If you paid more in federal income tax than President Trump. Kelly odonnell is at the white house with us. What are you hearing from the white house about this reporting . Reporter it is not often we have a major breaking story just at the time were scheduled to have an encounter in the Briefing Room with the president and that happened today. We were able to ask him about this report and its a lengthy New York Times report and certainly the Trump Organization had been aware of the reporting. They responded in the report. So the president was certainly prepared for this. He denies that the facts are accurate, but here is the problem. He does not provide us with any counter weight. I jumped in a couple of times. He rebuked me for that. That comes with the territory trying to ask the president if not 750 like the reporting suggests, well then what amount in federal tax did you pay . It would not stop the president from providing us that figure or a generalized number or some glimpse of h
This is real life. This is stranger than fiction. Im going to hand it off to my friend chris jansing. Wow its a deluge of news. I am chris jansing. We have more on that bombshell news in the Mueller Investigation. Right now in manhattan federal court, President Trumps former personal attorney and self proclaimed fixer, Michael Cohen, entering a new plea deal with special counsel Robert Mueller. He is Pleading Guilty to lying to congress in closed door testimony about his contacts with the russians during the president ial campaign. Remember, this is a man who was once who once said he would take a bullet for donald trump. And now hes given more than 70 hours of testimony to the mueller team. It would be tough to overstate the significance of cohens cooperation because for more
than a decade, there was, perhaps, no man closer to donald trump and his businesses outside the family. This Breaking News after another dizzying day of developments in the Robert Mueller investigation and as Pre
Right now, many of you just came from the president who was involved in another listening session with leaders in the fight against domestic and International Human trafficking, including representatives from International Justice mission and united way. Their expertise will be invaluable to the president as he engages with members of congress to raise awareness about and push through legislation aimed at preventing all forms of the horrific and unacceptable practice of the buying and selling of human lives. Human trafficking is a dire problem, both domestically and internationally. And solving this epidemic is a huge priority for the president. Dedicated men and women from across the federal government has focused on this for some time. And the president is committed to continue working with these organizations and departments. The participant list for this listening session is also going to be available. The president this evening will attend a dinner with the business council. Today
Back two months ago where he said, when we were talk about getting his report done he threw out the date september 1 as being a reasonable date to get it done. All right. The anniversary of charlottesville, President Trump is spending the day in bedminster, new jersey, but on twitter he is calling for americans to come together as one of his former advisers in an exclusive interview with chuck todd says she heard donald trump on tape using the n word while he was working on the apprentice. You have heard the tape . I had heard the tape. Since publication of this book. Absolutely. So you know it exists. I know it exists and what i regret these people are trying to leverage it as a october surprise. I dont want to be part of that. But i heard for two years that it existed and once i heard it for myself it was confirmed what i fear the most. That donald trump is a con and has been mass quer raiding masquerading as someone who is open to working with the Diverse Communities but hes truly a
This report about what happens to children, babies detained with their parents. Well bring you those details shortly. But first, the Severe Weather in louisiana. Natasha chen live in new orleans. Theres already been so much rain. Reporter thats right. People here yesterday saw intense amounts of rain during their morning commute. It caused a flash flood emergency in addition to a Tornado Warning yesterday. Luckily throughout the day, it dried out. As you can see this morning, right now it is relatively dry. We are expecting, though, much worse as we head into saturday. As people prepare for that, the Flood Protection Authority here is closing more than 200 out of a total of 250 flood gates. They started to do that already and even by the end of today by 5 00 p. M. Eastern, the flood gates here at the port of new orleans where were standing is going to close. Theyve also been in the process of closing pedestrian gates at spanish plaza, at the river walk, at the hilton hotel. These are p