Eric former Deputy Assistant attorney Thomas Dupree will dig into all of it but we begin with rick leventhal. A stunning set of admissions in Lower Manhattan by a man who was one of the president s most trusted employees. He lied, paid women off he says to pay his boss. He walked out of the courthouse late yesterday free on 500,000 bond pled guilty to hiding income from his Taxi Cab Business and hiding debt to secure a Home Equity Loan and arranging payments to two women in the runup to the president ial election in coordination in and at the direction for a candidate to federal office to try to help him win. Mr. Cohen disregarded that training, that tradition and decided that he was above the law and for that he is going to pay a very, very serious price. He admitted he paid 130,000
to stephanie clifford, Stormy Daniels, because she was ready to go public with a claimed affair with mr. Trump. And he arranged to reimburse a tabloid to bury a story about Karen Mcdougal who also claimed
being defended by president trump is probably not the ally you want out there saying that. whether he s correct or not. so that is at the not the high-profile political person nancy pelosi wants making the case for her. on the tim alberta book, i read this book and it is a fantastic book and filled with nuggets like that. and, look, paul ryan left the scene now and he s pretty free to speak. but classic trump coming paul ryan making a fairly measured criticism of the president and trump hitting him back twice as hard with a sort of school yard taunt. we shouldn t, abby, be surprised the president reacts the way he does in the face of criticism. why is it that so many of the republicans wait until they re out of office before they say what they really believe? that is a great question, wolf. i think especially for paul ryan who especially in the latter part of the tenure really went out of his way to defend president trump in the face of a
but for a public official, for example, congressmen to tweet people and say something that a teenager would say. avenatti seems to have inserted him through the pornography industry into the minds of americans on the news. these are ridiculous statements. it is kind of like a school yard taunt. i guess twitter is taunting. that s where we are today. i don t think it s very serious. avenatti is someone i don t take very seriously. sandra: the president suggesting michael cohen is making up stories. you ve known him for about five years as we understand it. do you think he is? i think it s entirely possible that michael cohen will make up a story to try to get lienensy for crimes that he committed that didn t involve trump at all. i believe that s what happened here. they say he is not cooperating. but if it looks like a duck and
jong-un. an absolutely stunning scenario given the stakes, nuclear war. the school yard taunt happening at the same time the trump administration was basking in incredible step towards diplomacy. reports of possible dialogue between the north and south confirmed hours after the tweet. north korea picking up the phone not once, but twice, to reopen a hotline to south korea. but was it undermined by trump s taunt? it s hard to say. but oh, to have been a fly at the wall at the president s lunch today with secretary of state rex tillerson and mattis. here with me to talk about that. i always laugh when i read your title, book that looks at the u.s. government s doomsday plans in a nuclear world. so nice to see you. happy new year to you. happy new year to you. let s get past the bs and
trump and i guess nikki haley and others do not understand, we don t give foreign aid and humanitarian aid just to make ourselves feel good. those dollars are strategic to allow the united states to continue to have soft power across the globe and you just aren t smart if you believe that threatening that, over, let me, let s, remember what this was. this was a non-binding resolution, this sort of a sense of the united nations, it doesn t matter, at the end of the day, great. they did it yesterday. the sun has no impact. they engaged in something between school yard taunt and a mob boss threat and they did it