Transcripts For CNNW Early Start With Christine Romans And Dave Briggs 20190118

Feet of snow. Good morning, welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. I had herbs growing in my garden because it was so warm. Good by. Im christine romans. Lets begin with breaking news. Buzzfeed reporting that President Trump personally directed Michael Cohen to lie to congress about a proposed trump tower moscow project. Buzzfeeds sources, two Law Enforcement officials, say the president instructed cohen to say negotiations to build the tower ended months before they actually did. The sources say cohen confirmed to special counsel Robert Muellers team that, yes, the president issued the order to lie to congress. Buzzfeed reports muellers office learned about it through interviews with multiple interviews with the trump organization, internal emails and other documents. Here is how Rudy Giuliani responded to the bombshell report. Quote, if you believe cohen, i can get you a great deal on the brooklyn bridge. A key Democrat House Committee chairman adam schiff saying the allegation that the president of the United States may have sub born perjury before our committee in an effort to cover up his business dealings with russia is the most serious to date. We will do what is necessary to find out if that is true. Worth noting that during his confirmation hearing, william barr said coaching a witness to give fault testimony amounts to obstruction. So if there was some reason to believe that the president tried to coach somebody not to testify or testify falsely, that could be obstruction of justice . Yes, under that under an obstruction statue, yes. So if there is some evidence that the president tried to coffin seal evidence, that would be obstruction of justice potentially . Right. Lindsey graham getting him on record. Cnn has not yet corroborated this buzzfeed breaking story. Michael cohen confirms he paid the head of a Small Technology company to rig two online polls in 2015 at the direction of donald trump. The story was first reported by the wall street journal. Cohen says he paid between 12,000 and 13,000 to Red Finch Solutions to manipulate two polls in mr. Trumps favor. The attempt was not successful. Cohen saying he regrets his Blind Loyalty to mr. Trump. Rudy giuliani cleaning up his own mess after trying to move the goal posts on possible Trump Campaign collusion. Here is what the president s lawyer told a stunned chris cuomo on wednesday night. I never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign. Yes, you have. I have not. I said the president of the United States. That claim by giuliani was false. He has often maintained there was no collusion by the campaign. Then yesterday he told dana bash he never meant to send any new signals about what the Mueller Investigation might be finding and he followed that up with this defeat. My statements on collusion havent changed. The misinterpretation has changed. The point is, i represent the president , not the campaign, but from both perspectives, there is no involvement in collusion with russians on the email hack, the only possible crime. The Supreme Court meets behind closed doors today to discuss a mystery case related to the special counsels russia probe, it involves an unknowned Foreign Corporation that is fighting a subpoena request. Lower courts have already ruled that the company must turnover the information requested and has imposed fines for every day it fails to do so. It is king kong versus godzilla, that is how one trump adviser describes the shutdown building between President Trump and nancy pelosi. The president now denying the speaker a military plane for her trip to the warzone in afghanistan. The move coming just before her delegation was to leave. It is apparently in response to pelosis letter suggesting that the president postpone the state of the Union Address until the shutdown is resolved. The president said in light of the 800,000 Great American workers not receiving pay, im sure you would agree that postponing this Public Relations event is totally appropriate. The president twisting the knife in a bit more, said pelosis 7 day excursion would be rescheduled when the hit is over. Another top House Democrat adam schiff blasting the president s childish behavior. All too often in the last two years the president has acted like hes in the fifth grade and to have someone who has that kind of character running the country is an enormous problem at every level. We are coequal branch of government and it may not have been that way over the last two years when he had a Republican Congress willing to roll over anytime he asked, but that is no longer the case. Republican are senator religion admonishing both sides on twitter, quote, one sophomoric response does not deserve another. Speaker pelosis threat to cancel the staft union is blatantly political and President Trump denying military travel to visit our troops in afghanistan, allies in egypt and nato is also inappropriate. Just hours after, a government jet touched down in palm beach, florida with Melania Trump on board apparently headed to maralago. With an address in the House Chamber now uncertain, the white house is considering alternative plans for the state of the union. Some have suggested that the president deliver it from the Senate Chamber instead that would still require 60 votes to invite the president to speak meaning some democrats would have to be on board with it. White house officials are also said to be considering a rally style state of the union which would be coordinated through right election campaign. The white house will not be sending a delegation to the World Economic forum in davos next week, the president canceled it out of consideration for the 800,000 workers who are not getting paid because of the Government Shutdown. Mr. Trump pulled out of the event himself earlier this month. The irs says it is bringing back 36,000 furloughed employees to work without pay as the shutdown drags into tax season and House Democrats want mnuchin to testify about that decision. The Treasury Department released a letter to representative richard neal offering to make senior treasury officials available for the hearing including the deputy irs commissioner but not secretary mnuchin. Hearing notice says that it allows mnuchin to brief congress and the American People on specifically how his agency intends to move forward with Filing Season during the shutdown. A treasury Spokesman Says he could not immediately answer whether secretary mnuchin himself will attend the hearing. And meanwhile a former adviser is sharply criticizing the shutdown. Gary cohn said i dont understand where were going with it, im confused as to what the white houses strategy is on this a little bit. Vice president mike pence defending his wifes new job teaching at a Christian School that bans gay and lesbian students and parents. Karen pence announced earlier this week that she was returning parttime to iman all Christian School in virginia. She previously taught there 12 years. Mike pence responding in an interview were used to the criticism, but i have to tell you, to see major news organizations attacking Christian Education is deeply offensive to us. This criticism of Christian Education in america should stop. Human rights campaign, the nations largest gay Rights Advocacy group, accused of pence of showing up their Public Service extends only to some. A Nuclear Envoy from north korea wakes up in washington this morning. Will it lead to a second trump kim summit . And Police Officers struggle to pull a woman out of a burning truck. More body camera video just ahead. Rance. Medicare is great, but it doesnt cover everything. Only about 80 of your part b medicare costs. A Medicare Supplement Insurance Plan may help cover some of the rest. Learn how an aarp Medicare Supplement Insurance Plan, insured by Unitedhealthcare Insurance Company might be the right choice for you. A free decision guide is a great place to start. Call today to request yours. So what makes an aarp Medicare Supplement plan unique . These are the only Medicare Supplement plans endorsed by aarp because they meet aarps high standards of quality and service. 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It really is significant. This is the first time in nearly two decades that north korean delegation has overnighted in the u. S. Capital. Even when he came back in june, he had to go to new york and make a day trip to washington. He wasnt allowed it actually spend the night there. We expect in the coming hours meetings with kim and his delegation and the american delegation led by the u. S. Secretary of state mike pompeo and the special representative for north korea steven began. We expect the North Koreans to present a letter to trump from kim, a response to President Trumps letter. Well see if it is in one of those giant envelopes like we saw kim hand over to jump back in june. That was just 11 days before the summit in singapore. They announced the date and location of the summit after that meeting in washington. Depending on what kims letter says, and we expect that it is a positive friendly letter, maybe they will announce that the summit will happen. Thhanoi is believed to be the frontrunning locate. Hawaii wont happen. Well see what we learn in the coming hours. Will ripley, thank you. Theresa may is speaking the Economic Forum in davos next week instead to remain in london to deal with the brexit crisis. Britain is expected to leave the European Union on march 29th, but there is no plan in place to actually do it and so much chaos, dysfunction, so many questions. It is really remarkable here. For the latest, i want to bring in Nic Robertson live from Northern Ireland. And now we know that the u. S. Delegation is not going, theresa may is not going. I think it really highlights the twin crises in these two old democracies at the very same moment of political dysfunction. Reporter symptomatic of what were seeing more broadly to be honest. We could talk about france but lets not. Lets talk about brexit because macron and france have their own deep problems. The issue here, theresa may needs to come up with a plan b on brexit by monday. She is reaching out across party lines here, she is reaching out and saying look, youre asking for a second referendum whether or not britain should leave European Union. The government is saying that is not in the cards. She cant reach out and talk with the Main Opposition Party because they are saying you have to rule out this no deal brexit, the brexit 70 days from now, a no deal brexit would have huge business implications for the United Kingdom and for the European Union. But at the moment, there doesnt seem to be consensus how she can move forward, she has to have is this plan b, is there enough time to even discuss it, yet alone implement it. And the reason im here in Northern Ireland, the new land border with the European Union just a couple miles away is because the border here is one of the most contentious issues. And this is one that the European Union isnt willing to compromise on at the moment. And that is the biggest challenge for theresa may right now. All right. Thank you so much for that. Nic robertson. Heart pounding body cam video out of texas shows the moment Police Officers rushed to pull a woman from a burning pickup truck. We need to cut it. I got it. I got it. Come on. Come this way. Come on. Come out the other side. Get her, get her, get her. Come on. Come on. Cut through. Come out. Come over. The accident happened overnight as police were chasing a drunk driver. Police say the victim was trying to turn into a parking lot when the suspect slammed into her traveling about 90 miles per hour. Officers pulled the woman from the car before she suffered any burns and was taken to the hospital for a possible head injury. As for the suspect, he was taken to the hospital for cuts to his face. 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The ski patrol quickly responded and were able to rescue the two who were buried in the snow. Both have injuries, one in critical condition. An avalanche in utah forcing the closure of provo canyon. Fortunately no people or are cars were caught in the avalanche which spilled up to 30 feet of snow on the road as you see there. The utah Highway Department says its crews accidentally triggered that avalanche. They are working to clear the road. And to the northeast, more than 100 Million People are in the path of a major winter storm this weekend. Derek van dam has the details. Good morning. Lots of Winter Weather to talk about this weekend, but first our opening act, creating the light dusting of snow this morning from d. C. To new york. The Bigger Picture though, the major snowstorm evolving from the midwest through the northeast, over 100 million americans under some sort of Winter Weather advisory. The exact track of the low pressure system will determine how much rain, snow or mixture of sleet or ice we actually get along the east coast. Here is the details in terms of timing. 8 00 p. M. Saturday evening, snow makes its way into the big apple and then it transitions to a rain snow mix, the back side of the system will usher in the coldest air of the season, well transition back to all snow for the east coast cities. 2 to 4 inches for new york, slightly higher near boston, over a foot to two feet for Higher Elevations of upstate new york and New Hampshire and vermont. Ice storm possible out of this system, but look at these temperatures dropping significantly by the end of the weekend for new york. Thank you for that. A rare sighting of a shark believed to be the worlds biggest caught on video off the waters of oahu. Look at this, this is known as deep blue, it is nearly 20 feet long. It is believed to be more than 50 years old. Also divers say she has markings that show they might be pregnant. Deep blue even as a twitter account named after her. It was last spotted in mexico. Shes a beast. And pregnant at 50. Janet jackson. Good for her. We should rename her. Stop. She is a beast. Good to see shes still alive. Hometown star will belt out the National Anthem when atlanta hosts the super bowl next month. Leaving on that Midnight Train to georgia that is gladys night siknigh. She will sink tg the National Anthem right before kickoff. Knight says she is proud to use her voice to unite and represent our country in her hometown. Fantastic decision by the league and by cbs. The bad news is if this Government Shutdown runs on, the super bowl is going to have a major mess on their hands concerning that airport in atlanta. I hadnt even thought of that. Oh, gee. You are talking about estimates around a Million People come to town. Pack your patience. Buzzfeed says two sources say President Trump told Michael Cohen to lie to congress. Details on what could be a game ranger for Robert Muellers investigation, that is next. Theres no heavy bucket, or mop to wring out, because the absorb and Lock Technology traps dirt and liquid inside the pad. Its safe to use on all finished surfaces tile, laminate and hardwood. And it prevents streaks and hazing better than a micro fiber strip mop, giving you a thorough clean the first time. For a convenient clean, try Swiffer Wetjet with a money back guarantee. Brand power. Helping you buy better. Breaking overnight, two Law Enforcement sources tell buzzfeed President Trump told Michael Cohen to lie about the moscow trump tower project. The president fires back in the shutdown grudge match pulling Nancy Pelosis plane right before she is set to fly overseas. A Police Body Camera captures a risky rescue, a woman from her burning truck in texas. And major winter storm closing in on the midwest and the northeast bearing the bankrupt of this weekend. Welcome back to early start o. Day 28 of the longest Government Shutdown in our countrys history, but we begin with breaking news. Buzzfeed reporting that President Trump personally directed his long time attorney and fixer Michael Cohen to lie to congress about a proposed trump tower moscow project. Buzzfeed sources, two Law Enforcement Officials Say that the president instructed cohen to say negotiations to build the tower ended months before they actually did. The sources say cohen confirmed to Robert Muellers team that the president issued the order to lie to congress. Buzzfeed reports muellers office learned about it through interviews with multiple witnesses from the trump organization, internal company emails, Text Messages and other documents. Here is how Rudy Giuliani responded, if you believe cohen, i can get you a great deal on the brooklyn bridge. But a key democrat adam schiff was dead serious saying the allegation that the president may have tried to cover up his business dealings with russia is the most serious to date and well do what is necessary to find out if it is true. It is worth noting that william barr this week said coaching a witness to give false testimony is obstruction. So if there was some reason to believe that the president tried to coach somebody not to testify or testify falsely, that could be obstruction of justice . Yes, under that under an obstruction so if there is evidence that the president tried to conceal evidence, that would be obstruction of justice potentially . Right. Cnn has not yet corroborated the buzzfeed story. And Michael Cohen confirms that he paid the head of a Small Technology company to rig two online polls in 2015 at the direction of donald trump. The story was first reported by the wall street journal. Cohen says he paid between 12,000 and 13,000 to Red Finch Solutions toen ma manipulate tw polls, but the attempt was not successful. Cohen says he regrets his Blind Loyalty to mr. Trump. The former fixer still intends to testify before Congress Early next month. Rudy giuliani cleaning up his own mess after trying to move the goal posts on possible Trump Campaign collusion. Here is what the president s lawyer told our chris cuomo on cnn wednesday night. I never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign. I said the president of the United States. That claim by giuliani was false. He has often maintained there was no collusion by the campaign. Then yesterday he told our dana bash that he never meant to send any new signals about what the Mueller Investigation might be finding, and he followed that up with this tweet, my statements on collusion listen carefully my statement on collusion havent changed. The misinterpretation has changed. The point is, i represent the president , not the campaign, but from both perspectives, there is no involvement with collusion on the email hack, the only possible crime. The Supreme Court meets mind closed doors today to discuss a mystery indicate related to the special counsels russia probe, it involves an unnamed Foreign Government owned corporation that is fighting a subpoena request from a washington, d. C. Based grand jury. Lower courts have already ruled the company must turnover the information that is being requested and imposed fines for every day it failed to do so. Tu information that is being requested and imposed fines for every day it failed to do so. It is king kong versus godzilla, that is how one trump adviser describes the shutdown building between President Trump and nancy pelosi. The president now denying the speaker a military plane for her trip to the warzone in afghanistan. The move coming just before her delegation was to leave. It is apparently in response to pelosis letter suggesting that the president postpone the state of the Union Address until the shutdown is resolved. The president said in light of the 800,000 Great American workers not receiving pay, im sure you would agree that postponing this Public Relations event is totally appropriate. The president twisting the knife in a bit more, said pelosis 7 day excursion would be rescheduled when the hit is over. Another top House Democrat adam schiff blasting the president s childish behavior. All too often in the last two years the president has acted like hes in the fifth grade and to have someone who has that kind of character running the country is an enormous problem at every level. We are coequal branch of government and it may not have been that way over the last two years when he had a Republican Congress willing to roll over anytime he asked, but that is no longer the case. Lindsey graham saying one sophomoric response does not deserve another. Speaker pelosis threat to cancel the state of the union is blatantly political and President Trump denying military travel to visit our troops in afghanistan, allies in egypt and nato is also inappropriate. Just hours after, a government jet touched down in palm beach, florida with Melania Trump on board. So government travel for a vacation spot but not to visit troops and commanders and nato allies. Interesting optics to say the least. With an address in the House Chamber now uncertain, the white house is considering alternative plans for the state of the union. Some have suggested that the president deliver it from the Senate Chamber instead, that would still require 60 votes to invite the president to speak meaning some democrats would have to be on board with it. White house officials are also said to be considering a rally style state of the union which would be coordinated through the trump reelection campaign. The white house will not be sending a delegation to the World Economic forum in davos next week, the president canceled it out of consideration for the 800,000 workers who are not getting paid because of the Government Shutdown. Mr. Trump pulled out of the event himself earlier this month. If there is a serious recession on the horizon, world banks may have trouble fighting it. Interest rates remain low. The question is whether Central Banks waited too long to rate rates leaving them unprepared for the next crisis. President trump has completely criticized Jerome Powell for rating interest rates. The outcome for the Global Economy is lower as trade tensions still weigh on countries like china. Experts warn more pain from u. S. Interest rate hikes and political risks such as brexit. But economists say the Federal Reserve is in better shape than other Central Banks. Back of japans short term rates have been in negative territory since 2016. Vice president mike pence defending his wifes new job teaching at a Christian School that bans gays and lesbian students and parents. Karen pence announced earlier this week that she was returning parttime to emanuel Christian School in virginia. She previously taught there for 12 years. The Vice President responding to the criticism in an interview with the Catholic News Network ewtn. Were used to the criticism, but i have to tell you, to see major news organizations attacking Christian Education is deeply offensive to us. This criticism of Christian Education in america should stop. The human rights campaign, nations largest gay Rights Advocacy group, accused of pences of showing that Public Service extends only to some. Weve been doing this the couple days and ive been getting questions about how you can discriminate against a child for their parents sexuality. Nothing christian about those values. Speaks for itself. A Nuclear Envoy from north korea wakes up from n. 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North koreas lead negotiator is in washington this morning, he is expected to meet with secretary of state mike pompeo and deliver a letter from kim jungun to President Trump. The visit is the latest sign the u. S. And north korea are finalizing plans for a second trump kim summit. Will ripley is live in tokyo with more. Made can you fell what can you tell us . Reporter we know that the top negotiator and his dell he ga tell gags will be meeting with mike pompeo. Im told that they will meet with President Trump, but that is yet to be confirmed on the u. S. Side. But if you look back at june, early june when he took be date trip to washington, handed over the big letter to President Trump, it was shortly thereafter that they announced that the summit in singapore would happen. Less than two weeks later on june 12th, first sitdown between the u. S. President and north korean leader. Will there be an announcement in washington today . Seems pretty likely given the fact that they were allowed to overnight in the Nations Capital for the first time in nearly two decades. But casting a cloud of suspicion over all of it is this new pentagon Missile Defense strategy that was rolled out calling north korea an extraordinary threat to the United States. Even though that country did not launch a single missile during all of 2018, u. S. Intelligence has known that they are upgrading their missile bases. A lot of people think that north korea has more Nuclear Weapons now than they did at the beginning of the diplomatic process. That will be a big issue, a key Sticking Point in negotiations between the u. S. And north korea and we hopefully will find out if the two sides are now closer together on what denuclearization will look like and how it will play out because the North Koreans want Economic Relief right away, u. S. Wants north korea to give up nukes. Both sides say they wont happen. Are they coming closer together, it seems as if that needs to happen, otherwise you will have trump and kim having a summit whether it be in hanoi which is believed to be the frontrunning location or somewhere and if they just sign another vaguely worded statement, doesnt have any specifics, it wont be a very positive development to say the least for the denuclearization process. I know youll continue to follow it for us. Thanks. The Trump Administration has no idea how many children were separated from a parent or guardian at the border last year, but the total is nows more than the 2700 the government previously acknowledged. That is according to a new report from the Inspector General at health and Human Services who says there is no effort currently being made to locate those children. Officials estimate thousands of kids who were separated and received by hhs for care were released prior to the june 2018 court order requiring the government to identify and reunify them. Theresa may is skipping the World Economic forum in davos next week, instead the Prime Minister will stay in london to deal with the brexit crisis. She is expected to hold calls with european leaders. Britain expected to leave the European Union on march 29th, but there is no plan in place to actually do it. Nic robertson is this ireland and you are on the front lines of sort of the crisis about what happens in the uk if they dont get this resolved. Reporter the toughest issue in the deal so far is what they call the backstop, which is that European Unions insurance policy with the uk that if the talks really dont work out, then this backstop deal keeps the border between Northern Ireland and the republic of ear land, the new land border, keeps that border open. And it is important for a number of reasons. That was the reason having an open border that Northern Ireland on its peace 20 years ago which ended the sectarian violence, and that part of the deal is the most contentious part because a lot of politicians here in Northern Ireland, those that support theresa may and her slender majority of her government, saying that the backstop arrangement wont do, they think it makes Northern Ireland less part of great britain. So this is a docontentious issu. And for the European Union, that is nonnegotiable. The backstop, the insurance to keep this border which is just a couple miles away from where i am. To keep that border open. So is that one of the hardest things facing theresa may. And the clock is ticking. No agreement. It really is in the uk politics, a crisis at the moment. New referendum, from this side of the pond, we say okay, fine, just make a have a new referendum, right . But there is no time for that. Reporter there isnt time for it. The government saying it would take over a year to organize. And the clock is ticking. People here are saying that it would be undemocratic to have a second referendum, others saying it is the most democratic thing that you could do. The people spoke and now maybe the people are having a change of heart. Thank you so much for that. A complicated story no question. Heart pounding body cam video out of texas shows the moment Police Officers rush to pull a woman from a burning pickup truck. We need to cut it. I got it. I got it. Come on. Come this way. Come on. Come out the other side. Get her, get her, get her. Come on. Come on. Cut through. Come out. Come over. The accident happened overnight as police were chasing a drunk driver. Police say the victim was trying to turn into a parking lot when the suspect slammed into her traveling about 90 miles per hour. Officers pulled the woman from the car before she suffered any burns and was taken to the hospital for a possible head injury. 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Click or visit a retail store today. Two skiers are lucky to be alive after being caught in avalanche. Ski patrol was able to rescue the two who were buried in the snow. Both have injuries, one said to be in critical condition. An avalanche in utah forcing the closure of provo canyon. The utah Highway Department says its crews accidentally triggered the avalanche. They are working to clear the road. And more than 100 Million People are in the path of this major winter storm this weekend. Lets get to derek van dam with the details. Good morning. Lots of Winter Weather to talk about this weekend, but first our opening act creating the light dusting of snow this morning there d. C. To new york. The Bigger Picture though, major snowstorm evolving from the midwest through the northeast, over 100 million americans under some sort of Winter Weather advisory. The exact track of the low pressure system will determine how much rain, snow or mixture of sleet and ice we actually get along the east coast. Here is the details in terms of timing, 8 00 p. M. Saturday evening, snow starts to make its way into the big apple. Then it transitions to a rain snow mix, perhaps sleet and ice involved in that as well. And the back side of the system will usher in the coldest air of the system, will transition back to all snow for the east coast cities. In terms of snowfall totals, 2 to 4 inches for new york, over a foot to two feet for Higher Elevations of upstate new york and New Hampshire and vermont. Ice storm possible out of this system as well, but temperatures dropping significantly by the end of the weekend for new york. Well be ready. Globe apstoal stock markets. Asian markets, more than 1 . Again, this is the idea of soothing tensions about u. S. china trade. U. S. Futures are also higher. Wall street is eager to get the trade war with china over. 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The Earnings Report comes as they unveiled plans to raise monthly prices. Earearly start continues h major breaking news. Breaking overnight, two Law Enforcement sources tell buzzfeed President Trump told Michael Cohen to lie about the moscow trump tower project. The president fires back in the shutdown grudge match pulling Nancy Pelosis plane right before she is set to fly overseas. A Police Body Camera captures the risky rescue of a woman from a burning truck in texas. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Happy friday, everybody. 5 00 a. M. In the east. Day 28 of the Government Shutdown. The New York Post capturing the nanny nanny would you because o would you boo phase of the feg. We start with the breaking news, revealing the president may have tried to obstruct justice. Buzzfeed reporting that President Trump personally directed Michael Cohen to lie to congress about a proposed trump tower moscow project. Two Law Enforcement Officials Say the president instructed cohen to say that negotiations to build the tower ended months before they actually did. The sources say cohen confirmed to Robert Muellers team that the president issued the order it lie to congress. Buzzfeed reports muellers office learned about it through interviews with multiple witnesses from the trump organization, internal company emails, text mes