He has the inside scoop coming up. First, chief National Correspondent ed henry kicks off the coverage with breaking news. Good evening. Great to see you. The District Attorneys Office here in manhattan is thinking about bringing criminal charges against President Trumps business, the trump organization, in connection with how officials they are reimbursed Attorney Cohen for his payments to that adult film performer. According to the New York Times tonight. The president said months ago of the special counsel started probing his business dealings, that would be what he called a redline that could spark Robert Muellers firing. This is more complicated because it would be State Charges against the trump organization, not federal charges brought by mueller. It would be harder to justify a meal or firing perhaps. Plus the president has the power to pardon Paul Manafort or anyone else for federal charges but he does not have Clear Authority to pardon people or corporations for criminal char
campaign contributions. that doesn t apply to the president because he was the candidate. he doesn t have a dollar limit. so i don t see how he could be guilty of that account. the other charge is not that cohen actually made an illegal campaign contribution but that he caused a corporation, namely the american media incorporated, the national enquirer s parent company, he caused them to make an in-kind contribution. at the moment, there s a lot of evidence that cohen did that. there is no evidence of the president did that. shannon: let me ask you really quickly before we re out of time. david pecker, with american media, they have some immunity and i ve talked with prosecutors. do you think that was about cohen? people want to make it like it s about the president, but we don t when know when the unity was made. is not a irrelevant to the president but it s more likely when you look at this that that
said democrats would be for us to talk about and asked if democrats win back the house, the likelihood there will be in impeachment vote is higher than they seem to want to admit. impeachment legislation was introduced long before cohen implicate a president rouhani a campaign finance violation. lee split with the party leadership. there s nothing to talk about. it s clear that if you get the majority in house and senate and given the democrats and this president has given them a lot of reasons to want to impeach him beyond the politics, remember the mueller investigation is still out there. cohen is still cooperating. and so once that gets complete it which a lot of democrats think we ought to let it run its course and then figure out whether we re going to impeach someone or not. it s way too premature. i think the democrats are right. let s say hypothetically that the democrats control the house right now. same facts that come all the circumstances are exactly as they are today
lot. you play golf. is he thinking about a new ag? i don t have direct evidence of this but you don t have to be dr. phil to understand the president and attorney general do not have a good working relationship. every president deserves an attorney general they have confidence in. as to jeff sessions come i ve never met a finer man readies a great senator, great lawyer, i think he s been a good attorney general. this is not working. i hope the relationship gets better. if doesn t i would imagine the president is going to look for a new attorney general. because what s going on is unsustainable. i m not blaming anybody. i love jeff sessions, but from my point of view, the country is not being well served with this much friction. shannon: when you said last year there would be holy to pay of sessions when fired, you said the president s efforts to marginalize and humiliate him were not going over well in the senate. when jeff recuse himself, which i think he should have, any lawy
we do get some wind gusts coming through, and the rain, we expected to get worse. more of a rain event than a wind event. that s what forecasters believe. here on maui, we know that a lot of airlines have canceled flights friday in preparation as lane comes this way. back to you, shannon. shannon: adam housley in hawaii. thank you. our chief meteorologist is alive in the extreme weather center. good evening, rick. good evening. some good news coming out of the national hurricane center. the forecast cone has shifted a little bit west. that s good at least for this extreme wind. maybe not having as big of an impact. the rain has already had big impacts. the eastern side of the big island, 19 inches of rain in one location. incredible flooding. 13,000 feet high mountains. it rings the moisture out of the air mass, so the west side in kona, you re not getting nearly as much rain.