In new york. Day 455 of the Trump Administration brings major developments in the russia investigation. Another wild one. A lot of them breaking just tonight over these past few hours. Chiefly we now have the 15 pages of memos that former fbi director james comey drafted about his interactions with president donald trump. Earlier tonight the Justice Department sent those memos to congress, and as things so often do, they ended up minutes later in the hands of the news media. They do confirm that on february 14, the president asked comey this with regard to the investigation of now former National Security adviser mike flynn. I hope you can see your way to letting this go, to letting flynn go. We also learned that on january 28th, remember, fewer than ten days into his presidency, donald trump told comey he had, quote, serious reservations about mike flynns judgment. Thats the National Security adviser in the west wing. And later, on february 8th, former white house chief of staff Reinc
Count on in this case. The lawyer and judge trying to sort through that criminal case in new york and the civil case here in los angeles. The lawyer, Brent Blakely for mr. Cohen, said he needed this day. This day was absolutely imperative in this case because he felt his client could be indicted in the next 90 days. He then motioned toward Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, and thats what mr. Avenatti has been saying as well. The judge kind of shut it down and said, look, i know whats been said in the media, i know there is a lot of drama, but i want all that stuff in the media left in the media, and i only want matters relative to this court discussed here. There was one other thing that avenatti said that was interesting so far in this hearing that is still ongoing, saying that even if Michael Cohen took the fifth amendment right and this is a lot of what theyve been discussing in the courtroom today, why Michael Cohen has not declared definitively that he would take th
York times this, quote, donald goes out of his way to treat him like garbage, end quote. And now the times report that trumps lawyers are resigned to the strong possibility that cohen will flip. The president may be wishing hed been just a little bit nicer to cohen. That as we have news out of the Stormy Daniels lawsuit in california to tell you about. Lawyers for Michael Cohen want the case delayed, arguing that anything cohen says could be used against him in a criminal investigation in new york. The judge saying he needs to hear from cohen in his own words, if he wants to plead the fifth. Were also learning tonight that Stormy Daniels former attorney is cooperating with investigators in new york. And we have breaking news that could impact a coming historic meeting between President Trump and kim jongun. Pyongyang announcing a freeze on nuclear tests. A source tells cnn kim jongun wants to open up north korea and normalize relations with other countries. But its important to note, t
Believe its possible. Isnt that kind of cute . Youre not saying that you have evidence of it. Youre saying its possible. Do you have evidence that President Trump has been compromised by the russians . Have you seen evidence of it . No. Im trying to be transparent. Heres my reasoning. Heres an honest answer has to be its possible. Im not saying its likely. Ive said all along and im repeating it here today, its unlikely in my view. But its possible. Lets talk about the investigation and what you can talk about it. In 2017, when you met with President Trump and you did the oral presentation of whats in the twopage memo summarizing the steele dossier, we know from the book that you talked about unverified ail vallegations invg prostitutes. Did you brief him on other things in the dossier . Claims that associates were potentially working with the russians . Or was it only about the prostitutes . It was only about the salacious part of it . Mi why . That was the part that the leaders of the
Television. He was trying to say that we dont know when this case and what this case is going to mean for his client. He was arguing that it puts his client in danger of losing his fifth amendment rights if he has to testify in this case when theres a criminal case thats pending. Do we know if theres going to be an indictment . No, we do not. As to when that indictment might come down if there is one, he did not know and was again referring to Michael Avenattis comment. However, he did talk a lot about the fact that this is a big deal. The judge said, look, there is no doubt if the fbi comes and raids yosh hour home, your offi your hotel room, this could turn into a major criminal case. That needs to be thought of and it needs to be thought about. Ultimately the judge is going to have to decide whether or not to stay this case for 90 days. Thats what mr. Cohens people have asked for. Mr. Avenatti arguing this case has been out there for a long time saying that, look, mr. Cohen can just