A morning newscast featuring breaking news and weather reports. Reporter good morning, martin. Thats right, President Trump is spending the week at new jersey amid the stwirl of Unanswered Questions surrounding that now infamous meeting at trump tower and his son and a russian lawyer, leaving the twhous yesterday, President Trump refused to take questions of his former Attorney Michael Cohen that cohen had advanced knowledge. Trump and his legal team denied. They say trump is privately furious about the legal scrutiny facing him and his circle. Trump is trying to fire off a series of tweets attacking democrats and making remarks yesterday at the white house about the economy because this is all coming at a backdrop for the successful trade talks and what was able to taught strong
growth in the Second Quarter of this year after the numbers came out on friday. Russia has continued to pull focus from the president s economic message, washington was fixated yesterday on an incredibles coin
Damaging winds. Good evening to all of you in hawaii. Just 10 00 p. M. Good morning to the rest of you. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is thursday, august 23rd. It is 4 00 a. M. In the east. The white house struggles to contain the fallout from the Michael Cohen guilty plea. President trump is turning to personal attacks. Cohen implicated trump for coordinating Hush Payments to a porn star to sway an election. The president tried to minimize cohens role in life and business. He was one of many lawyers for me. They say the lawyer and they like to say the fixer. I dont know if he was a fixer. I dont know where that term came from. He has been a lawyer for me. He did not do big deals. Small deals. Not somebody with me that much. Somebody who said i did not live without him. The payments Michael Cohen made to the two women who allege they had an affair with trump. What he knew and when. The president saying with fox news he did in the know about the payments until later on. He did
The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. That conversation obviously referencing david pecker, as well. We reached out for comment and we havent heard back just yet. Thanks so much. Lets chat about this with our experts. Another ally of the president s talking to authorities, the walls seem to be closing in a bit. It gives an indication of why the document was so thorough. They had the cooperation of david pecker. We dont know what more that means, how much and what other Information Pecker has that cohen wasnt aware of. A trump friend reportedly told vanity fair quote holy s, i thought pecker would be the last one to turn. I have to say this is a powerful guy and the fact that he is cooperating with authorities i
find it is hard to believe he is doing it out of the goodness of his heart. It almost makes you think they put their pressure on david pecker. He is a powerful guy. He is covered as a media organization. You could put up
President s personal attorney we learned yesterday, mike the cohen, got hired three days into the Trump Administration, to help at t on its merger that the president said he was going to kill and he racked up a total of nearly 3 million from them, and other corporate clients. Drain the swamp . What about all of those trump cabinet expenses . Drain the swamp . Like, drain it with what . Ben carsons 31,000 dining set . The 139,000 that ryan zinke spent on doors . Let me say that again. Let me let me say that again, for those of you who were working around the clock, night and day, to try to get your kids, to be able to do better than you have done, like my parents tried to do with me . Like its our dream think about your salary, think about the fact that ryan zinke spent 139,000 on doors. What about scott pruitt . He had luxury flights and sweetheart condo deals from a lobbyist. And dont forget secretary mnuchin took a government jet that you paid for, a government jet that your taxes pa
Trump down because of his public reputation of not doing what his lawyers tell him to do and not paying his bills. Tonight we have more ed of just how right those lawyers were of donald trump when they turned him down. The president keeps doing things that lawyers normally dont have to advise their clients not to do. Like attacking the federal prosecutor who is investigating him and attacking the Justice Department and the fbi because they are investigating him. It wouldnt occur to lawyers to tell their clients do not attack the prosecutors or the lawyers or the fbi. But it does occur to every lawyer, ever lawyer, to tell their clients not to talk about the case with anyone, especially not to talk about the case with other potential witnesses and people involved in the case. But donald trump has done that, and he has done that repeatedly and that is tonights breaking news story in the New York Times. Which cary it is headline, trump spoke to witnesses about matters they discussed with