Manhattan district attorney. we ll be guided through that story later in this hour. and the biggest conflict donald trump has ever had with republican members of congress, republican members of the senate is not over his possibly impeachment conduct but over his very sudden shift on syria policy at the request of the president of turkey in one of those very peculiar trump phone calls with the president of a foreign country. we ll consider the sudden switch in syria and how it affects his grip on republican senators and republican voters when he needs their support the most to survive the impeachment process. they will bring foreign policy expertise to that question at the end of this hour. president trump s desire to please turkey s president erdogan has been a consistent phenomenon throughout the trump presidency. donald trump does business in turkey at trump tower in is t
Special counsel. tonight the president s former fixer michael cohen once again flipping on the president in federal court, revealing trump while campaigning to become president of the united states knew more about a deal to build a trump tower in moscow than cohen has previously acknowledged. mr. cohen has cooperated. mr. cohen will continue to cooperate. cohen pled guilty in federal court today admitting to misleading congressional investigators saying he lied to be consistent with the president s political messaging and out of loyalty to the president. cohen has already met with investigators seven times since august, the most recent meeting just last week. one source saying the details about trump tower moscow were just one of the many topics involving the president that cohen divulged in more than 70 hours of questioning. there s no relationship. cohen told the house and senate intelligence committees last year that all talks around the deal were done by january to 16, but
The intelligence committees cohen lied to. and our correspondenting and analysts are also standing correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first to pamela brown. michael cohen now admits to covering up for the president about the trump administration s business dealings with russia. what s the latest? reporter: yeah, that s right, wolf. the president s former lawyer michael cohen says he lied to congress out of loyalty to president trump. so now the man who once said he would take a bullet for trump could turn out to be the most damaging witness for trump and his presidency in the russia probe. tonight, the president s former fixer, michael cohen, once again flipping on the president in federal court. revealing trump while campaigning to become president of the united states knew more about discussions with russians about a deal to build a trump tower in moscow than cohen has previously acknowledged. mr. cohen will continue to cooperate. reporter: cohen pleaded guilty
Donald trump that i think a lot of members of the public, even the staff hasn t seen, a kind of private side, the leisure side of this guy. the side everyone says he misses about life, trump tower in tower. he didn t have a crippling schedule or a chief of staff. are we to believe he may be the first president in modern history to go without it with a gate keeper, work flow supervisor, chief of staff in the west wing? it s unusual, but it s also not. you look back in history, president carter wanted to have more of a flat operation, people that he could trust inside of the white house. he wanted to be the decision maker. of course, a different style. carter studied data. president trump, when you went
It s obviously weighing very heavily on the morale of a lot of the staffers. and the journalists, we could use one of those martinis, frankly. i was waiting for somebody to say that. the amen chorus now. robert, you ve seen a side of donald trump that i think a lot of members of the public, even the staff hasn t seen, a kind of private side, the leisure side of this guy. the side everyone says he misses about life, trump tower in tower. he didn t have a crippling schedule or a chief of staff. are we to believe he may be the first president in modern history to go without it with a gate keeper, work flow supervisor, chief of staff in the west wing? it s unusual, but it s also not. you look back in history, president carter wanted to have more of a flat operation, people that he could trust inside of the white house.