Statement to this same committee in 2017 not before the president s lawyers made the edit, a claim cohen made last week in his public testimony before another house committee. There were changes made, additions, jay sekulow for one were there changes about the timing . The gentlemans time is expired, you may answer that question. There were several changes that were made including how we were going to handle that message. Mr. Were you finished . The message, of course, being the length of time that the trump tower moscow project stayed and remained alive. Jay sekulow called cohens allegations that trumps lawyers edited or changed his statement to congress completely false. Cnn senior Congressional Correspondent manu raju is on capitol hill. What more do we know about these documents and edits . Reporter yeah. We were told that Michael Cohen did provide those documents to the committee after his public testimony from last week in which he made that allegation saying that the president s
market, to low unemployment rates both great things to focus on. when the president took office, he also vowed to eliminate the federal deficit and yet in just the first four months of the 2019 fiscal year, it has exploded, ballooning a whopping 77%, just let that sink in for a moment. in four months ballooning 77%. it now stands at $310 billion. at the same time the u.s. trade deficit is now the largest in the country s history, that you may remember was another core campaign promise. i want to bring in mya mcginnis. good to have you here. as we look at all of this, we heard that, yes, it s part of the increases due to shifting of certain payments but that is not the only reason. why is the federal deficit sky rocketing like this? yeah, particularly given how strong the economy is, this is extremely discouraging news and yet at the same time, entirely predictable because the reason the deficit s going up so much
and then the times on the straight talk express back in 2000, mya mcginnis tweeted a picture of her, me and john, and i looked a lot younger then, but he really did capture lightning in a bottle for a while there. and he s just a great american. and i m so sorry to see him go. i can say, also, that i spoke with him very often as i was coming in here. and he absolutely 100% encouraged me to serve this president because he wants people to serve their country. he said he served a cause greater than himself and thinks everybody should do that because it s so rewarding. you remember how happy he was always the time? it was because he was basically taken over by the joy of serving a cause greater than himself. i truly believe that. i kind of feel that way, too. and i can say that he would have loved this trade deal. he really would have loved this trade deal. because basically it modernizes nafta, it s great for mexico, it s great for america, it s called for a lot of things like harmo
this is a retiring senator. as we talked about, he doesn t have all that much to lose other than jeff flake, now in trouble, electorally for his comments, we ve not seen a lot of other folks come out. roger wicker was from mississippi, was on our air earlier today. yeah. and criticized corker not trump over this back and forth. yeah. i mean, i m not even going to open the possibility of is this a floodgate moment. not even that. i m just talking about getting stuff done today, their priorities today, what that means for the relationship today. i mean, mya, bob corker is one of the few republicans who has been speaking up, calling on republicans to stick with what has long been republican principles of holding back on spending, revenue neutral tax reform, is he now the odd man out in this new push? well, that s absolutely right. he is one of the few voices that s kind of reminding the principles of fiscal responsibility and so this backdrop of the loss of civility is all occurri
to peru, clinton said security at all of america s diplomatic missions is her job. clinton is pushing back against republicans who have been highly critical of the obama administration s response to the deadly attack. the september 11 attack in benghazi killed ambassador chris stevens along with three other americans, and in the weeks since then, the administration has struggled to present a clear picture of what happened. last night in peru, hillary clinton sought to take the mounting pressure off the white house. nobody wants to get answers more than i do. clinton was asked to address remarks made by u.n. ambassador susan rice in which rice said the attack was not preplanned but rather an offshoot of a protest of an anti-muslim video. she got the same information that everyone got. i think she very clearly said here s what we know now. but this is going to change. in an interview with cnn, clinton tried to further distance the white house from the attacks, saying i