Other themes. Border order. A new report this morning says americas Homeland Security chief signed sweeping deportation memos. Plus, new reaction of iran on the trump presidency. Nbcs Richard Engel with the latest of an iranian leader. Ready to launch. The spacex rocket poised to launch. A day late. A live report is coming up. But we begin with politics and the warning from one of President Trumps toughest critics on the latest beef with the news media. Heres what senator john mccain told chuck todd in an interview airing this morning on meet the press. If you want to preserve democracy as we know it you have to have a free and many times adder is sarl press and without it im afraid we lose so much of the individual liberties over time. Thats how dick aor thes get started. Looking at history, they shut down the press and im not saying that thats that President Trump is trying to be a dictator. Im just saying we need to learn the lessons of history. Also new today, white house chief of
Theres no other way to say it. I got into a topic that i shouldnt have and i screwed up. I mean you know, and i hope people understand that we all make mistakes. I hope i showed that i understand that i did that and that i sought peoples forgiveness because i screwed up. And you know, i hope each person can understand that part of existing is understanding that when you do something wrong, if you own up to it, you do it. You let people know. And i did. So for me, obviously theres two takeaways. One is its a very holy week for both the jewish people and the christian people and this is not to take a gaffe and a mistake like this is inexcusable and ref hen reprehensible. Of all weeks, this compounds that kind of mistake. But second of all so first of all, its obviously its it really is painful to myself to know that i did Something Like that. Because that obviously was not my intention. And to know when you screw up that you possibly offended a lot of people, i just, you know i would ask
Top leaders of the Senate Intelligence committee outlining plan outside of the capitol that stalled the investigations. We haare just getting this comg in laura. Thats right, don, so a federal judge in hawaii has granted the states request for a longer term halt of the president s revised travel ban. You will remember two weeks ago a District Court judge in hawaii derek watson revised executive order but was only a temporary halt called temporary restraining order which typically expires after around 14 days. So the plaintiff asked it to be converted to longer term preliminary conjunction so it could last through trial and the judge agreed saying they have met their burden establishing a strong likelihood of threat on the merit of establishment clause. Will you ren the entire discussion from judge watson two weeks ago as what he reviewsed viewed as travel ban. This is more not permanent but longer i guess stay on this order until theres actually trial. Trial is set, do we know when tri
Stormy daniels, those koch conversations are not covered by Attorney Client privilege and citing the president s own words said on april 1st when he exclaimed to know nothing about the payment. Did you know about the 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels . [ inaudible ]. Why did Michael Cohen make this you have to ask Michael Cohen. Mikes my attorney and youll have to ask him. And do you know where he got the money to make that payment . I dont know. Lets go right to cnn in new york. Shim own, were hearing Michael Cohen is not cooperating and so what are prosecutors saying. Reporter that is right. None of the the what the prosecutors are saying is not good for the president or his personal attorney Michael Cohen and they have revealed he is under criminal investigation. And they have basically been investigating him for quite sometime, it appears. Including conducting covert surveillance on him where they were able to obtain some emails that showed he had basically not been doing any kind
He was 32. According to the report leigh corfman, then age 14, was sitting outside a courtroom with her mother back in 1979. It says moore offered to sit with her while her mother was inside that courtroom for a custody hearing. One of the reports authors explained today what reportedly happened next. After the mother went in he got her phone number and subsequently picked her up around the corner from her house, drove her about 30 minutes away to his home in the woods twice did that. The first time there was kissing and the second time he took off her clothes. He took off his own clothes. He touched her over her bra and underwear and guided her hand to touch him over his underwear. The post reports goes on, quote, aside from corfman three other women interviewed by the Washington Post in recent weeks say moore pursued them when they were between the ages of 16 and 18 and he was in his 30s. They say they found flattering at the time but troubling as they got older. None of the three wo