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Cnn exclusive on possible new legal trouble for President Trumps personal attorney, Michael Cohen. A source tells us that special counsel Robert Muellers team has questioned a Russian Oligarch about hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to cohen after the election. Ill speak to former u. S. Attorney, Preet Bharara. Hes standing by and our correspondents and analysts are also standing by. First, lets bring in cnn crime and justice reporter, shimon prokupecz, and cnn reporter, caris ganell....

Corker, the Senate Foreign relations chairman, earlier this week. Clearly, wolf, this was a testy phone call that played out between the president and Prime Minister trudeau. Obviously does not set the table very well for this summit coming up this weekend, wolf. Yeah, certainly doesnt. Let me play a clip from canadas foreign minister. She was clearly appalled, as so many other canadians have been, the entire leadership over there, that the president of the United States, was imposing these tari...

Around the world. Wolf blitzer is off tonight. Im jim acosta and youre in the situation room. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. And we are following breaking news in the scandalplagued epa chief, scott pruitt. How he brazenly angled for a promotion and potentially tried to insert himself in the russia investigation. Cnn has learned that scott pruitt directly asked President Trump to fire attorney general Jeff Sessions and temporarily name him as attorney general instead. This hour, ill talk w...

Investigation of the president might have been over by now. Over at the end of january. Instead, here we are. For what seems like, i dont know, the gazillionth time the Trump Administration is stomping all over the norms that have kept our government running for centuries. Well, today it was the president s lawyer, emmet flood, the man who represents him in the russia investigation, unexpectedly showing up for two briefings with lawmakers on a confidential intelligence source used in, wait for i...

Were following multiple breaking stories including explosive New York Times report just out that says President Trump wanted to order the u. S. Justice department to prosecute former fib director james comey and Hillary Clinton. Also, the president s lawyers say theyve now turned over his answers to written questions from Robert Mueller from Robert Mueller to the special counsels team. I will talk about all of the breaking news with congressman jerry connelly. Our corner, analysts and specialist...

Now as it stands right now, democrats have picked up 39 seats in the house of representatives. That is the biggest gain in the house seats by democrats since watergate. But even that fact doesnt really capture what happened in these midterms. The Cook Political Report has been keeping a tally of the votes cast for either party in house races across the country. And according to their latest count, Democratic House candidates got over 9 million more votes than republican candidates. That is the l...

In criminal terms. And kids are still crying for mom and dad. How long will they remain apart . Plus heck of a job, scottie. As thousands still suffer in puerto rico, the scandal plagued epa chief decides to pat his agency on the back with commemorative coins. Good morning and welcome to the lead. Im dana bash in today for jake tapper. More harsh rhetoric at immigrants saying families of those killed by people in the country illegally had been permanently separated from lo d loved loved ones. An...

War threat to a new level. Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Good afternoon. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We begin with breaking news in the politics lead. Senator republicans sending a message to trump they are not going to stand with him on his new policy resulting in thousands of immigrant children taken from parents at the southwest border. Moments ago Mitch Mcconnell said they are united in ending this practice. I support and all of the members of the republican conference suppor...

2016 president ial election. Now, what it didnt state explicitly is what the payments were for, like hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels. It did say how much, though, a value of between 101,000 and 250,000. We have m. J. Lee and norm eisen, a former Obama White House ethics czar. M. J. , to you first. Catch us up here on what has just happened. Brianna, this is signature because we are seeing a donald trump officially acknowledge in his Financial Disclosure form that he did in fact reimb...

This development is raising a number of questions. Where did all that money go . What did that company get in return for the payments, if anything . And why were funds directed to Shell Company, a Shell Company set up to pay hush money to a porn star . At the same time, Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stormy Daniels alleges that cohen received 500,000 from a u. S. Company linked to the oligarch after the election. Im going to talk to Michael Avenatti tonight. Also breaking tonight, results are ...