york city approached him while york stayed in new york for a little while. asked him would he consider a film based on his exploits in the war, and york turned him down. in 1929 jesse laskey approached york again and he was turned down again. in 1939 laskey approached york and york turned him down again. it wasn't until 1940 when jesse laskey came to tennessee to actually meet alvin york that york began to waver somewhat and agree to do a film. >> and he turned him down, we should point out, with what became a famous line referring to his service and his military uniform, did he not? >> yes. he did not want to trade on having had to kill, having had to take other lives. and he resented that apparently up until the day he died, that he wondered was it right to have made a name, had a film made based on what in effect was that he had had to kill. >> colonel york, we just mentioned a moment ago his return. you said it was in 1919 so there was a time period between the end of world war i, since months he's traveling through europe. he comes back to new york. und

in 1929, he approached york again and was turned on again. 1939, he approached york and york turned himown again. it wasn't until 1940 when jesse lasky came to tennessee to actually meet alvin york that york began to waver somewhat in agreeing to do a film . >> he turned him down, we should point out with what became a famous line referring to his service and his military uniform, did he not? >> yes. he did not want to trade on having had to kill, having had to take other lives. he resented that, apparently up until the day he died, he wondered if it was right to have made a name, had a film made based on what an effect it was that he had to kill. >> colonel york, we just mentioned his return. there is a time period between the end of world war i, six months he is traveling through europe, he comes back to new york. what were the circumstances and the reaction? >> he did not realize it but in february 1919, he received the distinguished service cross for his action. in february, they went back to the battle site and it was upgraded to a medal of honor. there was a saturday evening post

>> what hit me was new york feds, new york state officials -- the state governments, virginia's goinggo after him, everybody who sees crime is going -- president trump dropped major hints this morning that he was anticipating something big coming. he's right. just before dawn preponderate launched a preemptive strike in a series of angry tweets, many with typos and misspellings, proving they're his, lashing out at his special counsel. among other things, robert mueller and lying james comey are best friends. throughout his tirade, he attacked john brennan and james clapper, hillary clinton and justice department officials including his own deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. he never gets tired of hillary, does he? >> she's always the foil, the one he goes to. it's a common thing among republicans, by the way. >> when you test that with republican voters, that -- hillary clinton and nancy pelosi are two individuals -- >> two strong powerful women. >> fog machine, when they were afraid trump was going to lose the second debate, they said we're going to unleash the fog machine. that

been established in new york in the 16 80's. s grandfather a french huguenot settled in new york and by marriage joined with the van cortlands and van skylers b incredibly important names in new york. in 1700, he began construction of a house in new york city at 54 pearl street. i don't know if that address means anything to anyone. but after his death it was bought by samuel francis who bought a tavern there called francis tavern which george washington would say his farewell at the end of the revolutionary war to his officers. james' father peter was a merchant owner of a flour mill and member of the colonial assembly as his father and numerous other family members were. ames's uncle was a member of the provincial executive council between the french and indian war. and during the revolution was a brigadier general of delancey's brigade of almost 2,000 men. so as you might gather, this was an incredible powerful political family in colonial new york which led what was called as the delancey party which dominated politics espec

and pines bridge new york which is now new york town. colonel christopher green headquarters. it was at richard davenport's house. this was along the kron river. starting at one of the crossings near one of the american lines. greenwood was killed in this action. greenwood was commander of the first rhode island regiment. it was actually at the hand of delancey's men that christopher green met his and during the war. george washington reported this engagement to congress three degrees days later. 44 killed wounded and missing. attempted to cut him off but he got away. many of the group's actions did not involve this level of violence or excitement, even a typical raid was recounted in the new york gazette of october 1677. which reported last sunday colonel james delancey with 60 of his westchester light horse. went from cambridge to the white plains. where they took from the rebels 44 barrels of flour, and 300 fat sheep and hogs. which really honestly was what they were most prized for by the regular british army. were bringing in these sorts of supplies. delancey himself desc

from your experience in the southern district of new york. essentially a rivalry between the two sets of prosecutor on the court today. opposite special counsel said he's telling the truth. southern district of new york said he's only been cooperating what he wants to cooperate, if you will. we have from now until march before michael cohen has to report to federal prison. if you worked in the southern district of new york still, do you view that as a key period of time to get additional cooperation. >> not necessarily, honestly. he's made his decision knowing he was likely going to prison for somewhere between three and four and a half years. i don't expect him to change his mind now. i think the only switch may come when he goes to prison, honestly. if he gets in there and says, i don't think i can do this 36 months, it's probably time to call my lawyers and see if i can get another go, then probably that's when it will happen but i think the next few months, just get his affairs in order and go in there and see what happens from there. >>

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here in new york, the rate of his office was covered as local news. we knew enough to know this was going to be a hugely consequential story but in new york, it was local news. i was watching and you donny deutsch on the newscast today. donny said this was the culmination for donald trump of 30 years of dirty dealings, and he talked about the trump family as you would a crime family. >> yeah, you know, the crime family aspect of it aside, even within the real estate community, donald trump has never been a highly respected real estate operator. there are big new york families who have been involved deeply in the life of the city, both from a business level, culturally, philanthropically. that's never really been donald trump. he's been regarded as something of a bottom feeder. he blew up his business in the '90s. he left banks on the hook for r $3 million. most banks after that wouldn't deal with him. from the early '90s till the apprentice, he was skrom bling for deals in which he could get cash up front. that's what led to his biggest problems. he n

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she was a great and colorful and wonderful man, opener of the new york -- she went to new york cuban'smes, and he ended up taking a deal where he testified against hines. now, the reason i mention is, the reason himes is in the book and pompez and others are, is that -- what i said before, when eunice was simply involved in prosecuting white gangsters, harlem loved her. when dewey turned his attention -- this is after he was darn -- -- was da to numbers game/was doing something wrong and that was partly because pompez was been lawyer and said that 10,000 or 20,000 harlemites were employed there. he was colorful and the only numbers runner, pompez, in the -- baseball hall of fame. back over here. just wait one minute for the boom. >> i'm interested in more about your grandmother, how old you were when you knew her or how close you were to her or how often you saw her. your grandfather. a little more family stuff here. >> let me do more family stuff. that's fine. so, my grandmother died when i was in high school, and i really didn't know any of these stories at the time. my grandfather d

"the new york times" reports the daughters of a queens, new york, podiatrist say their late father diagnosedonald trump with bone spurs in his heels to help him avoid the vietnam war draft. dr. larry braunstein's daughters say their father often told the story of helping mr. trump as a favor to his father, fred trump. dr. braunstein died in 2007. during the presidential campaign, mr. trump said he couldn't remember who signed off on his medical deferment. the "times" did not find documentation to corroborate the family's account, and the white house had no response. >>> "the washington post" reports ruth bader ginsburg was discharged from a new york hospital and is now home recuperating. the 85-year-old supreme court justice had surgery last week to remove two cancerous growths on her left lung. doctors say there's no evidence of any remaining cancer. the supreme court will next hear cases on january 7th. >>> and "usa today" says an oregon man is the first person to cross antarctica alone without any help. he's 33-year-old colin o'bdy, and 930ile 54 he traveled on skis towing all that gear b

the gentlewoman from new york reserves. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. frelinghuysen: mr. chairman, i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from georgia, mr. buddy carter. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for two minutes. mr. carter: i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. speaker, i rise today to discuss the importance of any funding bill, including funding for the border wall, as well as funding for our communities and farmers who have been hit hard by natural disasters. for those of us representing rural communities, we know well how important the agriculture community is, not just in the livelihood of those areas, but to our entire nation. our farmers are often unsung heroes of our nation, helping maintain the breadbasket our country is known for. in short, the american farmer feeds the world. it's not by accident that american agriculture has developed or produced the safest and most abundant food supply in the world. it's through blood, sweat and tears over

. >>> well, good evening once again from our msnbc headquarters in new york. day 692 of this trump administration, and today a man who was once central to donald trump's world and orbit has been sentenced to three years of prison time pleading guilty to what the judge called a veritable smorgasbord run by human greed and kbigs. michael cohen with tax evasion, lying to a financial institution, causing an unlawful corporation contribution, illegal campaign contributions and lying for donald trump. it includes a payment to two women. donald trump has denied the payments. michael cohen's family was looking on while saying, quote, i chose to participate in the elicit act of the president rather than listen to my own inner voice which should have warned me that the campaign finance violations that i pled guilty to were insidious. time and time again i felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds rather than to listen to my own inner voice and my moral compass. my weakness can be characterized as a blind loyalty to donald trump. here is what that loyalty sounded l

"the new york times" had put him on the cover of "the new york times" magazine standing in front of trump tower. it was done by bill geist, and it was a very flattering piece, capturing the essence of this glamorous young man. brian: that's willie geist's father, formerly on cbs sunday morning. peter: but at that time he was a columnist for the "times," and he wrote the big piece. my favorite fact about the "new york times" and donald trump, which they've now recently acknowledged, was the first mention of donald trump was in 1976. the reporter wrote that donald trump, fine young man, looks a lot like robert redford so you got to start somewhere. you know, i haven't been in touch with trump really since -- we did a second book together, which was a whole other story, because we called it "surviving at the top" when he wasn't. and it was a moment in which he was deeply in bankruptcy, deeply in debt, and i thought, when it was revealed that he had $5 billion in debt, i happened to be with him flying from las vegas to new york on his plane. he was slightly secret paramour, marla maples, mr.

the new york times had put him on the cover of the new york times magazine standing at trump tower.t was done by bill geist, who was then a columnist for the times. it was a flattering piece capturing the glamour of this young man. brian: formerly on cbs, not anymore. peter: he was a columnist for the times and he wrote the big piece. my favorite fact about the new york times and donald trump which was recently acknowledged is the first mention donald trump was in 1976. the reporter wrote the donald trump, a fine young man, looks a lot like robert redford. you have to start somewhere. i have not been in touch with trump, really, since -- we did a second book together which was a whole other story. he called it surviving at the top, and he was not. it was a moment in which he was deeply in debt. when it was revealed he had $5 billion in debt, i happened to be with him flying from las vegas to new york on his plane. marla maples mr. newhouse and i are on the plane. i think probably over kansas he is going to open the door and jump out. he goes into his cabin. a belief in this man and

craig melvin msnbc headquarters in new york. two big stories we're following, that breaking news hallie just mentioned, michael cohen being sentenced. president trump's former lawyer and his former fixer michael cohen facing that judge. how much prison time could he get for his role in a hush money scandal involving a president, a porn star and a playboy model. >>> also, exit interview, outgoing united nations ambassador nikki haley sitting down exclusively in her first interview since announcing her departure to talk about how her boss's unpredictable rhetoric affected her job and whether she has her own oval office ambitions. we'll get to that in just a moment. we start off with the fate of president trump's one-time personal attorney and possibly the president himself, the judge has taken the bench. sentencing has started for michael cohen in that federal courtroom here in the city today. cohen and others involved in the russia investigation will find out just how much turning against president trump is worth. cohen pled guil

it's 4:00 in new york.re we are juggling dramatic new developments in the investigations out of the southern district of new york. it appears the probe into a possible conspiracy to defraud voters by paying women to keep quiet about sexual relationships with donald trump could be broader than the prosecution of the president's former fixer michael cohen. cohen was sentenced to three years in jail today in part for his role in carrying out a hush money scheme. he claims it was directed by the president. a judge side with the new york prosecutors who argued cohen committed campaign finance crimes with the intention of influencing the

you have to take yourself back to new york in the 1930s. there had just been a big gang war in which the black gangs of harlem had been wiped out or subjugated to a coalition of various white ethnic gangs. harlem matter because it was the most lucrative territory in the country for organized crime. also because of members game. it was played and also employed between 10 and 20,000 whose job it was running numbers. they were dominant new york and there was cry from civic reformers and newspapers it was time to get serious about the mob and to try and investigate. the problem was that the district attorney in new york at the time, a man named dodge, was in the pocket of the mob and had no intentions of doing any kind of investigation. so, there came the runaway grand jury. the grandeur that so we don't want anyone else in the office. we want a special prosecutor to investigate organized crime and dodge eventually gave in. and the special prosecutor was finally appointed was thomas dewey. he later ran for president. that is how he originally c

it is a very busy night in new york city. time because a lot of people come here for christmas. people bring kids to go christmas shopping and look at the festivities. we may have to move. there's a car coming. stand by. now we are standing out here and all we know is that there's the potential five bombs being inside of the very building that we're in. called in tonight around 10:1r5 is, between 10:15 and 10:20 called into our new york headquarters, our new york studios to the time warner center from somewhere down south. that is all they're telling us. brian said -- we're hoping that this is some sort of hoax but we don't know that for sure yet. >> that's the whole point is something like this can is able to disrupt cnn's broadcast, an your broadcast are, the mall, a hotel, a shopping center, apartment buildings, that's the broader problem for this kind of behavior. hopefully, it is nothing more than a false alarm. that is the hope and expectation. >> i'm being told to switch phones. can you hear me? >> they're continuing t

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it's 4:00 in new york. do the twin developments in the mueller and manhattan investigations into donald trump and his associates represent a clear and present danger politically and legally speaking to his presidency? that's the question being debated around the clock since prosecutors pulled back the curtain on their investigations in two sentencing documents for the president's one-time fixer michael cohen. prosecutors revealing for the very first time that they have evidence that donald trump personally directed a hush money scheme intended to keep his sexual relationships with women hidden from voters. and that trump's associates were offered stin. >> -- synergy with russia. but it's the case out of the southern district in new york that has republicans most anxious today. one trump ally telling me over the weekend that the cohen cases referred by mueller to the u.s. attorney in manhattan always represented the gravest legal threat to donald trump. this source suggesting that those prosecutors could sen

how big a win is this for the new york state attorney general? >> i think this is a great day for the new york state attorney general's office. i mean, this was something that was agreed to by the trump foundation, so there is certainly more of a fight to come. i don't think we can say mission accomplished and call it a day yet. but this is certainly a big first step in it. so there's really three parts to this lawsuit. the first part, and probably the most significant, is having the foundation dissolved, which is exactly what happened today. the second two parts have to do with the restitution, and this ban which is kind of incredible. this idea that a sitting president could have a ten-year ban on serving on one of these boards. it is basically the new york attorney general saying we cannot place the trust of a charity's money with somebody that is in the highest position of trust in our country. it is mind-boggling. >> that's the definition. kim, i want to play fog for you. this happened during our 4:00 p.m. hour in this very studio. this was

. >> we got new york. >> yes. >> the man from the prairies takes new york and, with it, the presidencyess than 40% of the vote. the south has backed john c. breckinridge and john bell. >> lincoln has a narrow victory. for almost half the country, he's illegitimate. he's not accepted as the president. >> no sooner has he won than several states in the south make clear that they are moving toward leaving the union, and so immediately he's gone from winning the white house into a crisis mode. >> lincoln's victory was probably the first shot in the civil war. >> the looks like the die has been cast. missed out on this. don't worry, the biggest deal is happening right now at t-mobile. when you buy one of the latest sumsung phones you get a free 50" samsung 4k tv. seriously, no! [announcer]seriously! t-mobile is giving you a free 50" tv. you gotta be kidding me. this deal won't last long. so get your free samsung tv at t-mobile store today. woooo!! pop pop pop!! ♪ ♪ ♪ we you know, thenow abnew, new thing.ng. with xfinity's retail stores, you can nowsee the latest. want to test drive the late

it starts in the new york city tabloids. so basically "the national enquirer" is those tabloids but it strayed from the roots. it is in every single supermarket across this country and donald trump couldn't have had a better ally, not just ally, but an adjunct of his campaign and they admit so a tabloid personality becomes a tabloid president with the help of america's leading tabloid. >> and following up another string here, mimi, ""access hollywood"" when he said i would get away with any misbehavior sh the grossef thi -- the grossests leads to the payments of two women. people say, the front-runner of the movie with gary hart, not talking about people's sex lives but in this case it directly comes out of his behavior with women that gotten him into the lies and cover-ups and page -- and payments. you can't separate his behavior with women from his financial and political and constitutional position right now. he's in trouble for impeachment right now because of all of that behavior. it is all connected. your thoughts. >>

michael cohen in manhattan, turns up in federal court in new york. he pleads guilty to eight felonies, six of which relate to tax evasion in his own finances and business stuff, but two of them, two of the eight felonies to which he plead that day were campaign finance felonies. and he stood up in court and what they call his allocution in court i have been directed to commit those felonies by then candidate donald trump. he pleads guilty. he implicates the president that day in court, and then he soon indicated through his lawyers that he was more than happy to start cooperating with prosecutors in whatever they wanted to talk to him about. but, you know, when he stood up that day in court handy plead guilty and he implicated the president, he did not actually sign a cooperation agreement in conjunction with that guilty plea. so that happened back in august. that was him dealing with federal prosecutors from the southern district of new york, august. then separate matter, last week, michael cohen, surprise, turns up in federal court again in new yor

. >>> hi, everyone, it's 4:00 in new york. a federal judge today blasted donald trump's former national security adviser and accused him of selling out his country. the judge's rebuke was accompanied by a stern warning, that flynn could face jail time for his crime which the judge described as a very serious offense that disgusted him. the judge, emmitt sullivan, providing the latest dramatic and unexpected twist in the curious case of mike flynn, a three-star general turned cooperating witness in the mueller probe, after pleading guilty to lying to the fbi. the judge clearly piqued by flynn's lawyers who had taken the position in their sentencing memo last week hat flynn had ln tricked into lying to the fbi. the judge forcing flynn to respond to pointed questions about whether he lied to the fbi, and whether he'd known at the time that it was wrong to do so. flynn's lawyer's introduction of what amounted to a conspiracy theory backfired spectacularly, but it likely cheered the president who tweeted this this morning. "good lu

the gentleman from new york. mr. engel: i rise in support of this measure and i yield myself such time as i may consume. the measure before us authorizes the protections for survivors more effective and improve the way we prevent this crime and ensure we are prosecuting those responsible. this bipartisan bill passed the senate unanimously. and a similar version passed the house in july of 2017. i join the chairman. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. >> mr. speaker, i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, yaped. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. royce: i move the house suspend the rules. the clerk: senate 1023 an act to re-authorize the tropical conservation act of 1998 through fiscal year 2021. the

mentioned the courts in new york.e had him incident -- we had an incident that the company here ,ocally was buying our products and before we even knew, they filed bankruptcy, and they wanted more product from us. the next thing we knew, they filed bankruptcy in new york, and the new york bankruptcy court -- we got a lawyer, too -- the new york bankruptcy court, somehow it works out we ended up having to pay them for the product we sold them, and we had to sign a document saying the amount of money they still owed us we were giving up. we could not pursue trying to collect that anymore. my question is -- you mentioned this was the new york courts. why people go to new york and file these things? is it something going on in new protectw do you yourself from someone who buys your product, does not pay you, and decides to go to new york and do this? and you are out $20,000, $30,000 . we did get an attorney. we paid him, and he told us the same thing. he said, the him out it would cost us to fly out there and go to the co

and then of course sergeant alvin york. york'sstory so captivating to i think all americans, because of his struggle with whether a christian can kill for his country. so, he had didn't he remains a model soldier and leadership model and manual today and he has been there since the 8s 8s o as the kind of soldier we want our troops to emulate and rightly. so has a rough beginning after his dad dies, can't handle the pressure of running a household, becomes a party animal, gets drunk in trouble. the law is after him. in fights all the time. and a neighbor girl catches his eye, starts to go to church to see gracie, and hears the gospel and accepts the lord, his life changes, becomes a man of hero, every day he try to do the right thing. the funny thing is the day after he went up and accepted the lord, is a friday. that's drinking night and guess who came knocking on the door the next day? his drinky buddies and alvin york describes it as i was get playing cat and coat and i was like, i can't do this inaccepted the lord mast n

marc liverman is here in new york. marc, good morning. >> good morning. so far we haven't heard from the president on this plan. either way, the house and mr. trump will have to move quick with just over a day and a half before friday's midnight deadline. with just 48 hours to go before a partial government shutdown, the senate approved a short-term spending bill late wednesday night. >> all in favor say aye. >> aye. >> those opposed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it, the motion is agreed to. >> later the house will vote opt gill which will keep the government open until february. if it passes there, it will go for the president's signe. he hasn't publicly weighed in on the plan which will not have the $5 billion he's asked for to build the bordered wall. it would fund border security at its current level of $1.3 billion. >> i'm sorry that my democratic colleagues couldn't put the partisanship aside and show the same good faith flexibility that the president has shown in order to provide the resources our nation needs to secure the inte

pauly in the southern district of new york.ut they have separate docket numbers, separate crimes alleged into which he has pled guilty. the southern district case involves eight counts that are very serious. and the guidelines have come with it that are in excess of 51 months in prison. on the other hand, the special counsel's office case is just one count of making a false statement to law enforcement authorities under 18 usc 001 that we have been talking about for many months now. and the sentencing guidelines are zero to six months. so on the one hand, it seems like the mueller team was sort of happier with how michael cohen interacted with them. on the other hand, the mitigation that michael cohen was trying to engage in with respect to a sentence is not as -- is not as needed, because the seriousness of the crime to which he pled guilty on the mueller side is just not as significant. he wasn't going to get much jail time, if any, even without cooperation on the mueller side. >> so preet, when mueller says in his concluding

here's how "the new york times" put it. "one former senior administration official called it a humiliation for mr. trump and his adult children, an emotion the president tries to avoid at all costs." nancy cook of politico standing by to talk to us had this to report. "with ayers out of the picture, trump now faces the challenging task of finding a chief of staff who is both capable of doing the job and, perhaps, more important, willing to step into the west wing's hornet's nest." one person being considered for the job, republican congressman mark meadows is pushing back against this idea that no one wants the job. >> he's got a number of people who'd gladly serve in, you know, in his administration, and so any narrative that would suggest otherwise is just not accurate. >> with us to talk about it tonight, the aforementioned nancy cook. white house reporter for politico. so, nancy, is the president looking for a quality hang or a sycophant, a best friend, or a superb manager of paper flow and personnel? >> i would say all

attorney of the southern district of new york.resident could fire also but that's a different thing. that's call a biased investigation. this is the united states attorney for the southern district of new york, and they are coming down harder on both cohen and the president than the mueller investigation did. >> well, for the moment, yes. but robert mueller has yet to release his report, has yet to file initial indictments, and robert mueller's investigation is very sensitive to the national security of our country, and that investigation is going to continue, and i think it is a serious threat to donald trump. that's why he's been trying to fire robert mueller. and referring to robert mueller and his team as a bunch of angry democrats is crazy. robert mueller is a republican. see a type of republican that i was for 30 years until the party was turned over to a bunch of people who want to collaborate with the russians. this is nuts. the president cannot bring in an attorney general who is going to try to control this investigation

the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. mrs. lowey: last night, the senate unanimously passed legislation that would fund our government through february 8. democrats are disappointed that congress would kick the can down the road once again. yet, we remain willing to pass that bill to keep the government open. unfortunately, my friends, even that simple stopgap measure is apparently unacceptable to a president hell-bent on shutting down the government over his wasteful wall. and instead of showing leadership and moving forward with the senate legislation, despite the president's tweets, house republicans have caved once again to trump's political whims. they now have put up this grab bag of legislation that wastes taxpayers' dollars, fails to meet the urgent needs of disaster victims, and frankly, my friends, is dead on arrival in the senate. with all the challenges facing our country, from soaring health care costs to

job here in new york? >> well, the associated press also has confirmed that it is expected to happen. as with our previous discussion, we should also preface this with saying that it is expected to happen until he tweets it's happening. we have to wait on it. but, yes, heather is someone who caught the attention of the president, is thought highly of by a lot of people in the west wing, and is one of a number of people with fox experience who have prominent roles in his administration. she is really viewed as someone -- she has no real -- prior to this job, did not have any major foreign policy experience, and has really meteoric rise in the state department, despite, you know, a strange relationship with the former secretary of state rex tillerson. she was well thought of by the west wing and was really elevated in his, you know, after he was -- he was removed from that position. so, she is well liked by the president. yeah, she's -- the fox influence is widely felt throughout the west wing. >> tamara, i

for the southern district of new york. people appointed by the president himself. look at what the special counsel revealed. special counsel and the u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york are separate and report up through the justice department. in the cohen filing the mueller team details an offer of, quote, political synergy and on a government level from a russian national just before voters went to the caucuses and the polls and just to clarify what synergy means, interaction or cooperation of two or more organizations. we will have more on campaign contacts with russia a little later on but in the factual filing on paul manafort, the special counsel states, quote, manafort had contacts with administration officials and a text exchange of may 28, 2018, this year, manafort authorized a person to speak with an administration official on manafort's behalf. may of this year. these contacts happening ahead of mueller's accusation that manafort made, quote, false statements. what we here call lies. that's a little bit of what we have learned in this fil

it's 4:00 in new york. where we are juggling dramatic new developments in the investigations out of the southern district of new york. it appears the probe into a possible conspiracy to defraud voters by paying women to keep quiet about sexual relationships with donald trump could be broader than the prosecution of the president's former fixer michael cohen. cohen was sentenced to three years in jail today in part for his role in carrying out a hush money scheme. he claims it was directed by the president. a judge side with the new york prosecutors who argued cohen committed campaign finance crimes with the intention of influencing the outcome of the election. they said in doing so, cohen eroded faith in the election process but the other surprising development out of the southern district of new york today, we learned that american media, the company that publishes the national enquirer and is run by the president's longtime friend david pecker reached a nonprosecution agreement. that agreement is in conne

good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york.greement. >> amn right. >> as michael flynn's sentencing gets dramatic. >> sullivan telling flynn you sold your country out. >> what we learned about what flynn did, the former cia director john brennan. w >> what about the inquiry as to whether he committed treason. >> bad news for the president. >> the president has minimized what flynn has done.t. >>> then, russian roulette author michael izakoff on why the president was tweeting favorably. m >>> plus, the trump foundation shuts down following a "shocking pattern of illegality". >>> first of all, the tear gas is a very minor form of tear gas. >> the congresswoman who helped