The Trump Organization agreed to cover his legal fees. This beginning back in july of 2017 when the congressional investigations were getting under way, when Robert Muellers was under way. According to the lawsuit, cohen says that once he agreed to stop working with them and struck out on his own with a new lawyer where it was clear he was going to cooperate with the investigation by the u. S. Attorneys office in manhattan, that they stopped paying his legal fees. Hes seeking compensatory damages, over 2 million in unreimbursed legal fees he says the Trump Organization owes him. So, its an interesting story here when you think about the fact that cohen was working with and in tandem with the trump team and then decided to cooperate with federal investigators in many ways against the trump team. Is it is it typical for companies to agree to Something Like this up front and what is the reality now that he gets a check cut . Right. So, first, is it typical . Not really. Its not unusual for directors to have indemnitication agreements for matters that arise out of their employment and part of cohens job here is the fixer and doing of some shady things but it typically excludes criminal conduct thats for starters and, two, the complaint is very sketchy about the nature of this agreement. No agreement is set out, no exhibit. It sounds as if at some point trump said, yeah, well cover these bills and then, understandably, decided not to keep writing checks once cohen set out and was cooperating against him. So i think cohens argument is, you agreed and in other agreements, you have to go for the life of the matter that would be some policies, but it doesnt look that thats what was promised here and it doesnt look as if theres actually any piece of paper that cohen is relying on. I cant help but think of cohens testimony last week where republicans were pressing him on how his attorney lanny davis was getting paid and cohen basically said he was being represented pro bono, maybe davis had this lawsuit in mind . So maybe. Now, he did have he says in his complaint he contracted with a white shoe expensive law firm on this promise and then when they pulled out the rug from under him, he was left with, you know, owing them a Million Dollars and they withdrew. I think its true that davis in that p. R. Role might be doing it for his own reasons, but the bread and butter lawyers that hes had since, thats what hes having trouble paying, thats who he says the Trump Organization should pay for but again with very sketchy evidence. One thing here, though, he may be hoping that as part of the lawsuit he gets the opportunity to depose the promisers who are both of the trump sons and possibly trump himself and that creates a kind of a pressure if the court lets him do it. Thanks for breaking down this latest news. Paul manafort, Donald Trumps former Campaign Chairman faces the first of two sentencing hearings, which will eventually determine if the 69yearold will spend the rest of his life behind bars. He was found guilty of defrauding banks and the government and failing to pay taxes on millions of dollars in income he earned from ukrainian political consulting, charges that stemmed from the special counsels Robert Mueller investigation into the 2016 president ial election. Manafort deserves between 19 and 25 years say prosecutors in just this one case and that he should pay millions of dollars in fines and restitution for these crimes. He was convicted by a jury after a three week trial last summer. Manafort, for his part, has shown little remorse prosecutors say, even lying under oath following a plea deal after the trial. Shimon prokupecz is cnns crime and justice reporter and joins us now. Do we expect to hear from manafort himself today . Reporter yeah. Its very likely we may. Usually in these proceedings we get to hear from the defendants. Its really their last shot, its their last bid trying to get any kind of leniency from the judge and as you said, ana, Paul Manafort after today could be spending the rest of his life in prison at 69. Hes about to turn 70. Any significant sentence could mean that Paul Manafort will never, ever be a free man again. Obviously that is weighing heavily on him. It could be that we hear from him in a lastditch effort to try and get some leniency from this judge. We will be watching every moment of this hearing, shimon prokupecz, thank you. Well come back as we get closer to the hearing. House democrats gearing up to take a vote on a resolution condemning hatred in all forms. A resolution rooted in controversy surrounding minnesota congresswoman omar. Shes faced bipartisan criticism. Within the Democratic Party, a split has emerged over how to deal with these comments and the backlash that has followed. Earlier nancy pelosi said it was up to omar to explain what she meant while also saying the freshman democrat perhaps didnt understand the impact of her remarks. I feel confident that her words were not based on any antisemitic attitude, but that she didnt have a full appreciation of how they landed on other people where these words have a history and a Cultural Impact that may have been unknown to her. Cnn correspondent Sunlen Serfaty joins us now from capitol hill. There has been a lot of back and forth and a lot of emotion on this issue, sunlen, what is it about this issue that has created such a divide between democrats . Reporter i think first and foremost its a very sensitive issue and topic and i think this is really highlighted the many competing wings essentially of the Democratic Party that i think is really highlighted especially in the House Democratic caucus. Weve seen this struggle in the last 48 hours into how to reprimand ilhan omar, how far will they go and really broken down between old guard, new guard and the new guard has a big spotlight on them now that theyve been vocal in pushing to they believe this resolution should not single her out right and they were pushing for leadership to expand and broaden that resolution which in the end it did and it now only covers antisemitism but broaden it out to cover antiislamic phobia, but this struggle is something that House Democratic leadership will have to, you know, struggle with over the next few months not only with controversies like these, but potentially other controversy thats come up as they manage this new reality of the makeup of the house. Sunlen serfaty on capitol hill for us. Thanks. Another democrat has announced he is not running for president in 2020, Sherrod Brown says he will keep calling out donald trump and his phony populism and hell keep fighting for workers nationwide, but he will not do is run for president. Taking his name out of the running saying he thinks he can be most effective by staying in congress. Jessica, your initial reaction to Sherrod Browns decision not to run. It looked it looked in all respects that he was seriously, seriously considering it. He had staff in place. It really seemed like all of the dominos were lining for him running, but then apparently hes been thinking about this on wednesday, he decided not to run on thursday, he organized a Conference Call with a small group of reporters including myself and said hes not going to do it. He wanted to stay where he could find joy and he finds joy in the senate. So beyond finding joy in the senate, why do you think he came to this decision . I think theres a number of factors at play. He insists it wasnt any of the other contenders and he says it wasnt money. Anybody who wants to run has to think about. Senator browns a very pragmatic politician. I dont know that he would have run unless he thought very seriously that, you know, he was stood a chance of basically beating a very, very crowded democratic primary. I think that probably at the end of the day he looked at all of the different factors and decided he could he could do well to, you know, serve in the senate to continue to be a fighter. Minutes after he gave he told us what his plans were, he gave a very impassioned speech about judges. Whos lane opened up a bit more . A lot of the folks who talk about work would probably say senator biden would benefit from this. I think its very hard to tell at this point. It is such a crowded race. Theres 14 declared nominees now, so i think it opens it up possibly for him, possibly for anyone who really emphasizes the industrial midwest. Senator brown had considered this very seriously because he was talking he was thinking about about states such as pennsylvania and michigan and ohio and wisconsin. If President Trump had lost those in 2012, he would have lost the presidency. Whoever can win those in 2020 will be able to win. There was so much discussion about Sherrod Brown and how he was able to win ohio even though it also went for President Trump and a lot of people looked at that as a sign of his electability. Senator brown not running for president in 2020. Jessica warman, thank you so much for sharing your insights with us. Live by southwest, three cnn president ial town halls backed to back with these three candidates who have said they are running. Thats on sunday, jake tapper and dana bash will moderate starting at 7 00 eastern this weekend. We are waiting two major events this afternoon, the house voting soon on a resolution condemning hate and a judge will sentence Paul Manafort. 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A lot of democrats like the idea of joe biden, but i think that when you look at his history of running, remember, this will be his third run for the white house. He has a history of gaffes. A lot of democrats are concerned about that and concerned about how the president would carry tour him on the trail. Hes got the highest name i. D. In the field. I was talking to one dem saying thats all great, but look at all the gaffes hes made. Ive got memes sent to me of things he sent over the years. A lot of concern about whether or not biden could last in this environment. A lot of mixed feeling out there from democrats. And biden tops a number of the polls right now. Why is that . Is it the name recognition . Is it no, sir stall gentleman for the obama years . Its all name i. D. At this point really thats all you can go on. There havent been any debates. A lot of the pressing of the flesh in iowa iowa and New Hampshire has not happened yet. So hes the former Vice President for a popular president. Hes going to top most lists. I think what youre going to start to see is that as the field shrink, you saw the Sherrod Brown news earlier today which was probably linked to Vice President bidens story in the New York Times, i think as you start to see that field shrink, youll start to see democrats have a stronger focus on who they want their candidate to be. You talked about biden being gaffe proen, we also know he has quite the extensive record from his decades in government and our team reminds us of just some of these comments back in 1993. We have predators on our streets that society has, in fact, in part because of its neglect created. Again, it does not mean because we created them that we somehow forgive them or do not take them out of society to protect my family and yours from them. They are beyond the pale many of those people, beyond the pale and its a sad commentary on society. We have no choice but to take them out of society. Beyond the pale, those comments were from a different time and obviously very controversial in the year 2019. Are those comments and his record at large going to be a problem for him in this race . Oh, you bet. Just look at the comments a few weeks ago about Vice President pence that he made where he said he was a nice guy and progressive twitter had its way with him. The case for biden and the case against biden is linked because a lot of democrats like the fact that hes straight talking, that hes plain spoken thats what so many people love about donald trump, right . That is what people love about donald trump but thats also the risk with biden is that there is a propensity to be off message and undisciplined. So what his greatest strength is his greatest weakness. I know hell have a lot of infrastructure support. Whether or not he can win over the progressives in the party who are really controlling the Party Discussion and the Party Apparatus right now is to be determined. Pivoting to the Current Congress and the controversy surrounding congresswoman ilhan omar, there are a couple of aspects of this debate. Some have questioned how hard is it to call out antisemitism saying lets just get on with it . Why do we have to go back and forth on this resolution . Others have questioned, should it be about more than antisemitism about hatred and bigotry in general . Where do you fall on this . I had conversations with a couple of people on the House Democratic side. I talked to one senior person who said they felt like there was such a rush to get out in front of this, to kind of put representative omar out there in an island because democrats didnt want to create any kind of doubt about their feelings of antisemitism, but in the process theyve ostracized her. That bothered a lot of the new democrats and a lot of those progressives. I talked to more mainstream democrat, a Senior Member who said, they feel like they just want her to be more thoughtful with her words. Her first comments about a month ago were the ones that were more problem attic referring to apec and paying for support. I think that a lot of people feel like you could argue shes just making a comment about whether or not theres too much influence of lobbying in congress and thats the point that theyre saying, she needs to be more thoughtful and more focused when shes making those comments. Shes got a reputation now, unfortunately, and thats going to be held against her. Has this issue hurt the democratic brand . No, i dont believe its hurt the democratic brand no more than steve king has hurt the republican brand or donald trump has hurt the republican brand. There are outliers in every party. Theres a lot of opinion. Theres a big tent. There are people, by the way, who are new, new to this discussion who have different ways of communicating. I dont think the democratic brand is harmed at all. I actually think Speaker Pelosi spoke have eloquently earlier about this. Her words did not match her attitude an a lot of democrats are confident about that as well. Thank you. Michael cohen facing questions about whether he lied to congress again about seeking a pardon from the white house. Will all his testimony now be called into question . Plus the royal family cracks down on racist remarks about Meghan Markle. What cnn found when it looked into the hate against her. male announcer get great deals on great gear at Bass Pro Shops and cabelas. Like cabelas catch all gear bags for under 13 each. And save 40 on under armour mens and ladies micro g assert 7 running shoes. Your adventure starts here. Reach her health goals im in but first. Shelfie the greattasting nutrition of ensure. 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When Robert Mueller submits his report theres always been a chance congress or the general public wont see whats in it, but axios is showing us the forest through the trees today noting the past couple of years have been overwhelmed with political scandal, perhaps the most in american history. And without much precedent of how to handle such scandal, its important to put all of this in perspective. So theres the hush money payments, right . Right before trump won the election with two women alleging affairs with trump and the lies around those hush payments, there is a historical parallel for this one. Bill clinton, he lied about his affair with a white house intern, albeit under oath. Then theres the firing of james comey. We know it was at least in part because of the quote, russia thing. Theres a parallel here too. 1973, remember Richard Nixon he fired his Top Department of justice officials to try to end the watergate investigation. Think about this one. Negotiating the trump tower moscow project during the campaign and hiding it from the public. No historical parallel for that one. Scandal number four, the more than 100 contacts made between russian officials and Trump Associates during the campaign. Zero precedent there. One of those contacts, of course, michael flynn, he has pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his communications with russian officials. Back in the news recently, the president overruling the advice of his lawyers and Intelligence Experts and demanding security clearances for his soninlaw and daughter. Historical parallel, nope, none. With me now cnn president ial historian tim and a half tally. I want to get your perspective on this, just how scandalous is this presidency compared to past . Well, this presidency has more scandals happening simultaneously than his predecessors in the case of other presidencies such as Richard Nixon, we learned some of the scandals later when the pieces were only put together in some cases at the end. Right now the president is facing challenges on multiple friets because of verifiable information that suggests misconduct on various fronts information that suggests misconduct, but republicans will argue theres not a smoking gun . First of all, there were many smoking guns in the nixon case and the question is, what is what are you trying to answer . If youre looking for the fact that the russians intervened in the 2016 election, you have enough publicly available information about that. If youre looking for president ial involvement, right, we dont have that material and if it exists and if the president was involved, we have to wait to see what the Mueller Investigation and what the house investigations turn up. If youre question is, were american interacting with a foreign power, we have already information that indicates that. Are you asking, is the Trump Administration using power in ways that suggests abuse of power . We have information that already suggests that. Whether this package of misconduct and suggestive misbehavior is enough for impeachment, thats a question for a much later day, but already we know on multiple fronts this is an administration thats engaged or associates have engaged in at least questionable, if not criminal behavior. When we use that word scandal, we focused on some of the parallels involving specific investigations. Axios didnt mention charlottesville or child separations. We have a disruptive president. Hes made it clear hes changing president ial norms, so we will have controversies about president ial rhetoric all the time. Heres what i would do, if i were keeping score at home, i would say, all right, we have campaign we have campaign violations. Michael cohen has given us more than enough information about that. We have abuse of power. We need more evidence of abuse of power, but there are suggestive behavior. We have questions of obstruction of justice. What was the president s motive when he fired james comey . Was it the russia thing . We also have a question of potentially foreign involvement in our elections and the possibility that americans were assisting foreigners . Thats new. Thats new as an ongoing president ial scandal. Richard nixon engaged in similar behavior we now know for sure in 1968 but that was not public while he was president. Thats something weve learned subsequently. To have a president whos being investigated, not simply for abuse of power and obstruction of justice for the possibility that his lieutenants were engaged in some kind of conspiratorial activity with a foreign power thats entirely new and thats what makes this this the most scandalous presidency so far. It doesnt mean that its the presidency handed in the same direction as that of Richard Nixon. The number of scandals happening at the same time totally unprecedented. He has set a new precedent. Lets talk about another past presidency, we have this new cnn series about the bush family. Heres a preview. George h. W. Bush arrives at the Republican Convention having swept aside his rivals. Texas casts all its votes for her favorite son and the best father in america, george bush. Thank you very, very much. George h. W. Bush makes his pitch to be the leader of the free world. I fought for my country, ive served, ive built and ill go from the hills to the hallows, from the cities to the suburbs, to the loneliest town on the quietest street to take our message of hope and growth for every american to every american. I will keep america moving forward always forward for a better america or an endless enduring dream and a thousand points of light, this is my mission and i will complete it. I just remember being inspired and moved and proud of him. We talked about how he wanted to call upon the greater good in all of us to serve our nation. This episode follows the emergence of george h. W. Bush. That wasnt a smooth process. Not at all. George h. W. Bush was really concerned that another scandal, the iran contra scandal in the reagan period in which he participated wouldnt make would make it difficult if not impossible for him to become president. He supported the iran side. Theres no evidence that he supported taking money that the american were getting from selling weapons to iran to use for the contras but he was supportive of a secret relationship with iranian in order to get hostages freed. He was very afraid that disclosure of that would block his ability to succeed Ronald Reagan. That was a scandal that rifted the country. Once the country realized that Ronald Reagan was not a micromanager and therefore it was totally believable that he didnt know about the criminal aspects of this, the American People basically said, this is not grounds for impeachment, but for a number of years there was a great deal of tension in this country over iranian contra and george h. W. Bush was afraid im not going to be president because of it. This episode is all about what george h. W. Bush does to finally grasp that final ring and there are moments when he crosses a line and youll see that and hearing from his family, watching the video, listening to historians, you get a sense of the internal struggle in this man who is very capable of doing good but is willing at times to cross the line to be in a position to do good. All right. Thank you so much. I always learn so much from you every time we talk. Appreciate it. Be sure to watch the cnn original series, the bush years, this sunday night at 10 00 eastern only on cnn. 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Chris cillizza is cnn politics reporter and editor at large. A few eye opening lines to say the least, especially when he talked about the separation of Migrant Children from their parents. Absolutely, ana, and breaking with the Trump Administration and the president specifically. Lets go through first what john kelly said. The big separation of family thing that happened was a decision made by the attorney general. It was his decision to make. Okay. Decision made by the attorney general, it was his decision to make. Focus on that word, decision, that something had to be decided and changed, then listen to what the Trump Administration has been saying about that family separation policy. Lets play that. This administration did not create a policy of separating families at the border. Because its the law and thats what the law states and the law you guys dont have to do that. It doesnt have to be the law and the president has called on democrats in congress to fix those loopholes. The children can be taken care of quickly, beautifully and immediately. The democrats force that had law upon our nation. I hate it. I hate to see separation of parents and children. We all know the results of the policy and the compassionate or lack of compassion. Maam, its not a policy. Its the law. We enforce the law. The policy is a policy. You just talked about discussing that policy with the then attorney general. So the distinction there ana is important. Kelly is saying the decision was made and hes right on the mer its, the decision was made to enforce a zerotolerance policy, yes, it had been on the books but, no, it had not been enforced in the way that attorney general Jeff Sessions at the time chose to enforce it. Dont have to believe me. Believe john kelly. Ana. Kelly also countered one of trumps key border talking points. Yes, this is really interesting. This is john kelly again remember, if you know anything about donald trump, you probably remember the speech where he comes down the escalator and announces his candidacy and says, mexico is sending us rapist and criminals and i assume some of them are good people. This is john kelly at duke. And, by the way, hes talking about people coming into this country. Theyre people coming up here for economic purposes. I dont blame them for that. Thats obviously a very different thing than even what donald trump is saying now. He is using and hes used these caravan thats moved toward the country as essentially creating this image of them as ravaging hordes of criminals coming into this country. Again, former chiefofstaff and John Kelly John kelly is no liberal when it comes to border policy. He, in fact, was right head of department of homeland security, chosen for that job because of his hard line stances on immigration but he quite clearly believes Something Different as it relates to immigration than the president of the united states. Maybe thats why hes not the chiefofstaff any more. Back to you. Overwhelmingly not criminals he says to your point about the trump narrative that theres a National Security crisis at the border because of whos coming across. Chris, we appreciate that. Thank you. Britains royal family making new moves against hate and racism online. Meghan markle is now being targeted by trolls. That we just hit the motherlode of softserve ice cream . I got cones, anybody wants one oh, yeah get ya some no, i cant believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my Car Insurance with geico. Ed ed we struck sprinkles [cheers] believe it. Geico could save you fifteen percent or more on Car Insurance. 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There were the references to the duchesses rich and exotic dna, how her family had gone from cotton slaves to royalty and this piece suggesting the los angeles native was almost straight out of compton, a reference to a song by nwa. The authors of these stories deny racism, but the couple saw underlying prejudice which they articulated with this palace statement from 2016 calling out the racial undertones of comment pieces and the outright sexism and racism of social media trolls and web article comments, a typical example is the ongoing narrative that the duchess is at war with her sisterinlaw the duchess of cambridge. This is based on one report at a perspective newspaper that meghan made kate cry at a brides maid dress fitting just before last years wedding and even that story is disputed by the palace. The two women have endured constant comparisons. Essentially kate is no deviation of the norm. Shes british girl next door. Reporter where kates now celebrated for wearing an off the shoulder dress, meghan is accused of breaking royal protocol, when meghan wears dark nail polish she breaks royal protocol again. The comparisons are as awkward for kate as they are for meghan. Shes very much what you envision when you think of the princess and frankly, shes white, meghan is a deviation. Shes foreign not just by being american but shes got black heritage. Shes a divorcee. Your average british member of the public thinks of when they think of the word duchess or royal family at all. Reporter a cnn royal source accepts the duchesses arent best friends. They may not hang out or call each other, but they are friendly and they text. Stories about a rift are just click base the source adds but its that click bait that online trolls are linking too and using against meghan. On twitter, we investigated the most commonly used antimeghan hashtags from the beginning of january to the middle of february. In total we analyzed 5,204 tweets and discovered 20 accounts were behind 70 of the posts. Their profile descriptions typically contain meghan related hashtags like megzit such as brexit and maga, make America Great again. We dont know how many people are behind the accounts and we found no evidence of a coordinated right Wing Campaign against the duchess, but Meghan Markle fits into this bigger idea of the west and the uk in decline and here its symbolized by meghan who corrupts this Old Institution of the buckingham palace. Reporter cnn has been told that trolling escalated when the duchess announced her pregnancy. That was at the beginning of the high profile tour of australia. Palace star for having to spend more time deleting comments on the social media platforms. Also blocking accounts and reporting abuses. Theres definitely unspoken interest in what the baby will look like. Theres been a lot of talk on twitter. Not just from racists but also people that are very promeghan about whether the baby will have an afro, all these kind of coded conversations happening about what the baby will look like. It sounds really horrible to think but a lot of people have offered up the idea that the blacker the baby look, the worse its treatment will be. Reporter our royal source tells us they even had to preblock the nword on instagram. Plus emojis of knives and guns. Cnn royal correspondent max foster is joining us now from london. Max, fascinating report there. Is there concern this online hate could translate into actual violence . Reporter well, yes. We often think of, you know, media tension and diana when we think of the royal family but actually palace minds very much focused on an incident last year when an image was posted online calling for him to be shot because hes a race traitor for marrying Meghan Markle. They are concerned that this environment might create a comissive environment for someone that wants to carry out or follow through on an attack. Thats why they want to get rid of the more violent elements online. Those emojis of knives and guns and all these references to how, you know, the couple should be there is concern about that as we head toward the birth of this baby. Race becomes more of an issue. This will be the first mixed race baby in the royal familys thousand year history and a lot of people are uncomfortable with that while most people are celebrating it it has to be said. So disturbing for her to be dealing with these kinds of attacks. Max foster, we appreciate your reporting, thank you. Were waiting two major events. The house voting soon on a resolution condemning hate after a freshman democrats remarks. And a judge will sentence former trump Campaign ChairmanPaul Manafort, all happening within minutes. Dont go anywhere. My experience with usaa has been excellent. 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