Just the beginning. The Washington Post reports cohen reached out to multiple companies bragging about what he could offer, quote, he showed photos of himself with trump and mentioned how frequently they spoke, even asking people to share news articles describing him as the president s fixer. Im crushing it, he said. Cohens defense it wasnt me well, at least it wasnt all me. His Attorney Says some of the transactions listed in the original financial document posted online by Stormy Daniels attorney were wrongfully attributed to Michael Cohen, the president s fixer. Some of them were to other Michael Cohens. One is in israel, another is from canada. So cohen is off the hook, right . Not quite. The moneys that went to the other Michael Cohens amounted to about 20,000. The total monies listed were more than 4 million. Cohens attorney isnt disputing two of the biggest payments, the 1. 2 million from novartis and 600,000 from at t. Those two companies confirmed they had given information to
Pipeline. You tell me if thats appropriate. Now, congress is sending an entirely different message. Just minutes ago the house passed a nonbinding resolution expressing support for nato by a unanimous vote. The Senate Passed a similar resolution yesterday 972. This is all on his first day of a threenation european trip. Joining us from brussels is nbc News White House correspondent geoff bennett. Geoff, this is kind of crazy. The president directed criticism against russia about the fact that russia, in the president s words, spends billions of dollars on a excuse me, germany gets natural gas from russia. Reporter thats right, ali. Look, that raucous exchange we saw this morning between the president and the nato secretarygeneral when the president made that accusation really caught the allies off guard. It was really a bruising start for a summit that is really meant to emphasize the strength and unity of the alliance. We should say, though, by the end of the day here, the president a
Probes. I dont care if its biden or anybody else. If they can help us, anything they have to do with corruption, i actually feel i have an obligation to do that. The president got a sharb rebuke from mitt romney. He tweeted when the only american citizen, President Trump singles out for chinas investigation is his political opponent in the midst of the democratic nomination process, it is strange kred utility to suggest it is anything other than politically motivated. By all appearances the president s brazen and unprecedented appeal to china and to ukraine to investigate joe biden is wrong and appalling. Now, all of this comes ahead of what is expected to be the latest showdown between the white house and House Democrats. They are expected to subpoena the white house today for documents related to the ukraine call. But the white house is expected to respond with a letter telling House Speaker nancy pelosi that it will not turn over anything unless the house votes to officially authori