An icy mix in the morning. Now, the new series of storms taking aim at the west before moving east. And, inside the rescue. The pilot who ejected from his military jet into the water, tangled in his parachute. Reunited with the man who saved him. And good evening. Thanks for joining us on this sunday. Im tom llamas. And we begin tonight with President Trump and his team playing defense by going on offense. Counterpunching against Michael Cohen, who was sentenced to prison, in part, he says, due to his loyalty to President Trump. The president and Rudy Giuliani attacking cohens credibility. Giuliani calling him a serial liar, and claiming the hush money payments were not illegal. Both the president and giuliani blasting Robert Mueller, in part for his tactics. Claiming he strongarmed subjects to get them to lie. Heres tara palmeri. Reporter tonight, President Trumps legal team firing back against Michael Cohen, calling him a serial liar. Pathetic. The man is pathetic. Reporter cohen was
Shutdown . Big messages from capitol hill about a possible funding deal. The white house stand firm and its demand for billions of dollars for a border wall . That is coming up. The judge who ruled obamacare and constitutional, even some republicans dont think his reasonable hold up on appeal. We will breakdown what the ruling means and ask our legal eagles what the chances are it goes to the Supreme Court. A defiant fire. Fbi director came out swinging. Katherine herridge facetoface challenging james comey to get the deals. We begin with kristin fisher, the status of a possible Government Shutdown. Reporter there was a moment when it seemed may be a compromise was insight but the day ended with almost 0 progress. A Senior Senate republican sources we are is unsettled as we have been, the they knew anything about a specific plausible proposal that would keep the government. All talk right now. I dont know. If the white house has a plan they are keeping it to themselves. There is no way
Now his lawyer is responding. Our reporting begins now. Shepard our reporting begins with a punishment fit for a fixer. The president s former lawyer is going to prison. A judge today sentenced Michael Cohen to three years behind bars for crimes including Campaign Finance violations that prosecutors say came at the direction of candidate donald trump. Cohens crimes also include lying to congress and tax evasion. Cohen said he showed Blind Loyalty to the president , but also said he takes full responsibility for his actions. Prosecutors seiko when made illegal hush money payments to the porn star Stormy Daniels and Karen Mcdougal to protect President Trump during his campaign. The two women said they had affairs with the president , she denies. Last month, Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to congress with plans about a trump tower in moscow. The project never happened. The president calls cohen weak and said he lied to get a reduced prison sentence. Cohen did get one year less than
President s strategy. We start off with chief correspondent mike emanuel on capitol hill with the situation is frankly looking better now for some kind of deal than it hasnt quite a while. It hours to go until the funding deadline, its time to get serious pit weve seen a flurry of activity with Vice President mike pence, mick mulvaney, Jared Kushner going back and forth between the various leadership offices. We have the top Senate Leaders on the senate floor explaining basically the next time the senate votes, it wont be a partisan deal. Itll be an agreement reached between President Trump from the Senate Leadership, and the house leadership. You have the Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell saying that they realize that to get something across the finish line, to keep at least part of the government continuing up and running and avoid a partial Government Shutdown, you need a president ial signature, a bill that can get that, and at least some democratic support in the senate. They
Yesterday afternoon. So the Senate Democrats have the ability right now to open the government and agree to the deal. The president just a few days ago said he was proud to author a shutdown of his own government. Sources gave mike this number. That the white house lowered their demands to 1. 4 billion nor new fencing and 400 million for other security priorities. Still Schumers Office rejected it. Spokesperson said on saturday the Vice President came in for a discussion and made an offer. Unfortunately we are still very far apart. Asked yesterday why democrats wont budge just a little bit further on the border wall, democratic senator jeff merkley of oregon had this to say on abc this week. We are absolutely willing to fund Border Security. The American People want to spend money in a smart way. 5 billion a lot of money. Thats 650,000 children attending head start. Its 2 million meals a day a year for a year for seniors. And to spend it on the fourth century strategy rather on stuff t