Hello and welcome to our special, new york versus donald trump. Im ari melber. We have breakdowns on this riveting testimony. Including fridays moment for hope hicks. This is one of the weeks where prosecutors are putting together Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougalls lawyer, Keith Davidson. A damning story will come from Michael Cohen but theyve done it to confirm it for the jury before they hear from cohen. Corroborating all of that, with what weve told you about, the receipts, the checks, the contracts, and then ending this week with a rare view inside Donald Trumps upper most senior aides and brain trust. Longtime trump aide hope hicks taking the stand and bringing jurors into these meetings. As the access Hollywood Tape broke as trump and aides assessed its damage. Hope hicks you see there with donald trump. That is a coveted post in any campaign and especially in his, someone who is up on the stage and in his ear and on the plane. That is the role she had. So this was important tes
A newscast reviewing and analyzing top stories of the day as they happen. That and 300 billion after that. Basically the entire u. S. Trade relationship with china. Initially on the next tranche of 200 billion, the president was thinking about Levying Attacks of 10 . This afternoon were going to learn that the president is going to up that to 25 . The belief here among his trading Economic Team that china continues to be a bad actor when it comes to trade and they need very strong influence, if you will, to try to get china to change its ways. Listen to what Sarah Huckabee sanders. The president has made some head way the e. U. In terms of lowering trade barriers, taking steps towards levelling the Playing Field. Does the president and his team believe that is possible with china without taking some real punitive measures . Wed like to see the Playing Field levelled. The president as both he and i think about 15 members of his administration have said
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does any of it make any more sense to you now that you ve heard his background? not really. i was very surprised to see that he was a soldier. and from reading the reports, i thought that he had been serving in korea at the time. so i would ve expected that he would ve known a little bit more about north korea and the situations that they are in. and to me, it made it all the more surprising that he would want to go to a place like that. you, know from his knowledge. and also from everything we had been told on the tour. i want to read that he was having disciplinary actions, sorry, back in the u.s. that didn t really make any sense to me and you know i actually have been in an american prison for a long time and yes, well, sarah leslie, thank you very much for giving us your eye witness account and you re right, it is very mystifying what happened, obviously there s a lot more to the story. we really appreciate your time tonight. thank you. and we ll be right back.