>> donald trump holding the white house lunch to talk border security with the house and senate meeting on capitol hill. the president suggesting we could be in for a long haul as we enter our 14th partial government shutdown. welcome to america's headquarters. good to have your, mike. mike: there appears to be no sign of a deal on the horizon. a senior republicans were selling fox news a vote to reopen the government is not expected until after christmas. the blame game is in full swing, democratic leader saying the president, quote, has got what he wanted after threatening her shutdown multiple times in recent weeks. the president firing back putting the blame on democrats and doubling down on his border security demands. >> our great country must have border security. we don't want people coming in that aren't supposed to be here. we want people to come in through a legal process. there's nothing we can do about that because we need the democrats to give us their votes. call it a democrat shutdown, call it whatever you want. heather: allison barber is following this from the

much in donald trump and the blind lilt to donald trump. that doesn't explain the $4 million in tax evasion that actually had nothing to do with donald trump. that was his taxi business. >> yeah, and, you know, there's this lingering question about what it is he did not want to talk to prosecutors in the southern district of new york about. and there's lingering questions that we have lots of sort of trailing ends about, but no real answers yet what exactly haefs able to tell prosecutors about donald trump and russia during the campaign. donald trump is apparently implicated in a whole lot of that stuff if open source reporting is true. we have nothing about what he was able to tell prosecutors about that. >> well, that's why we have to be patient. >> my least favorite thing. >> yeah, i know. thank you, rachel. >>> well, in the michael cohen case, donald trump has much more to worry about now than just michael cohen. trump defenders in washington including some republican senators have been saying they can't believe donald trump committed crimes with michael cohen just on the word o

, for donald trump. that was then. and now, the president's former lawyer and fixer is sending a message to his old boss. i know the truth. the feds know the truth and everyone else is about to know it, too. in his first interview since being sentenced to three years in prison, cohen undercut trump's legal argument in the case that appears increasingly likely to be brought against him in the southern district of new york. that case revolving around hush money payments to stormy daniels and karen mcdougal. >> he's saying very clearly that he never directed you to do anything wrong. is that true? >> i don't think there's anybody that believes that. first of all, nothing at the trump organization was ever done unless it was run through mr. trump. he directed me as i said in my allocution and in the plea. he directed me to make the payments. he directed me to become involved in these matters. including the one with mcdougal, which was really between him and david pecker. and then david pecker's counsel. i just reviewed the documents. in order to protect him. i gave loyalty to someone who tru

were watching was a version of what would happen to donald trump if he had to testify under oath, answering questions from robert mueller. in the oval office today, the role of robert mueller was played by chuck schumer. >> one thing i think we can agree on is we shouldn't shutdown the government over a dispute. and you want to shut it down. you keep talking about it. >> the last time, chuck, you shut it down. >> no, no, no. 20 times. >> you opened it very quickly. i don't want to do what you did. >> 20 times you were called for, i will shutdown the government if i don't get my wall. none of us have said -- >> you want to know something? >> you said it. you said it. >> i'll take it. >> good. >> you know what i'll say? yes, if we don't get what we want, one way or the other, whether it's through you, through a military, through anything you want to call, i will shutdown the government. >> okay fair enough. we disagree. we disagree. >> i am proud to shutdown the government for border security, chuck. >> imagine, just imagine what robert mueller and his team of prosecutors would do

going to fight back. >> he vowed to protect donald trump at all costs. >> he told me that he would take a bullet for the president. >> could the man who was the president's go-to problem solver now be his greatest problem? >> he is such a wild card in terms of the danger he poses to president trump. >> if i were donald trump i would be very worried about what else is out there. >> good or bad. michael cohen will be part of american history. >>> president trump's former long-time personal attorney, michael cohen admitting he made false statements to congress about the russia investigation. >> it was totally unexpected. because cohen had already pleaded guilty and we believed he was meeting with robert mueller's prosecutors, but we weren't sure what was going on with that. >> in a detailed nine-page court tournament delivered on november 29, 2018 cohen stated he made false and misleading statements to congress in 2017 about the so-called moscow project. >> a 100-story hotel to be built in the heart of the russian capital. >> by all accounts donald trump has long been interested in de

the sanctuary state of california happening right now. as that officer's death fuel donald trump's call for a border wall, with one week since the government shutdown. will democrats and republicans reach a solution? first lady snubbed, the most admired woman in america, michelle obama, your comments pouring in on this one. "fox and friends first" starts now. ♪ oh my god ♪ it's the weekends ♪ heads up for the weekend ♪ oh my god ♪ it's the weekend ♪ hands up for the weekend ♪ ♪ bill: a rainy start to the weekend in new york city. lots of activities beginning to take place as we gear up for a brand-new year on tap. you are watching "fox and friends first" friday morning. thank you for starting the day with us. a massive manhunt intensifying for an illegal immigrant accused of killing a california police officer and donald trump is calling for tougher border security in the wake of that tragedy. todd pyro joins us with the latest on the search for the suspect. >> reporter: calls for justice growing louder as the manhunt continues for suspected armed and dangerous copula, a

. >> well, you're helping me form my questions on tim o'brien who's written a book for donald trump and he might have a sense of what else might there be in cohen world that needs to be protected from these prosecutors in the southern district. we will find out. >> indeed. >> we will find out. thank you, rachel. >> thanks, lawrence. >>> well, today was actually the second time that donald trump was accused of committing federal crimes by federal prosecutors in federal court right here in new york city, the first time was exactly 108 days ago on august 21st. in the same case when michael cohen pleaded guilty to those federal crimes that he said he committed, quote, at the direction of donald trump who's identified only as individual one in the case. michael cohen said then that those crimes were committed for the principle purpose of influencing the election of the president of the united states. today the prosecutors filed their sentencing memo in that case saying that michael cohen should get, as rachel and i just discussed, a substantial prison term for his crimes against the united stat

ramos y la calderÓn. hola: quien fuera uno de los principales asesores del presidente donald trump ha caÍdo en desgracia, hoy se vivieron momentos en un juzgado de washington. el juez dijo que su conducta era abominable. quieren acusarlo de traiciÓn estados unidos. lo iban a sentenciar hoy mismo, pero exigiÓ que continÚe cooperando en las investigaciones antes de recibir sentencia. reportera: manifestantes pedÍan hoy que el juez enviada a michael flynn a prisiÓn, pero por ahora, el exasesor del presidente donald trump sigue siendo un hombre libre. el magistrado propuso su sentencia 90 dÍas exigiendo que flynn termine de colaborar con la investigaciÓn del fiscal independiente robert mueller, y que se demuestre que su cooperaciÓn ayudado a la trama rusa . fue contundente diciÉndole a flynn que habÍa traicionado su paÍs. el juez preguntÓ a la fiscalÍa si a flynn le podrÍan imponer cargos portaciÓn, aunque luegodijo que no haestuviera justificado. >>se declarÓ culpable de mentir al fbi en sus conversaciones con el embajador ruso en estados unidos. habÍa dicho que no sab�

supporters definitely understood and affirmed their leader, donald trump, the president of the united states, promised them that mexico would pay for his wall. of course, the majority of americans knew all along, that was not going to happen. past and present leaders made it clear mexico was going to do no such thing. now the inevitable has happened. after getting pressure from right wing media including fox radio hosts and news, gone beyond demanding american taxpayers pay for the wall. as of midnight plus one second, he and his political party have triggered a government shutdown to try to force you, the american taxpayer, to pay for the trump wall. to be clear, a wall that was supposed to be paid for by mexico has resulted in a part s ial government shutdown. 420,000 employees work without pay over the holidays and additional 380,000 will be sent home, according to a fact sheet created by democratic staffers. this is now the third government shutdown this year, with total republican control of the white house, the house and the senate. and despite donald trump now trying to pass the blame

battle between donald trump and the chairman of the federal reserve. the dow jones industrial average sinking 653 points, the s&p dropping 65.5 points, the nasdaq lost 140 points, those are 3% declines for the dow and s&p, 2% for the nasdaq, marking the biggest percentage drop in trading on christmas eve ever for all 3 indices, markets will be closed tomorrow. we have fox team coverage tonight, they are tackling the latest on the partial government shutdown, infighting and washington to what it means for ordinary americans so far. live from the pentagon, a new exit data posed by the president for outgoing defense secretary jim mattis but let's start with richardson in the washington beer on the message from the markets to donald trump and his new nemesis, the fed chairman. >> us stock market followed up their worst weeks and the 2008 financial crisis with the worst ever christmas eve, top financial regulators trying to reassure investors as they continue selling to close out 2018. it is a group of top washington regulators focused on financial markets, it is called the fund pr

real world is how does this affect donald trump? i mean, you know, michael cohen will go to prison for some period of time. i think that's clear. but what does this mean for the russia investigation? and what has intrigued me here is in the mueller filing, in pages 5 and 6, it does suggest that cohen gave information about contacts with russia that are beyond what we currently know. if i can just call your attention to a sentence here. the defendant provided a detail account of his involvement and the involvement of others in the moscow project. that's the plan to build trump tower in moscow. and also corrected the record concerning his outreach to the russian government during the week of the united nations general assembly. the defendant also provided information about attempts by other russian nationals to reach the campaign. this is further evidence of contacts between russia and people affiliated with russia and cohen and other people affiliated with the trump world, trump business world and the trump campaign. that's why we care about all of this. that's what's important. you

, donald trump was in the room at a meeting with michael cohen and david pecker, the head of the company that owns "the national enquirer" as pecker offered to help the campaign identify negative stories about his relationships with women, stories that would then be killed, kept from the public. this is from a court document in the immunity deal that the company, ami has reached with prosecutors. one sentence caught our eye when this story came out yesterday. i'm quoting. in or about august 2015, david pecker, the chairman and chief executive officer of ami, met with michael cohen, an attorney for presidential candidate and at least one other member of the campaign. well, today, we learned the one other member of the campaign, according to a source familiar with the matter, was donald j. trump, the number one member of said campaign. now, before this news came out, the president gave an interview where he informed fox news viewers that everything's fine. he didn't do anything wrong, and even if he did, it wasn't wrong anyway. here's what he said when he was asked about ami, pecker, and t

corroding container of a man. when donald trump's time comes and he is being remembered by people gathered in a cathedral, no one, not one person will step up to a microphone and say he never hated anyone. no one will step up and say he was the most decent and honorable person i ever met. no one will say he was one of nature's nobleman. no one will say that. i know allen simpson. i worked with him when ofsthen democratic staff on the united states senate, and he was one of the most reasonable republicans with whom we mostly disagreed on policy but worked with every day. allen simpson knew that by saying george bush never hated anyone and by saying hatred corrodes the container its carried in, his words would be interpreted as a direct reference to donald trump. allen simpson knew that his words would be taken as praise for george bush and at the same time as condemnation for the president who has publicly spewed more hatred than any president in history. donald trump had to take his seat in the front pew of the national cathedral today, the day after special prosecutor robert muel

time left. >> the clock is ticking down. donald trump is holding his ground insisting he won't be deterred from his pursuit of the wall after his oval office meeting with democratic leadership. >> we need border security. whatever it takes to get border security i will do it. i pledged that a long time ago and i will pledge it always. >> he tweeted a one line olive branch to democrat yesterday about how both sides of the aisle should come together to avoid a shutdown but then attached further video blasting democratic leadership as hypocrites so schumer and pelosi firing back last night saying they are not giving any there, schumer claiming there are no additional appropriations to pay for the $5 billion wall the president is demanding and nancy pelosi telling reporters the president doesn't seem to understand how trade agreements work after insisting mexico would pay for the wall. a fiery exchange on the house floor as members scramble to get to a legislative fix. >> you know what the solution is? sitdown with us and come to a compromise. not that it is your way or no way. these

. >>> so donald trump was right, it was interesting to see what michael flynn had to say, but it was even more interesting to see what judge sullivan had to say. he expressed his disgust and his disdain for the crimes michael flynn committed. those were his actual words, disgust and disdain. judge flynn -- judge sullivan said to michael flynn, i'm going to be frank with you. this ihm is very serious. as i stated, it involves false statements to the federal bureau of investigation agencies in the white house in the west wing, by a high-ranking security officer. >>> judge sullivan repeated those words a few times in the west wing. you could see that it deeply bothered the judge, felt sacrilege us, it seems, to the judge, that these crimes were committed in the west wing, the location of the crimes matters to this judge. >>> and then came the treason moment. judge sullivan focused on michael flynn's communication with russia about sanctions during the transition when president obama imposed sanctions on russia for attacking our election. in a discussion with assistant prosecutor brandon

and the bush family to donald trump and the donald trump family, that is so stands out. george bush was all about public service. he was a world war ii hero. he was shot down during the war. his whole life was about public service and serving the public good. >> they had humility. >> as john f. kennedy said don't ask what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country. the bushes lived that through. the trump family is all about how much money can we make off of their businesses. that is the biggest problem we are facing right now with donald trump and that's why he should not be in office. >> this is an issue and there are a lot of people that say it's a lot happening. these are men who had faults as well. you are comparing him to president trump to ignore a lot of that because of what he is is describing. his approach to public service, his approach to the job that he did. >> there is a conversation he had about character and who they were and that's conversation to be had about what they did. those things overlap of course. i'm never going to forgive the fact th

. >> the father, of course, then candidate donald trump. and the e-mail's author, an unlikely man to be in the center of what would become a political firestorm. rob goldstone sat down with nbc news sin that mcfadden, to tell his story. >> you have been called a wide variety of names over the past year. useful idiot. dunce. clown. bonkers. puppet of the kremlin. sinister. any of that fit? >> i've been called much more than that as well. and you know, ultimately, i was a publicist who wrote an e-mail on behalf of my client. >> but it's not just goldstone's words that have the attention of special counsel robert mueller. it's the response from the president's son. >> donald trump jr. said if it is what you say, i love it. >> his reaction to that was not to say, is this all right? should i call the fbi? >> it is potentially criminal. it is embarrassing. it's a scandal. >> this meeting in some ways goes to sort of the heart of what robert mueller has been looking at. he was appointed to look at any connections that existed between the trump campaign and russia. >> there wasn't anybody hi

this is bbc news i'm ben bland. our top stories: us prosecutors say donald trump's former personal lawyer lied about a business project in russia to protect his client. a top executive from the chinese telecoms giant, huawei, appears in court in canada facing fraud charges for allegedly breaching sanctions against iran. french students clash with police as the country prepares for more anti government protests this weekend. and a british sailor rescued from the southern pacific ocean, after being cast adrift during a storm. hello and welcome to bbc news. us prosecutors have called for president trump's former personal lawyer to be given a substantial jail sentence. michael cohen has pleaded guilty to crimes including tax evasion and paying money to an adult film star on the president's behalf. in papers filed with the courts, special counsel robert mueller also said mr cohen lied about a potential property deal in moscow that could have brought the trump organisation millions of dollars from russian sources. rajini vaidya nathan is in washington. bought rajini vaidya nathan is in w

idea went all the way to the top of the miss universe organization, to donald trump. >> donald trump loved the idea, said, make it work. >> the agalarovs traveled to the states in june 2013. goldstone was on hand for the introductions. >> i remember i was in the lobby of the trump hotel in vegas, waiting for the agalarovs to arrive. they walked through the door. donald trump was at the other end of the lobby and screamed, bell lowed, the richest man in russia has come to see me. i thought that was hilarious. at the time, i think aras was the 54th richest man in russia. >> he sounds sort of giddy about the whole thing. >> i suppose at the time i thought he was making a fun ss them. he was trying to make them feel welcome, which he did. >> goldstone says while celebrating the pageant deal during dinner, the conversation took an off of color turn. >> he said to emen something along the lines of, i'll take a million dollars off the cost of this pageant right now if you tell me if you've ever slept with any of the contestants. and he said this smiling. and emen went, interesting. and then he sm

capitol hill, donald trump and the first lady paying respects to our 41st president ahead of tomorrow's state funeral. doug mcelwain live as the nation honors president bush. people have been passing along their respects through social media and sharing their stories across the board. some of those have been tremendous, we will bring much more in a few minutes so stay tuned for that. in the meantime a couple headlines. and ms 13 gang member nabbed at the border for trying to enter the us illegally, manual lopez gomez intercepted going through the border, two other legals and an american arrested. the group telling agents they were traveling to los angeles for work, agents arrested another ms 13 gang member at the california mexico border. 2 dozen migrants give up on waiting for simon jump the border fence in tijuana. according to reuters, most of them, asylum-seekers cut into the country illegally and they may have their cases heard quicker than those who wait. a federal judge blocked the white house from a denying asylum claims to those who enter the country illegally. the s

what we calls the personal and mental incarceration of being loyal to donald trump. trading it for actual prison. but also the potential dirty deeds we don't know about, but may soon because other people very close to donald trump are talking, are cooperating and they were in the business of buying the president's secrets and burying them. those people have seemingly sat down the shovels. today, michael cohen was sentenced to three years behind bars for crimes including lying to congress, tax fraud and campaign violations tied to payments to two women who said they had affairs with the president. in his sentencing hearing in new york this afternoon, cohen characterized it like this. and i quote, "recently, the president tweeted a statement calling me weak, and it was correct, but for a much different reason than he was implying. it was because time and time again, i felt it was my duty to cover up his dirty deeds." dirty deeds done dirt cheap? that sort of depends. some may think $130,000 is a bargain to keep a story about an alleged sexual encounter with a porn star out of the new

>> donald trump realizes his position will result in a trump shutdown. >> four heart attack and stroke. >> thursday, december 13th and this is "fox and friends first". happening at 4:00 on the east coast shutdown showdown, the clock is ticking as republican's race to secure votes needed for donald trump's border wall. new numbers showing how many people tried crossing into the country illegally this year. michael cohen learns his fate in his has many conviction but are the goal posts being moved to get trump out of office? >> have we ever been to the moon? >> sorry -- >> in the -- nba star steph curry says we have never been to the moon but apparently he wants to walk back those comments, says he was just joking. ♪ ♪ this is going to be the best day of my life ♪ my life ♪ jillian: it is the best day of your life. beginning in a good way, watching "fox and friends first" on thursday morning, almost friday, thank you for starting your day with us. let's begin with the showdown on capitol hill, not a great day, republicans raising for votes for donald trump's border wall bu

akcross the globe o we wouldn't have to fight them here at home. but donald trump, he thinks that's how suckers fight. he wants to fight here, i guess. donald trump now tells americans suckers for fighting enemies like isis abroad and dismantling their terror networks abroad so we don't have to fight them in our own schools or in our own churches or at airports. remember that? no. things are changing under donald trump. u.s. leaders once stood up to bullying threats from tyrannical thugs. but now, it's not even close. a last week, our president caved like a coward by threats coming from turkey's leader, erdogan. donald trump bailed out on our allies and he ran off his beloved defense second all in response to a threatening phone call from the leader of turkey. are you kidding me? and this week, the president has sat silently by as russia is now threatening the united states of america and threatening us over saudi arabia, ordering donald trump not to pretty the royal family there to hold their murderous crown prince accountable for the slaughter of a washington post columnist and a

of donald trump's defenses. his lawyer rudy giuliani struggling to answer questions in two sunday show appearances. and the president himself sounding more like a jilted mob boss than the commander in chief. "the washington post" with this insight on the impact of the half dozen investigations on donald trump's psyche. quote, there has been one immediate impact on a president accustomed to dictating the country's news cycles but who now struggles to keep up with them. trump has been forced to spend his political capital and that of his party on his defense. the president with some remarkable tweets over the weekend like this one. quote, remember michael cohen only became a rat after the fbi did something which was absolutely unthinkable and unheard of until the witch hunt was illegally started. they broke into an attorney's office. why didn't they break into the dnc to get the server or crooked's office? and this one slamming his former attorney general jeff sessions. jeff sessions should be ashamd of himself for allowing this total hoax to get started in the first place. our coll

investigation. in the past donald trump's tv lawyer rudy giuliani has repeatedly said that they are working on a point by point rebuttal of whatever it is robert mueller is going to come up with. giuliani has called what they are working on or supposed to be working on a counter report to the mueller report. but now the atlantic elena plott is reporting according to a half-dozen current and former white house officials, the administration has no plans in place for responding to the special counsel's findings save for expecting a twitter spree. the atlantic report that some in the white house believe preparing an organized response is pointless because the president is incapable of, quote, making plans and sticking to them. the article says, we would always -- someone in the article says we would always put together plans with the knowledge that he wouldn't use them or they'd go off the rails. one recently departed official told me. and at this point with mueller they've decided they're not even going to do that. it's like jesus, take the wheel, the source added, but scarier. rudy gi

tonight. a storm of investigations slamming into donald trump on multiple fronts and late today, trump announcing a new pointman to help deal wit all, current trump budget director mick mulvaney will be the new chief of staff and he'll be facing a deluge of investigations on day one. hours after michael cohen spoke out for the first time since his sentencing rebutting claims from the president. as new audio of donald trump obliterates his own hush money payments -- you heard there's a tweet for everything. in this case there's an actual recording. we are going play it for you. >>> also, bob mueller undercutting trump's comments about flynn in a new court reporting. mick mulvaney the new chief of staff of the white house since michael cohen being sented to three months in prison, saying trump told cohen to pay hush payments even though trump knew it was wrong. >> nothing at the trump organization was ever done unless it was run through mr. trump. he directed me as i said in my elocution and i said as well in the plea, he directed many toe make the payments, he directed know become invol

, donald trump's national security adviser michael flynn. what is behind the heavily redacted sections of the special counsel's filings on families whose cooperation so helpful that mueller says he shouldn't get any jail time at always both sides claiming victory but what does it mean for the president? katherine herridge is here live to donald trump's and start just critic notices statesman ship in tributes to bush and international diplomacy. rush limbaugh joined us to talk about his memories of bush 41 and schizophrenic coverage of the former president and why president obama might be offended. we begin with breaking developments in robert mueller's probe with katherine herridge. >> the special counsel is recommending no jail time for flynn based on his substantial cooperation including 90 interviews and documents and communications he provided. the special counsel since then cooperated on multiple investigations concerning any links of coordination between the russian government, the trump campaign and trump transition team so they offer no specifics, also citing sensitive

fox news alert. breaking news from the wall street journal donald trump picked to be the new attorney general penned a memo months ago calling a key aspect of the special counsel investigation into the president fatally flawed. that the memo factor into the president's decision to pick bill maher? went to know about the memo? we have reaction. alan dershowitz and mike lee of the senate judiciary committee but that is not all. breaking news night, it is official the republican house freedom caucus could veto a short-term spending bill, a move that would shut down the government on friday. it is about funding for the border wall. putting the pressure on the white house, softened its position on the president's $5 billion demand. how will the president respond? the bases asking tough questions about what happens to the campaign promise to build the wall. allison barber is falling the political fallout from the border battle. >> reporter: the senate voted to approve the funding bill through february 8th and potentially avoiding a partial government shutdown. it will head to the house toni

attorney to donald trump, continues to tell the truth about donald trump's misconduct over the years. at the appropriate time after mr. mueller issues the final report i look forward to assisting michael to state publicly all he knows about mr. trump and that includes any appropriate congressional committees interested in the search for truth and the difference between facts and lies. mr. trump's repeated lies cannot contradict stubborn facts. tell me what else you can about what that means because that sounds ominous and another chapter coming here. >> for sure you can read mr. mueller's report, who took a much different view of the word cooperation than the southern district of new york. and mr. mueller credited mr. cohen with addressing after 70 hours in 7 meetings with the office of special counsel. two very important words that mr. mueller used. core issues involved in his investigation. when mr. mueller is done explaining that and he will and he knows more than we all know michael cohen will fill in all the gaps and will be publicly available to tell the truth and if i were mr.

working on days, perhaps weeks in advance. that revealed something donald trump wanted if russia. donald trump wanted to build trump tower moscow. michael cohen was working on that into the general election campaign in 2016. will we, perhaps, learn something about why michael l flynn lied about conversations with russian ambassador sergey kislyak ostensibly about the lifting of sanctions? >> we very well might. i think what we'll see from this agreement is obviously we'll see kind of a description of the significance of this cooperation. the extent of its cooperation. we'll see some description of the crimes. i think the question of how much detail we'll see about the involvement of others. whether mueller makes that public in this report or whether he holds it off for a future indictment or a future guilty plea or holds it off because it's still a very live part of his investigation. and i think it's such a critical question because flynn really is at the central of kind of both threads of the mueller investigation. both the collusion side and the obstruction side. on the collus

melania's jacket, quote, "i don't care, do you?" what is your designation >> april 2018, donald trump was on air force one, which i now call conair because he's on his way just like nicholas cage. they asked donald trump about hush money payments to stormy daniels and he said, i don't know, ask michael. guess what, robert mueller asked michael cohen, and this is where we are. we have michael cohen under oath with the allegation making donald trump an unindicted coconspirator. finally donald trump's lies caught up with him, and i think on some level, there's so many bad moves to pick, that one is the worst one. >> so he took the advice and went and talked to michael cohen. ari, who gets the award? >> i'm going to stick with your menu, number four, the president siding with vladimir putin about noninterference in the 2016 elections. on july 2016, he was in helsinki, and he said that he did not see why russia would have interfered in the 2016 elections. we all heard it, talk about provo bly wrong things. we heard the president say that and asked after a gasp heard around the world the president

lewandowski argue the washington bureaucrats are seeking to undermine the presidency of donald trump. they are interviewed by investigator journalist sharyl attkisson, author of "smear." "after words" is a weekly interview program with relevant test hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest work. >> thank you both for joining us. i thought we begin with the short version, a synopsis if you will of how do you know donald trump? >> i got a chance to meet donald trump in 2010 so i've known the president for quite some time. i got to meet the president because i was trying to raise money for children's hospital in washington, d.c. where my son had one of his major surgeries. we were very blessed to be able to have great medical care for my son, and we wanted to of the family so we wanted to raise money so that others would have that same opportunity. we got a chance to meet mr. trump because we're doing a golf tournament at a golf course in washington that he ended up by, trump national washington, d.c. we were able, i got a chance to know him because he wanted to help me wi

she is cooperating with federal prosecutors. asking then candidate donald trump a question at a campaign event in 2015 that now looks more curious in 2018's light. her appearance in court is one of several events this week that could shed new light on the russia investigation. today michael flynn will ask a judge for no jail time in his sentencing memo. we could learn more about what he offered. plus, there is a hearing in paul manafort's federal case as prosecutors will lay out the lies they say torpedoed his plea deal. tomorrow michael cohen will learn his sentence. >> it is like a russian advent calendar. there is a new sentencing memo or an investigation going on. >> that is the service we provide. cnn politics reporter and editor at large chris cillizza and knee yeah ma lee ka henderson. let's start with the david bossie news. of course he wants somebody who knows how to navigate their way through an impeachment hearing. >> somebody who knows washington, somebody he knows. and david bossie was someone who was left behind. he was always on the outside of the white house look

candidate now president donald trump. the judge today said each of cohen's crimes warrant considerable punishment. cohen said today now free from what he called the personal and mental incars naticeration of w for donald trump. the only weakness was a blind loyalty to donald trump. outside of the federal courthouse where all of this is playing out. cohen asked for leniency. about to hear from the judge. >> the judge has started speaking. i'm just going over some notes here from the judge and basically that's what's going on. the judge is addressing the court. he's addressing michael cohen and just to give you some idea of what he's saying, he's saying that somewhere along the way, mr. cohen appears to have lost his moral compass. i think what we're expecting to see here more as this hour goes on, we may have a sense here, the judge may impose this sentence at any moment. it looks like the judge is moving through the sentence and hearing. he's reading his statement now, addressing the different crimes that michael cohen has pleaded guilty to and things are moving much faste

: the inside story of putin's war on america and the election of donald trump" tells incredible harrowing account of how american democracy was hacked by moscow as part of a cohort operation to influence the the u.s. election, and help donald trump gain the presidency. we let the authors tell it all. what to hear from them? and please help me again welcome david corn and michael isikoff. thank you. [applause] >> well, thank you. this is an awesome crowd, and i guess the issues surrounding trump and russia still hold some public interest out there. look, there's a lot to unpack, a lot we write about in the book that anticipated about of events that using unfold over the last couple years. we will talk about that but i want to start out talking about recent events. first of all obviously we are all sort of on pins and needles to see how the robert mueller investigation is going to reach its grand conclusion. there are a lot of signs after about some indictments to come, perhaps in the mid, a few other characters who we talk about in the book. and then there's the question of will

special prosecutors leading the way. and so if you're donald trump, you've got to ask yourself the dirty harry question. you've got to ask yourself the question that clint eastwood told the bad guys in dirty harry that they had to ask themselves, do i feel lucky? donald trump has to ask himself, do i feel lucky because think about how lucky donald trump is going to have to be to survive 17 investigations. donald trump has probably felt lucky most of his life, but he didn't feel lucky when his atlantic casinos went bankrupt and when he was approaching a trial in the trump university case which he avoided by paying $25 million to the former trump university students who accused him of fraud. so donald trump knows what it is to not feel lucky. but until now he did not know what it felt like to be the subject of 17 investigations. and he's certainly tweeting like a man who doesn't feel lucky. he's tweeting like a panicked president. think about those words together. a president of the united states who is panicking, a panicked president. but donald trump's strategy to try to prove to t

to build a trump power in moskow and the motive that exists that's finally been revealed. donald trump's motive that has been revealed by the new michael flynn -- michael cohen guilty plea. we have a former deputy special prosecutor picking up on your points of this your extraordinary op-ed today about this motive which really is the new elomement of the story. thank you, rachel. >>> well, it was a day of high crimes for the president of the united states. the congress that adopted articles of impeachment in the house judiciary committee against president richard nixon would have used each of the president's tweets today about robert mueller's investigation as a separate article of impeachment against this president. today the president of the united states committed a crime in public, on twitter, a federal crime. an impeachable high crime. the question now is not whether the president is a criminal or whether the president is impeachable. the question now is has america lost its mind? has america lost its legal mind? have donald trump and trumpism and fanatical trump voters so u

world news america." still to com on tonight's program, a three-year jail term for donald trumps former lawyer. michael cohen says out of blind loyalty, he tried to cover his boss's dirty deeds. french and german security forces are still h the gunman who carried out a deadly atnck at a christmas market strasbourg on tuesday. they have released this photo of their main suspect, named by local media as chÉrif chekatt. three people were killed and 13 others injured in the shooting. investigatorsay it is an act of terror. a city onthis is alert. hundreds of police and soldiers on a manhunt f a killer. where did he go? watch tonearby border stop him slipping away. he had opened fire near the christmas market. th is the old heart of strasbourg. people barricaded themselves dein touristsms victi are from h thailane on holiday with his wife. the attacker has been identified as a 29-year-old already on france's terror watchlist. the shooting went on for 30 or 40 minutes. he filmed police scrambling for cover. heays he knew the gunman, a local who had two dozen convictions for petty crime. in r

with trump tower or did it shift from cohen to donald trump, jr. >> we know the trump moscow project did span from january actually 2015 until june of 2016. it was during that same period of time that trump repeatedly praised vladimir putin on the campaign trail. why is he warming up this guy as he's trying to make money with him. by the way, he's asking him to help with his deal, asking him for a $50 million condo to go with the deal. here we go. >> i think in terms of leadership, he's getting an a, our president is not doing so well. >> a person that kills political opponents. >> and invades countries. obviously, that would be a concern, would it not? >> he's rung his country. at least he's leader, unlike what we have in this country. >>ly do things with putin nobody else is going to be able do. believe me i don't like the way obama treats putin. wouldn't it be nice in we get along with russia? i think putin has been a lot stronger for russia. he's a lot stronger than our leaders. putin called me a genius. i'm not disavowing anybody. my attitude, when people like me, i like

donald trump was insisting on building a wall. but he forgot to get mexico to pay for it all. good morning and welcome to "a.m. joy." yes, friends. we are at the government capital. the government shutdown will last at least through christmas. they will continue to track santa larry as he skims across the planet bringing you good kids your christmas. but who is the grinch forcing hundreds of thousands of federal employees to either work without way this holiday or be sent home, including thousands of tsa and border patrol agents? donald trump, of course, and the republicans who control the entire federal government. american taxpayers will not be paying for trump's vanity wall. >> it will never pass the senate, not today, not next week, not next year. so, mr. president, president trump, if you want to open the government, you must abandon the wall. plain and simple. >> they control the house, the senate and the white house. and democrats are happy to talk about border security. but we're not going to build this stupid vanity wall of donald trump with u.s. tax dollars. >> joining me

cohen saying that he was acting out of blind loyalty to donald trump. >> of course, the phrase blind loyalty to donald trump reminds me of the book by john dean "blind ambition" and there is some similarity between the two of them where they were basically blinded by the power of the president. but you can only explain so much through blind loyalty. you can explain what he did to pay off two women to get donald trump elected and also why he went to ukraine, and we still don't know if he did, but explain some of it, but you can't explain the tax fraud, and you can't explain some of the sta state-related crimes, and you not explain what he is charged with in the southern district of new york. >> danny, i want to go the you now. and let's just reset where we are, and what we are expecting in terms of this sentencing today. mi michael cohen asking for leniency, and his defense team is asking for mercy. do you expect that the judge is going to grant that, and what are the options today, danny? >> michael cohen's team has asked for a straight probation s sentence and no incarceration. mean