headquarters in new york. i'm brook silva-braga in for ann marie green. >>> president trump returns to washington this morning following his surprise visit to u.s. troops in iraq. it was mr. trump's first trip to a combat zone. while there, he defended his much criticized decision to pull out american soldiers from neighboring syria. the president returns home to a government that remains partially shut down because of a stalemate over funding for a border wall. tom hanson is here in new york, has been following all of this. tom, good morning. >> good morning, brook. that trip certainly caught washington off guard and president trump made it clear he wants to put an end to broad-scale u.s. involvement overseas. president trump is defending his decision to withdraw from syria. >> america shouldn't be doing the fighting for every nation on earth so we're not the suckers of the world. we're no longer the suckers, folks. >> during a surprise visit with u.s. troops in iraq yesterday, he said other rich nations shou

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

york, the new york southern district of new york has basically pointed out, they have said charge the president with directing a political activity, the cover-up of that campaign contribution in great, intricate fashion, according to that memo today, about how michael cohen really went around to try to create the paperwork to make it look like something it wasn't. they say in that memo today, in that sentencing memo, that michael cohen knew what he was doing. he's a lawyer. he was politically sophisticated enough to know he's breaking the law. and proof of that was the way in which he was covering it up, with such intricate effort. do you believe it's possible or plausible that the president of the united states, who was directing him to do so, didn't know he was doing so to cover up a crime? >> i believe it is totally implausible that the president had no idea there was a cover-up ongoing here, if he knew the facts, as apparently, the southern district of new york believes that he did. it seems both impossible and implausible that he didn't understand the motive and the criminal inte

in new york, this is impossible, right? because there's like this huge flood and river of effluvia that pushes everything down. you drop your pants and they are immediately swept away. i ran back to the tailor and in case something had happened, i hadn't seen, and i explained to him what had happened. he said mournfully, it fit nice, it fit nice. and the word had immediately been cast in the past tense. i knew i was doomed. i rushed outside and looked up and down everywhere for my suit pants. the worst of it was, wasn't just that i knew my suit pants were gone for good, but that immediately, i had been removed into the wrong kind of literature. i was no longer in a scott fitzgerald story. i was in one of those fables set in st. petersburg at the end of the 19th century where heartbroken clerks go up and down the gas-lit streets searching for their lost overcoats and spend the rest of their lives scuttling along the walls in a state of forlorn, permanent loss. that's the story i was in now forever. i finally went up and down

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the "new york times" had put him on the cover of the "new york times" magazine standing in trump tower. it was a really -- it was done by bill guist, and it was a very flattering piece, capturing the essence of this glamorous young man. >> that's willie geist's father, formerly on cbs sunday morning. ought about the 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 red ford. 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, marl

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

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

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

york city, not bob mueller and his team in washington, d.c., career prosecutors here in new york city have evidence that the president of the united states committed a felony by ordering and paying michael cohen to break the law. how do we know that? they told that to the federal judge. under the rules they can't tell that to a federal judge unless they actually have that hard-core evidence. under the rules they can't tell that to a federal judge unless they intend to do something with that evidence. >> cynthia, does he have that about right? >> wow. this might be a first. i am now agreeing with judge napolitano. yes, he does have it right. and can i just say one thing about today? first of all, joyce is completely right about the importance of today. but cohen and this attempt to turn himself into a patriot is enough to turn my stomach. cry me a river. the guy is going to do three years. people do three years fire lot less in this country. he gets christmas off. who gets christmas off when they've committed felonies and they have to go to jail? he has to give up his money. that's wha

she was a great and colorful and wonderful man, opener of the new york -- she went to new york cuban's games, 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 grandfathe

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

york and his attorneys had said, chuck, there was a separate ongoing federal inquiry in new york, which he was being helpful to, federal prosecutors making it clear he hasn't been helpful at all. they're not going to offer a 5k, which is what would be put in a file, if i signed a formal cooperation agreement and was kind of handing everything over, providing new information, leads, going deep into my criminal history, that's a part of it, i might expect a 5k where the government said this guy has gone above and beyond where he needed to do, and your honor we're asking you to take down any sorlt of imprisonment or sentence we want to see imposed here. they're saying the exact opposite. he did not want go into his criminal history. he did not want to go beyond the things he was charged with. he didn't want to go beyond the payments that were made to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. two individuals who have alleged affairs with the president. he didn't want to go into any criminal activity that went beyond that. in addition the federal prosecutors of new york are saying he did not want t

new york. one was related to the mueller investigation. cohen going to jail three years, 36 months, what is he going to jail for? >> the bulk of the charges were from the southern district of new york. those included campaign finance violations, tax evasion and then just a couple weeks ago, michael cohen rushes into the southern district and pleads guilty to the first case filed against him by the special counsel's office, that was for false statements to congress. not perjury, but, in fact, section 1001 false statements to congress unsworn. so in asking what he was sentenced to today, what they'd i made this case particularly curious the special counsel's office filed a memorandum saying michael cohen gave us some help. he koormted somewhat. not as that term is understood to mean in the southern district, which is complete, full cooperation on every issue and every question the southern district has to ask you. so, the sentencing guideline range for the special counsel's case was zero to six m

and now we have it, live look outside in times square new york city where the new york city mayor expects 2 million people to ring in the new year tonight, the nypd amping up security by launching drones for the first time. ana joins us live as final preparations get under way, what a day in new york, ana. >> absolutely, good morning to you, jillian, showing up brand-new technologies what the nypd, we are just hours away from counting the last seconds of 2018, officials in new york's times square testing ball drop ahead of tonight's celebration. the mayor de blasio says 2 million people from all over the world will pack midtown manhattan to bring in the new year and with all those people comes extra tight security, 7,000 officers are ready to go. >> it's going to be one of the most well-policed, best-protected events and one of the safest venues in the entire world. >> counterterrorism officers, bomb-sniffing dogs deployed tonight to stop any potential attacks and intelligence detectives will be stationed at all of the nearby hotels, over 1200 cameras will monitor the times square area wh

york and 3 in new jersey. complaints about the cap did play into the victories. this is something that democrats will want to address in the new year congressman of new jersey will be leading that charge he sits on the tax writing committee in the house and he told cnbc this law targets middle class citizens in my state, stealing the state and local tax deductions to pay off corporate executives we must make the tax code work for all americans and stop targeting blue states. however, not all democrats agree with him the big criticism here is that getting rid of the caps is really expensive and mainly benefits wealthy households. the tax policy center estimate that's out of the top households, nearly half of them would see their taxes go down. the average cut would be about $5500. the cost to the government, about $621 billion over a decade it's going to be really hard for democrats to justify that cost after they slammed republicans blowing up the deficit with the tax law to begin with. >> i understand that th

good night from nbc news headquarters here in new york. headquarters here in new york. >>> a delay for former national security adviser michael flynn his attorney made a request for a postmeponement after the judge indicated he should go to jail >>> plus, in a bipartisan vote last night, the senate has overwhelmingly passed a landmark bill to overhaul the criminal justice system in america. >>> good morning, everyone it's

the new york times had put him on the cover of the new york times magazine standing at trump tower. whoas done by bill geist, 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. he had $5s revealed 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 his ability to

. >>> 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

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pauly in the southern district of new york. but 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 concludi

in the same southern district of new york. john flannery, a former federal prosecutor and as part of our special coverage, nancy gertner who served as a federal judge and brings that perspective to all of what we're learning today. she's a professor at harvard law school. welcome to the panel. maya wily, what do you think is most important in what mueller is choosing to say and why your former colleagues at sdny are coming down so hard on michael cohen and why they put in there that president trump directed one of michael cohen's campaign crimes? >> i think you just said it, ari. i think what's relevant here is you have a -- one, you have a document that makes very clear that there have been significant contact between those in trump's sphere and russia. we actually already knew that. what we see now is the reverse side of it, meaning we have a long history between george papadopoulos -- beginning with george papadopoulos in march of 2016 who understand his job as connections to the russians and communicating with the trump ca

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

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. >>

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york, the federal prosecutors of new york who charged michael cohen with most of his crimes and the office of the special counsel, saying, hey, he's cooperated, we believe he's telling the truth, the southern district of new york saying, well, he's cooperated but only in degrees and think he needs federal prison time. >> reporter: right, this is one of the more kind of fascinating things that went on here at this investigation is that you have the special counsel taking one view of michael cohen and then the southern district of new york taking the complete opposite view on it because of the cooperations here vary. michael cohen said he's been cooperative was not very cooperative with the southern district of new york, but very cooperative with the special counsel and it was also very interesting when the special counsel spoke. one of the senior prosecutors from the mueller team who's been involved in this investigation from the beginning, involved on some of the bigger aspects of this investigation. she only spoke for a few minutes to say that michael cohen has told the truth and t

rebecca jarvis, abc news, new york. >>> turning now to more weather and it's time for a closer look at your weather this friday morning. >>> good morning. snow lingers throughout wisconsin, minnesota, throughout portions of iowa. but the cold is the big problem because we're looking for gusty winds to make it feel more like 30 below zero. hypothermia risk for the northeast. icy mix along with heavy downpours throughout the mid-atlantic region with the big-time delays and looking for that dousing rain to cause problems throughout the southeast as a whole with local flooding with downpours another snowstorm brewing from flagstaff over to albuquerque. i'm accuweather meteorologist paul williams. >>> coming up, the internet outage affecting people across the country. >>> also ahead, a very close call. a police officer, what he said after his near-death experience at this train crossing. >>> up next, a young boy buried alive by an avalanche trapped in the snow for 40 minutes. how he got out alive. mauh, was justou think going to drive home. ah-ah-ah. there are several warning signs present

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

it's 4:00 in new york city. i'm john heilemann sitting in for the one and only but absent today nicolle wallace. michael cohen once famously said to someone actually sitting at this table that he would take a bullet, in quotes, for donald trump. that was then. and now, the president's former lawyer and fixer is sending a message to his old boss. i know the truth. the feds know the truth and everyone else is about to know it, too. in his first interview since being sentenced to three years in prison, cohen undercut trump's legal argument in the case that appears increasingly likely to be brought against him in the southern district of new york.

new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. president trump's former lawyer michael cohen has been ordered to report to prison on march 6th. cohen says he'll continue to cooperate with prosecutors and is willing to tell congress all he knows. cohen was sentenced to three years behind bars for crimes including arranging hush money to cover up mr. trump's alleged sexual affairs. cohen says that he acted at the direction of mr. trump and that he acted out of blind loyalty. paula reid has our report. >> mr. cohen, any comment? >> reporter: michael cohen arrived in federal court in new york surrounded by his family. president's former attorney fought back tears as he told the judge today is the day i get my freedom back and described working for president trump as mental and physical incarceration. but judge william pauley described his crimes as a smorgasbord of misconduct. he said somewhere along the way cohen lost his moral compass before sentencing him to 36 months prison. after the hea

anne-marie. >> marc liverman in new york. thank you, marc. >>> meanwhile, lawyers for michael flynn are asking that flynn be spared prison time when he's sentenced next week. flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about conversations with the then russian ambassador to the u.s. during the presidential transition. flynn's lawyers saying he has taken responsibility to an uncharacteristic error in judgment. last week special counsel robert mueller's office detailed flynn's cooperation in the russia investigation and said he was entitled to avoid prison time. >>> president trump says his oval office democratic meeting with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer was very friendly, but the part that played out on tv looked like a shocking public clash including interruptions and insults. at issue was the border wall in mexico. mr. trump says he's willing to shut down the government to get his way. mola lenghi has our report. >> reporter: less than two weeks before a government shut down, nancy pelosi and chuck schumer were at the white h

in new york. that's where we're following breaking news. this afternoon president trump's former personal lawyer and so called fixer, michael cohen, sn sentenced to three years in prison along with $3.4 million owed in taxes and a $50,000 fine. cohen who once bragged he would take a bullet for the president

mentioned the courts in new york. we 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

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

york and the sentencing in new york, you have a southern district case, an offshoot from the special counsel's investigation. in that case on the payments that danny was just detailing and michael cohen's tax fraud. with respect to the special counsel's case what they have brought that's focused on rodrigurussia related matters and the lies to congress. one thing to point out that's been lost in this a little bit is while jeffrey berman was appointed by president trump, he was recused from this case. so in other words, he is not in charge of prosecuting it. that falls on his deputy so it's not berman per se that's quarterbacking this. but on the other hand -- >> not the democrats that the president is talking about. >> exactly. that's most important to your point is that this is not led by democratic members of congress. this is something that has to hold up to the rules of evidence, a court. this is something to be presented through the normal criminal process so this is not something led by a committee. >> here's what i don't get. either people cooperate with robert mueller and hop

attorney of the southern district of new york. who i suppose the president 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 contro

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msnbc world headquarters in new york. it's 7:00 in the east, 4:00 out west. a new dawn in washington with democrats focused on impeachment. what to expect following three critical court filings. >>> comey on mueller. the transcripts of the former fbi director's closed door meeting are released. what he said about the prospects of derailing the special counsel probe. >>> qualified or not? the question is being raised over the president's pick for ambassador to the united nations. >>> new this morning, the incoming house judiciary chief vowing to investigate president trump on what he considers a potential impeachable offense. representative jerry nadler telling "the new york times," quote, the president was at the center of a massive fraud against the american people. this after new york federal prosecutors suggested in a filing that president trump violated federal campaign finance law. for the first time, we heard from the president on the filings which implicated him in hush money payments in a lead up to the 2016 election to two women who claim they had se

attorney for the southern district of new york, and tom winter, nbc news investigative reporter. mimi, you have been talking today about why this is so legally significant in terms of what it means for the president. why is it so significant? >> sure. it's significant because essentially before trump is even charged, if he's going to get charged, they have knocked out a defense that he could raise. and he's been raising it on twitter. he and giuliani have been out there. it depends which week we're in. there have been different defenses. first it was they didn't know anything about it. then it was we knew about these payments, but it was this private -- i think giuliani even used the term settling a civil suit or something. >> right. >> so trying to make it sound like it had nothing to do with the campaign. nothing, no big picture here. and now you've got ami saying, no, in addition to cohen -- so you have cohen already, and there are two different payments. but essentially about those two payments, first you have cohen and now you have ami saying this was for the purpose of infl

"new york times" using the same picture. a jeaniawhat do you make of thet between just bipartisan praise across the political landscape and that's famous bumper sticker from 1992. annoy the media, re-elect bush. brit: the media were very hard on him when he was president. even when he was running for reelection. there was an issue, it was a reverse snobbism. george bush was the blue blood aristrocrat from a new england family who went into politics. he was looked at with condescension because he had been such a loyal figure under wray began and he wasn't a terribly talented public speaker. he paled in comparison to reagan. though there were times when he was extremely articulate. but think what he inherited. what happened when he became president, the vision of many before him was coming to fruition. the collapse of the soviet union and the fall of the berlin wall, and this job was to manage that skill any which he did. howie: when george h.w. bush was running there was a 1988 interview with dan rather, it got testy or iran

he has a cloud by the mueller investigation, the other investigations in new york, a news story that is just devastating about the mueller michael:tion, the c.h.i.p.tion, and reform should have been what the focus should have been on, the border wall, not the government shutdown, and i think it has been a negative for the president. when you were in the oval office, and you have president, the vice president, the secretary of state, the white house chief of staff coming in and out, what was going through your head? because you had not planned on that, correct? guest: no. the oval i walked into office originally, they were not and then the president came in, and then everybody else came in. point, i joked "should i be expecting my mother to come in next?" it felt a bit like an intervention of sorts. i wanted to get him talking. i wanted to get him on the record on as many different subjects as i possibly could, so i tried to be strategic about when i interjected with , i mades and follow-ups sure to speak with a very consciousness sort of way, and i wanted him to talk to me. they try

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

the "new york times" is systemic systematic racism. it is like most other newspapers, only more egregious and harmful given its teflon reputation and global influence." why? racismhow systemic distorts what we see and what we read in the news in mainstream media. i was a conventional consumer 6,enues until maybe 5, seven years ago, when i started ofhave a more critical view these issues, and i was really uphold once i started to pay attention to the dynamics of white supremacy and anti-correctness, to see how many of the -- anti-blackness, see how many papers i wrote up revering, from "the new york hows," to the "new yorker," they also perpetuate racist stereotypes, and part of the that news men overwhelmingly white and disproportionately white male, in particular, so we see marginalizing people of color, decision-making and the newsrooms, so as far as goes, andork times" again it is a publication that many people see as liberal and presents itself as antiracist of does present the work antiracist callers, but the problem is papers lik