Within hours it was clearjust how much a change is needed. Five people, including a child died when they fell off a boat trying to cross the channel. The french authorities rescued others. Those were the chaotic scenes on a beach near calais. Migrants attempted to launch an overcrowded boat to begin a journey across the channel. Boat to begin a journey across the channel. The french coastguard said there 110 people on board this dingy when it set off from wimereux, just south of calais. The search and Rescue Operations have been continuing all day. A bbc crew that was filming on the beaches, saw the migrants getting into that boat. Reports say that shortly after it went into the sea the engine failed. Andrew harding reports. A skirmish early this morning on a french beach. 0k, werejust running to catch up with some migrants here. The police are trying to stop a small boat from leaving the shore. It turns violent. And the police are failing. The boat is dangerously overloaded. It looks
Describes the secret meeting to catch and kill stories from Karen Mcdougal and Stormy Daniels before they could sink Donald Trumps president ial campaign. Now, that is not illegal. So, how does testimony from pecker help the prosecution prove that trump committed a crime . Plus, trumps attorney tieing himself in rhetorical knots, trying to defend trumps Social Media Posts and convince the judge trump has not violated his gag order. Todd blanche saying the president is being very careful and the frustrating judge responding, quote, youre losing all credibility with this court. Why is he waiting to rule . And taking its toll, with reporters observing trump as looking thinner and older, against many parts of todays proceedings with his eyes closed and venting his frustration on social media, what will be the impact on this trial and the race for president . We have got more on that coming up. But we start with former National Enquirer ceo david pecker back on the stand right now. One of t
Republican senators like Lindsey Graham and Chuck Grassley appearing to give the president permission to get rid of his Attorney General but theres another way to look at it which is that they seem to be trying to say any action off until after the midterm elections and the confirmation of judge kavanaugh to the Supreme Court and the question is are they telling the president he should get rid of Jeff Sessions or hoping they can slow walk this until things calm down but if youre bob mueller you see november as a day on the calendar that to get your job done before just in case. So susan in his punchback Yesterday Yegs Listjeff session the litany of things he had been leading that were on point with what the president wanted, from enforcing immigration laws, focusing on ms13, the gang, promoting economic growth, et
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And now convicted attorney, Michael Cohen. In his first interview since being sentenced to three years in prison, Michael Cohen told abc news the president s claims are just not true. Nothing in the Trump Organization was ever done unless it was run through mr. Trump. He directed me, as i said in the plea, he directed me to make the payments. But thats not all. Nbc news has confirmed a wall street journal report that trump was in the room with National Enquirer publisher, david pecker, and Michael Cohen in august of 2015 during the actual hush money discussions. This is a direct contradiction to what trump said back in april. Remember this . Reporter did you know about the 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels . Why did Michael Cohen make those . Didnt know where the money came from. Lets start with white house correspondent, Kelly Odonnell. Regarding the hush money payments, cohen said trump knew it was wrong and trumps intent was to, quote, help the campaign. Has there been a reaction fr
Character. Indicting a president. The arguments for and against filing charges if it is determined that President Trump committed a crime. Well start this hour with some new reaction for you from Stormy Daniels attorney Michael Avenatti. To this weeks bombshell, Associated Press report that the National Enquirer kept a safe with documents about hush money payments and damaging stories that it then killed about donald trump leading up to the 2016 election. Now Michael Avenatti spoke to joy reid this morning, speculating here on what might be inside that safe. Plenty of damaging information, joy. I think it is a treasure trove of documents and evidence relating to the extent that Michael Cohen and donald trump went to cover up facts, to hide facts from the American People, in connection with the 2016 election. Do you think this is mostly about paying women off. Is there there is no question. And this is as National Enquirer david pecker and long tief cfo Allen Wiselberg were granted immu