the president's online statement attacking stormy daniels on the matter led to stormy daniels and her attorney threatening yet another lawsuit in this case. now they're threatening to sue the president again not just over the initial agreement, but now for defaming stormy daniels today. based on the president's online tweet. the stormy daniels part is high profile. lots of new stuff happening in that every day. tons of media coverage. lawsuits. spawning law suits. the president himself being sued already once in that matter. maybe soon it will be twice. but if you, you look at that, sort of step back from all of the, media noise around that. when you drill down and look at that substan tich tively. the stormy daniels matter is small. tech technical. sued trump specifically because of this. because, see where that is highlighted. see her -- her signature there. but that's highlighted line there, see, no signature. the president didn't sign the agreement. that's the basis for the whole stormy daniels lawsuit. the conflict between stormy daniels and the president is he didn't sign on the

so michael cohen cannot answer questions about stormy daniels and stormy daniels' relationship to donald trump and why donald trump is also known as david dennison, michael cohen can't answer questions about where he got the $130,000 to pay stormy daniels. michael cohen can't answer questions about why he did all of that, because michael cohen says his answers to any questions about anything having to do with stormy daniels could implicate him in a crime. what crime? for what crime or crimes does michael cohen fear incriminating himself? and does he also fear incriminating donald trump? joining us now, michael avenatti, the attorney for stormy daniels. also with us, mimi roca, a former attorney in the southern district of new york. and allow me a few minutes, mimi with michael avenatti here since he has brought us to this point. michael cohen filing in court saying, in effect, i can't answer any questions after my name and address. there's just not a single question he can possibly answer about stormy daniels in your lawsuit. isn't the normal procedure, in a civil case, that you find you

he has told us he's never talked to daniels, met with daniels. he has nothing to do with the threat. we've reached out to him today after that sketch was released and have not heard back. washington. >> thanks very much. we have lots to discuss. our panelists are here. we will discuss this and more right after a quick break. . we are back with our analyst break down all this news on president trump. we are told he is apoblectic on his lawyer michael cohen. he fixated on. that how seized is the president when it comes to what's going on in new york city right now? >> the president we are told is enraged by a lot of it. upset, pamela brown is reporting apoplectic i believe that's the word. we have been reporting that he's worried about the cohen investigation because courses involve his legal work that he's done for the president since 2006 and a lot of this is personal as we know and we know the search warrant was largely about the women, stormy daniels, "access hollywood," karen mcdougall. there was stuff about cohen's finances in it. but i belie

it's not just daniels? >> part of it is if davidson has a niche in this area. >> and people are referring to trump who knew he's going to kind of give them a good deal. are telling every woman who has some sort of a sexual relationship with trump to go to davidson. >> that's b probabpossible, too may be in if documents or tape recorded conversation that is the southern district collected in the search warrant. we may find the answer. >> it's going to take time because we have a 90-day delay. cohen has a criminal case. u you have to go ahead. you're going to have the time to deal with that. stor stormy's going to wait. this is i think a small measure of good news for cohen. he was being put in the position where he would have to either testify in the deposition and admit to things that could be used against him in the southern district or refuse to testify and vote the fifth amendment as he said he was prepared to do in which case he would lose the civil case. it's hard if you're a party in the civil case to

trump has broken his silence about daniel's hush deal. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking tonight russia is vowing a harsh response to new u.s. sanctions against members of vladimir putin's inner circle. punishment for interference in the election. the white house insisting the sanctions won't affect mr. trump's hope for a u.s. meeting. and stock prices plummet as the president hits china with additional tariffs and the trade secretary admits this could lead to a trade war. i'll speak with our correspondents and analysts who are all standing by. let's go to our senior white house correspondent pamela brown. policies are riling up russia and china tonight. >> reporter: that's right, wolf. both russia and china ratcheting up their response to the president's actions and china threatening to impose more tariffs on the trump administration. president trump is not backing down, announcing thursday night he is thre

carolina: trump habÍa negadoque cohen habÍa pagado al daniels para su silencio . javier: para hablarnos de lo que ocurre en la audienciapasemos con blanca que se encuentra en la corte de manhattan. blanca: hola, efectivamente continÚa esta atenciÓn en el transcurso de este dÍa. ha estado dividida entre la supuesta presentaciÓn que iba a hacer michael cohen y la protecciÓn que iba a buscar en esa corte bajo la quinta enmienda. tambiÉn por las propias declaraciones del presidente donald trump que acaban seÑalar esta maÑana que michael cohen efectivamente lo representÓ en lo que trump dice: este loco asunto con daniels. recordarÁn que Él nunca habÍa dicho eso y eso ha causado una gran impresiÓn en esta corte y tambiÉn por parte del abogado de daniels . a la salida de la corte dijo: esto claramente implica el presidente de la naciÓn donald trump. tenemos una alta cobertura esta tarde al respecto. regresamos a miami. javier: muchas gracias por el reporte. carolina: retira su candidatura ronnie jackson, quien fue mÉdico de la casa blanca durante dos aÑo

he actually does have some real lawyers on the stormy daniels scandal. he has michael cohen but he has additional lawyers working with him on the scandals where these women have been supposedly paid off. that's where he lawyered up. maybe the president saw this before we did in terms of the legal jeopardy he's in here. >> and moving today's case to the south everyone district of new york is fascinating because as you know they do not have a confirmed u.s. attorney working there. the u.s. attorney who's in place there, temporarily, his appointment is a 120-day appointment that runs out on may 5th. so the president doesn't have a prosecutor there to fire and replace because the next -- the people who replace this one are the judges who run the district. they get to decide, because the president hasn't chosen anyone. >> the mueller investigation has taken some interesting turns. one of them was to spread a little bit of the work around. we had the filing from mueller last week that said when we charged manafort we had the national security division of the j

back over to daniel in frankfurt daniel so this merger appears to finally have the green light all round despite so many concerns. yeah exactly it seems that the merger is finally now a done deal we're still waiting though for the official confirmation and yes there have been many concerns mostly many feel that by i will from now on some even say an absolute monopoly in this area so until the very end it was not clear if the merger. would get the approval from the u.s. and also e.u. authorities this was very frustrating also for shareholders because of all this issue the merger has been taking much longer than origin lee planned also a buyer had to make quite some concessions some of their division had to be sold through the s. f. here in germany so far the merger has been mostly one thing for buy a very expensive we have to see if all those synergies that they're hoping for at the end will really pay off all right daniel cooper for us at the frankfurt stock exchange all financial correspondent there thank you very much indeed. tuesday got

done. >> reporter: stormy daniels once again making headlines. on the set of "the view" today, daniels and her lawyer, michael avenatti, releasing a sketch they say is based on her memory of a mystery man who allegedly threatened her and her baby in a parking lot in 2011. >> i just remember him saying like, "it's a beautiful little girl, it would be a shame if something happened to her mom, forget about this story, leave mr. trump alone." and it was like -- it didn't even register to me at first. then he turned and walked away. and like i said, his face is burned in my memory. >> reporter: she didn't report the threat at the time. and didn't make it public until the "60 minutes" interview last month. >> cohen denies any involvement in the alleged incident -- >> reporter: the adult film star locked in a showdown with the man she says is behind the intimidation, michael cohen. donald trump's long-time personal attorney. >> how did we get to this point where one of the hottest guests on "the view" is a porn star? these are strange times, right? >> t

as stormy daniels tells her story again, this time daniels revealing this sketch of the man she said threatened her back in 2011. allegedly telling her to, quote, leave mr. trump alone. while stormy daniels's lawyer michael avenatti who insisted michael cohen will flip on president trump. he will join me in a moment. but first let's go to athena jones with more on the story. this was the first time daniels talked about the president's claim that he did not know anything about the payment, $130,000 to stormy daniels and i don't think she buys it. >> she does not buy it. and it was interesting to watch her joke about the president's acting skills in the interview. and you mentioned danells and her lawyer put up a sketch of the man that threatened him with chiseled feet urz, between 5'9" and 6 feet and in his 30s or early 40s but a lean but fit body type and they hope someone somewhere knows who this guy is. >> i work in the adult business and i'm a better actress than he is. >> reporter: stormy daniels responding for the first time to president trump who denied any knowledge of the $13

lot about the stormy daniels stuff. the search warrant did mention the president. and i think one of the reasons davidson is so furious is the story we did which was that michael cohen had actually taped his conversations with davidson. which pleased him not too much. so davidson is furious. he is cooperating. we don't know what's -- what's on those conversations. and these two lawyers worked together a couple of times that we know of and maybe more. you know, we don't know. >> the other thing is not only do we not know what michael cohen has -- i mean if i'm the president of the united states i'm not really sure -- i assume he is not sure what michael cohen has nor would the president's attorneys be sure what michael cohen has on their client. if anything. >> here is the big take away. if you have sleazy lawyers around you doing sleazy things, you might not want to run for president, because at some point it may turn out though sleazia lawyers doing sleazy things get caught up in sleazy controversies and get sleaze on

process here daniel before we go to the break go ahead in new york. well i just want to remind your viewers that that in two thousand and two george w. bush virtually declared war on north korea which he somehow blamed for nine eleven but north korea was was one of the three countries comprising the so-called axis of evil and the us invaded one of those countries has been sort rattling at the other ever since and so north korea had had grave concerns regarding its own security so kim jong un figured his only protection lay in a nuclear power nuclear weapon which he. only has let me jump in here hold that thought gentlemen we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the korean peninsula state with our team. three traits that have been wrong for five years one is that the dollar is going to crash that goal is going to twenty five hundred in the very short term and that three the bond market's going to crash all those three trades have been absolutely wrong for five years and they've taken many people ou

he sent karen mcdougal and stormy daniels to meet with trump. he facilitated the communications and conversations. he was there every step of the way. >> be more specific. because the president wou-- the meet the president and he was the guy standing outside of door and bring the women to donald trump, tell me more about that. >> sure. when stormy daniels met president trump and he invited her to his hotel room -- >> kate, forgive me. speaking of the president, we have to listen to him. he's speaking at mar-a-largo with the prime minister of japan. >> we're talking north korea, we're talking mimt, we're talking trade and a lot of progress has been made and we've been discussing things for weeks and even months prior to this meeting which we'll call a summit. and we've made a lot of progress. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> shinzo and i have developed a very close relationship. we speak all of the time. and our nations i think have never been closer than they are right now. >> [ inaudible question ]. >> mr. prime minister, thank you very much for b

stormy daniels, ms. clifford sat down with lois gibson, who is a world renowned forensic artist based in houston. she has the world record for the most identifications from sketches. she's incredibly talented. she sat down with her for the extended period of time. an accurate sketch has been compiled. >> a creative delay? an artist's delay? >> it's not a creative delay. it's ready to go. we were asked this morning to delay the release of the sketch. we were prepared to release it. >> for law enforcement purposes? >> i'm not at liberty to discuss who asked us to delay it, but we were asked to delay it this morning, and that's what we're going to do right now. >> based on how the sketch turned out, based on what the artist conjured, have you seen names of who that person might be? >> we have made progress relating to that identification process, and we're hopeful -- at this point, i'll tell you this. we may not need to release the sketch. >> so you think that the process of stormy daniels describing the pe

and he did not deny having sex with stormy daniels. he did not deny being spanked by stormy daniels with a magazine that had a picture of him and his family on the cover. he did not deny telling stormy daniels that he lives in fear of sharks. he did not deny telling stormy daniels that he might put her on his tv show. he did not deny that he called and pursued stormy daniels for the better part of a year. instead, the president tweeted about the sketch of the person stormy daniels says threatened her on behalf of donald trump several years ago, which was revealed yesterday on "the view" a sketch years later about a nonexistent man. a toll con job. playing the fake news media for fools. michael avenatti has said that he's now thinking of suing president trump for liable. the legal quick sand that michael cohen is drowning in and dragging donald trump into was avoidable if michael cohen and donald trump followed my suggestion on this program several weeks ago and made the obvious choice to drop their civil case against stormy daniels. as

president trump broken his silence on stormy daniels. >> did you know of the $130,000 on stormy daniels? >> you have to ask michael. he's my attorney. >> do you know where he got the money? >> no, i don't know. >> the president ignored the question whether cohen could set up a fund. he used his e-mail while arra e arranging that hush money payment days before the 2016 election. that was october of 2016. daniels offered to give back the money she was paid to speak freak frooe freely with alleged relationship with donald trump. michael avenatti, stormy daniels' lawyer told ari melber that it strengthens the case. >> the president's comments on air force one are serious for him, serious for michael cohen and how can you have an agreement when one party claims that they don't know anything about the agreement? these guys are making it up as they go along. they don't know what to say from day in and day out. our case just got a whole lot better. we have thrown cohen under the bus from an ethic standpoint by making these statements on air force one. this is an undisciplined guy who finally cr

stormy daniels who had the highest ratings on "60 minutes." gayle: you see the ratings when they cover stormy daniels they go up. the mainstream media makes the point, this is not elevated conversation, how can you tweet about it. howie: isn't it true that media people have long said it will be better for the president if you didn't respond to every attack and every slight. jessica: i don't believe they are saying this is terrible. i think they are saying this is curious. the infidelity, we are so far past that with donald trump. we know those things happen. but they are saying this is a story because of the implications of the hush money and potential threats this woman received in the parking lot. the fact that she doesn't say anything about it is the story. gayle: she wasn't able to back that up. howie: i think we agree it's news. happy easter to all of you. ahead. are the media covering donald trump's accusers the same way they covered howie: look at live pictures the church service in palm beach. the president and the first lady and tiffa

he actually does have some real lawyers on the stormy daniels scandal. he has moichael cohen but he ha additional lawyers working with him on the scandals where these women have been supposedly paid off. that's where he lawyered up. maybe the president saw this before we did in terms of the legal jeopardy he's in here. >> and moving today's case to the south everyone district of new york is fascinating because as you know they do not have a confirmed u.s. attorney working there. the u.s. attorney who's in place there, temporarily, his appointment is a 120-day appointment that runs out on may 5th. so the president doesn't have a prosecutor there to fire and replace because the next -- the people who replace this one are the judges who run the district. they get to decide, because the president hasn't chosen anyone. >> the mueller investigation has taken some interesting turns. one of them was to spread a little bit of the work around. we had the filing from mueller last week that said when we charged manafort we had the national security division of the j

. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> the president just shot himself in the foot. we have known he would have shot himself in the foot. >> this is "new day" with alisyn camerota and chris cuomo. >> chris is off this morning. david gregory joins me. >> still bleary eyed. you do this every day? >> every day. president trump amping up the rhetoric, now atlantaing china with an additional $100 billion in tariffs. beijing is vowing to fight the u.s. at any cost. we will discuss who has more to lose in this escalating feud. >> the white house facing an ethics scandal involveing the president's cabinet. officials at epa were demoted or sidelined after being questioned about scott pruitt's spending. >>> because there wasn't enough going on, president trump is breaking his silence on stormy daniels. now it could have legalism indications. the president said he did not know about the $130,000 hush payment to the porn star made by his personal attorney, michael cohen. >>> and president trump tosses out the script, feeding his ba

maybe he's calling stormy daniels. who knows what he's doing to have to have a $43,000 maxwell smart-type machine to keep his conversations private. then he wanted to have a biometric door panel for entry into his office and a $3,000 no-bid sweep of his office to see if he's being bugged. the man needs help. and he doesn't know anything about the appearance of impropriety, and all federal employs are supposed top operate beyond reproach and the appearance of impropriety. this man reeks of it. >> thank you very much for joining us this afternoon, sir. >> nice to be with you from memphis where we just celebrated the 50th anniversary of dr. king's passing. and renewed our commitment to the dream and to better -- a better world with peace, love, and justice. >> truer words were never said. thank you very much, sir. >>> we're following breaking news out of germany this hour. a driver plowed into a crowd leaving three people dead including the driver. it happened in munster, the western part of the country. and tammy leitner

why stormy daniels could be the reason. >>> target tester. president trump unleashes a tweet attack on a red state democrat. is this more than just payback? >>> holy uproar on the hill. the firing of the house chaplain triggers a fopolarizing fight. >> when there's so much turmoil in the country, actually firing the house chaplain midterm is outrageous. >> the speaker made it clear and i totally trust him that there were no politics involved. >> why a simple prayer may have led to the sacking of this man of the cloth. >>> headed for the border? the roadblocks these freedom seekers could face. hello to all of you, i'm alex witt. a bit past 1:00 p.m. here in the east. let's get to what's happening right now. we have new reaction on capitol hill on whether dr. ronny jackson should keep his job as white house doctor. here's what democratic congressman ted lu told me himself. >> these are serious allegations. if they're true he should not be the president's physician. he engaged in conduct that would be disqualifying for any doctor, let alone the

daniels and her lawyer claim the agreement is invalid. last night, daniels' lawyer told anderson cooper that the president's statement greatly improves their side over a deposition. >> you can't have agreement if one party claims they knew nothing about one of the principle terms of the agreement. so the president has shot himself in the foot. thrown his attorney basically, michael cohen, under the bus in the process. >> avenatti says he looks forward to quote testing the truthfulness of the president's claims. >>> the final witness testifying in the house russia investigation repeatedly cursed democrats on the committee. sources tell cnn that the donald trump's former campaign manager said i'm not going to answer your f-ing questions. after cnn reported the story, lewandowski said democrats were the first to use appalling language. this is a measure how far the committee descended into the partisan back biting. perfect reflection of where we are politically. who used naughty words first. >> no decorum. not even in congress. >>> coming up

what does stormy daniels have anything to do with this? the reason why trump and do you feel that chill? that is donald trump leaving michael cohen out in the cold. donald trump is denying any knowledge or involvement in this stormy daniels deal because he does not want to be a co-conspirator with michael cohen for any fec campaign finance violations or anything else that could have to do with michael cohen. but the problem for donald trump is this. even though presumptively there is a privilege that exists usually between an attorney and a client that would protect communications, correspondence, et cetera, at this point in time, a crime fraud exception applies meaning if mueller calls in michael cohen and asks him to talk about certain communications had he with donald trump and because there is this crime flaud exception, cohn may be forced to have to disclose communications. that is the worst case scenario for donald trump. it's already happening. and he's not going to be able to stop robert mueller. >> in other words, if the attorney

trump around the same time as stormy daniels. the company signed the rights to mcdougal's story but never printed it. it's a practice known as catch and kill. you catch the story, and then you kill it. the company also paid $30,000 to a former doorman at one of donald trump's new york buildings. the payment was another alleged catch and kill incident preventing the doorman from discussing a rumor he heard about the president fathering a child with a housekeeper in the 80s. ami reporters told the new yorker the story didn't seem credible but said it was unusual for the company to pay tens of thousands of dollars for a nonstory. important to remember, we don't run a lot of stories we get here, but we don't pay for them. back to michael cohen, according to wall street journal, the he arranged a 1 $.6 million payment from republican national committee deputy finance chair elliott broidy. he's now resigned from that position to another former play mate after she -- >> i think he's also a former deputy finance chair of the rnc. >> no.

they were looking at not only the storm mirrny daniels and th payment to stormy daniels, his communication with the president about that and the campaign about that. that was one major part of the search warrant. another part involved another woman. that's karen mcdougal. i think the same questions are being asked about that although i was told the storm bhi daniels part was much larger. then you go to the personal investments. the question that goes years back when he was in the taxi medallion business which was quite profit l but now that tubr and lyft have come along, it's not to profitable. we know that's been a question in the payoffs . where did the money come from. given the time the money was given to them for example the stormy daniels, is this a campaign contribution. it was quite broad and i think that it was probably quite stunning to him and it also involved not only karen mccdougl but the media company that he sold her story to and that never published it because the owner of the publication is a very good friend of the president. they put out a statement today saying they in

a source telling cnn those documents are related to stormy daniels. another source telling cnn the search warrant was very broad and included bank records for president trump to use this as an attack on him and the country. also telling cnn that the cohen raid sent the president over the edge because his attorney is like a surrogate family member. >> it's a disgrace. it's a real disgrace. it's an attack on our country in a true sense. it's an attack on what we all stand for. so when i saw this and when i heard it, i heard it like you did. i said that is really now in a whole new level of unfairness. >> so let's talk about this. i want to bring in cnn presidential historian douglas brinkley, michael, and frank br bruney of the "new york times." good to have all of you here onset. frank, federal agents raided the office of president trump's personal attorney. they didn't break in as he said after getting a refer from special counsel mueller. this is a massive development. what do you think. >> sn. >> i go to what he said. an attack on our country. you c

seized from his office last week adult film star tommy stormy daniels who's in time gold in the case against cohen arrived at the court to a media scrum to watch the hearing on daniel said she was paid by cohen to keep quiet about an affair with trump. christensen joins us live now from new york so kristen at what's the significance then of this court hearing. so right now lawyers for michael cohen and president are trying to convince the judge to let them see the documents that were seized in a raid of michael collins business last week before these documents are handed over to federal investigators they're arguing that because of attorney client privilege they should be able to review these documents and protect other clients of michael cohen and also protect privileged communication between the president and his lawyer now attorneys for the prosecution are saying that would be an unprecedented an unwarranted obstacle for lawyers who are pursuing misconduct on the part of attorneys as they claim to be in this case they say that they're dealing with the business dealings of michael

or the front involving adult star stormy daniels. his client will not rest until she can tell the full story about her affair with the president and his effort to silence her. that is driving the most headlines this hour is one of the trump's own making. james comey's famous memos to self, memos to file after they threaten to subpoena. a picture of the president obsessed with the russia investigation, desperate to end it and fixated on his relationship with vladimir putin. the memos are completely consistent with james comey' public comments with his interactions with trump and expose new details about the details in the steele dossier as well as michael flynn. with us to dive into all of this, from "the new york times" the person who first broke the news that there were actually comey memos, michael schmidt. natasha bertrand who covers the russia investigation for the atlantic. former u.s. attorney barbara mcquade and at this table ari melber, host of the beat. hi, ari. >> hi. >> and bill crystal, founder and editor of the weekly st

the president is responding directly for the first time for stormy daniels. he scoffs at the sketch of a man that she says threatened to silence her, claim she had an affair with president trump. total con job, he writes. also this morning the president of the united states is casually confirming the

bayardo arce es el asesor econÓmico del presidente daniel ortega. hablamos de las protestas, de la represiÓn y del diÁlogo pactado. ¿se equivoca el presidente al anunciar este decreto para reformar el instituto de seguridad social? >> sÍ. yo creo que se equivocÓ. creo que la presiÓn financiera de la seguridad social, la urgencia de darle respuesta al riesgo lo llevÓ a no esperar los plazos para analizar la propuesta y presentar alternativas. eso se produjo en que la polÍtica de consenso que hemos tenido en los Últimos 10 aÑos y ha permitido que el paÍs vaya saliendo poco a poco adelante, se cortara. patricia: la marcha fue una manifestaciÓn de un descontento social, dicen, despuÉs de aÑos de no haber garantÍas para esas voces disidentes de altos Índices de corrupciÓn, y muchos piden que se vaya daniel ortega y su esposa del gobierno. >> yo creo que con toda la libertad del mundo, hay jÓvenes que tienen el derecho de pedir que se vaya. en todos los paÍses del mundo hay gente que no quiere al gobierno que tiene. hay estadounidenses

porn actress stormy daniels is performing in the midwest this weekend. and a cartoon of president trump right next to her picture. with the words, alleged affair. this as her attorney michael avenatti is vowing to refile his request monday to depose president trump. following the president's first ever comments about the hush deal. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. >> then why did michael cohen make it if there was no truth to the allegations? >> you would have to ask michael cohen. >> do you know where he got the money to make the payment? >> i don't know. >> daniels is suing to get out of the confidentiality agreement she claims is void because donald trump never signed the deal himself. avenatti says trump's claim he knew nothing about the payoff, tearing reporters to his attorney instead, bolstered stormy daniels' case. >> it's like christmas and hanukkah rolled into one. you can't have an agreement if one party claims they knew nothing about one of the principal terms of the agreement. the president has just shot h

are daniel hearkens reporting for us thank you know. relations between the u.k. and russia might be at an all time low but that hasn't stopped british football fans traveling to moscow for a european championship match kind of the c.s.k. moscow arsenal game there was some speculation in the british media about how safe it would be for supporters to attend these aliment up with one fan determined to find out for himself. just so my way to consider you a very prominent hostile fan going to be all seeing him when he travels to moscow does he have any fear is regarding the political tension between the u.k. and russia is he worried about things like hooliganism. follow him throughout history how do you feel in this context you know what. i know i know to there's been a lot going on between the governments that's between the governments i'm a person this is football we're going for football you know if you listen to people around you in the u.k. a lot some people are coming up to me and say robbie don't go there you'd be mad in an oil some of you been to russia and i

he represents me like with this crazy stormy daniels deal. he represented me and, you know, from what i see he did absolutely nothing wrong. there were no campaign funds -- >> why is he pleading the 5th? >> because he's got other things, he's got businesses. from what i understand they're looking at his businesses and i hope he's in great shape. but he's got businesses and his lawyers probably told him to do that. but i'm not involved and i'm not -- and i've been told i'm not involved. >> each word he uttered left a mark. let's go through it line by line starting with this. >> mr. president, how much of your legal work was handled by michael cohen? >> well, as a perlg of my overall legal work, a tiny, tiny little fraction. but michael would represent me and represent me on some things. >> it took less than three hours for prosecutors in the michael cohen case to use those exact words against trump. prior to his appearance on fox and friends, the president's lawyers were arguing that some of the items seized in the cohen raid should be protect

tonight stormy daniels' attorney michael avenatti arguing in u.s. district court that his client's case should be allowed to proceed even as one defendant, president trump's attorney michael cohen is under criminal investigation. >> it's apparent to us that the court recognized to quote the court, that there are gaping holes in the application by mr. cohen and mr. trump to delay this matter. >> reporter: the lawyer for cohen says daniels' case should be delayed arguing whatever cohen says in the daniels proceedings could be used against him in the criminal investigation. judge james otaro telling cohen's attorney cohen needs to file his own declaration about his concern his fifth amendment rights could be compromised. >> will you file to protect his fifth amendment? >> we're not commenting. >> reporter: cohen's attorney did not make any comments to the press but agreed to file the declaration. >> i don't think this could be overstated. we're talking about the personal counsel to the president of the united states who presumably knows where a lot of

>> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no, no. >> did that surprise you at all? >> let me just say, i work in the adult business, and i'm a better actress than he is. >> reporter: daniels and her lawyer, michael avenatti, also releasing this sketch, which they say is based on her memory of the man who allegedly threatened her and her baby in a parking lot in 2011. >> i just remember him saying, like, "oh, that's a beautiful little girl, it would be a shame if something happened to her mom. forget about this story, leave mr. trump alone." >> this is a very detailed sketch and it was created by a woman by the name of lois gibson. she has the world record for the most identifications. >> yeah. she's well-known. >> she works with the fbi and law enforcement all around the country. we're offering $100,000 reward for information leading to the identification of this man. >> reporter: and stormy daniels isn't the only one talking after yesterday's courtroom drama. >> some recent news about yours truly that came up today. >> re

stormy daniels' lawyer promising a major announcement. >> it was not some minor thing. and that threat could have only come from a handful of places. and we're pretty certain that we know where it came from. >> how michael avenatti is using the tools of trump against the president. >>> still on the job but for how much longer? scott pruitt reportedly meets with the president to make the case to keep his job. >>> the firing line. a new report says the chief of staff urged the president to give pruitt the boot. while the fate of john kelly seems murkier and murkier. >> he does seem to be the incredible shrinking white house chief of staff. >>> hello, everyone, i'm alex witt at msnbc world headquarters in new york. happening right now, attorney michael avenatti says a, quote, major announcement could expose who reportedly threatened stormy daniels to keep quiet about her alleged affair with president trump. nbc news white house correspondent geoff bennett has more on this for us from the white house. geoff, a good saturday to you. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: he

stephanie clifford, of course, is stormy daniels' real name. she changed it so she would not be confused with "clifford the big red porn star." ( laughter ) i have though books. ( applause ) >> jon: you have those books? now they're ruined. >> stephen: i had the collection. i didn't have that one, but i had the rest of the collection. cohen continued, "neither the trump organization nor the trump campaign was a party to the transaction with ms. clifford, and neither reimbursed me for the payment, either directly or indirectly." reimbursed? this isn't cab fare or a coffee order. "don, don't worry about this one. you get the next porn star." ( laughter ) now, cohen has denied the affair ever happened, but explained the payment this way, "just because something isn't true doesn't mean that it can't cause you harm or damage. i will always protect mr. trump." he has got to be the greatest wingman of all time. in fact, just today, michael cohen put that promise into a music video. ( laughter ) >> stephen: that always gets me. that gets me. it hits me

stormy daniels who had the highest ratings on "60 minutes." gayle: you see the ratings when they cover stormy daniels they go up. the mainstream media makes the point, this is not elevated conversation, how can you tweet about it. howie: isn't it true that media people have long said it will be better for the president if you didn't respond to every attack and every slight. jessica: i don't believe they are saying this is terrible. i think they are saying this is curious. the infidelity, we are so far past that with donald trump. we know those things happen. but they are saying this is a story because of the implications of the hush money and potential threats this woman received in the parking lot. the fact that she doesn't say anything about it is the story. gayle: she wasn't able to back that up. howie: i think we agree it's news. happy easter to all of you. ahead. are the media covering donald trump's accusers the same way they covered bill clinton's? morning on the beach was so peaceful. until... it... wasn't. don't let type 2 diabetes ge

the president has acknowledged that michael cohen did represent him with the handling of this stormy daniels case, making some stunning comments during that freewheeling 30-minute long interview this morning. i should note that when that interview began, the president sounded like he was in a good mood, talking about melania trump's birthday, but things got out of hand when he began talking about james comey, the justice department and michael cohen. here is what he said about his long time attorney. >> michael is a businessman. he's got a business. he also practices law. i would say probably the big thing is his business. and they're looking at something having to do with his business. i have nothing to do with this business. i can tell you. >> how much of your legal work was handled by michael cohen? >> well, a percentage of my overall legal work, a tiny, tiny little fraction. but michael would represent me and represent me on some things, he represents me, like, with this crazy stormy daniels deal, he represented me, and, you know, from what i see, he did absolutely nothing wrong. if ther

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neither was stormy daniels. she apparently had a scheduling conflict. she was on the stage at a nightclub in baltimore last night, and will take to the same stage later tonight. trace? >> jonathan hunt live for us in downtown los angeles. jonathan, thank you. breaking today, the democratic national committee has filed a lawsuit against the trump campaign, the russian government, and wikileaks, and goes after the president's son donald trump jr., his son-in-law, jared kushner, and others from the campaign. it accuses the defendants of conspiring to tilt the 2016 election toward donald trump. the dnc filed the suit today in federal court in new york. in a statement dnc chair tom perez said, quoting, during the 2016 presidential campaign russia launched an all-out assault on our democracy, and it found a willing and active partner in donald trump's campaign. president trump has repeatedly denied collusion with russia and last month republicans on a house panel concluded there was no collusion. fox news is reaching out to those named in the suit for their r

a source telling cnn those documents are related to stormy daniels. another source telling cnn the search warrant was very broad and included bank records for president trump to use this as an attack on him and the country. also telling cnn that the cohen raid sent the president over the edge because his attorney is like a surrogate family member. >> it's a disgrace. it's a real disgrace. it's an attack on our country in a true sense. it's an attack on what we all stand for. so when i saw this and when i heard it, i heard it like you did. i said that is really now in a whole new level of unfairness. >> so let's talk about this. i want to bring in cnn presidential historian douglas brinkley, michael, and frank bruney of the "new york times." good to have all of you here onset. frank, federal agents raided the office of president trump's personal attorney. they didn't break in as he said after getting a refer from special counsel mueller. this is a massive development. what do you think. >> i go to what he said. an attack on our country. you could not b

welcome to the party. >>> i've known stormy daniels a long time. and i'll be honest, she may have mentioned some of this stuff around ten years ago at the time when you ask a porn star who they've been sleeping with and the answer was donald trump, it was like the least surprising thing that she could have said. and so, yeah, she had mentioned it actually. she did mention it. >> and that memorable television moment was brought to you like so many other entertainment moments by judd appatel, the director of "40-year-old virgin" and knows stormy daniels. ken littman, i want to go to these revelations by the president's lawyers saying that she violated the confidentiality agreement, which she can only violate by saying things that donald trump believes to be true. seems to put it mildly they have not yet find a way to defend trump in this case. >> you're absolutely right. his lawyers stepped in it. cohen has made two personal statements in the last week that i think put him into deep hot water. first he avered on national tv that trump knows nothing a

. >>> breaking news tonight, president trump breaking his silence about stormy daniels, the adult film actress he allegedly had an affair with. his new claim that he didn't know his own attorney was paying her off to keep quiet days before the election. >>> the surgeon general's unprecedented call to action to combat the opioid crisis. urging the public to carry the antidote to bring overdose victims back from the brink of death. >>> the new clue found where a family's suv plunged off a cliff. police now say it was a crime. tonight the search for three children still missing. >>> no laughing matter. the mother's outrage when video of her 2-year-old frightened at day care goes viral. late night tv turning it into a punchline. >> it should be an eye opener that this is not funny, that my child is hurt. >> tonight she's giving us permission to show you the video. her warning to other parents. and workers run for their lives as a massive crane crashes down. >>> this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening. and welcome to our viewers in the west. president trump has made hi

we learned that stormy daniels will be attending cohen's hearing. cohen and daniels are arguing over a nondisclosure agreement that they had from an affair in 2006. >> michael cohen is now under criminal investigation from the southern district of new york. what do you think is going to happen with cohen? do you think he might even be indicted? >> jake, i do. i strongly believe that within the next 90 days, we're going to see an unsealing of an indictment against mr. cohen for a host of very serious offenses, and i believe, jake, that is going to be a significant domino that's going to fall in connection with this. >> do you have any specific examples of things mr. cohen has done that you or the u.s. attorney's office believe to be criminal? >> well, i think there's a number of possibilities, jake. i think he could be indicted for bank fraud, wire fraud, campaign finance violations. i think there is a whole host of potential criminal conduct that could be charged. you know, according to his attorneys, the fbi seized thousands, if not millions, of pa

stormy daniels arriving at court, too. the president's lawyer asking a judge to protect what was seized in that fbi raid. the judge's decision moments ago. and tonight, what stormy daniels then promised outside that courthouse. >>> also tonight, the white house reacts, after the james comey exclusive. telling george stephanopoulos president trump is morally unfit to be president. and george asks, do you think the russians have something on donald trump? and did comey's decision to go public about hillary clinton's e-mails 11 days before the election cost her the presidency? what comey now says. >>> just in tonight, police body cam, dash cam video of an officer involved shooting that prompted a lockdown of several schools for hours. >>> the storm blasting the east, also bringing deadly tornadoes. among the victims, a 2-year-old. heavy rain flooding subways in new york. rescues near philadelphia. and yet another new snowstorm we're tracking tonight. >>> the starbucks controversy. two african-american men arrested. the video

the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. >> why that denial could create more problems for the president. >> michael's my attorney and you'll have to ask michael. >> plus, new details from robert mueller's investigation and reports the president is ignoring his staff. >> this was going to be my remarks. it would have taken about two minutes, but what the hell. "all in" starts now. >> good evening from new york. i'm ali velshi, in for chris hayes. things are not looking good for scott pruitt. amid an avalanche of scandals, there are multiple signs the white house is getting fed up with the epa administrator and could cut him loose. pruitt did get a few encouraging words today when president trump on a very windy tarmac, responded to shouted questions about whether he still has confidence in pruitt with the words "i do" and followed up with this on air force one. >> i think that scott has done a fantastic job. i think he's a fantastic person. you know, i just left cold and energy country. they love scott pruitt. they fe