the world's problems. they say, well, we need to do a manhattan project on this. so we still have that in the back of our minds, that there is this almost impossible female that was accomplished by -- feat that was accomplished by dedicated people working hard to come up with something nobody else had ever done before. so we still take lessons from that and from oppenheimer's leadership in that. st a mixed legacy. partly it's a mixed legacy because of -- [inaudible] partly because of the nuclear power plant accidents that have happened, fukushima, chernobyl, three file island. partly -- three mile island. partly because of divide opinions of the public, of looking at people who work at los alamos as either saviors of our democracy or shadowy figures who have their fingers on armageddon. i mean, it's a complicated thing to try to wrap your head around. and a lot of times there's no black and white, easy answers on this. >> twice a month c-span's cities tours take booktv and american history tv on the road to explore the literary life and history of a selected city.

robert mueller's team interviews the woman who earned notoriety as the manhattan madam. the special counsel apparently wants to know about her ties to roger stone. is mueller building a case against the long-time trump ally? russian hysteria after u.s. intelligence chiefs paint a grim picture of continuing russian interference at u.s. elections. moscow responds with ridicule, calling it case of hysteria. >>> cooking the books. prosecutors say paul manafort lied about stashing money offshore. accountants say the former trump campaign chairman was cooking the books, and the government's star witness still hasn't taken the stand. >>> and pompeo versus the president. even as president trump lavishes praise on kim jong-un, secretary of state mike pompeo now says the north korean leader is not living up to his commitment to denuclearize. are they on the same page? i'm wolf blitzer, and you're in "the situation room." >> this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news. special counsel robert mueller's team met this week with a woman named kristen davis, better known as the manhattan

the manhattan district attorney's office is looking at this, at manafort's transactions. the new york attorney general's office has been doing the same thing. they obviously put together a significant civil case with the trump foundation. i think all of this, both sides are pretty much consistent, that they need to wait for the investigations to wind down. it'll take time. >> for sure. interesting thing about this when we talk about a state investigation or state charges or a state conviction, the president does not have pardon power there, which leads me to bring in nbc's kelly o'donnell, who is on the north lawn of the white house. when we talk about pardons, we've now heard from rudy giuliani. our team spoke with his team, rudy giuliani and his legal team overnight, about the idea that the president is pressing pause on the pardon button, if you will. >> reporter: hallie, we know this is a power unique to the president, that he has enjoyed and has gotten some benefits from in certain instances, where he's intexercised it. freeing a woman on the behest of kim kardashian.

>> i think that 2018 was missing was the manhattan madam, remember, she came into sort of prominent inhe elliott spitzer, the former governor of new york. sometimes it's the 1980s and 1990s all over again. look, their relationship is described as that they've had ties. we don't know what these ties are. we don't know what the nature of the relationship is. he represent -- or she ran for office once. he was her campaign manager. she worked for him once. and so the fact that she voluntarily came forward, maybe either because she has exonerating evidence or because she sees as carrie was describing the sort of -- you know, the wagons circling around one person and she may have information. so, you know, mueller is a busy guy. he's not interviewing people that may not have something relevant. and the fact that this cast of characters that surrounds the trump campaign from 2016, you know everyone from, you know, stone to the, you know, stormy daniels to now the manhattan madam, you know, that's the nature of the people he hung out with. and that's a character quality that is represented in

again, the manhattan madam is before the grand jury today. we know andrew miller, who is also a confidant of roger stone, he was also subpoenaed. he has not appeared. he will be held in contempt. and now this latest subpoena for randy credico. one last thing, john. rudy giuliani talked about this investigation wrapping up by september 1st. we can see that just by the mere fact that this subpoena for randy credico is for september 7th, that looks very unlikely, and it won't happen. john? >> very important point at the end there. jessica schneider, thank you. september 7th happens to be 60 days before the midterm elections. there's a signal. robert mueller doesn't talk in public, but what he puts on the court calendar tells you a little something. we'll keep track of that as well. before we go to break, marking a milestone. 25 years ago today, ruth bader ginsburg sworn in as the second female supreme court justice. >> in my lifetime, i expect there will be as many sisters as brothers in law. that prospect is indeed cause for hope, and its reali

another is a friend of stone's known as the manhattan madam. the third is a former aide of stone's named andrew miller, who refused today to comply with a subpoena. so he is now facing a contempt charge. why dodge if you have nothing to hide? let's get after it with miller's lawyer, mr. paul kamenar. welcome to "prime time," counselor. >> thank you, chris. good to be here. >> good to have you. let's test the case. is this about hiding? is this about ducking the truth if. >> absolutely not, chris. this is a constitutional challenge to the lawfulness of the special counsel mueller. what we did was challenge his constitutionality on the grounds that he was not properly appointed under article 2 of the constitution. and we said that if you're going to appoint him under the constitution, he has to be appointed by the head of the department. >> right. >> and the head of the department is jeff sessions, not rod rosenstein. >> right. you made that objection. it was ruled on by the judge in a 90-plus-page decision that every expert that we've had on abou

this as the "new york times" is reporting the manhattan d.a.'s office is mulling criminal charges against the trump organization over the payments made to stormy daniels. but first to the tweets taking direct aim at the attorney general this morning, one day after jeff sessions punched back at the president for the first time. 10 let's go to abby phillip from the white house with more. not a low friday morning. >> things are not looking god for jeff sessions. it seems like the situation with the president has gone from passive aggressive to aggressive jeff sessions issued a statement directly to the president who in a fox interview criticized him for not taking control of the justice department when he was appointed at attorney general. here's what sessions said. i took control of the department of justice the day i was sworn in which is why we've had unprecedented success in effectuating the president's agenda. then he adds, while i am attorney general, the actions of the department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political cons

you can see the new headline as of moments ago. manhattan d.a. criminal charges against trump organization. here's the lead. the manhattan district attorney's office is considering pursuing criminal charges against the trump organization. and two senior company officials with michael d. cohen's hush money payment -- excuse me. considering pursuing criminal charges and two senior company officials in question, michael d. cohen's hush money payment to an adult film actress. the "times" goes on to say that would it center on how the trump organization accounted for its reimbursement for the $130,000 that mr. cohen paid to stormy daniels during the campaign. there is actually a second story that is in here as well. about halfway through the story, the "times," the reporter says. this as the manhattan district attorney cyrus vance considers opening the investigation i just described, in addition to that, the new york state attorney general's office has moved to open a criminal investigation into whether michael cohen has violated state tax law. that's

sources say robert mueller's team say the team interviewed the woman known as the manhattan madam. here's sarah murray with a look at her possible connection to this whole collusion probe. >> reporter: kristen davis the woman known as the manhattan mad arms meade meeting with special counsel mule ear's team earlier this week. investigators apparently interested into her ties with roger stone. she and stone have been close fend for a decade. they expressed interest in having davis testify in the garage prosecutors are trying to build a case against stone. davis' lawyers declined to comment. stone tells cnn kristen davis the a long-time friend and associate of mine i am a god father to her two-year-old son. she knows nothingant wikileaks collaboration, clux, or anything which i thought was the subject of this probe. i understand she appeared voluntarily. i am highly confident she will testify truthfully, if called to do. so davis once ran a high end prostitution ring and went to jail surrounding then new york governor eliot spitzer. >> the remorse i feel will always be with me. >> she

s office, the manhattan d.c.'s office and that he obviously is very connected to cohen and it likely also cooperating with federal prosecutors in connection with the federal income tax fraud and the loan fraud that cohen pled guilty to. so there's a lot of intertwining prosecutorial investigations related to michael cohen. so it is not that surprising that we would see state prosecutors looking into some of this criminal activity. >> and dan, again, as a nonlawyer, i know about famous court cases involving business entities. i know about the enron case. i know about the arthur andersen case. oil companies and stuff like that. i don't know that much about what it means for there to be a criminal charge against a business like the trump organization. if that happens, if this manhattan district attorney's office does bring criminal charges against the organization, against the business, does that mean that the people who are the principals of that business essentially have to answer for the business's behavior if the

today, christin davis known as the manhattan madame. the paul manafort trial. the judge meeting with lawyers for almost five hours. and we have no idea what they were talking about. but let's start with the manhattan madame and cnn's mj lee at the federal courthouse. >> reporter: the woman known as the manhattan madame, christin davis, scheduled to testify today before a grand jury in robert mueller's russia investigation. investigators could be interested in her ties the long-time trump adviser roger stone. she was interviewed last week. they have been close friends for a decade. >> christin davis is a brilliant woman, a friend of mine. someone who has made mistakes and has paid her debt to society. >> reporter: davis once ran a high-end prostitution ring and went to jail as part of the scandal of governor spitzer. >> the remorse i feel will always with me. >> reporter: and ran for new york governor in 2010. >> i have redeemed myself and americans believe in second chances. >> reporter: also worked with stone more recently. in late 2016

let's go to washington where the manhattan madame faces the grand jury.hy is mueller interested in her? >> reporter: we don't know the answer to that. we know she will appear at this courthouse to testify before the grand jury. last week she was interviewed by mueller investigator as well. we don't know the details of how that interview went. keep in mind she does have close relationship with roger stone, the former trump advisor who is also embroiled in the mueller investigation. >> reporter: she's known as the manhattan madame. kristin davis testifying before a grand jury. investigators are interested in her tries to a long time trump advisor, roger stone. she and stone have been close friends for decade. in a statement stone told cnn last week, kristen davis is a long time frepds and associate to mine. i'm the god father to her 2-year-old son. she knows nothing about collusion, wikileaks collaboration or any other inpro p pryty. i'm highly confident she will testify truthfully if called upon to do so. davis once ran a high end prostitution ring. she we

mueller's team questioning a woman with ties to stone, who is best known as the infamous manhattan madam. >>> moscow fires back after a new warning by u.s. intel chiefs about russian interference, the kremlin is dismissing it as hysteria, while president trump is slamming what he calls the russia hoax. is mr. trump again siding with putin against his own intel team? >>> manafort manipulation. prosecutors zeroing in on paul manafort's alleged tax and banking crimes as key witnesses accuse the former trump campaign chairman of hiding his secret foreign income with a trail of lies. will mueller's star witness testify next? >>> and on the fire line, cnn is deep in the california disaster zone where infernos are raging and some residents are refusing to leave. >>> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following breaking news in the russia investigation. robert mueller's team interviewing a notorious witness with an intriguing connection to the collusion case

. >> reporter: last night "the new york times" reported that the manhattan district attorney's office led by vance considering a criminal investigation of the trump organization related to hush money payments and saw in the criminal information of michael cohen pleaded guilty to this week the trump organization facilitated the payments a ennow an area that according to "the new york times" the manhattan district attorney's office is considering pursuing. they have not returned a call for comment. we do know from the trump -- we know from a source that a trump organization is not contacted yet by the manhattan district attorney's office and the lawyer for the organization declined to comment, wolf. >> thank you very much. >>> joining us now democratic congressman reuben guillgo. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. >> how significant is this immunity deal for allen weisselberg? >> wolf, number one, probably get some information that the trump -- donald trump and the administration in general avoiding. you know, where are donald trump's taxes and money coming from? who

>> i'm a senior fellow at the manhattan institute, where i write aboutand policy and energy policy. tech'm also a partner in a venture fund where we invest in software companies for the oil business. >> how did you get there? >> how did i get which? >> ha ha! are right now. >> on the faculty, as a fellow, at northwestern university engineering school. >> the dean ask a -- is a good friend. that school but i know a lot of professors there. spectacular institution. withrn a lot hanging out those guys. the manhattan institute evolved because i spent my life writing. began writing when i was in high school. i've run some writing contests writer and -- won some writer,contests as a fiction, nonfiction. i have a pathological compulsion stuff.e but the manhattan institute evolved because i write. me.ew them, they knew they invited me to join as a scholar some years ago. the venture worked. i write about tech as well. of course, i'm a practicing scientist. earlier in my career. i patented. i used to build things. semiconductors and missile optics., fiber my early career was -- i went into nu

so it's the methodical mueller meeting the manhattan madam. i worked with him for four and a half years. does not do fishing expeditions. i can think of two reasons. one is people and the second is money. if roger stone is in the middle of this investigation, one of the basic sort of questions or lines of questions you would have for her is what do you know about him, but what else do you know about people he introduced you to, people he talked about. people who were in his circle. i want people questions to fill out what we know about who mr. stone was in contact with with. the second issue i assume her business dealings, i want to be polite on camera, were interesting and varied. i want to know if mr. stone had a business relationship with her, where that money came from. who paid. how. that was an important question for the manafort investigation so far. he was paying for clothes with wire transfers from overseas. she had a financial arrangement with stoep, who paid for what. it's pretty interesting. >> and wildfire 'loas we look a covereded

you are on with rafael mangual of the manhattan institute. go ahead. one thing i have noticed in cities that traditionally run democrats is where the crime and poverty rates are the highest. votingone think about for someone else? isn't the definition of insanity according to einstein doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result? the people you are voting for our taking into account your needs. thank you. host: mr. mangual? chicago has traditionally been a very blue city. i don't think we can simplify this to a matter of partisan politics. new york is a democrat city for a long time now. we have been able to keep our crime at bay. los angeles, you see the same thing. crime did go down in chicago for a significant period of time. if you have the right policing and incarceration practices, you will see good results over time no matter who is in office. host: west virginia on the line for others, richard, go ahead. caller: pedro? host: go ahead. caller: good morning. i would like to apologize to your guest for interrupting, but i hav

so that is going to play out and i wouldn't be surprised if the manhattan d.a.'ffice contacts michael cohen and says, hey, what can you do to help us better understand the trump organization? and we will write a favorable letter to the judge. paul manafort, he's going into a second trial in september. and he's going to feel even more pressure to cooperate with prosecutors which he hasn't done so far. >> listen, i almost interrupted you there because i want to show the cover while you're talking. here's a cover of the issue. and this is the animated version of it. do you think trump keeping his head above water is, do you think that's what's happening in real life? >> i think, yes, i think he's -- he's just barely keeping his head above water right now. he's trying to wrap his head around what's happening and fight back even harder as we've seen over the last couple of days. and this was -- this cover was the third in a series. there was a cover in february that showed trump at the resolute desk with the wind blowing through and him saying nothing to see here. the

that would really help. >> you know, the manhattan d.a. going after the trump organization as an entity potentially raises questions about the availability of those tax returns. but also the other piece that is imbedded in that story that doesn't make the headline, what i think is maybe potentially a bigger deal is that the new york attorney general is also reportedly seeking a criminal referral for michael cohen with regard to his taxes at the state level, his state taxes. that's how barbara underwood was able to flip the taxi king, which gave us, i think, basically most of the criminal charges against michael cohen already this week. if she is going to put the same kind of squeeze on cohen at the state level, nothing what he pled to at federal court will help and that will be a whole new level of hell for him. >> and as you have been pointing out this week, donald trump can't pardon his way out of new york state charges with any of these people, including himself. >> exactly, exactly. >> thank you, rachel. >> thanks, lawrence. >> here is

the d.a. in manhattan looking into things. this is in addition to the mueller investigation. >> didn't we see with the clinton administration, i think it was gennifer flowers, that on the civil cases, he could have to deal with them while he is sitting. >> absolutely. the supreme court ruled i believe 9-0 that presidents do have to deal with civil suits while in office. in fact, the person who was behind the legal arguments in that case was a guy named george conway who is now the husband of kellyanne conway. >> there you go. rachel, to you. sessions punching back yesterday was a first. something happened yesterday where it was just too much for jeff sessions. the straw that broke the camel's back. you read that statement that abby went through for us, every single word is chosen so carefully. he says, i will not be improperly influenced by political -- by political motives, mr. president. what broke? >> perhaps he feels like his days are numbered and he needs to get out there on the record why he has and hasn't done certain th

we start with breaking news on robert mueller and the manhattan madam. cnn has learned the special counsel's team has talked to the infamous manhattan madam kristen davis as part of the russia investigation. davis worked for and is a former friend of roger stone's. sarah murray is here working the story. sarah, i know you're doing a lot of reporting on this. walk us through the latest information. >> we're learning that kristin davis, famously known as the manhattan madam, has met with the special counsel's team. they also are interested in bringing her back and having her testify before the grand jury. this is interesting because she's known roger stone for a long time, for at least a decade. she's done work for him on and off over the course of their friendship together. it tells you prosecutors still seem to be very interested in roger stone and may be trying to build a case against him. he has not heard from the special counsel, but he has said publicly that he's bracing for the possibility of an indictment. you know, kristin davis' story in and of it

again, this is the manhattan madam. help us understand how she is connected to robert mueller's investigation. >> kristin davis, the manhattan madam has been working with roger stone for a period of ten years doing web design for him, working on campaigns. she has run her own political campaigns with his help. they have a very close relationship. they're also close friends. he's in fact godfather to her 2-year-old son, so there's any number of questions that they might be asking her about. now, she says and roger stone -- they both say that she knows nothing about russia collusion or anything like that. in fact she was giving birth to her son in september of 2016 just after all of the wikileaks and the trump tower meeting were going on and so she says she really has nothing to contribute on that front. now, she did meet on wednesday with a member of robert mueller's team, according to a person with direct knowledge of that meeting. she did not comment today and neither did her new lawyer down in d.c. >> you know who did

it ended the manhattan for the killer of prominent houston cardiologist mark hausknecht, he was shotto work. city cameras captured footage of pappas following house kenkt au shot him and then rode his bike away. it was video footage from a home surveillance camera that helped identify pappas. >> at the suspect's residence, they found a very extensive intelligence file that this suspect had put together on dr. hausknecht. he knew everything that you could possibly find on this man. i'm not going to go any further in the details just to say that it was very extensive. >> reporter: the file also contained the names of several dozen doctors and employees who worked in the same medical center which raised alarms for investigators. >> we actually passed that information on to the medical center and they dealt with to make sure notifications were being made and as they identified those employees. >> reporter: court documents also reveal that inside pappas' home, the front door was barricaded with a large piece of metal and that the living room had been cleared out except for a lone chair fa

>>> the so-called manhattan madame testifies. nt of the grand jury. >>> the time has come for the united states space force. >> and the space shooting for the stars. welcome to "early start." i'm phil mattingly. >> i'm christine romans. 31 minutes past the hour. let's start here. california's governor declaring a state of emergency as the raging holy fire inches closer to homes in the southern part of the state. here is what we know. the inferno is 5% contained. more than 21,000 people under mandatory evacuation and so far, more than 10,000 acres have burned. look at these images emerging overnight from the holy fire bearing down on this neighborhood in lake elsinore. firefighters asking a man to leave as he was using a garden hose to put flames out on his roof. this man capturing flames in his backyard. this man eventually left and told cnn he is not sure he will have a home when we returns. cnn's stephanie elam brings us the latest from lake elsinore. >> reporter: christine and phil, this is the concern. we are here at the holy

show more of you. >>> the manhattan d.a. ing criminal charges against the trump organization in connection with the michael cohen case, according to "the new york times." their sources say two company officials could also face charges related to the hush money payment to stormy daniels. let's discuss this now. cnn legal analyst jack quinn and laura coates are here. you taught constitutional law. >> for three years at georgetown. >> so you know a little bit about this. >> enough to be dangerous. >> and john dean is here, the nixon white house counsel. nothing to talk about legally, jack. that is sarcasm. according to "the new york times," they're reporting that a state investigation would center on how the trump organization accounted for its reimbursement to michael cohen, that $130,000 payment to stormy daniels. how significant a development is this? >> it's significant. when the investigation was opened up in the southern district, i made the comment that this whole investigation was metastasizing. it continues to metastasi

seniorass is a fellow at the manhattan institute and author of the book hee once and future worker." joins us a day after president trump signed a new technical education bill into law and after president trump signed an executive order last week on workforce education. the focus on the trump administration when it comes to preparing american workers for the jobs tomorrow -- the jobs of tomorrow. there's a lot of focus on career and technical education, which we used to call vocational idea wen, which is the cannot just be trying to do high school, college, four year degree for everybody. when you do have a lot of other options that help while you're in high school and certainly after you leave high school to give you the kinds of skills you need to get drops -- to get jobs in the modern economy. the trump administration has been doing a lot of work focusing on how we develop those alternatives. what are some of the best ways to do that and house the trump administration focusing their efforts? guest: first of all, doing more cte type work in high school. our high schools are college

i want to ask you about the manhattan adam, testifying right now. she's a close ally. she was handling his scheduling and he would deck tate e-mails to her and she was the gate keeper to roger stone. what she tells me that she was not doing this in those key perio periods leading up to the election. prosecutors think she got something extremely interesting to say. she met with prosecutors and rushed to a full week later before speaking to the grand jury. they want to lock her in and get her testimonies on the record. things are moving quickly of this grand jury. >> what do you make of that and what do you think may be happening here? >> just when you thought this case could not get any stranger or bizarre. >> and the manhattan madame. >> and i agree with the analysis, listen, they ju just - the mueller team just eninte interviewed her last week voluntarily and came in on her own. they're putting her in the grand jury this week. she says something and she provided some information that they do want to lock in under oath in the grand jury, they're moving very, very fast w

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kristin davis, once known as the manhattan madame, scheduled to appear before a grand jury today. subpoena, did not appearment let's get the insights of political and legal analysts. joey jackson, why? it just seems sort of logical. you don't have to be a lawyer. i'm not a lawyer so, you know, i can figure this out but why is mueller mueller focusing on the players of roger stone? seems like he's honing in on roger stone. >> this is significant and called due diligence. right? prosecutors doing due diligence to determine what went on here. interestingly, a jury goes back and deliberating and we have no idea what they talk about until they send out a note and sense the direction they're going so looks at the direction here. what's the missing link so far in this investigation? what are we all waiting for? the shoe to drop on the "c" word, collusion, conspiracy. whether there's conspiracy, an intent to commit a crime and mutual agreement. so he's the guy to look out there to provide that link. as to whether or not there was this collusion. how do we know? remember last month, jim, t

so lot of times but have of a -- radicalization his local big again to look at the new manhattan project end alternative pathways in incubators that the data shows that it works and how to use artificial intelligence with that information n battlefield even of those thank you very much. [applause] >> and those that need to get but also as they say writing a in the neck cut to get to apply her he thought and let this is the man. that is a great question. server running is but he will do things late within the naturally draw conclusions about his support of the his he valets he phoned but that is why auction times. >> we have to think in the content tour. so how do we start taking that down? the point is there is a blow. >> there is another fan. >> so had the match head tentative me - - intensity that is where the social and and it neck and it does seem parrot but the first injuries but did that third great preacher who never gets the job in the urban area but he could understand the social media that he has a start up. where the people that are fighting? he is very bravely on the front li

it wasn't until after pearl harbor the manhattan project was created. resources, under the control of the army corps of engineers, was devoted to creating this new weapon. grylls was appointed the head of the manhattan project, he is -- had finished building the pentagon. he asked people who would be a good leader. oppenheimer probably was not high on the list. he had not even been in charge of his physics department at berkeley before he was chosen to be the head of the central laboratory. it was something about him that grove liked. grove saw that he was hungry, there was nobel prize winners that were being considered. groves wanted somebody who was -- woodworking bit harder. on a train trip across the country, oppenheimer was able to describe the groves what was needed to be done in terms that gross -- groves can understand. the other thing was where to locate the central laboratory. he couldn't have it in chicago because what happens if an accident happens? it would be easy to breach the top security, you are walking down a street involved in it, a c

the manhattan institute has the ball. i began writing when i was in high school, some writing contest when as a young writer in fiction and nonfiction. always like to write so i have a pathological compulsion to write stuff. but the manhattan institute the ball because i write. they invited me to join them as a scholar some years ago. the venture work i write about tech as well. i was a practicing scientist, early in my career. i used to do useful work, built things. semiconductors and missile guidance and fiber optics, medications systems. my early career was in building stuff and it went into nuclear weapons and strategic defense policy, reagan white house sides pop office. that led to consulting and investing again. one thing led to another. i wrote a newsletter. for while was very successful. migrated from that into doing some technology venture. long explanation because it was no simple vector like going to business school and getting a job. i learned business the hard way by failing to make things work. >> host: you

joining the manhattan institute, dr. pope was the director of policy research at west health and he was a health policy fellow with the house energy and commerce committee. he also served as a research manager at the american enterprise institute. dr. pope earned a bachelor's degree in government and economics from the london school of economics and both in ma and phd in political science from washington university in st. louis. michael cannon is the director of health policy studies at the cato institute. he is a coeditor of replacing obamacare, the cato institute on health care reform and he is a co-author of healthy competition , was holding back health care and how to free it. degree holds a bachelors in american government from the university of virginia and an ma in economics and a jm in law and economics from the george mason university. remarks as to their we followed of course with plenty of time for questions and discussion. with that, i turn things over to michael. >> thank you, jeff. thank all of you for comin

the so-called manhattan madam, kristen davis. ngressman, what do you make of all of these people, these contacts, these associates of roger stone coming into the cross hairs of the special counsel's investigation? what does this mean about roger stone? what can you tell us about roger stone, why he's so important in all of this. >> i think roger stone is very important because roger stone made himself important. he talked about being close to julian assange during the campaign. he bragged about it. he claimed to know that mr. podesta was next in the barrel. lo and behold, surely after those e-mails came out. he pulled back on that after the fact, but it's hard to do that. this is pretty important stuff if we're talking about conspireing with a foreign power to affect our democratic process. he claimed publicly to have that awareness and that knowledge. >> and devin nunes, as you know, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, told an audience at a republican fundraiser recently why he thinks they have to keep the majority

author john hunter explores the impact of the manhattan project on new mexico. cold war and the atomic west." when he blocked -- brought nuclear physics west, to caltech and new mexico, he changed, particularly new mexico. he brought this state that was poor, had very little infrastructure, and put in the middle of it this federally funded facility that just transformed the state. >> then, author martha andrews explores western frontier women in her book "the women of southern new mexico." on sunday on american history tv, we visit the white sands missile range museum. that has been done out here, people think it has been mostly military testing, but it has involved a lot of civilian uses, as well. a lot of rockets that are fired out here today are sounding rockets, used to do upper atmospheric research. that is still a big program out here. >> a tour of fort selden comic a military outpost located near the rio grande, established to keep he's in the region. watch the cities tour of las cruces, new mexico saturday at noon eastern on c-span two's book tv and the s

and the argument from "the new york times" saying the manhattan d.a. is eyeing charges as well. >> this is the week where the marine corps band stopped playing hail to the chief and started playing rains of castamere. the daggers are out now and it's coming all around him. the legal exposure for donald trump is great. one of the things about having so many irons in the fire is that one of them is almost at this point bound to pay off. in that report that you just said you didn't mention michael avenatti, who's still out here running for president and trying to get his own -- >> right. civil suit, right? >> barbara underwood the a.g. is contemplating criminal charges in addition to the civil charges. the exposure for donald trump is as great as has been for anybody in the history of his office. >> or maybe lawyers' clients ever. to start to narrow it down let's look at taxes. because we've all really wanted to look at president trump's taxes since the time he ran for office. if his office, if allen weisselberg, who by the way, can you not picture him wit

same is true for the manhattan d.a.'s office and attorney general of new york and bob mueller, all of them are investigating related issues. i think what he has to do is play it safe, listen to his lawyers, hope for the best. >> so the manhattan district attorney's office is taking a closer look at the trump organization as a whole, whether any laws were broken in this reimbursement or pay or reimbursement to michael cohen over the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels. what would prosecutors be zeroing in on? >> well, if we're talking about state law, then the prosecutors may be looking at the charity, which is regulated under state law and whether or not the companies broke any state corporate law. states are regulated under -- corporations are regulated under state law. they may very well be looking at potential fraud, misuse of money, tax problems, tax evasion at the state level. there are a number of things they could be looking at. weisselberg decides to come forward and testify and is given immunity, that's the key t

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. >> reporter: as part of the manhattan project during world war ii, the u.s. government chose an area near hanford, washington as the site where scientists would try to produce plutonium. the plutonium was sent to new mexico where it waused in the first test of an atomic bomb. >> when the bomb was dpped ere was the expectation that it would be so horrible that it would be the end of war. >> reporter: for a decade, the department of energy has offered public tours of b reactor, where workers processed uranium into plutonium to fuel some of the first atomic bombs. the popular behind-the-scenes look inside a nuclear site has attracted a new kind of visitor to eastern washington. the atomic tourist. but hanford has never experienced an atomic tourist like this man. of the thousands of people who have toured the world's original large scale plutonium reactor, mitsugi moriguchi is the first person to do so. in a radiation-blocking jumpsuit. it is a startling ght that becomes less surprising when you learn why he's so concerned about radiation exposu. moriguchi is be

so i think the manhattan district attorney's office has to probably hold off a little bit. they have officially told us no comment at "the new york times" story. my understanding of this talking to several people in the new york state, new york city law enforcement community is, look, this is not something that's going to happen tomorrow. this is something where they are going to wait until mueller and the southern district are wrapped up with what they are going to do. let's put it this way. i would not kpexpect them to be pulling him out in handcuffs monday morning. >> i wonder what will happen with the new york a.g.'s office. >> i think it's worth remembering, and this struck me this morning, the red line that donald trump established for the mueller probe was -- >> finances. >> this is all at sdny right now. >> he can't stop. >> no. >> he can't fire everybody in the sdny h. >> guys, thank you so much. nbc's kristen welker, ken dilanian, tom winter, tom flannery, phil bump, appreciate it. >> president trump has tweeted about north korea in the last hour. he asked secretar

>> now, the manhattan d.a.'s review in the very early stages and no decision made but according to "the times" a state investigation would focus on how the trump organization accounted for the reimbursement the michael cohen for the statement to stormy daniels. and one more thing about weisselberg. our source said he is not called back for additional questioning of weeks ago and unclear if he'll be questioned again. >> athee thna jones, thank you. >>> first of all, put it in perspective. we're joined by bill kristol, scott bolden and kevin maddon. put it in perspective for me. he's the man who knows where all the financial bodies are buried. how big is this? >> oh, actually, i think this is legitimately huge. i know a lot of times we say that things ra really big deal. i think this is -- this is really a big deal precisely because this is somebody in the trump organization who as you said knows where all the bodies are buried and knows much more than just about this issue. right? so this is just -- you know, i'm

an unlikely and ultimately unsuccessful bid for governor, probably because of her notoriety of the manhattanell, krirstin davis worked for roger stone. she did some clerical work for his website. during the campaign, during 2016 talked about the fact that he had talked with julian assange. of course he later walked that back. but given that fact, kristin davis is of interest to the special counsel to shed light of what she knows of this possible interaction between roger stone and julian assange. but she did testify before the grand jury today. >> he was held in contempt? >> rite. so kristin davis, she answer herd subpoena. she was here before the grand jury. andrew miller did not. he refused to comply with that subpoena. and as a result, the judge here held him in contempt. he issued a 93-page opinion about it. what's interesting, though, is the judge actually put that contempt ruling on hold until monday. that's so andrew miller's attorneys can go through the appeal process here. they're arguing that the appointment of special counsel mueller in and of itself is unconstitutional, so they s

the manhattan institute i knew they knew them if they knew me and they invited me to join them. the venture work i write about tech as well. i used to do useful work in the buildings with fiber optic communication systems, so my early career and then i went into nuclear weapons and policies that led to investing again and for a while it was very successful and migrated from that interlink technology venture. long explanation because it was simple like going to the school is getting a and getting a job in a venture fund and i learned business the hard way by failing to make things work. >> host: you've written a book called into "work in the age of robots." >> guest: is both virtual robots and amazon and alexa are intelligent officials that respond. we do invest in those kind of robots. i'm not an investor in the hardware side of robots. i feel like i have a dog in the race. i've been a long time fan and scholar. it is both exciting and frightening because they think as most people know the general trope that is out there they are called virtual or real are about to take away from

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