Details about payments mr. Cohen arranged with woman who alleged sexual encounters with President Trump, including mr. Trumps knowledge of those deals. The journal report which cited people close to cohen and others familiar with prosecutors discussions posted late last night. It preceded a tweet from the president at 1 10 in the morning washington time, trump writing in all caps, no collusion, rigged witch hunt. And Republican Leaders remain silent but the rank and file did weigh in. Former president ial candidate mitt romney tweeted yesterday, the events of the last 24 hours confirm that conduct by highplaced individuals was both dishonorable and illegal. Also confirmed is my faith is our Justice System and my conviction that we are a nation committed to the rule of law. Senator ben sasse released a statement writing, quote, Paul Manafort is a Founding Member of the dc swamp and Michael Cohen is the goth am version of the
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It is august 31. Im ayman mohyeldin. Im back. Welcome back. President trump was in evansville, indiana. He stopped nearly the beginning of his speech over a minute and a half when a female protesters interrupted him. This moment was captured when a volunteer member of the president s advance team blocked the camera lens of a foept owe journalist attempting to photograph the protester. Nbc news reached out to the white house for information on what happened there. The president claimed the corrupt ruling class is standing in his way. He boasted of a mandate despite losing the popular vote by nearly three million. The democrats, they call themselves the resistance. Thats what theyre good at, resisting and obstructing. They are obstructionists. Every day they are resisting the will of the American People in trying to undermine the verdict of our democracy, delivered so strongly in 2016, like never before delivered. Within the republican party, the highest poll numbers well, they have 90,
Plus, thousands of Central American migrants continue their trek north as the u. S. Puts new pressure on mexico to stop them. What the secretary of state is now saying. And saudi arabia finally admits that Jamal Kashoggi was killed in its consulate in turkey, but denies the crown prince was involved. The saudis latest explanation and whether President Trump is buying it. Good morning, everyone. 15 days to go until the midterm elections and with much at stake, the new nbc news wall street journal poll suggests it is defect to tell what the outcome will be. According to the poll, 50 of likely voters are inclined to support candidates from the democratic party, while 41 are for the republicans. At the same time, President Trumps Approval Rating among this group of voters is at 45 , some of the very best marks of his presidency to date. This as enthusiasm about the election is up among core groups that support democrats. 70 of the partys voters have high interest in the election, while 71
Good morning. It is wednesday, may 16th. Im Yasmine Vossoughian alongsi alongside Ayman Mohyeldin. Kim jongun cancelled talks with south korea over exercises with the south and u. S. Kim is okay with the exercises, a complete 180 from decades of north korea policy. Pyongyang appears to have reverted to that stance, calling drills a rude and wicked provocation and rehearsal for n invasion. Kim jongun said previously he staunlunderstands the need a utility of the United States and republic of korea continuing in joint exercises. Absolutely, we will continue to go ahead and plan the meeting between President Trump and kim jongun. Theyre simply not provocative. We do these things around the world, they have occurred for decades and decades. I will say it a third time. Kim jongun said he understands the importance to the United States that we conduct the joint exercises, joint exercises continue to go on. The statement carried out on state media, Foreign Affairs minister says if they push u
Saying it was so perfectly carried out with such precision that the only way the Fake News Media could demean was by my use of the term mission accomplis d accomplished. I know they know you have a task in front of you and it moons mission accomplished. Politically it means something broader. We of course know that our work in syria is not done. We know it is now up to Bashir Al Assad whether or not he will use chemical weapons again and should he use it again the president made it clear the president is locked and loaded and ready to to go. We will not watch them continue to use weapons on their people. We set their Chemical Weapons Program back years. So from that standpoint when we look at threats to our American National interests, we definitely did exactly what we wanted to do. Meanwhile the leaders of syrias man allies spoke to each other by phone yesterday. According to a statement by the kremlin, they say they let the actions violate law. Joining us now in moscow, kelly and ali