in court, cohen said he made these misstatements to be consistent with mr. trump's political messaging and out of loyalty to donald trump. in a court filing, special counsel robert mueller said cohen alsoied toongress, quote, in hopes of limiting the ongoing russia iestigations. >> obviously this is very significant plea and statement. it means that when the president was representing during the campaign that he had n business interests in russia, that that wasn't true. >> reporter: other than cohen's lies to congress, the charges don't allege any other illegal conduct. there was nothing illegal about the trump organization trying to get a project going in moscow. legal experts say the charges suggest that mueller wanted cohen's testimony in court to build a case against others in the trump orbit. >> additional charges down the road, if any, couldncde lying to congress as mr. cohen admitted to, but it cou be her charges as well. it could be people involved in transactions that innd of themselves were illegal. we don't know yet. >> reporter: mueller's team ha

i will just say, though, that what mr. cohen was doing and mr. trump was doing are two different thing. we need to find out about it. as you know, those interrogatories submitted to the president and he's answered, we have not seen, and maybe some day we will see, but -- >> i don't quite get what you're saying you don't know if it's appropriate or not. is it appropriate for a business associated with a candidate for president to be negotiating with the kremlin full stop? >> well, look, a company like trump corporation builds hotels all over the world. so i don't know the circumstances behind that and whether there's anything nefarious or any connection between that and anything else that was going on during the campaign. so it's important to get to all of the facts and we'll await the report from mr. mueller. >> just to be clear. you do have questions about it? you have concerns not answered yet? >> we've been very clear from the outset, from the time that rod rosenstein appointed mr. mueller that we were not going to interfere with that investig

in court, cohen said he made these misstatements to be consistent with mr. trump's political messages and out of trump. in a court filing, special counsel robert mueller said trump lied tcongress in hopes of limiting the on going russian investigations. >> obviously, this is a significant plea and statement. it means that when the president was g representing dur the campaign that he had no business interest in russia, that that wasn't true. reporter: other than cohen's lies to congress, today's charges don't allege illegal conduct. there was nothing illegally about the trump organization trying to get a project going in moscow. legal experts say today's charges suggest mueller wanted cohen's testimony to build a case against tr others in thp on bit. onbitbit.rbit.bit.rbit. >> additional charges down the road, if any, could include lying to congress as mr. cohen admitt to but could be people involved in transactions in and of themselves were illegal. we don't know yet. team found there was at least some outrea by the trump organization to vladimir putin for

in court, cohen said he made these misstatements to be consistent with mr. trump's political messaging and out of loyalty to donald trump. in a court filing, special counsel robert mueller said cohen also lied to congress, quote, in hopes of limiting the ongoing russia investigations. >> obviously this is very significant plea and statement. it means that when the president was representing during the campaign that he had no business interests in russia, that that wasn't true. >> reporter: other than cohen's lies to congress, the charges don't allege any other illegal conduct. there was nothing illegal about the trump organization trying to get a project going in moscow. legal experts say the charges suggest that mueller wanted cohen's testimony in court to build a case against others in the trump orbit. >> additional charges down the road, if any, could include lying to congress as mr. cohen admitted to, but it could be other charges as well. it could be people involved in transactions that in and of themselves were illegal. we don't know yet. >> reporter:

after his formal personal lawyer, michael cohen pleaded guilty to lying to congress. >> mr. cohen has cooperated. he will continue to cooperate. >> reporter: he has been talking to special counsel robert mueller in the russia probe as part of the deal he confessed that discussions for a moscow trump tower continued well into the 2016 campaign. and he shared information from those talks directly with mr. trump. >> he is a weak person. and not a very smart person. he has himself a big reason sentence and he is trying to get a much lesser prison took place during the campaign in case he lost the presidential race. cbs news conference mr. trump answered one written question from mohler on the project. the president also scrapped a planned meeting with russian president vladimir putin while in argentina. not because of the michael cohen plea but because of russia's aggression toward ukraine. the move was praised by both sides on capitol hill. >> i want to complement president trump by canceling the meeting. >> i think it was appropriate to send a message. >> reporter: president t

the timeline is far longer than what mr. cohen told the house and senate intelligence committees last year. today he said he lied to help the president. i'm quoting, i was aware of individual one's repeated disavows of commercial and political ties between himself and russia and any contact with russian nationals had all terminated before the iowa caucus, on february 1st of 2016. which cohen now says was not true. the last conversation was on or about june 14th of that year. he went on to say, "i made these misstatements to be consistent with individual ones, political messaging and out of loyalty to individual one. so he's saying he was lying to congress because candidate trump was lying to the american people. the president responded today saying this about michael cohen. >> he was given a fairly long jail sentence, and he's a weak person, and by being weak, unlike other people that you watch, he's a weak person, and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence. so he's lying about a project that everybody knew about.

mr. cohen is due to be sentenced we think next month. tonight michael cohen tells emily jane fox at "vanity fair" that in his experience, working with donald trump at the trump organization, he has witnessed multiple times president trump using that same kind of racist language about black people for decades, but using terminology, language and insults in private that go far beyond what he has been willing to say in public. one example in particular from emily jane fox's reporting really sticks out. see if this rings a bell. this was after a campaign rally. cohen, quote, offered his observation to his boss. quote, i told trump that the rally looked vanilla on television. trump responded, quote, that's because black people are too stupid to vote for me. now the white house did not respond when asked for comment on these allegations, but that sentiment, that too stupid sentiment, that very much echos the kinds of things he is willing to say in public. so what do we make of these new allegations, playly given who they are coming from? emily

back in 2017, mr cohen submitted testimony to a congressional investigation looking into allegations that the trump campaign colluded with russia in 2016. he had said all talks about a trump tower in moscow finished in january 2016. now he says that was a lie. and that the talks continued untiljune 2016. bear in mind the republican presidential primaries were from february to june that year. michael cohen now says... individual one is donald trump. here's the president's response... michael cohen, what he is doing is he was convicted, i guess, you'll have to put it into a legal term... but he was convicted with a fairly long—term sentence on things totally unrelated to the trump organisation, having to do with mortgages and having to do with cheating the irs perhaps. a lot of different things. i don't know exactly. but he was convicted of various things unrelated to us. he was given a fairly long jail sentence. and he's a weak person. and by being weak, unlike other people that you watch, he is a weak person and what he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence. so he's lying about

we want to share those transcripts with mr. mueller. in this case, the special counsel only had the advantage of written testimony that the witness made public. we think that the special counsel ought to have the benefit of the transcripts, not only of mr. cohen's testimony, but other witnesses like rother stone who may similarly have attempted to mislead the committee. >> now we also know of course if the senate intelligence committee it's still going on. they have a bipartisan investigation unlike what we've seen in the house. and what we've heard, new reporting that we're posting very shortly on nbcnews.com is that multiple staff members on the judiciary and the intelligence committee on the senate side are going to be combing through all the transcripts of the interviews they did to try to look for examples of where they think witnesses may have lied to the committee. and that might be the grounds for criminal referrals to the special counsel and his team. >> stay tuned to nbc news.com for that. mike, thank you so much. we're lucky

cohen said he discussed the status of the program with mr. trump. some of those exchanges, which continued until january 2016 included the president's children, and ivanka trump and donald trump, jr., both of whom are executives at the trump organization. let's hear from ed in d.c. what do you think? caller: good morning. i am a proud african-american scientist and i understand the intelligence done under the state department and i believe mr. cohen pleaded guilty about the trump tower to be built in moscow. using his own is -- to feed his own pockets and his own wishes, using the american system, going against the american system. what happens here is cohen admits he had the leave to travel to russia to negotiate the tower project and at the last moment, he pleads guilty said in the past couple of days he is going to and suddenly the meeting is canceled. is united states in america the only country in the world. i am a proud african-american and i work for the state department. this man is an enemy of our state and he is going to use his own person

cohen, what brings you to washington, d.c. today? >> are you meeting with mr. mueller? mr. cohen, how was the train ride? >> the train was great. >> all those threads have fed a deep anxiety in the white house that mueller is about to make another move. we have quite a panel to break this all down. nick ackerman, maya wiley and sam nunberg, who has appeared directly before bob mueller's grand jury. and you're here as a freeman, partly thanks to maya wiley. >> that is right. >> you're welcome. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> when you look at this, and you're the only person in this room who has actually been inside with those prosecutors, what do you clean for these developments and the way these folks, some of them who you used to work with, are cooperating? >> in terms of the president, perhaps, i can't speak on behalf of them and i've had no communications with their lawyers or anything. it was no coincidence they are working on these written responses after the results of the midterms. i'm not so sure, perhaps, they would have given any answers because even if you

i was a part of the interview of mr. cohen. he was negotiating with the trump tower property to go into moscow during the primary when russian-americans who were connected to vladimir putin were offering to connect putin and trump. and they even said, if we do this right, we can engineer this and elect our boy as president. so there's a lot of concerns about, you know, what donald trump knew about those offers while the russians were interfering. >> and i just want to be precise. we spotted michael cohen here in washington today for several hours. with his criminal defense attorney. we also noticed there were eight of robert mueller's attorneys working on this federal holiday, veterans day, today. we don't know what michael cohen was doing. we can surmise, we can guess. >> could have been at the mall. >> i suspect -- i don't suspect he was at the mall. if he would have been, maybe would have come with his family as opposed to his lawyer. but do you believe that the hush money payments are potentially impeachable offenses. >> i

respect putin. >> reporter: they were also pursuing a trump tower project in moscow till june 2016. >> mr. cohen will continue to cooperate. >> reporter: as part of a plea deal cohen pleaded to lying to congress and previously told lawmakers the moowrojeabandonede now says that the project continued until june deep into the campaign and discussed it with donald trump, other members of the trump family as well as top officials in the russian government. >> michael cohen is lying. >> reporter: in response the president lashed out at his former fixer. >> he is a weak person and not a very smart person. he's trying to get a much lesser prison sentence by making up a story. >> reporter: and he says if it was true, it wasn't illegal. >> when i run for president, that doesn't mean i'm not allowed to do business. >> reporter: now some congressional leaders say they want the special counsel to review the testimonies of other trump associates. >> we believe other witnesses were untruthful before our committee. >> reporter: cohen's testimony now may conflict with the testimony given by the president

steve cohen -- steve scalise. mr. scully's: congratulations to you, kevin, and our leadership team. it is an honor to be elected as a republican whip and it is a job i have enjoyed for the last four years and one of the things is i would travel around the country in a lot of swing districts, people love the fact that we have a booming economy. they see how tremendous the success has been for hard-working families. they are seeing more money in their hx, they are seeing wages go up. history was working against us in the house and it caught up. what we need to do is redouble our efforts. one of the things we need to do with the republican minority as we work to earn that majority back is to let people know what we are standing for. those principles that have been driven to work and get our economy back on track and help those families who are counting on us. they want to see this economy continue to grow. a lot of those swing districts you never heard democrats talk about obstructing and subpoenas and impeachment. they talked about being pro-life and pro gun and be interesting if they

. >> mr. cohen, how are you feeling? >> reporter: the news that michael cohen, the president's former lawyer and fixer, had struck a deal with special counsel robert mueller. cohen admitted the trump organization was in talks to build a moscow trump tower while trump was running for president, something that seems directly at odds with what trump has long said publicly. >> i have nothing to do with russia. i have no relationship to russia whatsoever. i have nothing to do with russia. i never did. >> reporter: abc news has learned cohen and a business associate were even talking about giving putin the $50 million penthouse in trump tower moscow. cohen had planned to travel to moscow during the campaign, but according to the special june 14th, 2016. that's the same day "the washingtthata had hacked the dn. the president today dismissed the cohen revelations, saying he continued to run his business while he ran for president and that's, quote, "very legal and very cool." and that he had "lightly looked at doing a building s

the president spoke about mr. cohen as he was departing the white house this morning. president trump:

and clearly indicates that the special counsel is getting meaningful cooperation from mr cohen what would you do to determine whether or not there was any financial leverage to the russian capital right. well i think we need to look into one of those things are credible allegations that the russians made it along very money to the trump organization. wow our lives to go is now them on its way to our correspondent in washington good evening to you maya the democrats they must be looking at their jobs i mean clear words from adam schiff they are they were going to be giving any clues what we can expect once they take control of those key house committees. well as in they seem to be licking their chops as you said chomping at the bit might be another metaphor we could use not only did we hear from adam shift today but we saw several rather prominent democrats come out to condemn the various going on that have been happening around the president we saw senator kristen gillibrand of new york who's a rumored twenty twenty presidential candidate talking about the culture of corruption around the

the president has responded, claiming mr cohen is lying now to get a reduced jail sentence. mr trump has touched down in argentina's capital, buenos aires, for the 620 summit. he has cancelled several planned meetings at the last minute, including one with vladimir putin. at a time of growing differences over trade, climate change, and global security, he is expected to have tense to have tense trade talks with china. the united nations‘ cultural organisation, unesco, has added reggae music to its list of global treasures. reggae, which takes its influences from calypso, jazz and the blues, grew out of jamaica in the 1960s thanks to artists like bob marley. now on bbc news, it's hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur. in just a few days‘ time, the uk parliament will make a fateful decision, to accept or reject theresa may's brexit deal, painfully negotiated with the eu. right across europe, the vote will have huge repercussions. for all of the focus on britain's political crisis, this is europe's problem too. my guest is danuta hubner, an influential polish me

cohen what would you do to determine whether or not there was any financial leverage to the russians. right. well i think we need to look into what those things are credible allegations that the russians may have a laundry money to the trump organization. wow our lives to go is no tomorrow is where your correspondent in washington good evening to you maya the democrats they must be looking at their jobs i mean clear words from adam schiff they are they were going to be giving any clues what we can expect once they take control of those key health committees. well as in they seem to be looking their chops as you said chomping at the bit might be another metaphor we could use not only did we hear from adam shift today but we saw several rather prominent democrats come out to condemn the various going on that have been happening around the president we saw senator kristen gillibrand of new york who's a rumored twenty twenty presidential candidate talking about the culture of corruption around the president we saw another high ranking democrat on the senate intelligence committee mark wa

cohen what would you do to determine whether or not there was any financial leverage to the russians have a right. well i think we need to look into one of those things are credible allegations that the russians may have a laundry money to the trump organization. wow our lives to is now the ones where your correspondent in washington good evening to you maya the democrats they must be looking their jaws i mean clear words from adam schiff they are they were going to be giving any clues what we can expect once they take control of those key health committees well as in they seem to be licking their chops as you said chomping at the bit might be another metaphor we could use not only did we hear from adam shift today but we saw several rather prominent democrats come out to condemn the various going on that have been happening around the president we saw senator kristen gillibrand of new york who's a rumored twenty twenty presidential candidate talking about the culture of corruption around the president we saw another high ranking democrat on the senate intelligence committee mark war

and if mr. cohen has information on that, that is really significant, and the second has to do with the steele dossier to say that he went to ukraine to try the brush under the rug the information about the potential collusion about the campaign, and that is mr. manafort's discussions with the campaign, and payments to the kremlin-backed hackers and so those two pieces of information and the extent to which mr. cohen has verifiable facts or testimony relating to, i think that those two pieces could blow this up for the president. and then the question will become, what happens next? is there going to be accountability through the congress? is there going to be accountability through the justice can department, and now of course we have mr. whitaker in charge which is a huge question mark as to how much he is going to or he can, but would be willing to interfere with this process. >> kim wehle, big thanks to you and danny cevallos, one of our legal analysts. thank you so much. and again, breaking

mr. cohen. that was in the process of being edited before he pleaded. but that material drew from the search of his home, hotel, and office, and also drew from witness testimony from david pecker and angel wiseleberg as we've written before in the "journal." since that plea, michael cohen has been providing them information. a lot of what we wrote about today stemmed from months of investigations and now michael cohen is presumably going in there and backing up a lot of that. >> mimi, you know your way around a keyboard and the feds offices in new york. 80 pages gets your attention. that's kind of impressive. >> yes. i mean, that's speaking indictment for sure. not just laying out the charges and the bare facts. we don't know how much of that, you know, conduct or charges since that was -- how much that included trump. but it's an important fact because it shows a lot of what's come out already when michael cohen pled guilty, when he made that incriminating statement about trump in court saying he directed me. trump and his allies came out and said mich

cohens but mueller did not ask about timing. the president who got a had hes up of the cohen plea down played the project in russia. >> that was a project that was not done for a lot of reasons. one, not that i had to do it, i was focused on running for president. i wanted that to be my primary focus. not running or building a tower. >> reporter: cohen is expected to be sentenced next month on these charges as well as previous ones. he faces the possibility of years in prison, but he will continue to cooperate with the special council in the hope of getting his sentence reduced to a few months. >> the fall out from the surprise guilty plea comes as president trump is in argentina for the g-20 summit. the big talk of the summit is the saudi assassination of jamal khashoggi. >> reporter: president trump cancelled two high profile g-20 meetings with vladimir putin. he did it based on the fact that the ships and sailors have not been returned to ukraine from russia. russia continues to hold three ukrainian naval vessels and more tha

the president says mr cohen is a weak man, who is lying now to get a reduced jail sentence. president trump has touched down in argentina's capital, buenos aires, for the 620 summit, where he's expected to have tense trade talks with china. the gathering of world leaders is being held at a time of growing differences over trade, climate change and global security. the world health organisation is warning of a global resurgence of the highly contagious disease measles. the who is blaming a sharply lower uptake of childhood immunisation for the increase in cases. a report by the organisation shows a growth in cases in almost every region of the world. it's just after 2:30am. it's time now for thursday in parliament. hello there and welcome to thursday in parliament. on this programme, senior mps demand answers from theresa may on her brexit plan, with one wondering just who would put up a hard border between northern ireland and the republic? would the uk build it? would the irish republic build it? or would the eu build it? ahead of world aids day, a labour mp reveals he's li

cohen has cooperated. mr. cohen will continue to cooperate. >> reporter: sources tell abc news cohen has already spent more than 70 hours talking to mueller's investigators about the 2016 campaign and president trump's business ties to russia. he pleaded guilty to lying to congress about plans to build a trump tower in moscow. cohen had told lawmakers the moscow project was abandoned in january 2016. he now says that's not true, that the project did not end until june, deep into the campaign. but cohen now says he briefed the president and members of his family on multiple occasions. the next month, candidate trump said this -- >> i have no relationship to russia. >> reporter: cohen now admits he also discussed trump tower moscow in 2016 with top officials in the russian government. and he planned to visit moscow that june. according to court documents, he even spoke to a trump business associate about the possibility of trump himself traveling to russia once he becomes the nominee after the convention. that d

"the journal" also reports cohen has, quote, met with investigators for mr. mueller and with federal prosecutors in new york seeking to provide information that could mitigate his punishment. his sentencing hearing, by the way, is december 12th. in april, you will recall, president trump told reporters on air force one that he did not know about the payments to stormy daniels. >> reporter: did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? >> no. what else? >> reporter: why did michael cohen say that? >> you'll have to ask michael cohen. michael is my -- an attorney. you'll have to ask michael. >> reporter: do you know where he got the money to make that payment? >> no, i don't know. >> then in august, after michael cohen implicated the president, trump said he learned about both payments later on. >> reporter: do you know about the payments? >> later on, i knew. later on. but you have to understand, ainsley, what he did, and they weren't taken out of campaign finance, that's a much bigger thing, did they come out of the campaign. they didn't come out

we'll start with you, mr. cohen and then a card from drew, charles. anyone else, please line up. >> thank you, supervisors. peter cohn with the council of community housing, i want to reinforce what you heard from amy chen. of the 480 or so properties that this legislation would apply to, that the department's information was that 97 are apartment buildings. of those, 10 are affordable housing sites. so we're talking about a fairly narrow universe of projects serving populations. to reiterate mayor office of housing suggestions, the key is to have the funding to support the change in operations and the change in education that is necessary in working in these sites. that is the ask. if it was a grant program for that first three-year period to the first audit, that at least allows those operators to figure out, a, how to pay for the fa till sittary cost in the future and do the onsite education and change of behavior with the resident population. the theory might work nice, this is going pay for itself, but the first 2-3 years getting to the reality m

i wonder what you think mr. secretary about this cancellation and taking a hard line on ukraine, but this being really just a short time after we learned about how connectioned he is to russia through this cohen plea. >> it goes back to the fundamental issue between a president who is totally consumed, i'm sure, by the mueller investigation and the news that comes out every day such as this cohen plea that creates a huge shadow over the presidency. the concern i have again is how it affects his ability to conduct the office of the presidency. if you are going to the g-20, this is a great opportunity for the president of the united states to confront russia on the ukraine and deal with the issue of the nuclear agreement and what will happen with that. this is a great opportunity to deal with issues related to north korea and the failure to get north korea and it's a great opportunity to meet with the turkish president and talk about that issue. normally a president would engage on the issues and it's important to

cohen is due to be sentenced next month. tonight michael cohen tells emily james fox at "vanity fair" in experience working with the trump -- he witnessed many times president trump using racist peop remarks -- one example from emily jane fox's reporting. this was after a campaign rally. cohen offered his observation to his boss. i told trump the rally looked vanilla and trump responded quote, "because black people are too stupid to vote for me." the white house did not respond. that sentiment, too stupid comment, that echoes of the things he say in public. emily jane fox joins us next. stay with us. alright, i brought in ensure max protein... ...to give you the protein you need with less of the sugar you don't. [grunting noise] i'll take that. 30 grams of protein and 1 gram of sugar. ensure max protein. in two great flavors. from capital one.nd i switched to the spark cash card i earn unlimited 2% cash back on everything i buy. and last year, i earned $36,000 in cash back. which i used to offer health insurance to my employ

"the journal" also reports cohen has, quote, met with investigators for mr. mueller and with federal prosecutors in new york seeking to provide information that could mitigate his punishment. his sentencing hearing, by the way, is december 12th. in april you will recall president trump told reporters on board air force one that he did not know about the payments to stormy daniels. >> did you know about the $130,000 payment to stormy daniels? then why did michael cohen make it if there was no truth to the allegations? >> you have to ask michael cohen. michael's been my attorney and you'll have to ask michael. >> do you know where he got the money to make that payment? no, i don't know. >> then in august after michael cohen implicated the president, trump said he learned about both payments later on. >> did you know about the payments? >> later on i knew. later on. but you have to understand, what he did -- they weren't taken out of campaign finance. that's a big thing. did they come out of the campaign? they didn't come out of the campaign. they came from me.

>> mr. cohen. >> thank you, sir. >> bill: wasn't expecting a comment there, sandra. alan dershowitz, thank you for your analysis there. back down to rick leventhal, and were to be go next, rick? go ahead, rick. >> you just may have seen that around the vehicle. michael cohen came down the steps with his attorney. davis was not in the courtroom. and you may have heard people ask him what's going to happen? i think i heard michael cohen say what you think is going to happen? he was basically just struggling to make it through that sick crowd of reporters and photographers. he is now headed north from lower manhattan. he has left the building. >> sandra: tough to make out exactly what he said there. he did appear to answer at least one question to reporters. he has now left the courthouse and what was a surprise appearance. anybody else there make out exactly what you might have heard michael cohen say there? >> well we have another producer who could probably fill us in better. >> no, we have two of them down here. when he comes back, i can try to find out what if anyt

: mr. young, thank you very much for reading that. we've got kathy widener for the san francisco airport. these are ones for vending machines, one for express spa, and one for clear, which surprises shuttle services. >> correct. the airport is seeking your approval for three retail releases with new zoom, express spa, and all clear. as chair cohen just mentioned, new zoom will operate specialized vending machines throughout the airport. express spa will operate a wellness center and spa concept in terminal two, and all clear offers expedited traveler services for checkpoint access throughout all airport terminals. the new zoom and all clear leases both have initial rental terms of five years with two one-year options to extend and express spa has a rental term of two years with no options to extend. all vendors will pay the minimum guarantee or percentage rent based on total revenues. over the term of the leases, the airport will receive at least $9.265 million based on the annual guarantee

cohen's comments today about working with the department in terms of helping them get up and running and/or education as both you and supervisor fewer talked about today. i would say in some cases if you're at 3% diversion rate, that could be the availability of the right equipment. could be education. but it also could be a real opportunity to put some pinocchifolks in a position to have a job opportunity. you know this firsthand, supervisor, president cohen, even though we have a low unemployment rate certain communities have a significant unemployment rate that is not reflected. and it's emphasized and magnified in public housing. so we could be giving residents and/or students and youth an opportunity. this does not mandate the type of person going in, but it mandates the type of work and focus. >> supervisor fewer: i would like just to follow up with the department of environment on some of the data that i requested. i was hoping you can get that to the supervisors as soon as possible. so we can have actually a deeper analysis. that would be greatly appreciated. supervisor safai

in fact despite well mr trump says michael cohen hasn't yet been sentenced that's not due to happen until the twelfth of december let's get more now from g.w. correspondent marsh waited in washington welcome maya so how does this latest revelation affect the investigation. well it's definitely a revolution in that it now looks like michael cohen who again we should emphasize was one of president trump's inner circle people one of the people who is closest to the president is now cooperating with proper moeller with this investigation into these alleged ties into this alleged election meddling and we should point out here we don't really know how much robert muller knows right now there were rumors circulating at the beginning of the month that some new indictments might be handed down and that hasn't really happened yet we do also know that the trump white house was rather concerned early last week about something that michael robert mueller might have a his sleeve before the white house actually submitted answers written answers to a series of questions that mahler had given to the presi

mr cohen had said previously that business dealings over a prospective trump tower project in moscow ended in january 2016. but, in fact, they continued throuthune 2016, which suggests mr trump was engaged in real estate negotiations with russia in the midst of a campaign, and in an election in which moscow had interfered in order to help elect him. the president says he is not worried at all. i was allowed to do whatever i wa nted i was allowed to do whatever i wanted during the campaign! i was running my business, a lot of different things, during the campaign. so very simply, michael cohen is lying and he's trying to get a reduced sentence for things that have nothing to do with me. mr trump left town just after this story broke and is right now on the flight to argentina for the g20 summit. for more on what this means for him, we arejoined now by jonathan tu rley, a law professor at george washington university, and ron christie, a former advisor to george w bush. let me start with you. legaljeopardy might this represents for president trump. the greatest risk is that the conflic

the president's long time lawyer and self proclaimed fixer, michael cohen, lied to congress about mr. trump's ties to russia and today's developments make you wonde

your reaction to this news today that mr. cohen has said that he lied to congress about the dates during which he was pursuing a building project in moscow. >> i don't think anybody is surprised, really. even his -- the guy on the other side of the transaction was contradicting him all the way in the run up to this. those of us that know michael cohen, who were around before the campaign, it's not surprising that the one that would never take a bullet for donald trump is michael cohen. it's a shame, but i got to believe that he's trying to save his skin. that's what the special counsel does. they terrorize people like michael cohen, paul manafort, jerry corsi, trying to bankrupt you so you'll tell the public the narrative that the special counsel wants to put out there. paul manafort, jerry corsi are not willing to do that. michael cohen is willing to do it. >> martha: michael, when you look at where this stands, you think back to your days in the campaign, did you hear -- really, you have to get down to the core of this. the

and, mr. trump's personal lawyer michael cohen pleaded guilty to lying to congrest some of the president's business ties to russia. former personalawyer. for some context, two reporters tracking the business and national security imications. matea gold. she's the enterprise and vestigations editor for the "washington post." and, david sanger. he's a national security correspondent for the "new york times." thanks to boyou. as the president said,, it's not illegal to try to build a hotel in russia, but my question to you david sanger, what do we know about overlaps between businessman donald trump's deals in russia and politician donald trump's policies about russia? >> well, lisa, that's the central question because, from the start of his campaign in 2015, he was taking an unusual position, a muosch softerion on russia than almost any of his republican competitors, and certai than the republican party had in the past. i went to see him with maggie haign, my colleague at the time, in march 2016

he said mr. cohen was a liar when he pled guilty, saying he misled congress. now he says there was nothing here, no basis of collusion. i was not interested to begin with. is there something there? mueller's bob indictments, guilty pleas, people are spending time in prison right now. that speaks latter than any of the president's denials. track the evolution where the president said he never sought to do any deals in russia, no money coming from russia. now he says, well, it was a light opportunity that he was seeking. ,e have seen this over and over as press reporting and investigations shed light on what was going on. the president backs into the truth rather than coming clean. david: as we try to sort out what was there or not there, we have three different entities, the mueller investigation. a number of indictments, several guilty pleas coming out of that. intelligencetwo committees, one on house side, one on the senate side looking into this. is it likely we will get answers out any of those committees? house intelligence committee, we will seek to fill

. >> the president trusted mr. cohen as his fixer for years. he trusted him with his innermost secrets and i think that the chickens are about to come home to roost. >> laura: they are coming home to roost, all right. as a battering ram against donald trump and later his super important on many brett kavanaugh, avenatti was elevated by the left. the media couldn't get enough of avenatti. he went from huckster hard-charging plane's lawyer to nationwide brand. his face was suddenly plastered all over tv. this profile from "vanity fair" is my personal favorite. there he is, the race car driving lawyer with a shaved head and well defined cheekbones who launched a thousand hard i imo jeez. i don't think i can continue. going on to talk about salacious rumors. "i don't fake fake. i do moisturize. at one point last spring he was getting 100 to 125 interview requests a day. he was soon a featured guest at glittery events as well. maybe they confused him with the rapper pitbull. their political and entertainment media, they worked overtime to showcase a

antique store and the owners i think what commissioner john -- johns said about the property , and mr cohen has made abundantly clear to us many times, is that this is the property that this building sits on and that happens to have open space is like a part of it but it is again the gas building and the development of pg and e. and that whole thing. it is not about the development of antique stores, and the buildings that were used for antique stores, and gardens related to antique stores. that is not what this is about to. although it's called the maryvale antiques throughout the entire description. i sort of also agree about that was not really made -- that was not clarified at the time that the landmark was written back in 1973. the other thing i wanted to say was the people who are opposing it are very clear about the fact that we can never change a landmarked. there's a sense that we can't touch it because these things are there and it says these rt

. >> mr. cohen has cooperated. >> after pleading guilty, the 2017 senate testimony about the moscow real estate proposal is underscored in t. michael cohen briefed the family, the president's son said that he knew "very little about the deal, adding that it faded away at the end of 14." that timeline appears to conflict with michael cohen who said that discussions continued until june 2016. in a russian foreign real estate developer broached the idea of the brush and penthouse for vladimir putin, he did not come into a fox on the penthouse proposal, but said "no matter which capital you build this caliber of a project income you would need cooperation of local government." the justice official is reserving judgment. >> the big question is whether it crosses the line to cover up wrongdoing on the president, or those close to them. politically damaging, yes, but what are the legal consequences? to be determined. >> fox news has learned that the president's legal team is revisiting the 2017 reque

cohen or his attorney no. >> why not take the fifth? >> again, this morning michael cohen pleading guilty to lying to congress. >> that's a very high crime. i hope people understand that who watch this show. >> any impact from all this on the broader markets? >> i don't know. you were talking about what could happen with mueller, whether he's circling. they can't get to mueller. can't be bought. >> no. no mueller can't be bought. >> mueller can't be bought. >> they had the -- how about brendan burn the man the mob couldn't buy david boeing is the number one pick he's talking about $35 for -- capable of earning very quickly. $35 number 2816 for 2019. that's a very inexpensive stock if that's the case obviously this is a stock maybe to buy if the president and xi come to any understanding this weekend. >> as greg hayes said right here the number of planes bought by china. >> i disagree with greg on the tightening there's companies that have a hard time finding workers. >>> let's get to "mad. >> we have sofi. i get 2% on that account antho

the charging document lays out conversations mr. cohen had with russians, including a close adviser to vladamir putin about the potential trump tower project in moscow. they went on, according to the document, until mid june of 2016, "on or about june 14th," according to the charging document. why is that date important? that happens to be the date that "the washington post" broke a big story that russia had hacked the democratic national committee. the timeline is far longer than what cohen told congress last year. today he said he lied to help the president. i'm quoting, i was aware of individual one's repeated disavows of political and commercial ties between himself and russia and any contact with russian nationals had all terminated before the iowa caucus, on february 1st of 2016. which cohen now says was not true. the last conversation was on or about june 14th of that year. he went on to say, "i made these misstatements to be consistent with individual ones, political messaging and out of loyalty to individual one. so he's sa