Side of your screen is also a saudi diplomat who, according to a source, has close ties to saudis crown prince, mohammed bin salman. President trump acknowledges if audio exists, then the United States has asked for it. But then President Trump who makes snap judgments before statements have been vetted continues to defend saudi arabia. Saudi arabia has been a very important ally of ours in the middle east. Were stopping iran. We made a big deal when we took away that ridiculous step made by the previous administration. 1. 8 billion in cash, what was that all about . And they are an ally. We have other very good allies in the middle east. If you look at saudi arabia, theyre an ally and theyre a tremendous purchaser of not only military equipment but other things. When i went there, they committed to purchase 450 billion worth of things and 110 billion worth of military. Those are the biggest orders in the history of this country, probably the history of the world. I dont think theres ever been any order for 450 billion. And you remember that day in saudi arabia where that commitment was made. So theyre an important ally, but i want to find out what happened, where is the fault, and we will probably know that by the end of the week. But mike pompeo is coming back. Were going to have a long talk. Lets bring in White House Correspondent kaitlan collins. The president is showing patience. Reporter he is, also a change in tone from when it started when the president had a stone saying if it was the saudis found to be responsible, there will be severe punishment. Now were hearing him cite their strong denials and also say hes not giving them cover but, brooke, he is stressing multiple times today and interactions with reporters where he is stressing what an important al lie he believes saudi arabia is to the United States. You saw him talking about the arms deal, talking about american deals it will create and how much money it is. That echos mike pompeo, who the president sent to riyadh and turkey saying that, too. He said i think its important that everyone keep in their mind this relationship between saudi arabia and the United States. Now, thats raising concern for critics who say theyre not focusing enough on the moral leadership here and instead focusing on the financial benefits of this u. S. saudi relationship, talking about iran and the iran deal there with those sanctions going into place in november. So weve got that focus right now. President trump essentially says were waiting to see what secretary of state mike pompeo says when he gets back to the United States. Hes on his way back from turkey right now to brief the president essentially on what he discovered in those meetings. But from the Public Comment weve heard, it doesnt sound like hes been convinced of any overwhelming evidence and said he hasnt listened to any audio that substantiates the claim that this reporter was murdered while in the saudi consulate. And theres also the question about whether Steven Mnuchin is going to travel to that Investment Conference in riyadh. Hes supposed to leave at the end of the week. Right now President Trump said essentially a decision would be made by the end of the week. Were told hes still making the plans to go there and that hasnt changed as of yet. As to questions about whether or not theyre behind this disappearance are still mounting and growing by the hour. Kaitlian, tha akaitlan, than reporting and your setup there. Lets get some more perspective and go to chris cizzilla. The president has a habit of backing leaders who exert absolute power. Thats exactly right, brooke. Thats a pattern, a rule, not the exception. I want to see if we can show the various athuthoritarian leaderse has praised. Hes saying they deny it, therefore, it must not be true. Lets start here, turkish president erdogan. Donald trump has said he gets very high marks about erdogan, Donald Trumps words. There was a scuffle outside the embassy between protesters and Turkish Security forces. Erdogan was watching during that. Russia, we know vladimir putin. Donald trump continues to defend vladimir putin. Its not just on the claims of russian interference in the election, honestly facts based on the u. S. Intelligence community, but he defends him on lots of things, hes a strong leader, his people respond to him. As i mentioned, weve got the saudi arabians. Kim jong un. Donald trump said recently i like how when he talks, his people sit up and pay attention. Theres a reason for that. Look at his human rights record. Thats fear. Hes an authoritarian. And we go to president xi in china. President trump said jokingly at a republican fundraiser first reported by cnn that xi is president for life and maybe trump would try that. He likes that hes the most he says hes consolidated power faster than any president in chinese history. Theres a commonality here. He likes people who are forceful, who he believes their people stand up for them. The problem is none of these people represent a democracy and donald trump does. Im not sure he understands that difference, brooke. So theres the theme there with all those guys and its also noteworthy when you listen to whose word this president accepts versus totally dismisses. Theres a huge deniable double standard. There just is. Ive gone through a lot of these. Brett kavanaugh, right . This is someone who says in this interview yesterday Brett Kavanaugh was proven innocent. You can debate what you think about Brett Kavanaugh but him being on the Supreme Court is not proven innocent of the allegations by Christine Blasey ford. It means the senate decided he was good enough to be in the senate and they thought that didnt matter as much. Climate change skeptics. One of the most amazing parts of this a. P. Interview with donald trump, he mentioned that his uncle was an m. I. T. Professor. He said he never talked to him about Climate Change about that you donald trump has an affinity for science and he know there is are arguments on both sides. The reality is there isnt really. Scientists agree about Climate Change. Let go to the people he doubts. I mentioned Christine Blasey ford, saying its a hoax, a democratic hoax. She denied democrats pushed her into it. Climate change scientists. The u. S. Intelligence. Lets not forget, brooke, the unanimous decision finding by the u. S. Intelligence community was that russia sought to interfere in our election in 2016 to help donald trump and hurt Hillary Clinton and yet here we are. Port ricos hurricane study. It showed the number of deaths vastly larger than previously reported because that went against donald trump saying there were a small number of death, he doubts it. And even when donald trump was a private citizen, he believes people he likes and who support his agenda. This is political and nonpolitical. He does not believe and chooses not to believe denials of people who are not for him, not on his side, not like him. Its a giant theres a huge fizzi i physical fissure here. And its all based on whether you say nice thing about him or you dont. What is the message that this sends to people and what is the global perception of the United States and of this president . The other thing to think about is what do all these people have in common in the accepts or denials . All praise donald trump. Donald trump is smart, hes strong, hes somebody who knows what hes doing. Brett kavanaugh in his Supreme Court nomination speech, odd that that even happened, said it was the greatest honor of my life that donald trump bestowed this on me. These are all people who say nice things about him. Hes very simple in that way. You say nice things about him, he says nice things about you. Doesnt ov dont overthink it. Coming up, tax particulcticsn projects failed. And now former trump lawyer Michael Cohen is planning to go after the president politically. What cnn is learning about his plan to hit the campaign trail with democrats. And after Roseanne Barrs departure, we finally now how the network wrote her off. S on , every day. Not just airline purchases. loud holy moley thats a lot of miles shhhhh whats in your wallet . Shhhhh where are mom and dad . saved money on motorcycle insurance with geico goin up the country. Love mom and dad im takin a nap. Dude, you just woke up im goin up the country, baby dont you wanna go . 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Weve got to talk about this eye opening new report about the trump Family Business and a pattern of corrupt businesses. Their eightmonth investigation uncovered a pattern of deceptive sales number. And after months of hyping their close involvement, the trump family would deny responsibility and just up and walk away. I have Andrea Bernstein with me, the Senior Editor of politics and policy and one of the many people involved in this mega investigation. Its huge, all of what you guys dug up. Give me some specific examples of how the trump family was deceptive. So in the story we took a deep dive in the trump panama. Its not a marriott. When they were starting this deal, they left potential buyers with the impression, for example, that they had an ownership stake, which they did not. We have an interview on our trump inc. Podcast with ivanka trump in which she says its 90 sold. It wasnt. It was making a 500 premium. It wasnt. So she was lying. Ivanka was not telling the truth to people who might be buying in. What this pattern tells you is that early on in the deals when they need buyers and they need investors, they talk about how great its doing, how wonderful its doing, how bought in they are. But when the deals fail as they did panama went bankrupt, almost half of the people in the units had to walk away from their deals because they couldnt make money from them, and the trumps still made a lot of money. But what we saw is that this kept happening. It happened in something similar or a variation happened in baja, mexico, something happened in the republic of georgia where we keep seeing where was the scrutiny . Where were the checks and balances to realize that they were being it seems duplicitous . One of the reasons we did this investigation is because last year we did a story where we looked at how don jr. And ivanka were almost indicted for a similar series of misreputatiomis reputatiresen representations. You cant Say Something specific that can influence a financial decision if its material. This isnt saying the trump soho building is the greatest in the world. This is saying something specific about its value. In that case there were felony fraud charges that were considered. But there was a lot of legal advocacy on behalf of the Trump Organization and there was a visit to the manhattan d. A. By a campaign donor. After all of that, the case was dropped. So the trumps have had a very aggressive legal strategy to keep regulators away, to keep people from looking away. In this specific panama deal, everything got rolled up into the whole Global Financial crisis so there wasnt so much scrutiny on this specific deal. But when we talked to people, they said if this keeps happening over and over again, in mexico, in soho, in panama, what it suggests is its a business model. Its not a fluke. This is how they did it, they got people to buy in by making very specific misrepresentations but where were the sales even coming from . This is an interesting question. In panama we dont know. There were a lot of shell companies. There were specific incentives in panama for buyers to get in on the deal early. The brokers would get a 90 Commission Early on after the deal is signed which is unusual. Brokers get most of their compensation at the end. People were encouraged to come into the deal who maybe never intended to close the deal. And some of the people involved in trump panama have been associated with money launderers. There were reports about some Drug TraffickingPeople Associated with that deal. So it is underscrutinized but well, until you guys came along. The trumps, they make their money and when the deal tails, th deal fails, they walk away and say we were just the licensers. The tax issues that are not prosecutable today because of statute of limitations. Ill be curious to see what comes from wnyc and propublica. And we have a podcast. Thank you for coming on. Coming up, he was long called Donald Trumps fixer. Now Michael Cohen said hes ready to fight his former boss and is set to bring his growing animosity to the midterms. And an officer confronting two young black boys waving a bebe gun and the officer didnt know that. It was quite a lesson. The officer said he was in dad mode. Well talk about that coming up. A onceinfive hundred year storm should happen every five hundred years, right . Fact is, there have been twentysix in the last decade. Allstate is adapting. With drones to assess home damage sooner. And if a flying object damages your car, you can snap a photo and get your claim processed in hours, not days. Plus, allstate can pay your claim in minutes. Now that you know the truth. Are you in good hands . Hello is welcoming. Its everything we want to be when helping people find a medicare plan. So say hello to hellomedicare. 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So he had been a democrat before, right, but the fact is hes now essentially wanting to go to battle with his former boss and this entire party and have it happen 20 days before the midterms. This is a remarkable 180 for Michael Cohen. Were learning that hes willing to campaign for a democrat going into the midterms, three weeks away, or heading into the 2020 president ial election. Hes willing to take on the president and call him out on whatever he believes are lies told by the president. The back story here is that last week, according to his lawyer lanny davis, Michael Cohen changed his party registration, back from republican to democrats. As you know, for many years he actually was a democrat. It was only after the 2016 election when he was asked to be involved in the rnc that he changed his registration to republican. The fact that he is willing to publicly take on the president in this way and wants to be involved like this is kind of remarkable for somebody who, as you said, said that he wanted to take a bullet for the president to protect him. Its a change in the last couple of months, watching this arc in Michael Cohen. Whats the dnc saying or is there any democratic candidate saying, Michael Cohen, jump on my team . We did ask the Democratic National committee for comment. They did not comment. I noted that the midterms is three weeks away. Theres a timing issue here. The biggest factor is that he is waiting for sentencing. That is not going to happen until december. And he can only move to certain states in the meantime. Hes limited to where he can even travel so the idea that hes a free man who can do whatever he wants, at this point in time, thats not the case. And just the big picture, the last couple of months, the legal issues hes been facing and where this thing stands now. Yeah. What is interesting is that even though he did not get a cooperation deal, for all intent and purposes he is wanting to cooperate and it seems like he is doing so. I think its worth ticking off all the different kinds of investigators hes been talking to since he pled guilty include Robert Muellers office, the new York State Attorney general office, the new york state tax office, thats is something that trump should be concerned about because of the