in june trump told reporters that he always liked michael cohen. and the month before, trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani defended cohen as a quote honest, honorable lawyer. when you put these together, stormy together with michael cohen and the category we have created on "morning joe" where we can't be surprised but we can continue to be disgusted by the things we hear. with michael cohen, it's absurd the way he is running away from him. >> i do hope i never stop being surprised because we shouldn't forget that these things should be surprising from the president of the united states. i think it is noteworthy, we have gone several weeks without the president focussed in on kind of this piece of the universe that we are living in. the russia probe had been on the back burner in the face of our conversations about kavanaugh and other issues. i think it is pretty clear here that the president recognizes, what does he do some when something is a threat to him? he tries to minimize it in public. i think it is telling that he is doing this now. >>

during those initial conversations trump said to michael cohen, "don't worry. i'll pay for everything". >> right. i'll take care of everything. >> i'm take care of everything. what does that say to you? >> essentially, the president was taking responsibility for this whole matter in saying, hey, i'm going to pay for it. this is my deal, and it's not just michael cohen out there on a limb. >> anything from the trump organization, or this attorney? >> no. declined to comment. >> okay. thank you so much. >> thank you. >>> "wall street journal." appreciate it. >>> we are just now getting word from the "new york times" involving a report -- involving the president an questions of his role in tax schemes. in the '90s. stand by. people tell me all the time i have the craziest job, the riskiest job. the consequences underwater can escalate quickly. the next thing i know, she swam off with the camera. it's like, hey, thats mine! i want to keep doing what i love. that's the retirement plan. with my annuity i know there's a guarantee. annuities can provide protected incom

but michael cohen now looms large. we have new information about this. you know him, trump's long-time fixer. really his lawyer and confidant, now foe. he was spotted just today leaving his attorney's office after reportedly sitting down with a group of state and federal officials investigating trump's family business. what does it mean? well, it must mean something because the president is coming at him anew saying he was just a p.r. guy and that he was lying when he said that trump told him to do things. we know with the tape he wasn't lying about that. let's bring in two people who can help us piece together the direction of this investigation. phil mud, former fbi senior intelligence advisor and barrett berger, former prosecutor for the southern district of new york. it's great to have you both here. you can see my wall, yes, guys? >> yes. >> good. so, time talking, that's a relevant metric here. 50 hours. what does 50 hours mean to you, barrett? >> that's incredibly significant. prosecutors don't waste their time with somebody that doesn't have impo

take us through your latest reporting on michael cohen. >> so michael cohen has -- he has said he has reregistered as a democrat. now, i will say he's been a democrat his entire life. he only switched party affiliations in 2017 when the rnc finance chair said you are the deputy finance chair of the rnc, you can't be registered a democrat. he made a brief switch. and the president's a democrat, his children who serve in the white house are democrats as well. what's going on with cohen, he spent upwards of 50 hours talking with investigators and sharing everything he knows not only to the special counsel's office but to investigators in the southern district of new york and also the state of new york who are looking into trump foundation activities. so this is someone who once told me he would take a bullet for the president and is now spending as many hours as he can be investigators ensuring they know everything he knows about the president, his business activities and personal behavior as well. >> what -- a good point. donald trump, too, was a democrat. as he demolishes the republica

i guess michael cohen has been demoted to like caterer. i don't know what he is anymore. >> freelance temp. >> right. whatever he was, he did have a lot of documents. those have been raided and taken. that's going to have information about the sort of the business side of the trump legacy. and the institution. and the businesses. i will say don't forget michael cohen is mentioned in the steel dossier. he crosses both boundaries between the financial thing and of course the collusion. so there's just going to be evidence. there's another character all the m's. now you have don mcgahn. who left the white house today. he has we know at least by "new york times" reporting he has met with mueller and talked to them. not clear how much the white house knew about that. he's free. he was intimately involved with the beginnings of this. comey firing and other issues. there's another player out thereto who may or may not be -- we don't know what his allegiance will be. or start talking. this thing it's just it unwinds and it's like a web. it keeps e

you said michael cohen just said hi to me in the airport. i meant to take a flight to new york but think i just landed on mars. so what happened? >> we just passed each other in laguardia the other night, and i saw him, and i was like, oh, my gosh, that's michael cohen. he passed within three feet of me. i was with my bodyguards and my tour manager and i was like, hi and he was like, hey, guys and smiled at us. it was very strange. >> it was very strange. >> he looked happy and healthy, though. he looked like he had a weight off his shoulders. >> do you harbor any ill feelings for him because it doesn't sound like it. >> i did for a long time. he was the one who brokered this ridiculous deal which wasn't my issue because i didn't want this story to come out. my issue is he's the one that went on tv and promoted a book deal and this and that and started wanting more and more and more from me. so i definitely think that i had a lot of ill will for him, towards him. but in the end, you know what? he kind of did the right thing. he admitted that

>> well, you know, i don't know what michael cohen knows. i know that he obviously has a lot of proximity to the president for a lot of years, and i'm sure that if anything went astray, given some of the earlier conversations we know he had with people, that he would be aware of it. so i would think the president -- that's one of the reasons trump is trying to get himself separate from and away from michael cohen. he's got him down to being just a p.r. guy now. >> yeah. >> pretty soon he'll be in charge of the coffee. >> yeah. just put the quote up. he said that, you know, oh, absolutely he's lying, in talking about paying off stormy daniels and karen mcdougal and michael cohen was a pr person who did small legal work, very small leg work. by the way, he was in trouble not for what he did for me. he was in trouble for what he did for himself. that speaks for itself there. we get what he's doing there. it's deflecting. but let's talk about paul manafort now because evan perez is reporting that paul manafort and his lawyers have visited muelle

you asked him about michael cohen, his long-time personal attorney, the self-described fixer constantly at his side, and he said the lawyer that served him more than a decade was like a public relations person, who represented me on very small things. >> this is how the president distances himself from people and issues he doesn't want to be associated with and michael cohen had an office just basically next door to mr. trump in trump tower. we are not talking about a pr person here or a low-level assistant. this was a pretty central figure in the trump organization and president trump's life in the handful of years before he became president. this was him trying to create some distance from cohen, and he said he was surprised to hear the tapes and went on the attack a little bit saying this was something that was unconscionable and created a legal liability for michael cohen. >> fair to say. thank you for sharing your reporting with us. >> thank you. >>> the president says he's a nationalists and one of the biggest reports suggests maybe the president doesn't know what that term means.

right now we saw that after all of that coverage of the stormy daniels case as well as the michael cohen saga, avenatti is constantly on cable news and seems to a lot of observers pining for media attention. i think republicans really were able to easily, i guess, look at his publicizing the julie swetnick allegations as a political ploy on this part, because he's a attorney. so much of his commentating in all of this has been very politically motivated. i think republicans were easily able to seize upon that. i think his involvement in this could have swayed more moderate republicans like susan collins to question julie swetnick's allegations. >> moving forward, democrats on the other side are looking at what might happen this afternoon and a democratic congressman from new york floating the idea of impeaching kavanaugh because he would take on the house judiciary committee chairmanship in that situation if democrat was to lead the house. how would that work out? and might that hurt them in advance of the vote in the midterms? >> yeah. it could potentially hurt them in advance with tryi

the fbi raids the office of president trump's personalwy , michael cohen. >> narrator: the president, as he watched the raid on tevision, was furious. >> trump erupted. heas very upset. he was consumed by this news all day. it was very troubling for him and scary for him. >> fbi raiding his office, his home, and a hotel room. >> white house advisers are saying, "can we turn off the televisions?" all the president is doing, they say, is getting himself agitated. click over to fox. >> this is a fox ns alert. there is some breaking news today...he >> he was cnn. >> the fbi raids the office of president trump's personal lawyer... >> he'll go to msnbc. >> "new york times" breaking the news in the last few minutes that t fbi has raided... >> he'll go back to cnn. >> ...also seized emails, tax documents, and business records. >> and he'll just keep seeing those two words on the chyron, "michael cohen." and it sends him into a rage. >> the no-knock raids by fbie agents we result of a referral by special counsel robert mueller. >> narrator: to the president, it was a personal assault from the

so francesca all these words from the president targeting michael cohen. what does that say about possible anxieties with the mueller probe? >> reporter: the president is le clearly distancing himself saying he did small deals for me, he was just a pr guy and his problems are his own. what he got in trouble for legally had nothing to do with me and the things he says had to do with me are things he's lying about. the fact the president says he's a pr guy and did smaller deals, that's not entirely inconsistent with the claims that he was the president's fixer and it's not consistent with the fact that the president ran a company the deals were relatively small comparatively. but the president trying to make sure anything that happens to michael cohen does not blow back on him in the special counsel investigation. >> i want to get a read from you particul particularly when it comes to the house. if republicans don't retain control, don't blame him. . >> reporter: the president has been out campaigning quite aggressively in the midterms. go thing to states, s

of course, michael cohen no longer represents the president, which is why trump's motion was filed by the president's new attorney, charles harder. ( laughter ) really? charles harder? does everyone in this case have a porn name? ( laughter ) ( applause ) i-- personally i look forward to the ruling by judge peter johnson thunder-gavel. ( laughter ) native american name, thunder- gavel. harder says that much like a rolled-up "forbes" magazine, trump wants to put this behind him, writing in a letter to the court that trump promised not to seek to enforce any terms of the settlement agreement with stormy. in other words, trump just wants to wrap this thing up-- something he didn't do when he slept with stormy daniels. ( audience reacts ) he's hoping this can happen in a way that will satisfy all parties, something else he also didn't do when he slept with stormy daniels. ( cheers and applause ) i don't know what that dance means. as a businessman, trump is known for selling many things: steaks, apartments, his soul. ( laughter ) well, now he's extended that philosophy to space, because n

michael cohen is scheduled to be sentenced in december. >>> joining us onset, danny cevallos. how could unsealing sensitive court documents related to the ongoing investigation actually help a prosecutor's case in this situation? >> generally they're going to oppose it because they don't want this information revealed. on one hand, court records are presumptively open to the public, but there's an exception where the criminal investigation requires secrecy not just because there are targets out there that might abscond if they know they're targets, but also unnamed third parties who are simply tangential to the investigation. they might be damaged by the release of information. so this is one of those circumstances that over comes the presumption that court records should be open. the implication is clear. if the document is arguing there are still uncharged third parties out there, you can fill in the blanks and they may be talking about some of the people that michael cohen mentioned in the course of his guilty plea. one of those people is the president. you remember that wa

then why did michael cohen make the statement? >> you'd have to ask michael. michael is my attorney, and you'll have to ask michael. >> do you know where he got the money to make that payment? >> i don't know. >> well, we all know that's not true. the president's former fixer and keeper of secrets, michael cohen, told us that in his guilty plea in august, when he said, quote, in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office, he kept information that would have been harmful to the candidate from becoming public. and that candidate was donald trump. so when the president tries to tell you that what you've seen with your own eyes and what you've heard with your own ears is a hoax, just remember all the other times he has cried hoax. remember all those things he claimed weren't true and turned out to be true? remember his divisive language tonight at justice kavanaugh's swearing in? proof that this president is our divider in chief. let's bring in now cnn white house correspondent kaitlan collins. kaitlan, good evening to you. thank you for j

. >>> michael cohen pled guilty under eight counts today. >> michael cohen of the president's fixer. >> if anybody else in his mind was going after his boss, he was going to fight back. >> and the keeper of his secrets. >> of all the individuals in trump's organization who knew where the bodies were buried, if you will, michael cohen was at the top of the list. >> swearing to do anything to protect the president. >> he told me he'd take a bullet for the president. >> an fbi changed everything. >> i jt

the case against michael cohen will proceed. mr. avenatti did say that pretty clearly a moment ago. so we'll see. again, i used this "self-preservation" a moment ago, and it looks like what he's doing is talking to authorities as a means of saving himself. >> this just becomes so complicated, because you do have these real legal questions about the nda with michael avenatti, as you said. then it's is sort of colored by michael avenatti's own political campaign that's moving forward. >> wouldn't a judge separate that out? in the court of law, isn't that two different things? >> you can't. you can't separate it out. as i mentioned, it's made its way into the actual suit by how they've talked about it. but again, it's such a public figure, when it's a president of the united states, and an attorney who is making this so -- i don't think he can. >> elliott williams, loved having you on, thanks very much. nancy and charlie, stick around. >>> after the break, u.s. presidents have gone to great lengths to keep a strong relationship with saudi. we're asking the question this morning, why is

. >> and he'll just keep seeing those o words on the chyron, "michael cohen." and it sends him into a rage.s >> the no-knocby fbi agents were the result of a referral bspecial counsel robert mueller. >> narrator: to the president, it was a personal assault from the fbi, the department of justice, and robert mueller. >> a lawyer is just like a fepriest, a doctor, and a in terms of privilege. so, i don't blame president trump for being a little upsety that someb looking into what he may have told his lawyers. n arrator: the cohen raid was a sign trump's personal life in new york was colliding with his presidency in washington. >> cohen brings it right back to trump tower, to how trump realld operat for decades, having someone like michael cohen, not just a lawyer but a fixer, at his side. >> narrator: for years, trump had used cohen to protect his image just as he used roy cohn decades before. >> i think that he looked at michael as somebody who would be his day-to-day roy cohn. michael, in a lot of ways, was very good. michael-- um, also was able to close a lot

one other potential problem for the president, michael cohen, meeting wednesday with officials investigating mr. trump's family business. >>> and new this morning, u.s. marshals arresting the former president of usa jgymnastics. the walker county, texas district attorney says steve penny ordered documents removed from the usa gymnastics training center. the documents were delivered to penny at the headquarters in napole indianapolis and have not been seen since. penny was arrested in tennessee on vacation. he is awaiting extradition back to texas. >>> $1.3 billion in lottery money is up for grabs. no winners in the $378 million powerball jackpot. friday's megamillions jackpot has climbed to $900 million with the lump sum option of $513 million. >> yes, i'm already envisioning how i would spend it. >> you could buy massive companies. >>> all right. the gop tax cuts sent the deficit soaring. now the president wants his cabinet secretaries to help make up serious ground. today is the day you're going to get motivated... get stronger... get closer. start listening today to the world's largest se

cohen during the course of which michael cohen said under oath the president ordered me to break the law by falsifying these documents. they have to investigate. they may have decide there is nothing there there and michael cone may have said that in a pique of anger. the areas are prepresidential bank fraud by misstating his wealth to deutsch bank. obstruction of justice, was jim comey fired for an improper purpose, and conspiracy to receive something of value from a foreign national. the crime is conspiracy. even if the thing of value didn't arrive, if there was an agreement to do it, that's the crime. those are the tree areas. is he going to indict anybody beyond the 32 indictments he has already obtained? whrits * come back after the mid terms and we'll talk about it. liz: teks as congressman brian babin with his reaction to the illegal border crossers headed for the border. that's next. it's america's most popular street name. but allstate agents know that's where the similarity stops. if you're on park street in reno, nevada, the high winds of the washoe zephyr could damage you

michael cohen now registering as a democrat, cooperating with the special counsel, you know, no longer willing to take a bullet for donald trump and exposing donald trump for, you know, the misogynistic candidate and now president that he really is. i agree with you, the back and forth, his anatomy being tiny, not tiny, that's schoolyard stuff but this exposed something really happen that happened with donald trump, how he forced this woman to sign this nondisclosure agreement and then lied about it. >> in the tweet he lied and said she doesn't know him. >> he's also been saying this morning that he has no financial relationship with the saudis. areva and tara, thank you very much. coming up, democratic senate heidi heitkamp, in the race of her life for reelection. he has issued an apology for an error in a campaign ad. what they got wrong next. liberty mutual saved us almost $800 when we switched our auto and home insurance. with liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of your brother. hey! oh, that's my robe. is it? when you switch to liberty mutual, you could save $782 on

one other potential problem for the president, michael cohen, meeting wednesday with officials investigating mr. trump's family business and charitable organizations. >>> u.s. marshals arresting the former president of usa gymnastics on charges he tampered with evidence in the larry nassar case. the walker county district attorney says steve penny ord ordered documents removed. according to the indictment, the documents were differed to penny at the -- were delivered to penny at the usag office in indianapolis. >>> about 1,500 people near an underground gas line in california urged to evacuate as a grass fire threatens the pipeline. it is at a pipeline 30 miles northeast of san francisco. chevron shut it down and dispatched a field team to investigate. anyone requiring assistance to evacuate should call 911. >>> and more than $1.3 billion in lottery jackpot money up for grabs. no winners in the $378 million powerball jackpot. numbers were 3, 57, 64, 69, 17 and 15. the estimated jackpot is $430 million. the friday's megamillions is $900 million with the lump sum option of $513 million. >> the

michael cohen just said hi to me at the airport. i meant to take a flight to new york, but isla landed on mars. michael cohen ran into stormy daniels at the airport. just for habit, he wrote her a check for $13,000. >>> i'm christine romans. >> i'm joe johns. "new day" starts now. fall along the panhandle as a category three. >> i'm not looking forward to it. >>> i want to apologize to brett. you, sir, under historic scrutiny. >> of course he was not proven innocent. >> sent a message to women that we are not taken seriously. >> i think it is raising enthusiasm on

he's now referring to michael co help as a pr person, and michael cohen got into a lot of trouble and is trying to cooperate with t the. he says he only worked for the president for a short time, and he pointed out he had worked for other candidates. it also is how the president looks to putin. he is very hesitant to criticize putin, and this is an abnormal situation in that the president has been criticizing other experts. >> if he says that, how would he play into the president's relationship? >> jared has invested a lot of time in that and hopefulness going forward that the saudis will help resolve a lot of difficult issues in the middle east. the idea that saudi arabia can unlock the mideast piece. the president outsource touchdown to jared and now the president is upset with what's become of that relationship. >> washington correspondent for the "new york times," thank you very much. >>> up next, president trump in arizona today on his pre h. turn out for what? >> that's the question. are kids going to actually vote this time when it comes to these elections? there is a lot of th

patricia: el ex abogado del presidente trump, michael cohen, se reuniÓ con investigadores estatales y federales. los investigadores estÁn analizando los negocios familiares del presidente y los de su fundaciÓn. el fiscal rosenstain espera recibir pronto el reporte de robert mueller. recuerdo a blomberg, el reporte se espera para las elecciones de noviembre y antes de de baÑo. --- fin de aÑo. y es temÁtica la situaciÓn en texas por las peores inundaciones en este estado en casi un siglo. juan carlos gonzÁlez recorriÓ las zonas afectadas y pudo hablar con decenas de damnificados que lo han perdido todo bajo el agua. juan: la fuerza de la corriente es tal que destrozÓ por completo este puente en la localidad de kingsville. las lluvias torrenciales provocaron grandes acumulaciones. marco rojas es uno de los damnificados. marco: mi casa se echÓ a perder bajo debajo del agua y ahora no tengo dÓnde quedarme. juan: reciÉn habÍa llegado de trabajar cuando le avisaron que su casa y familia estaban en peligro. las autoridades tuvieron que rescatar a su esposa embarazada y a sus dos

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like the hush payment to stormy daniels that trump's personal fixer michael cohen made in the closing days of the campaign. remember, when trump said he had absolutely nothing to do with that payment, then his lawyer went on tv, and said he did know, and then took it back, and said he didn't know, and then trump said he did know, and the? >> no, no. >> they funneled it through the law firm. funneled through a law firm, and the president repaid it. >> you said on air force one that -- >> excuse me, excuse me, excuse me. >> you did not know anything about the payment. >> no, but you have to -- excuse me, you take a look at what i said. you go back, and take a look. you'll see what i said. >> you said "no," when i asked you if you knew about the payment. >> excuse me. excuse me, you go take a look at what we said. >> seth: yeah, dude. you were asked if you knew about the payment, and you said no. we saw it, remember? you were standing in the aisle of the plane like you were about to take everyone's drink orders. [ laughter ] "oh, i'll just have a snack." "we don't have snacks." "you just

in february the president called his now former personal attorney michael cohen, and insd him to seek a restraining order against daniels. the source says trump directed cohen to coordinate the effort n lving his son eric trump, and an outside lawyer. seth: you put eric on the case? [ laughter ] i'm not su failed.he cover up i'm surprised we didn't end up with video from three angles, an a signed confession. [ laughter ] so to recap, trump pernally tervened to keep a porn star from speaking publically about an affair. he illegally covered up during a presidential campaign, and he put his two dumbest subordinates on it. although, in fairness, it's not like trump's surroundeby geniuses. "we need to stop this stormy thing. who's the smartest guy me? oh, that's not good." [ ughter ] [ applause ] these guys lie --ie theyo hold on to power because they think they're entitled to it. that's why they're all furious and indignant en you question them in any way. if you suggest that they broke the law to become president, or they shouldn't sit on the supreme urt, they go absolutely -- >> loco. [

in some of the michael cohen charges, in the paul manafort charges and here. it's a thing that never occurred to me that that's a way to commit crime, if you lie about the value of things you can move things from different parties, get loans and all this. but it is fraud. >> it's a classic thing that auditors should look at and fbi should look at. now with real estate it's not that hard. it's not a stock where you get the value every day. but real estate buildings in brooklyn, condos, are being sold every day. so you can get the valuations there, and you can approximate them. the irs really should be able to -- beyond that. >> it was a family affair back then and this is a guy who came up learning at the knee how to evade taxes, who's got kids now who, lord knows what they're doing, but also that "the new york times" got these documents and sat with them for 18 months, makes you wonder what it would look like if the president's tax returns were in the hands of reporters. >> it would be spectacular. we already know pieces of it. we know a lot about his business

. >> right, it's sort of like having michael cohen as your lawyer, when you have roger stone running your campaign, only the best. and it's interesting because the fact that roger stone so clearly obviously lied during his testimony is in and of itself as we all know by now a serious crime. but the real question is why did he lie, and what is he so afraid -- he's not a man who's afraid to talk. he's not a man who's afraid to talk pretty boldly in ways other people wouldn't admit to things other people wouldn't necessarily admit to. so what is it he's covering up, and i think that is where mueller knows well by now stone had advanced knowledge of these wikileaks. stone has basically said it himself both in the past and now he's trying to walk it back. so the question is how did he know it, and what did he do with that information and did he try to weaponize it in some way for the trump campaign? really what it comes down to is if i know you're going to rob a bank, that in itself is probably a minor crime. but if i help figure out the time the security guards are gone or i help figure

and, and, if michael cohen is to be believed, he also lies about ( bleep ). ( laughter ) >> jon: ♪ oh, lord! >> stephen: now, at one meeting, at one-- ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: ♪ oh, my, oh, lord! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: at one meeting, secretary of defense jim mattis struggled to convince the president to keep troops in south korea. afterwards, mattis told associates "that the president acted like-- and had the understanding of-- 'a fifth- or sixth-grader.'" it's all in the hit new gameshow, "are you smarter than the president?" ( laughter ) the show where everyone's a winner. and, with-- ( cheers and applause ) they should do that show. it's a hit. is that on cbs? that on cbs? cbs show. former chief of staff reince priebus said the white house was like "natural predators at the table." adding, "when you put a snake and a rat and a falcon and a rabbit and a shark and a seal in a zoo without walls, things start getting nasty and bloody." ( laughter ) first of all, reince, i'm going to go out on a limb and say i doubt the rabbit and the shark would ever cross paths.

. >> a brief change in subject, and that is to michael cohen. the reporting tonight in "vanity fair" of emily jane fox, and i quote, despite having no formal cooperation agreement with the government, cohen has willing hi assisted and provided information critical to several ongoing investigations, according to two sources familiar with the situation. in a string of meetings that have exceeded more than 50 hours in some, cohen has said to friends that he has regrets about his work on behalf of trump and his capacity as trump organization employee. what you see now is a return to who he was before all of this, one friend told me. he's an open book, and he's adamant to make it right. so give me an idea, jeremy, of how concerned a trump legal team, a trump staff would be to read that. >> yeah. emily jane fox channels michael cohen, and his friends are telling her that he's sat down for more than 50 hours of interviews with the special counsel and the southern district of new york. that's a lot of time, brian. for someone to unload for 50 hours mean

he was defiant in many ways throughout this interview when we asked him about michael cohen, his former attorney who pleaded guilty in august and suggested that he was acting under the direction of the president to violate campaign finance law. trump tonight told us at the amount ofap that cohen was lying and he made up stories to get a lighter sentence. he was very much on the defensive with these comments, but at the same time suggesting he's very optimistic about republicans' chances going into the midterms, so much so that unlike president obama when the democrats lost, he acknowledged he owned responsibility calling it a shellacking. he says he's out there helping republican candidates and if they were to lose control of the body, it wouldn't be his fault. >> here's what i don't understand about trump. i guess it takes some interpretation. when he makes this smart alec remark about someone having a face he doesn't like, an eight-year-old makes a comment about someone they're mad at, does he cover for it saying that's part of his strategy, or is it ridiculously a strategy because mo

cohen. >> good afternoon, commissioners. michael cohen. i think you saw in the materials the origin of this proposed amendment, since we got our entitlements in complete and nonappealable at the end of last year, we have been spending a lot of time trying to raise the equity to build it. as you know in the current construction cost market, that is somewhat challenging. we have identified a fantastic partner in the state of florida's pension trust fund, but as a condition to moving forward with us, they wanted to make sure that they could use some of the affordable housing credits that had been negotiated with the city previously in order to preserve affordable levels at the south beach marina apartments. if the credits aren't fully used, florida has the right to go back and raise rents. no one wants to see that happen at the south beach marina apartments, so we kind of view this as a terrific two-fer in that it advances two terrific policy goals. it paves the way for us to move forward with the project, which as rich mentioned, it includes

. >> whide did you see michael cohen was acting on his own in arbitration prosealedings to prevent stormy dabbles from doing television interviews when the president directed that move. ms. sanders: i'm not going to get into a back and forth. that's an issue for the president's outside counsel and i direct you there. >> three questions, first impact and meaning of the president's comments in mississippi notwithstanding, it is a fact collins, rs mruczkowski, flake, and manchin are the undecided votes critical to the nomination. are there planners in president to call any of them and make one final pitch, perhaps explain his remarks a little more? ms. sanders: i'm not aware of any scheduled call but we've been in contact with a number of mens and will continue to do so. >> the president's early supporters in the house, collins in the new york and duncan hunter of california are running urn indictment. there are rule os they have national republican congressional committee barring support for members who are under indictment. does the president still support both of them for re-election? ms.

the president is also talking about michael cohen, saying cohen lied when he testified donald trump directed him to break the law. remember, cohen pleaded guilty to campaign violations after making a hush money payment. lester? >> thanks. >>> with the president's comments about women under scrutiny, staffers for melania trump are lashing out over a rap star's new video featuring a look-alike of mrs. trump doing something very suggestive in the oval office. nbc news white house correspondent kristin welker has that story. >> reporter: this viral video of a melania trump look-alike, has the real first lady's team fuming. the clip, part of a promotional rollout by rapper t.i., shows a fake mrs. trump stripping off a replica of that infamous green jacket, her spokpe of the rapper. these kinds of vulgar attacks only further the divisiveness and bias in our country. it needs to stop. t.i. didn't respond to our request for comment, but tweeted with the video, dear 45, i ate kanye. that, a reference to last week's controversial visit to the oval office by rap superstar kanye west. >> there was somet

cohen, to stay silent about the alleged affair, there was no response from the first lady. >> there were lots of rumors that she was furious after the stormy daniels story became public. and she wasn't seen in public for a good while after that. >> reporter: the white house denied the president had an affair. you're not the first first lady to have to deal with her husband's alleged infidelities. has this put a strain on your marriage? >> it is not a concern and focus of mine. i'm a mother and a first lady and i have much more important things to think about and to do. >> have you been hurt, though? >> it's not always pleasant, of course. but i know what is right and what is wrong and what is true and not true. >> reporter: at first the president denied any knowledge about a payment to stormy daniels. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. >> reporter: but one month later, he finally admitted that he knew about the payoff. >> can you tell how does she feel these days with the stormy daniels affair in the background -- >> she believes in her husband, she

this is michael cohen just doing something really nice for his friend, the president. and, so, this shows direct involvement. oh, and the president also directed his son, eric trump, to help with this in the effort to silence stormy daniels and it shows for the first time the direct involvement of the president and his son. >> well, it stands to reason that the president was highly exercised about this. we didn't know this until "the wall street journal" reported it, but it is certainly -- in keeping with the president's continued involvement with his companies, notwithstanding his claim that he wouldn't be, and also just the fact that he is deeply engaged in the legal fights against him. >> and, josh, i don't have the exact time line because we're just seeing this article for the first time, but if he's directing the response to stormy danie daniels, including at one point wanting to pay for the legal fees, i'll take care of everything, he says, in february '18, that is so much earlier than he had previously admitted knowledge of this outloud to the american people. s

president trump says his lawyer michael cohen lied under oath. we will show you what is true and what is not. the other saudi arabia is being kavanaugh'd says the president. in each case there is an avalanche of evidence that the president is dead wrong. we'll see if one of his defenders in congress can prove otherwise. republican matt gates welcomed back to prime time. then, horse face. the president of the united states calling that ugly new nickname today for his alleged former mistress

new information about michael cohen's cooperation with investigators to? rare comments from deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. more on all of that in just a moment. but first, hours after president trump insisted he is not giving any sort of cover to the saudis over the disappearance of jamal khashoggi the "washington post" has just posted the last piece the journalist wrote, filed shortly before he was seen entering that saudi consulate in turkey. the op-ed column is about, of all things, the importance of a free press in the arab world. khashoggi writes here in part, "arab governments have been given free rein to continue silencing the media at an increasing rate. there was a time when journalists believed the internet would liberate information from the censorship and control associated with print media. but these governments, whose very existence relies on the control of information, have aggressively blocked the internet." they have also arrested local reporters and pressured advertisers to harm the revenue of specific publications. tonight there

michael cohen just said hi to me at the airport. i meant to take a flight to new york, but isla landed on mars. michael cohen ran into stormy daniels at the airport. just for habit, he wrote her a check for $13,000. >>> i'm christine romans. >> i'm joe johns. "new day" starts now. fall along the panhandle as a category three. >> i'm not looking forward to it. >>> i want to apologize to brett. you, sir, under historic scrutiny. >> of course he was not proven innocent. >> sent a message to women that we are not taken seriously. >> i think it is raising enthusiasm on both sides. >> it is dividing the country. >> where is this going to go. >> this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and john berman. >> welcome to our viewers. 6:00 here in new york. we start with stormy weather. the gulf coast and the southeast u.s. are bracing for hurricane michael. forecasters say the storm will strengthen to a category 3 hurricane before making land fall in the florida panhandle sometime tomorrow. millions of people now under investigation orders in at

donald trump did not say how the saudi cover up compares to his and michael cohen's failed cover up of his adventures with stormy daniels, which has now left michael cohen as a convicted federal felon and donald trump as an unindicted coconspirator. >> they had a very bad original concept. it was carried out poorly, and the cover up was one of the worst in the history of cover ups. and they had the worst cover up ever. the cover up, if you want to call it that, was certainly no good. the cover up was horrible. the execution was horrible. but they should have never been at an execution or cover up because it should have never happened. >> joining our discussion now, ambassador wendy sherman, former under secretary of state and msnbc global affairs contributor. and the author of the new book "not for the faint of heart, lessons in courage, power and persistence." and, ambassador sherman, the president begins by saying, his words, they had a very bad original concept, very bad original concept is his description of an international murder conspiracy. >> an international murder conspiracy

president trump says his lawyer, michael cohen, lied under oath. we will show you what is true and what is not. the other, saudi arabia is being kavanaugh'd says the president. there is an avalanche of evidence the president is dead wrong. we'll see if one of his ardent defenders in congress can prove otherwise. matt gates welcomed back to prime time and horse face, the united states president calling stormy daniels that and she fired back and not in

cohen in pomona fort don't get caught. this guy come on it's not that hard to slip by when the i.r.s. cuts more corners than spirit airlines. right now nothing strikes more fear into my heart than hearing the captain say i hope everyone peed before you boarded. but the russian republicans have slashed ira staffs and twenty eleven and the rate at which the agency audits tax returns to find a vision. has plummeted by forty two percent were cohen and manna for it went wrong was associating with the one man who thinks the take a penny leave a penny tray of the gas station is a piggy bank. right everyone else is fine if they just stay low. only mandating the very people who can target the insanely wealthy is shady there the government loses hundreds of billions of dollars a year because the rich hide money in places like offshore account yes i am they're getting some of it back because the iris allowed americans with foreign accounts to the little terror only disclose them and see a smaller penalty you know for those rich busin