scathing attack on james komi at a television interview with the sacked f.b.i. director. hundreds of thousands of people in boston on a protest against the jailing of nine cassel and separatist leaders. montenegro's president wins another to after a first round election victory a year after taking his country into nato. the u.s. has announced new sanctions against russia for its support of syria's government washington's envoy at the u.n. the key haley says they'll target companies involved in syria's alleged chemical weapons program this follows saturday morning's airstrikes in syrian military installations that allegedly stored chemical weapons so you will think that russian sanctions will be coming down secretary mineta will be announcing those on monday if he hasn't already and they will go directly to any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to assad and chemical weapons use and so i think everyone is going to feel that at this point i think everyone knows that we send a strong message and our hope is that they listen to it. they are complicit i said so to

diplomatic editor james bay who is observing all of this from nearby power jews i'm from your point of view james how successful has the summit been so far. certainly the optics have been extremely good the pictures. the world have seen are historic we have seen a handshake we have seen smiles we've seen both leaders cross into each other's country president moon briefly stepped into north korea really unprecedented pictures particularly given the backdrop of recent months and how close it felt to war and how tense the korean peninsula has been and really unprecedented events can tin you as we speak because you look at those live pictures and you can see there's sometimes smiles sometimes they're a little serious but the two leaders now have stopped they were walking across this footbridge we were told they would have a private conversation with soon it was going to be brief as they walked snow they've stopped there they are alone they have no no takers with them and they are discussing and they have been discussing for some considerable time now the issues we understand that it's l

tree and then a formal banquet if everything goes well at the end of the day james if we if we look back over the past year for a time it seemed that it seemed every month every other month there was some sort of missile testing there was something that just kept ramping up the tension over and over and over and then now we're at this point with these pictures and this honor guard that the leaders and the two koreas meeting each other as we're watching these pictures can you talk that's how we got from that point to this. yes i can and it's certainly an amazing turnaround to have seen the talk of imminent war the tensest moments many believe on the korean peninsula since the korean war with a nuclear north korea and the u.s. president threatening to destroy north korea i have to say though even though we're seeing these pictures we're seeing these traditional bands we're seeing this greeting we're seeing this historic moment of him crossing into the south the north koreans haven't actually agreed to do anything yet nothing has actually been resolved what's changed is the tone and th

watching this is a. diplomatic attitude james based james so this seems to be the moment that with him waiting for any idea what's in this declaration. you're seeing the two leaders signing it's a three part declaration that is coming out and they're finding each part of it being handed it and signed it you're seeing the south korea's president moon who's signing it on one side one of his aides giving it to him you'll see actually the person the female hands they're giving the supreme leader kim his document to sign is actually his sister who's assisting him with signing the documents they are exchanging each other's copies they are shaking hands the two leaders having signed this agreement yet another historic image from this summit which i think is going according to the south koreans extremely well they will head out from inside the peace house where they are now posing and shaking hands once again down the red carpet in a moment and speak to us and tell us a little bit more let me though tell you a little bit more now it's been signed because we got just a few moments before the si

in the army and there is selective conscription for women diplomatic editor james bays reports now from pyongyang. they are everywhere but you're not allowed to film them we only got these pictures when we first arrived in pyongyang before it was explained politely but very firmly that taking pictures of military and security personnel was forbidden. the north korean military is believed to have over a million soldiers this city was badly destroyed during the korean war most of the buildings were built in the decades immediately after the conflict the military history of this now isolated nation is revealed as you travel around the capital city. this monument marks the defeat of the japanese who occupied korea until the end of world war two a few years later the korean war which had a devastating human cost on both sides this is a country that was forged in war and is still even now on a war footing. yet younger koreans at this school of thought the history of the korean war war images are displayed in the corridors. older koreans meanwhile need no reminders the hunan during those

bashar al assad former f.b.i. director james comey says donald trump is morally unfit to be president in an exclusive interview with a.b.c. news is george stephanopoulos earlier trump referred to komi as a slimeball and suggested he should be jailed was fired by trump in may of last year he went on in the interview to talk about how he believes there is certainly some evidence of obstruction of justice. joins us live from washington d.c. so gabriel some strong words coming out from komi there. yeah there really was i mean let's just step back a second remind people that this is an interview that just finished here in the u.s. as you mention in this was a roll out to james komi its new book that comes out on tuesday called the higher loyalty in this book very much is a critique of u.s. president donald trump and the headline out of this interview that just finished airing here in the us is clearly that the former f.b.i. director of the united states is accusing the current president donald trump of being morally unfit to be president of the united states absolutely remarkable words for th

diplomatic editor james space has been monitoring the latest from paul . on the south side of the. technically they are still at war but this was carefully choreographed to create a new atmosphere of peace north korean leader kim jong un entered from the north side of the demarcation line the south korean president loon jay in the seat at the concrete block that marks the start of his country's territory. a historic handshake. and then something in all the years since the korean war the kims father and grandfather never did a north korean leader crossing into south korea. it was followed by a reciprocal gesture moon jay in very briefly crossing the line into the north. both leaders seemed relaxed and was smiling but of course they hope this summit is only the start of a process and that's likely to be complicated and will involve difficult negotiations. among the most men on the dame's this meeting i hope that there is new history written with regards to p. for prosperity and i will approach this with the feeling of a brand new start i'd like to discuss standing honestly and frank

against russia over the suspected chemical attack in syria. donald trump blasts james coleman calling the f.b.i. director he sacked the worst in history. hundreds of thousands of people take to the streets of boston alone to protest against the jailing of nine cattle on the separatist leaders. montenegro's president wins another term in office consolidating his power over the balkan states. the u.s. is preparing new sanctions against russia over its support for the syrian government washington's envoy to the u.n. nikki haley in since the u.s. special forces will not leave syria until its goals are accomplished she also said the u.s. will continue to pressure lies of the assad government. so you will think that russian sanctions will be coming down secretary will be announcing those on monday if he hasn't already and they will go directly to any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to assad and chemical weapons use and so i think everyone is going to feel that at this point i think everyone knows that we sent a strong message and our hope is that they listen to it mea

homes right on the fringes of a strongly is biggest city. former f.b.i. director james coney says there's some evidence the u.s. president's obstructed justice says it happened during a private meeting he had with donald trump in february last year komi was speaking in an exclusive interview with a.b.c.'s george stephanopoulos he recounted the meeting in the oval office where he says trump urged him to close an investigation into his former national security adviser mike flynn the former f.b.i. director also said trump was unfit to hold office. joins us live from washington d.c. so it looks like he's really turned up the heat by talking about obstruction of justice give us the other headlines. yeah that was really a big one right there when he basically said that trump could be open to obstruction of justice charges primarily what he was referring to was this alleged meeting private meeting between donald trump and then director of f.b.i. of the f.b.i. james komi in the white house where komi said that trump asked him to stop the russia investigation or at least insinuated that he

diplomatic end to james bays was given rare access to the capital pyongyang way found out more about the self-reliance philosophy. welcome to pyongyang certainly the cleanest most orderly and probably the most controlled place i've ever visited. rush hour in the city yet the traffic is like the roads of quarks although all of them are a little unfair. there's no doubt this is an extremely hardworking society everyone striving for the good of the staines this is how workers were sent into. revolutionary slogans flags and drums. in this city the portraits in the statues tell the story of this isolated nation run by three men all from one family. the grandfather and the country's founder kim il sung the father kim jong il and the son the current leader kim jong un who told he's too modest to have mosaics made of him but he's everywhere on the state controlled media on television and in the newspapers. in the center of the city the tallest landmark the jew che tower jew check your self-reliance is the governing principle of this nation of twenty five million people are god explained it's not

talks are james face joins us live now from produce so we're inching closer and closer to this historic moment james house is going to play out. yeah well it's already started both leaders are making their way the supreme leader kim from pyongyang is on his way the president moon of south korea left seoul drove along the road right behind me here and just moments ago we've seen live pictures of him arriving at the demilitarized zone in the joint security area as it's known where this meeting is going to take place we understand pretty much how this is going to happen we know that supreme leader kim will get out of his car on the north side he'll come towards some huts that are actually across the line between north korea and south korea the military demarcation line in fact one of those huts is a table in it half is in south korea half in north korea where officials in the past have met instead of walking through those hearts though he'll walk between two of the huts between t two and t three t. stands for temporary even though they've been there for a very long time and they'r

korean willingness to give up their nuclear weapons. their long range missiles and james how far do we think that these two leaders today all in their final statement to get grapple with those issues of great complexity and which lead to huge amounts of passions on both sides of that demilitarized zone are they prepared to grapple with that today or is this just the beginning of the process. i think there will be an intention to deal with these issues rather than any sort of deal on the issues they had one hundred minutes of talks before they paused for lunch and we're told they did talk about denuclearization we're told they did talk about efforts to get a permanent peace on the korean peninsula as i told you the korean war is still it legal terms still going on these are still enemies who do not have a peace treaty they want to get to grips with that but i don't think you're going to see a treaty signed today i may well be surprised by that we're going to have to watch in the next hour or so when the second substantial meeting takes place and after that we're hearing that kim's wife

killer is behind bars in a perfectly executed arrest by detectives arrested james joseph d'angelo seventy two years old living in citrus heights dns low was taken into custody at his suburban home near sacramento during part of the period when the crimes occurred he was a sacramento area policeman well very possibly he was committing the crimes during the time he was employed as a peace officer the golden state killer also known as the east area rapist allegedly murdered at least twelve people sexually assaulted forty five and broke into more than one hundred and twenty homes across california in the one nine hundred seventy s. and eighty's detectives collected massive amounts of physical evidence and tips but were on able to crack the case until recent advances in d.n.a. technology we all knew as part of this team that we were looking. for a needle in a haystack. but we also all knew that the needle was there d.n.a. collected from the crime scenes provided the crucial break we started some surveillance we were able to get some discarded d.n.a. and we were able to confirm what we

turn away from fuel burning cars. former f.b.i. director james comey says donald trump is morally fit to be president and he says there may be some evidence trump obstructed justice he was speaking in an exclusive interview with a.b.c.'s george stephanopoulos earlier trump unleashed a twitter tirade against me saying the man he sacked should be jailed gavrilo this on the reports from washington d.c. . in a remarkable rebuke former f.b.i. director james comey is saying u.s. president donald trump is not fit to be commander in chief is donald trump unfit to be president. yes but not in the way i often hear people talk about it i don't buy the stuff about him being mentally incompetent or early stages of dementia strikes me as a person of above average intelligence who's tracking conversations and knows what's going on i don't think he's medically unfit to be president i think is morally unfit to be president the exclusive. interview with a.b.c. news' george stephanopoulos was part of the rollout of coleman's new book titled a higher loyalty truth lies and leadership in the interview kom

criticised former f.b.i. director james coleman is new book which strongly criticizes u.s. president. the american people see right through the blatant lies of a self admitted leaker this is nothing more than a poorly executed p.r. stunt by coming to desperately rehabilitate his tattered reputation and enrich his own bank account by peddling a blue book that belongs in the bargain bin of the fix and protection instead of being remembered as a dedicated servant in the pursuit of justice like so many of his other colleagues at the f.b.i. comey will prove to be forever known as a disk raced partisan hack that broke his sacred trust with the president of the united states the dedicated agents of the f.b.i. and the american people he vowed to faithfully serve one of the president's greatest achievements will go down as foreign director james comey. well let's go live to our white house correspondent kimberly halkett so capably what else is the white has been saying about coleman's forthcoming memoir that was pretty bruising stuff. ok. tell me how you really feel it was pretty strong language b

. director james comey delivers a damning verdict on donald trump growing fears of the spread of infection in yemen as more patients become resistant to antibiotics and the british government apologizes to thousands of british residents who are arrived from the caribbean decades ago but are now being denied basic rights. and in sport le bron james starts the n.b.a. playoffs with an unwanted career first james. game one of the series as cleveland leaves out to india. the kremlin has rejected u.s. accusations that russia tampered with the site of a suspect that chemical attack in syria representatives of the global chemical weapons watchdog have called an emergency meeting in the hague where inspectors are on the ground to investigate the attack in duma on april seventh but they haven't been allowed access mosco says the o.p.c. w. aren't able to get in because of saturday's airstrikes carried out by the u.s. u.k. and france well some of it has the latest. on the turkey syria border. waiting to be granted access to the site of the chemical attack. in duma you've heard from the british member

think is morally unfit to be president fired f.b.i. director james comey says donald trump may have obstructed justice as a war of words between the two escalates. a u.-turn by china's most popular social media network sign away books reversing a decision to delete all gay content on its site and in sports lebron james starts the n.b.a. playoffs with an unwanted career first james experiencing defeat in game one of the series as cleveland. lose out india. welcome to the program inspectors from the world's chemical weapons watchdog still have an end to the site of an alleged toxic gas attack in syria representatives from the group are holding an emergency meeting at the hague to discuss the delay russia denies it's responsible for the holdup and its blaming saturdays and strikes by the u.s. u.k. and france which were launched in response to the attack in duma when the investigating team arrived in damascus on saturday a senior russian diplomat says they won't be allowed into duma without a u.n. it will the u.s. is warning that russia may have tampered with the site but russia's forei

in syria. donald trump blasts james cole many hours before the sacked f.b.i. directors interview to promote his memoir critical of the u.s. president. under the thousands of people take to the streets of basra alone as a protest against the jailing of nine cattle and separatist leaders. and all charged up plots sparking drivers in jordan to turn away from fuel burning cars. the u.s. is preparing you saying sins against russia over support for the syrian government u.n. envoy hate nikki haley says u.s. forces will not leave syria until its goals are accomplished haley also promised to increase pressure on allies of the assad government so you will think that russian sanctions will be coming down secretary mineta will be announcing those on monday if he hasn't already and they will go directly to any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to assad and chemical weapons use and so i think everyone is going to feel that at this point i think everyone knows that we sent a strong message and our hope is that they listen to it. french president emanuel mark agrees that r

. director james comey of leaking classified. information and his memoirs will call me has been promoting his new book in which people trace trump as quote an ego driven liar called me was followed by trump last year as the f.b.i. investigated alleged russian meddling in the two thousand and sixteen u.s. election where trump tweeted james comey memos a classified i did not declassify them they belong to our government therefore he broke the law additionally he totally made up many of the things he said i said and he is already a proven liar and leka memos on clinton lynch and others is referring there to loretta lynch the previous us attorney general koster has more now from washington d.c. . these memos in question were written by james komi who at the time was director of the f.b.i. and they document the private conversations between komi and president donald trump in the early days of the administration komi said he wrote all of this down because he was concerned by several of the topics that trump brought up in these meetings and in particular two requests made by the presid

white house a former f.b.i. boss james called me ahead of the publication of his controversial new book. the break here's a quote of the choose the satire by robert mugabe's final days in power as zimbabweans test a new bank to ease. we've got some cooler weather at last making his way into southeastern parts of australia this area cloud and rain rolling across south australia into victoria will introduce a cooler south westerly wind as we go through the next couple of days of eighteen celsius for adelaide seventeen degrees there in melbourne quite a prostrate one he's down in price to sydney at around thirty celsius for the time being twenty two celsius there for perth nazi bad getting up to thirty in alice some of temperatures as we go on into sunday generally fine and dry for much of australia down to the southeast and going to that blustery weather will make its way through so i just for melbourne notice twenty four degrees for sydney should stay fall into the gold coast still looking good for the commonwealth games and on the other side of the tasman what we're seeing a bit of

. director james comey accuses president trump of lying constantly. fears of. getting more patients become resistant to antibiotics online anger problems china's version of twitter to reverse its ban on all gay content and the jordan years its motorists towards electric cars as it seeks to drive down fossil fuels. hello thank you for joining us the kremlin has rejected u.s. accusations that russia tampered with the site of a suspected chemical attack in syria representatives of the global chemical weapons watchdog have been holding an emergency meeting in the hague that inspectors are on the ground to investigate the attack seventh's but they haven't been allowed access mosco says the o.p.c. w. aren't able to get in because of saturday's airstrikes carried out by the u.s. u.k. and france and the fighting on the ground or a challenge has more now from moscow. you know b.c.w.s. fact finding mission to do mayor has been highly contentious from the start and as the days tick by it only gets more and more acrimonious there have been accusations from the united kingdom's delegations the o

secretary james mattis has to say. on april seventh the regime decided to again defy the norms of civilized people showing callous disregard for international law by using chemical weapons to murder women children and other innocent we and our allies find these atrocities inexcusable as our commander in chief the president has the authority under article two of the constitution to use military force overseas to defend important united states national interests the united states has a vital national interest in averting a worsening catastrophe in syria and specifically deterring the use and proliferation of chemical weapons last year in response to a chemical weapons attack against civilians and to signal the regime to cease chemical weapons use we targeted the military base from which the weapons were delivered earlier today president trump directed the u.s. military to conduct operations and continents with our allies to destroy the syrian regime's chemical weapons research development and production capability tonight france the united kingdom and the united states took decisive

and smile be here with all the day's sport including the bron james scores the game winning three pointer to clinch game five against the indiana pacers they now leave their playoff series three duty. we begin this news with an historic meeting that could bring peace between two nations divided by decades of war and hostility on friday the north and south korean leaders will meet for direct talks for the first time in more than a decade well security is being tightened the truce village of jam and that's where north korean leader kim jong il and south korea's president moon jane are due to discuss a wide range of issues including pyongyang's nuclear weapons program will relations between both sides have been improving little talks last month led to pyongyang announcing its suspension of nuclear and missile tests a year ago tension in the region was at an all time high after several missile nuclear tests inside north korea well the stakes are high and are expected to set the tone for when north korea holds separate talks with u.s. president donald trump next month or in early june

but we are in there and we are working very hard on that. a large as it is diplomatic editor james bays joins us now on the phone from north korea's capital pyongyang james let's talk about those three prisoners first of all if donald trump administration was able to get those three prisoners released that would be a coup for him wouldn't it. it would certainly be a coup and remember the trumpet ministration judges maybe think by the domestic angle in the weight of things i've seen this would be seen in the u.s. as an important to victory early victory guessing these three u.s. citizens of korean descent two of being held in north korea. it's something and remember these are people and one of them is being in jail since twenty fifteen but this is something diplomats would call an easy deliverable which would then. create an atmosphere of stark's a more detailed process of negotiation on the need clear a few diplomats i've talked to say they think that the north koreans may well be saving agreed three u.s. citizens for this very moment. james as i understand it in north korea the ce

, the fact that he is seething over this. we know, based on the early excerpts from the book that james comey paints an unflattering picture of the and his inner circle. he suggests that the president is daft, out of his depth, he points to the meeting that he had with the president, where the president says in many ways asked him for a loyalty pledge, a pledge that comey refused to give. anticipation for this book is high. we know it's a best-seller based on pre-orders alone, so the president, who is among other things very media savvy, knows that james comey is going to dominate the headlines. in many ways he's trying to cut him off at the pass here. today the tweets and comments from sarah sanders was a pre-buttal. >> and offense some potential blushes for the paperback edition, i think. >>>ever rempsed the tweet moments ago -- i never asked comey for personal loyalty. i hardly ever knew this guy. just another of his many lies. his memos are self-serving and fake. >> what's your thoughts, conference, what do we stand to learn about that relationship in particular between the now form

leader to end his nuclear program ahead of much anticipated talks. i'm james plays in pyongyang or a meeting of the ruling workers' party has now been convened for friday. also the end of an era cuba prepares to swear in a new president ending fifty nine years of rule by the castro family. laying down their arms and leaving syrian rebels and their. families prepared to evacuate a town near damascus after surrendering to government forces. pockets of poverty more than a million nigerians living in mud houses around one of the most modern cities in africa. welcome to the program we start this news are with us president donald trump who has warned he'll walk away from planned talks with north korea's leader if they're not fruitful now the talks will to take place next month or in june now he made the comments during a meeting with japan's prime minister shinzo of a i hope to have a very successful meeting if we don't think it's going to be successful mark we won't have it we want to have it. if i think that it's a meeting that is not going to be fruitful we're not going to go if the mee

just the last few hours. the dispute between the fired fbi director james comey and the president of the united states. this war is now a dirty war. the fired fbi director james comey is talking for the first time this morning about the unverified, salacious information that was in that dossier that he discussed with then president elect trump back in 2017. the allegation that russian authorities recorded donald trump watching prostitutes urinate on each other in a moscow hotel suite this . this is what james comey had to say about this a little while ago. >> i said to him, sir, when he started talking about it, i may order you to investigate that, i said, sir, that's up to you, but you want to be careful about that because it might create a narrative that we're investigating you personally and, second, it is very difficult to prove something didn't happen. >> did you believe his denial? >> honestly never thought these words would come out of my mouth, but i don't know whether the current president of the united states was with prostitutes peeing on each other in moscow in 2013. it i

russians. needless to say, there is a lot to discuss following the interview with james comey on abc. let's get to our correspondents, analysts and political commentators. we've been waiting for this interview to happen. finally james comey is speaking out. this is the man who used to be the head of the fbi, one of the highest offices in the government calling the president of the united states morally unfit. your reaction? >> look, i mean, this is something that in any other time would be seismic and i think even in this time where it's easy to kind of lose sight of things that are enormously out of balance and enormously unusual for an fbi director, even though he was fired and he has, you know, he certainly feels a sense he says of higher loyalty but retribution, let's face it, to say the things he did about a sitting president of the united states is absolutely extraordinary. especially, as you mentioned, things like he believes that its possible that the president did obstruct justice because remember, this isn't -- this is the kind of thing that a former fbi director or officia

that needed fixing? >> unfit for duty. james comey calls the sitting president of the united states a liar who might be vulnerable and wait until you hear how president trump responded today. plus the rift growing between the world's biggest nuclear powers after president trump orders air-strikes on syria. is there a plan for after the dust settles? >>> welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we begin with the politics lead and words that surely have never before been said by any news anchor in any circumstance. the president's personal lawyer, michael cohen who is under criminal investigation is appearing in court right now alongside stormy daniels and there is already a bombshell revelation. we know now that among michael cohen's clients is fox news host sean hannity and we know that because the judge ordered the identity of the client who requested to be unnamed revealed. this comes as the judge will decide if prosecutors can look at material the fbi seized during the raids on the president's lawyer's office and hotel and home and safety deputy boxes and electronic devices. court o

fired f.b.i. director james comey says donald trump may have obstructed justice as a war of words between the two escalates. war and disease the growing fear in yemen as more patients are becoming resistant to antibiotics. and in sports stars the n.b.a. playoffs with unwanted career first james experiencing defeat in game one of the series as cleveland lose out to indiana. we begin this news. an emergency meeting of the global chemical watchdog is underway on syria in the last hour the u.s. representative to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons or. accused russia of tampering with the site of a suspected chemical attack in early this month. inspectors on the ground in syria to investigate if chemicals were used on separately the e.u. is calling on russia to prevent syria from any further use of chemical weapons let's talk live not to say no harder she's in the lebanese capital beirut santa so what more details are we hearing about the chemical weapons inspectors in syria. well that team of chemical weapons inspectors they are in the syrian capital damascus what

little sky a range of issues including pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs chamber james space that is joins us live now from pleasure so james can you give us a bit of a a bit of a rundown about how this is supposed to play out today james can hear me. it appears that james i we have not connected to him but james has been doing extensive reporting preparing for the summit for the past week or so so here is her support and we'll connect with him in a moment. when you walk around pyongyang everywhere you seem to go you hear military music blaring from shops and loudspeakers some of the drums beating particularly heavily it was arguably the tensas time on the korean peninsula in decades september north korean foreign minister re yong ho headed from his ministry here to new york to give his speech at the annual meeting of world leaders at the u.n. ahead of him in the speaking order the new president of the us the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea rocket man is

attention is now shifting to an expected summit between kim and the u.s. president james space reports from seoul. across south korea people watching the historic summit closely some were overwhelmed by the images the first time they'd seen a north korean leader step foot in the country the declaration that was signed was a declaration of intent nothing is actually changed yet but it could mean a very different political future for the next generation of koreans. well south korea had wall to wall coverage of the events in north korea on state controlled media a more edited version was presented people here of not yet been told of the possibility of the next meeting being between their leader and president trump experts say one of the people closest to kim is likely to be involved in changing the official narrative well for north korea the all of the media are controlled by the propaganda an education department which communal junge consignments younger sister who we saw you know company him she also came here to the olympic games she works in that department which indicates is a very v

the 13th, the trump is firing back from james comey's devastating tell-all book, the justice department disclosed this afternoon that the president's personal attorney, michael cohen, is under criminal investigation. this was revealed in court in response to cohen's motion to restrain the evidence collected in monday's raids on his residence and hotel room and office and safety deposit box and electronic devices. the cohen hearing is due to resume any minute. the government asserted any communications between president trump and coen concerning the payment to adult film actress stormy daniels, those koch conversations are not covered by attorney/client privilege and citing the president's own words said on april 1st when he exclaimed to know nothing about the payment. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> [ inaudible ]. >> why did michael cohen make this -- >> you have to ask michael cohen. mike's my attorney and you'll have to ask him. >> and do you know where he got the money to make that payment? >> i don't know. >> let's go right to cnn in new y

mueller. though he has been told he is not a target, should he find that reassuring? and meanwhile james comey embarking on a book tour, but might he endanger the probe publishing before mueller is finished? plus cosby show returns to a pennsylvania courtroom monday, a pretrial of his assaults charges with the judge allowing additional women to testify. will the new jury reach a verdict? and in addition to weaning documents off tobacco, the latest ecigarettes are introducing kids to nicotine highs and they are bragging about it online. is there any way to stub out this trend? plus inside a new movie about the new that everything changed if teddy kennedy's political career, the chappaquiddick car crash that left a young campaign worker dead. but first, on friday, the trump administration imposed new sanctions on seven of russia's richest men and 17 top government officials as punishment for meddling in the 2016 election. and cnn is reporting that the president has begun the initial steps of going over potential topics for an interview with the special counsel. these headlines followed a s

watch you. >>> all right. thank you for that. right now, open book. former fbi director james comey pulling no punches detailing his interaks wi interactions with the president p. >> i was floating above myself looking down saying you're sitting here briefing the incoming president of the united states about prostitutes in moscow. >> enough said. an nbc exclusive between president trump and robert mueller's team now seems unlikely in the wake of the fbi raid on the president's personal attorney. that despite this claim three weeks ago. >> would you still like to testify to special counsel robert mueller? >> i would like to. >> i beg your pardon. the president planning to pardon scooter libby. convicted of obstructing justice and lying to the fbi more than a decade ago. what that move my indicate about potential pardons to come. >> the message being sent is you can commit perjury and i will pardon you if it protects me and i deem you're loyal to me. i think the message is very damaging to our democracy and the rule of law. >>> good day. featuring former fbi director james comey as th

to be president because morally unfit to be president i heard f.b.i. director james comey says donald trump may have obstructed justice as a war of words between the two escalates. the war and disease the growing fear in yemen as more patients are becoming resistant to antibiotics. the u.s. has accused russia of tampering with the side of a suspected chemical weapons attack and. representatives of a global chemical watchdog are holding an emergency meeting in the hague o.p.c. inspectors are on the ground in syria but they haven't been allowed access russia says the visit has been delayed because of saturday's airstrikes by u.s. u.k. and france where a challenge is live in moscow so we what do we know about this this o.p.c. w. meeting at the hague what do we know about it and what has russia been saying so far. well according to the british delegation to the o.p.c. w. arrived in damascus by saturday still waiting to be allowed to visit the scene of last week's chemical weapons incidents in duma now the brits say that they're not being allowed to go by the russians and the syrians and t

embassy in london while our diplomatic editor james face is live for us at the united nations james are expecting this meeting if south fairly soon what kind of form are we going to see this debate to sort of shape is it going to take. well you're going to see each of the ambassadors getting their chance to talk about this i can tell you some of the ambassadors don't really know why this meeting is taking place it has been called by russia the council will suit soon be convening for the meeting and because russia called it russia will speak first diplomats say they are seeing a familiar pattern with this meeting which is when russia's find itself backed in a corner it goes on the diplomatic offensive and not only would have the security council meeting we've had fresh comments from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov we've had that news conference from the russian ambassador in london and we've had russia going to the o.p.c. w that's the international organization that deals with chemical weapons and their russia making a brazen suggestion that russia and the u.k. should stua

. led strikes of batali ation to the attack u.s. defense secretary james matches the peace to be playing down expectations of imminent strikes reflect concerns that a bombing campaign could trigger a wider conflict and syria's government says it's allowing fact finders from the world's chemical watchdog and to to investigate the alleged gas attack we're joined now by cost. to. live for us in the capital moscow what is the russian message for you about all of this. well the second lever of the russian foreign minister was saying just a short while ago that yes the u.s. and russia are still talking to each other through whatever channels there remain that haven't been frozen yet he says that of course putin and. donald trump have phone conversations every now and again and that the two countries militaries are talking to each other much more frequently. as though the united states not use diplomatic not use ultimatums but rather use diplomatic methods don't threaten russia in its communications and yes he went on to say that that russia had proof the what happened in doomer over the weeken

the program trumps torrent of rage against james komi continues the u.s. president describes him as the worst f.b.i. director in history. when his irises white elephant will tell you about the controversial plan to clear the lungs in argentina's capital. welcome back let's stop by a look at weather conditions in a straight year and here temperatures are not too bad across in the southeast no certainly they're looking at highs of twenty seven adelaide twenty one but melbourne is struck in germany the wind is going to freshen from the south or southwest as you move through into tuesday we're going to see temperatures drop way there for sydney at just ninety degrees still pleasant brisbane with a high of thirty that across western australia generally fine picture here but not particularly warm for perth with highs of just twenty degrees is a pretty unsettled picture across in new zealand too we've got rain right across the country during the course of monday some fairly strong winds across the north island and then this circulation clearing away from tasmania is going to be pushing him

white house and a serious diplomatic editor james pace joins us now live from seoul so james friday a huge day of symbolism and optimism koreans have had twenty four hours to digest the momentous events what do they make of it. very important events and a declaration but a declaration of intent nothing has actually happened yet as that means i think there are different reactions from people about what they've seen let's take a look at the korean press this is the the daily korean jew knowing newspaper which appears in korean and in english edition and it's telling the story with one very big picture all across its front page and just a short headline there stepping into the future right at the bottom there let's look at another one and another of the english language newspapers here this is the korea times and they have the headline there beyond division and another english language newspaper is the korea head herald again the historic pictures on the front page and also the headline on the other side of the cold koreas to declare an end to korean war quick look one of the korean lang

joining me from new york kristen thank you. meanwhile the muslims five back at james coldly accusing him of committing many crimes after the former f.b.i. director accused of being morally unfit to be u.s. president in an interview with an american network to promote his new memoir called me also said there may be some evidence that obstructed justice when washington d.c. gave elizondo records. in a remarkable rebuke former f.b.i. director james comey is saying u.s. president donald trump is not fit to be commander in chief is donald trump unfit to be president. yes but not in the way i often hear people talk about it i don't buy the stuff about him being mentally incompetent to early stages of dementia strikes me as a person of above average intelligence who's tracking conversations and those what's going on i don't think he's medically unfit to be president i think is morally unfit to be president the exclusive interview with a.b.c. news george stephanopoulos was part of the rollout of coleman's new book titled a higher loyalty truth lies and leadership in the interview komi says t

. here on the east coast live with huge breaking news. james comey's memos about his conversations with president trump turned over to congress tonight, and cnn has obtained a copy. those memos are, of course, a key part of robert mueller's investigation of potential obstruction of justice and they are full of fascinating details. we're going to go through them page by page, and we will bring you all of it tonight. i want to go to cnn's justice reporter. laura, good evening to you. you have been combing through the comey memos detailing his interactions with president trump. what are you learning? >> reporter: well, don, the memos are detailed and full of color. they cover everything from president trump's alleged loyalty request to james comey as well as their conversations about former national security advisor michael flynn. and i want to read to you a couple of the new bits of information that we've got tonight from these memos. the first is a january 27th meeting at the white house at dinner with james comey and president trump. and here's what james comey writes. in addition

year. referring to twitter and james comey is slippery. he writes that comey always ends badly and out of whack. and he says that the former head of the nation's top law enforcement agency is -- in the president's words -- not smart. let's go to white house correspondent bo rice sanchez. the president did not let go up on james comey. comey will also start a series of media appearances beginning tonight. is it safe to say we can expect the president to have more to add? >> reporter: it is a high likelihood,ana, considering that james comey has a full week if not more of media appearances promoting his book "a higher loyalty" and we should note is not very flattering when it comes to describing president trump. one point, comey say that is the president is not tethered to the truth. the president obviously taking exception to that and other remarks by james comey. he let out a barrage of attacks through his preferred method on twitter early this morning one point calling comey a slime ball and suggesting that the former director of the fbi to be imprisoned for a number of moments th