Crisis. There were no Public Events on the president s schedule this morning but he is expected to be at the first ladys event today. Earlier, the president made his thoughts known on his favorite social media platform. This morning he waged a twitter tirade against several adversaries the especially Counsel Robert Mueller and his russia probe. Over the weekend the president s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani refused to rule out President Trump possibly invoking the fifth amendment if forced to sit down with Robert Mueller. Moments ago, White House Press secretary Sarah Huckabee sanders said this to reporters. Is the president pleased with the appearances of Rudy Giuliani over the last few days. Didnt speak with him specifically about his feelings about it. But certainly feels that he is an added value member to his outside special counsel. Also a topic of todays briefing, President Trumps pick to serve as cia director, gina haspel. She is facing an uphill battle for her confirmation. Nbc news ha
On fox friends, will it be ed, will it be pete . Do i have to make this . All right. Watch it, pete. [cheers and applause] [laughter] winner. Abby youre good. Did you sleep at all last night . I am so excited about this victory. Its almost like the masters when youre in the lead and you wake up sunday morning, im the leader at the masters. You know, ive got to keep it. Theres so much nervous energy, but in this case i actually won, so i cant lose now. Pete you did. Hes a cinderella story. We asked the crowd on the plaza who do you think will win, and almost unanimously, it was all for pete, and after the first putt, they all went to ed. Ed i didnt want to rub it in, so i wore a green tie, you know, the whole tradition at the masters pete didnt want to rub it in. Listen, i thought it was a gimme putt, i felt good about it, and there you go. Ed you stabbed at it. Pete but you nailed, i gotta give it to you, a clutch putt the whole before ed to tie it. Abby you had some green on, but the
Will be good. Well get something worked out eventually. Give us any insight into where maybe the Sticking Point was . President trump well, they wanted to denuke certain areas and i wanted everything. And the sanctions are there and i didnt want to give up the sanctions unless we had a real program. And theyre not ready for that. Jon were live at the white house. Even without the deal President Trump is still saying that they had a very good two days. He says that just neither he nor kim were ready. President trump tweeting this morning great to be back from vietnam, an amazing place. We had very substantive negotiations with kim jongun. We know what they want and they know what we must have. Relationship very good. Lets see what happens. Talks ended early without a deal. Initially both sides offered different accounts of what happened. President trump he understands north koreas desire to keep parts of their Nuclear Program. President trump they spent a lot of time building it and tha
Wrapped up his testimony before the intelligence committee. This was the first leg of what will be ea threeday marathon of hearings for the president s former lawyer. One of which will be broadcast live beginning tomorrow morning at 10 00 a. M. Eastern time. Here was cohen leaving todays hearings moments ago. At this point in time i really appreciate the opportunity that was given to me to clear the record and tell the truth. I look forward tomorrow to have my voice tell the American People my story and im going to threat American People decide exactly who is telling the truth. I want to thank you agon for sticking around. Have a good night. Cohens team is promising revelations in his testimony. This is what you call splitscreened coverage. At the very moment cohen was arriving on capitol hill, trump was touching down in vietnam for his highstakes summit with kim jongun. Potentially high reaching consequences for trumps presidency. On the eve of his crucial meeting quote the expectatio
Testimony today, the white house, though, was at work painting him as an untrustworthy witness. Sarah Huckabee Sanders said, quote, its laughable that anyone would take a convicted liar like cohen at his word and pathetic to see him given yet another opportunity to spread his lies. And sanders is not the only one whos questioning cohens credibility. Michael cohen is here. What are you hoping to hear from him . He lied to the committee before. Do you expect him to tell the truth this time . No. What we need to hear from Michael Cohen is that information presented in a transparent fashion. Are you sure you can trust mr. Cohen . Sure has a track record of questionable do you believe Michael Cohen . Well, you know, were at a point now its hard to answer that question with an unequivocal yes because hes going to jail for lying to my committee. This is a guy with nothing to lose though. The big question we are asking today is will Michael Cohens testimony change anything . Joining me is nbc