Passed by the mid terms. Here with us today is an extraordinary man Sergeant Allen jones. Ive been told that i can never enter the oval office. [cheers] steve welcome to this july 25th, 2018; ainsley welcome back. Brian hey, thank you. Im glad to be back. My daughter was in colorado for these National Soccer championships. Steve because she is a star. Brian the team lost three round one games so therefore im back and so is she. Ainsley what year is she in school . What grade . Brian she is going into tenth grade. Steve congratulations to get that far quite an achievement. Brian certainly a long plane ride. Nothing has slowed down especially around 6 00 last night. By the way there is going to be a tape released about donald trump and his maligned Attorney Michael Cohen. Steve brian, it sounds like you are watching cnn again. A secret recording between President Trump and his former Attorney Michael Cohen has now been revealed. Ainsley in that tape which was leaked by cohens lawyer to c
One for the Southern District of new york. The other for the special counsel, the recommendation for cohen is significant jail time about four years and a fine of 500,000. One of the filings from the special counsel does give us an indication of the kind of information cohen offered on russia. And that section of the filing reason part cohen provided the special Counsel Office with useful information concerning certain discreet russia related matters core to its investigation that he obtained by virtue of his regular contact with Company Executives during the campaign. He provided relevant information persons connected to the white house during the 20172018 time period. Meantime here on capitol hill a short time ago, the former fbi director james comey wrapped up six hours of testimony and at that point he was ready to speak to reporters. If you read the transcript, you will see we are talking again about Hillary Clintons emails for heavens sake. Im not sure we need to do this at all b
Tonight, keeping him honest, given we know there was a duly approved counterintelligence probe under way at the time and there was russian interference in the campaign, what to those words really mean . Are they his way of signaling hes merely ensuring all investigations are conducted properly or do they mean hes embracing the Conspiracy Theory of the origins of the russian probe . The answer matters because barr is the top Law Enforcement officer in the country and the person in that role is supposed to serve the country, not the president. He made a judgment call not to pursue an obstruction of justice case against President Trump, the one who summarized Robert Muellers report in a way that has drawn allegations from inside muellers own team that he misrepresented their work. Hes the one who ultimately decides what we get to see of that report and what we dont, and what Congress Gets to see and what they dont. His judgment matters and the words he chooses are a big part of it, which
Border wall is in the senates hands. And new subpoena from the Trump Administrations policies to rip children from their families at the border. There are new disturbing details there. Just because a republican gets away with it, doesnt mean a representative can, matt gaetz just learned that. Joes mom is in hospice. Hes with his family this morning and hope he will be back tomorrow. Along with willie and me we have the author of the book a world in disarray, Richard Haass. Good morning, as the president is minutes away from his second meeting with kim jong un. Johnny deutsche is with us and will set the stage for Michael Cohens testimony today. And new reporting this morning on that very testimony. Racist, con man, cheat, these are the words Donald Trumps former lawyer, Michael Cohen, will use to describe the president before the House Oversight committee this morning. A draft of cohens Opening Statement obtained by nbc news, includes allegations the president had advance knowledge abo
The one who summarized Robert Muellers report in a way that has drawn allegations from inside muellers own team that he misrepresented their work. Hes the one who ultimately decides what we get to see of that report and what we dont, and what Congress Gets to see and they dont. His judgment matters and the words he chooses are a big part of it, which is why his testimony today to the Senate Appropriations subcommittee about the origins of the russia investigation was so striking and why lawmakers kept going back to try and make sense of what mr. Barr was saying. First came up when New Hampshire democratic senator Jeanne Shaheen asked about reports that attorney general barr has a special group looking into why the fbi opened their investigation of the russian interference in the 2016 election. Heres what he told her. For the same reason were worried about foreign influence in elections, we want to make sure that during i think spying on a Political Campaign is a big deal, its a big dea