Most highprofile defenders in public in the press, fox news host sean hannity. Hannity, for his part, responding immediately and he says he never paid cohen but he had, quote, brief discussions with him on matters of the law. Now some of the documents cohen is fighting to protect relate to the now infamous 130,000 payment he facilitated to adult star Stormy Daniels. She is suing trump and cohen. She was also in the courtroom there today. Here she was right after the hearing. For years mr. Cohen has acted like he is above the law. He has considered himself and openly referred to himself as mr. Trumps fixer. Hes played by a different set of rules or, shall we say, no rules at all. He has never thought that the little man or especially women, even more, women like me, matter. That ends now. My attorney and i are committed to making sure that everyone finds out the truth and the facts of what happened, and i give my word that we will not rest until that happens. You hear her reference to t
Thats a smart thing, not a stupid thing. Good morning and welcome to am joy. Over the years donald trump has claimed himself to be the king of debt. In his business dealings, a title that played to his image as the ultimate dealmaker who knew how to leverage debt to expand his family empire. When he wasnt the king of debt, he was instead the king of cash, a selfcrowned term he used in 1990 when telling the wall street journal, quote, theres nobody that has the cash flow i have. I want to be the king of cash. Which one is it . King of debtor the king of cash . According to a new piece in the Washington Post, the latter. The piece revealing, quote, in the nine years before he ran for president , Donald Trumps company spent more than 400 million in cash on new properties including 14 transactions paid in full without bow rowing from banks. The piece notes the biggest cash bi binge before trump announced running for president when he paid almost 80 million for large golf courses in scotlan
Thank you so much. Good day to all of you. High noon in the east, 9 00 a. M. Out west. He gop George Papadopoulos talking for the First Time Since being sentenced. What he said about lying to the fbi in the russia probe. I found myself pinned between the department of justice and the sitting president. I didnt understand what was going on. Reaction to the New York Times oped. The Vice President weighing in. I am 100 confident no one on the Vice President s staff was involved in this anonymous editorial. I know my people, margaret. This hour, new insight who it could be. And we have new reaction from the former Trump Campaign official sentenced friday to prison for lying to prosecutors in the special counsels russia investigation. In an interview George Papadopoulos further speculating the campaign colluded with russia. Do you think when the entire Mueller Investigation is finished that they will demonstrate that there was collusion between the Trump Campaign, between trump advisors and
Kristi, President Trump is facing a growing backlash to target cia director john brennan. Dozens of officials are speaking out over trump a setting a president to use a litmus test of who gets to keep their security clearances. Trump linked his decisions to the investigation while the white house so far has not provided any evidence to back up claim that brennan lost his security clearance because he abused it. Trump is tweeting about russia and raising the spector of china saying all of the fools so focused looking at russia should look in another direction, china, but in the end, if we are smart, tough and well prepared, we will get along to everyone. We are not sure who he is directing that to. Clearly, russia is on his mind. Sarah what are you learning ability the potential timing for revoking those other security clearances . Reporter well, President Trump is weigh of removing the security clearance of nine people, or are connected in some way to the investigation. Those names inc
Everything i think is going wrong in our political culture. Lots of time spent with lots of words and little accomplished other than grandstanding and disagreement that was often gratuitous. I hope it gets better tomorrow. Then this happened. I want you to watch something. The man on the left highlighted tells kavanaugh, my daughter was murdered at parkland. Kavanaugh turns away and then you see him escorted out. The man is fred guttenberg. His 14yearold was murdered in the Parkland School shooting. When he went to shake kavanaughs hand, this is what happened. And this is only what happened, okay. Why did the judge turn away . The warehouse says, oh, well, security intervened. No, they didnt. First he turned away and then security came in. Thats the truth. The judge should be asked why. Well, justice is supposed to be blind but that means im biassed, not ignoring what is right in front of your face. Why did you do that . I dont mean to indict him. He may have a good reason or no reason