Underway tonight. And good evening, once again from our nbc news headquarter here in new york. Day 763 of the Trump Administration and we begin tonight with the fallout on virtually all the members of Donald Trumps circle of friends, family, employees, advisors, roger stone was in federal court today facing a federal judge and the roger stone roger stone on display tonight, sorrowful, had no resemblance to the man who made his bones on the side of politics. He appeared to be a very different man today. Thats because he was forced to answer for this. He posted this graphic with accompanying inflammatory language on social media a few days ago. And any graphic featuring a photo of the federal judge hearing your case with a gun sight style cross hair depiction in the upper lefthand corner is going to draw the attention of the court. The judge today didnt give roger stone what he deserved, she did what was prudent. In a surprise move, he took the stand. There wasnt supposed to be testimony
In the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer. You are in the situation room. This is cnn breaking news. Breaking news. The president s long time fixer and lawyer Michael Cohen wraps up his congressional testimony, promising he will continue to cooperate even as he prepares to go to prison in may. Cohen facing the House Intelligence Committee for a second time and offering new evidence after publically accusing mr. Trump of committing crimes. The panels chairman called the hearings productive and said cohen answered every question. Cnn has learned cohen gave the committee documents showing edits to his false 2017 congressional testimony about that trump tower moscow project. Cohen told lawmakers last week that another attorney for the president made changes to the written statement. I will talk with congressman jim himes. He has been questioning cohen together with his colleagues all day. Our correspondents and analysts are standing by. First, lets go to our senior Congres
Will be holding their talks what if any progress has been made in denuclearizing north korea thats the big question and is there any substance in trumps bid to turn an enemy seen right there into a friend. But in the u. S. Capital its the explosive claims of a former trump friend turned photo that has captured most of the attention Michael Cohen transformer fixer and attorney telling congress the commander in chief is really a commander in chief. Hes a racist. He uses convience. And hes a cheat i fear that if you loses the election in two thousand and twenty that there will never be a peaceful transition of power. Im brooke goff its good to have you with us it is morning in hanoi vietnam and today both the u. S. President and the north Korean Leader are expected to tell us whether their talks have brought the world closer or further from the threat of Nuclear Conflict donald trump and kim jong un are now in the hotel in hanoi where they will be holding their talks today were looking at
Of being shocked but an incredibly bad man don is. And they can just hardly believe his flaws. They sat open mouth in congress has Michael Cohen described his former boss, brace yourself a bit of a con man who has overstated his personal wealth. In private tromp apparently has said, at one point Michael Cohen said tromp used a straw buyer to bid up a portrait of himself at a charity auction. He wanted his picture to go for the highest price. Are you shocked yet . Can you believe it . Of course you can, this is exactly we knew back in 2015 went descent of the famous escalator and millions of people voted for him anyway, his character was not the point. That will point the hearings not his character either but supposed to be russian collusion and obstruction of justice. And those topics have derailed the American Government for the past two years. In those subjects, we actually did learn quite a bit today. Here is one example. About a month ago the cat block does feed ran an article, tru
Nothing is off limits and cohen should expect to get questions from anywhere about anything. Todays hearing is a closeddoor session with the Senate Intelligence committee. Tomorrow well get to see cohen testify publicly before the House Oversight committee and on thursday he will go back behind closed doors to take questions from the house intelligence committee. At tomorrows Public Session there is word cohen will provide evidence the president broke the law while in office. Thats according to our corporate cousin the wall street journal. It reports the crime is related to a hush money payment to a woman who claims she had sex with the president. The president denies the affair and blames cohen for any problems with the payment and cohen has admitted lying to congressional committees in the past. Why should congress trust you now, mr. Cohen . The white house raised similar concerns ahead of the hearings. Press secretary Sarah Sanders said its laughable that anyone would take a convict