If Michael Cohen flips, he knows all the secrets. He knows all the dirt. This may open up a wide universe of illegal conduct. Good morning to you. This morning the United States is promising to keep up pressure on syria after launching a military attack on the country overnight. Want to show you some of the latest pictures were getting in from syria and whats on the ground there. American, french, and british warships and planes targeted sites connected to syrias Chemical Weapons Program just days after dozens of innocent people were killed in a suspected chemical attack. Syria is claiming it intercepted some missiles. These are some of the new pictures showing what is left there. At least in one city in syria. The british Prime Minister this morning calling the strikes successful. Russia has called a meeting of the United Nations Security Council over what it calls an act of aggression. President trump says hes prepared to continue the strikes if necessary. New video just in, some of
Sanctions will be coming down. Secretary mnuchin will be announcing those on monday. If he hasnt already. And more problems for scott pruitt. A Government Watchdog Group says the epa chiefs 43,000 sound proof phone booth will have violated federal law. This certainly is an element of double standard. Weve seen cabinet secretaries forced out for much less. 43,000. We begin today with the extraordinary courtroom drama that unfolded here in new york as president s attorneys went head to head with attorneys for his own justice department. All because mr. Trump wants to keep evidence seized from his Lawyers Office out of the hands of the feds. With all that going on, sean hannity and Stormy Daniels only added to the surreal atmosphere. I have a great team here to help break all of it down. First, i want to run you through exactly what happened in the courthouse. This stuff is important right now. Federal prosecutors have a ton of information they took from Michael Cohens home and his office
Nothing political. Other kids in springfield are sobs. That kind of lapping wage has no place on or off tv and thats my two cents. I dont know all those sobs. What the. Yeah. Good morning, everyone, its tuesday, april 17th. Welcome to morning joe. With us we have National Affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc. How was the circus yesterday. Oh, boy. Sometimes its a metaphor and sometimes its literal. Yesterday it was literal. We were talk, tom wolf volunteer wo have been embarrassed to lay it out. You had the president , the president s lawyers, you had cymbal woods, you had the porn star. Stormy. You had the press conference on the steps, and then hannity. Hannity. If tom wolf had passed this by his wife when he was writing bonfire too much. He lets not do that. It was a great Old Fashioned new york city legal political tabloid maihem scene. And just to inject sean hannity what was going to be circus environment, stick sean hannity in that, all over the place. This was right here, dai
Hotel room. Stormy daniels is also expected at the courthouse later today. Trumps attorneys who made their own arguments in the case, they will be there as well. Our investigator Shimon Prokupecz is outside the courthouse in new york city. Shimon, what is the court deciding, what could we see today, and what do the president s attorneys, who will be inside the courtroom, want . Reporter essentially the judge here is going to decide whether or not the fbi and the prosecutors from the u. S. Attorneys office here in the Southern District of new york in manhattan will have access to the information that they seize aid week ago today of t. It was last monday morning that they raided Michael Cohen where they removed all sorts of documents and information. The government has not been able to review any of that information because Michael Cohens attorneys and now the president s attorneys are arguing that there is privileged material in those documents. In the case of the president , the lawye
And i just couldnt believe that this was happening in america. The law order svu star getting real life justice for women waiting far too long. Announcer this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Good evening and thank you for joining us on this friday. We begin with the war of words washington has been bracing for for months. The president leading a counter attack on fired fbi director james comey just hours after comey began his much anticipated book tour in which he provides the president as a congenital liar. The president firing back on twitter calling comey an untruthful slimeball. And folks, our warning if there are small kids in the room, some of the language and descriptions go down from there in comeys telling of the Trump Presidency. Hallie jackson has details. Reporter tonight, battle mode and a coordinated comey assault. Comey will be forever known as a disgraced partisan hack. This book should be on the fiction shelf. Seems to me he seems like a disgruntled ex employee.