The days top stories from around the world, from politics and money, to sports and pop culture. Crime. Colluding about russians. You start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. The hacking is the crime. The president its a sign the president s legal team is is trying move the goal posts on the probe as the investigation moves closer to President Trumps inner circle, hes trying to distance him from manafort. He was never involved in intimate Business Relationship with donald trump. The president s lawyer is doing the talking for the president on all things russia. All things Michael Chone and hes doing quite a lot of talk ing. Jake. Jeff, thanks so much. Lets talk to our experts. Laura coates, our former federal prosecutor, i want you to listen about what the crime might have been. I dont know if thats a crime. Colluding about russians. Start analyzing the crime, the hacking is the crime. The president didnt hack. Before we get to the moving of the goal posts going on here,
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you are begurban, you repres blowers. if his identity is kept secret from republican lawmakers, are you concerned about the crede bability of the whistleblower? is this a route you would advocate take iing? this is, but not because i m concerned about the credibility. the credibility has been established by the trump appointed inspector general of the intelligence community, the watchdog who first said it was credible and urgent. now we have gone so far away from what the normal process looks like. we have a whistleblower that goes either through the intelligence community or through the system in another way, they then meet with congressional intelligence committee s staff attorneys. meet with four general counsels who are dedicated to preserving that whistleblower s c confidentiality. herbally here, we have specific members here defending the president saying they don t want this identity to be kept a secret.
have been much higher than 3%. and the stock market as high as it s been would have been at least i think probably anywhere from 7 to 10,000 points higher. but they wanted to raise interest rates. you explain that to mement. the president s raushs come as dow jones racks up its fifth con ssecutive weekly decline. the longest streak since 2011. at one point, reports surfaced that trump discussed firing powell, the head of the fed. i want to bring in catherine, she is a washington post opinion columnist and cnn political commentatocommentator. hello, thanks for joining us. good to be here. so the base ibs. start with that. is there any crede bability to the argument that the federal reserve is holding back the stock market and u.s. economy? i think there are a few things to lay out. one is that first of all, it is inappropriate for the president to be commenting on monetary
i got to say r sorry, made a mistake. when asked if the president would ever f pardon cohen if he was charge wd a crime, rudy giuliani said that was the president s prerogative, but that obviously the president would never pardon anyone during an ongoing vest dpags. jake. thanks, jessica. and we have just received a brand-new statement from donald trump jr. s lawyer. about michael cohen claims that president trump knew about that trump tower meeting ahead of time. quote, we have investigating this matter for over a year. we are fully confident of the accuracy and liability of the information that has been provided by donald trump jr. in the various investigations. unquote. whether he told the committees investigating this. because michael cohen, whatever you think about his crede bability, he is saying something dimpb.
whole bill or demand a kis b koubt, you don t have to worry about your on going crede bability or the next deal f. you do that, you can bet he won t ayes to do cabinets in your next casino. but there s always another. there s another canada. there also isn t another germany. and a treaty. that is what the president said about our, here s what the president said about our defense and security treaty with nato last night. i said you know angela, i can t garruarantee it, but we r protecting you and it means a lot more to you than protecting you. actually, you can guarantee it. that s what a treaty is for. and the only time that was ever invoked, of 9/11 when all other nato members came to the defense