Case. Also, arming teachers. The Department Of Education weighing whether to let states use federal funding to arm teachers. Were going to hear from a student and a parent from parkland, florida. And unsportsmanlike conduct. One of College Footballs most decaded coaches, ohio states urban meyers, suspended for his response to Domestic Abuse allegations. A lot of critics are saying it was a slap on the wrist. Is there a double standard at play . Well dig into that. But we start with that breaking news. Nbc news has just confirmed one of President Trumps longtime friends, a man who may know his secrets better than just about anyone, was granted immunity in the Michael Cohen case. His name is michael pecker. He is the ceo of the company that published the national inquir inquirer. Lets start with tom winter. Hans nichols is standing by for us at the white house. Tom, tell us all that you know. And somebody who either decided to cooperate and capitulate and pleaded guilty. Do we know wheth
officials, a preplanned meeting. it will be difficult. we also understand that the turkish government has called in ambassadors of the security council members of the united nations for a briefing. i think what turkey wants to demonstrate is that it is a responsible nato ally, it is not moving in with an invasion into northern syria, it is not targeting civilians. it believes that this is a dual operation to create a safe zone to allow refugees to return, and there are millions of them in turkey syrian refugees to return, but it s an operation to remove kurdish forces which turkey believes are terrorists. a twofold operation. but the turks are keen to stress that it is an operation to
and so progress stalled after the meeting in hanoi a couple of months ago. and the president and north korea simply fell off the map. working level meetings were not able to take place. there were rumors that north korean officials involved in those meetings had been executed by kim. and for the president, he is greatly invested in progress, continuing with north korea. that s why you saw him wanting to have this meeting with kim. the president was the one who issued the invitation. and this was a classic trump foreign policy move. where he does the personal meeting, and the meeting itself is the progress. how will his own team deal with this. we have seen john bolton has taken a more hawkish line. he was not there. he had a preplanned meeting. how will his team take this going forward? will they be in line with the president. well, i think it depends. in the china example, there have been talks to try to deal with the trade situation that have
resignation. president trump tweeting this afternoon, we thank attorney general jeff sessions for his service and wish him well. a permanent replacement will be nominated at a later date. the russia investigation is now expected to be overseen by sessions acting replacement. the chief of staff, matthew whitacre, not rodd rosenstein, deputy attorney general. in a cnn op-ed in august, he argued the russia investigation had gone too far. cnn s pamela brown is at the white house. and pamela, rod rosenstein is expected to show up at the white house any moment, if he s not already there. reporter: yeah, that s right. this was apparently a preplanned meeting with president trump today. but, of course, a lot has happened in the wake of the attorney general, jeff sessions, giving his resignation letter at the request of the president. so all of this raises the question, what is next for rod rosenstein? and this really is a slap in the face to him, because he was the number two at the departm
the justice department will give some advice as to whether or not the appearance of conflict is enough for him to recuse himself, and then he ll have to decide whether or not that is something he s going to accept, you know, at the peril of the justice department. but we have to pause and look at this for what it is, which is the president has chosen deliberately a man who publicly has been out there saying that the investigation needs to be ended and there s a way for it to be stafforved of its resourc and that should give everybody pause. thanks so much, evan. pamela brown has news about someone who is expected to arrive on the white house ground at any moment. reporter: yes, we re hearing that rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, is headed to the white house right now. we re being told that this was a preplanned meeting. in the wake of this news that jeff sessions has resigned, matt