hush money payments to silence the trump affairs right before taking office. not over yet. today s testimony the final on capitol hill but a lot to follow up on. br brianna? in michael cohen s testimony, there were many threads, including this exchange about the president s refusal to release his tax returns. can you give us any insight into what the real reason is that the president has refused to release his tax returns? statements that he had said to me is that what he didn t want was to have an entire group of think tanks that are tax experts run through his tax return and start ripping it to pieces, and then he ll end up in an audit and he ll ultimately have taxable consequences, penalties and so on.
relief and remission within reach. in a rare event, north korea s foreign minister holding a late night press conference. this is something that just hardly ever happens. and this is what was said that north korea only wanted, quote, partial lifting of sanctions. now, this is contrary to president trump s citing the lifting of full sanctions. and this is something that is really extraordinary as the president has walked away from the summit without anything,
privately. he s testified before the senate intel committee. he testified that the president got a heads-up from roger stone after stone said he had spoken with wikileaks founder julia juliana julian assange, and he said he was aware of those e-mails that were dumped before they were dumped. is that a crime? it obviously san allegation of michael cohen at this point, but it is a very, very serious one. i don t want to judge whether it s a crime or not, i m not a prosecutor, but i think it s a very important piece of evidence in the investigation of whether the president s campaign or the president himself was somehow involved in the russians efforts to interfere in our elections. it s important to put that call into context. if indeed that call occurred, it was just two or three days before a major dump of hillary
services committee. you re watching this very closely. what was your reaction commenting on otto warmbier. i would like to remind people of what his parents said happened to him. they said when he returned, he was blind and deaf, his arms and legs were totally deformed, he had a huge scar on his foot, and his dad said, quote, it looked like someone had taken a pair of pliers and rearranged his bottom teeth. do you find it hard to believe that kim jong-un wouldn t have known about this? totally hard to believe. the president was right a year ago and wrong today. i don t know why in the world he would take the word of a dictator for something like this. particularly a country that s under such tight control. it doesn t pass the straight face test that kim jong-un didn t know exactly what was going on with this young man, a high-profile hostage and american. i m just amazed that the president would say what he did today. on the other hand, i think he did the right thing by walking away