Out. Fixer Michael Cohen could flip. Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. Nice to see you. Im christine romans. I thought it was friday. It isnt. It is friday eve. Thursday, april 19th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. There is nobody tougher on russia than the president. The president decided to scrub plans on sanctions for russia over the syrian regime. The president under scored the decision at the News Conference in florida with the japanese Prime Minister. Well do sanctions as soon as they very much deserve it. We will have that is a question. There has been nobody tougher on russia than president donald trump. Caught in the middle of that is ambassador nikki haley. She has not been told about the change of sourcourse before shet on the talk shows sunday. The Prime Minister shinzo abe was expected to talk about trade, but he decided to sit down for an interview with special Counsel Robert Mueller as the Prime Minister waited. There was no collusion. That has been found by the house intelligence committee. No collusion. No collusion with russia other than by the democrats or as i call them the objestructionists. It is a bad thing for our country. Very, very bad thing. There has been no collusion. They wont find any collusion. It is not uncommon for President Trump to contradict himself. This one pretty remarkable. Yesterday, the president tweeted slippery james comey, the worst fbi tredirector in history, wast fired because of the russia investigation. Less than a year earlier, the president told Nbcs Lester Holt the opposite. Regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it. In fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. Its an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election that they should have won. After the tweet, comey said on abcs the view he takes the president at his original word that the russia probe was his motivation. I have seen the tweet. Both of those things cant be true. That illustrates part of the problem im trying to bring up. It matters the president is not committed to the truth as a Central American value. You have heard from james comey, but you have not heard him answer jakes questions. The comey interview with jake tapper today at 4 00 eastern. Very much looking forward to that interview. The president trying to downplay reports he is poised to fire the special counsel and Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. They have been saying im going to get rid of them for the last three months, four months, five months and theyre still here. President trumps growing unease with the russia probe and the fbi raid of his personal attorney Michael Cohen. The Washington Post reporting that mark meadows and jim jordan met with Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein on monday. They demanded rosenstein turnover more documents about the conduct of the officials in the russia probe and the Hillary Clinton email investigation. The two house members met with trump. Rosenstein is overseeing the Robert Mueller investigation. The president offering up an optimistic view of the planned summit with kim jong un. Mr. Trump says he is in position to accomplish what no president before him could. He insists he will walk away if he has to do so. I think that it is a meeting that is not going to be fruitful, we are not going to go. If the meeting is not fruitful, i will respectfully leave the meeting. Cnns will ripley is tracking the latest from hong kong. Will has been to the capital many times. What do you believe of the comment he is willing to walk an away with the negotiation process or finding a place or a time dont go his way . Reporter i think the North Koreans are willing to walk away as well. They gained a tremendous amount of stature by donald trump agreeing. You have World Leaders lining up to meet with kim jong un whereas before they have brushed him off. Until they pick a place, they cannot set a date. There are places that are considered possible. They narrowed it down to cities and countries in asia close to the north korea border. You are talking about singapore, thailand, vietnam. In europe, sweden, switzerland or other European Countries with ties to north korea. Locations unlikely or ruled out . The capitals of the stake holders here. Washington, d. C. , pyongyang or seoul. And the Demilitarized Zone and not an aircraft carrier. That would be on american turf. They need to figure this out. That is step one. The bigger step after the location and set a date is the discussion about denuclearizati denuclearization. That means Different Things. The North Koreans may view denuclearization as the american umbrella that protects south korea and japan. Pulling out American Forces off the korean peninsula. That is what north korea may need with significant financial compensation to get rid of the Nuclear Program that has gotten them to this level. They want to get rid of the Nuclear Weapons and lifting of sanctions. Denuclearization means two Different Things to the parties. Will ripley in hong kong. Thank you. That is the key. The Trump Administration using mike pompeos visit to pyongyang to talk about kim jong un. Republican senator rand paul opposes his nomination. He believes the kentucky senator will come around. Senator paul . Not so sure. I will say this about rand paul. He has never let me down. Rand paul is a very special guy. As far as im concerned. He has never let me down. I dont think he will let us down again. Lets see what happens. Because the president asked me to and i have a great deal of respect, i will meet with mike pompeo before the vote. Does that mean you are opening . Im open to meeting right now. We will see what comes of the meeting. President trump has his share of disagreements with senator paul. He is now referring to him as a very special guy. Long time lawyer for President Trump is warning the president to be careful about his fixer Michael Cohen. Jay goldberg who negotiated divorces for President Trump said he received a call from the president last friday. He predicted cohen would cooperate with prosecutors. Goldberg says his warning was met with silence. Goldberg advised the president not to speak to the special counsel. Karen mcdougal free to sell her story to the world. She claimed she had a tenmonth affair with the president and said she has an agreement not to talk to the press. She now has signed an agreement with ami to talk about her story. She will be on the cover of mens journal. Ami will publish columns by the former playmate. U. S. Businesses face higher steel prices. President trumps new tariffs are the reason. The president slapped tariffs on steel and aluminum in march. Since, prices for the metals have jumped significantly. It rounds up local businesses across the country are faring. Some manufacturers warn they will pass the prices on to the customers. Others say tariffs are killing high paying American Manufacturing jobs. This is a fed report. Despite trade concerns, the report finds Economic Growth is on track thanks to Consumer Spending and tight labor market and surge in business lending. That is the plan to speed up the pace of Interest Rate hikes. There is a worry the economy is moving too fast. If you think and i do think the growth rate is okay, but not as good as the optimists believe, there is the possibility the economy cannot stand too many rate increases in too short of a time. That would be the thing that would lead to recession. The feds actions are raising the risk of sparking recession in the near term. Interesting analysis. Ahead, key cloues to the deadly mid air accident found in a field in pennsylvania. What it could reveal about the engine that exploded next. And much of puerto rico plunged into darkness again. More on what caused it this time just ahead. My name is jeff sheldon, and im the founder of ugmonk. Before shipstation it was crazy. Its great when you see a hundred orders come in, a hundred orders come in, but then you realize ive got a hundred orders i have to ship out. Shipstation streamlined that wh the order data, the weights of , everything is seamlessly put into shipstation, so when we print the shipping ll everythings pretty much done. Its so much easier so now, were ready, bring on t. Shipstation. The number one ch of online sellers. Go to shipstation. Com tv and get two months free. 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With the fastest retinol formula to visibly reduce wrinkles. Neutrogena®. Pieces of that blown engine that forced the Emergency Landing of the southwest airline jet in philadelphia recovered 70 miles west of the city. Residents reported large metal fragments scattered on a farm. We have more from polo sandoval. Reporter good morning. Investigators with the National Transportation safety board went back to washington as they continue to go through the evidence trying to find out what went wrong with the southwest Airline Flight on its way to texas from new york on tuesday. Yesterday, what is supposed to be the final press conference that took place in philadelphia as it continued to investigate. They said they are currently interviewing some of the crew members and going through what they had to say and the video captured aboard the 737. They went into detail of the voice and data recorders and the evidence those items provided. The aircraft began a rapid, uncommanded left roll of about 41 degrees of bank angle. When you are flying on an airline, you rarely get over 20 or 25 degrees of bank. This went over 41 degrees. The pilots levelled the wings and throughout the rest of the flight, there was what i will describe as a fair amount of vibration throughout the air frame. Reporter investigators still maintain they have a long way to go in the case as they try to say definitively what went wrong. That theory is one of the fan blades on the engine was detached setting off the catastrophic chain of events. The investigation is far from over as investigators will travel to dallas going over the maintenance records going through and making sure the main th they nance was done maintenance was done and the inspections on the engine to look for signs of metal fatigue. The same model on Southwest Airlines flight 1380. Christine. Polo, thank you. Several expresident s and First Lady Melania Trump will attend the funeral for barbara bush on saturday. They will not say if President Trump will be there. The mayor of houston and other leaders celebrated the former first ladys life. A public viewing at the church on friday and 1,500 are expected to attend the private funeral on friday. Including obama and clinton. Look at Houston City Hall lit up in blue in honor of barbara bush. The top gop lawmakers calling on Eric Greitens to resign. Greitens facing sex abuse allegations and now the state attorney general says he has evidence of criminal wrongdoing who allegedly used a donor list from a charity to benefit his 2016 campaign. Attorneys for greitens asking the judge to issue a restraining order and appoint a special prosecutor. Most of puerto rico without power this week. The governor asking the Power Authority to cancel the contract with the Company Responsible for the outages. The outage caused by a subcontractor when a piece of equipment got too close to the power line. The same company was responsible for the outage last week. The Power Company says it expects Service Restoration to customers who had electricity before the latest outage within 24 hours. For the first time in most cubans memories, a man not named castro is set to be president. Nominating diazcanel. Castro backed diazcanel on thursday. Nothing is expected to change on the island. The 57yearold embracing the course set by the castro brothers telling reporters he believes in continuity. 19 minutes past the hour. Police officers in texas walk right into an explosive situation. The story behind this amazing video next. Internet providers promise Business Owners a lot. Lets see who delivers more. Comcast business offers fast gigspeeds across our network. At t doesnt. We offer more complete reliability with up to 8 hours of 4g Wireless Network backup. At t, no way. 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The twoyear mission will serve 85 of the sky for planets. The database it will create will guide missions for decades. It takes over from the keplar. The u. S. Senate voting last night to allow newborns on the senate floor for the first time. The rule change approved by unanimous consent. The senate can agree on something. It is designed to accommodate senators like Tammy Duckworth who gave birth to her second child this month. The first senator to have a child in office. She is applauding for the lawmakers for bringing the senate into the quote 21st century. Moving forward, children under 1 can be brought on the senate floor and breast fed during votes. A Record Number of women running for congress. That is probably adding to a positive environment for women. Screaming babies will last up the joint. They had screaming babies for as long as we can remember. My father says, you hear that . That is the sound of america singing on senate floor. 26 minutes past the hour. The president dances around the question if he would fire special Counsel Robert Mueller or the man overseeing him Rod Rosenstein. They have been saying im going to get rid of them for the last three months. Theyre still here. You will hear more from the president next. Theres been nobody tougher on russia than president donald trump. President trump talking tough, but sources say he personally opposed his teams plan for a new round of kremlin sanctions. Longtime lawyer for the president warning him to watch out. Fixer Michael Cohen could flip on him. The faa orders jet engine inspections after the deadly explosion. Will the debris in the philadelphia field help find the cause . Im christine romans. Dave briggs is happy to be here on thursday. Will you speak in third person . I will as much as i can. We start with President Trump declaring there is nobody tougher on russia than he. Although it turns out the president decided to scrub plans for further sanctions on russia over its support for the syrian regime. According to three Senior Administration officials. The president under scoring his decision at a News Conference in florida with the japanese Prime Minister. Well do sanctions as soon as they very much deserve it. We will have that is a question. There has been nobody tougher on russia than president donald trump. Caught in the middle of that is ambassador nikki haley. She apparently was not told about the change of course before she went on the talk shows sunday of no sanctions. The Prime Minister shinzo abe was expected to talk about trade and north korea, and it did, but the president decided to talk about the russia investigation. He was asked if he will sit down with an interview with the special Counsel Robert Mueller. This was his answer. There was no collusion. That has been found by the house intelligence committee. No collusion. No collusion with russia other than by the democrats or as i call them the obstructionists. So we are hopefully coming to apparent end. An end. It is a bad thing for our country. Very, very bad thing. There has been no collusion. They wont find any collusion. The last 15 months told us it is not uncommon for the president to contradict himself. This one pretty remarkable. Yesterday, the president tweeted slippery james comey, the worst fbi director in history, was not fired because of the russia investigation. Whereby the way there was no collusion. Less than a year earlier, the president told Nbcs Lester Holt the opposite. Regardless of recommendation, i was going to fire comey knowing there was no good time to do it. In fact, when i decided to just do it, i said to myself, i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russia is a made up story. Its an excuse by the democrats for having lost an election that they should have won. After the tweet, comey said on abcs the view he takes the president at his original word that the russia probe was his motivation. I have seen the tweet. Both of those things cant be true. That illustrates part of the problem im trying to bring up. It matters the president is not committed to the truth as a Central American value. You have heard from james comey, but you have not heard him answer jakes questions. He will ask what no one has yet asked him today on the view the lead at 4 00 p. M. Sorry, jake. The president trying to downplay reports he is poised to fire the special counsel and Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein. Listen to him deflect reporter questions of the expected tensions. They have been saying im going to get rid of them for the last three months, four months, five months and theyre still here. President trumps growing unease with the russia probe and the fbi raid of his personal attorney Michael Cohen. It has two allies issuing a stark warning to the attorney general. The Washington Post reporting that mark meadows and jim jordan met with Deputy Attorney general Rod Rosenstein on monday. They demanded rosenstein turn over more documents about the conduct of the officials in the russia probe and the Hillary Clinton email investigation. The two house members met with trump. Rosenstein is overseeing the Robert Mueller investigation. The president offering up an optimistic view of the planned summit with kim jong un. Mr. Trump says he is in position to accomplish what no president before him could. He insists he will walk away if he has to do so. I think that it is a meeting that is not going to be fruitful, we are not going to go. If the meeting is not fruitful, i will respectfully leave the meeting. Cnns will ripley is tracking the latest from hong kong. Will, good to see you. At the heart of this is the issue of denuclearization in terms of what both sides see. Could you expand on that . Reporter it is absolutely right. North koreans have a different view of what denuclearization means. To them, denuclearization is the American Nuclear umbrella to protect south korea and japan. They want troops gone from the korean peninsula. They use the military presence as justification for the nuclear deterre deterrent. They want relief from sanction and substantial compensation to consider doing away with the Missile Program which has given them leverage. The United States, obviously the conditions may really be a non starter. Thats not even taking into account you cannot verify north korea has gotten rid of all of the Nuclear Weapons. They simply dont know where the weapons and materials are hidden. Optics are huge here. That is why they are having a hard time, United States and north korea, coming to terms to have the monumental discussions. Some locations are considered possible at this point. These are neutral locations here in asia. Singapore, thailand, vietnam. In europe, sweden, switzerland or other areas with ties to the country. Countries ruled out . The capitals of the stake holders. Washington, d. C. , pyongyang, seoul, beijing. The president is not agree on a. Step three, talk about denuclearization. We are potentially weeks away from the summit. Monumental challenge. Will ripley, thank you. The Trump Administration is using mike pompeos visit to pyongyang to bolster the case for confirming him as csecretar of state. Republican senator rand paul opposes the nomination, but the president believes the kentucky senator will come around. Senator paul not so sure. I will say this about rand paul. He has never let me down. Rand paul is a very special guy. As far as im concerned. He has never let me down. I dont think he will let us down again. Lets see what happens. Because the president asked me to and i have a great deal of respect, i will meet with pompeo before the vote. Does that mean you are open . Im open. The president has referred to rand paul as a very special guy. A longtime lawyer for President Trump gave a warning to the president about the fixer Michael Cohen. Jay goldberg who negotiated divorces for President Trump said he received a call from the president last friday. He predicted cohen would cooperate with prosecutors. Goldberg says his warning was met with silence. Goldberg advised the president not to speak to the special counsel. Karen mcdougal free to sell her story to the world. She claimed she had a tenmonth affair with the president and tricked to signing a contract to keep her from talking to the press. Said she has an agreement not to talk to the press. She now has signed an agreement with ami to talk about her story. Mcdougal has no plans to sell her story. As part of the deal, she will be on the cover of mens journal. Ami will publish columns by the former playmate. U. S. Businesses face higher steel prices. President trumps new tariffs are the reason. The president slapped tariffs on steel and aluminum in march. Since, prices for the metals have jumped significantly. This is from the new Federal Reserve report. It rounds up local businesses across the country are faring. Some manufacturers warn they will pass the prices on to the customers. Others say tariffs are killing high paying American Manufacturing jobs. This is a fed report. Despite trade concerns, the report finds Economic Growth is on track thanks to Consumer Spending and tight labor market and surge in business lending. That is the plan to speed up the pace of Interest Rate hikes. A former obama economist worries the fed is moving too fast. If you think and i do think the growth rate is okay, but not as good as the optimists believe, there is the possibility the economy cannot stand too many rate increases in too short of a time. That would be the thing that would lead to recession. The feds actions are raising the risk of sparking recession in the near term. Serj certainly in the new environment of rising inflation and Interest Rates. And talk about future tax cuts by the republican party. Could that confuse the situation or make it worse . If you are cutting taxes to stimulate the economy at the time they raise rates, that is two things. Ahead, key clues to a deadly mid air jet accident found in the field in pennsylvania. What they could reveal about the engine that exploded next. And much of puerto rico plunged into darkness again. More on what caused it this t e time. Ahead. More delays for the u. N. Weapons inspections teams trying to get a look at the suspected gas attack in syria. Despite the russians and syrians they had access. In a race against time, will they detect traces of chemical weapons before the poisons are exspelled. Disseintegratedisintegrate . We have nick r robertson with m. Reporter good morning, dave. They have been on the ground for two days. Journalists went into the neighborhood. Some of the journalists in douma where the alleged chemical weapons strike happened said they were able to walk around freely and no danger to them. We heard from the syrian and russian governments that the area was now fully under their control and they completely controlled it. When the u. N. Was asked who was it who fired at the security convoy that had gone in first ahead of the main weapons inspectors had gone in to review the situation on the ground and see where they needed to go and how it was safe to get there. When the u. N. Official in new york was asked do you know who shot at you. He said no, we dont. All we know is we got out of this quickly. The situation is now the progress for the weapons inspectors seems to be stuck in the sand. The u. N. Wants to get to the site as soon as they can, but the first order of business again is to send out the Security Team ahead of the inspectors. At the moment, we are not sure if the Security Team was able to get on the ground. The concerns that syria and russia had to wipe aways evidence of the alleged chemical weapons is a real and big concern. Nic robertson, thank you. Pieces of the blown engine that forced the Emergency Landing of the southwest airline jet in philadelphia was recovered 70 miles west of the city. Residents in berks county reporting debris on a farm. We have more from polo sandoval. Reporter christine and dave, good morning. Investigators with the National Transportation safety board went back to washington as they continue to go through the evidence trying to find out what went wrong with the southwest Airline Flight on its way to texas from new york on tuesday. Yesterday, what is supposed to be the final press conference that took place in philadelphia as it continued to investigate. They said they are currently interviewing some of the crew members and going through what they had to say and the video captured aboard the 737. They went into detail of the voice and data recorders and the evidence those items provided. The aircraft began a rapid, uncommanded left roll of about 41 degrees of bank angle. When you are flying on an airline, you rarely get over 20 or 25 degrees of bank. This went over 41 degrees. The pilots levelled the wings and throughout the rest of the flight, there was what i will describe as a fair amount of vibration throughout the air frame. Reporter investigators still maintain they have a long way to go in the case as they try to say definitively what went wrong. That theory is one of the fan blades on the engine was detached setting off the catastrophic chain of events. The investigation is far from over as investigators will travel to dallas going over the maintenance records going through and making sure the maintenance was done and the inspections on the engine to look for signs of metal fatigue. The same model on Southwest Airlines flight 1380. Christine and dave. Polo, thank you. Most of puerto rico without power for the second time in a we week. The governor asking to cancel the contract with the Company Responsible for both outages. The subcontractor had a piece of equipment too close to the power line. The Power Authority says the same company was responsible for the outage last week. The Power Company expects Service Restoration to customers who had electricity before the latest outage within 24 hours. Just cant get any good news. It is 2018. It has been since september. It is so frustrating they cannot figure this out. 52 minutes past the hour. Fewer than netflix, but larger than any other service. Amazon has 100 million prime members. It is finally revealing a stat long kept under wraps. More in cnn money next. We do whatever it takes to fight cancer. These are the specialists were proud to call our own. Experts from all over the world, working closely together to deliver truly personalized cancer care. Expert medicine works here. 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Bank of America Survey say 58 say the stock market will peak this year. In the antitrust trial for at t, time warner ceo says it is necessary to take on silicon valley. The fed is suing to block the merger. It is the only way to compete with google and facebook. Unlike tv, tech has the tech to target ads. Time warner would lose hundreds of millions of dollar if channels were blocked out. Amazon has 100 million prime members. That is what Ceo Jeff Bezos wrote in a letter to shareholders. It is fewer than netflix, but larger than any other subscription service. It is not just for music and video. Members bought 5 billion items on amazon last year. Numbers are staggering. 14 years it has been around . Why were they keeping it a secret . Now we know. Bezos letters are fascinating. Early start begins now with the north korean negotiations. Theres been nobody tougher on russia than president donald trump. President trump talking tough, but sources say he personally opposed his teams plan for a new round of kremlin sanctions. Longtime lawyer for the president warning him to watch out. Fixer Michael Cohen could flip on him. The faa orders jet engine inspections after the deadly explosion. Will the debris in the philadelphia field help find the cause . Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im christine romans. Im dave briggs. 5 00 a. M. In the east a. 5 00 p. M. In hong kong. The president says he is in the position to accomplish what nobody before him could. He insists he could walk away if he has to do so. I think it is a meeting that is not going to be fruitful, were not going to go. If the meeting when im there is not fruitful, i will respectfully leave the meeting. Cnns will ripley has been to pyongyang more than a dozen times. He has the latest for us this morning. Good morning, will. Reporter good morning, dave. President trump has more to lose
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