thank you for being with us. that s it for me, newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right now. this is cnn breaking news all right,ry hasn t narcs thank you very much. i will take it over from here. i m brooke baldwin. we will break into our news, president trump may have tried to interfere in the michael cohen investigation. they are reporting the president spoke to his acting attorney general matt whitaker about this notion of getting the u.s. attorney of the southern district of new york to unrecuse himself from that cohen investigation. so, mark mazetti is one of the reporters over at the time s who broke this story opened. let s start at the beginning. how did this conversation play out between the acting ag and the president of the united states? reporter: right. so not long after whitaker was installed as the acting attorney general, trump calls him and