Being able to give my voice to tell the American People my story, and im going to let the American People decide exactly whos telling the truth. Now, multiple sources say today cohen apologized for the lies he told during his testimony in 2017 about how far the trump tower moskow project negotiations went into the campaign. Senator Susan Collins said cohen was, quote, a very different guy than last time. A source tells cnn cohen tomorrow will give details when he was a candidate and may have documents to back up those claims. And he will detail the lies, racism and cheating he wnlsed while working for trump for more than a decade. The white house is already trying to do preemptive damage control before cohen faces that committee to the american public. Sarah sanders ses, quote, disgraced felon Michael Cohen is going to prison for lying to congress and making other false statements. Sadly he will go before congress this week and we can expect more of the same. Her statement goes onto sa
Pending u. S. China trade deal happening now. All that as we look ahead right now on sunday morning futures. And as Congress Gears up for votes this week to block the president s National Emergency declaration on the border wall, the president on his next move. President trump will i veto it . 100 . 100 , and i dont think its survives a veto. We have too many smart people that want border security, so i cant imagine if it survives a veto but i will, yes. Maria my next guest is making his own prediction about how it all plays out. Senator Lindsey Graham is with me this morning republican from South Carolina he is the chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee and serves on the Senate Appropriations, Foreign Relations and budget committees as well good to see you senator thanks so much for being here. Thank you. Maria so how does this play out the democrats put this resolution up on tuesday, of this upcoming week, then it moves to the senate, can you tell us what happens then . We might
Koalas. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. Happy new year. We begin with our world lead. Hundreds of protesters, some violent chanting death to america and storming the u. S. Embassy in baghdad, smashing windows, scaling the walls, setting fires, claiming to be angry over american airstrikes on an iranianbacked militia on sunday and billowing smoke filling the air beyond the walls beyond the diplomatic compound, americas largest embassy anywhere in the world. Attachy helicopters were dispatched to fly over the embassy and more american troops are on the way. The embassy currently on lockdown but right now there are no plans to evacuate any personnel. President trump pointing the finger squarely at iran and the militia leadership for fuelling the protests and for launching the original attacks on americans that prompted the retaliation. As Cnns Kaitlan Collins traveling with president now reports. Reporter a chaotic scene as protesters storm the u. S. Embassy in baghdad today. Scaling
Potential iranian targets lined up should tehran attack any of its citizens or assets in response to the killing of its general Qasem Soleimani in iraq. Meanwhile Us Led Coalition forces in iraq have confirmed that two rocket attacks have taken place near bases housing us troops in baghdad. It happened after the funeral procession for general soleimani took place. Iranian officials have promised what theyve described as severe revenge for his death. Quentin sommerville reports. They came in their thousands to honour Qasem Soleimani and they called him a hero. To many more in iraq and beyond, he was the regions principal villain. Familiar chants rang out, death to america, death to israel. He served his iranian masters well. Its regime has cast him as a proud shia martyr. In death, he has been elevated to the rank of lieutenant general. In iran there were more anti western protests. President rouhani visited the soleimani family and again warned of harsh revenge for the assassination of
The eyes of the liberal media. First, live seemed excited that they saw iraq was on attack. They were claiming it was from sven because it weird because they always said benghazi is he conspiracy theory. Rdbut anyway, trump sent reinforcements and immediately nobody died. Okay good. Now im gonna a number of the beach i was taught going to respond. He cant let the erring and malicious attack embassy an american contractor, i just been killed earlier in the wake, by the iranians. Cant let this slide. So then from calls in a strike against irans top general. So money. Hes the general with the American Well have in his hands. So was killed at least 6600 long career. He calls the shots. He shut down our girls. And attacked our oil tankers and our allies. His behind the mc attacks and was putting more attacks on americans. Would until on him in a choke ordered to kill him. I kept hearing the liberal sport happy. Went safer today than we will before donald trump acted. This is and was an enor