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potential payment to kathleen mcdougal before it took place. so that is obviously at odds with the president saying that he learned about it later. still lots of questions here, lots of unresolved issues, and the white house, a stressful day at the lectern for sarah sanders, i think, given the number of questions which she really did not have anything that she could go to beyond the prepared statement of he has done nothing wrong, there are no charges against him. kelly, thanks very much for that. kelly o donnell at the white house. michael cohen s guilty plea sheds light on the timeline of hush money payments made to women who president trump is accused of having affairs with before the campaign. this isn t the salacious gossip it once was, this is part of a pattern of trump. according to the new yorker, playboy model karen mcdougal signed a nondisclosure agreement with american media incorporated, the paren
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interesting part of the president s answer to ainslie earhart s question, that hasn t played in that portion that you aired there, shep, where the president said this was not a campaign contribution, because it wasn t the campaign that paid it, it was me. and i have tweeted about that in the past. now, you remember, the president put an awful lot of his own money into the campaign. so i asked sarajevo hah huckabee sanders how did the president dlinity what was going to the campaign and what might have gone to other people for campaign purposeles. listen in here. how do you draw the line between what was a campaign contribution and what might have been a payment to somebody for other purps. secretary sanders: i m not going to get into the back and forth of the legal part of. this i would refer to you the president s outside counsel 678 as i told cecilia, what i can tell you is what the president has stated
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the elements of a crime. i had cases trying to plead guilty and he said what you said is not a crime, i am not accepting your plea. yesterday, heard what michael cohen said, said that is a crime, i accept your guilty plea. when they say he wasn t implicated in the cohen plea deal, john, is that a lie? well, actually the president was not named in the indictment or in the plea agreement. michael cohen did an audible during his allocution, said the president directed me to do it, not in the documents that were signed. that came as a big surprise. the bottom line is michael cohen admitted to a crime, rather than take a bullet for the president, he shot a seering missile. right now, the white house is not articulating a defense. rule one. don t allow your client to speak. the more president trump speaks, the worse it gets. what do you make of his defense? it is not a valid defense. three defenses the white house has
But no structure is designed to maintain its integrity after a sustained artillery or rocket attack in the case of the heavy machine gunfire would damage these or the shut down of power, a meltdown, a loss of water to the plant or operator mistakes could cause a fukushima or a style meltdown of these reactors. and then you re worried about radioactivity spreads over tens, hundreds, even thousands of square kilometers contaminating the soil, the water and the air around the plant and far into the rest of ukraine and even russia itself. and joseph it doesn t seem that there is much preparation that is going to prevent if there is the ramifications of some sort of event. well, the iodine tablets you spoke about is something you would do to prevent radioactivity being absorbed by the thyroid but radioactivity
It is almost over, but not yet. and did i just see a flare behind you? what exactly is going on? reporter: probably what you saw behind me was there were flares earlier in the day, but just a moment ago, they are tracers. heavy machine gunfire that is coming not only from the syrian democratic forces, but we ve seen return fire as well. so there continues to be resistance by the isis jihadis as we expected to the last breath that some of them would fight. and that is despite the fact that over the last four or five weeks we ve seen thousands of jihadis surrender. we ve spoken with many of them, we ve spoken with many of their wives as well. they continued to hold fast to the ideology of isis. but isis as a territorial ent y entity, as a so-called caliphate is in its final days if not final hours.
Syria. and, you know, land is one thing. their land has been shrinking. their grip on land has been shrinking, but thidaelg if you listen to the u.s. intel community, it s still there. yes. the ideology is still there. sleeper cells, we ve seen them attacked in various places in syria and iraq the last few months. and we know that many of the isis fighters have managed to escape, blend back into the local population or go to remote parts of the deserts or the mountains and continue to operate. as a geographical entity, there s not much left to it. just about one square mile. but what we saw this morning is they are launching a serious counter attack. the reason why we re here and i m not wearing a flack-jacket and a helmet is that in the morning we were woken up by heavy machine gunfire. we went up on the roof where we ve been doing lives from for
U.s. backed fighters report fierce resistance as they attack the last isis enclave in syria. they launched an operation on saturday. it is a small valley town near the iraqi border. and it may also hold some of the most battle hardened isis fighters determined to fight to the death. ben, you did have to pull back from the front lines there. talk to us about what s been happening in the past few hours. reporter: rosemary, we woke up to the sound of heavy machine gunfire just down the road this morning where we were in our previous position, which was about a kilometer and a half from the front line. we went up to the rooftop of our building where we ve been doing
Long is coalition aircraft flying overhead, striking targets just about two kilometers from here, as well as fairly constant heavy machine gunfire as well as artillery and rocket fire going into the town. there doesn t seem to be much resistance yet, but we re told that in the morning is when isis may well counterattack. i m ben wedeman reporting from outside baghou al fawquzi. a man was seriously injured losing four fingers during yellow vest protests in paris saturday. it happened as police were protecting the parliament building from demonstrators. this, the 13th straight weekend of protests against french government policies. venezuela s standoff over humanitarian aid continues. the sitting president maduro
Office and said i need to go. in one of the most harrowing engagements of operation, enduring freedom, john was part of a highly trained team on a combat mission to establish a secure position on the peak of takur ghar mountain. in the early morning of march 4, 2002, john and his teammates were preparing to land onto the mountain when their helicopter was struck by heavy machine gunfire, and a rocket propelled grenade. they were under serious attack. as the helicopter lurched away, petty officer first class neil roberts was flung out of the aircraft and onto the top of the mountain as the helicopter crash landed into the valley below. a horrific crash. the team survived the crash, and without hesitation they volunteered to return to the
Engagements of operation enduring freedom, john was part of a highly-trained team on a combat mission to establish a secure position on the peak of tarkurgar mountain. in the early morning of march 4, 2002, john and his teammates were preparing to land on to the mountain when their helicopter was struck by heavy machine gunfire and a rocket-propelled grenade. they were under serious attack. as the helicopter lurched away, petty officer first class neil roberts was flung out of the aircraft and on to the top of the mountain. as the helicopter crash landed into the valley below. horrific crash. the team survived the crash and without hesitation they volunteered to return to the mountain. they wanted to get neil.