they come in sets, now the two page filing orders each subpoena recipients in alexandria, virginia, at 10:00 a.m. on july 10th to testify. this filing is in addition to 35 previously requested sets. now in virginia, manafort is facing several charges including bank fraud and filing false tax returns. he s also facing charges in a washington, d.c. manafort has pleaded not guilty to all the charges that he is currently facing. we re also learning that mueller is focusing on alleged interactions between former trump campaign official rick gates and political operative roger stone. sources on a condition of anonymity saying the questions have been largely about what was discussed at meetings including dinners between stone and gates, before and during the campaign. sources telling cnbc a long time adviser to donald trump is one
welcome back, everybody. i m yasmin vossoughian. we ll begin with a new questions for president trump this morning and whether he s a new legal jeopardy following a stunning admission from rudy giuliani about hush money paid to porn star stormy daniels. giuliani s comments they actually seemed to contradict what the president has said raising red flags about whether campaign finance laws were actually broken. kristen welker has more on this. reporter: presidential flip-flop, president trump pressed about why he s reversed his account about the $130,000 payment to porn star stormy daniels. mr. president, why are you changing your story orn stormy daniels? reporter: this after a bombshell, the newest member of the president s legal team rudy giuliani announcing for the first time the president reimbursed his personal attorney michael cohen for that hush money payment made to daniels in the days before the 2016
election. it s not campaign money, no campaign finance violation, so they funneled it through the law firm? funneled through the law firm and the president repaid it. oh, he did. yeah. the president initially claimed he knew nothing. did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? no. then why did michael cohen make that if there was no you have to ask michael cohen. he s my attorney and you ll have to ask michael. reporter: but for the first time tweeting he repaid cohen through reimbursement. and extortionist. giuliani insisting the president only found out what hisk money was used for several days ago. so was the payment illegal. an independent watch dog group argues mr. trump broke the law
dimini diminished. it comes on the heels of an nbc news report from earlier had week. back in february john kelly successfully dissituated trump from withdrawing all u.s. troops from the korean peninsula. americans troops are there due to the alliance and it, quote, has nothing to do with signing a peace treaty. something that south korean president moon jae-in kim jong-un has actually agreed to. the trump administration is responding to reports that the three americans detained in north korea had been moved from a labor camp to a hotel outside of pyongyang and while we await news anticipating their release, it appears president trump s attorney rudy giuliani and the white house are not on the same page regarding the current status of these three americans. watch this. he s getting ready to negotiate probably one of our most historic agreements since the opening to china with iran, perhaps.
i guess that s what it s for. nbc news has learned that federal investigators have monitored the phones of the president s personal attorney and fixer michael cohen according to three senior u.s. officials. only the phone numbers of the callers and receivers were logged. a source tells nbc news that the monitoring was put in place in the weeks leading up to the raids last month on cohen and that at least one call associated with cohen and the white house was actually logged. after the raid, members of trump s legal team advised the president not to speak to cohen, that s from a person familiar with this discussion, two sources close to rudy giuliani say he learned that days after the raid the president had made a phone call to michael cohen and that he told trump never to call again out of concern the call was being recorded by prosecutors. we re also told that giuliani warned trump that cohen would likely flip and that the president pushed back telling giuliani that he expects cohen