Jake tapper starts right now cnn Breaking News welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper and the prosecution has rested its case and now its Donald Trumps term his defense team has called a witness, Robert Costello and attorney. What one point advised Michael Cohen that stella has claimed in that cohens lied about him under oath during this trial. This comes after a shocking revelation on the stand earlier today, threatened to rock the prosecutions entire case under intense questioning. And by the defense, trumps former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, the star witness for the prosecution, admitted that he stole from the Trump Organization organization and were not its not talking lunch, money or funds taken from some transaction that has nothing to do with the charges against trump were talking we had 60,000, technically larceny that was part of the 420,000 payment made to cohen. That was allegedly falsified to reimbursement for Hush Money Payments to Stormy Daniels that payment are those p
you share the evidence in the video with this show and yot showu know what?appening they denied it was happening until we had the evidence. so how do they say with a straight face that the border is secure? ? look, their strategy is just hide . watch if you watch fox news, if you watch a handful of right oft th center outlets, you can findt wi out the truth about what s happening. but but if you watch cnn, if you watch msnbc or abc , cbs, nbc, there is no border crisis. they don t cover it. th and it says something that the democrats, they don t even try to defend this because you facts, b can t look at the facts. it used to bede democrats would preen around and say they re humane, they re compassionate, d they just care more . you know, they don t do that anymore because if younot actually look at what s happening, you cannot defend this disaster.s disaster. and so, their entire plan is and so their entire plan is built on the complicity of the corporate media.er hegot to say, after
law here, is he following the law or if he doesn t do this within seven days, has he broken the law? it has always been the position of the executive branch going back for both president clinton and president obama at the time they signed portions of this law that despite the seemingly mandatory language of the law, this does not prohibit the president from exercising constitutional authorities to control the dissemination of classified information or privileged information. and so the executive branch would take the position that despite the language of the law, the president can say no, you may not disclose this if he has a valid reason. and then we get into the kind of tugging back and forth and exercising leverage that you were talking about a minute ago go. bob, i want to go more to privilege here a second. i had thought and maybe i misheard or misunderstood this, i had thought when it came to our surveillance if we were surveilling a foreign leader and we were listening in on
anyway, so we should end with john saying bob is right. thank you for sharing your expertise. still ahead, what or who is behind keeping congress from getting access to the whistleblower s complaint. and later iran threatening all out war if the u.s. takes military action. we ll talk to a veteran and senator who has their own warning for president trump about his response. ident trump about his response i get it all the time.
of the president and vice president. your targets are foreign intelligence. but if you intercept for example two officials of a foreign government talking about the president, that may well be of important intelligence value. bob can t answer this, but two officials told me that the rule is if a u.s. official is on the line they are listening to, they stop. that is what i had always heard. is that not really policy but sort of a norm, john? it is certainly practice. you know, a lot of things in government are practice. and there is probably a regulation that governs that. i don t know what it is. the larger issue here that i had heard and i think one thing that i would like to surface here before we finish this conversation is all of these episodes about leaking of american intelligence, whether it was what ken brought up with the russians, the fact that he put up that satellite photo with the iranian proving, hey, look what we did with the launch pad. that this has served to