So the russians are going after the same guy the president is. Much more on that shortly. Also breaking news on james comey, what the fired fbi director said about the president and republican lawmakers after his testimony to Congress Today. We begin, though, with the president ial tweet that dove tails with tonights other russia angles statements by Rudy Giuliani that could put him in legal, and political in a box. Whether he intended to or not, giulianis language allows his client did pursue business ties with the russians all the way to the e electors and did e electors and did elections and first, what the president said on twitter about his for r former, Michael Cohen became a rat after the fbi did something that was unthink skpable and und of, they broke into attorneys office, all caps, why didnt they break into the dnc to get the server or crookeds office. Keeping them honest and translating from mob speak. Became a rat is decided to cooperate with federal Law Enforcement, unthi
One for the Southern District of new york. The other for the special counsel, the recommendation for cohen is significant jail time about four years and a fine of 500,000. One of the filings from the special counsel does give us an indication of the kind of information cohen offered on russia. And that section of the filing reason part cohen provided the special Counsel Office with useful information concerning certain discreet russia related matters core to its investigation that he obtained by virtue of his regular contact with Company Executives during the campaign. He provided relevant information persons connected to the white house during the 20172018 time period. Meantime here on capitol hill a short time ago, the former fbi director james comey wrapped up six hours of testimony and at that point he was ready to speak to reporters. If you read the transcript, you will see we are talking again about Hillary Clintons emails for heavens sake. Im not sure we need to do this at all b
Government to ask for added leg of the tent that britain leaves the end of the European Union if necessary. And another thirty scandal hits the sporting world plays in austria and germany make arrests in the sport of nordic ski. Im phil gale welcome to the program. Donald trumps former fix and personal lawyer has made a string of explosive allegations about the us president Michael Cohen told a Congressional Committee that mr trump had prior knowledge of leaked emails from the Democratic Party during the twenty sixteen president ial campaign he also said mr trump instructed him to break Campaign Finance laws mr cohen said at the beginning of the process. Not being ladies and gentleman the days of this committee for taking the president at all caught over. The democratic controlled house flexed its muscle with Michael Cohens live testimony and they couldnt have chosen a more colorful witness to kick off their public oversight hearings i am ashamed because i know what mr trump is he is a
Clinton administration to see a streak like this. Its not official just yet but looks like we came up shy. The dow and the s p 500 back on track nor a 12 game. The nasdaq about a 14. 5 game. One of the fastest starts weve had to a new year in decades. Usually how the first two months of the year go. The other ten months tend to follow. Well keep an eye on that. Also keeping an eye on the president and what he has to so i about Michael Cohens testimony. He says totally discredited. Now the president s finances are being targeted and more digging. Should the president be worried . Now to blake burman on how the white house is responding to all of the above. Blake . Hi, neil. President trump landed here at the white house last night after his trip to vietnam. He went to twitter slamming Michael Cohen. Among the five tweets that he sent out, he reacted to a report that cohen had been shopping a book that would have portrayed the president positively. One of the tweets here that is from the
Reported by nbc news, and it suggests that north korea is rapidly rebuilding one of its key longrange rocket sites. Launching a satellite has much of the same basic technology as launching an icbm, a threestage Intercontinental Ballistic Missile something that could be potentially capable of hitting the continental United States. Look, we are continuing to have ongoing conversations with north korea. As the president has said, well see what happens. I think President Trump has been very clear, theyre not going to get relief from the crushing economic sanctions that have been imposed on them and well look at ramping those sanctions up. A Staggering Number of migrant families are crossing the nations southern border with mexico. More than 76,000 undocumented migrants tried to enter the u. S. Last month alone. Thats the highest total for a february in 12 years. To your knowledge, are you aware of family members who have been separated from their children and deported back to a country wit