we re back and we have a lot more to get to. new reporting from nbc news reveals that president trump s long-time lawyer, michael cohen, is trying to silence the porn star, stormy daniels, over her alleged relationship with the president. stay with us here. last week, cohen obtained a secret restraining order. more on that later. through an arbitration process that warned daniels she ll face penalties if she starts to talk. the news comes one day after we learned that daniels, whose real name is stephanie clifford, filed a lawsuit against president trump. in it daniels alleged that an agreement not to disclose her intimate relationship with the president is invalid because trump never actually signed the document. the hush agreement as it s called in the suit directed $130,000 to be given to daniels
general sessions went after, she s a brown protege. this is the city he was mayor of in addition to the fact that he supports the law for a lot of reasons. am i wrong to assume that a lot of people in the most populous state in the union will throw down over these ice raids intended to send people out of this country? yeah. this is a very hot topic here in the state. certainly the sanctuary state law, it s important to know when it passed the legislature last year, it was scaled dramatically back and compromised with some of those same law enforcement officers that sessions of speaking to today. there are three provisions that the government is going after. yeah, this is something that has pretty wide support in the state. the last poll we talked about in our story today had more than 60% of the state supportive of the measure and president trump has less than a third of support in the state and i suggest there will be continued protests that
had a confrontation in the oval office in which the president said, look, this never happened. and mcgahn had to remind him of what had occurred over the summer when trump told him to call rosenstein and say that mueller had these conflicts and needed to go. just an incredible yarn. michael schmidt, one half of the writing duo of schmidt and haberman on the board tonight over at the new york times supplying our lead story. michael, thank you as always for being here with us on the show. and here to react now further, chuck rosenberg, a former u.s. attorney, former senior fbi official, currently an msnbc contributor. and we welcome back mika oyang, attorney and former staffer for the house intelligence and armed services committee. good evening and welcome to you both. chuck, if you watch too many movies or legal shows on tv, you go around using phrases like, witness tampering. is there anything legally wrong,
peter baker, let s swing back to the news business and that equals what the publica knows out of the white house today. this arbitration term put this right inside the white house today. yeah, it did. for the first time in a way the white house has tried very hard to sort of sidestep this story, doesn t want any part of it, you can understand why. when sarah sanders today at the briefing did disclose this idea of an arbitration result that was favorable to the president, it seemed to put the white house right in the middle of it. it seemed to acknowledge there was, in fact, a real dispute here. that there is, in fact, an issue that the president has not himself addressed, which is, what is the situation with his relationship with this woman? what kind of arrangement was made that resulted in her
it is very clear from brown s ambassadors. actions. jerry brown used something that used trump s tones and used the word sad in all caps in his tweet. he doesn t normally out and do news conferences. he joined the attorney general. that clip there was one of the mild ones, he mentioned the russia investigation, said that had something to do with this. he said this is going to war with california. when you have a governor who chooses his word and public appearances carefully, you know this has gotten under his skin. it s important to point out the mayor of oakland, who attorney general sessions went after, she s a brown protege. this is the city he was mayor of in addition to the fact that he supports the law for a lot of reasons. am i wrong to assume that a lot of people in the most populous state in the union will