Conflict escalating even more this morning, israeli airstrikes have targeted 140 hezbollah sites in beirut including weapons storage, and missile facilities embedded beneath civilian buildings. Thats according to the idf, the strikes are part of an ongoing campaign by israel to degrade hezbollahs military capability. The lebanese government, responding to the widespread destruction calling for intervention on an international basis, the country has recorded more than 100,000 people have been displaced by the conflict. Authorities claimed that number is actually much higher. Our chief national Security Analyst, Jim Sciutto in Tel Aviv with the very latest jim, tell us first, who was this . Hassan Nasrallah Hassan Nasrallah was a defining figure in hezbollah in the region for more than three decades. Leave getting the terrorist organization, going back to 1992. And we making it over the course of that time into a formidable force, certainly plead with irans help with many Tens Of Thousan
Meeting with Michael Cohen and david pecker, the head of the company that owns the National Enquirer as pecker offered to help the campaign identify negative stories about his relationships with women, stories that would then be killed, kept from the public. This is from a Court Document in the immunity deal that the company, ami has reached with prosecutors. One sentence caught our eye when this story came out yesterday. Im quoting. In or about august 2015, david pecker, the chairman and chief executive officer of ami, met with Michael Cohen, an attorney for president ial candidate and at least one other member of the campaign. Well, today, we learned the one other member of the campaign, according to a source familiar with the matter, was donald j. Trump, the number one member of said campaign. Now, before this news came out, the president gave an interview where he informed fox news viewers that everythings fine. He didnt do anything wrong, and even if he did, it wasnt wrong anyway.
Organization, but hes at the seniormost levels there. Somebody described him like wallpaper. He blends in there and for that reason and in part because of his loyalty and his sort of understated presence has been able to last there for decades. Hes been at the Organization Since the days of fred trump, Donald Trumps father. And the bottom line as i understand my colleague katy tur speaking to someone, a former employee of the Trump Organization basically saying that he knows where all the financial bodies are buried. He would know the president s net worth, as you note here. So what specifically, what value might he add as relates to potential Campaign Finance violations or other details that would make him so interesting to investigators. Lets be clear, hes been asked to speak before a grand jury. We dont know what prosecutors want to know from him. We dont know the full scope of this investigation. But certainly hes in a position to know a great deal about Donald Trumps personal fina
We begin tonight with two pieces of breaking news. A new investigation, this time the president s inaugural committee over how it spent the more than 100 million it raised and whether it accepted donations from people looking to gain influence or access to new administration. Well have more details on that. But first, the other breaking news tonight, more evidence that shows the president seems incapable of telling the truth about almost any aspect of the hush money payments that just sent his former lawyer to prison. The president said today that he never directed Michael Cohen to do anything wrong. He said a lot of other truth challenged things which well get to. But tonight, we now know that two months after he began his president ial campaign, donald trump was in the room at a meeting with Michael Cohen and david pecker, the head of the company that owns the National Enquirer as pecker offered to help the campaign identify negative stories about his relationships with women, storie
Security posts a memo about the border wall, and its missing a few words, but dont worry . President build wall high. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with the politics lead. While his personal lawyer and fixer is heading to prison, President Trump is trying to shift the blame and spin the story claiming he did not direct Michael Cohen to break the law which is, of course, a complete contradiction with assertions made by the u. S. Attorneys office for the Southern District of new york which stated directly in court that the illegal hush money payments to Stormy Daniels and to Karen Mcdougal were done in coordination with and at the direction of President Trump. Mr. Trump also today questioning if the mcdougal payment was ever even made, and technically the president might be correct in that while mcdougal was paid for her silence by the National Enquirer Parent Company ami, theres not yet any evidence that mr. Trump or his organization paid them back. The wall street journ