to congress. tweeting is easy, truthing, that s another deal entirely. there s much more to report on this. cnn s pamela brown joins us more with the putin penthouse angle. explain to us what we know about this. was this an absolute plan, something they were floating, the organization? what do we know? it was an idea that was considered we ve learned as part of the trump tower moskow proposal. and the idea was to offer russian president vladimir putin the penthouse suite, if there was a trump tower moskow built, which we know never came to fruition. but this is according to the russian real estate developer felix seder who was working with cohen on the trump tower moskow proposal. seder described this concept to my colleague christine alesci as a marketing plow, to enhance the value and attract buyers by having the president of russia, vladimir putin in this building. now, in the court documents
soboroff and i reported on tuesday, before they had this court mandate, the only way for parents to see their children was to deport, leave the country with their child. they were given two choices, leave the country with your child or leave the country without. now going forward they say they will reunite them in i.c.e. detention facilities while waiting for asylum. but these parents were leaving their children, because the parents thought the children wouldn t have any case for asylum if they took them out of the country, and rightly so. the court documents today, hhs laid out how difficult it would be to find these people now that they re back in their country. it s like they ve just lost track of them. ali, in some cases the parents did not actually request fob their families to be separated hoping that the kid had a shot. in some cases, as they were
can t get a fair trial from this judge. the state has said that it objects to that motion, but ultimately it will be up to the judge himself whether to recuse himself or to stay on this case. we ll keep on these release of documents today, chris, and get back to you. we ll look for that in less than half an hour from now. thank you so much, janet. in other news the search is resuming for two iowa girls missing since friday. bicycle belonging to elizabeth collins and her cousin lyric cook-morrissey were found near a lake but no sign of the girls. officials have been interviewed family, friends, and registered sex offenders. get ready for another heat wave. the temperatures won t be as high, but the humidity will be higher, and so it s going to feel more uncomfortable. the forecast calls for 100 today in minneapolis, mid to upper 90s from the central plains to the east coast. overseas secretary of state hillary clinton is in israel meeting with israeli president
the vice president biden not initially involved in the negotiations but officials say once he got involved, the talks accelerated. it may have been biden who came up with one of the tradeoffs that democrats hate most. lowering the inheritance tax on wealthy estates in exchange for the payroll tax holiday and extending the tax credits that were a part of the recovery act, shepard? shepard: a lot going on there, wendell, thanks. there are new embarrassing cables from wikileaks. the web site released more u.s. state department documents today. one of the cables accuses members of the saudi arabian royal family of throwing wild parties. that in every way break their own country s laws. including bans on booze and hookers. the cable reads alcohol, though strictly prohibited by saudi law and custom, was plentiful at the party s well-stocked bar. it was also learned through word of mouth that a number of gusts were, in fact, working girls,
oh, trial by media. it s unfair. let me interrupt. rebecca, you ve been nodding your head. wendy, i do agree. sure, they have an ethical obligation to pursue justice but the jury decides beyond a reasonable doubt not the prosecution. the jury will decide. that s not what i said. don t know everything yet. if you can t prove it beyond a reasonable doubt it is unethical for the prosecutor to bring charges. that is not nothing. the girl came home and said i was forced to have sex with someone. that should be enough but it doesn t mean it happened in the manner and it doesn t mean it was with lawrence taylor. what do we know? the next question, i was reading the court documents today. i was up in the courtroom yesterday. lawrence taylor looking over at his buddies in the courtroom mouthing bs saying this was i can t say what he was saying suffice to say. but the gist is she is now saying, the victim is reporting that her alleged pimp was telling her to tell lawrence taylor