Hotel room. Stormy daniels is also expected at the courthouse later today. Trumps attorneys who made their own arguments in the case, they will be there as well. Our investigator Shimon Prokupecz is outside the courthouse in new york city. Shimon, what is the court deciding, what could we see today, and what do the president s attorneys, who will be inside the courtroom, want . Reporter essentially the judge here is going to decide whether or not the fbi and the prosecutors from the u. S. Attorneys office here in the Southern District of new york in manhattan will have access to the information that they seize aid week ago today of t. It was last monday morning that they raided Michael Cohen where they removed all sorts of documents and information. The government has not been able to review any of that information because Michael Cohens attorneys and now the president s attorneys are arguing that there is privileged material in those documents. In the case of the president , the lawye
Deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein says he is prepared to be fired. Nbc news has learned rosenstein, who has control over the mueller russia probe, has been telling confidants that hes prepared to get the axe. With more details on that, Nbc News National Security and justice correspondent Julia Ainsley who broke the story. Matt miller with us as well, a National Security analyst for nbc news. Julia, let me start with you. What more do we know . I would imagine the distinction here is fairly important between rosenstein saying hes prepared to be fired and rosenstein saying hes about to be fired. He thinks that its coming. He thinks its imminent. Correct . This is more of him reading the same things were reading. Its just been a really sharp change in his mental state and his tone in the conversations hes had with people close to him over his tenure. They have said that this week they have heard from a very stoic Rod Rosenstein, that hes been repeating the phrase here i stand, thats
How the trump tax cuts for harleydavidson led to hundreds of people losing their jobs. Thank you, Harley Davidson, for building things in america. When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. Breaking news tonight and it looks like potentially bad news for one Michael Cohen potentially even worse news for donald trump. New york times first breaking the story now confirmed by nbc news that cohens longtime Business Partner gene freedman has agreed to cooperate with prosecutors after pleading guilty today to stealing around 5 million worth of taxi fees from new york state. In exchange, free man will be avoid jail time and been assist government prosecutors in state or federal investigations according to a person briefed on the matter. Friedman who faces a slew of lawsuits over alleged professional misconduct is quite the character. Russian immigrant known as the taxi king once controlled as many as a thousand new York City Taxi medallions the licenses that all
Sounds like reality tv, turns out to be fox news host sean hannity. One of the president s biggest supporters on cable tv and a fierce critic of the fbi raid on cohens properties. Before it came out in court, hannity had never disclosed that relationship. Also, going public overnight, james comeys book, this morning, the former fbi director in his first live interview gave this dire warning to the country. We wake up in the morning and see the president of the United States is accusing people of crimes without evidence, and pronouncing them guilty and saying they should be in jail. That should wake all of us up with a start, there has been so much of it were a little bit numb and thats dangerous. One thing i hope to do send courage people to think about that and focus on that rather than becoming sort of numb to it and trying to squeeze it out of your mind. All right, lets begin with that Extraordinary Court hearing here in new york, federal judge ruling that Michael Cohens legal team
Surprise moved into a pr conversation about how the trump team would position this and what they could say about this that no one to my recollection asked. So whats coming next from the russians, how might we stop it, whats the future look like. Good morning and welcome to a. M. Joy. In a move that has donald trump rage tweeting all morning, former fbi director james comey is spilling all the tea with a new book and media blitz starting tonight. Telling his version of events surrounding the 2016 election in the early days of the Trump Administration. While it may be seen as an attempt to clear his name, comey is after all the man the clinton camp blames for their loss. He pulls no punches when it comes to donald trump. In his book he describes in detail trumps attempts to bring him into a mafia like political family that values loyalty to donald trump above all else. The quote, forest fire, that is the Trump Administration. Trump world and its allies in the gop are already on the attac