miles from oahu. the winds are not the concern with this, the biggest tlit is a slow moving storm with extreme rainfall. they are saying that the peak amounts could end up over two feet of rain in the hawaiian islands. this red is ten inches, that s the big island. as we go through maui and oahu, everyone could easily get up to a foot, highest totals could be up to two feet of rain, extreme flooding, mudslides, rock slides, things that are typically a trickle will turn into a raging river. we will keep monitoring that. could be a billion dollar weather disaster in hawaii. otherwise some showers racing through the northeast. those will exit for a decent afternoon in the mid-atlantic. el of the country no problems at all. all eyes will be on the hawaiian islands over the next 48 hours. still ahead, president trump not talking about the legal troubles of michael cohen and paul manafort during his rally last night. up next, we will go to nbc s
ga.for them. still ahead, much more on the two big courtroom dramas that unfolded yesterday. we will talk what michael cohen s plea and paul manafort s conviction mean for president trump. plus the sentencing for former white house national security adviser michael flynn gets delayed again. those stories and more coming up. yes or no? do you want the same tools and seamless experience across web and tablet? do you want $4.95 commissions for stocks, $0.50 options contracts? $1.50 futures contracts? what about a dedicated service team of trading specialists? did you say yes? good, then it s time for power e trade. the platform, price and service that gives you the edge you need. looks like we have a couple seconds left. let s do some card twirling twirling cards e trade. the original place to invest online. lbetter than brushing alone.ts with 6 benefits in one, from cavity prevention to strengthening teeth. so instead of protection like this, you get protection like this. listerine®
sentencing in order to organize everything and tie everything up into a nice neat bow. prosecutors will simply delay the sentencing as long as they need to in order to secure the level of cooperation that they want from this particular cooperating witness. you just mentioned big fish. do one of those big fish be michael cohen, especially when you have lanny davis on with rachel maddow saying he might have some information about the president here that could include topics of crime, computer crime of hacking, whether or not the president knew ahead of time about the crime or even cheered it on, could that be it? that was a mind blowing revelation to me because that was the first inkling or first suggestion that the computer hacking might be part of the bundle of things that donald trump is being implicated in or not too subtly implicated in as he was yesterday in court. when lanny davis said that that was the first time any of us yesterday really hearth computer hacking. i think man
even after a defendant is sentenced. not the plea, after he s received his sentence. so there are many opportunities to cooperate and it may just be the case that the prosecutors are timing things for strategic reasons and high level three-dimensional chess that we can t even guess at right now. so then the question becomes what does this mean for president trump and his legal team? everybody is focused on michael cohen, what he may or may not be able to offer to implicate the kate but how does this change trump s legal strategy? the u.s. attorneys yesterday would not have given you an answer to that question but you can divine an answer from the rules that u.s. attorneys follow and it is a general rule in the u.s. attorney s manual that you don t name an uncharged third party. in fact, you don t even identify him or her with specificity. who are we kidding, him. you don t identify him with specificity so that he can be identified. so, in other words, you can t say senator so-and-s
silence two women who had information that he believed would be detrimental to the 2016 campaign and to the candidate and the campaign. reporter: that includes $130,000 payment cohen made just days before the election to porn star stormy daniels to keep her quiet about an alleged affair with the president which he denies. michael avenatti represents daniels. she feels very vindicated. she believes that she has fought the good fight and she s going to continue to fight the good fight. reporter: the president has said he didn t know about the payment at the time. did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? no. reporter: the president s attorney rudy giuliani tells nbc news late tonight there is no allegation of any wrongdoing against the president in the government s charges against mr. cohen. it is clear that as the prosecutor noted, mr. cohen s actions reflect a pattern of lies and dishonesty over a significant period of time. the president himself has sugges