Lets first go to White House Correspondent kevin corke, joining us live from the Briefing Room which will be a hot spot about 45 minutes. Bottom of the hour we are expecting Sarah Sanders to come out and address reporters. If you know anything about the white house, it probably wont happen at the bottom of the hour but it will happen nonetheless. Very interesting, i think i should point this out, harris. The president s lawyers are pushing back very forcefully. A flurry of letters going from his lawyers offices today, not just to steve bannon but also in particular to the publisher of the book fire and fury. The president saying listen, you cant keep putting out false information, it could lead to libel, false statements and other mischaracterizations. We will tell you more about that throughout the day but let me share some of the excerpts from the book and trust me there are some explosive ones. A number of them circulate the idea that steve bannon thought he was the guy in charge. I
Character. Indicting a president. The arguments for and against filing charges if it is determined that President Trump committed a crime. Well start this hour with some new reaction for you from Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti. To this weeks bombshell, Associated Press report that the National Enquirer kept a safe with documents about hush money payments and damaging stories that it then killed about donald trump leading up to the 2016 election. Now Michael Avenatti spoke to joy reid this morning, speculating here on what might be inside that safe. Plenty of damaging information, joy. I think it is a treasure trove of documents and evidence relating to the extent that Michael Cohen and donald trump went to cover up facts, to hide facts from the American People, in connection with the 2016 election. Do you think this is mostly about paying women off. Is there there is no question. And this is as National Enquirer david pecker and long tief cfo Allen Wiselberg were granted immu
Firing back saying he wont be compromised over political considerations. Cnn White House Reporter Sarah Westwood is joining us now. One of the president s tweets honed in on the message that the attorney general serves at the pleasure of the president. Sarah, the president obviously very unhappy with his attorney general. What are you hearing on this relationship now between the president and the ag . Reporter thats right, ana. President trumps anger was on full display this week as his Associates Face these problems. Trump has privately raised the question of firing sessions several times within the last several weeks. Trump has long been dissatisfied with his attorney general both over the progression of the russia investigation and over the lack of progress at the Justice Department of what trump considers what should be an investigation into the corruption he sees at the fbi, but aides and allies have counseled trump against removing sessions, both because it could have implication
His first lawyer, his First National security adviser, his Deputy Campaign chairman and his campaign chairman. But all things that again have nothing to do with the president. Just because they had some association with the president at some point doesnt mean things they did in their private lives and personal lives that may or may not have been right or wrong, that doesnt have anything to do with the president. Back to that explanation in a minute, but we begin with the images you see. That is roger stone, fresh out of court. Now free on a 250,000 bond after a surprise visit from fbi agents. Fbi agents arrested the longtime associate in his home. Obstruction of justice, lying to congress and witness tampering. Robert mueller details five separate lies stone is said to have told congressional investigators about his attempts to reach out to julian assange. Investigators found no collusion or they would have charged him with it. The president s Legal Counsel said the same. It does not c
A month after the storm the u. N. Says that hundreds of thousands of people are still oppress and the squalid conditions facing towns timmy and refugees in jordan thats had cuts to u. N. Funding by the trumpet ministration to decimate services on the ground plots the return of televisions most epic fantasy series the Award Winning game of thrones hit screens for its final season of our t. V. Critic has a spoiler alert for the lowdown on what to expect from buster rose this winter. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program will have all those stories and more but before we get started we have some breaking news to bring you here on d w german prosecutors have charged volkswagens former c. E. O. Martin winterkorn with fraud that is all. For his part in the diesel admissions test cheating scandal that engulfed a volkswagen and other car makers now winterkorn is the first auto company boss to be charged over the scandal in germany and we will of course be following this story and get you the v