Investigation. And a powerful dust storm kills more than eight hundred people in india extreme winds smashed walls and tariff trees across the northwest. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program today marks World Press Freedom day and d. W. Is taking a closer look at the state of freedom around the world the International Press watchdog Reporters Without Borders says that hostility toward the press is on the rise worldwide often encouraged by political leaders even in democratic countries it classified the situation in seventy out of the worlds one hundred eighty countries as either bad or very bad and you can see the ones with those that are very bad situations that they are in the regions that are colored. In our map china and iran remain among the worlds countries that are worst for journalists in china in particular all media are subject to strict censorship and foreign journalists can be closely monitored its estimated that at least fifteen journalists and around forty bloggers are c
Agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in the watergate scandal as the president s personal lawyer. Kalmbach showed no emotion. He said id like you to know how deeply embarrassed i am and how sorry i am to be here thjudge announced the sentence. Not six n 18 months with a fine of 10,000. He left the court and went straight to a waiting car without comment. He is the 14th person to be sentenced for a crime related to watergate. As president Richard Nixons personal attorney, Herb Kalmbach and his firm did a lot of runofthemill personal legal tasks for e president. They, for example, signed the checks for president to make his mortay they made sure he kept up on his property taxes they arranged the purchase of the mansin san clemente, california, that the Nixon Administration liked to call the western white house. Before maralago there was san clemente. But as nixons personal attorney, Herb Kalmbach also ended up up to heck in a lot of different kinds of shady and ultimately illegal nixon s
When i meet the leaders of countries, the first thing they say invariably, is, mr. President , so nice to meet you. Congratulations on your economy. You are leading the entire world. America is being respected again and america is winning again because we are finally putting america first. Everywhere we look we are seeing the effects of the American Economic miracle. Dana all right, jesse. One of the things about this is we had 4. 1 growth back in 2014. The former cbo guy was on the 2 00 show today and said the difference this time is that the economy was growing in all the right ways. So he does think it is quite sustainable. Jesse yeah. So does the president and thats what all his advisors have told him. The trump economy is so good obama is trying to take credit for it at this point remember they said that trump was going to crash the markets and now the economy. Juan is this the comedy hour or the five . Jesse im funny but also right. [laughter] remember, they said trump was going
Tonight, it really looked like dr. Fords lawyers and the republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee might be on about track to negotiate some sort of mutually agreeable terms under which dr. Ford would appear in some way before that committee to discuss her allegation. The fact that those negotiations were under way tonight is publicly known. The written communication from dr. Fords lawyers to the committee which sort of started off those negotiations today, that statement is also publicly known. Ill share that with you in just a second. As of tonight, heading into air time tonight, we thought those negotiations were far enough along that dr. Fords lawyer would be able to join us live to tell us tonight right here what was going to happen, but no. It sort of fell apart at the last moment. Now theyre very nice about it. Im not mad. My feelings are not hurt. But the reason they gave us for cancelling sort of at the last minute tonight may itself be news. Dr. Fords legal team t
Listen for cohen mentioning Allen Weisselbergs name. I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend david so im going to do that right away. Ive spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding yes. And its all the stuff, all the stuff. You never know where that company, where hes going to be. If he gets hit by a truck. Correct. Im all over that. I spoke to allen about it. All right. Lets chat about this. Gloria borger is with me, National Political reporter m. J. Lee, and legal analyst, a former federal prosecutor. So, m. J. , straight to you on your reporting. Tell me more about weisselberg and why hes a key piece. Remember that weisselberg has been with the Trump Organization and working for donald trump for many, many years. So a part of it is sort of the length of time that he has worked for donald trump is so long. And in his position at the Trump Organization he knew anything and everything. This is what a former