something that is worry some enough to the president s political organization to have michael cohen still on ts the case here. so i think we end this day, erin with so many more questions on the stormy daniels. and white house has more questions to answer. we ll see if they do in the coming days. but the president i assume will be asked this because he of course knows if he was involved or knew about this payment in november of 2016 more than anyone else. of course. so much reporting done. begs the question for the regular person, why would you pay somebody off and sign a nondisclosure agreement if you didn t do anything. let s take a closer look what stormy daniels is climbing in her lawsuit. outfront. did she have a sexual relationship with the president? yes. stormy daniels says president trump knew about the hush money.
republican, launched into mulvaney at the confirmation hearings earlier this afternoon, questioning his commitment to increasing defense spending. actually, because, pointing to mulvaney s report supporting i defense cuts in the past and support of withdrawing groups from afghanistan at the confirmation hearing mccain saying, quote, he s deeply concerned, and mulvaney showed lack of support of our military. i talked to john mccain asking him will you support mick mulvaney s nomination? he said, i haven t decided yet. did he alleviate any of your concern? he said, quote, not many. i talked to one of the committees, saying if he doesn t have the votes to get out of the committee, republican leaders will try to advance it to the floor, anyway, to ensure donald trump gets his budget director in office. wolf? all right. manu raju reporting for us, senior congressional reporter. let s get more on all of this, republican congressman will herd of texas is joining us, a former
now, the trump team is going on a pr offensive and they re getting backing from a number of heavyweights in the republican foreign policy establishment, including condoleezza rice, that could potentially give some cover to republicans nervous about tillerson s nomination and, carol, tillerson has plenty of time to allay some of those concerns once he starts meeting with senators through those lengthy confirmation proceedings on capitol hill. manu raju reporting live from washington, thank you. with me to talk about this is democratic senator ben cardin of maryland, welcome, sir. good to be with you, thanks. nice to have you here. tillerson has no military or diplomatic experience. he s a great deal maker though. is he a good choice for secretary of state? well, i think the confirmation process is going to be critically important here. i m looking forward to that. obviously, his lack of international foreign policy experience is something we re going to want to talk about. y