year. the cost of oil spikes to highest price since 2014. pain at the pump is completely avoidable and entirely because of policies this administration has implemented. fox news media executives and long-time employees ran the iconic nasdaq opening bell celebrating the fox news channel 25th anniversary. [bell tolls] i m so excited i just can t hide it i m about to lose control and i think i like it steve: that was the boss suzanne scott ceo of fox news media pushing the button yesterday to ring in the opening bell as this week fox celebrates 25 years in business. and as you can see we had all the executives there. a number of the original executives. the original on air time and it was a lot of if fun. ainsley: i loved watching snippets and i enjoyed watching you. i saw it live it was great. suzanne was there. suzanne is the first ceo of a television network. brian: number one network. is that real confetti? steve: absolutely. i left here at 8:30 yesterday. of
us. former new york assistant attorney general adam pollock joins the conversation, and criminal defense attorney and former manhattan prosecutor, duel role, duncan levin is still with us. i want to call you a slashy in the immortal words of zoo lander, model and actor. michael cohen on the stand for about four hours now. vaughn hillyard, bring us up to speed. reporter: currently the line of questioning is around the actual execution of the nondisclosure agreement that michael cohen says that donald trump was party to with stormy daniels and her agent and attorney keith davidson, in the explicit question which gets at the heart of the falsification of business records arguments in charges against donald trump is currently playing before the jury as we speak. the question directed by the prosecution to michael cohen just one minute ago was very explicit. was this nondisclosure agreement for the purposes of paying michael cohen as a legal retainer to which michael cohen said
freedom for everyone in our nation, from that experience, we know scapegoating and demonizing any minority is a threat to every minority and the very foundation of our democracy. moments like this, we have to put these principals that we are talking about into action. i understand people have strong beliefs and deep convictions about the world. in america, we respect and protect the fundamental right to free speech, to debate and disagree, to protest peacefully and make our voices heard. i understand that s america. but there s no place on any campus in america, any place in america, for anti-semitism or hate speech or threats of violence of any kind. [ applause ] whether against jews or anyone else. violent attacks, destroying property is not peaceful protest. it s against the law. we are not a lawless country. we are a civil society. we uphold the rule of law. no one should have to hide or be brave just to be themselves. [ applause ] the jewish community, i want you to know
tabloid reporter that show the frantic scramble to stop it from going off the rails. the chaos that ensued when the hush money payments came to light. on the stand right now is a man named doug daus. he s a tech expert who works at the da s office. he comes after hours of extraordinary testimony from keith davidson. the jury saw the agreement between david dennison and peggy peterson alongside a side letter written by keith davidson that, as he puts it, decodes the agreement between the two and specificically mentions donald trump. the deals was done before donald trump s election night upset, a shocker to both keith david sop and national inquire editor lance howard. quote, keith davidson text the editor in chief of the national inquirer around 3:00 a.m. eastern on the night of the 2016 election. quote, what have we done, keith davidson text. oh, my god, he text him that night. asked what he meant in his text, keith davidson said this was humor. he said there was an understa
trump for president campaign, corey lewandowski and rick dearborn both testified on the russia scandal, and like steve bannon yesterday, corey lewandowski, reportedly refused to answer some of the committee s questions today. that s part of how we know that something really important and something really different is going on when it comes to steve bannon and the mueller investigation and the russia scandal overall. yesterday, the big news we were trying to sort out last night is the fact that steve ban nonon w into that house intelligence committee, refused to answer questions and was hit with a subpoena to try to compel him to answer their questions. that s an unusual occurrence, and part of the reason we know how unusual that is is because corey lewandowski walked into that same committee. he also apparently refused to answer their questions, but they didn t subpoena him.
there wasn t word that the committee demanded to have him back in to ask him the questions in a harsher tone,