Good to be with you, im alex witt in for katy tur. Lets go to the courthouse, joining us from outside the courtroom, Nbc News National Correspondent yasmin vossoughian, 3 00 p. M. Eastern, catch us up on todays testimony and what is happening right now. Reporter Hope Hicks Integral to the prosecution here, alex, connecting the dots, and i want to talk to you first about a moment that just took place regarding the article in january 2018 that came out, revealing the payoff to Stormy Daniels from Michael Cohen, and how hope hicks framed that payoff, and let me read the verbiage inside the courtroom. Can you describe the conversation and hope hicks saying this, it was the day after michael told the New York Times he made a payment without trumps knowledge and trump said he spoke to michael and he paid this woman to protect from a false allegation and michael had done it to protect him and had not told him anything about it. I had known cohen for three and a half years. I did not know mich
Hospital tonight. Two children and two adults. This area of the ozarks being a popular tourist destination. The governor made a point today of saying that many of the victims of this tragedy were traveling here from out of state. You can see the waters of this lake calm behind me now but severe thunderstorms, again, in the forecast here in Southeast Missouri tonight, erin. Horrible thing. Kaylee, thank you. Thanks to all of you for joining us. Anderson starts now. Good evening tonight. An exclusive interview with the attorney for alleged russian spy maria butina. The attorney joins us. Thats ahead. So is the latest on the mystery surrounding what happened Behind Closed Doors when President Trump met Vladimir Putin. Its a mystery because the white house wont tell us or tell you. In fact, were getting more from russia than we are from washington. We begin, though, with the president s former personal attorney and longtime fixer, Michael Cohen. Today, we learned he had made tapes of conve
november 4th of 2016, the the wall street journal breaking the story of her allegations and the arrangement with the national enquirer. spokes person hope hicks telling the journal we have no knowledge of any of this. i asked karen mcdougal about it during our interview back in march. hope hicks has said catego categorically you did not have a relationship, there s no truth to this. when you heard that denial, what did you think? i think somebody s lying and i can tell you it s not me. it s a little hurtful, but at the same is time, i have to understand, like, if he were to tell hope hicks that he didn t do it, i guess i understand because he s trying to protect his family, his image, things like that. but it was definitely a little, like, wow, you re going to lie about that? okay. now, of course, it s possible that hope hicks, herself, was being lied to, but barring that, we now know that four days before the election, the campaign s chief spokesperson was lying to voters. t
was speaking to some of the folks who worked on this accord during the obama administration and as they describe it, one point is interesting, the ability for the president to withdraw if he is to make that decision because this force as it s described went into effect on november 4th of 2016, then by the articles of this agreement it takes three years from that point as the soonest point in which you can make the decision as a country you re going to withdraw and one year from that date leave that, that would mean the u.s. would be leaving the paris climate change agreement on november 4th of020,ne day after the next election. and that would be interesting if donald trump is still the president or whether or not this country goes in another direction. we don t know yet. that s all in question. certainly. peter alexander, thanks. anne thompson you ve been waiting patiently, i want to focus on this make america great again idea, this pitch to the american public what he s doing is
get out here because we don t want to walkthru t through the . i thought are we going to the room. we did have dinner but at his bungalow. we talked for a few hours and had a great time and getting to know each other and talking about his birthday and as the night ended, we were intimate. when you got to the beverly hill hotel and keith says we are not going to go through the lobby, was it to a room at the beverly hills hotel or a suite? it was a bungalow in the back. it was the one that he said he always stayed at and every time i met him there it was the same exact bungalow. he called it the nicest that they have. that s where we went every time. well, fast forward to november 4th of 2016. the wall street journal breaking