Baby, drill . Lets go outfront. Good evening. Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, breaking news. A cnn exclusive this hour. President trump suspending white house protocol. Tonight, he says, no longer going to release summaries of his calls with foreign leaders. Its a major break from longstanding white house protocol. This breaking news from our Kaitlan Collins coming as russian president putin gives trump what appears to be the runaround. But the kremlin, as they tell you things, right, says its received trumps highly touted invitation for a second summit in washington, d. C. Tonight a russian aide, though, saying putins not ready. Telling reporters, quote, i think it would be wise to let the dust settle and then we can discuss all of these questions in a business night way, but not now. Not now . That is hardly an embrace of an invitation to come to the white house. I mean, you know, trump didnt seem to be aware of that, because hes still plowing full steam ahead with his summit. He
And somebody in san jose is 522 million richer this morning, before taxes. One jackpot winner in last nights Mega Millions drawing, as evidence by the fact im here, its not me. Im not regretting the 10 i spent on that, my financial analyst. All right, if it makes you happy. Welcome to early start. Im dave briggs. Im christine romans. It is july 25th, 4 00 a. M. In the east. Michael cohens flip on donald trump is all but complete this morning. A cnn exclusive breaking overnight. The attorney for cohen, President Trumps fixer has presented eyeopening audio to cnn. Candidate trump and cohen discuss buying the rights to a playboy models story of her alleged affair with mr. Trump years earlier. Just before the election, the Trump Campaign denied any knowledge of a planned payoff to karen mcdougal, but the 2016 recording seems to confirm mr. Trump knew at the time about the proposal. Listen now as cohen tells trump about his plans to set up a company to purchase the story rights from America
I know youve heard this tape already, which initially aired on cnn but has been authenticated by nbc news. We cannot confirm whether the tape was edited or altered, but we want to replay this one section for you. It is critical to the conversation were about to have. Donald trump, Michael Cohen, september 2016, just a couple months before the election. The two appear to casually discuss a payment to keep a playboy model quiet about an alleged affair, Karen Mcdougal. She was paid 150,000 by the National Inquirer for her story in the summer of 2016, which didnt public the story. The chairman of ami, and owns the inquiry, may be the david youre about to hear referenced here. I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend david, so that im going to do that right away. Ive actually ive spoken to alan about how to set the whole thing up. What are we with funding yes. It is all the stuff. Here, you never know what he is going to be. Maybe he gets im all
Ive never been an agent of the foreign power in any by any stretch of the imagination. Carter page is more like inspector gadget than james bond. Trump never met him or had a conversation with him. I think they went to the court. They got the judges to approve it. They laid out the information and there was a lot of reasons unrelated to the dossier for why they wanted to look at carter page. There was a document presented to the court as if it werent. The economy is a winning argument for this administration. Why would the Administration Wage a trade war and risk losing it . Well, i think were in a trade negotiation or a trade reform. I think in the end whats going to happen is that other countries that have big barriers to our exports are going to lower them because the president is going to negotiate better deals. All right. New week, new late night twitter target. Early morning for you. You woke up to weird tweets. This time the president aimed his all caps tweet squarely at iran. Q
Now, while the president s former lawyer and fixer we just learned had at least 12 audio recordings possibly with the president on them, which federal prosecutors now have in their possession. This as the president himself lashes out in all Different Directions and provokes new fears about his apparent leejs to Vladimir Putin. One week since he stood next to putin in helsinki and sided with the russian president against the u. S. Intelligence community, the president has undone all attempts at cleanup by his white house, tweeting today about the discredited mueller witch hunt and how well he got along with putin. So well in fact the president is now hoping that putin will come visit him in washington this fall. Meanwhile, Paul Manafort got a brief reprieve from jail today to attend a Pretrial Hearing in virginia where a federal judge agreed to push back at his trial for bank fraud by six whole days. That means it is now set to start on july 31st. Thats Paul Manafort right there. One we