Jeremy diamond is at the white house. Mj lee is at the washington bureau. Im curious, we went from he will take a bullet for this guy to where we are today. When did the shift in loyalty happen . You are totally right. This is a man who really took pride in being Donald Trumps fixer for so many years. He was the guy that donald trump turned to to clean up his mess, to take care of anything that he wanted his lawyer to take care of. His work for donald trump wasnt just in the legal arena. His title was and he boasted this to a lot of his friends and associates, that he was the personal attorney to donald trump. He liked doing this work. He took pride in it. As you mentioned, once even said he would be willing to take a bullet for donald trump. However, just in our reporting and talking to people, friends and associates of Michael Cohen, we are learning that as he got fell deeper into legal trouble, he noticed and realized that donald trump was not offering the kind of public support tha
Vladimir putin in his annual endoftheyear conference in moscow. Putin praised President Trump saying hes made a number of achievements. Translator this is all dreamed up by people who are in opposition to trump so as to make sure that everybody thinks that what hes doing, what hes working at is illegitimate. As you know, the United States intelligence agencies are unanimous in this conclusion that russia launched an unprecedented attack during the 2016 president ial campaign and almost certainly are going to try to do it again, a clear threat to National Security and american democracy. Something the leader of a country under attack surely would want to address. But tonight theres new reporting from the Washington Post that says not only does President Trump continue to reject evidence of russia meddling to support him, he doesnt even want to hear about it. According to the Washington Post, current and former Officials Say the president s daily brief is, quote, often structured to avoi
Millions in taxes through schemes and outright fraud. A lawyer for the president calls the report inaccurate. It is triggering what may become a new investigation of the trump taxes. Lets get to it. First from the fox news deck this wednesday afternoon, the battle for the Supreme Court. Today the white house is vigorously defending the president s latest comments about a woman who accused his Supreme Court nominee of Sexual Assault. That is after three republican senators who could be key to confirming Brett Kavanaugh slammed the president s statement. College professor Christine Blasey ford told the Senate Judiciary Committee Last week that kavanaugh pinned her to the bed and covered her mouth and tried to take off her clothes when they were at a party in high school. Judge kavanaugh said it never happened. Heres what the president said at a rally in north mississippi about dr. Fords testimony. How did he get he home . I dont remember. How did you get there . I dont remember. Where is
Ronny jackson withdrew his nomination to be the next va secretary will not be returning in his role as the president s personal physician. Two Senior Administration officials, nbc news has not confirmed that reporting. Jackson faced intense criticism this week after the top democrat on the Senate Veterans affairs committee, jon tester, released a document summarizing allegations against jackson by current and former colleagues. Those allegations included overprescribing pills, drinking on the job, and creating a hostile work environment. President trump responded in a tweet yesterday writing, quote, secret service has just informed me that senator jon testers statements on admiral jackson are not true. Heres what the president had to say at his rally last night in michigan. Senator jon tester of a really great place, montana, who voted, by the way, in favor of sanctuary cities who is weak on the border, didnt vote for tax cuts, he took a gentleman who is a truly highquality human being
Here. Manu raju is on capitol hill. What did the secretary tell you . Reporter kate, she emerged from a closed door briefing after talking to a few dozen house members about Election Security, talking about things that the Homeland Security department, the federal government and states need to do to avoid russian interference and other states may be replicating what the russians did in 2016 to prevent that from happening in the 2018 midterms. And one of the Lessons Learned was about what they should do differently from the 2016 elections and specifically i got a chance to ask her about that Intelligence Community assessment about the russian infiltration in 2016. In the january 2017 Intelligence Community assessment, it says very clearly that Vladimir Putin orchestrated a campaign to help donald trump win the presidency. When i tried to get pin her down on whether or not she agreed with that assessment, she sidestepped the question and seemed to step back. Secretary to that point, do y