cnn newsroom. we re grateful to you have this afternoon. i m boris sanchez. hi, everyone. it i m jessica dean. political lines deepening, law enforcement preparing for what would be a first in american history. the criminal indictment of a former president. the key witness in a case against donald trump is expected to be challenged today before a grand jury in new york. a former legal advisor to michael cohen telling cnn testifying at the request of donald trump s attorneys. look at video of costello arriving at the courthouse moments ago. robert costello saying he ll offer evidence that contradicts cohen. cohen, who once labeled himself trump s fixer said he paid adult film actress stormy daniels $130,000 in the weeks before the 2016 election for her silence on an alleged affair with donald trump. now, that was a campaign finance violation, as cohen lied on forms to cover up that payment. in 2018. you may recall. cohen cut a deal with federal prosecutors and adds mitte
From the president against a member of his own cabinet this week, calling the Attorney General wea k and beleaguered. All this on the very day he struggled to get a major piece of legislation on reforming health care through congress. And into this maelstrom walks the British International Trade Secretary, liam fox. He wants a big International Trade agreement with the United States. He needs it desperately if brexit is to be a success. President trump rolled out Senior Republicans to meet dr fox, including the house speaker, paul ryan. But when trump tweets that a uk trade deal is big and exciting, who does he mean will benefit . Before we came on air, i spoke to liam fox about trump, trade and yes chicken. Well hear his thoughts in a moment. First, The Big Picture of whats at stake. At 4 16am this morning, the president of the United States twitter account enthused over liam foxs visit. Our Special Relationship with the uk is going to be even better, the us Trade Representative and u
Hollywood. They were talking first about a Married Women Trump had tried to seduce but he didnt use that word. And then talking about the costar they were going to make. Much of is the graphic and obscene. The very fact the such a videotape of the president ial candidate needs such a warrant speaks for itself. I moved on her actually. She was down in palm beach. I moved on her. And i failed. Ill admit it. I did try and [ bleep ]. She was married. Her name was nancy. I moved on her heavily. In fact i took her out furniture shopping. I told her ill show you where you can get some nice furniture. I moved on her like a bitch. But i couldnt get there. And she was married. And all of a sudden i see her, shes now got the big phony tits and everything. Shes totally changed her looks. Your girl is hot at [ bleep ]. In the purple. Whoa. Yes. The donald has scored. Whoa, my man. Wait you got to look okay. You are a maybe it is a different one. No thats her. You got to get this [indiscernible]. Yo
Senator john mccain. It will head for a funeral home tomorrow and the senator will lie in state at the u. S. Capitol, just the 31st person to do that. Joining me now, president ial historian, Douglas Brinkley and retired general mark herling, doug, this is a week long week for senator john mccain the likes we havent seen. You dont see this for anyone other than a u. S. President , perhaps Robert Kennedy, the one exception to that. Maybe not sense Robert Kennedy have we seen this outpouring of emotion for u. S. Senator. I think thats exactly right. The fact Senator Mccain will be lying in state in the rotunda of the u. S. Capitol building one of only 31 others to have had that honor. We do it for president s or Supreme Court justices. The country has fallen in love
with john mccain this week. We always loved him and admired him. The more were learning about his lifelong career in politics and Military Service the more were kind of nostalgic and longing for the virtues that he had. They
a grand jury reasonably coming to that conclusion. richard nixon wasn t indicted because president ford pardoned him. bill clinton wasn t indicted for perjury because he came to agreement january 19th, 2001 with robert rae, the special prosecutors. and ulysses grant didn t get indicted because he waent an investor in a ponzi scheme of grant and ward, but all understood they faced possibility of indictment and so, too, much donald trump today. gloria, back to you and talk about the political ramifications of this. there s kind of a growing conventional wisdom among political circles that this just emboldens trump, boosts him. that it s only going to propel his run for president further as it were. what do you think is the potential political fallout here as we go into the next several weeks and months ahead? well, i think in the early