"the wall street journal" editorial page editor james freeman is here and founder and ceo robert walsh. good to be here. >> exciting news. a little unpredictable than the way it was delivered. >> "wall street journal" captured an interesting picture of how they all get along so

and that is the case of the wall street journal. when i was at the wall street journal many years ago, i will say that a lot of you porters that i know what the wall stree street -- journal as a reporter and in many ways that is normal. but on the editorial side it is a full different ballgame. we have been watching the journal. and there were some changes but something has happened in the last few weeks. i have a gas. i have an idea but it's not fully founded so i don't want to spread anything especially with cameras here. but i think there is some internal dynamics taking place. i will say something. yes i am lobbying. i am lobbying everybody whether that chicago tribune or the wall street journal able have to subscribe. dallas morning news. >> so what do you think will happen in the presidential election in mexico and what impact will that have on the situation in the border? i think the last pool we did to go mom -- two weeks ago it was 52% the nearest one was at 26%. i don't think the outcome on sunday will be that wide. i will

. >> the aid starts in september, just in time for elections, but the "wall street journal" editorial board says the president's fixing a problem of his own making and that won't fool voters. trump may think his farm tariff bailout will get republicans past the november election, but sooner or later, bad economic policy becomes bad politics. >>> president trump drawing comparisons to george orwell this morning after turning his appearance at a vfw convention in kansas city into a campaign rally. the president used the event to defend his tariffs on u.s. trading partners, telling his supporters, we don't apologize for america anymore. then he took a page straight from orwell's classic "1984." >> what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening. just stick with us. don't believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. [ audience reacts ] >> afterward, the vfw released a statement saying it was "disappointed" in its members who booed the media and that it was happy to have all the networks attend as invited guests. >>> ivanka trump is shutting down her fashio

give trump a positive job approval rating in "the wall street journal" poll, nbc bc news/"wall street journal poll." makes the job approval rating highest of his presidency in this poll. charles: all the news outlets on there, for instance, president trump tweet against iran. you know, almost every single one of them said, it was all negative speculation. that is all it was. is president trump doing this to deflect? is president trump, none of them reported the news. ironically none of them reported iran is danger to the world. didn't talk about state sponsor of terrorism, nuclear ambitions, budding civil war, revolution inside of the country which might want to hear president trump go hard against these leaders that repressed them four decades. not a single news outlet mentioned any of those things. >> ironically, you think media would have learned a lesson. we've seen the movie before. trump's fire and fury with north korea. look where that ended up. trump with a strongly-worded tweet, media reaction. the cycle we go through over and over again. reaction hysteria to single tweet is

sign that mueller is going into the president's opinions it and business dealings. >> "the wall street journal," you know michael cohen, but here is another portion from "the wall street journal" article. mr. cohen's repeated references to mr. weissleberg in his conversations with mr. trump about buying the story were interpreted by others in the company as an effort to bolster mr. cohen's credibility according to a former associate of mr. weissleberg, as in cohen never actually had these conversations with alan weissleberg, but he was telling donald trump he was in order to gain more credibility with trump. at the time, ashley, michael was kind of outside of the orbit. he wasn't in the campaign. he was having a hard time getting a hold of the candidate in the run up to the election. he wasn't somebody that was as close to trump as he had been in the past. am i correct to say that? >> yeah, that's absolutely right. during the campaign he never had an official role. he was someone who then after trump won the white house, he expected to come to washington with him. he was hoping to be white hou

let's begin with what "the wall street journal" calls the dumb idea of the week.would be an extraordinary use of presidential power, by president trump is considering stripping a half dozen former security officials of security clearances. sarah sanders cites the public criticism of the president in the russia investigation. >> because they politicize and monetize their public service and making improper contact with russia or influenced russia by the president is inappropriate. >> the list includes former officials from the fbi, cia and other national security jobs. sources say two, james comey and andrew mccabe, no longer have security clearances anyway. having been fired from the trump administration. normally top officials keep clearance to consult successors on the voluntary basis. take the example of michael flynn. the former national security adviser. fired by the obama administration, but allowed to keep clearance. >> the president's plan seems to be unplanned at the suggestion of rand paul. paul is a big vote in the supreme court vote battle. >> critics q

it's going to be very hard for himself or h his allies in congress to shut it down. >> in "the wall street journal" report, mr. weisselberg is described as not only having financial matters with the trump organization but is also linked to payments, according to the wall street journal, made to two women who alleged they had actu sexual encounter with mr. trump. in that audiotape that mike come hen recorded of a conversation had he just before the election with donald trump, the name weisselberg comes up. let me play that clip. listen to this. >> i need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend david, you know. i'm going to do that right away. i've spoken to alan weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding. all the stuff. here you never know. i'm all over that. i spoke to alan about it. >> alan weisselberg, the chief financial officer of the trump organization david, by the way, is david pecker, we believe, who's in charge of the parent company of the national enquirer who paid karen mcdougal $150,000 to keep her story secret about her allegati

>> well, i had covered health care at "the wall street journal" for the better part of ten years, and i read a profile of elizabeth holmes in the "new yorker" magazine in late 2014. she had rocketed to fame about a year earlier. but that story is the one that put her on my radar. i thought that there was some strange things in that story. the thing that struck me as the most odd was this notion that a stanford drop out with no formal training in medicine or in laboratory science could just drop out and, you know, invent new science, new medical science that would completely revolutionize the industry. i found that hard to believe. to be fair, i wouldn't have done anything with that hunch if i hadn't got a tip a few weeks later. and that tip came from a practicing pathologist in the midwest who also read the new yorker profile and had also been very dubious of the claims and the central claim was that she could run the full range of lab tests from a drop of blood picked from the finger. he knew from experience that that was actually a very difficult scientific nut to crack. he wrote a

"wall street journal" today, homeland security officials said russian hackers reached u.s. utility control rooms, blackouts could have been caused, after networks of trusted vendors are easily penetrated. that's what they're up to, they want to destroy the united states and we need to have a much more united front on this. >> marie: do you think the president has a strategy in place to counter that? >> melissa: they did well at a strategy last week. >> david: they moved command into the pentagon to an act of command about two months ago number one. number two, the utilities hacking has been going on for some time because one-third of russia's gdp is based on energy and going after our energy sector helps them stay strong, 100% right, but it's other countries that they want to do this to at the same time. >> dagen: we have this fox news alert, new signs that president trump push towards a nuclear free north korea may be bearing fruit. the u.s. research group that monitors the rogue nation saying satellite images show that north has begun dismantling its main initial engine t

political editor of "the new york times," and michael bender, a white house reporter for "the wall street journal." also matt lewis, senior political columnist for "the daily news." good evening to all of you -- sorry, daily beast. michael, great reporting in "the wall street journal" tonight. you're reporting on why president trump tried to walk back these comments from helsinki today. what have you learned? >> well, the -- he was -- as he said in the conference today, he was surprised by the pushback, and really the barrage of criticism. and it was just coming from all angles. and the president watches television pretty frequently, as we know. he was taking all that in on the ride home, on the flight home from air force one -- on air force one. one comment in particular stung him, which was the tweet from former speaker newt gingrich who called this the worst mistake of his presidency. that comment stung so much that trump made sure to speak with gingrich after his comments, his revision today, to make sure that gingrich, who is a close adviser, has been -- frequently meets with pence, he talks

in a separate investigation, the "wall street journal," with which this company shares common ownership, reports the trump organizations financial chief has gotten a subpoena in the michael cohen case. the feds are looking into coc cohen's involvement of paying women to keep quiet before the 2016 election and whether they violated campaign financial laws. mr. cohen said alan wieselberg in the reporting we played here yesterday, the one of president trump and his former fixer discussing what is a payment involving a former playboy playmate's claim of an affair with the president. president trump denies there was a relationship. the president's lawyers says the payment never happened. here's part of the recording from cnn. >> need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend, david. going to do that right away. i've spoken to alan about how to set it up. >> so what -- are we going to pay? >> yes. it all the stuff. >> shepard: we're also learning more about the conversation michael cohen recorded about his dealings with president trump. meantime, a live lo

policy to something that is more personallable, and seems to be in retribution, i agree with "wall street journal," we should take a pass on this. liz: "wall street journal" also noted that president's better fight to go after people unmasks individual's names and leaking their conversation to media. jim jordan said that president should fight. >> brennan leaked information to harry reid, rice goes on tv after benghazi and lies on 5 different networks about the cause ofs attack. clapper lied under oath, comey leaked information through a friend. and we know peter strzok is not telling the truth, he could not admit there was bias in his text-messages to lisa page. so the president is fighting back like he should. what we also know this past weekend, everything that we saw this this application confirms what we have been saying. >> no proof of collusion coming forward. >> no, not a sensitiva of a --f evidence to that. most of those activities identified by congressman jordan are criminal activities, they deserve a theory on thorough investigation. liz: raising fears of further military escalation i

charles: "the wall street journal" reporting president trump is willing to push off this funding battleto the mountains but lee, you state you got a plan that was fun the wall. what is the plan? >> well, mike rogers bill in 2017 last year that funded the border wall call for a 2% tax on remittances from foreign workers to mexico and i think to central america. i would make that a 10% tax rate we should have a 10% tax on all individual money transfers from the us to mexico or central america countries. that could yield, charles, about $15 billion over five years which is 60% of the cost of funding the $25 billion border wall. it would also reduce the incentive, quite quickly, for illegal immigration and increase the incentive for buying american goods and services by these workers that are from overseas or for mexico versus wiring all that money home and also gross up what they earn which reduce the gap in wages between these immigrant workers and legal residents of the united states are citizens of the united states. it would lessen that downward vortex on wages that we had at the lower

including but not limited to the wall. >> "the wall street journal" is reporting the president may beto putting off this until after the mid-terms of the wall street journal saying the president understands the practicalities of play here. this site is coming in november or december. the president has a rally tonight in tampa. maybe we will hear more. unrelated i can neither confirm nor deny have ever bought anything online with a in my hand. lea: we are going to ask your wife about that. thank you. for more on the other subjects are talking about dan hayworth and jason all my chair. the board of directors and jason is the former democratic congressman. great to see about this morning. jason come out of servitude. chris at "the wall street journal" reporting the president at least privately may have agreed to put off this site until after the midterms. so what is with all this back-and-forth? what is his strategy here? >> i hope it is a negotiating tactic by the president. it would be politically disastrous for republicans and president to force a government shutdown especially in the

when "the wall street journal" comes out and newt gingrich said you need to remedy this immediately. and the banner of putin dominated the summit, not trump. if he does see them, it will be bothersome. he needs to remedy those things. it is interesting to see today how the white house and trump moves to clean up the mess he made in helsinki. will he hold a press conference today? there is nothing on the schedule so far. we will see as the day moves forward and the crisis plays out in day two and what the white house moves to do. >> it depends on how it plays on the show on 6:00 to 9:00. expect a pressor from sarah sanders. we have phil wegmann with us now. how should this play? >> i think what we need to look back to is the so-called obama apology tour. we heard about this on fox news when president obama went and talked about u.s. foreign relations and how this was supposedly a slap in the face back during his administration. he was going to apologize for the conduct of the country. i think there is something similar here and this could back fire on this -- backfire on this presiden

we have more from cnn's jeff zeleny on what "the wall street journal" calls a dumb idea. >> reporter: dave and christine, the officials have been critical of him and his presidency. this has never happened before. it is something we are told the white house is considering. in the briefing room, sarah sanders acknowledged the president was considering it when she said this. >> the president is exploring the mechanisms to remove the clearances because they mondetie security clearances of being influenced by russia which is inappropriate. >> reporter: the white house is considering it. it is unclear if they will do it. a senior administration official tells me the president likes this conversation and debate, but has not decided if he will go ahead. it served to change the subject. certainly the russian investigation in all of the entirety is weighing heavily on the white house. dave and christine. >> jeff zeleny, thank you. creditics were quick to seize o the retall -- retaliation from the white house. that losing the security clearance may have. >> i think it is off the top of my head

rowe will go to the third in the center wall street journal. with the wall street journal. there has been talk in the run-up to the summit, despite the challenge of getting to 2%, that may not be enough. that may -- that it should actually be set higher. what is your view? would it be helpful, or a distraction from getting allies to 2%? >> i think they should first get to 2%, focus on that now. that is what we have agreed. that is the pledge. the good thing is that we are moving towards that. made the pledge back in 2014, it was only three allies spending 2% of gdp on defense. this year, eight allies have committed. a majority of allies have put forward plans on how to reach 2% within a decade. my focus is on that. i think you also have to understand that this is really turning the trend. for decades after the end of the cold war, nato allies were cutting defense budgets. the 90's, i was minister of finance in norway. i was very good at cutting defense budgets. then tensions went down. now, tensions are going up. whenwe cut defense budgets tensions are going down, we have t

the "wall street journal" reports that the trump organization's financial gatekeeper, allen weisselberg, has been subpoenaed in the michael cohen case. we're told weisselberg "knows where all the financial bodies are buried, secrets that might be exposed under oath." this as t"the new york times" reports that robert mueller is poring over the president's tweets, looking for potential evidence of obstruction and witness intimidation. i'll get reaction from democratic congressman ruben gallego. and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first let's go to our national correspondent brynn gingras. first tell us more about the subpoena of allen weisselberg. >> well, weisselberg has been at the center of the trump organization for decades. he controls the movement of the money. and it's clear u.s. attorneys believe he has information that could be useful to their investigation. and as one former employee put it, this could be a nightmare scenario for trump. tonight the man once described as the most senior person in the trump organization who isn't a trump is tapped to talk to

"the wall street journal" confirming tonight it was taped in person. quote, the payment was never made, adding if mr. trump had told mr. cohen to write a check rather than send cash so it could be properly documented. you know something about trump world. first of all, the idea that there's somebody this close to donald trump, the guy they call his fixer, michael cohen, the idea he recorded this conversation and now potentially more conversations, is that something that was ever you think on donald trump's raid, that that could be going on? >> clearly he said today he was quoted as saying he was very surprised michael taped him. so i think he is clearly surprised this occurred. although trump spent most of his arrear threatening business acquaintances and lawyers and other journalists he was taping them. i think there's -- you know, i don't know legally how much this issue with the payments are going to come home to roost for the president in the way it's actually threatening him. i don't think campaign finance law violations are really going to be a t

and the wall street journal reports a subpoena in the michael cohen case. a source says allen weisselberg knows anything and everything about the trump administration. i will speak with senator ben cardin. and our correspondents and specialists are standing by with full coverage. let's begin with a new twist. our white house correspondent is joining us now. what is the latest? >> good afternoon, wolf. we are learning that the president could be facing new legal troubles. his pension for twitter attacks on his attorney general jeff sessions and former fbi director james comey have become of interest to special counsel robert mueller and it could be the subject of a potential interview that mueller is seeking with president trump. all of this is happening as the president is still trying to clean up the mess that he made with his press conference of vladimir putin in helsinki. white house aides telling cnn that the president could be turning his attention to potential russian interference as early as this week. >> reporter: president trump's social media coun

products flowing even from the editorial page of one of our nation's leading publications, "the wall street journal." whenever the issue is harmful industrial pollutants, "the wall street journal"'s editorial page has a long record of misleading its readers, denying the legitimate science, and even ignoring its own news reporting. all for the polluting industries. a pattern of science denial repeats itself in the editorial pages of "the wall street journal" on environmental issues. issues like acid rain and depletion of the ozone layer and now and for years climate change. this editorial page has persistently published editorials against taking action to prevent man-made climate change. in june, 1993, the editors wrote that there is, quote, growing evidence that global warming just isn't happening, end quote. in september, 1999, the editorial page reported that, quote, serious scientists, end quote, call global warming one of the greatest hoaxes of all time. if that's what they are saying, i suspect that what those scientists are serious about is the money they get from the fossil fuel industry. in

the "wall street journal" was first on the story out of the gate. they had the initial reports on something unusual having happened between the trump campaign chairman who resigned under the weird cloud related to russia and the bank in chicago. they had the first reports in the spring of 2017 not long after the inauguration and the journal stayed on the story ever since. even as we have seen them slowly simmer and steam and boil over a year now, it is still rather astonishing that somehow the president's campaign chair duped this guy in chicago not only into giving him $16 million, but he apparently duped him into doing that after the trump campaign chair had already been kicked off for being too obvious of a russian stooge. months after that he convinces the guy to give him $16 million and persuades the guy that that will result in him becoming secretary of the army. this guy not only was allegedly trying to get this quid pro quo. he thought he got it. he dials 1-800-go army. this is the new guy. can i speak to my office? i need my briefing materi

. >> so we'll go to the "wall street journal". >> yeah, hi. robert waller with "the wall street journal." secretary general, there's been some talk generally in the run-up to the summit that despite the challenge of getting to 2%, that target may not be enough. and it should actually perhaps be set higher. what's your view, at this point? would that be helpful or would that be a distraction from getting allies to 2%? >> i think we should first get to 2%. focus on that now. and that is what we have agreed, that's a pledge and the good thing is that we are moving towards that. when we made the pledge back in 2014, it was only three allies spending 2% of gdp on defense. this year, as i said, eight allies have committed and the majority of allies have put forward plans on how to reach 2% within a decade. so my focus is on that. i think you also have to understand that this is really turning the trend. because for decades after the end of the cold war, nato allies were cutting self-defense budgets. and in the 1990s, i was minister of finance in norw

that's based on a new interview with rudy giuliani in "the wall street journal." the report quotes, the president's legal team is open to him answering questions about possible collusion, with moscow, mr. giuliani said, but is less willing to discuss questions about obstruction of justice. a source close to donald trump and rudy giuliani told me today in response to that "wall street journal" reporting that an interview with the president will never happen, saying "there will be no interview, ever. rudy is simply playing to his client." joining us is chuck rosenberg, former senior fbi official and paul butler, georgetown law professor. what do you make of this idea that rudy is still dangling the idea of an idea with mueller in "the wall street journal" and people say all the time, over the dead lawyer s -- dead bodyf all the lawyers. >> mostly what rudy giuliani says is nonsense. look, in the end, if bob mueller feels he must talk to the president, and i imagine that any prosecutor would want to, there's another avenue, of course. he can issue a grand jury subpoe

"the wall street journal" first broke this story, the fact that ms. mcdougal had claimed this affair and was paid by the national enquirer, and that effectively silenced the story before the election. and hen "the wall street journal" went to the trump campaign, they got a very firm denial. they said we know nothing about any of this, and the president or the candidate at the time denies the affair. and now we're talking about a tape in which the president of the united states is saying that thing i didn't know anything about, i'm actually caught on tape secretly talking about, and we can't square that. and the stories change a little bit during the day, but when you get right down to it, this really does seem to undercut the denials that the trump campaign gave when this first -- this story first surfaced in 2016. >> eli stokols, rick wilson, the veteran gop politico started the dion twitter, telling all of us beware of all objects shiny. this is the time to keep eyes on the ball and look out for distractions. part of the narrative that emily jane fox

"wall street journal" readers fly a lot, so they get this.problem is they've got to figure out as soon as possible, they've got to change the seating and unloading of passengers. we have a big problem right now with status inequality. you go on instagram. you see how much better people's lives are. the idea of having people in coach walk-through first class i think is such a disillusion practice. they have to fix that. load coach first and then load first last. how simple is that? >> jesse: i don't like that. if you fly first class, you have to wait. it's better to get on and relax. [laughter] i dislike sometimes being in coach. it hurts my ego. he walked past his people and first class and everyone is like hey, watters. by the time you get to the way back by the bathroom, they are like what are you doing back here? is fox paying you anything? it's a humiliating experience. but since i am so humbled, i can handle it. [laughter] >> jedediah: what about you, juan. you are pretty tall. >> jesse: he flies on a private jet. >> greg: want good timi

but the idea was -- and i was working "the wall street journal" at the time and "the wall street journal" had views that perhaps if we open our doors to china they will become for democratic. well we opened our doors to china and they took advantage of it. they violated the rules and they have become less democratic. and as you mentioned, xi is now president for life. so it's gone exactly the opposite of the way free traders were hoping it would go. >> sometimes hope and wishes are not the best -- david: best policies. yes. >> my sense is this has to be a real exchange of strength, has to be a real exchange of clear ideas and trump has to stay in there for the long term. david: the markets a u markets w today were totally unfazed. they were much more affect bid the terrific news on the job front. as long as our economy continues to expand, meaning that more people are going to be hired, meaning that people who have lousy jobs can trade up to a better job, will any of this have a long term effect particularly adds we approach an election in november? >> i worry about the farm community an

joe liner man, former senator wrote an op-ed and lieberman writes this in the wall street journal thise joe crowley for working families, it begins with this quote. alexandria cortez's surprise primary victory over representative joe crowley seems likely to hurt congress, america , and the democratic party, it doesn't have to. what lieberman writes is that he's hoping that crowley's name is on the ballot because the idea to abolish i.c.e. came from her. alexandria cortez and tom perez the head of the dnc says she's the future of the party. >> well i hope she is, because it shows such a dramatic shift to the radical left. that's not where america is. america is still a center right country and you saw she was out there with bernie sanders going through the midwest, going to missouri. she was in kansas city. they're trying to push this idea of abolishing i.c.e. of all thin s. think about this maria. the very people who keep our country safe i.c.e. has been directly responsible for stopping human trafficking, saving some of these kids being exploited from human trafficking and they want t

his approval rating that "wall street journal" poll is 88%. on election day, he got 9% of democrats. 9% of democrats give them a parable job approval rating. we have been in suspended political animation since the campaign. despite all the controversy that surrounds the president, partisans on the other side of not budge. there's been some wiggle room by independents in the middle and that might be what it comes down to on election day november. >> laura: thank you. demi lovato's overdose exposing another tragic truth of celebrity life. we will explain afterthks this. ♪ it's so hard to believe ♪ but it's all coming back me. ♪ baby, baby, baby. ♪ if you touch me like this ♪ and when you hold me like that. ♪ all you can eat is back, baby. applebee's. eatin' good in the neighborhood. are you ready to take your then you need xfinity xfi.? a more powerful way to stay connected. it gives you super fast speeds for all your devices, provides the most wifi coverage for your home, and lets you control your network with the xfi app. it's the ultimate wif

a couple weeks ago the "wall street journal" checked in on that plan the paper reported back, current and former employees of publisher american media inc" said they believe karen mcdougal's planned appearance on the cover of september's issue is intended to protect the company from a federal investigation in new york. american immediate said they always planned to put her on the cover. they said it was strictly a business decision. but those unnamed staffers were not buying it. they said putting her on the cover was meant to bolster the argument they entered into the contract with her for editorial reasons rather than to benefit mr. trump's campaign. okay, now i'm interested. because that raises the question of whether or not this was an actual publishing contract, right? rather than a political expenditure to help donald trump win an election. after seeing in the "wall street journal" about the timing of the subpoena we wen back and asked american media about all this today and they directed us to the original statement from april about the settlement and cover date from men's journ

raise question as to why the trump campaign, when the wall street journal asked about these payments,bout ami were told by the campaign we know nothing about this. the president obviously did know something about it a monthid earlier. >> there was virtually wall-to-wall cable news coverage as soon as that story hit. does the story deserve that heavy coverage. >> it kind of has everything. it has, deceit, some not surprised got so much coverage. i don't know it's really going to change anyone's mind. i actually think most people do believe cheated on his wife. i think the people who support the presidency this as the fake news media being mean are trying to create problems. they look and say they like what the president is doing in this country and they don't really care about the story. >> and what rudy giuliani and confirming the story said was that this was a possible payment although it didn't happen run by david becker for buying the story and killing it for $150,000 and he said he does nothing wrong but the problem is the end of the pacampaign you had him telling the wall street

enquirer." >> it does raise questions as to why it is the trump campaign in october 2016 when the "wall street journale payments were told by the campaign we know nothing about this. the president obviously did know something by the a month earlier. howie: there was virtually wall to wall news coverage. kat: it has sex, it has deceit, tapes. i'm not surprised it got so much coverage. but i don't know if it will change anyone's minds. i think most of people believe donald trump cheated on his wife and they don't care. the people who support the president, they say they like what the president is doing in this country and they don't care about these kinds of stories. howie: what rudy giuliani in confirming the story said this was a payment for buying mcdoug alps storey and killing it for $100,000. but at the end of the campaign you had hope hicks telling the "wall street journal" that donald trump didn't know anything about it. jessica: rudy even said on tv, there will be more to come. kat is right, the infidelity of this president is baked in. we heard the access hollywood tapes and 62 million people s

"the wall street journal" cites researchers who have examined satellite photos from a private california imaging company. meanwhile the trump administration says it has a plan to dismantle new york's nuclear program in time. at a summit last month, kim jong-un committed to completing denuclearization of the korean peninsula. >>> on "face the nation" yesterday, john bolton said the elimination of nuclear weapons would benefit the north. >> senator secretary of state mike pompeo will be discussing this in the near future with north korea about dismantling their nuclear missiles and weapons within a year. if they're cooperative, we can move very quickly. numb of missiles it has in at k other parts of its nuclear program. >>> the president-elect of mexicoromis profound change and reconciliation following a bitter campaign. supporters celebrated the election of andres manuel lopez obrador wednesday. he's the first leftist leader in mexico in a decade. he vows to fight corruption and violence, respect civil liber liberties, and seek friendly relations with the u.s. president trump congratulate

four days before the election, the "wall street journal" revealed the "national enquirer." hope hicks who was the trump campaign spokeswoman at the time told the "wall street journal," they have no knowledge of this. legal strategy telling nbc news he was unaware that he was being recorded. lanny davis issues the following statement. obviously there is an ongoing investigation and we are sensitive to that. but suf fis it to say, that the recording will not hurt mr. cohen. >> joining us. thanks to all of you for being with us. michael, who reported this to start with, let me begin with you and begin to take us through the basics here. this is about a conversation that took place in the fall of 2016 during the campaign at that point, the "national enquirer r had the rights to this story and the conversation was about paying the "national enquirer" for that? >> this was going to be the payment to buy the rights to the story to essentially ensure that it continued remain silent. this was in september just two months before the election. as you pointed out in november, the campai

according to the wall street journal he's just a witness here. we don't know if he knows everything. maybe michael cohen and donald trump concocted something and went with a different story. we have no knowledge of that. but what we do know is weisselberg has been a loyal trump person for many, many years. and he does know a lot of things, as m.j. said. i'm not sure when exactly he was called to appear before the southern district of new york. obviously we know about this now. we don't know if he testified before or if they're just upset about the tape. >> according to "the wall street journal" it isn't clear if cohen spoke to weisselberg about the plans to buy the rights to the story but they are crystal clear in the stormy daniels case and the $130,000 she accepted that cohen provided her and they're clear in the piece that guess who provided cohen with the repayment in the sense of a $35,000 retainer per weisselber. follow the money. >> originally there was some talk from the president's team that, well, michael cohen has a lot of separate bus

is seeded by competitors and by disgruntled employees and how she is going to take on the "wall street journal and the "wall street journal" is a tabloid, she says, and then sonny goes on and he gives a sort of defiant speech as well, and three months earlier, the fda had approved one of theranos finger stick tests, herpes test, and it had been a big moment of victory for theranos and they celebrated in the same cafeteria, and sonny led the assembled employees in a -- i don't know if i'm allowed allowy this word but an f-u chant and they were directed at quest and lab corp. at the end of -- now we're back to two days after my first story, and toward the end of sonny's speech, one of the senior hardware engineers asks him if he can lead them in another chant and everyone immediately understand what he means, which chant he means, and sonny is happy to indulge him and they start chanting fu carreyrou, and that -- and then about a week after that she came to our technology conference in laguna beach, a lot of people were wondering whether she would come, and she came with her big security detail,