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. raul castro, the president of cuba will also give a news conference in his country that will happen at noon eastern time. of course cnn will continue to follow this breaking news throughout the day. thank you for joining me today, i m carol kos toll low. @this hour with berman and michaela starts now. hello, everyone. i m john berman. and. and i m michaela pereira. history is being made at this hour after more than a half century of tension and diplomat diplomatic silence between the u.s. it s releasing alan gross from prison after five years. a series of genuinely breathtaking developments. cuba is also releasing a u.s. intelligence asset, a spy, who s been locked up in cuba for more than 20 years. in return washington is freeing three cuban spies convicted in 2001 of espionage. that is big in and of itself. it all seems part now of something much, much bigger. president obama will announce major changes in u.s. policy toward cuba. officials calling them the most sw ....
i think the salient points made by our memo still exist and they are still true. a little bit of it is creating so much dust and clout that people just give up and saying, you are saying that, i am just going to tune out. that may be part of it too. martha: it seems like one of the big bones of contention would be whether or not it was essential to the fisa surveillance. you have argued that it was essential, that without it, they would have not received the authorization for the warrant from the fisa court. do they have you said that there is other information about carter page. you said they are basically three things. you have yahoo news article, the dossier, and other information about carter page. can they argue that other information was substantial enough? they didn t make that argument to the judge. if you have enough without the dossier, then why did you include the dossier? if you have enough without the dossier, why did you, in your court filing, lead with the ....
constand, the accuser in this case. reporter: so tom maze roe, you tried and failed. the personal attacks did not work. bill cosby, three words for you, guilty, guilty, guilty! tom mesereau, the high profile defense attorney bill cosby brought in for this retrial after he was found guilty. there was some discussion of whether whether or not there should be bonds cosby stood up and yelled at the prosecutor saying you asshole. here s more of what his attorney had to say just moments ago. we are very disappointed by the verdict. we don t think mr. cosby s guilty of anything and the fight is not over. thank you. are you going to appeal, sir? yes, yes. yes, very strongly. is mr. cosby prepared to go to prison? no comment from bill cosby s sexual assault and harassment has changed a lot since the first trial. how much that impacted the jury in their deliberations, i don t know, they re human beings. i know they were ad monished not to allow what was going on in t ....
pictures. afraid he will catch me picking my nose. can t believe that guy was president of the united states. because he is branded as a crook. it s important to remember the wrong approach that executive power that led nixon to those crimes. you want a level, don t you? good evening. this is the 37th time i have spoken to from you this office. so many decisions have been made that shape the history of our nation. need more? there was good in him. he had been a good vice-president. but he was fatally flawed and a fatally flawed president. nixon, he had been a hero to millions of americans. here is a guy who received more votes than anybody else in the history of this country. the richard nixon they supported through the years was not the richard nixon that they thought they knew. every generation has to lose their virginity. it was just the day that my generation did. to think that we re the only generation that had that experience is probably the mistake that a lot ....
Analysis and discussion of the day s top stories and compelling issues from Lawrence O Donnell. things that are not truthful for donald trump. we don t have a lot of on the record lies or falsehoods if you want to use that word, from michael cohen. the only one that i can think of is that he told chris cuomo that he wasn t recording him when he actually was. so in the credibility fight, ruth, who do you think is going to have the upper hand? well, in the credibility fight you have to ask a few questions. one is who has the greater motive to lie here? one of the things we ve learned, say, from robert mueller is if you go to him or his investigators with a false story and lie to them, you are going to get in a lot of trouble. so if michael cohen is not telling the truth here because he is looking for a deal from robert mueller and he peddles an untrue story, he s going to get himself into a heap of trouble. on the other hand, president trump has some motive here to lie because ....