In just a few hours, President Trumps former fixer and lawyer becomes a federal inmate. Michael cohen will serve a threeyear sentence after admitting he made or directed payments to silence women who claimed affairs with then candidate donald trump. Hes expected to give a press conference before reporting to prison. We ha what will he have to say before heading to a few years behind bars. The opening bell on wall street, signs point to a rough start after President Trump threatened china with a new more severe round of tariffs. The president continues to criticize china ahead of what was scheduled to be the final round of negotiations. We begin in new york. What do we expect, cara if. Michael cohen always said he would take a bullet for donald trump. Today hes going to prison. Were waiting outside his apartment in midtown manhattan to see if hell say anything. Michael cohen pleaded guilty to fraud charges, Campaign Finance violations and lying to congress. Cohen is the only person in this twoyearlong investigation that has implicated the president directly in a crime. That is the hush money payments to those women. Were waiting for cohen outside his apartment. Hes expected to be picked up by some friends and they will make the 75mile drive to otisville, new york, just northwest of the city. Cohen is due there by 2 00 p. M. Today. When he arrives, he will join other inmates such as billy mcfarlin, the cofounder of the doomed Fyre Festival and billy. Hell live a regimented schedule waking up at 6 00 a. M. With lights out at 11 30. Assigned some kind of job from laundry to landscaping. Were still waiting for Michael Cohen. We think he might address the press. He gave hints he was wanting to do that. Might have some final words. It will be interesting to hear what he has to say if he has some contrition or a final message for President Trump. It would be interesting to hear from him cakara. Lets bring in abby phillip, niamalika henderson and errol louis. Great to have all of you. Errol, you said Michael Cohen to prison today does not eliminate him from continuing to be a threat to President Trump. Absolutely, absolutely. He is referenced in the Mueller Report as somebody who was clearly involved in a lot of misconduct involving the president. The Southern District of new york all but said that individual one ordered him to take some of the illegal actions for which he is now going to prison. What incentive does he have to still keep cooperating. His cooperation isnt even necessary. The fact is, if you have a crime that involves a couple of people or somebody clearly adjudicated guilty, going to prison, he said i did this at the behest of somebody who, because they are president right now cannot be criminally charged. Its still out there. Theres still more information to come out about it. Theres action that congress can take related to it. Thats the whole inquiry and impeachment question that we keep churning around. Some day the president wont be president , and then the criminality can find a different forum. His problems with Michael Cohen dont go away just because he goes to prison today. The most 2019 thing ever is Michael Cohen is going do the same prison as the situation from jersey shore. Im surprised to see hes in there. I couldnt let that slide. I think a Big Development over the weekend, abby, about the president s view of Robert Mueller and whether he should testify, i want to put up the statement that the president made, bob mueller shouldnt testify. No redoes for the dems, so says the president. Maybe as soon as may 15th Robert Mueller might testify. This is a change because on friday he said it was up to william barr to decide whether he should testify. A week ago, william barr said this about whether Robert Mueller should testify. What about bob mueller . I already said publicly i have no objection. Youve been telling us all morning. What do you think is going on here . Whats the president afraid of with the potential mueller testimony . The president has changed his mind about this. He was on friday of the view that bob barr would do what was necessary and he could leave it up to barr. After talking to his friends, watching tv, hes changed his mind and putting a marker down for his base that hes not going to give an inch to congress. I think thats what hes been doing all along, he does not want even when theres potentially nothing for him to be afraid of, hes not going to change his tune about the Mueller Report as a result of anything that mueller testifies about on capitol hill. But he wants to stop congress from doing anything at all to advance this investigation, even if there is not really any material risk to him, meaning hes not going to be facing any charges even though he might very well be facing further embarrassment, and the story of potential a sense of corruption around this administration that could be politically damaging to him. I want to leapfrog over nia for a second, because were saving something good for her. Back to you, errol, mueller doesnt need the president s permission. Thats right. He doesnt work for the Justice Department anymore. He does technically, but he could quit today. He could quit today. Executive privilege is out of the question. Its not as if he has some secrets that the president wants to keep from the rest of the public. Look, what the president fears here is what i remember vividly as a child which is watching those watergate hearings. It galvanized the country. It moved the polls from a majority saying watergate is about nothing to a majority saying watergate is very, very serious. In those unscripted moments the president knows this better than anybody people who step forward as characters in the national drama, they get the heart strings of the country, capture the imagination of the public. Their credibility is superior perhaps to that of the president and his supporters. The president doesnt want a reality show thats out of his control to go unscripted on National Television involving the characters that have been pursuing him for so long. By the way, we havent heard Robert Muellers first lines in this reality show. We still havent heard his voice yet. I know alison wants to get you on the Kamala Harris speech. I want your take on where the democrats are. David cicilline was saying he had to back off, now its just a request. Not 100 sure if it will happen or not. How hard do you think democrats will push on this and all other things for the next few days . Very, very, very, very hard. Weve seen so far what theyve been doing, talking about a contempt crayation against barr. They want to hear from these folks, press the president on any number of officials who he said he doesnt want to have before congress. It is i think to errols point, its almost a difference between a book and a movie. Maybe people dont read the book, in this case the Mueller Report, but the movie of mueller testifying before congress would be mustsee television. We havent really heard muellers voice. Most people probably dont know what he sounds like since he hasnt been in the public eye in a number of years. To hear him recount what we know happened in the Mueller Report, only Something Like 3 of the people actually read it. That would be a gamechanger, something that democrats obviously want to see in the president. Well see if hes able to do that. Mueller by all accounts wants to come before congress. We, of course, heard from barr saying he felt like that would be fine as well. Nia is in detroit. Thats where Kamala Harris event was this weekend. Lets talk about whats going on over on the democratic side of the president ial race. Kamala harris introduced this concept that we all sort of take the word electability as gospel, as though we all have agreed what thats about, we all know the definition. Her point is its quite nebulous. Listen to her try to redefine electability. There has been a lot of conversation by pundits about the electability and who can speak to the midwest. But when they say that, they usually put the midwest in a simplicity box and a narrow narrative. And too often their definition of the midwest leaves people out. Very quickly, how did that go over in the room . It went over pretty well. I talked to people after the speech. They think Kamala Harris is a phenomenal candidate. Theyre obviously looking at other candidates as well. But i did think this was an important speech she made, basically challenging the folks in that room to expand their idea of electability. And what do people mean when they talk about electability. They often mean whout saying white candidates as well as white voters and what white voters want and what kind of candidate white voters would vote for. You see that in the polls in many ways with people like biden, Bernie Sanders and even Pete Buttigieg being seen as people that can connect better with the White Working Class voters in the midwest. Kamala harris said yesterday, when we talk about electability, we leave out the people in that room, 5,000 africanamericans with the naacp. If you think about what happened in 2016, not only did you have White Working Class voters switch from voting for obama to switching to donald trump. But you also had africanamericans not voting, in michigan, for instance. There were about 11,000 decline of 11,000 decline of africanamerican voters from 2012. How much did donald trump win the state of michigan by . About 11,000 voters. She i think is challenging not only the voters in that room who have questions about whether or not the country would elect an africanamerican woman. Shes also challenging pundits to expand our definition, their definition of what they mean when they talk about electability and not rely on it as a code word for white candidates and white voters. Nia, abby, errol, thank you all for being with us this morning. Thank you. There is a new entry to the democratic field. The latest person to get in, senator Michael Bennet from colorado. He joins us next. R but one blows them all out of the water. Hydro boost from neutrogena®. With hyaluronic acid to plump skin cells so it bounces back. Neutrogena® youwhen you barely the clip a passing car. Minor accident no big deal, right . Wrong. 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Welcome to the fray. Thanks, guys, for having me today. Youre running as what you call a pragmatic idealist, not a moderate. What and why the difference . Well, i think that pragmatism is important because we actually have to get stuff done. Ive been in the senate for the last ten years, and i can tell you we have not gotten very much done since ive been there. Weve had a politics that is mostly because of the freedom caucuss attorney any there has immobilized the federal government. When i think about the kids i used to work with in the Denver Public schools when i was their superintendent, i think weve accomplished very little on their behalf, for the kids all over this country. I think if we go another ten years like this, well be the first generation of americans to leave less opportunity, not more, to the people coming after us. That would be disgraceful, particularly since we can do this. Thats the idealist part. I believe in democracy. I believe in selfgovernment. I think we can restore integrity to our government. I dont think we have to accept the pathetic nature of our partisan politics that weve had to endure for the last ten years or so, and there are others that dont believe that. I believe it. I think we can do it. We can overcome it. Its going to take a lot to do it, but i think we can. I want to ask about some of the Practical Implications of being a pragmatic idealist. I want to put up issues democratic voters tell us are the most important. They have Climate Change as number one. Number two, 75 say medicare for all. As a pragmatic idealist, you do not support the version of medicare for all which would force people to drop their private insurance, correct . Thats true. I feel even more strongly about that since in the last month ive had an operation for Prostate Cancer and my daughter had an appendectomy. We can talk about the reasons for that. Here is what i support, i support universal coverage for every american. I think we need to dramatically reduce Health Care Costs for families and this country and i think we need to make sure we deserve equality. When yoi you tell people the first thing about medicare for all, it takes insurance away from 180 million americans who have it for their employer, or the taxes we would have to pay to afford that 30 trillion program, that 70 support falls to the mid 30s. So i think we need to level with the American People, be honest with them. And i think as long as what were talking about is universal coverage, the question then becomes how do we get there . Every single democrat in this race believes that that should be our objective. Donald trump, on the other hand, its shocking for me to say this, but donald trump on the other hand ran against the Affordable Care act, ran against what he called obamacare and promised to give us a much more beautiful plan that would cover everybody, lower price, blah, blah, blah. He hasnt done anything since hes been president except take away health care for people. The uninsured rates have gone up. He tried to take it away from people with preexisting conditions. Now what hes saying to the American People is, i cant deliver you a plan until after im reelected president. Thats a pretty stark dividing line. My belief is, as long as democrats stay focused on what the American People really want, whether it comes to Climate Change or whether it comes to health care or whether it comes to the economy, theres no reason that Donald Trumps thread bear record ought to be able to stand up to that. I want to say, you mentioned your battle with Prostate Cancer, you had surgery which noted 5ds 3,000. I want to say were glad that battle is going well, nice to see you out on the campaign trail. The second thing is by the way, i only had to pay 1800 because, thank god, i have insurance. For somebody without insurance, their whole familys livelihood and the future of their life could have been completely disrupted by this. That happens to people every single day in america. I can imagine. It doesnt happen in other industrialized countries. Now you have a preexisting condition which makes you think about it in a different way. You said we need to level with the American People. Do you think the Democratic Candidates calling for medicare for all or nothing are not leveling . Do you feel that is not being pragmatic . I think it depends on who they are. I think Bernie Sanders believes its exactly the right thing to do for the country. Hes believed it since 1973. Hes probably believed it since then. You think hes wrong . I think hes wrong, but i think hes leveling with the American People from his point of view. I think that i genuinely believe that, if you sat down in a living room in my state, in a red part of the state or a blue part of the state and, after all, create enduring policy no matter what the partisanship is in washington at our homes, we need people of both parties to agree. If you sit down in my state and said to people, we want universal coverage, do you agree, theyd sayah. Do you want to lower prices for everybody, theyd say rah yeah. Do you want to maintain quality, theyd sayah. If you said to them, by the way, half the people on this side of the street are going to have to lose their employerbased coverage if they go forward, their first question would be, do you have another plan, michael . Yeah, i do. Its called medicare x, it creates a public option that allows people to choose for their families whats best for them in terms of insurance and primary care. I just think thats going to be an easier thing for us to sell, and it will mean people will get it more quickly. Ive got people all over my state who dont have health insurance. Its ridiculous. Senator, for a lot of people, you popped onto their radar, the center of their radar when you took on republican senator ted cruz with a very passionate speech on the senate floor. I dont have time to play that right now, but perhaps not surprisingly, senator cruz welcomed your entry into the democratic president ial candidate with a tweet, as one does. He says Michael Bennets campaign is a sign felt campaign about nothing, that typifies the lefts empty rage in 2020. In a decade in the senate he has done very little but he did stomp his foot and yell at me at the senate floor. Anything you want to say to senator cruz this morning about his tweet . Hello newman, for the seinfeld fans out there. Here is a guy who came to the senate, stomped his feet on the floor, shut the government down while my state was flooded in 2013 and rode it all the way to a first place finish in the iowa caucus. Today we have incredible massive flooding in western iowa. Congress still cant pass legislation to deal with these disasters. I guess, you know, my point is we ought to have the same expectation, the high expectation for our federal government that we have for our local government. Nobody in washington could get away with the sorry nobody in america can get away with the kind of stuff ted cruz gets away with routinely on the senate floor and be able to show up at the Grocery Store on saturday and say they had done their job. Weve got to find a way to come together and work for the American People, not just to do little things, but to do big things. The ten years that ive been in the senate, john, weve been in a continuing resolution for 40 of the time ive been there. Those are temporary budgets which means we havent had a real budget that establishes priorities for the American People. We havent invested in infrastructure meaningfully in the last decade. We havent dealt with Climate Change in a way thats durable. We havent fixed the issue of not having universal health care for the American People. How much longer are we going to continue to print press releases and have these fights on the Cable Television instead of actually figuring out how to roll up our sleeves and get this work done . Thats what we need to do. Very quickly here. Alison would be remiss if i didnt ask. Candidate mix tape. We do like to ask the president ial candidates something about themselves personally. One of the things we like to ask is the music youre listening. What are you listening to . When i was sick, for the week i was at home, i started to watch atlanta, an Incredible Television program. There was a seen in the bar these guys running after each other and i had never heard this music, so i looked it up. Its this guy who has passed away, actually passed away when their only album was released, the name is baby hughey and the baby sitters, a band in the 60s that mostly played covers in bars in chicago. Its only six or seven songs, but its phenomenal. I did not see that coming. That is a real answer and an unusual answer. Senator Michael Bennet. Thank you, i try to give real answers. Thanks for having me. I hope you have me coming back. Your mother and parents holocaust survivors, so much to talk about. Thanks for being with us. Please bring me back. Will do. I did not see the newman reference. He and ted cruz, no love lost. Im getting that. A massive upset at the Kentucky Derby after the winner was disqualified . Was maximum security robbed or was this called justified . Well discuss it next. Hi sweetie. I just want to let you know. Forget the cards and the flowers, all i really want is a daughterinlaw. Or a bracelet. Hmm. Get engaged this mothers day or get mom a bracelet. Jared. 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And i said yesss to linzess for help with belly pain and recurring constipation. Ask your doctor. There was a shocking upset at the Kentucky Derby after the horse that crossed the finish line first was disqualified for drifting on the track. The owner of the disqualified horse says he is planning to file an appeal today. Joining us now is mark amot, a retired equine attorney, and Mike Battaglia who has called 19 Kentucky Derbys. Great to see both of you. Mr. Battaglia, let me start with you. Youve called 19 of these. Was this obvious to you that the horse was drifting as it was happening . Well, first, i want to say that maximum security was the best horse in the race. Ive talked to several people. Ive heard conflicting opinions as to whether he should have been disqualified, whether he shouldnt have been disqualified. His owners, gary and mary west, have been great for the industry, big supporters. Trainer joen john service, great guy, got the horse ready. I was actually sick when they took his number down and i cant imagine how those connections felt. But saying that, ive seen literally thousands of foul claims. In my eyes the stewards did the right thing on this one. Why . Did you see this happening in realtime where you thought uhoh, hes drifting . Was it that obvious to you as somebody with a trained eye . No, not in realtime, but looking at it afterwards, looking at it the way the stewards looked at it with the headon cameras, maximum security started a chain reaction. This is what happened. When he drifted out, he came across three or four paths. He hit war of will who went sideways, body express was affected and long range toddie. The rider of long range toddie, john tort, he also claimed foul. He claimed foul on the race. The stewards were not just looking at the one foul. They were looking at the whole situation that happened. The horse did come out. There were three horses that i think were bothered. I know these stewards. I know they were up there, they were just they did not want to take this horse down. They know the same thing. They know maximum security was the best. They know he did come out, he did commit a foul and they could have taken the easy way out and say no harm, no foul. But he may have cost horses a placing, and it could have caused an accident. I think they did what was best. They showed some real courage and integrity to take this horse down. It was a hard decision, a very, very hard decision. I know the enormity they know the enormity of what they were doing and they had to do it. Mr. Amot, does maximum securitys owner have a case . You represent owners and breeders. Do you think he can file some sort of legitimate appeal . Anybody can file a claim. I think its highly unlikely that any judge anywhere is going to overturn the decision of the stewards. It would set a worldwide precedent to overturn the decision of a game official after a game has concluded. I dont think thats ever happened anywhere, and the ramifications of that extend far beyond horse racing. If you think about what would happen if you overturned a decision of a game official once a game has concluded, you would never have a final conclusion of any sporting contest. Think about the new Orleans SaintsPhiladelphia Eagles contest. If that went into court, it could take months, maybe years for that decision to finally be concluded. We could have a super bowl that wouldnt take place for three years after that eagles saints con defendant was concluded. Youd never know when it would be done. This morning the owner of maximum security was on a morning show trying to explain why he thinks he has a case. So listen to this. The thing that is mystifying to me is that the stewards were either looking at a High Definition television or looking at it with binoculars. Our horse was in the lead the entire way around. They shouldnt have to rely on high def tv. If he came to you as an attorney today, you wouldnt take that case . I would suggest to him that he is not likely to win and that he it would be mostly a futile claim. So mike, do you think that having covered so many of these as you have, did it surprise you it took 22 agonizing minutes for the decision to come down . Alison, i worked with these stewards. When i was the announcer i worked with these stewards. I know what pressure they were under. They wanted to make sure that they got it right. I dont think they cared about how long it took. I knew after about ten minutes and seeing some different angles that this horse would probably have to come down. But ill be honest with you, theres kind of an unwritten law about t about the Kentucky Derby. The unwritten law is give them more leeway. I know they were thinking about this. By the way, this was not luis saezs fault. He straightened the horseback up, got him on a path straight and won the race, definitely the best horse in the race. You cant erase the fact that he did come over and hinder other horses chances. The stewards are going by the rule of racing. If you dont follow the rule, if you dont have that integrity, i think its going to hurt the whole sport. If this was a normal race on a tuesday afternoon there would be no controversy. This horse committed a foul and hes going to come down. Being a veteran myself, theyve taken my number down. Its the worst feeling in the world. Theyve put my number up before. I dont always agree with the stewards. These are three human beings. Theyre doing their best. I felt so sorry for them, for the connections of maximum security because i knew what they were going through, and the whole thing was agonizing. Yeah, yeah, ubds stood. Mike battaglia, mark ament, thank you for your expertise and sharing it with us. An investigation is under way in russia to see what prompted this plane to burst into a ball of flames killing 41 people. We have the latest ahead. 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Max foster is live in windsor with more. What do you know, max . Reporter thats the line. Thats all the information weve got so far. Happy news from here. Also we knew she was overdue. The next thing were expecting is shes given birth. As you know, much privilege see about this. They dont want to detail where shes having the baby or what type of birth shes having. They want to keep the information very limited, want it to be a private occasion. They also understand the president has a right to know what the process is going to be. They told us shes in labor, but were waiting to hear more detail after theyve given birth, after shes given birth about where the birth is, what sex the baby is. Good news from here in windsor. I have to say the city has been on tienterhooks. It appears to be happening. News crews from all around the world rushing around to get into position for this big news story. Im still on tenterhooks. This is a nerveracking time were going into. We know youll bring us all the developments as soon as theres anymore breaking news. Thank you very much, max. John, contain yourself. They wont even let me be in the same frame with you when youre talking about the royal baby. Because your arched eyebrow takes up the entire frame. Im wishing them the best of luck over the next several hours. A lot of other international news, pales in comparison to a royal baby being deliver. I want to bring in susan glasser, cnn Global Affairs analyst. I want to start by talking about north korea which testfired short range missiles on friday before the weekend. The president had a strange response to this. Im old enough to remember when north Korean Missile testing, Nuclear Testing which this decidedly is not, would receive a very heated response. Instead, the president says anything in this very interesting world is possible, but i believe kim jongun fully recognizes the great economic potential of north korea and will do nothing to interfere or end it. He also knows im with him and does not want to break his promise to me. Deal will happen. He knows im with him is what the president says as north korea is test firing. That was interesting. Interesting is one word for it. Look, i am with him is not rhetoric were used to from president s negotiating with north korea. However, i will say were used to these moves by north korea. Experts over the weekend had interesting observations that this is one of the moves that kims father undertook basically at the end of the sixparty talks during the bush administration. First, the shorter range missile test, then followed by the longer range ones. Its in the north korean playbook even if President Trumps behavior isnt really in the american playbook. I think its notable that kim jongun has set a deadline of the end of this year for in his view to make progress on the talks for something to come out of them. It seems to me that after the failed summit in hanoi, what youre seeing on the north korean side is an effort to regain leverage, perhaps, with the United States, to bring the u. S. Back into talks to say you really need to come back with Something Different than what we saw in hanoi. To me it seemed almost like a negotiating tactic. I want to ask about venezuela if i can. The secretary of state mike pompeo says russia is interfering in venezuela right now, that russia was going to provide safe passage for maduro to go to cuba. John bolton, the National Security adviser before he yelled at me for asking too many questions about russia says russia is trying to stick its finger in the eye of the world by being involved in venezuela. But then the president over the weekend said after he talked to Vladimir Putin, hes convinced that russia doesnt want to be involved in venezuela. This is yet another split between the president and the most senior levels of his own government about something very important. How do you explain it . Im glad you pointed that out. I think its gotten less attention than perhaps it might which is to say the president does seem to disagree with john bolton and mike pompeo on a number of important National Security issues. In a way hes been undercutting them just as the Previous Team of National Security advisers that he dumped on a lot and then fired, h. R. Mcmaster and rex tillerson. This venezuela russia thing is another example. Russia often seems to be the source of the disagreement. Both pompeo and bolton have been very tough in saying that russia essentially was violating the principle of the Monroe Doctrine and interfering in the hemisphere. Pompeo was saying maduros plane was on the tarmac ready to leave until the russians encouraged him to stay. The president undercuts both these advisers by saying no, no, theres nothing to see here, russia is absolutely fine. I think its something to watch. It breaks out in the open again and again publicly. I think the real difference is that bolton and pompeo go out of their way to insist there are no differences with the president even when what we see with our own eyes is thats not the case. Or that the president is very easily convinced in one phone call with Vladimir Putin that something isnt going on. Susan glasser, great to have you on. Thanks so much. Thank you. Well have much more on the royal baby. Newsroom will pick up this story next. Heres the story of Green MountainCoffee Roasters costa rica paraiso. Meet sergio. And his daughter, maria. Sergios coffee tastes spectacular. Because costa rica is spectacular. So we support farmers who use natural compost. 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