hands of future involvement in syria. >> supposed to be a quick hit. let's get out. it was a quick hit. but they stayed for almost ten years. let someone else fight over this long blood-stained sand. >>> just a short time earlier, the special envoy to syria voiced his concerns to congress. >> the mission was defeating isis. if you remove the troops before that mission is complete, then you have a problem. and we do have a problem right now. >> syrian enjoy james jeffery and mark esper said turkish-backed rebels have likely committed multiple war crimes. we go to the border. good morning, jomana. >> reporter: good morning, dave. when you look at the situation on the ground right now, yes, you might have this agreement between turke

there are so many tentacles of these investigations of congress area ranging from the payoff with stormy danielsll to the ukrainian president now this. it's hard to tell what they will cling to. >> thank you so much. coming up, balance of power continues on bloomberg radio. we will talk to a representative of the eurasia group on the u.s. china trade deal. ♪ from the couldn't be prouders to the wait did we just win-ners. everyone uses their phone differently. that's why xfinity mobile let's you design your own data. now you can share it between lines. mix with unlimited, and switch it up at anytime so you only pay for what you need. it's a different kind of wireless network designed to save you money.l. plus get $250 back when you buy an eligible phone. call, click, or visit a store today. >> big oil bottles climate change. ceo's say reducing admission is not just their job. we speak to the ceo of q equinor. to woo investors who were disillusioned by energy stocks and buybacks. a $2.6 billion historic blackout. pg&e cuts power to have a billion people in california. all to insulate itself from w

. >> i mentioned the stormy daniels situation because this sounds a lot like this.stormy daniels situation do a payoff of this porn actress because you don't want to do it yourself p he does its. takes out a big mortgage, he goes to jail, dot dot dot, unindicted coconspirator, this sounds like kind of the same thing. >> it does and the question will be where does the proof take us, but in this case remember even donald trump's denial of i don't know them, talk to my lawyer giuliani who i'm not even sure is my lawyer anymore, that was interesting. >> that was a big bust. >> you either fired him or you didn't and only you know the answer to that question. so -- but i think here his -- it's almost you know, joyce and i were on last niegd and he played the side by side clips. almost identical what he said about michael cohen and it turned out he was lying. he -- because we then find out when micah cohen testifies before congress that michael cohen was collecting checks on the white house. so he obviously knew those payments were being made because he was signing -- and

notably when you think of that payment, $130,000 to stormy daniels.it turns out rudy giuliani was acting on the president's interests but without his knowledge, larry does that exonerate the president on this single detail at least? >> well, if he truly had no knowledge about this. >> yeah. >> it might. but keep in mind that, know, giuliani also has a relationship with the campaign. if he was doing this on behalf of the campaign, then at least it implicates the president's campaign in illegal activity. so it is not just the president himself, but it's hard to believe that the president, that president trump claims as a business person he was very on top of things, a representation to be a micromanager at a sense had no idea what was going on here and no idea who giuliani was talking to, because frankly the two people in the indictment, fruman and -- >> parnas. >> yes. parnas. -- especially fruman considered one of giuliani's fixers in ukraine. >> right. >> these are people important to the campaign, important to the whole scheme to try to involve ukra

in connection with with the hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to stormy danielsffairs with trump who denied the allegations. trumps former attorney michael cohen admits paying some hush money on his bhafr. he's serving time in federal prison after pleading guilty in case concerning the very payments. attorney for the president immediately appealed today's ruling. and trump and his lawyers have one main argument. the president of the united states is untouchable. as long as he has on the ruby slippers of the presidency the so called wicked witch hunts of the justice system can't touch him. that's called above the law. the president's team is clinging to justice department guidelines. and i stress the word guidelines. which say a sitting president cannot be indicted. can't be criminally prosecuted. here's where the judges ruling could have far reaching implications. remember that old guideline that says you can't indict a sitting president? how often did you hear that? after today that guideline maybe all bark and no bite. here's a key part of the opinion. it reads

they are seeking them as part of an investigation into hush money payments possibly paid to stormy daniels other women who allegedly had affairs with president trump. the lawyer saying the president has temporary immunity because he's president of the united states. all is happening as the president's words are coming back. let's listen to what the president had to say when he was then kennedy trump. >> you know what else they say about my people? they say i have the most loyal people. i could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot somebody and i wouldn't lose any voters. it is incredible. yamiche: those comments are critically important to this case. the judge and the attorneys had a back-and-forth about this. here's what that exchange had to say. >> what is your view on the 5th avenue, local authorities couldn't investigate, couldn't do anything about it? >> i think once a president is removed from office, any local authority -- this is not a permanent immunity. >> i'm talking about while in office. nothing could be done? that is your position? >> that is correct. yamiche: critics o

business tax returns and all this stems from the investigation into payment to these two, porn star stormy daniels and karen karen mcdougal. the impeachment inquiry set to ramp up tomorrow when the u.s. ambassador to the european union is scheduled to testify on capitol hill. gordon sandland named in whistleblower complaint that triggered impeachment investigation. according to that complaint, sunland was part of the meeting with the ukraine president after the ukrainian leader was asked to investigate joe biden. >> it could be a feisty session behind closed doors. gordon sondland met with ukraine president to give advice about how to navigate president trump's demand. sondland defendzed the president in text message exchange with colleagues last week, insisting no quid quo pro to withhold military aide to ukraine. key house democrat spoke in support of the investigation. >> i haven't said we need to impeach the president, i'm looking for what the facts are right now. a lot of other people are saying, okay, let's get the facts and see where the facts lead us. where do we need to go? next couple we

in connection with with the hush money payments made during the 2016 presidential campaign to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. both allege affairs with trump who denied the allegations. trumps former attorney michael cohen admits paying some hush money on his behalf. he's serving time in federal prison after pleading guilty in case concerning the very payments. attorney for the president immediately appealed today's ruling. and trump and his lawyers have one main argument. the president of the united states is untouchable. as long as he has on the ruby slippers of the presidency the so called wicked witch hunts of the justice system can't touch him. that's called above the law. the president's team is clinging to justice department guidelines. and i stress the word guidelines. which say a sitting president cannot be indicted. can't be criminally prosecuted. here's where the judges ruling could have far reaching implications. remember that old guideline that says you can't indict a sitting president? how often did you hear that? after today that guideline maybe all bark and no bite. here's

remind viewers, all about the hub money payments to porn star stormy daniels. trump prosecutors want to know, based here in new york, filed a false, false business records to cover up those payments. these tax returns would would be part of that. what this all goes back to. as you said, both sides recognize a number of times in these proceedings the next step for this will be the supreme court. one side or the other is going to appeal whatever the decision is going to be. we expect that process will be fast-tracked as well. again, all about whether the president is absolutely immune from prosecution. >> absolute immunity. and harry, to you, you heard what this line, everyone remembers from the campaign about, i can shoot anyone on fifth avenue and you'd still vote for me. the fact that the defense attorney said, well, yeah. he wouldn't be in trouble. what did you think of the attorney's response? the trump attorney? >> it's amazing. i mean, you know, you took this hypocraful claim and said, yep. he's going to lose this case and going to lose it in short order.

their hands on the president's financial records as it relates to the hush money payments to stormy daniels. and so in a courtroom yesterday, the president's own personal lawyer, not rudy giuliani, william konsovoy, made the turmt a judge that basically the president is above the law. you can't charge him while he's president and you can't even investigate him. listen to what he said to the judge and the judge's reaction. >> what's your view on the fifth avenue example? local authorities couldn't investigate. they couldn't do anything about it. >> i think once a president is removed from office, any local authority -- this is not a permanent immunity. >> i'm talking about while in office. >> no. >> that's the hypo. nothing could be done. that is your position? >> that is correct. >> if the president shot someone on fifth avenue, the judge asked, he could not be investigated or charged? true or false? >> what's interesting about this exchange is that i think many of us remember the department of justice policy that says under department of justice policy, not a law, but the department of jus

noticed there was a discrepancy for how the trump organization accounted for yments toohen's pa stormy danielsis a hole in the way these things are reported. it is our business to know if we should change the law regarding presidential's disclosures. david: there are a growing number of them. as you said, there was an earlier ruling that basically state a district court decision. that had to do with the tax returns of president trump, and that is a criminal proceeding and investigation by cyrus vance, a local. this is the congress thing we needed, the other is the local prosecutor here saying, we need it for a different reason. david: but there is -- greg: but there is a similar defense in both cases. the president's lawyers argue that he has no business rummaging around. it will be a distraction to the a fishingand it is expedition and the federal judge, you know, basically swept and aside a few days ago said no, it is a legitimate function here. yes, it is going to be appealed, so it is going to slow things down, that is part of the president's defense strategy and is a successful one, to ap

he represents me like with this crazy stormy daniels deal. he represented me. and, you know, from what i see, he did absolutely nothing wrong. >> well, we'll see how much longer giuliani stays on as trump's attorney. this is just one element, one element in a bad day, in a bad week. a very bad day and a very bad week for president trump as the impeachment inquiry picks up steam. center stage on capitol hill today, marie yovanovitch, the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, who was removed from that post earlier this year by trump, testifying behind closed doors. "the new york times" got a copy of her statement to congress. in her statement, she told investigators this. i do not know mr. giuliani's motives for attacking me. but individuals who had been named in the press as contacts of mr. giuliani may well have believed that their personal financial ambitions were stymied by our anti-corruption policy in ukraine. she wasn't playing along with the scheme to dig up dirt on joe biden, and that angered giuliani, who lobbied the president to dump her. the white house

russia, stormy daniels, fill-in the blank blank. it's like mad libs. story in "the new york times" reveals every bit as much that this is just another pretext. it turns out that house intel committee chairman adam schiff knew about the whistle-blower complaint before it was even filed. in fact, he orchestrated the story in secret long before you and i or anyone else in the country heard that. the so-called whistle-blower contacted sheriff's office was recommended a lawyer for him or her. schiff later lied brazenly. claim his office never spoke to the ci employee directly. had to know that admitting that would undermine the story and impeachment for himself. tonight there are credible rumors that adam schiff himself planted today's bombshell in "the new york times" story. he knew it would come out and he wanted the most of it pathetic possible coverage. that's the line. we can confirm that. other way, the story this morning greatly damages the great ability of the claims schiff and others are making. they been waiting for this moment three years no matt

one of them has to do with stormy daniels and relationship with donald trump.ern district of new york is even going after that but they are. i'm all for it. let the courts do their job. let them decide whether or not these records are given out or not. if they are, live with it. i like dealing through the court system as opposed to through the legislative branch. i think it's a good thing. we'll see what happens. jackie: danny, great to see you. we'll see what happens. thank you. >> always a pleasure. thanks. >> talk to you soon. president trump holding his second rally in as many night. this time in lake charles, louisiana. fox news's ellison barber is there with a preview. ellison? reporter: jackie, there is more than one republican running for governor in louisiana. both of those candidates are expected to be here tonight. louisiana has what is known as jungle primary. the election is tomorrow. president trump is not telling people who specifically they should vote for. instead he is telling them so vote for a republican and force a runoff with the current g

after the other scandal with stormy daniels he said you'll have to ask michael cohen because i don't it sounds very similar to me. >> it's stunning to me, just watching that and going through giuliani, his interview with chris cuomo where he said no, i didn't ask the ukrainians to investigate joe biden and then 20 seconds later he said he did. he was saying shut up, shut up. you don't know what you're talking about, you idiot. it's surprising that you can still describe rudy giuliani as president donald trump's attorney. maybe not for much longer. to me it's remarkable rudy giuliani has lasted this long. perhaps because they have known each other for a long time and he's loyal and goes on tvhat relationship does not look good for donald trump. >> marie yovanovitch fired, eventually removed from her post, is scheduled to appear tomorrow before the house. do you think she will, will the state department try to block her under orders from the white house? >> last minute last week but when it comes to yovanovitch, every single person who knows her, who has spoken out about her calls her

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manhattan da wants to see them as he investigates the trump organization's hush money payment to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. the appeals court immediately ordered a steak. stay. >>> the supreme court may well step in on this, especially at the second and 3rd circuit agree with the federal trial judge down the line that the president is not entitled to this kind of broad immunity. it will bring us back to the united states versus nixon where dixon claimed very broad immunity from investigation.'s widget that was professor david live in. this will lead to a delay in the ruling. >>> coming up, call to 911 are putting a strain on ambulance service. >>> how city officials are scrambling to fix the problem that leads resources so depleted the city has had to reach out to other counties. >> the 49ers are celebrating a huge victory on tv. the crushing defeat they serve to the cleveland browns. california phones offers free specialized phones... like cordless phones, - (phone ringing) - big button, and volume-enhanced phones. get details on this state program. call or visit at at&t we believe in

getting the president's financial records in -- as it relates to the hush money payments paid to stormy danielss possible this is bound for the supreme court. >> it's possible. it's possible it'll stay in the circuit court and the supreme court will say it's not interesting enough for them and that's legal. i'm going to go with laughable. i'm not a lawyer. i'm going to go with laughable. this is a real problem for the president politically. one of the weakest arguments we made during the clinton administration was on the paula jones civil case where we argued that the president under the soldiers and sailors law is too busy to deal with these things. it was an awful political argument. turns out it was an awful legal argument too because we lost 9-0 in the supreme court. but the democrats have been going around and if you look for one consistent talking point from democrats, it's the president is not above the law. and the court in front of a above of judges said the president is above the law. that's easy for people to understand. they don't like that. >> real quickly, rudy giuliani is hiring

he's done that with the stormy daniels scandal. is that what mulvaney was trying to do? admit some of the quid pro quo? >> it's not clear because he came out to talk about a completely unrelated topic so whether or not the press conference sort of developed a life of its own in real time is not clear, but what we know is that the president is out of town and the white house decided to put mulvaney forward to address some of these allegations and to echo what alex just said about the president's personal lawyers not really knowing anything behind the press conference. we spoke to folks at doj who couldn't corroborate a lot of what the chief "usa today" said. said if there's a link, it's quote news to us. and so it's really interesting to see. doesn't seem like this was a coordinated effort by any stretch. >> so even if you take the bidens out of it and they're definitely a big prt of it by sondland and trurpmp's own admission, you have crew yan very, very vulnerable, depending on meeting military aid to save the lives ukrainians against these russian interlopers investiga

. >> the stormy daniels payments. >> essentially what happened here is the president argued while he- they were trying to get the tax returns, which many people have been wanting to see, that he can't be subjected to criminality can't be under investigation while a sitting president. as you read the federal judge says that's not really the case and he was strong in his language. it was a long actual comment as to why they believe that. let me read it again. basically said categoricle limitless assertion of presidential immunity that would constitute an overreach of power saying your argument isn't strong enough and they can go forward with this lawsuit that the manhattan d.a.'s office filed. >> the president's team has already filed an emergency appeal. i suppose we see where that goes. are they likely to be granted an appeal here? >> not really clear at this moment but let's also remember this went so far as to the president's own department of justice got involved last week saying they wanted to have some sort of skin in this game and an opinion about what was going on between the

the difference, of course, here is while with the stormy daniels case, the prosecutors were relying on's testimony on conversations he had privately with the president. with respect to rudy giuliani, there is a transcript of a summary of a call in which the president is invoking rudy giuliani himself and offering his assistance in his capacity as the president's personal attorney if they open up an investigation into joe biden and his son. so it's difficult for the president to pretend he acting volition. >> how much trouble potentially is rudy giuliani in right now? >> there's been a lot of reports of scrutiny of giuliani's finances. of course his long-time associates the two people indicted yesterday doesn't help matters. and clearly there's an indication this investigation, they said yesterday it's ongoing. they're going to talk to these two individual partners and perhaps go up higher on the chain to find out who directed them, how high this went. so clearly it seems that giuliani is under a great deal of scrutiny and this is going to be scrutiny and trouble for him for some time.