divisions at the moment very partisan indeed for and it was almost painful to watch at times and that partisanship essentially reflects what we re seeing in terms of the deep divides within this country then lost and they re going to take a long time to heal in mr cohen s closing testimony he said that if president trump does not win the twenty twenty and lection he is not confident that there will be a smooth transition of power base in the united states i mean a very all menace warning that you know that true believers talking about that earlier in the newsroom you really hear predictions like that out how in the humphrey of the story for us in washington helen thank you michael cohen said that he wanted to tell the american people his story and it seems the american people wanted to hear it in washington d.c. bars open to early use so that patrons could watch the testimony of trump s former
a check which he alleged was from president trump to the chief you know thirty five thousand dollars paid into mr cohen s account as payback as reimbursement essentially for hush money payments to storm lee daniels the adult film actually and he held that up in court he said that that was part of a scheme meant to look like it was a retainer and that continued till august twenty seventeen when the president was of course well and truly in office two other things that i think we know where the from today the fact that mr cohen said the president trumps a legal team looked into his statement and sort of croft today that he delivered to congress under oath of course he was convicted of perjury there often and will serve prison time because of that mr cohen also says that he s aware of further illegality that he couldn t discuss further because it s currently being looked into by federal prosecutors in a court in new york so potentially and of a damning act then and we know that michael c
a success in itself and so that i think that s that s the that s the theme here that this is that this is running on and it will have to wait and see what s in that declaration and if that is any more concrete than what we saw coming out of the singapore summit and bus and we know that we re hoping that there s going to be some type of press conference before this summit is over but that may not happen because of the events in washington and the congressional hearing with trump s former attorney michael cohen you know the explosive comments that were made yesterday how much of a factor is that in one or you today. well we did see those those white house reporters barred from that dinner event last night after having asked questions on that cohen issue we re going to have to wait and see how president obama s going to handle that at his press conference this afternoon which is scheduled i mean i mean he s here this is for him this is
alone in that they don t have my pump a word that he doesn t have any of his advisers with them does that tell us then that they are the talk about the details that you re talking about that that is now over. i think it should be over by now of course i mean they will have to sign the agreement in a few hours and it would be very late if they were still in hold debates right now and so i think at the moment they re probably discuss how they will move on and i think it is very important for care mostly to see where trump sees themself because at the moment a lot of this protest process relies on trump being in office the other alternatives in the u.s. government who would go a different path than the this and do you think that s a consideration in kim s calculus here knowing that the u.s. president could possibly face impeachment and that there is an election at the end of next year which means two years from now there could possibly be a different president well absolutely has to think
but just between these two men now of course there were consultations over the mysteries and so on and there were a lot of trek dialogues when i could demick liberal and there was a lot of preparation so basically the results already existed before the both leaders came together. and it will have to go on because i think the agreement that they will sign will a basis for more talks working groups and a trump has repeated that nuff it will take time to get results and first of all would take time to actually find the way how the process will be set up ok and there were the german council on foreign relations and bussed in hard to in annoying to bush s the thank you. now i want to talk about the story on the other side of the planet that is also centered around donald trump it s what happened in washington on capitol hill yesterday that continues to captivate much of the u.s.