Free the cargo ship that collapsed ball her yeah, im here in washington alive. Look at new york city on this Tuesday Morning where that push my trials had to get back underway just a few hours from now. Good morning, everyone. Im kasie hunt its wonderful to have you with us. This is the de, we think that Donald Trumps legal team has been preparing for the day they could get to crossexamine Michael Cohen and try to convince a jury that he simply cannot be believed trumps former lawyer and fixer returns to the stand this morning after testifying on monday about payments that were made to kill potential really damaging stories about trump. All he says at the direction of his former boss. In the final critical days before the 2016 election, his testimony designed to show just how close he was to trump involved in talks about the hush money at every turn the juror has got to hear this conversation between cohen and trump about payments made to Playboy Playmate playmate karen mcdougal. It wa
the breaking news we learned moments ago that the president is canceling a trip this weekend to a summit in south america. the white house says its to monitor military developments in syria but it also comes in the wake of the seismic legal developments of his long time lawyer and friend michael cohen. joining me now is ron brownstein and molly balls and molly, i want to remind people exactly how close michael cohen is to president trump in the words of michael cohen. listen to this. my job is i protect mr. trump. that s what it is. they say i m his pit bull. that i m his right hand man. he is president trump s guy, molly, and now his home, his hotel room and his offices have
bureaucracy. what storm was the president talking about? well, they did talk about actual storms. the military response to the hurricanes that have occurred here in the united states over the past few weeks. maybe that s the storm they were talking about, john? hmm. thank you. joining me now, barbara starr, molly balls, cnn political analyst. barbara starr you are better sourced at the pentagon than anybody i know, and are your sources aware of any imminent storm that might face those military leaders gathered around the president last night? well, yes, there are a number of things the u.s. could face at any minute. think about north korea, right? that could blow up, and i am speaking figuratively. you have the situation in west africa where green berets have
expressed about putin? senator, yeah. i am not sure where it differs. i can tell you that my view of putin is that he has chosen to be both a strategic competitor, to quote the chairman s opening statement, and an adversary in key areas. let s bring in the panel. david sanger. national security correspondent at new york times. molly balls. staff writer with the atlantic, a chris clayton, the policy editor or dtn focusing on ag policy and issues in the heartland. he also writes about politics of rural america. chris, good to see you. good to see you. visiting from iowa. david, let me start with what you heard from both pompeo and mattis today. much tougher talk on putin and russia than what s coming from the top. obviously, it s what some of the