Key Campaign Themes today. Immigration, alleged voter fraud and more, uttering as youll see, a whole string of red meat slogans that are actually untrue. We want to begin with the president talking for the first time about the hush money facilitated by Michael Cohen to keep daniels quiet. Today on air force one the president was asked by a reporter and he answered. Did you know about the 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels . No. Then why did Michael Cohen make it . You have to ask Michael Cohen. Michael is my attorney. You have to ask michael. Do you know where he got the money to make that payment . No, i dont know. Well, both daniels and a former playboy model, Karen Mcdougal have alleged affairs with then citizen donald trump. But until today the president has refused to answer questions about either woman. Thank you all very much. Lying about the affairs . Mr. President , is Karen Mcdougal telling the truth . Will you watch 60 minutes . Mr. President , are you going to watch 60 minut
Practices. John roberts joins us live now with the latest. Hi, jon. Arthel, good morning to you. At the moment, this is all saber rattling to see who will blink first. Is its going to be xi jinping or President Trump . The president reacting to the threat of china putting tariffs on some 50 billion worth of u. S. Goods saying last night, well, how about we hit china with tariffs on another 100 billion in goods . The president said he has to be tough with china to protect American Companies and jobs. Listen here. We dont have a trade war. Weve lost the trade war. For many years, whether its clinton or the bushes or obama, all of our president s before have for some reason, they just it just got worse and worse. Now its 500 billion in deficits. And a theft of 300 billion in intellectual property. The easiest thing for me to do is close any eyes and forget it. Clearly thats not something the president is about to do. The markets swooning again today over fears of a trade war between the u
Tomorrows hearing . Cia director mike pompeo faces questions thursday in his bid to become the secretary of state. We will hear from one of the centers will be questioning them tomorrow. We have Team Coverage tonight. Kristin fisher tracking develop its in the middle east following the president tweet that missiles are headed for syria. Chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge here with the latest. We begin with chief National Correspondent ed henry covering the mueller probate great to see you. So much breaking news. One source who saw the search warrants involving Michael Cohen is now saying the real goal was a search and destroy mission against President Trump. Washington post breaking a major story tonight saying that steve bannon, former white house aide, now has a controversial plan to blow up all cooperation with robert mueller. All of this is stemming from the fact that we are learning a lot more right now about what the fbi was really looking for when they targeted
Several Russian Oligarchs have been stopped and questioned by muellers team in a twist that sounds like it comes out of a spy thriller at least one had his Electronic Devices searched whether his private jet landed in new york. Apparently an effort to ensure he couldnt wipe his phone before investigators got to look at it. Sources are telling cnn that mueller wants to find out whether those russians illegally funneled cash into Donald Trumps campaign. That is more evidence that theyre digging deep in the potential flow of russia into the 2016 election. You know what they say, follow the money. Were learning for tonight about President Trumps suddenly announced plan to send National Guard troops to the border. The president signing the memorandum just tonight after his own Administration Spent the day ducking questions about how many troops, when theyll arrive, where exactly theyll be deployed, and what theyll be expected to do. All questions this administration ought to be able to answ
On fox friends, will it be ed, will it be pete . Do i have to make this . All right. Watch it, pete. [cheers and applause] [laughter] winner. Abby youre good. Did you sleep at all last night . I am so excited about this victory. Its almost like the masters when youre in the lead and you wake up sunday morning, im the leader at the masters. You know, ive got to keep it. Theres so much nervous energy, but in this case i actually won, so i cant lose now. Pete you did. Hes a cinderella story. We asked the crowd on the plaza who do you think will win, and almost unanimously, it was all for pete, and after the first putt, they all went to ed. Ed i didnt want to rub it in, so i wore a green tie, you know, the whole tradition at the masters pete didnt want to rub it in. Listen, i thought it was a gimme putt, i felt good about it, and there you go. Ed you stabbed at it. Pete but you nailed, i gotta give it to you, a clutch putt the whole before ed to tie it. Abby you had some green on, but the