Coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Bookminder, executive director for citizens for responsibilities and ethics. And Midwin Charles is an attorney. President trump reacted to cohens plea this morning on twitter where he writes if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, i would strongly suggest you that dont retain the services of Michael Cohen. Okay. Lets remind our audience, the president is downplaying this. Being funny, almost cute. Theres nothing cute about it. The president of the United States is the chief Law Enforcement officer. That is what he is. And yesterday, he has been accused as a coconspirator of a federal crime, maybe multiple. So, please, let that sit in. Midwin what is your take here . My take is this is consistent with donald trump. We have seen him react this way to a varietydifferent thinks
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The president ial candidate and resurfacing allegations over alleged treatment of women. Add to that rumors of a potential big name pick for vice president. Who might that be . And the first voting in the west for the democratic primary has started. Which voters will show up in force in the first test of minority voting . Plus, attorney general william barr. His next moves and what it means for what was a venorated government institution, the department of justice. Early voting but not anymore. The Washington Post reports on lawsuits filed against candidate Michael Bloomberg throughout his career. Saying they allege, quote, women were discriminated against at bloombergs Business Information company. Including a case brought by a federal agency and one filed by a former employee, who blamed bloomberg for creating a culture of Sexual Harassment and degradation. Now, that report also says a number of the cases have either been settled, dismissed in bloombergs favor, or closed because of a
Like there were bombs going on. Adriana hauser is live for us. Do officials now how it all started . Reporter theyre starting to have an idea what could have possibly caused this massive fire that began with a series of explosions here in tavares, florida. We know there were no fatalities as a result of had explosion. Authorities are calling this a miracle and a blessen, given the huge fire and the series of explosions that took place here last night around 11 00 p. M. Authorities say the focus now is the investigation. There is no conclusion yet, but theyre starting to believe, john, the cause could have been equipment failure or human error. We wont know for sure until the investigation is concluded, but that is what authorities hear are starting to believe. Lets take a listen. We had an opportunity to listen to the fire chief of tavares. We dont think that there was any act of sabotage or anything like that. We honestly think it was probably an equipment failure with a combination o
Today, state senator jamil jamiljamila Jamila Nasheed delivered a petition for the prosecutor to recuse himself. I am here today to deliver 70,000 signatures. [ applause ] those signatures basically are coming from everywhere throughout this country. Worldwide. People have made a statement. But when she went to deliver those petitions to the office, something unbelievable happened. We want to take them to the office subpoena. I i know. We have a few people here. I know. This is a public entity. This is our First Amendment right. Im an elected official. I know. For the senator for the state of missouri. Yes, maam. How dare you tell me i cant go up . This is a public building. Maam. Step over the line and you will get arrested. How can ferguson residents have confidence in police and other officials when they block a state senator from a public building . A few minutes later, she was brought inside and mr. Mcculloch vowed to stay on the case saying, i have no intention of walking away fr
You are pretty [ gunshots ] youre so fine. Just going on some of your videos. Again, nbc news has not confirmed that this is the sound of the shots that killed Michael Brown. Author do we know what happened immediately before or after this recording. But nbcs ron allen spoke with the lawyer of the man who made the tape. She says the fbi was interested in the recording and what made the biggest impression on her was the pause in the gunfire. I think that what is important is no matter how its interested, there was a pause. There was a pause of three seconds. Now what that pause means may mean something different, you know. As an attorney i know you have to argue both sides. I can see arguments that could be made for both sides. However, the fact that there was a pause and this was not just some sort of emotional bam, bam, bam, bam, bam and thats it, there was a pause. What could that be . The pause . To me, you have a chance to think. No matter what side of the coin you end up on, there