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>> eric: former deputy assistant attorney thomas dupree will dig into all of it but we begin with rick leventhal. >> a stunning set of admissions in lower manhattan by a man who was one of the president's most trusted employees. he lied, paid women off he says to pay his boss. he walked out of the courthouse late yesterday free on $500,000 bond pled guilty to hiding income from his taxi cab business and hiding debt to secure a home equity loan and arranging payments to two women in the run-up to the presidential election in coordination in and at the direction for a candidate to federal office to try to help him win. >> mr. cohen disregarded that training, that tradition and decided that he was above the law and for that he is going to pay a very, very serious price. >> he admitted he paid $130,000
to stephanie clifford, stormy daniels, because she was ready to go public with a claimed affair with mr. trump. and he arranged to reimburse a tabloid to bury a story about karen mcdougal who also claimed an affair with mr. trump. he says the president should be worried. >> yes, he committed a crime. he should be indicted if he were not president, he clearly would be indicted and jailed for that crime. whether he can be indicted as president, of course, is not yet decided. >> nothing in cohen's plea deal requires him to cooperate with any investigation of the president but it doesn't preclude him from doing it either. >> eric: the president is tweeting. what else are you hearing from the white house on the stunning developments? >> it was a pretty remarkable tweet and we got a statement last night from the president's new personal lawyer rudy giuliani who said there is no allegation of any wrongdoing against the president in the
president george w. bush. what a morning, night, afternoon, the news keeps coming in. paul manafort, what are the implications of the outcome of this trial on the mueller investigation and president trump? >> absolutely. what an afternoon it was yesterday. developments occurring every hour on the hour it seemed. as far as manafort's significance, there are a few things to take away here. the first is look, this trial did not concern any of the work that manafort did in his role as campaign chairman for president trump. the president is right. this didn't involve the collusion allegation, this didn't involve any work that manafort did for the campaign, for president trump. so president trump is not directly implicated by yesterday's verdict. at the most it calls into question the decision to have paul manafort serve as campaign chairman but tees up the question there is the possibility on a pardon on the table for manafort. he thinks it is not a fair
prosecution but remains to be seen whether the president feels so strongly about this that he would take an extraordinary step of pardoning paul manafort. >> sandra: does it put more pressure on other players in the russia investigation as this is seen as a victory for robert mueller. >> it shows mueller is not afraid to take the cases to trial and capable of obtaining for convictions that carry serious jail time. anyone who has followed bob mueller and familiar with the folks on the mueller team. this is the varsity. they're serious prosecutors taking their mission seriously. anyone who would underestimate that i think would be running a risk. >> sandra: all of it came minutes after michael cohen fed guilty in federal court. hearing last night from his attorney lanny davis who is coming up at the top of the next hour on "america's newsroom," said his client, cohen, more than happy to talk to mueller and tell all that he
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>> we have confirmed with homeland security investigations that he is an illegal alien and we believe he has been in this area now for four to seven years. we're able to track his pattern and the routes in which he took. we also were able to find mollie running on this video and we were able to determine that he is one of the last ones to have seen mollie running. >> eric: matt finn is live with the heartbreaking ending and why rivera was in this country in the first place. >> 24-year-old christian rivera is charged with first degree murder in the death of mollie tibbetts. they say he confessed july 18th, the day mollie disappeared, he followed her on her jog and she became frightened and got out her cell phone and said get away from me i will call police. he says he blacked out and
doesn't remember what happened next but she ended up in his truck with a bloody skull. he led them to her body that he hid in a cornfield. ice says rivera is from mexico and have placed a detainer request on him in this county. we've learned rivera worked at a farm just a few miles from where mollie vanished. they released a statement saying rivera was an employee in good standing and somehow passed the government's e-verify employment system despite his status as an undocumented worker. it lists several owners of the farm. they might be relatives of craig lang who reportedly was a former republican candidate for iowa's agriculture secretary. mollie's mother was with her two sons at the press one interference where police announced her daughter's debt. she remained stoic and quiet as she has throughout this entire ordeal. mollie's dad lives in california and spent a full month on the ground here in
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>> eric: after the convictions of paul manafort and michael cohen president trump had a rally in west virginia stumping for patrick morrissey. he is trying to unseat democratic senator joe manchin in the mid-terms. >> president trump: this november, voters in west virginia will face a very simple choice. a vote for patrick morrissey is truly a vote to make america great again. joe manchin no longer has west virginia values, period. when i get to the u.s. senate, i'm going to be a strong ally of president trump. we're all going to help sure this guy not only that we make west virginia great again but continue to make west virginia great again. best way to do that. liberal joe has got to go. >> eric: attorney general
patrick morrissey joins us now from west virginia. what do you mean joe manchin doesn't have west virginia values. he has been leading in the polls and pretty close to president trump. >> well, i think most people in west virginia are really beginning to see that joe manchin sold them out when things mattered most. when you support hillary clinton, barack obama, radical gun control. when you oppose the trump tax cuts and you don't try to really fix obamacare, these devastating premium increases, then you don't have west virginia values. and that's joe manchin. joe manchin went to washington, lost his way. i think as more people learn about my strong conservative record of accomplishment taking out the obama power plan, changing the national drug quota system through our lawsuit and doing good things to help our state produce jobs, i think know this is a very clear contrast and they don't
want a dishonest liberal in joe manchin. they want a conservative fighter in patrick morrissey. >> eric: he says morrissey will have to answer to 800,000 west virginiaance trying to take health insurance coverage away. insurance companies could deny people with pre-existing conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure if pat has his way. what is your answer to that especially in coal country where, you know, our great coal miners can face serious health problems? >> well, i think this is another example of how joe manchin is being dishonest. these are scare tactics. there is no difference between the candidate on helping those who need it most, those with pre-existing conditions and those with catastrophic expenses. joe manchin has a terrible liberal record and that's why he has to make things up about my very strong record. look, we have to get rid of obamacare. these spiraling out of control
premium increases that are hurting west virginia families and so we're focused on that. but joe manchin wants to divert attention in a topic where there is no difference between the candidates. let's focus on getting rid of obamacare's ridiculous premium increases. we got rid of the mandate in the tax bill that joe manchin voted against. it is time we make changes to help hard working men and women in west virginia give them the kind of healthcare choices that they deserve. >> eric: you're an attorney general, chief law enforcement officer of your state. what's the reaction to your state and the voters with the cohen and manafort convictions and that the president ok'd hush money to try to influence the presidential election which would be a felony. >> look, as a prosecutor, i have to take and look at all the facts. one thing i can see already and i think even the mueller probe proved there was no collusion.
and so this has been a witch hunt for a long period of time. and make known -- no one is directly implicated the president. >> eric: michael cohen did yesterday by claiming that the president had directed him to make that illegal payment. quickly. >> look, i can't speak to the motivations behind someone who may have multiple charges against him, trying to cut a deal. i can tell you this, so far no one has directly implicated the president. this president has had great policies for west virginia. good judges,-up holding the rule of law, taking away burdensome regulations, helping out coal. >> eric: i apologize. we're up against the computer and nothing we can do against the computer. michael cohen did implicate the president. >> charges, sir, charges, not facts. >> sandra: more on all this coming up. republicans are looking to flip
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pending resolution of the case. >> she was found in a corn field and there were corn stalks placed over the top of her. we confirmed that he is an illegal alien and we believe he has been in this area now for 4 to 7 years. >> eric: that's special agent in iowa on the tragic end of the search for mollie tibbetts. an illegal immigrant confessing to the murder of the 20-year-old college students. the suspect making his first appearance in court a few hours from now. jonna spilbor joins us. so heartbreaking and terrible that this illegal alien who has been here for several years has been charged in this horrendous murder. if he wasn't in this country illegally mollie tibbetts apparently would be alive. >> would still be alive today. you can't help but compare the case to the kate steinle case. and if we had a wall, mollie
tibbetts would be going to college in a couple of weeks as she should be. it is heartbreaking. >> eric: not just the wall but it's actual laws were enforced then perhaps that would be the case. the difference between kate steinle and this, this suspect has confessed as opposed to going to trial. >> so we will not have an opportunity to have 12 people get it wrong like they did in the kate steinle case because they were picked from a pool in a sanctuary city. we have a confession. unless he retracts it, it looks like there won't be a trial here. one of the things disturbing about this case his employer is saying he passed the background check. they did a background check and he passed it. that begs the question to me how easy is it to beat the system? how easy is it to fake the documents necessary that go into the e-verify system? >> eric: he works for a farm in iowa and he has been employed there for several years and
they say they check all their employees but go through the e-verify system. can you explain what that is? was this a loophole, not caught or as you point out, perhaps fake documents? >> maybe we have a bigger problem. when you employ somebody they fill out certain information which includes their legal documentation, social security number, etc. any information from homeland security. you take that information as an employer and plug it into the e-verify system. in three or five seconds it tells you whether that person is legally able to work in this country. according to this employer. i don't know whether we verified if they are being honest, but according to the employer he passed that. did he have somebody else's identification? did he pretend to be somebody else or do we have a hole that these documents are easy to fake anybody can beat the system? >> eric: what do you expect will happen. >> no death penalty in iowa.
i expect he will spend the rest of his life in prison here and makes no sense to deport him. he will just come back again and we don't want to have another opportunity to kill an innocent person. he will spend the rest of his life behind bars. >> sandra: we're moments away from a big milestone on wall street. the longest bull market in u.s. stock market history. how we got here and what it means for your bottom line. >> eric: supreme court nominee bret kavanaugh is making the rounds on capitol hill. how did a meeting with a critical swing vote susan collins of maine there on the left? how did it go yesterday? >> i have always waited until after the judiciary committee hearings before rendering a final decision on a supreme court nominee. you never know what questions are going to come up.
the stock market opening just a couple minutes ago marking the longest bull market run in u.s. history. nearly 9 1/2 years of unprecedented gains. joining me now maria bartiromo anchor on mornings with maria on fox business network. this is a major milestone for this market. it has shown resilience, maria. to show this kind of run-up. >> that's really the key, the resilience of it. the rally we've seen in stock prices is based on real fundamentals. based on earnings and economic growth. for a time it was based on the federal reserve and cheap money. you know the federal reserve went to zero on interest rates after the financial crisis. it was all on the feds to take us out of that financial crisis in 2007. but it did. rates were low. it helped things come back and then it was all about the corporate sector and earnings. when you look at the earnings story they're strong. 26% profit growth in the first quarter.
20% profit growth in the second quarter. really strong. that's why it is 9 1/2 years but probably continue for several more years because the fundamental back drop is there. >> >> sandra: write ups were fun to look at. by the way, when you look at the dow and it is sharply unchanged. today it is hovering around the unchanged mark there, what we're talking about here, these are gains that have sustained over a period without ever dipping into a bear market which is when the stock market falls 20% from its most recent highs. that has never happened. it has fallen into correction mode where it sells off 10%. the big question is who gets the credit for this? this has been going on for over nine years now. >> certainly the recovery began under president obama, no doubt about it. when president trump came in and started rolling back regulations that was really critical. the president rolled back regulations and unleashed
animal spirits in business once again. that was a big part of this as well. certainly the recovery started under president obama and the federal reserve should get much of the credit in my opinion because the fed had easy money for so many years. now you also are looking at an earnings picture that is strong because of roll back in regulations and lower taxes. no doubt the earnings period we saw this year and at the end of last year that was so strong was largely due to the tax cuts and the ability on the part of corporate america to start spending the money they were sitting on for 10 years. >> sandra: the everyday conversation, companies are not spending that money. >> now they are putting money into i.t. and r & d. charles payne is a big fan of the bull market for a long time and doesn't see it going away any time soon. how much longer does it last? he always notes that unfortunately the individual investor, most of them, missed out on this rally. they were living in fear because of the last financial crisis and the biggest
recession since the great depression. there was fear that left people out of this market. so if people are seeing this now, should they be getting in? does it last? >> i think you have to look at this market over the long term. you don't want to look at the market on a day-to-day basis or week-to-week basis and why it's really important to analyze this rally over a 9 1/2 year period because that's long term. if you are putting money into the stock market today you really want to have a feeling that you don't need it in two weeks. you don't need that money in a year or three years. this is long term. i would have to say agree with charles, you put money into the market and you wait. that's the same thing with your 401k. you put it in there and leave it alone. you wait for a long term and how you get real returns. there is no other asset class that will create as much wealth as the stock market will. >> sandra: final point. what if anything keeps the market bulls up at night. what do they fear could derail it? >> the fed and tariffs.
the federal reserve has been interest rates. there is a fair to feds will have too many rate hikes to slow things down. the president has been complaining about that. we have the policy on tariffs. if we see companies raising prices, creating inflation, that would be an issue as well. i don't see that happening. i think this president is the negotiation mode when it comes to the tariffs. we'll see. it is out there as a fear. >> sandra: the longest bull market run in u.s. stock market history today. maria bartiromo see her 6:00 to 9:00 a.m. on the fox business network. thanks. >> eric: supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh set to appear at his confirmation hearings in two weeks. yesterday he met with lawmakers including republican maine senator susan collins. she is seen as a key swing vote in the senate. she sounded positive about kavanaugh's confirmation after they met. >> we talked about whether he
considered roe to be settled law. he said that he agreed with what justice roberts said at his nomination hearing in which he said that it was law. we had a very good, thorough discussion about that issue and many others. >> eric: senate minority leader chuck schumer suggested kavanaugh failed to offer assurances that abortion rights would not be overturned if he is confirmed to the high court. >> i understand that the judge told other members today that he considered roe versus wade settled law. he did not say that to me. conservative justices have a habit of saying something is settled law during their confirmation, and then overturning it the minute they get on the bench. >> eric: his confirmation hearings are set to begin right after labor day on september 4th. >> sandra: facebook removing
more than 650 suspicious pages and counts. their connection to russia and iran. >> eric: and we have some brand-new reaction this morning coming from president trump right on the heels of the news of michael cohen's plea deal accusing his former attorney of quote, making up stories. now the president's most vocal critics all lining up to slam mr. cohen. we'll get the reaction straight ahead. and former campaign manager -- advisor for mr. trump michael cohen who is there. he has known michael cohen and manafort. mr. caputo will be here in a minute for both -- >> he should be indicted. if he were not president he clearly would be indicted and jailed for that crime. whether he can be indicted as president, of course, is not yet decided by the supreme court.
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pence heading to rock port, texas, later today. one year since hurricane harvey. he visited rockport days after the storm slammed into the texas coast last august and destroyed so many homes and businesses there. the vice president will meet with disaster relief volunteers and then he will, of course, make some remarks. >> president trump: where is the collusion? you know, they are still looking for collusion. where is the collusion? find some collusion. we want to find the collusion. >> sandra: president trump slamming the special counsel last night following back-to-back convictions of the two former top aides and moments ago president trump tweeting his defense of paul manafort while slamming his former attorney for, quote, making up stories. here is what he had to say. i feel very badly for paul manafort and his wonderful family. justice took a 12-year-old tax
case and provided tremendous pressure on him and he refused the break, make up stories in order to get a deal. such respect for a brave man. joining me now former trump campaign advisor michael caputo. michael, thanks for your time this morning. i'm sure that you have a reaction to everything you've seen in the last 24 hours. your thoughts this morning. >> well, i'm a long-time friend of paul manafort's and known the president for several years. yesterday was not a good day for the president but not because of anything i believe the president did. paul manafort's verdict, special counsel couldn't seem to make more than half of those charges stick. and the ones that did stick didn't have anything at all to do with the president. and michael cohen, what happened yesterday is very interesting how just in february michael cohen was saying for all the world to hear that this was not a
campaign contribution or campaign expense, it was on the up and up. as soon as he got jammed up in crimes that had nothing at all to do with the president, he seems to have changed his tune and i'm pretty sure that was non-negotiable. >> sandra: the president's critics are using all this as an opportunity to slam him further. andrew cuomo, the governor of new york wrote this today. your personal attorney confessed to committing federal crimes at your direction. you may be a slick salesman. new york has had your number from the beginning and the rest of the world does, too. what do you think when you see a tweet like that? >> many of us sometimes lose our mind on twitter and the governor of new york did that right there. the irony is not lost on me that governor quoum owe's right-hand man fixer is going to jail for high crimes and misdemeanors himself.
a lot of corruption in the governor's office. he was touching a third rail that had already his fingerprints on it is hilarious. i think a lot of these leftist elected officials will not be able to resist making these kinds of cracks but for andrew cuomo to touch that, i think that's really shows a lack of self-awareness on the governor's part. he is in a reelection right now where corruption is key. his opponent is making it the number one issue. the people of new york know it. >> sandra: i want to show you this tweet, michael avenatti, the attorney for the adult film star stormy daniels. he jumped in as well and he tweeted this at the president's attorney, rudy giuliani saying buckle up, butter cup. you and your client completely misplayed this. what is he trying to say? >> he is trying to say that someone should take away my twitter. i have to tell you, like i said before i'm guilty of this now and again as well.
but for a public official, for example, congressmen to tweet people and say something that a teenager would say. avenatti seems to have inserted him through the pornography industry into the minds of americans on the news. these are ridiculous statements. it is kind of like a school yard taunt. i guess twitter is taunting. that's where we are today. i don't think it's very serious. avenatti is someone i don't take very seriously. >> sandra: the president suggesting michael cohen is making up stories. you've known him for about five years as we understand it. do you think he is? >> i think it's entirely possible that michael cohen will make up a story to try to get lienensy for crimes that he committed that didn't involve trump at all. i believe that's what happened here. they say he is not cooperating. but if it looks like a duck and
quacks like a duck he is probably cooperating. i think when it comes down to the department of justice, we know they do things like you can get a reduced sentence if you plead guilty to this, here, and they put their finger on the campaign finance violation and implicate the president. i'm sure that was non-negotiable when he got a better deal for the crimes he committed and he will get more lienensy in the future if he tells more lies. >> sandra: lanny davis, cohen's attorney is about to come up first time on fox since becoming his attorney. we'll hear from him in moments. he suggested his client has knowledge implicating the president in criminal conspiracy to hack democratic emails. he has had a lot to say. he went on the "today" show this morning as well. we'll talk to him in a few minutes. wanted to get your reaction to that. >> lanny davis comes from the
clinton team. when people tell me that he is working on orders of clinton incorporated, i think that's kind of funny. lanny doesn't need any orders to go out and act like a highly partisan democrat. he comes by it honestly. he is one. and he will be right in his wheel house for the next several days. he is good at the communications aspect of litigation. but i have to tell you, i am really entertained by all these reporters who are out there who for two years told me that michael cohen is the most unreliable source on the planet are acting like he is some pair gone of virtue. mr. davis may be able to spin out the idea that michael cohen is looking for whatever forgiveness or to start a new life. >> sandra: there is no allegation of any wrongdoing and the charges against mr. cohen. it is clear as the prosecutor -- dishonesty over a significant period of time.
we'll hear a lot more on that. thank you for your time this morning. thank you. >> eric: as sandra just mentioned we'll be hearing from the other side, michael cohen's attorney, lanny davis, is our headline today. he will be here. his first interview on the fox news channel since taking on mr. cohen as a client. lanny davis at the top of the hour. and over that time i noticed a common theme. people appreciate the value they get with the hartford. - we originally signed up for automobile and homeowners' together. the hartford was the only one that was able to save us money. - that's a good feeling, huh? - yeah, it's good to have everything bundled together. - [announcer] to get your no obligation quote, call the hartford at the number on your screen or go online - it was a hailstorm that came through and it had some damage to the automobile,
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>> that's right, biometric facial recognition looks to be a game changer. it is use here in san jose and a dozen other airports speeding things up for passengers, boosting security but also raising privacy concerns. whether it is going through customs or boarding some international flights, your face is your boarding pass and i.d. in a pilot program at lax cameras use biometric facial recognition to match passenger's unique pictures to government pictures on file from passports and visas. >> they will determine matches over 99% of the time. >> most passengers were impressed. >> it was quick. it recognized me. i'm going to london. >> as far as getting through, i like it. >> the e-gates make it easier for people to board and get to their seats and settle in for their long international
flights. people may be sacrificing privacy for convenience. >> my concerns are this technology will be used beyond its current scope. i worry that facial recognition will migrate from airports all across federal law enforcement putting the privacy of law-abiding americans at risk. >> customs and border protections says the software is secure. along with facial scans of those who enter the u.s. at custom will keep track of exit. now passengers who feel these e-gates might be a little too much like big brother can opt out and board the traditional way. customs and border protection says the biometric boarding is the future and hope to roll out the technology to all airports in the u.s. within the next four years. >> eric: anything to cut down those lines. thank you. >> sandra: it's a very busy morning here on "america's newsroom." we still have a huge show ahead.
president trump facing new scrutiny after the back-to-back convictions of paul manafort and michael cohen. in moments we'll be joined by michael cohen's attorney lanny davis. he is our headliner today and later we'll have legal analysis from george washington university professor jonathan turley. that and much, much more straight ahead.
pushing back against his critics at this hour after back-to-back convictions of former associates. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm sandra smith. >> eric: hello, everyone. i'm eric shawn in for bill hemmer this morning. a stunning double whammy yesterday. the jury verdict and plea from paul manafort and michael cohen in courtrooms hundreds of miles apart but connected by the robert mueller investigation. >> sandra: let's see how we got here in this morning's newsroom news feed on today's two top stories. >> we're watching several fast-breaking stories right now. >> we have major developments in the various investigations of some of president trump's former top advisors. paul manafort convicted today on eight of 18 counts of tax and bank fraud by a jury in alexandria, virginia. >> peter doocy has more. >> paul manafort sat stone faced in a courtroom on the
ninth floor as the judge announced and it all unfolded from a late afternoon note from the jury room to the bench where the jury wrote we have reached a verdict but not able to reach consensus on 10 counts. >> mr. manafort is disappointed of not getting acquittals all the way through. he is evaluating all his options at this point. >> president trump commenting on the manafort developments. >> president trump: this has nothing to do what they started out looking for russia involved in our campaign. i feel very badly for paul manafort. he worked for bob dole, he worked for ronald reagan, he worked for many, many people. it was not the original mission, believe me. >> tough day, manafort and cohen. the cohen case could prove to be more damaging because the president was implicated. >> michael cohen has cut a deal
with federal prosecutors. >> it will include prison time. sources tell fox news this is a straight up guilty plea. >> pleading guilty to bank and tax fraud and campaign finance violations saying he acted in coordination and at the direction of a candidate for federal office. >> the prosecution has just started speaking. we'll listen to them. >> what he did was he worked to pay money to silence two women who had information that he believed would be detrimental to the 2016 campaign and to the candidate and the campaign. mr. cohen decided he was above the law and for that he is going to pay a very, very serious price. >> it looks this afternoon like michael cohen will spend between 3 to 5 years of his life in jail. >> an amazing breaking news day. one for the record books. >> sandra: hold onto your seat. >> sandra: time for today's
headliner michael cohen's attorney lanny davis since he began representing the president's former lawyer. lanny davis, good morning to you. >> an old veteran of fox news. i'm back. >> sandra: nice to see you this morning. first off the question a lot of people are wondering, will your client cooperate with robert mueller? >> the answer is he will cooperate with everyone because he is committed to telling the truth. that's a general statement. i can't give you a specific answer regarding mr. mueller or anyone else. but i know that when he have retained me and as recently as yesterday he is committed to telling the truth and we've actually set up a website with the name truth in it called michael cohen truth.com and he is looking for help from people who want to give donations to help him tell the truth. >> eric: when you say he wants
to tell the truth does your client know anything about alleged russian collusion and anything that donald trump told him about a candidate as b alleged russian collusion and testify any actions the president may or may not have taken concerning the russians? >> i know you're doing your job and you won't be surprised to know i'm not going to answer a question until mr. mueller is finished with his investigation. and we'll leave it up to mr. mueller and other investigation bodies before we tell people ahead of time. >> eric: does he have that type of information? he was very close to donald trump. i've been in the office in trump tower with both of them. the president would say he would be squealing and he said he made up stories. did your client make up stories about the president? >> i don't believe so but this is the same president who called john dean, one of the iconic heroes from the nixon
watergate criminal conspiracy that caused richard nixon to resigned. he called john dean in all caps a rat. that's the nature of the man that is sitting in the white house. so i wouldn't take too seriously his reaction to michael cohen deciding to step up to the line and take responsibility and under oath describe what he did he did at the direction and with the coordination of the president. meaning that his crime was the president's crime. >> sandra: since the outcome yesterday, you have gone on other television networks and said and gone a bit beyond what you are telling us now, saying that cohen's knowledge reached beyond the obvious possibility of a conspiracy to collude and included information on whether trump participated in a criminal conspiracy to hack into the computers of democratic officials. >> i did say possibility.
possibility isn't a fact. it is my judgment and observation that there is that possibility. and he will have to leave the specifics as to whether or not that possibility becomes stronger than possibility up to mr. mueller or whoever is questioning him. >> sandra: mr. davis, your client once said he would take a bullet for this president. what changed? >> right. that's a great question and it was one of my first questions when he called me. because i was not interested in representing him if he were defending donald trump as he had previously done for so many years. we talked at length about what had changed his mind about donald trump to the point where he now was ready to say i'm hitting the reset button and i'm now going to tell the truth about donald trump. and that was the beginning of my decision to represent him. i think you have seen in the
first interview with george stephanopolous some very specific principles that he is on the opposite side of donald trump. he mentioned, for example, his respect for the f.b.i. he mentioned his respect for the intelligence community. unanimous judgment including donald trump's own director of national intelligence that the russians interfered on mr. trump's behalf in what is the functional equivalent of corrupting our democracy and only one person is left who denies his own intelligence community's unanimous judgment who stood publicly at helsinki, a major turning point for michael cohen and sided with vladimir putin over his own intelligence community. so there have been a number of incidents that i believe have been influential on mr. cohen. >> sandra: you are saying he changed his mind over an act of patriotism? >> no question, most americans were concerned.
>> sandra: we're talking about michael cohen here. you just said an act of patriotism and yes, michael cohen was offended as were most americans by donald trump standing up and aligning himself with putin against his own intelligence community. >> sandra: i want to make sure we get in the president's words this morning. he just tweeted this. michael cohen pled guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that are not a crime. president obama had a big campaign finance violation and it was easily settled. how do you respond to that? >> so interesting when donald trump admits something by saying the opposite. so by saying it's not a crime, which the law says if you give money to influence an election beyond the campaign finance limits, that's a felony. and michael cohen, with the prosecutors, stood up under oath in federal court and admitted to that crime and said he did it at the direction and
coordination with the prosecutor's language there that he agreed to. and donald trump is disagreeing with the prosecutors, with mr. cohen's description of this as a crime. the same way he disagrees with the entire intelligence community. not one dissenter in his own administration. so when rudy giuliani says truth isn't truth, you just heard donald trump reverse truth and make it into a falsehood. classic. >> eric: in court yesterday your client said he was directed by candidate number one basically then candidate trump to make this illegal contribution. it is under department of justice guidelines and mr. mueller has said a sitting president cannot be indicted. does michael cohen and do you believe donald trump committed a federal crime and if he were not the sitting president of the united states he would be indicted right now? >> there is no question that he has committed a federal crime. whether he can be indicted has
never been decided. i see no quotation from mr. mueller. i see attribution anonymously but there are two opinions of the office of legal counsel. many years ago the supreme court has never ruled. i think there is a traditional view that you don't indict sitting presidents but that's an insettled question. >> sandra: obviously, mr. davis, there is a question of whether or not he committed a federal crime. that doesn't exist today. >> excuse me, i'm sorry to interrupt you but there is no question. and there is no question that money given beyond limits for the purpose as it was said yesterday by the prosecutor -- >> sandra: go back to what happened in that courtroom and tell us exactly what is your client saying that trump directed him to do. what specifically. >> let's say what is the government saying that michael cohen agreed with and restated
under oath is that at the direction and the coordination of the president of the united states, donald trump, named candidate, that the donations given to keep quiet two women, which mr. trump wasn't willing to sign those checks himself. he directed mr. cohen to make those hush money payments, is a federal crime. and if michael cohen, with the prosecutors in new york agreeing, admitted to that, then certainly donald trump is guilty of the same crime. >> eric: you've been a long-time clinton advisor and lawyer for hillary clinton and close to bill and hillary clinton, what do you say to those that there should be a special counsel investigating the clintons, dnc, dossier, chris fofer steele and the way it was handled by the department of justice and f.b.i. officials, some of whom have been fired and showed a distaste for donald trump becoming president of the united states? >> first of all, you didn't
state a single fact involving the clintons. although i have a lot of friends at fox and have been a fox guest on almost every show on fox, that kind of rhetoric without facts is unfortunately too common on fox shows. so state me facts of what bill or hillary clinton actually have done that would suggest anything illegal suggesting a special counsel. >> eric: my question is your reaction to those who have called for that. >> pure political speculation, rhetoric, but no facts. that's my reaction. >> sandra: have you talked to your client this morning, mr. davis? >> i have. >> sandra: did you want to share anything with us? >> he has gone through a lot. his family has suffered. he is in financial distress. we've set up a gofundme site called michael cohen truth.com. and we're hoping that people
who want him to tell the truth about donald trump will contribute to that site. >> sandra: we have a lot more coming up on this. lanny davis, thank you for your time this morning. >> eric: thank you for joining us and being here. another big story today one-time trump campaign manager, chairman paul manafort convicted on eight counts of tax evasion and bank fraud with the judge declaring a miss trial on 10 charges. jonathan turley, first let me start with what we just heard from lanny davis. your reaction about michael cohen and the plea and michael cohen's claims that the president says are not true. >> well, i thought it was rather interesting when my friend, lanny, said that michael cohen came to this epiphany watching the press conference in helsinki. that struck me as a bit odd you would watch a press conference in helsinki and say i need to start telling the truth.
that's the problem with michael cohen as a witness. if what cohen said yesterday is true, then virtually everything he said for the prior year was a lie. and that makes him a very difficult fact witness to get a jury to believe. now, that doesn't mean that he can't be corroborated by other witnesses. but standing alone, this doesn't make out a particularly strong case. having said that, if people don't think this is not a serious development, they haven't been paying attention. you have the president's lawyer implicating him in a federal crime. even if that lawyer is michael cohen. that's a serious matter. now, how the president responds to that is going to be very key because the justice department by putting these charges into these that the allegations are true and the narrative is
stating what they believe is the fact. this isn't some immaculate crime committed by cohen alone. it refers not only to people like david pecker, the chairman of the "national enquirer" but other people who could now find themselves in a very uncomfortable position. >> eric: you are talking about a potential conspiracy among others if he is to be believed? >> that's right. that's a big if. the normal course of things the department of justice will pursue the other collateral or central players. they normally don't stop at the one guy who takes a plea. >> eric: what about the fact the president has tweeted he made up these stories and the michael cohen you sketched out would seem to be a very unreliable witness potentially if the defense attorneys got him up on the witness stand and grilled him and gave him the 10th degree? >> it's like a bad movie. always the guy reading the
letter from his girlfriend before a battle who guys or the guy who professes loyalty that goes against the main character. a guy said he would take a bullet for the president. spent a year denying everything he says is a fact now and asking to be believed because lanny says that he is liberated. well, you know, he was liberated from himself. he was the one who chose to make these statements. now at the end of the day it's all going to depend on whether this remains a he said/he said problem. the president is denying what michael cohen is saying. previously michael cohen said that the president knew, for example, of the meeting at trump tower and approved it and he did that in a room full of people. no one has corroborated that story. >> sandra: before we let you go i want to make sure we get what the president has said so far
this morning with manafort and cohen together in this tweet. i feel very badly for paul manafort and his wonderful family. justice took a 12-year-old tax case, applied tremendous pressure on him and unlike michael cohen, he refused to break, make up stories in order to get a deal. such respect for a brave man. final word to you, jonathan. >> i think manafort has taken the opposite approach of cohen. he is trying to preserve his chance for a pardon. the fact is for manafort, the difference between 10 and 20 years may be immaterial at his age. he needs a walkaway deal. the one man who can do that is donald trump. i think he is still holding out for the possibility of a pardon. >> sandra: jonathan turley, thank you very much. a tragic end to the search for missing college student mollie tibbetts. an illegal immigrant confessing to her murder. >> eric: facebook pulling the
plug on hundreds of accounts tied to iran and russia as it finds more evidence of fake news and political meddling. we'll have the details what's going on with facebook straight ahead.
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murder of mollie tibbetts will be making his first court appearance a few hours from now. officials saying the suspect, christian rivera has been living why our country illegally for as long as seven years and happened to work less than three miles from where ms. tibbetts was staying and there were chilling details that were learned during his confession. >> he tells us that he sees mollie running and was able to come upon her, approach her and then at one point he tells us that mollie grabbed ahold of her phone and said you need to leave me alone. i'll call the police. then she took off running. he chased her down and then he tells us that at some point in time he blacked out. >> eric: mollie's body was found yesterday in a corn field covered with corn stalks after rivera took them to the location. >> president trump: you heard
about today with the illegal alien coming in, very sadly, from mexico and you saw what happened to that incredible, beautiful young woman. we have had a huge impact but the laws are so bad. the immigration laws are such a disgrace. we are getting them changed but we have to get more republicans. >> sandra: president trump mentioning the tragic mollie tibbetts news during a rally in charleston, west virginia last night. it is time for the a-team david avella, richard goodstein former clinton advisor and mill mcgurn columnist for the "wall street journal" and speech writer for george w. bush. horrible news having found the body of mollie tibbetts and learning how it is she died and who was responsible. is this going to become a political talking point on the right? >> it needs to be and the morning we have reports that the farm that actually employed
this illegal immigrant had used the e-verify system and they said the illegal immigrant had come back as legal and able to work for them. so that needs to be looked into. one, is it accurate? two, if there is a hole in the system it has to be fixed. in 76 days voters are going to get their chance to have a say on this. and every candidate needs to be asked what are you going to do, what vote will you cast to make sure that illegal immigrants don't come into this country and continue to commit heinous crimes like this? >> sandra: richard? >> obviously what happened was tragic. there is no getting around that. but i think the question is are we living in alternative facts and is truth truth or are we looking at reality? reality is, a cato study, undocumented immigrants in this country have crime rates lower than native born americans. kate steinle, her accused murderer was acquitted. this guy looks like he
confessed. he confessed. the point is newt gingrich was quoted if every voter knows about mollie tibbetts, republicans win. if they think about manafort, cohen and all the criminals that surrounded donald trump. michael flynn. the list goes on and on. and the term unindicted co-conspirator is something we'll get familiar with. if that's what the public focuses on it will be a long night for republicans. >> based off lanny davis's interview earlier if this illegal immigrant needs representative. he was willing to work for michael cohen because he wanted to take down donald trump. lanny davis is a guy who during the clinton administration tried to manipulate public opinion and say sex doesn't matter. because now he wants to take down donald trump he is representing michael cohen and saying sex does matter. >> this has to do with the facts, not lanny.
>> the facts are michael cohen -- >> i consider myself a pro-immigration person. i have three daughters all immigrants from another country. so i'm pro-immigration but i do think -- i don't think it is enough to say illegal immigrants commit crimes in lower proportion. the fact of the ill lealt underscores the brutality this was unnecessary. people feel that they are unnecessarily being exposed. i with like to see a deal on immigration where each side made some compromises that would get us to a workable system. this is a brutal case and it is going to resonate because when the person is here and shouldn't be here, there is a feeling that this wouldn't have happened otherwise. >> eric: what's also concerning is he passed the e-verify by the employer. so what went through the cracks? this is supposed to stop people like this guy being here in the first place. >> it points to a system -- it
is just sad. the main reality of this case, the main truth is that a young woman was brutally murdered in her prime. to me the illegality of the person who did it is secondary but the way it works in an election year, it will become a big issue. >> sandra: the president says the new platform of the democratic party is this. listen. >> president trump: the new platform of the democrat party is to abolish ice, a vote for any democrat in november is a vote to eliminate immigration enforcement, throw open our borders, and set loose vicious predators and violent criminals while many democrats are calling to abolish ice, today our brave ice officers successfully carried out a 14-year-old deportation order against a nazi criminal who was living in new york. >> sandra: so that is what he says about the democrats now.
i was enthralled. is that the message of your party? >> of course not. the congressional -- this is something that a few on the far left have supported but there is nobody in the democratic leadership, house, senate, who supports this idea and i feel badly for the president. he feels the walls caving in. there was a poll that pitted him against sanders, warren and biden. he averaged 31% just the other day. he knows that what happened yesterday makes the odds of him being president on january 21, 2021 lower. >> sandra: let's add to the president's message if you want investigations and congress being obsessed with those and seeking to impeach the president, you will vote democrat. in 76 days if you want this economy to keep going, tax cuts to stay in place and want more secure border and you want to
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said it shut down pages from iran. the security efforts to keep bad actors out. >> president trump: when you cast your ballot for congress in november, you aren't just voting for a candidate, you are voting for which party controls the house and which party controls the senate. so all these congress people and i'll tell you, we have to get there. we really have to get there. >> sandra: president trump firing up thousands of supporters at a rally in west virginia last night to vote republican in the mid-terms. that includes florida governor rick scott who is running for the senate seat currently held by democrat bill nelson. governor scott joins us now. good morning to you. >> good morning. we're in an interesting election season. >> sandra: we are indeed.
how are things looking for you? >> we're working hard and getting our message out. washington needs to change. it needs to start working for the americans. my opponent, however, is questioning our election system in florida. we're in the middle of our primary as you know. it's a week from today. he said the russians have hacked our system. he said that they are free to move around. then he said it's classified information. so i went to the department of homeland security and f.b.i. and they said is there any truth to this and they said absolutely not. my opponent is either confused, dishonest, releasing classified information and we've worked hard to make sure people feel comfortable with our election system. we have cybersecurity efforts and grant funding to make sure we have another free and fair election in florida. >> sandra: senator bill nelson is saying about russia
penetrating certain counties in the state and they now have free rein to move about. when you look at the race right now with the polling the average, you are leading your opponent by 1.2%. 45 1/2 to 44.3 for bill nelson. what is it going to take for you to pick up some momentum and increase that margin? >> sure. well, we have 76 days to go. i continue to travel the state. just like i did in my two governor's races. we'll get out the vote. we'll change the direction of washington term limits for congressmen and women. we need to have a 2/3 majority to raise taxes out of congress. putting that on the ballot in florida for our state legislature. give the president a line item veto. most governors have it. president, republicans and democrats can save money. my opponent can vote to shut down government, he gets paid
$174,000 a year and he can continue to get paid. nobody else in business can do that. i'll shut my doors, i want to continue to get paid. so i'm putting out proposals to make sure washington works for people in florida. my opponent has had 40 years. he has been 40 years in congress and the senate. isn't 40 years enough? what new idea will he come up with? >> eric: what do you think, governor, the reaction is to constituents to what has been happening in the courts with michael cohen and also with paul manafort and the president today saying that he believes michael cohen made up those stories and clearly it is only getting bigger? >> well, as we know michael cohen pled guilty and paul manafort was convicted. no one is above the law. we need to know all the facts with the mueller investigation. all of us would like to get all the facts out there and like to get it behind us. it has been going on for quite a while. the most important thing is we
need to have transparency and people need to be held accountable. >> eric: speaking of the russians they did infiltrate illinois, the state system there and get into galesburg, illinois, 7,000 or 8,000 voters records. you are confident again that has not happened in florida despite the claims of your opponent who cited some stories that quoted some intelligence sources. >> we went to dhs and f.b.i. to ask. we know we had free and fair election in 2016. so we will make sure we have it this time. my opponent for whatever reason has caused chaos, confusion. it is reckless what he said. we're right in the middle of the primary. he shouldn't be saying these things. if he has something, put it out publicly. >> eric: remember the chads in 2000? are you confident the system is protected and election officials are doing all they can to protect the integrity
and credibility of our election system that's basic to our democracy? >> absolutely. the right to vote is a sacred vote. we put a lot of money into our election system and added cybersecurity experts. grant funding and we know our system is working. my opponent, if he has information, he ought to make sure we all know it. all of us want to have an election that we want 100% participation and 0% fraud. >> sandra: you have not spoken out or publicly endorsed either of the candidates on the republican side running to replace you adam putnam or ron desantis. are you going to do that now? >> no. i have had the opportunity to work with both of them. i'll work hard when the primary is over to help whoever wins the primary to make sure they are the next governor. we need a governor to focus how to create more jobs, how to make sure we have the best education system in the country.
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>> sandra: you know what a tune like that means, charles payne is here. the 9 year bull market reaches a major milestone today becoming the longest on record. the dow right now, as you can see, is down a little bit today. that doesn't change anything. charles payne will tell you why, host of making money on the fox business network. why, charles? because it's a longer-term look at this. >> uninterrupted move without a 20% decline in the market. we haven't had a 20% decline in 4,153 days. a long time. >> sandra: the dow is nearly at 26,000. does this continue? >> i think so. take a look this morning at the earnings from target. you want to talk about a proxy for the economy. it blew my mind. management was -- the ceo says he has never seen anything like this in his entire career, never. the traffic was the highest
ever. by the way, i told people in the beginning of the year to buy these retail names. they all say the same thing. foot traffic is through the roof. people are actually leaving their homes, walking away from laptops and going to the malls. traffic was huge. store sales were huge. they have pricing power or prices are holding. last year prices were plunging and had to put them down so people would come into the store. >> sandra: i can remember during the stewart varney, there was a period where there was this quantitative easing and saying that's what is leading this and people were saying the stock market rally was artificial. it was fake and wasn't going to last. you kept saying not the case. >> it saved us but i also think that we were so oversold, really, if you go back to -- a lot of people don't realize what happened in march of 2009 that period, that was the second worst crash in market
history. it was significantly overdone. but now what we're seeing is the market started plateauing in 2016. this is a vibrant leg by internal growth. it has to be organic. >> eric: i'll be the buzz kill. what do we worry about? do you see any iceberg out there on the horizon? >> the economy is fickel. eventually we'll stop growing at the rate we're going and maybe the federal reserve will find a need to slow it down because they're afraid of inflation. i don't think politics will do it. i don't think geopolitical events will do it. we have the guy from mexico in today. we'll get good news maybe this week on nafta and i think soon we'll get good news on the china trade thing. the thing i'm most concerned about i think is far off, a natural occurrence of the economy at some point slowing down naturally.
>> sandra: you saying the average investor missed out on this rally. what happens if they pile in now? saying i don't want to miss out on the next leg of the rally. does it drive it further? >> yes. yesterday j.p. morgan chase said to our 60 million accounts you can trade 100 trades for free, absolutely free. >> sandra: what? >> i think they see millennials are getting to the point they can start to buy. right now the economy is going extraordinarily well and reflected in the market. in many ways it's cheaper now this market than it was a year ago. >> eric: that's amazing. >> sandra: charles payne. one-hour special when the market closes today. watch this, neil cavuto with complete coverage of what is about to become the longest bull run in american history. that is today right after the closing bell at 4:00 p.m. eastern when it officially
becomes the longest ever when the bell rings at 4:00. >> eric: amazon are making alexa more kid friendly. why the digital assistant will be able to avoid some, well, sensitive questions. >> sandra: espn it is not planning to air the national anthem before nfl games. now the president, as you can imagine, is sounding off on that. the 24/7 crew is here on all that next. >> president trump: espn just came out. thanks to new tena intimates overnight with proskin technology for two times faster absorption so you can have worry free nights, and wake up feeling fresh and free for a free sample visit tena.us heartburn and gas? ♪ now fight both fast
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night their network airs god bless america. most don't do that. so not only does that take place traditionally every game in new york but it is on television. you can have nationalism and patriotism. espn if it's news worthy they'll discuss it. >> eric: the mets have an italian song in the seventh. >> could be a whole lot of things. alexa and the nanny. >> sandra: this is a real thing. kids have some sensitive questions, they really do. all ages of kids they are curious. how is alexa going to handle some of those questions? >> i think this is interesting. as we know as parents, kids have not figured out how to use google. fortunately they'll have to turn to alexa. amazon is updating alexa software and has some child
safety features, free time. when you have free time enabled if it asks where babies come from or is santa claus real it will give an answer of talk to an adult or of course it is. who wouldn't want to believe in someone who brings joy to people's life. it is a good move. i like the free time concept. you can set time limits. that's the bigger question. i'm in favor of putting restrictions on things but i'm not in favor of letting technology be your parent, be the parent. >> sandra: the voice is changed to be more child friendly. >> i think of all of the young girls named alexa in the last few years and the havoc it has wreaked on the lives of their parents when they go to a friends' house and people call for their daughter. >> eric: you say the word on television, i'm sorry, folks. we apologize the devices went
off in your house. it has happened. >> you say we need stuff like this for when you step away from the computer but experts will agree over and over child experts will say no, you have to have a conversation with your kids on what they're doing. >> eric: how do you deal with the restrictions. on the phone and internet. >> they are smarter than us anyway. >> sandra: thank you to both of you. a category 4 hurricane going toward hawaii now. we'll be live with the latest in a few moments. stay tuned.
>> sandra: fox news alert on a tragic end to the search for mollie tibbetts. we're waiting for the suspect to appear in court. cristhian rivera has been charged with first degree murder in the death of 20-year-old college student mollie. we'll discuss the mollie tibbetts case and the new immigration debate it's sparking with congressman pete king of new york joining us just ahead. another fox news alert for you on the president's reaction as two of his former top aides now face serious prison time. welcome to a brand-new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm sandra smith. >> eric: hello, good to be with you, too, folks, i'm eric shawn in for bill hemmer this morning. back-to-back courtroom dramas yesterday. man oh man in two states
hundreds of miles apart while they both came to dramatic conclusions. paul manafort found guilty of tax evasion and bank fraud. a new york city michael cohen former personal attorney to the president pled guilty admitting making hush money payments to women implicating he did the president. >> sandra: lanny davis, his attorney, last hour. >> we talked at length about what had changed his mind about donald trump to the point where he now was ready to say i'm hitting the reset button and i'm now going to tell the truth about donald trump. >> eric: chief white house correspondent john roberts on the north lawn with more. hello, john. >> good morning. one thing is certain. mid-term elections have become more important than they were just a day ago. steve bannon saying yesterday the manafort and cohen events reinforce the notion that the mid-term elections are going to be a referendum on impeachment.
michael cohen and his attorney lanny davis insisting president trump new about directed payments to karen mcdougal and stormy daniels to keep them quiet and it was a crime to do so. the president's attorney saying cohen is on record several times saying the president knew nothing about it and is only now changing his story simply to save his hide. the president taking the tack this morning that michael cohen pleaded guilty to something that is not a crime. the president tweeting michael cohen pled guilty to two counts of campaign finance violations that aren't a crime. president obama had a campaign finance violation and it was settled. it was about missing a deadline. the president saying if anyone is looking for a good lawyer, i would strongly suggest that you don't retain the services of michael cohen. his attorney, lanny davis, told me after yesterday's court proceedings the plea deal does not end this. this is just the beginning and that cohen is willing to speak with investigators, including
robert mueller, to make sure the truth about donald trump gets out. listen to what he said earlier. >> i said that he had matters that would be of interest to this special counsel relating to pre-knowledge of computer hacking by donald trump. which, if true, if true, would constitute knowledge of a crime committed by a foreign government in hacking our computers, which was part of the indictment of 12 russians that the special counsel has already published. >> davis is on record saying his client does not want to be dirty by a presidential pardon. i would hazard a guess a presidential pardon is not something he has to worry about. >> eric: the president has a different reaction to paul manafort. >> the manafort verdicts yesterday even though the jury was hung on 10 counts clearly a
boost for the robert mueller investigation. the president yesterday when he touched down in west virginia for the big campaign rally saying that he feels badly for manafort but separating himself from it saying this has all to do with cases that is more than a decade old and nothing to do with him. listen to what the president said. >> president trump: i feel very sad about that. it doesn't involve me but i still feel -- it's a very sad thing that happened. it has nothing to do with russian collusion. this started as russian collusion. this has absolutely nothing to do. it is a witch hunt and a disgrace. >> a lot of talk floating around washington about possible impeachment proceedings. the democrats have to pick up 24 seats in the house of representatives to take control so that they could begin impeachment proceedings. even if the president were impeached, the idea of him getting convicted in the senate highly unlikely.
you need a 2/3 vote to do that. >> sandra: let's bring in marc thiessen fox news contributor and fellow at the american enterprise institute. good morning to you. a remarkable day yesterday. it continues this morning. what are you able to conclude from it all? >> dramatic news day. you had a split screen almost of the manafort guilty verdict and the cohen guilty plea happening all at the same time. so it's dominating the news and it is big news. i don't think it is quite as momentous as some of trump's critics are hoping it is going to be. i don't think he will be convicted or impeached of illegal finance statements to stormy daniels. first of all, michael cohen is not exactly the most credible witness. let's say that he does provide evidence that trump did order him to make those payments. that's not enough to say that he committed a crime. he would have to prove not only
that he ordered the payments but they were for the purpose of influencing an election. trump could easily say i wanted to keep it from my wife. i didn't want my kids to know. if there are other credible reasons he might have done it, it is not so clear he committed a crime. third, the justice department won't prosecute him because mueller is working under justice department guidelines which would say the sitting president can't be prosecuted. so what is going to come it will go in the lap of congress. and as john just pointed out, even if the democrats take back the house and senate, there is no way that 2/3 of the united states senate will convict the president of the united states and impeach him because of a payment to a porn star. >> sandra: lanny davis, michael cohen's attorney was on with us last hour and said this. >> the donations given to keep quiet two women, which mr. trump wasn't willing to sign those checks himself, he directed mr. cohen to make those hush money payments, is a
federal crime. and if michael cohen with the prosecutors in new york agreeing admitted to that, then certainly donald trump is guilty of the same crime. >> sandra: is the president in serious legal trouble, marc? >> not on that county don't think. alan dershowitz was on earlier on "fox & friends" and pointed out that again, the reason for the payment, you have the prove not just that he ordered the payment but it was for the purpose of affecting the election. it wasn't to keep it from his wife or his kids. if there are other credible reasons why he did it, it is not so clear it's a federal election crime. but the bigger danger for the president is cohen or manafort, these convictions mueller will be able to use these if they have knowledge of criminal conspire see with russia and he is able to get evidence of that from them in exchange for a lighter sentence we talk about real legal jeopardy and impeachment jeopardy. but again, it all comes down to a simple thing. was there -- did donald trump
engage in a criminal conspiracy with russia or didn't he? if he did the truth will come out and he is toast. if he didn't do it, then all of this is a lot of smoke and noise signifying nothing. if he didn't do it, he is not going to be impeached or convicted for giving money to stormy daniels. >> sandra: great to get your thoughts this morning. thank you. >> thank you. >> sandra: we'll have more on this later in our hour. special report anchor bret baier in the middle of all this last evening with the breaking news will talk about the political implications of the cohen and manafort convictions happening at the bottom of the hour. >> eric: right now we're waiting a highly emotional ceremony at the white house. president trump will award the medal of honor to sergeant john chapman for gallantry.
>> this ceremony has been planned for several years, one year and a day when the president talked about his strategy for afghanistan. the outgoing u.s. commander is giving his final press conference to the pentagon press corps as we speak. many say this medal is long overdue. sergeant john chapman's cross is being upgraded today presented to his widow. the battle occurred on march 4, 2002 early in the afghan war. a squadron of navy seals were supposed to insert on top of a mountain to set you up an observation post to support operation an conned yeah as they took on al qaeda. he was attached to the seals. expertise was calling in air strikes. mistakes were made from the outset.
as soon as the helicopter approached it took fire. a seal fell out. chapman was left behind as the seals retreated under fire. he went on to fight for 70 minutes alone on the mountaintop. new technology allowed the air force to re-examine drone footage that shows that he survived and kept fighting providing cover for another rescue team. >> when you go back and look at the culmination of all of the footage that we didn't have access to on board the aircraft or in the immediate aftermath, it became absolutely clear that it was tech sergeant john chapman. >> him being there in that position as we were going to land, absolutely reduced the amount of rounds the enemy was able to put into the side of the helicopter. >> he sacrificed himself for the people who came in. >> seven americans died on the
mountain. today sergeant chapman will be honored with a ceremony at the white house. >> eric: god bless sergeant chapman and all those who are in harm's way. >> sandra: facebook linking russia and iran to disinformation campaigns and their crackdown on fake accounts and what facebook is saying about the tactics used by both nations. >> eric: california republican congressman duncan hunter and his wife have been indicted on campaign finance charges. but they say the charges are politically motivated. >> sandra: mollie tibbetts' death sparking a new immigration debate in washington new york congressman peter king will join us next. >> we're doing some more interviews trying to get as much background on mr. rivera as possible. i know he was working and beyond that i'm not sure what he was doing coming and going.
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president bringing up the murder of mollie tibbetts at that rally last night demanding justice to mollie because of changes to our immigration laws. comparing it to the kate steinle murder. new york congressman pete king sits on the house intel committee and joins us now. does this all ignite a new debate in washington over immigration laws? >> i think it injects reality into this debate. too often people get caught up in vague speeches, comments. the fact is this shows the real. here is a young woman in the prime of her life being murdered by an illegal immigrant. i'm not saying that all illegal immigrants commit crimes. the fact is if he had not been in the country she would be alive today. the job of the police is hard enough keeping track of people who are legally in the country as to whether or not they can
be committing a crime. to have somebody in the underground or somebody here illegally makes their job that much more difficult and puts americans at risk. to me it's time for both parties, especially the democrats in this case. they somehow feel if we're cracking down on illegal immigration we're anti-immigrant or racist and bigoted. the fact is if we can't control our borders it is hard to control what goes on in the country. something like the wall is very important, why it's important to support ice and the border patrol. these are vital. this puts a human face on a debate which too often gets carried off in ob security. >> sandra: similar frustration from thomas homan the former director of ice what we need to do in the country right now. this was yesterday on "america's newsroom." >> this is another example why folks say you concentrate on criminals and forget about anybody else. this is everybody else. we prioritize the criminals but it doesn't mean everybody else is free to stay.
we need to enforce the laws in a meaningful way against all of them. we have to prioritize but just because you don't commit another crime in the country don't mean we should look the other way. >> sandra: he made that point the morning on "fox & friends" and on yesterday. similar frustration i hear from you, congressman. what are we going to do and what can congress actually get done? >> well, we should get done is the border wall. that's a real way to stop illegal immigration. and to stand with ice. not this crazy stuff of abolish ice. they do a phenomenal job, whether it's ms-13, drug peddlers, child pornography, they do an outstanding job. i agree with director homan. if you say just because a person hasn't committed a crime they shouldn't be picked up by ice, then that's incentive for people to come across the border illegally. we have to take away the incentive. i believe we should find a way to legalize those that are
here, find some way to give them legal but only after we know the border is secure. otherwise we take any other action first what it will do is cause more people to come across the border illegally. >> sandra: what we saw happen with mollie tibbetts was tragic and horrible to find out about all this and last night at the rally the president brought mollie tibbetts up and said it should have never happened with the correct immigration laws in this country. do you see this becoming a big political issue for your party as we head even closer to mid-term elections? >> you hate to say a tragic death like this and turn it into something political. it has to be debated. it is not just a political issue but an issue of life and death and important we address it and come to terms with it. if it requires republicans making some compromises, fine. we have to have the border wall, more security and support ice. i don't intend to use it
politically but it should be discussed and put before the american people. we have to be careful. i don't want to be seen as if we're getting elected or reelected because of some woman slaughtered in the prime of her life. it is an issue that should be discussed and done in an intelligent way. >> sandra: our thoughts are with her family. it's too soon. congressman pete king. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> eric: we are on hurricane watch as a powerful hurricane heads for the hawaiian islands. what folks are doing there on what could be a dangerous and huge storm. >> sandra: e.p.a. rolling back obama-era pollution regulations. will this get a legal battle? >> we want a clean environment. but i'm getting rid of some of these ridiculous rules and regulations which are killing
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>> eric: president trump celebrating the roll back of rules on power plant emissions. the new regulations replace obama-era guidelines with his initiative called the affordable clean energy rule. it give states the authority to restrict things on their own. what do they mean, the new rules, for your state >> as the attorney general and someone who challenged the former administration's clean power plan which would have skyrocketed electric costs i was pleased not only do the u.s. supreme court put a stay on the clean power plan but now president trump and this administration and acting administrator wheeler have put forth the affordable clean energy rule. it means costs going down and
we can have affordable clean energy in america to ensure we're able to grow more jobs. the clean energy rule is an estimated cost compliant savings -- reduction in compliance of $6.4 billion versus the $25 billion the clean power plan would have cost americans and american businesses and job creators because of its implementation. i was very happy yesterday of the president's action and acting administrator wheeler's actions on this. >> eric: how would you respond to critics concerned about global warning and this could increase it and the problems we've had? >> well, the critics and others need to look strictly to the numbers and facts the united states sets the gold standard when it comes to protecting the environment. over the last from 2005 to 2017 our emissions have decreased 14% in the united states while the global emissions have
increased 20%. when you look at since 1970 what we have done in terms of increasing the economy by 260% it has risen while our emissions have decreased double digits. that's because again america sets the gold standard for this and we're protecting the environment and we must always protect the environment. i can assure americans i was -- i'm a seventh generation in arkansas. nobody cares more about land and air and protecting it than our farmers and ranchers do and so we must protect our land and air and these sort of standards by allowing states to work cooperatively with the federal government as opposed to a heavy handed approach that had been taken in the obama administration, this is a big welcome from the states saying yes, we want to work with the federal government to protect our environment. >> eric: when you drive from west memphis and go through the cotton fields and come down to
the little rock to the river and go down to hot springs and see the natural spring hot springs. as a native from arkansas how do you feel about the rule when you point out the rest of the world dealing with india and china specifically, not at all following our lead. >> well, it is very frustrating and sounds like you have been to arkansas before and we welcome you back. our farm is outside of west memphis and we have soybeans and corn. making the drive from east arkansas across our beautiful state what i tell the critics is we need to ask and demand that these other countries are held to the same standards that we hold the united states because again, we set the gold standard in protecting the environment. what they are doing in these other countries are not protecting the environment and we must do our part to ensure that farmers, ranchers have the
ability to compete globally in other areas, not farmers and ranchers but also our manufacturers while not -- >> eric: attorney general, thank you and we'll see how the rules roll out for your state and others affected by that. of course. >> sandra: fox news alert congressman indicted on corruption charges. what he and his wife are accused from doing and how the case could have national implications with the mid-terms right around the corner. >> eric: there is a two legal punch to the president. what it could mean for the mueller investigation. bret baier will join us live next ahead. >> president trump: this started as russian collusion. this is a witch hunt and a disgrace.
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>> sandra: fox news alert as california republican congressman duncan hunter and his wife are indicted on charges of misusing $250,000 in campaign funds. we have more on this. >> sandra, the timing for hunter and republicans could not be worse. the party is trying to hold onto 23 house seats. this was a gop lock. now arguably it is up for grabs after the u.s. attorney if san diego indicted the five-term congressman and his wife on 60 counts of fraud for allegedly spending $250,000 in campaign money on ski trips and european vacations, dental bills. private school tuition, video games, golf and -- they spent substantially more than they earned. overdrew their bank another more than 1100 times over seven years resulting in $37,000 in
overdraft or insufficient fund bank fees. federal agents raided their home last year. at the time hunter said he trusted the justice system. now, however, he claims the indictment is politically motivated. by two assistant u.s. attorneys who attended a hillary clinton fundraiser. here is his father who retired from congress after 28 years. >> it is politically motivated by hard core democrats who want to get hunter out of congress. >> using political donations for personal use is illegal. they did reimburse some campaign expenses but they lied to conceal the fraud. president ryan has stripped hunter of his political assignments yesterday. >> the department of justice is supposed to be separate from the political process. yet anything the department of justice does with any member of congress will become political with an election in november. >> hunter is a former marine
among the first congressmen to endorse then candidate trump. republicans hold a 14-point edge in this district but this morning the san diego union called for hunter to resign and he faces a 29-year-old former obama official in november. sandra. >> sandra: thank you. >> eric: facebook says it has removed hundreds of what it calls inauthentic pages and accounts. guess who they are linked to? russia and also iran. the company says the accounts were targeting americans heading into the mid-terms the same way russia did in 2016. so how do we protect ourselves? joining us is fox news contributor and former congressman from utah jason chaffetz author of the upcoming book, the deep state. how an army of bureaucrats protected barack obama and working to destroy the trump agenda. they are still trying to sway us in some way. how can we stop it? >> they'll continue to do it. it is not just russia and iran.
a guy in a van by the river trying to do it as well as the chinese have done some things as well. and some others. that is the seminole question as public policymakers, what are they going to do in terms of firing back? if somebody fired a missile at us we would obliterate that country. if they try to cap into our financial and political systems and mess around in your own personal computer how do you fire back? i think the trump administration is helping to lead the charge on not only the space force but trying to get people in place to deal with this. the federal government spends $90 billion a year, 250,000 federal employees working on i.t. systems and it doesn't work. you can go to best buy and have a better cybersecurity by just going and buying a bunch of iphones than what we're doing now. >> eric: that what is troubling. there is a closed door session
with the senate on election security. in illinois the russians grabbed information from 78,000 voters. went right into the voter base. do you think the states are properly protecting themselves for this election or are there still gaps and things to worry about? >> there are huge gaps. most elections happen on a county by county level. secretary of state, for instance. so it is decentralized that way. some counties and states do mail-in ballots only. they got off the digital grid and going to a ballot where you put your pencil on a piece of paper which seems to be a safer way. those that have gone all digital, look out. there are so many things that could go wrong. i still worry the vulnerabilities in the federal system attracting i.t. talent to the federal government is a very difficult proposition. >> eric: why is that? >> it's tough for the private sector. any company that's in business
these days has to have an i.t. personnel and cybersecurity personnel. some of the most sought-after employees there are. somehow the federal government has to transform itself to attract young talent to serve their government like a national guard type of service. come in and do the work and do those types of things. on the nation states it is real and facebook and social media, their job i think is to authenticate who these people are. i would love to see a switch that says i only want to see people from the united states. with the domain name system there is way to do that. >> eric: that's a great idea for us to be able to control our own security on the internet. >> you have to be careful. you want to flip the switch off and don't want to see everything around the world that's great. other people may choose that option. right now they're trying to be the editor and filter. that will be disastrous for them long term. >> eric: we should have that
power ourselves. what is fascinating is iran. you don't think iran is doing what russia did. you had two iranian citizens arrested spying for iran targeting the national resistance of iran, opposition group. they are trying to meddle. it is also moscow and beijing. >> the state department has designated them as a state sponsor of terrorism. every day they're messing with our financial systems. they're going after the american expresss of the world and the chase banks of the world, the credit unions. >> eric: the corporate systems can fend off these type of attacks sufficiently. not so the -- some states and local governments. >> you take your county clerk in the middle of iowa trying to -- they don't have the types of resources that our federal government has. but the federal government can see what's coming. in we don't do much to defend
or fire back. everyonce in a while you'll see an indictment or highlight a particular person or two. it's coming en masse by the millions on a daily basis. >> eric: the russians are indicted in the russian investigation. dealing that w that agency infiltrated our system. should we go into putin's system? >> again, you can play whack-a-mole and never scratch the surface. how do you fire back? what is the right public policy? there is going to be -- we've been in the middle of a cyber war for a long time. you are naive to think it hasn't been going on on both sides of the oceans in a very aggressive way. it is the new frontier where there is a literal war going on on a daily basis and we need to have the best talent and invest in that. the configuration of the $90 billion, it's a mess. >> eric: you're right.
no tanks and artillery but the artillery is cyber bits and it is a war. congratulations on the book. >> sandra: police in rural arkansas say two toddlers spent two days alone after surviving a car crash that killed their mother. officers say they discovered a 3-year-old boy walking along a highway by himself. they later found his 1-year-old brother still in the wrecked car. investigators are calling it a miracle that the boys are alive. >> eric: president trump reacting this morning to the legal drama to his former lawyer michael cohen and paul manafort. what are the political implications for the president coming up? >> sandra: a dog reunited with its owner with a rescue effort spanning 30 hours. >> went from side to the front and they really worked hard to get my little baby out here.
>> the law says if you give money to influence an election beyond the campaign finance limits that's a felony. and michael cohen, with the prosecutors, stood up under oath in federal court and admitted to that crime. >> sandra: that was lanny davis, michael cohen's attorney on air last hour after his client known as trump's fixer pleaded guilty to felonies related to the 2016 election while implicating the president. as for paul manafort, he was found guilty of tax evasion and financial fraud. let's bring back jason chaffetz. hello. well, thank you for coming back. you kind of got to bring this all together for us. that was lanny davis. we had him on in the last hour. tell his side of the story and his client, michael cohen. your thoughts this morning? a big 24 hours. >> on the paul manafort that has nothing to do with donald trump and nothing to do with
the election. if somebody has committed a crime they should have convicted and pay the price for it but it has nothing to do with donald trump. to have the special counsel spending time on that seemed odd at best. i think they're doing it to squeeze -- try to get something out of him to implicate. they're going after donald trump. i think the cohen situation is much more serious given the proximity and length of time and service the president had some really bad personnel decisions when he brought in a guy who appears to be as slimy as this guy is. but i do think there are some long-term problems. lanny davis's presence is a huge question mark. this is somebody with close proximity with hillary clinton and the democratic machine. it really makes you wonder why is lanny davis sitting in the middle of this? i think it's a huge stretch and leap for him to suggest -- >> sandra: i went on to ask him what changed considering his client once said he would take
a bullet for president trump for donald trump, why all of a sudden are we seeing the change? his response was well, that's a good question and he referred back to helsinki and that he had a change of heart. it was out of patriotism that he came -- >> i think it had to do more with his personal finances and the trouble he was running into. why is lanny davis -- all the attorneys in the world, right? no shortage of attorneys. you pick hillary clinton's attorney? i think it's highly suspicious. let's pretend for a moment that those payments were real. there are lots of reasons that you can do that. to say and suggest it would sway the election, it wasn't going to sway the election. >> sandra: more from lanny davis last hour. >> no question that he has committed a federal crime and whether he can be indicted has never been decided. i see no quotation from mr. mueller. i see attribution anonymously but there are two opinions in
the office of legal counsel many years ago. the supreme court has never ruled. i think there is a traditional view that you don't indict sitting presidents but that's an unsettled question. >> on a campaign finance violation? come on. first of all i don't believe it is a campaign finance violation. on the surface i don't think it makes any sense. that's about the weakest thing we could ever come up with on donald trump. barack obama had problems with this, hillary clinton has had trouble with this. most every other presidential candidate has had some problem and run-in with campaign finances. but to suggest it will rise to the level of impeachment and all these legal problems for the president. it will be a distraction but it is not -- >> sandra: just before lanny davis we had michael caputo on who was donald trump's campaign advisor for a short period on the campaign. and he gave his side of the story having known michael cohen personally for five years. listen. >> it's very interesting how just in february michael cohen
was saying for all the world to hear that this was not a campaign contribution or campaign expenditure. it was on the up and up. as soon as he got jammed up in crimes that had nothing to do with the president, he seems to have changed his tune and i'm pretty sure that was non-negotiable. >> i think he is absolutely right. evidently me cohen had huge financial problems. the special prosecutors is looking at it and along comes lanny davis, hillary clinton's person. how convenient that they make the reese's peanut butter cup. huge credibility problems on this. it is a serious situation for the president, rudy giuliani and his legal team. >> sandra: fascinating stuff. things are changing by the minute here. thank you very much, jason chaffetz, for coming back. >> eric: you go to the airport and stand in a long line hoping you won't miss your flight.
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anything when it comes to getting legislation passed. so sad. >> you know he was e-verified. >> that's the report. >> you can see the conversation has started. "outnumbered" at the top of the hour. >> eric: facial recognition technology is making its debut at u.s. airports. a new hi-tech effort to try to cut the wait times for travelers and man do we need that. we're live at san jose, california. >> it does sound pretty hi-tech. biometric facial recognition just means that your face is your i.d. the tech nology is in use in san jose as they pass through customs. they look in the camera and a match is confirmed. that's the border entry side. now the technology is being rolled out on the exit side as people leave the u.s.
in a pilot program at los angeles international airport cameras use biometric fishl recognition match passengers to pictures on passports and visas. in early tests they match over 99% of the time. >> the same i.d. check an officer would be performing by holding out a passport and comparing your face but it is done by the computer more quickly. >> most passengers seem to like it. so do the airlines. british airways, which has been using these so-called e-gates at lax since november says they can board more than 400 passengers in 22 minutes. less than half the time it used to take. some critics say people might be sacrificing privacy for convenience. >> my concerns are this technology will be used beyond its current scope. i worry that facial recognition will migrate from airports all
across federal law enforcement putting the privacy of law-abiding americans at risk. >> customs and border protection says this software is safe and secure but passengers who may not feel comfortable using these cameras can opt out and board the plane the traditional way using their boarding pass. even so, government and airline official efs say this biometric boarding is the future of passenger processing and hope to roll out the technology in airports across the country in the next few years. >> eric: as long as you can do anything to cut the long lines. >> sandra: president trump hit with a one-two legal punch as paul manafort is found guilty and michael cohen is found guilty and has implicated the president. how this could impact the mueller investigation next.
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