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A rocky day before the senate. Which republican senator could hold the key to his confirmation . Good morning. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Nice to see you. A lot of news. It is thursday, january 12th. 4 00 a. M. In the east. Im christine romans. Donald trump and the director of National Intelligence have a talk following the major public blowup of russian hacking intel. It started with a cnn report that the Intelligence Community gave mr. Trump a twopage summary of a dossier that claims russia has compromising information on him. Buzzfeed followed up with that. Details cnn chose not to report because they could not be confirmed. It did not stop mr. Trump from attacking the network at the News Conference wednesday. He seemed to blur cnn reporting which skipped the unconfirmed details with buzzf ....
Hearing loss. Cuba saying its launched what it calls an urgent investigation. Tonight espionage experts weigh in on the mystery. What happened, whos behind it and what theyre trying to accomplish. Lets get right to the escalating war of words on north korea. A lot of people were taken by surprise of President Trumps threat of fire and fury with north korea. But he has a long history of sometimes surprising statements on Nuclear Weapons. Cnns Suzanne Malveaux has more. Reporter its not the first time the president has brought up using Nuclear Weapons but its the most stark. North korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen. Repo ....
Quote as cohen has now admitted with respect to both payments he acted in coordination and at the direction of individual one. As a result of cohens actions neither woman spoke to the press. Prior to the election. Okay, lets be clear. Individual one is donald trump. Federal prosecutors, not Robert Muellers team, the sdny, are saying that donald trump committed a serious felony, that he was intimately involved in the illegal scheme to pay the hush money. Actually, he was more than intimately involved, no pun intended, trump directed the hush money scheme. Think about that. Faced with this reality, trump decided to create his own, the president tweeted. Totally clears the president , thank you. No. Thats not just a lie. Thats the actual opposite of the truth. Federal prosecutors are saying in black and white that donald trump broke the law, that he directed his fixer to make an illegal payment, which is a felony. And thats not even ....
Guilty to the two charges was it a straight guilty plea or cooperating, and we have learned that in the past hour, he has flipped. A as colleague pointed out on twitter, when you cooperate with the prosecutors you dont get an opportunity to decide what to talk about, but you have to tell everything that you know, and if you are lie, you can be be charged with perjury, and so they have a huge hammer over his head, and he has to tell them about his time as the Trump Campaign manager and he came with massive connections to the russianbacked figures and including a man that the mueller team says was tied to rusrussia and he was in Constant Contact with constantine kalymnik, and so he is going to have to cooperate. And you said, i think that this is a bombshell, and what you said when i came on, and why . Well, not so much that he is pleading giuilty to, and unrelated to the tim ....
Bars for years. But the fate of Michael Cohen is not the biggest news tonight. Not by a longshot. For starters the memo from the Southern District of new york includes this passage concerning cohens illegal hush money payments to two women who had affairs with trump. As cohen has now admitted with respect to both payments he acted in coordination and at the direction of individual one. As a result of cohens actions neither woman spoke to the press. Prior to the election. Okay, lets be clear. Individual one is donald trump. Federal prosecutors, not Robert Muellers team, the sdny, are saying that donald trump committed a serious felony, that he was intimately involved in the illegal scheme to pay the hush money. Actually, he was more than intimately involved, no pun intended, trump directed the hush money scheme. Think ....