that it would be earmarked as a gift for vladamir putin.nse to you, given again, the president's insistence that he had no deals with russia? >> maybe somebody was working for the cartoonist, because you can see the cartoon of a trump tower in moscow with putin at the top, waving to everybody. i don't know. and spending two years on the trump white house and trump -- all kinds of things bounce around. i think jeffrey toobin is a little ahead of himself by saying now this is so significant, it's the first time that he can see the end of the trump presidency. but i think there are two important components that need to be emphasized. first, it's not what cohen has corrected about the plan to build a trump tower in moscow and so forth. that's meaningful, but what really is significant is that cohen is now mueller's witness. and you talk to people who know and work in this world, to get the number one lawyer for the person that you are really trying to -- that you're aiming at is worth getting ten other witnesses. not only that, but cohen is ang

what message would you like pre trump to deliver to vladamir putin? >> please, get out from ukraine. >> reporter: richard hngel, nbc news, kiev. >>> bae at home, a big winter storm is on the move. a wlot of people are about to get hit with snow in the north and a deep freeze in the south. our friend al rokemois toring the path of all this. al, what are we orooking at here? >> rr: well, this storm is the one that brought the record snow in the midwest. right now snow from chicago as far south as kentucky and st tching all the way into the northeast, and new england. this storm system has 7 million people under chinter storm warnings or w, winds gusting up to 35 miles per hour, making for strong wind chills and t ringing lake-effect snow tuld dump up to a foot or more in parts of the tug hill plateau and into parting of northern new enand. 's drawing in colder air further to the south. 5 million people under freeze warnings, we're il talking windchls tomorrow morning that will be somewhere in the low to mid 20s. all thise shadow of the rockefeller chris

today russian president vladamir putin weighed in on a call with angela merkel.ned tuesday the introduction of martial law in ukraine this week could stoke tension in the region and it gives the country's increased defense capabilities an easily mobilize troops. during an interview today, the ukrainian president poroschenko said he has intelligence russia is gathering troops and they expressed concern about a russian ground invasion amid controversy they said they're interesting to look for conflict and russian heardship -- leadership. >> shepard: more now on how the united states is responding. team fox conference continues with our correspondent. >> reporter: mike pompeo said he wants russia to return ukraine's ships and sailors saying quote, reports russian vessels rammed the cruise ships represents a dangerous escalation and they said vladamir putin and p poroschenko should try to work it out and the secretary said he expressed strong u.s. support for ukraine's soften -- soverei sovereign rights and michael bolton referred to nikki haley and she maintained th

doesn't accept russian's claim which vladamir putin invaded and took over and nikki haley has calledervention near crimea an outrageous violation of sovereign policy. we report live from the pentagon. >> reporter: not only did the russian war ships fire on the boat ships as they tried to pass through a critical strait but they rammed a ukrainian tug boat and captured sailors and they're demanding the prisoners be treated like prisoners of war and the u.s. security council for an emergency meeting. >> what we witnessed this weekend is yet another reckless russian escalation an arrogant act the national community must condemn and never accept. >> reporter: russia blames ukraine for the provocation and it happened near the strait where russian president vladamir putin completed a ridge in sharing water from ukraine and they said it was deliberate hostilities. nato held an emergency meeting as well and the ukraine president asked parliament for martial law. >> i impose martial law starting at 9:00 a.m. local time november 28. >> reporter: the ranking democrat on the committee called on p

cohen had with russians, including a close adviser to vladamir putin about the potential trump tower project in moscow. they went on, according to the document, until mid june of 2016, "on or about june 14th," according to the charging document. why is that date important? that happens to be the date that "the washington post" broke a big story that russia had hacked the democratic national committee. the timeline is far longer than what mr. cohen told the house and senate intelligence committees last year. today he said he lied to help the president. i'm quoting, i was aware of individual one's repeated disavows of commercial and political ties between himself and russia and any contact with russian nationals had all terminated before the iowa caucus, on february 1st of 2016. which cohen now says was not true. the last conversation was on or about june 14th of that year. he went on to say, "i made these misstatements to be consistent with individual ones, political messaging and out of loyalty to individual one. so he's saying he was lying to congress because candidate trump was lyi

. >> the president tweeted he will not meet with russian president vladamir putin. he also told reporters he has no plans to meet with the saudi crown prince. >>> president trump's former personal attorney pleaded guilty to lying to congress about work he did in russia. here's more now on the plea deal and how the president responded. >> reporter: michael cohen, president trump's former personal attorney, now admits he made false statements to congress about the russia investigation. specifically about a proposed trump tower project in moscow and when those discussions ended. >> he's a weak person, and what he is trying to do is get a reduced sentence. so he's lying. >> reporter: court documents say cohen attempted to conceal or minimize these facts, among others. "the moscow project was discussed multiple times within the company, and did not end in january 2016. instead, as late as approximately june 2016. that's after then candidate trump had become the presumed republican nominee. also, "cohen agreed to travel to russia in connection with the moscow project and

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we also know with saudi arabia, vladamir putin would love to replace our relationship with saudi arabia and put himself in that position and set up a superopec with the gulf states, saudi arabia, as well as russia and russia uses energy as a weapon. energy is called the master resource for a reason. we need it. we have it. we're going to use american energy and not be dependent on that part of the world. >> dana: i did want to ask one last question ab russia. listen to what president trump said about russian aggression in ukraine. said i don't like that aggression. i don't want that aggression absolutely. and by the way, europe shouldn't like that aggression and germany shouldn't like that aggression. you, sir, were most recently in poland visiting wyoming troops that are based there. tell me what you think about this situation. do you think the president should cancel his meeting with putin at the g-20? >> you know with vladamir, action speaks louder than words. president trump is a man of action. there are things we need to do. you're right, i spent thanksgiving with our troops in nor

of the g-20, we learned the president will, in fact, be having a bilateral meeting with vlad vladamir putin. john bolton was asked if the president would speak to putin. >> ambassador haley in the position of u.n. ambassador, spoke for the united states yesterday at the security counsel, and we're gonna stand on that statement. >> reporter: course, one of the other big issues of the day is the fact that the mueller investigation and robert mueller voiced their disapproval with the way paul manafort has or has not been cooperating under the terms of the plea agreement he signed with robert mueller's office and they want him now to be sentenced to his jail term for his convictions in virginia. the president tweeting at length about the mueller investigation today, which seemed to be connected to this idea of rescinding this deal. the president writing quote the phoney witch hunt continues with mueller and his gang of angry dems are only looking at one side. wait until it comes out how horribly and viciously they are treating people. ruining lives for them refusing to lie. mueller is a conflic

on twitter the president also cancelled his planned meeting with vladamir putin, citing the crisis in ukraine. we have fox news coverage. we begin with katherine herridge with more on the case. >> reporter: earlier today we obtained a draft that was prepared by cohen's attorney for congress in 2017. that draft is at the heart of cohen's guilty plea today, lying to congress about the moscow real estate proposal. based on the new timeline provided by cohen, negotiations with moscow continued well into the presidential campaign and during the same month as the controversial june 2016 trump power meeting with russian officials. cohen told congress, quote, the proposal was under consideration at the trump organization on september 2015 until the end of january 2016. they told the new york court this morning that it lasted another five months. cohen also told congress, quote, i never considered asking mr. trump to travel to russia in connection with this proposal. to the best of my knowledge, mr. trump was never in contact with anyone about the proposal other than me on two occasions. cohen

standards, and the kind of abuse xhop commonly associated authoritarians like vladamir putin, who oversawhe prosecution of his rival, who was bankrupted and jailed for nine years in a show trial blasted by international human rights court because it was deemed a total abuse to take out a critic. venezuela's president took a similar tack against his leading opponent, use progress tests as a pretext for a 13-year jail sentence, condemned by international human rights groups. it was the same playbook in egypt, where president mubarak jailed political opponents, which, let's be clear, this is what u.s. presidents used to condemn. >> there are many dissidents that couldn't join us, because they are being unjustly imprisoned or held under house arrest. i look forward to the day when conferences like this one includes those people. i call for the unconditional release of your loved ones. >> each of those examples from foreign authoritarians show the jailing of a candidate. jailing hillary clinton may sound more extreme. that is what happened to serve as the first woman to seven as prime minister

. >> tucker: so my question is, though, does investigating the president's meeting with vladamir putinlsinki, is that going to lower health insurance rates do you think? >> we also agree democrats should look to work with republicans on a whole host of things. in particular last time i was on the show we agreed that both political parties, for the last couple of decades, have ignored the middle class. the middle class has had an economic recession since about 1975. and neither party has really put forward a meaningful agenda toed a -- to address the middle class. both parties are guilty of not doing that. as far as investigations, i think we've learned something from the many investigate eights over the last 20, 25 years. ben gazi, fast and furious and investigation democrats did into iraq, when republicans were in control. that is in order for an investigation to be successful, it's got to be bipartisan. you've got to work with the other side. you've got to make a compelling case, not just to the other party, but to the american public that you're not trying to score political points.

on twitter the president also cancelled his planned meeting with vladamir putin, citing the crisis in

the idea floated was to give a gift to valladamir putin, a pem house apartment for vladamir putin onwer in moscow. a deal that they were pursuing well into the 2016 campaign. the information comes from one of president trump's partners. did the president know about the $50 million gift idea? we don't know the answer to that. but others involved in the attempt to build in moscow did.

the occasion is not expected to involve a formal interaction with russia's president, vladamir putin.eople have been asking about that and the president said that will likely not happen until later this month at the g20. >> we're heading off to europe. it should be a beautiful period of time. the 100th anniversary of the ending of world war i. we have many countries and the leadership of many countries there especially since they heard the united states will be there. we look forward to that. >> reporter: looking forward to it and we're looking forward to coverage with john roberts and greg palkot already on the ground in paris. we'll have coverage four this weekend. >> bill: thank you, kevin corke nice to see you from the north lawn. >> sandra: fox news alert. investigators trying to figure out what sent a marine veteran on the bloody rampage to that bar packed with college students ian david long killing 12 people before killing himself. the mayor of thousand oaks, california spoke with us in the last hour. >> it's affected us in thousand oaks. even my own children had acquaintances