special prosecutor richard ben vineste. i want to start on the legal side. richard, let me start with you how joe left off. we are looking ahead to this cross-examination and we know that gates has, you know, he has admitted to lying and joe was outlining falsifying that extra $6 million, falsifying financial documents. how will that play with the defense? because can't the defense just say this guy is an admitted liar. this is the guy who should be on trial. and really attacking his credibility? >> well, he should have been on trial except he pleaded guilty and of course he acknowledged his criminality. so before the jury you have a person who unlike manafort has acknowledged his guilt and stands ready to be questioned. now, the questioning will be very sharp because there's a lot of material for the defense to go into. and particularly in my view the fact that he actually stole money from manafort will be highlighted. there was no honor among these thieves. that will be a point which the defense, i'm sure, will spend a good deal of time on. but the overarching question is whether th

the issue. jim acosta, cnn, the white house. >>> richard johnson is a lecturer in u.s. politics and international relations at lancaster university here in the uk. and he joins me now to discuss this. plenty going on in u.s. politics, but guess that's just a wednesday. what do you make of the president's assessment that maybe it was, maybe it wasn't mohammed bin salman who conducted this extrajudicial killing of jamal khashoggi? and also, how unusual it is for a president to be so explicit about this kind of trade-off between the kind of countries america wants to associate with and then also the economic damage it might cause? >> well, i think you hit the nail on the head there that donald trump is a transactional person. he is a transactional president. and so for him, he's not -- he's going to weigh up what we views as at the bigger and better part of the deal, which is arms from deals with saudi arabia. you know, presidents in the past have not had a great record on this either. president obama one of the few vetoes that he exercised and was overruled by congress was legislation

it clear they support the intelligence community and not the house republican findings. richard bur, the chairman of the committee, said there is no doubt that russia undertook an unprecedented effort to interfere with the 2016 elections and that was a great -- that was agreed by his counter part mark warner said the russian effort was extensive, sophisticated and ordered by president putin himself for the purpose of helping donald trump and hurting hillary clinton. and i talked to a number of republicans on that committee, john cornyn and james langford and susan collins all of whom agree with the underlying intelligence committee assessment but still tonight the republicans on the house intelligence committee are telling me they stand by their view that there was some issues with that report and there is -- you can't say with authority that putin tried to help donald trump become president but we're learning tonight they are in creasingly isolated in that view as more people in the republican side of the aisle side with the intelligence community that putin tried to help trump win

watergate where richard nixon's team through the white house counsel john dean through him under the bus. he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice. they hoped that would end watergate, of course it didn't. but mcgahn's people are looking at that saying is it possible for donald trump who is not known for loyalty to his subordinates could turn on mcgahn and say i got bad advice, i didn't know i was obstruction s justice, it was my lawyer's fault. this is a way to block off the possibility that he's the fall guy. >> i want to pose this question to you. do you see any similarities between don mcgahn, his role as counsel to the white house, and the man who served as counsel for the former president richard nixon, john dean? you'll remember dean flipped on the former president and even spent time in prison, but is credited for exposing the watergate scandal. do you see similarities here? >> i think it's a stretch to say that don mcgahn is just like john dean. they're very different personalities and people. what's similar here is the situations. and that is in watergate, remember we had an

broadcast. you have taken your picture. >> facing certain removal, richard nixon is moments away from resigning as president. >> now. okay. all secret service. any secret service in the room? out. >> there can be no greater fall from no greater height. ♪ i used to rule the world ♪ ♪ seize and rise when i gave the word ♪ ♪ now in the morning i sleep alone ♪ ♪ sweep the streets i used to own ♪ >> five men at the democratic national headquarters. >> nixon was desperate. >> wight water. >> i have nothing to say about it. >> andrew johnson's impeachment was over policy. he did not deserve to be president of the united states. >> i am not a crook. >> one thing leads to another. >> a great and profound crisis. ♪ the minute i held the key next to walls that closed on me ♪ ♪ >> you are in the office of the president of the united states. how can you talk about black mail and keeping witnesses silent. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman. >> the impeachment effort against him failed with a single vote in the senate. >> president nixon? aye. >> he's a fallen l

. here's what connecticut senator richard blumenthal said to me about that. listen. >> the president is not above the law, skpand an indictment, that's the course robert mueller chooses to go, i believe would be upheld by the court, it goes to the united states supreme court, and i happen to think he could be indicted even if the trial is postponed. >> could you see this potentially going to the u.s. supreme court, whether or not a sitting president of the united states can be indicted? >> it's an area of the law that's never fully been vetted. so we don't really know and that's why everyone is coming up with this particular idea of robert mueller making his findings available. once that is public, the congress can evaluate those findings and determine whether they were impeachable offenses. i would think from a congressional standpoint, that is our pathway. certainly if he were indicted, it would have to be postponed until he was out of office, if he actually resigned or his term was up. >> we're hearing about payments to the president's long-time fixer, his personal lawyer, michael cohen,

richard, that's i think one of the key takeaways here, is that he didn't want it and didn't think he was going to get it and was positioning himself, that i believe what was the reporting in the book? that a six-point loss was actually a win because it was better than anybody thought he could do. >> well, yes. the problem here is that i don't think he has the mentality, the state of mind to be an effective president, or as we saw with these tweets about north korea and nuclear weapons, to be a safe president. he does not control his impulses. everything is about himself and his own image and his own ego, and that's the way he's led his whole life. he's never even been head of a public company. it's always been a private company that he owned where he could be the sole dictator and he could call all the shots. and that's not the way it is when you're president of the united states. maybe in some other countries, maybe in russia and some other countries you can be a dictator, but not here. >> no. >> and we have now seen that it may be a very dangerous situation to have him as president, an

senator richard burr, the chairman of the intel committee, which just wrapped up its own investigation, says this. "there is no doubt that russia undertook an unprecedented effort to interfere with our 2016 elections." and there is this from fbi director christopher wray. watch. >> you said at your confirmation hearing the russia investigation was not a witch hunt. you've been now ten months here. you're probably more immersed in the details of the fbi. is that still your opinion? >> yes. >> so you heard the fbi director. not a witch hunt. this is an investigation into what may be the greatest threat to the american democracy in our history. and every american deserves to know the truth. let get to the show now. i want to bring in cnn's chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. cnn politics editor at large chris cillizza. legal analyst laura coates. and national security analyst steve hall. sorry, chris. got a little tongue twisted there. >> i'm just glad to be here. >> it's good to have all of you. good evening, everyone. jim, so what do we know tonight about the negotiations

, incoming chairman of the house, ways and means committee, richard neil. i spoke with neil back in november, and he told me, look, i want the president's tax returns, but i'm hoping we can discuss a way for the president to hand them over willingly. but given what the president has been saying about democratic oversight over the last few months and given what his allies have been saying, hope that the president is going to cooperate has faded. and the way that democrats are viewing this process, according to a source familiar, is that richard neil will have to formally ask the treasury department for the president's tax returns. now, when he will do that is still to be determined. but one thing that richard neil is hoping is that he can get the public on his side. i'm told by the same source that at the end of january sometime, we can expect the house ways and means committee to hold a hearing on a provision that would require future presidential candidates to release their tax returns. now, the thrust of this hearing is not going to be on president donald trump. they're very cogni

. >> richard, i am sure you see a real problems here. >> yeah, we had one incident where somebody was using the presidential seal when i was in the white house and one of my counsels wrote him a letter and let him know clearly that you do not use the presidential seal that way. you could get into some very serious trouble and yes, there are criminal penalties. the idea that the president of the united states would allow his businesses or perhaps himself instruct his own businesses to use the seal, golf tees, this is really -- this is disgusting and it is illegal. they can get into serious trouble for that. the president is there to serve the country. this is a public office. it is not there -- he's not there for the enrichment of the trump's organization. the seal should not be used in that manner. >> you said it could get into trouble. what kind of trouble? >> it could be criminal. >> this is intellectual profit that belong to the united states. it belongs to the united states. to the government you don't just put government and stick it on your commercial goods that you want to sell

. but the prosecutors know. >> a secret vote under way on british prime minister theresa may. richard quest is with me next. and another wild interview with the president, admitting these payments plus calling the fact that 16 of his associates had contact with russia, quote unquote, peanut stuff. opportunity is everywhere. like here. where nothing stands between you and your best friends. ♪ ♪ can you feel it there's endless fun with great toys and games for everyone at amazon, with low prices and free shipping on millions of items. for everything you need this holiday, visit amazon. ♪ but he has plans today. so he took aleve this morning. hey dad. if he'd taken tylenol, he'd be stopping for more pills right now. only aleve has the strength stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. tylenol can't do that. aleve. all day strong. all day long. now introducing aleve back and muscle pain, for up to 12 hours of pain relief with just one pill. introducing the new capital one savor card. earn 4% cash back on dining and 4% on entertainment. now when you go out, you cash in.

their departure mean for american foreign policy? i will ask richard haas to make sense of all of it. >>> and we'll take a step back from the apparent onslaught of bad news. is the current situation in america and europe, around the world, as bad as many think? or are we, in fact, living in one of the most prolific productive safe times in history? steven pinker versus niall ferguson. >>> finally, i will introduce you to a young woman whom you will surely want to meet. >> we have run out of excuses and we are running out of time. we have come here to let you know that change is coming whether you like it or not. >> she's trying to do nothing less than save the world. but first here is my take. emanuel macron has been the great hope for those who worry that global politics is being dominated for populism, nationalism or racism. in his presidential campaign last year, macron was able to rally france around a message of multi-lateralism. now macron has been humbled by the yellow vest street protests. he was forced to backtrack on some of his reforms and adopt new budget-busting subsidie

house counsel. richard benvennista. carl along with bob woodward would become journalistic legends. david, you were working fornixon the night. what went through your mind. >> saturday night massacre was a shock. i almost drove off the road coming home from dinner. literally some of the best people in government. and a clear sense we were in crisis. no one knew where we were going to end. it was ab big deal. it is so ironic and in some days one of the best days of his presidencies in davos. and thinking about being positive about the american competent and along comes this story. overshadows davos but it is his fate until it resolves. >> you were cooperating with investigators, but previously you were president nixon's don mcgahn, white house counsel. >> well the rules of ethics have changed considerably since watergate because of watergate. one of the things a lawyer has to do today is if he sees criminal inactivity he has to resign. so he did what the rules call for. as it happened, anderson, i had pled guilty just days before the saturday night massacred. i had gambled. i had be

employee was able to steal a passenger plane. russell -- richard russell, i should say, he took an empty horizon airplane from the sea tag airport, the main airport in the seattle area on friday. >> he flew it for about an hour before the plane went down and russell died in that crash. investigators have now found the flight data recorder, and they are hoping it will provide some answers. our kyung lah has the very latest. >> reporter: the ntsb says the flight data recorder is on its way to washington, d.c. for analysis. they hope to begin that some time this week. it was recovered by investigators. they say very little is left of the plane but the data recorder is intact. the investigation shifting now to 29-year-old richard russell. he is the man, the horizon air employee who worked there for 3 1/2 years, a ground service employee, stole the plane, flew it in the sky for an hour here. many people recording this, seeing the students that he took in the plane before crashing it into a remote island. he had security clearance. he is described by his family as having no outward signs

judiciary committee member richard blumenthal. and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first, let's go to our justice correspondent, jessica schneider. jessica, manafort's trial just wrapped up for day. what's the latest. >> it did, wolf. so far, a war of words in front of the 12-member jury. each side gave a 30-minute opening statement with the special counsel's team calling paul manafort a liar and saying he placed himself and his money above the law. meanwhile, his defense team strategy was focused on shifting the blame to not only the people manafort worked with but also the russian oligarchs he worked for. tonight, prosecutors are off to a fiery start in their case against paul manafort, calling him a shrewd liar who orchestrated a global scheme to avoid paying taxes on millions of dollars. lawyers for the special counsel told the jury manafort earned millions in secret income from the, quote, cash spigot that came from working for the, quote, golden goose in ukraine. former pro-putin president viktor yanukovych. but manafort's lawyers pushed back, bla

? joining us now is richard blumenthal. we now know it wasn't just don mcgahn pressuring jeff sessions not to recuse himself. two other high-ranking white house officials. do you see this as obstruction of justice? >> this excellent reporting certainly indicates a key element of an obstruction of justice case, which is corrupt intent. what is building here, it may not have reached the threshold of proof beyond a reasonable doubt to try to shut down the investigation to interfere with it by telling jeff sessions he had main control over it and stymie it if possible. the standard here has to be a high one for any kind of obstruction case, but clearly when you're dealing with senior white house officials and the president of the united states, the bar is especially high. here is one point for sure, jeff sessions ought to explain this kind of contact from the white house. the white house staff ought to be called before the grand jury. and i would predict there'll be convictions and indictments early in the new year. >> convictions and indictments of people currently on the white house staf

? joining me now, rick newman, and richard quest, host of quest means business. great to see you guys. opposite of what we normally do, let's start with the big question and work our way down. this month, rick, is turning out, december is turning out to be the worst month for the ma markets since the great depression. last week, the worst since the 2008 financial crisis. name a statistic, there's a lot of records being broken for not very good reasons. what are -- if this is what 2018 is ending up like, what are things looking like for 2019? >> to put the negative superlatives in perspective, the overall market is going to end up down it looks like about 6% or 7%, so modest losses for the year. that is the worst performance since 2008, which was the year of the crash. what this turbulence in the last three months is tetting us is investors are very nervous about the outlook for 2019. it doesn't mean a recession is coming. we're probably not going to have a recession in 2019. the real economy is still good, but investors are worried about economic growth slowing, profit growth is proba

for cohen's legal fees. avery freeman, a civil rights attorney and law professor. richard herman, a new york attorney and joining us from new orleans. good to see you both. do you take this at face value? just wants financial help? or do you think that cohen is trying to send some other message to the president? >> let's face it. very, very expensive, legal representation in a case like this, and cohen's crying he just doesn't have the money to do it and he expects the president to pony up on that money. apparently the president or his campaign or someone was paying his legal fees up to the last bill. well, that firm's gone. he's now retained a local new york city former federal prosecutor to represent him. a former head prosecutor in the southern district who worked at the time where mueller was a head of the fbi. so there's a relationship there. cohen hasn't even been indicted yet. the cards look like he is going to be indicted. that search warrant was really telling. it's hard to get a search warrant over the attorney's house and office and hotel room. it's very difficult. the st

. >> avery freeman is civil rights attorney and law professor in cleveland. and richard herman, a criminal defense attorney, joining us from las vegas. it's been too long, gentlemen. >> it sure has. good to be back. >> i missed you. >> good to see you. >> all right, thanks so much. richard, you first, you know, in your experience what does it mean, if you want to, you know, read the tea leaves, longer deliberations usually favoring the defense? >> the defense attorney's a little cocky there with his comments like that. he went beyond that actually, fred. he thanked the president of the united states. this eloquent word smith decided to go out and say last week, ooh, manafort. this is why the jury is in deliberation, fred. manafort is a very good person. and this trial is so sad. what a sad day for this country. this is an abomination, fred, for the president of the united states to comment like that. i mean, that, to me, we could go for obstruction of justice against him, jury tampering. how does the president have the gal to -- >> and the jurors are not sequestered. >> a jury --

want to bring in to analyze all this, richard quest and mary schiavo. richard quest, you're flying around at 30,000 feet, you hear a boom and a window blows out? how does this happen? >> well, an uncontained engine explosion. in the language of the investigators, a part of the engine was liberated is how they describe it. >> it not the koonind of liberan i'm liking. >> whether that is part of the turbine disc or fan blades. the engine is supposed to be protected by the nacell. if there is an explosion, it is designed or intended the pieces don't go p -- >> don't go flying everybody where. >> correct. however, we know it very often fails to do that and pieces are liberated and la is next to the win o window is the fuselage. there was the american airlines flien, flight, 767, on the ground but then you get to the quantis flying from singapore to sydney, engine failure, uncontained, blew out parts of the system and these are very serious incidents. >> what happens if you're at altitude and the window bursts and it makes sense the oxygen masks drop. what happens to the cabin pressure?

richard nixon. once you look like a victim of this you're a victim because you didn't something wrong and so rudy giuliani's the first lawyer of donald trump's that's really heavily gone on the offense. it is controversial tactic but the other tactics didn't work very well and perhaps this one will. >> going on the offense means attempting at least in some respect to undermine the credibility of the mueller investigation and, scott, a poll found 39% of republicans think trump should testify with robert mueller. that's down from 54% in march. i mean, how much do you think that president trump's decision to either sit or not sit for an interview could impact republicans in the midterm elections? >> well, i think republicans by and large believe this investigation has gone on too long. they do want to see it concluded and they do want to know if russia meddled in the election but i think republicans think the president is unfairly targeted. i think what rudy and company are doing right now, though, is basically what the clinton white house did in the 1990s. you brought up some polling. what

and law professor and criminal defense attorney richard herman. good to see you both. >> good to see you. >> before i ask you about whether you can indict a sitting president, i do have to ask you a follow-up on the news that just has, you know, come to our attention. while we know that the chief of staff, john kelly, talked to the mueller team, we've learned this, as a result of, you know, the sentencing filings, we're also now hearing from the president of the united states, just about ten minutes ago that john kelly is on his way out. so avery, what does this signal to you? >> it signals a lot. we have several things. one of the things that strikes you about the memoranda that we saw yesterday in federal court, and the remark, come mation that john kelly is on his way out, is that the redactions tell us there is a lot more. kelly is going to be part of what we don't know. so at the end of the line, while a lot of people are thinking this is the end of the mueller investigation, in my opinion, john kelly has a lot to say, the redactions have a lot to say. i believe that the mueller

friedman, a civil right attorney, and criminal defense attorney richard herman. good to see you both, gentlemen. >> nice to see you, fredericka. >> thank you. so weinstein's attorney says his client is innocent. richard, will this be a difficult case for prosecutors to prove beyond a reasonable doubt? >> fred, i think it really is. >> why? >> listeners have to understand the difference between a civil action for bad behavior or an environment and a workplace where they condone someone acting like this and abusing his power, and a criminal trial where on the rape charges he's facing five to 25 years, and on committing the physical act, five to 25 years, very serious, fred. you have to prove that harvey weinstein physically attacked these women. and on cross-examination, and ben brafman is a very skilled defense attorney, he's been one of the best for decades in new york city, he's going to attack that. he's going to say on cross these women knew his propensity to want to have sex with people, that they voluntarily went to his office or his hotel room or his house, and that they had a

his reelection. he's being challenged by republican patrick morrisey. also in ohio, democrat richard cordray is in a close race with dewine. the current republican governor john kasich is term limited. polls are going to close in ohio, west virginia, and north carolina just moments from now. that's trump country. wolf? >> yes, we're getting ready for some more poll closings, but things are beginning to shape up in some of these states already. >> starting to get a sense of the early house map. can the democrats get that net 23? and you mentioned, let me just show you, the races over there where people are leading, it's misleading because republicans are leading in some of these safe republican districts and democrats are leading in safe democrat districts. let's look at races that would be pick-ups. if six democrats now leading in republican-held districts, that's the goal for the democrats tonight, to get to the 23, we got to flip. and so six democrats now leading in republican-held districts, one republican leading in a democratic district so if republicans fit democratic seats, yo

services also held for richard gottfried who cared for the community through his dental practice. we want to welcome the rabbi from the tree of life synagogue. thank you for talking with us again this morning, and we know you have had an emotionally taxing week and you had funerals you presided over yesterday and more today. how is the entire community coping this week? >> it has been very hard. there's nothing that can prepare a community, particularly my con in particular, and it's sort of like this anesthetic numbness that is overtaking people, and it's a really very difficult time. >> i am sure you are personally exhausted. how are you tending to your congregation? >> i read psalms. god has given me the strength because i can say i am running on fumes, and there are no fumes left in the tank. >> we have not spoken since president trump and his family came to your synagogue, and what can you share about the words you exchanged with the president and what happened during that time? >> i was introduced by an ambassador from israel to the president and first lady and to jared and ivanka.

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us can run a marathon, but richard neires is running 65 marathons. equal to seattle to san diego. he is hoping to raise a quarter of a million dollars to help kids get rides to chemotherapy when their parents cannot afford them. >> my son emilio was diagnosed with leukemia. we were fortunate with rides to the hospital. many families don't have that support. they can't start the fight without getting to the hospital. we get them here and in a nice, clean environment and on time. no child should miss their treatment due to lack of transportation. >> learn more about richard and donate at cnnheroes.com. while you are there, you can nominate someone you believe should be a cnn hero. that is it tonight. i'll see you right back here tomorrow. >>> we're allowed to disagree, but should be able to do so freely and without fear of harm. >> maxine waters, you believe her? >> i have not called for the harm of anybody. this president has lied again. >> the collapse of civility in politics has everyone agreeing on one thing. it's not their fault. >>> renewed trade concerns tank the markets. co

trump has reaffirmed some of these practices with his recent approach on the border. >> so richards to you now, the former first lady laura bush and others have basically compared it to japanese internment camps seen in world war ii. you wrote a book on it. what similarities or differences do you see here? >> well, the similarities is that our laws allow us to do pretty much whatever we want, and 70% of 120,000 japanese americans who were put in concentration camps, that was franklin delano roosevelt's name for them, were because of public disparage, each time the nation beginning back at the beginning, this was a nation founded by some very smart anglo saxons, but it was built by wave after wave of immigrants from all over the world, whether it was indians, africans, irish need not apply, anti-semitism. we have not accepted people who didn't seem to be like us until they were us. and they are us. it's the saving grace that we seem to be able to absorb the other. and if you're in los angeles i think there's more other than uses. and this city couldn't run without them. the country c

cleveland for us. richard herman in new york, criminal defense attorney and law professor, from new orleans. good to see you both. >> good to see you, fredricka. >> richard, you first, you know, starting with what whitaker, you know, has said in the past and now he is acting, you know, attorney general. should he be recusing himself at all? >> fred, this is just complete insanity. trump and his administration are just basically humiliating the american population. they think we're ignorant morons and we're not. we see through all this facade, fred. trump has been under criminal investigation for the russian collusion issue and obstruction from day one. it's what he talks about every day. no collusion. witch hunt. no collusion. to that extent, he fired comey because comey's leading the investigation. he brings sessions in. sessions recuses himself. >> talking about whitaker -- >> now, you got to follow me, then you'll understand when i get to the point. now, once sessions gets fired and rossstein takes over, now he -- rosenstein should have been the one to take over. that's the point

special prosecutor. richard good to see you. the president doesn't think he will flip to save himself. what factors might determine that? >> it is odd to hear the president of the united states sounding like tony soprano talking about his lawyer flipping. whether it asked to give testimony, whether mr. cohen will assert a 5th amendment privilege. which is his right to do or give testimony truthfully. not a question if he will make up anything to harm president trump. that's just one more bizarre thing added to the mix. >> president trump's former divorce lawyer said the president called him for advise. jay goldberg warned the president that michael cohen can end up cooperating. his fear is that he might lie to prosecutors, listen. >> i didn't accept the notion of flip, flip means to me, that when faced with the potential of spending time in jail, he will tell the truth. i don't think that's what the president was concerned about. and that's not what i'm concerned about. >> so richard, you sort of say this idea of him not telling the truth is silly to even go there. why do you think th

. >> let's go to cnn senior correspondent richard report and white house correspondent kaitlin collins. richard, just to you first, why now? >> well, i'm sure she has a plan but many people speculate about her government aspirations. we don't know yet. we'll know in a few years. there a host of reasons possibly and why now. i just got to tell you by the way the french ambassador said nikki haley was one of the most talented and authentic officials i've ever met. they may not have liked the u.s. policy, but they really liked nikki haley here. they called her a friend. even the bolivian ambassador said we may be a dysfunctional family, he had a chance to rip her considering what he said about donald trump but he passed on it. there are other reasons why others have left but still surprising. nobody thought she was going to last four years here under a trump administration. she would want to do something else. >> kaitlin, was the white house totally blindsided about this or did they totally know? >> it was one of the best kept secrets in the west wing. nikki haley did go to presid

particularly fond of the media including going back to richard nixon. i want to ask you what we are seeing and hearing today from president trump, have you ever seen anything like it or anything to that degree? >> no. richard nixon hated the press and his press secretary hated the press but it did not do him any good. jim, if you look at it, no one likes to be criticized and i don't and no president wants to be told that he's doing something wrong but most of them understand that's our job and most of them like people like jimmy carter and ronald reagan and bill clinton during the monica emergency understood why we were there and why we asked the questions that we did. >> does it worry you when you see some of that feelings that the president expresses seeping through significant portions of the american public, there was a pole recently that 51% of republicans adpreegreed that th press is the enemy of the people. is that a danger to the country? >> it is a danger that i thought and most americans thought that or some of them go along with donald trump. beating the press does not work. the new

this out there. richard burr and mark warner tomorrow or sunday, monday, could subpoena him, have him testify in public this week before the senate intelligence committee and we could hear what he has to say and what he doesn't have to say. >> michael isikoff, thank you. appreciate it, as always. >> sure enough. >> he's been called the most senior person in the trump organization, he's not a trump. he's been subpoenaed. alan weiselberg, this week we learned, he was subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury in the criminal probe of trump's personal lawyer, michael cohen. cohen referred to him on the infamous tape leaked this week to playmate karen mcdougal the "wall street journal" is saying he could have already testified. >> since weiselberg knows where all the financial bodies are buried and his tax problems for sure. could it lead to more problems for the president? joining me is the senior writer, at the institutional investor, he wrote this "wall street journal "profile of weiselberg under the headline donald trump's loyal numbers man. richard, give me some insight. who i

heyden and democratic senator richard blumenthal of the judiciary committee and our correspondents, analysts and experts are standing by. we'll have more on the florida high school shooting shortly. we'll begin with today's stunning indictments in the russia meddling investigation. >> you first. take us through this announcement today. >> this was information warfare and it was designed to help donald trump and to hurt hillary clinton. that's the indictment unsealed today. it was called operation lockdown apparently named for an area in st. petersburg, russia, and this is where the research agency was doing its work. people would show up and pose as americans to help drive conversation on social media. trying to help people drive to events in key states that ended up deciding the election. 87 againi pregoalsin. he is known as putin's chef. he ran a catering company. they used swing states like colorado, virginia, and florida. rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, addressed this today. take a listen to what he had to say. >> in 2014, the company established a translator proje

richard blumenthal joins us next. >> also, 20 million people of us under threat of tornadoes this week. the same system that caused all of the damn you have seen here in iowa. is working its way across the southeast. we have a lot in to report for you. >>> welcome back, i'm victor blackwell. cnn is learning the president's legal team is becoming increasingly concerned the helsinki sum could strengthen bob mueller's investigation. they have shaping a narrative, which has yet to be confirmed by the white house. here with me to discuss, democratic senator are couple, richard blumenthal, go remember to you. >> thank you for having me. >> let's start with your assessment. does the president or has the president's performance in helsinki and since helsinki you believe strengthened bob mueller's investigation and weakened the president as a sympathetic character as he characterizes the investigation as a witch hundredt. >> special counsel's investigation very importantly will be based on the facts in the law. so his hand and his position in court is going to be dependent on his continuing met

nixon would not have done. >> if i had to channel a little richard nixon, i think he'd tell this president he's going too far. this is what an autocrat does. this is a level that richard nixon never went to. >> you also worked in the nixon white house. is he right? >> well, he's right that president nixon, we had no record of him ever ordering the justice department or even thinking about having the justice department prosecute a particular individual, especially a political rival. he didn't try to put in jail the people that ran against him. he did abuse the intelligence agency. he tried to abuse the fbi and cia. so i don't think richard nixon's record is comparable. i think john is right. but critical to both of these is they emphasize how important it is to preserve our democratic system with all of the checks and balances. our president, today's president, would be a long way down the road toward authoritarian regime when it came to law enforcement. >> i don't think we can sugar coat the steps that we were now aware of that this president attempted to take here. he attempted

and richard burr are both now rejecting that accusation by the president. they're insisting that the fbi acted appropriately. how much influence do you believe those comments from these republican leaders have on the president and how much influence do they have on your republican colleagues in congress? >> i don't think they have much effect on the president. i think they're into desperate times require desperate measures mode. and having some republicans agree that these claims that they've made are ridiculous doesn't really change their desperate measures. i do think, though, that when representative gowdy and senator b burr and speaker ryan all line up and say that is a ridiculous assertion, we expect the fbi to come in on a counter intelligence matter and find out if the russians are infiltrating a political campaign, that is not spying. that is traditional counter intelligence designed to protect our country. if they didn't do that, it would be a scandal. that to me makes a lot of sense. but you've got to separate the strategy of the trump white house from what makes sense and

attorney and law professor avery friedman and criminal defense attorney richard herman. good to see you both. >> good to see you, fredricka. >> okay, so let's talk about why does the president want to focus on pardons now, avery, in your view? >> because he might be facing the question of whether or not he's going to pardon himself. he said this week, fredricka, that he's, quote, seriously thinking, end quote, of pardoning muhammad ali. except for one problem, muhammad ali's conviction was overturned unanimously by the supreme court. so i'm not sure how serious or how much thinking is going on, but on the question of self-pardoning, there is no supreme court decision. you're right there in front of the capital building. right down the street, the supreme court may have to decide that question. >> yes, so the ali family attorney, you know, said thanks, we appreciate that, but it really won't be necessary because, you know, the supreme court had overturned that back in the day and perhaps the president just wasn't up on all of his research on that item, richard, but he did elude to th

watergate investigation, richard benveneste. thank you for joining us. you are probably one of the best people to ask on this front. do you agree with senator ba bloomen shbloom bloomen thal -- this a watergate moment? >> so clear in analogies to watergate. in watergate there were payments of hush money to keep the watergate burglars, quote, on the reservation, keep them from telling what they knew. here we have hush money payments to girlfriends allegedly of the president not to talk prior to the election or the primary in fact. here we have discussions of pardons. in watergate we had secret offers of clemency to burglars to keep their silence. here we are hearing about the president considering a pardon for paul manafort, for example. this is a moment i think -- and i take senator blumenthal's point very strongly -- that bipartisanship has to come together and apply some sense to what's going on. how can the president be thinking about pardoning an individual who's just been convicted by a jury of 12 decent americans in virginia for hiding $60 million from uncle sam, where republ

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editor at large richard quest joins me now. so, richard, how big of a risk is this for the global economy right now, especially when coupled with the many other trade disputes under way with chine the eu, et cetera? >> reporter: it adds another element of unease and uncertainty, at the very moment when we don't need it. how these two leaders, donald trump and erdogan get out of this, it's not easy to see. they're both very strong populist leaders. erdogan has recently been re-elected. he has a new constitution. he enormously powerful in the country and this power structure. so how do you get out of it? indeed, neither man wants to be seen as weaker than the other. erdogan is courting the russians and others. at the same time donald trump knows he can't just abandon turkey. it's a member of nato. anyway, the sudden raising of the tariffs last week arguably over the detained pastor was capricious. it was just out of the blue. it came from nowhere. it hasn't been declared. so we're left in this situation where, frankly, at a time when turkey's economy is going downhill fast, this is

. richard hoss is the president of council on foreign relations and the author of "the world in disarray." top foreign policy adviser to both bushes. he was last in government as director of policy planning under the second president bush. dan cena was the chief spokesman in the early months of the iraq war and senior adviser to both paul ryan and mitt romney. >> it seems to me is not one more trump tweet which has gone on but the north and south are moving towards some kind of possibly deal? >> well, it's a conversation about the olympics. let's understand it's a sports event in the next few weeks that will get world attention. what i like is it's an opening conversation to the right conversation. and the right conversation includes south korea, the united states, i would hope china, possibly russia which has been a major pro live rater to north korea and others and that conversation is about how to reach a deal which has to be a freeze for a freeze before north korea becomes totally nuclear capable. >> freeze of north korea's arsenal in return for some steps that the u.s. and south kor

move forward. back now with laura, ken and richard. in this moment, is it a stun the by stormy daniels attorney or will he get to depose the president? >> i don't think it's a stunt. i think he's trying to capitalize on being between a rock and a hard place. i want to show that this contract is not valid, i have every right that says a sitting president can answer to civil actions that happened before he was president. in federal court. now he has the right to do so. if you're going to deny the actual contract exists, we have to litigate that issue before we go to arbitration. the court is likely going to look at this and say, we're going to go to arbitration, it will be behind closed doors, it won't be for the court of public opinion. any statements he's making to be deposed is premature. >> this story has been in the news for months. what do you think is the most damaging about this case? >> just the drag on, it's just one more thing on the scale about as we saw recently. i mean, the president's favorability numbers have gotten better or less bad, depending on how you want to

. at the time theresa may suppo supported staying in the eu. we want to bring in richard quest, our international business correspondent. richard quest, boris johnson, the high profile foreign minister, the top brexit negotiator left. what's happening? >> it was an inevitability at some point the whole thing was going to come down crashing. simply because they would be putting sticking plasters over the disagreements. the raem and fundamental disagreements that still exist at the top of the british government between those who want the a hard brexit, stay good-bye to europe, like it or love it. and those believe we have to be more careful and stay in a bit and keep friends. that finally blew up and ruptured over the weekend. but this is pretty catastrophic for the prime minister, who loses two major cabinet ministers at a time when she's just about to put her final offer on the table when the europeans are playing the ha hardest ball. and britain remains split is. >> so much of this is to do with immigration. we saw side note what's happening with angela merkel in germany. you have

european union. cnn business editor at large, richard quest is with us and matthew chance is also working the story for us. first to you, matthew in london. what's the latest? >> reporter: tonight, theresa may, the british prime minister, still has a job. she's still the british prime minister. she has overcome that vote of confidence from within her own party about her leadership. but it's exposed enormous rifts in her party. more than 100 mps, 117, voted against her leadership, 37% of the number of mps that the conservative party has. and that underlines just how divided her party is. and, of course, even though she's won tonight, it doesn't mean that the problem of brexit has gone away by any means. she's still a prime minister caught between a rock and a hard place. and, of course, the crisis she's overcome means that all we are now is back to a situation where we were yesterday, which is that the crisis of brexit still remains. she has still got a divided party, still has to go back to brussels to try and seek concessions on that deal. and then present it to not just her party, but t

had this political resonance, some of which was controversial. he was close friends with richard nixon and had a blind spot for richard nixon and some of his anti-semitism. didn't shy away from speaking out against communism, offering advice on matters of war and peace and more up to date, for a president i covered, george w. bush, even at an advanced age was incredibly influential in the lives of our leaders. it was in conversation with billy graham that president bush said he found a renewed relationship with god, became a born again christian himself and set himself on a course that was so important in his own life. so this is just a tremendous loss in the world of faith, in our national life, in our political life. billy graham was a titan. >> "time" magazine once referred to billy graham as the pope of the protestant movement. for a long time, he was the cohesive point for the evangelical movement in this country. he was someone who favored non-denominational christianity which was a new idea in the '50s and '60s. he started with the baptist church, but started to engender t

former ethics lawyer for george w. bush, richard painter, who worked with president bush on the second inauguration and was the one in charge of making sure that everything was -- the rules were followed. so, justin, let me start with all this reporting that you have. okay. you have never before reported evidence here tonight that is part of this story of how much the trump organization was overcharging, right? and in one case, you're talking about $100,000 a day for space at the trump hotel in washington, right? >> yeah, so, what we know is -- we didn't know before that the inaugural committee actually spent a significant amount of money with the trump hotel, trump giving money essentially to trump himself. but we also know my colleague -- >> in and of itself, would be problematic to a lot of people. >> extremely unusual. >> but you were saying on top of that. >> my colleague from wnyc and i published e-mails showing that a committee expressed concerns to several people, including ivanka trump, saying, the rate that the trump hotel is trying to charge the inaugural committee is way to